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==Trivia==

This is the last-ever episode of ''Daria'', bringing to an end the official canon.

Like "Is It Fall Yet?", the movie opens with a fantasy title sequence and a newly commissioned song by [[Splendora]] (about college being a pain in the ass). The sequence shows various iconic images of college life in America (and pisstakes thereof) throughout the 21st century, with the images given the appropriate "film quality" and characters wearing period costumes.

The various colleges the characters talk about being interested in have obvious parallels with real-life schools. Raft College, for example, is likely Tufts, a prestigious school on the outskirts of Boston, while Bromwell is probably Yale, given its distance from Boston and location of New Town (New Haven). Crestmore (described by Mack as "the dream of dreams") may be Harvard or a school of comparable quality in another part of the country, such as Stanford.

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In Daria's speech at the end if this episode, we learn a little bit about her guiding philosophy, a loosely connected set of ideas that has kept her grounded, kept her Daria, in spite of her changing personality and changing circumstances.

==Media reaction==

A number of magazines, newspapers, and websites in America reviewed the film on its release, as well as the show itself. (Transcripts and links can be found on [http://outpost-daria.com/media.html Outpost Daria]) The responses were positive:

* G.J. Donnelly for ''TV Guide Online'' expressed that he was already missing the show and credited it for being an intelligent, feminist work, but said the film was a worthy sendoff. He stated the plotlines for Daria and Quinn showed them handling difficult situations maturely, and in regards to the film as a whole "this animated film approaches the teenage experience much more realistically than shows like Dawson's Creek."

* Bill Desowitz for ''Animation Magazine'' noted MTV was closing down its animation studio but Daria should do well in syndication (it did subsequently end up on [[The Noggin]]), and interviewed [[Glenn Eichler]] over the series' finale. Glenn said the series had run as long as it could and that Daria's emotional journey had already ended; he also referred to the show as being a sitcom. Animation Magazine called it "one of TV's wittiest animated sitcoms".

* Emily Nussbaum for ''Slate'' lamented the end of the show and praised both its humour, its willingness to target the counter-culture just as much (if not worse) as the mainstream for pretentiousness and target Daria itself, and for being in "the right place at the right time" for the audience. The film itself was praised for its attention to class divisions and for showing the Lawndale students going off to completely different lives, some of them uncertain or troubled. "It's remarkable to have a TV show end on such an ambiguous, even downbeat, note."

In promotion of the film, "Daria" appeared on the CBS Early Show for an interview.

==IICY and social class==