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'''"Is It College Yet?"''' is the second and final ''Daria'' TV movie.
The movie is roughly equivalent to three "normal length" episodes. However subsequent TV airings and all DVD releases only provide the film in an edited form. It is often abbreviated on message boards as '''IICY?'''
==Summary==
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As the senior year is drawing to an end, finalist LWH students consider their college options. Daria is torn between [[Raft College]], her personal choice, and [[Bromwell]], a top University. The choice is not made easier by the fact that Tom plans to attend Bromwell, per family tradition, and offers his family's influence in the application process. Jake confusedly suggests [[Middleton College]], his and Helen’s alma matter, and Helen quietly supports Bromwell.
Other high school finalists are also sending college applications: [[Mack]] applies to [[Vance University]], while anxiously waiting from his scholarship application. [[Jodie Landon|Jodie]], while applying for the top college [[Crestmore]] (a prestigious university, if somewhat racially homogeneous), per her father’s wishes, secretly confides to Mack she’d rather attend [[Turner]], a more diverse university and her father's Alma Mater, where she thinks she’d fell less pressured. [[Brittany Taylor|Brittany]] and the rest of the [[Cheerleaders]] apply for the [[Great Prairie State University]], making plans to join its cheerleading squad together. In contrast, [[Kevin]] is evasive regarding his college plans. And [[Jane Lane|Jane]] makes only half-hearted attempts to try to get into state colleges (with bad art programs), while she daydreams of attending [[BFAC]].
Meanwhile, Quinn is caught with a huge shopping bill which her parents refuse to pay. To earn money, she takes a hostess job at the [[Governors Park]]. Her decision is met with divided opinions by the rest of the [[Fashion Club]], whose members are dealing with their own problems: during Stacy’s birthday celebration, as Sandi wouldn’t stop her verbal barbs, Stacy secretly wishes for her to just be quiet. When Sandi appears mute with laryngitis the next day, Stacy has a guilt attack and spends the rest of the episode trying to cure her friend.
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Meeting later with Jane and talking about the college acceptances, Daria makes a deal with her friend: she’ll beg a letter of recommendation from the Sloanes if Jane sends her portfolio late to BFAC. Jane accepts and later, talking to [[Trent Lane|Trent]], understands her brother reluctance in helping Jane with college had more to do with his fear of being alone.
Jodie and Mack also receive their college letters: Mack is accepted at Vance and gets his scholarship, but Jodie is in tears, confiding she’s been accepted both at Turner and Crestmore. Seeing her disarray, Mack secretly meets with Andrew Landon and tells him of Jodie’s acceptance and her fear of revealing it. Andrew and Michelle talk with
In her work as hostess, Quinn quickly befriends [[Lindy]], a college student. The two hit it off, but Quinn quickly realizes Lindy has a drinking problem. The situation escalates from innocent drinking to all-night parties, and Lindy is soon caught drinking on the job. Despite trying to shift the blame to other workers, including Quinn, the [[Michael|manager]] sees through Lindy’s excuses and fires her.
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As noted in a review by [http://www.slate.com/?id=2060921 ''Slate'' columnist Emily Russbaum], who praised the film for being "a sharply funny exploration of social class... [homing] in on the elitism of the United States college system", the film shows the characters going off to very different paths after graduation based on their economic prospects ("unlike, say, the characters on [Beverly Hills] ''90210''").
* Daria and Tom are growing apart because their different income brackets, and the different views on their college paths because of it, are something Daria can't handle and Tom doesn't appear to fully grasp. One argument happens when Tom is lamenting that Bromwell passed on her and ignores (until called on it) that she ''did'' get into another college. A recurring clash is that Tom is defensive (and Daria annoyed) about his family ties to Bromwell, which gave him a great advantage he doesn't want to admit to. For example, he got a 45 minute interview (the film indicates this is an oddly long time) and is ''stunned'' to hear Daria didn't, then sounds embarrassed. Daria herself suffers a 'class cringe' from the constant Bromwell talk, despairing over the failure and the lack of prospects she will have, compared to Tom, until Helen points out that Raft is an excellent school.
