It Happened One Nut: Difference between revisions

When the students receive the results of their career aptitude tests, [[Jane]] learns that she's suited to be an accountant (the same answer she's received every year, thanks to her selecting the same letter for each question), [[Kevin]] is suited to be a gas station attendant, [[Quinn]] is perfect as a neck model, and [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]], to her annoyance, is destined -- thanks to her apathy and her lack of desire to interact with other people -- to be a mortician.

[[Helen]] insists that Daria get a job to improve her interpersonal skills and focus her career goals, and makes Quinn get one as well (so she can pay for her $500 modelling portfolio on her own). Daria opts instead to take social skills counselling at school, but when that ends in failure (due to [[Tiffany]]'s glacially slow approach), she's forced to take a job that [[Jake]] sets up with a client. Daria's not thrilled to work at the mall's nut stand, [[It's a Nutty, Nutty, Nutty World]], and is even less so when she finds she's working next to the brain-dead [[Kevin]]. "It's worse than school," Daria tells [[Jane Lane|Jane]]. "The rules are stupider, and Kevin is very, very close."

That's topped by her humiliation when [[Trent]] finds out about her job, despite Jane's best efforts to steer him and [[Jesse Moreno]] away. When Jane is unable to coax Daria out of the store's back room, she puts in a call to Helen and pretends that Daria is being hidden away from the public while the less qualified Kevin is put in the spotlight; enraged, Helen storms into the mall and "rescues" Daria. They both encounter Quinn, who's caused a ruckus at her pet store job when she enlists the help of Joey, Jeffy and Jamie to find a boa constrictor she accidentally let out of its tank.

During a slow period at work, Daria reads [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn], a non-fiction book about the Soviet forced labour camps. (She ''really'' hated that job.)