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Broadly speaking, the plot involves Daria's and her family's arrival in [[Lawndale]]. The major characters and conflicts that would come to play out in the series are introduced. Daria is forced into a self-esteem class when her savage wit is mistaken for low self-esteem.
{{quote|Daria and Quinn arrive at their new school. Quinn makes friends easily. Daria does not. |MTV website summary}}
==Plot Summary==
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Having graduated early from self-esteem class, Daria is able to convince her parents to spend even more time together: this time, they attend the UFO convention being held at Lawndale. While Daria is much at easy and Helen and Jake go along, Quinn refuses to enter the geeky space, until being contacted by [[Artie]]...at which point she runs to be with her family.
===[[The Daria Diaries]]===
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* When she went to Jane's house, Jane got her to help barricade the front door in case the bank tried to foreclose on the house (Mr and Mrs Lane had forgotten to leave any mortgage payments). Daria met Trent for the first time that day, and he fell asleep in mid-conversation.
==Behind the scenes==
* In the original script, a deleted scene in the Morgendorffer's car has Quinn and Daria arguing about popularity that ends with Quinn asking if Daria's making fun of her (she is) - "No! Er, I don't think so," answers Jake.
* Instead of drowning out Jake's pep talk with music, Daria and Quinn have to listen to his increasingly bitter rant about his father sending him to military school at age 8, "and of course Mom was far too scared to say a word. ... I swore if I ever had a son--" At this point, Daria, apparently unbothered by all this coming out, gets him back on track.
* [[Corey]]'s unnamed friend is named [[Jason]].
* Li's introduction to Laaaawwwwndale High goes on longer, with cheerful admission of the order and security, that you didn't notice any metal detectors "because they're designed right into the front doors", and a tacit admission that she'll just talk to someone who knows a judge if she wants a court order for your locker. During this, Daria makes a comment to [[Backgrounder#Priscilla|Priscilla]] and it's the second time it happens that Priscilla moves away from her.
* DeMartino is "somewhere between Christopher Walken and Mickey Rourke i.e. he's eerily menacing and just may be insane." He was meant to pause for a long enough time after saying "Class..." to make it unnerving ("we only know he's alive because he's blinking"), and Daria was saying "excuse me?" because of another, similar odd pause. While trying to coax an answer out of Kevin on a Manifest Destiny war, he refers to the "Daria's unsolicited comment about the MEXICANS, while obviously meant to be INFLAMMATORY".
* Kevin is described as a ''half''back rather than quarterback and "natural leader". Both these things are laughable wrong!
* Helen agrees on the phone that the self esteem class is a good idea ("you're the expert"). Jake's response of "that really stinks" was intended to go into a more controlled "how can a ''great kid'' like Daria have low self esteem?" - leading into the gag of Helen's cry of "WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?"
* O'Neill was intended to be a "fresh scrubbed young teacher" and he has a lot more guff he himself doesn't understand in his opening scene ("finding the centre of your you-ness"). When Daria says Helen's look "stands proudly and proclaims "I am"" in the finished episode, she's quoting O'Neill from here. Daria's "something that will really make them suffer" line is originally a punchline to her first saying her idle daydream is to make her family suffering "for what tehy've done me", while O'Neill first thinks is a funny joke and later, when he learns it's not, asks if it's "been that bad?" before giving up.
* Jane is "nihilistic, enervated, nasal as a son of a gun". Speaking of nihilistic, there's a cut line about how she has a better way to feel special "but I've never been any good with assault weapons".
* When Quinn says "I'm an only child", originally it was because she and "Boy" could see Daria heading to Self-Esteem Class. Quinn explicitly states later she thinks nobody will ask her out "if people found out about ''you''" (and, as in the finished ep, they ask her out anyway!)
* [[The Head (backgrounder)|"The Head"]] is named as "Mousy Kid" and scripted as taking feverish notes about what O'Neill is saying - something [[MTV Animation]] skimped on actually animating.
* Speaking of, Eichler actually wrote in that everyone is standing up to leave the room "but I assume we can't animate that"
* Jane hadn't seen Sick, Sad World until Daria introduced it to her. She describes it as "every day there's a new bunch of losers, totally humiliating themselves" which bears self-esteem class; "that's just the same loser humiliating himself over and over."
* That is indeed [[Coach Gibson]] on stage as "The Daria Diaries" implies and he's explicitly "corrupt"; before we learn the $400 bake sale money was stolen, Li turns to Gibson to say $400 seems "an awful lot for five footballs, doesn't it?" and when Gibson shrugs, we see his gold chains and the glint off a "diamond pinky ring".
* Jake was hoping to meet prospective clients before he was dragged to the UFO con and so is walking around with a [[Jake Morgendorffer Consulting]] badge there.
==Timeline headaches==
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This episode has the single reference to Daria's old show ''[[Beavis and Butt-head (TV series)|Beavis and Butt-head]]'', when Helen refers to how Daria shouldn't want Lawndale to be "[[Highland]] all over again". (The girl says it can't be "unless there's uranium in the drinking water here too") Neither [[Beavis and Butt-head|Beavis, Butthead]] nor any character or setting from Highland will be mentioned during the entire run of ''Daria''.
Corey's line, "Hey, beats algebra, though, doesn't it?", is very similar to what [[wikipedia:Frontier Middle School shooting|Barry Loukaitis]] is alleged to have said after he shot and killed his algebra teacher ("This sure beats the hell out of algebra, doesn't it?"). This
=="Esteemsters" and Fanfic==
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==External Links==
* [https://sites.google.com/site/dariatranscripts/101-esteemsters Transcript] at [[Daria Transcripts]]
* [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lMUMYIFRVRR_ICyYNqhHyT9YJwuxld_U Original script]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20110926170414/http://www.outpost-daria.com/fanfic/ep101_esteemsters.html Novelization] by [[Martin J. Pollard]]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20111015202013/http://outpost-daria.com/essay/rl_daria_temporal_analysis_project.html “The Daria Temporal Analysis Project”] by [[Richard Lobinske]], a superb and useful essay offering a chronology of the <i>Daria</i> series that places “Esteemsters” in, most likely, fall 1997.
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