It Happened One Nut

It Happened One Nut
Production Number	306
Original Airdate	July 7th, 1999
Special Guest Voices
Written By	Rachel Lipman
Directed By

"It Happened One Nut" was the sixth episode of the third season of the Daria TV series (episode number 306). It first aired on MTV on July 7th, 1999 and was written by Rachel Lipman.

Summary

This episode centers around Helen, shaken by a career aptitude test showing Daria winding up as a mortician, forcing Daria and Quinn to get jobs. Quinn winds up at the pet store, causing the escape, and death, of several small animals. Daria is not so lucky, winding up working, with Kevin Thompson, at It's a Nutty, Nutty, Nutty World. "It's worse than school," Daria tells Jane. "The rules are stupider, and Kevin is very, very close."

Daria's Reading Material

During a slow period at work, Daria reads The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a non-fiction book about the Soviet forced labour camps. (She really hated that job.)

"It Happened One Nut" and Fanfic

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Trivia

This episode was named after a romantic comedy film called It Happened One Night.

Several of the black female "background characters" are shown hanging out at the mall - Jennifer, "Orange Girl" and "Bib Overalls", all in Daria's year and in some of her classes. It implies all three are friends - and that's notable, because despite Jodie Landon's repeated complaints about being one of the few minority students at Lawndale and the pressure that puts on her to be a perfect 'representative' of her race, she's never been seen hanging with those three or anyone else.

Jake does consulting work for Nutty World's national office.

Akin to her protests of not being miserable in "The Misery Chick", Daria is very ticked off by being told she'd be a good mortician.

Quinn is allergic to pistachio dye: it gives her a rash.

External Links

• "It Happened One Nut" transcript
• "It Happened One Nut" summary on Sick, Sad World (website)
• "It Happened One Nut" review on Sick, Sad World (website)
• "It Happened One Nut" annotations on Sick, Sad World (website)
• "It Happened One Nut" summary and more on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
• "It Happened One Nut" summary on Fandango.com
• "It Happened One Nut" summary and more on the Big Cartoon Database
• "It Happened One Nut" summary and more on RetroJunk.com
• "It Happened One Nut" summary on TV.com
• "It Happened One Nut" summary and review on The Daria Shrine

Derivative Fanfiction

• "In a Nutshell," by Medea42
• "It's a Nutty, Nutty, Nutty Coincidence," by Mahna Mahna

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