* Tom and Jodie, the richest members of the cast, are the ones going to highly elite colleges (though Jodie decides against Crestmore). He's also the only character who isn't worrying about college, as he ''knows'' he's getting into Bromwell. If Jodie goes to Crestmore, she will be rubbing shoulders with future politicians and business leaders who "literally are running the country"; her father tells her this would make the rest of her life much easier.
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==Cut scenes==
The exceptions are:
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*Ms. Li's future ego in the credits as a crazy cat woman.
More seriously, the scene with Mack and Andrew Landon greatly cuts out Andrew's
*Mack - With all due respect, sir, I don't believe that's true. ''She's been putting a lot of pressure on herself for a long time.'' I think she really needs a different kind of environment. Like Turner.
*Andrew - (brief laugh) How is she gonna go to Turner? She didn't even apply. ''(pause) What do you mean, acting
*Mack - ''Quiet, distracted, crying. (pause) You're not going to be a grandfather.''
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* Daria - Okay, bye. (she hangs up and split screen ends as she resumes typing)
==Timeline headaches==
This takes place in the last month or so of Daria's final year. However, students start applying for colleges ''much'' earlier in their final year. Logically the events from this story should be
A poster on the wall of Lindy's apartment says "Cyber Doo 2001 Film and Multimedia". This explicitly places the story during 2001 or 2002... when "[[I Don't]]", set two years before, explicitly placed itself in 1998. The events of "[[Sappy Anniversary]]", however, make less sense if set in autumn 2000!
==Trivia==
This is the last-ever episode of ''Daria'', bringing
The song "[[Breaking Up the Girl]]" by Garbage premiered as part of the film, with a music video featuring a ''Daria'' montage, and was promoted as the "theme song". [http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y296/boylikearose/Garbage%20Memorabilia%202008-2011/BreakinguptheGirlUSAHitstradeadDecember2001.jpg]
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[[Lawndale High]] has a tradition of handing out the [[Dian Fossey Award]] to students who excel academically but don't contribute much to "student life". [[Angela Li|Ms. Li]] either does not like giving this award out at all or simply disliked having to give an award to Daria (hence her backhanded "in the face of near-total misanthropy" comment); either way, Li says she's "forced" to give out such an award. It's not specified what forces Li to do this.
In Daria's speech at the end
==Media reaction==
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They include:
* [[Mystik Spiral]] (bar Trent) as a church choir.
* [[Andrea]] as a swimsuit model (and thinner).
* Quinn as a business executive, behaving akin to her mother.
* Tom as an aging shut-in in a nursing home (this is a disturbingly grim ego!).
* Jodie as owner of Landon Towers Casino & Resort ("Casino & Resort" is cut off in the DVD).
* Sandi as a madam running Griffin Escorts. One of her clients is the Shoplifter from [[That Was Then, This Is Dumb]].
* Jake and Helen retired at a mountain cabin, both hooked out to a valium drip.
* Mack and Kevin as the owners and mascots for the Bro & QB ice-cream company.
* Lindy and [[Alison]] as a couple, raising adopted children at a farm.
* Tiffany running a psychic call line (in the DVD the "1-800-555-PSYK" number is cut off).
* DeMartino as a ''very'' happy mailman.
* Brittany as an actress in slasher films.
* Barch running a shotgun wedding chapel.
* The [[Three Js]] as reporters for JRL (a spin on MTV's now-defunct [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Request_Live TRL]).
* Trent as a bald, pudgy US Senator in the year 2041, involved in a Family Opportunity Act.
* O'Neill playing Peter Pan in a theatre.
* Stacy as a NASCAR racer.
* Ms Li as a psychotic cat lady holed up in her house (this one isn't included in the DVD version for some reason).
* Upchuck as a rich fashion designer.
* Daria and Jane as the hosts for a breakfast show, Good Mornings With Daria and Jane.
[[Image:Goodmornings.gif|frame|right|]]
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[https://sites.google.com/site/dariatranscripts/600-is-it-college-yet Transcript of ''Is It College Yet?''] (includes sections removed in later showings and on the commercial DVD)
* [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Is_It_College_Yet%3F ''Is It College Yet?''] on Wikiquote
* [https://archiveofourown.org/works/17623430/chapters/42795968 Episode Analysis] by [[WellTemperedClavier]]
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