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[[image:babydaria.jpg|frame|right|Grandma?]]
[[Helen Morgendorffer]]'s mother, who is never directly seen or heard from in the [[Daria (TV series)|''Daria'' series]]. Her presence, however, is felt from Erin's wedding onward ("[[I Don't]]"). ▼
▲The mother of [[Helen Morgendorffer]]
It is implied that she is unable to travel, and also implied that she is well off enough financially to afford showering Rita and her daughter [[Erin]] with gifts and windfalls. ([[Glenn Eichler]] has said Helen didn't grow up in a wealthy household, but the show itself does show Barksdale with money) We know she could help fund college funds for [[Daria]] and [[Quinn]], but doesn;t.▼
▲It is implied in "I Don't" that she
Of her three daughters, she is closest to [[Rita Barksdale]] and appears to favor her over Helen and [[Amy Barksdale|Amy]]. This spawned a long-running feud between the three sisters that is finally (one hopes) resolved in "[[Aunt Nauseam]]." Before then, Helen occasionally rants about the unfair treatment Rita and Erin get, said rants being remarkably similar to her husband [[Jake Morgendorffer]]'s rants against his father.. Rita once attacked Helen and Amy for never calling their mother themselves, and said that they were partially to blame for the bad relationship; Amy gave a bitter response (with Helen's agreement) of "Why should we when she's never offered us the slightest bit of encouragement or appreciation?".▼
"Diaries" has Helen making a note to talk with Rita and Amy about who gets Grandma Barksdale for the holidays. "[[The Daria Database]]" has Daria refer to ''a'' visiting grandmother as being incontinent, which [[Ruth Morgendorffer]] doesn't seem to be, but it's unclear if Daria was being serious or not. If this was a reference to Helen's mother, she visited the Morgendorffers at Lawndale around Season 2.
Daria claims in "[[Jake of Hearts]]" that her gran offered her $100 to change her hair.
▲Of her three daughters, she is closest to
In [[fanon]], it's assumed she paid for [[Brian Danielson]] to fly out to Switzerland to have a second honeymoon with Erin, saving their marriage ("[[Aunt Nauseum]]"): Brian didn't have a job to pay for it on his own, and she'd already sent Erin there.
==Fanfiction==
The character was expanded in numerous fanfics, with many divergent names
* [[C.E. Forman]] gave her an equally wealthy half-sister, [[Aunt Eleanor]], and the same rivalry that Helen/Rita had with Amy and Quinn with Daria.
* [[Kara Wild]] named her [[Evelyn Barksdale|Evelyn]] in the [[Driven Wild Universe]] and made her generally crusty, but loving.
* Later, [[Richard Lobinske]] would create [[Tess Barksdale]], the southern matriarch in the fanfiction series, [[Falling Into College]].
* [[Kristen Bealer]] depicted an off-screen Bethany Barksdale in "[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6843131/1/For-Better-or-For-Worse-For-Richer-or-For-Poorer For Better or For Worse, For Richer or For Poorer]", trying to force Erin and Brian to get back together so she won't have to tell her social circle about another broken marriage in the family.
[[Category:Canon Characters|Barksdale, Grandma]]
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