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[[Image:goodtimechinese.gif|frame|right|Daria exits the wormhole behind the Good Time Chinese restaurant on Holiday Island]]
A restaurant in [[Lawndale]] that has a "dimensional wormhole" in back, according to [[Cupid]] in the controversial third-season ''Daria'' episode, "[[Depth Takes a Holiday]]." Easily the most notorious establishment in town, at least in the view of ''Daria'' fandom, Good Time has been used in numerous fanfics to create [[crossover]] stories or allow exploration of [[alternate universe|parallel Dariaverses]], almost as often as it is used to reconnect Lawndale with [[Holiday Island]].
Stories making use of the cross-universal nature of the wormhole date back to at least 1999 and include those by the following authors (in alphabetical order)
* [[Dervish]]: "[[Call of Quinnthulhu]]"▼
* [[Angelinhel]]: "[[A Day (Un)Like Any Other]]" [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=19543&p=263682#p263645 here] on [[PPMB]] (HIH)
▲* [[Dervish]]: "[[Call of Quinnthulhu]]" ([[crossover]] with H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos)
* [[Firah]]: "[[See You in the Funny Papers]]," [http://web.archive.org/web/20110915062519/http://www.outpost-daria.com/fanfic/see_you_in_the_funny_papers.html here] on [[Outpost Daria]] (via Wayback Machine)
* [[Richard Lobinske]]: "[[Holiday Kombat]]" ([[crossover]] with ''Mortal Kombat''), "[[Three]]"
* [[Lycissa]]: "[[Second Chances]]" and its sequel, "[[End of the Line]]"
* [[Medea42]]: "[[The Slacker Within]]"
* [[Mystik Slacker]]: "[[A Warrior Maid of Lawndale]]" ([[crossover]] with Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom novels)
* [[Nemo Blank]]: "[[Crossover (Nemo Blank story)|Crossover]]" (HIH) and "[[Restrain Jane Lane|Restrain Jane Lane! or, Stupid Cupid]]" (HIH)
* [[RedPanther]]: "[[Essay of Exile|Essay of Exile II: Return to Lawndale]]" [http://web.archive.org/web/20110519142931/http://outpost-daria.com/fanfic/essay_of_exile_part_1.html here] and [http://web.archive.org/web/20080703230946/http://www.outpost-daria.com/fanfic/essay_of_exile_part_2.html here] on [[Outpost Daria]], retrieved by the Wayback Machine (HIH)
* [[LSauchelli]]: "[[The Morgendorffer Files|Dial M for Magic]]" [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=20758 on PPMB] (HIH)
* [[Scissors MacGillicutty]]: "[[Where's Mary Sue When You Need Her?]]"
* [[TAG]]: "[[Guys' Night Out]]," "[[A Hard Days' Night]]," "[[Illusions]]," "[[Luuuv Story]]," "[[Scarlett]]"▼
* [[SoulfulZen]]: "[[A Curse of Bad Timing]]" [http://web.archive.org/web/20080513074328/http://www.outpost-daria.com/fanfic/a_curse_of_bad_timing.html here] on [[Outpost Daria]], retrieved by the Wayback Machine (HIH)
▲* [[TAG]]: "[[Death Takes a Holliday]]," "[[Guys' Night Out]]," "[[A Hard Days' Night]]
* [[thatLONERchick]] : "[[Jane, Where's My Car?]]", "[[Interdimensional Dust Up on Twelfth of May]]", "[[Will Ye Go Lassie, Go?]]" (HIH), "[[Familiar Strangers]]"
The rationale for the wormhole's existence varies from tale to tale. "Illusions" established the idea that the wormhole is produced by an ancient alien artifact embedded in the rear wall of the restaurant, an idea used also in "Guys' Night Out," "Second Chances," "Three", and "End of the Line." The aliens who created the device are called the [[Architects]].▼
So far as is known, the only fanfic author in recent times to regularly ''not'' use Good Time as an interdimensional way station is Richard Lobinske. In addition to the two offbeat stories named above,
[[Brother Grimace]], in the [[Legion of Lawndale Heroes]] series, has the restaurant simply mentioned as "a good place for Chinese food."
▲The rationale for the wormhole's existence varies from tale to tale. "Illusions" established the idea that the wormhole is produced by an ancient alien artifact embedded in the rear wall of the restaurant, an idea used also in "Guys' Night Out," "Second Chances," and "End of the Line."
▲So far as is known, the only fanfic author in recent times to ''not'' use Good Time as an interdimensional way station is Richard Lobinske, who postulated in the [[Last Summer]] story, "[[Comforting a Confused Soul]]," that [[Daria]] made up all the events of "[[Depth Takes a Holiday]]" as part of a fantasy story she wrote, which she shows to [[Jane]] while they dine at Good Time. A mundane Good Time resurfaces in "[[Lindy and the Knight]]" and "[[The Last Piece Falls]]" in his [[Falling Into College]] series.
==See also==
* [[Alternate Universe]]
* [[Daria Multiverse]]
* [[Off-Canon Canon]]
[[Category: Canon Locations]]
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