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==Summary==
[[Jodie Landon|Jodie]] and [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]] are invited to visit [[Grove Hills]], an elite school for academically gifted students. Daria isn't impressed, but goes along with it when [[Helen]] bribes her. Quinn is informed that she'll be staying behind for the weekend; visions of staying home alone (and partying) are shattered when Helen works out a deal with [[Sandi Griffin|Sandi]]'s mother, [[Linda Griffin|Linda]], to allow Quinn to stay with them while they're gone.
While Daria and her parents give Jodie a ride to Grove Hills (her parents will meet them there and drive her home), Quinn slowly and methodically wears out her welcome with all three Fashion Club members: Sandi, when her younger brothers fawn all over Quinn; [[Tiffany Blum-Deckler|Tiffany]], when Quinn blows up at her for constantly asking if she's "too fat"; and [[Stacy Rowe|Stacy]], where Quinn actually runs off after getting creeped out by Stacy's way-too-needy overtures of friendship. (The final straw is when Stacy dresses up like her...) She ends up at the Lane house and pleads with [[Jane Lane|Jane]] to let her stay the night. Jane lets her stay when she realizes that Quinn is terrified to be home alone, but almost immediately regrets it when her shallow and self-centered attitude starts driving her crazy.
At Grove Hills, Helen and Jake meet Jodie's parents, [[Andrew Landon|Andrew]] and [[Michele Landon|Michele]], but their association is strained and awkward as Helen's every overture to Michelle is taken as a racial comment, Jake is easily led by Andrew, Andrew blames "welfare cheats" for why American companies are using child labour (and Jake is easily led), and the Landons show a few family strains lurking under their happy facade. (With barely any prompting, Michelle lets slip that [[Evan Landon|Evan]] was unplanned ''but she's okay'' with taking the time off work...)
Daria and Jodie quickly hit it off with Grove Hills students [[Graham]], [[Lara]], and [[Cassidy]], who turn out to be just as smart and sarcastic (and annoyed by perky Grove Hills recruiter [[Marina]]) as Daria is. Unfortunately, it turns out they're even more stuck-up and obnoxious than the students at [[Lawndale High]] -- poor [[David]] is a social leper for getting an SAT score "only" in the 90th percentile -- and Graham in particular is obsessed with being 'better' than all the plebs at public school. Jodie valiantly tries to make nice, but she eventually reaches her limit when she's told they don't want to listen to her opinions until she's a Grove Hills student. She snaps, tells off the other students, and storms out, with Daria right on her heels (after getting off a parting shot of her own). She finds Jodie sitting outside on a bench and stewing over the whole experience, and both girls have a heart-to-heart talk, with each admitting that they sometimes wish they could be more like each other... and both agreeing that they're better off at Lawndale High.
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===Daria's Reading Material===
* In the opening scene, Daria is shown reading an anthology of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories entitled [
* In the final scene, Daria and Jodie compare reading material: Daria is reading Joseph Conrad's [
==Trivia==
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* Andrew Landon is full of extreme paternal pride in his son [[Evan Landon|Evan]], to the creepy extent of calling him a linebacker -- when showing a photo of a tiny baby plonked next to a ball.
* This was the only episode in which Jodie openly insulted [[Brittany]] with her "Rent a brain" remark, usually Jodie is much more subtle with her Jabs at Brittany. This is probably Jodie's trying to act more like Daria after the two admitted that they respected one another.
==“Gifted” and Fanfic==
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* [https://sites.google.com/site/dariatranscripts/208-gifted “Gifted” transcript] at [[Daria Transcripts]]
* [http://dariablog2.blogspot.com/2008/06/intellectually-gifted-morally-bankrupt.html "Intellectually Gifted & Morally Bankrupt,"] at the [[Daria Fandom Blog II]]
* [https://archiveofourown.org/works/17623430/chapters/41550491 Episode Analysis] by [[WellTemperedClavier]]
===Alternate Universe Versions of “Gifted”===
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20120926001344/http://www.outpost-daria.com/fanfic/tlas208_the_parent_crap.html "The Parent Crap"], by [[Canadibrit]]: Lynn Cullen and A.P. visit Grove Hills
* [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=20157&hilit=grove+hills "Eldritch Evolution"], by [[LSauchelli]]: A super-powered Daria attends Grove Hills.
* [http://www.the-wildone.com/fanfics/bg_fics/ttwv.htm "The Trouble with Veronica"], by [[Brother Grimace]]: Daria and Quinn's younger sister attends Grove Hills.
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