Is It College Yet?: Difference between revisions

"Is It College Yet?" is the second ''Daria'' TV movie. It was first shown on MTV on January 21, 2002. Subsequent airing and its DVD release only provided it in an edited form. The movie shows the characters of [[Daria Morgendorffer]]'s class as they approach their high-school graduation and look toward college.

This episode, roughly equivalent to 3 "normal length" episodes, concerns the characters attempting to make the life-altering decision of where to go to college. [[Jane]] wants to go to [[Boston Fine Arts College]], but the pressure of doing an art portfolio for them makes it too difficult to produce any good art. [[Daria]] is between [[Bromwell]] (where [[Tom Sloane]] will be going pursuant to the family tradition), and [[Raft College]]. [[Trent]] doesn't want Jane to go to college at all. The social class rift between Tom and Daria is increasingly obvious.

Daria and [[Tom Sloane]] break up for good at the movie's end. Daria gets into [[Raft College]] instead of [[Bromwell]], and convinces [[Jane Lane]] to apply to [[Boston Fine Arts College]], where Jane is accepted. Both girls plan to continue their friendship as time and schoolwork allow, and the movie ends on a high note with their toast to the future.

Oh, and [[Upchuck]] has sex (thankfully it's offstage).

The various colleges the characters talk about being interested in have obvious parallels to real life schools. [[Bromwell]], for example, is probably Harvard, and [[Raft University]] is really Tufts.

We also learn, indirectly, that [[Lawndale High]] has a tradition of "Academic Achievement in the Face of Almost Total Misanthropy," because they have a senior award for it. It is also possible that [[Ms. Li]] invented the backhanded award for Daria's sake.