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'''"Is It College Yet?"''' is the second and final ''Daria'' TV movie. It first aired on MTV on January 21, 2002. The
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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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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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.
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