Jake of Hearts: Difference between revisions

While witnessing this, Daria has to listen to her father’s anxious speeches and beliefs that he will not live much longer, while at the same time having to endure the constant Z-93 stunts at school and the DJs pressuring her to be part of the show. In a low point, "Mental in the Morning" offers a Z-93 bumper sticker as a prize to anyone who'll date [[Upchuck]] as a prize; [[Jodie Landon]] thinks this is too humiliating, to which Daria remarks "Think how the bumper sticker must feel." This leads to the DJ's trying to get ''her'' to do it ("You look like you could use a date").

At home, she calmly puts her grandmother on the spot when she notices how bad her decisions regarding her husband had been. This effectively silences Ruth ("You both owe me") by making her realisingrealizing she's doing more harm than good. Finally, Daria tries to help her father. In the face of his concerns about whether he's doing a good job ''as'' a father, Daria dodges the issue and cures him of his despondency by noting her granddad was dead at this point. Feeling like he's beaten his father - "I'm better at ''living!''" - revives Jake from his funk, and the instant he's okay Helen goes back to overworking and Quinn abandons studying.

At the end of the episode, Daria tells the previous days’ events with Jane while at [[Pizza King]] and how she reluctantly sees home and school could both be worse. That's when Z-93, apparently unfazed by Daria's rant towards them, parks and starts broadcasting right outside.