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==Background== |
==Background== |
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Jake Morgendorffer was the |
Jake Morgendorffer was the son of an emotionally abusive father, nicknamed [["Mad Dog" Morgendorffer]], who (as Jake remembers it) tormented his son mercilessly and ultimately shipped him off to military school the first chance he got. Jake's time in military school further traumatized him, as his parents refused to visit him and all but forgot about him until graduation. |
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Afterwards, Jake enrolled |
Afterwards, Jake enrolled at [[Middleton College]] and met his future wife [[Helen Morgendorffer|Helen]]. The two were part of the hippie counter-culture at the time, which was a calming influence to the seething cauldron of repressed rage and hatred for the world around him and for his father. The two moved into a commune after graduation and got married. His father died shortly thereafter. |
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Like many hippies, Jake and Helen rejected the 1960s counter-culture by the end of the 1970s and began working in the corporate world. Jake in particular began work in the advertisement industry, with little success. Adding to his strife was the fact that Jake worked for a rather controlling boss who treated Jake poorly (whom he referred to as a "mini-Mussolini" in the episode "Boxing Daria") and further verbally abused Jake on a regular basis. |
Like many hippies, Jake and Helen rejected the 1960s counter-culture by the end of the 1970s and began working in the corporate world. Jake in particular began work in the advertisement industry, with little success. Adding to his strife was the fact that Jake worked for a rather controlling boss who treated Jake poorly (whom he referred to as a "mini-Mussolini" in the episode "[[Boxing Daria]]") and further verbally abused Jake on a regular basis. |
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Jake and Helen ultimately had two daughters, [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]] and [[Quinn Morgendorffer|Quinn]]. By this point the family was living in the fictional town of [[Highland]], Texas, (home of [[Beavis and Butt-head]]). The family stayed there for several years before moving to the fictional town of [[Lawndale]]. It has been implied that the family moving came with Jake's decision to quit his job and start his own freelance advertising consultant firm. The move was designed to give Jake the freedom of being his own boss and to free him from the stress-filled environment in which he used to work. |
Jake and Helen ultimately had two daughters, [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]] and [[Quinn Morgendorffer|Quinn]]. By this point the family was living in the fictional town of [[Highland]], Texas, (home of [[Beavis and Butt-head]]). The family stayed there for several years before moving to the fictional town of [[Lawndale]]. It has been implied that the family moving came with Jake's decision to quit his job and start his own freelance advertising consultant firm. The move was designed to give Jake the freedom of being his own boss and to free him from the stress-filled environment in which he used to work. |
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