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Several members of the Lane family simultaneously return home, causing Jane and Trent to eventually seek shelter elsewhere. Vincent, Penny and Wind Lane make their first appearances in this episode, and Amanda Lane is fully revealed (her feet were seen in Arts 'n Crass).
As [[Helen]] bemoans the fact that there's very little communication in the Morgendorffer family, the Lanes suddenly become cursed with too much of it as the various wandering Lanes return to the nest: [[Jane]]'s mother [[Amanda Lane]]; [[Wind Lane|Wind]], when his third marriage hits the rocks; [[Penny Lane|Penny]] (along with her psychotic parrot
Little by little, Jane feels herself literally squeezed out of her house and irritated with her mother's disinterest in taking control of the situation. She ends up taking refuge with the Morgendorffers. There, she's questioned about [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]] by Helen and [[Jake]], who both feel they know too little about their girls. Soon, [[Trent Lane|Trent]] finds himself in the same predicament as Jane, just as his nephew & niece [[Courtney]] and [[Adrian]] turn up (later followed by their mother [[Summer Lane|Summer]]). He decides to stay in the [[Tank]] for a while, but is able to weasel his way into staying with the Morgendorffers when he drops by to inform Jane of his plans. Having Trent in such close proximity forces Daria to come face to face with her crush on him, but when she finds out that [[Monique]] is his girlfriend (after she drops by to pick him up), she imagines -- with a little prodding from [[Quinn]] -- how her life would turn out if she actually hooked up with him...
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Amanda finally can't stand having her wayward children around the house anymore, and in desperation, she pleads with Helen to help her get her home back. Helen's plan? A family dinner, where their bickering succeeds in driving the Lane siblings off once again to parts unknown.
As Jane and Trent prepare to leave, Trent (who has broken up with Monique for the umpteenth time)
==Importance==
This is a crucial episode for Jane and Trent: we finally see their immediate family, which had been just mentioned in episodes or in the books. "[[The Daria Diaries]]" and "[[The Daria Database]]" had already made it clear that Jane & Trent's parents were often absent and negligently so, and this was confirmed on screen. While Jane calls it "benign", it darkened the character's backstories. Trent's mournful memories of being in a tent for six months "waiting for someone to invite me back in" (which [[Amanda Lane|his mother]] remembers as an example of things sorting themselves out and where a young Jane was the one feeding him) shows this upbringing has left some marks.
In terms of Daria's character development, this episode is (for the most part) where Daria overcomes and gets over her crush on Trent, despite the ending scene where Daria daydreams her and Trent holding hands suggesting otherwise. In subsequent episodes such as "[[Speedtrapped]]", Daria detests some of Trent's lyrics in his songwriting book, stating "God, I hope this is a first draft." By the time of the season 3 finale "[[Jane's Addition]]", it becomes obvious that Daria's crush on Trent has passed.
In a [http://www.slate.com/id/2254116/pagenum/2 review] of the series, Reihan Salam of ''Slate'' called this "one of the best episodes". He also points to it as an example of how Jane "clearly needs" the bond she's developed with Daria: running away to the Morgendorffers show "Daria has become Jane's surrogate family".
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