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Line 1: Noggin is an entertainment brand ~~owned~~co-founded by MTV Networks (the owners of Nickelodeon) and Sesame Workshop. It was first launched in 1999 as a ~~cable television~~TV ~~network~~channel, which was divided into two programming blocks: a daytime block for ~~young~~younger children and a nighttime block for tweens and teens, called The N (standing for ~~"The Noggin"~~'''N'''oggin). ~~Viacom~~Since Noggin was co-owned by MTV Networks, ~~who~~the ~~owns~~channel was able to air reruns of shows that [[MTV]] Networks owned, ~~discontinued~~including ~~the~~''Daria''. The N block was discontinued in ~~2008~~2007. It was eventually merged with Nickelodeon's own teen block, TEENick, into a separate channel called TeenNick. ==Airing Daria== Line 15: At best, the deeper cuts led to jokes being ruined or inadvertently giving the wrong idea, such as the scene in "[[Lane Miserables]]" where Jake opens the door to Monique, thinking she's Quinn's date, and spouts, "Wow! I really <i>don't</i> know my kids!" The revised version on The N makes it appear as though Jake always knew that Quinn's "date" would be a female. "[[Antisocial Climbers]]" cuts a joke about Quinn being lynched, which inadvertently means the scene ends with Daria saying they're in severe danger and having no joke to make. At worst, the deeper cuts led to a reshaping of episodes that either removed a dimension or destroyed their clarity. In "[[Is It Fall Yet?]]", all mention of [[Alison]]'s come-ons to [[Jane Lane]] were cut out, which meant that viewers never got to see Jane ponder her sexuality and that Jane is pretty much having no plot or problems to overcome. (Notably, the Noggin's press release for the IIFY? rerun doesn't mention Alison at all - nor ''Jane!'') In "[[Lucky Strike]]," the entire subplot in which Quinn's [[Ken Edwards\|substitute teacher]] hits on Tiffany is also cut. Without this scene, and the following scene in which Helen calls and threatens Ms. Li with a lawsuit, viewers have no basis for understanding why Ms. Li would force Daria to be a substitute teacher. ==The fans are revolting!== Line 26 ⟶ 25: Over time, The N's censorship of ''Daria'' would prove cruelly ironic, as it began to show much more adult fare (such as <i>Degrassi: The Next Generation</i>), to the point where <i>Daria</i> became one of the tamer programs. It is possible that The N liked their animated shows to be pure in spirit and not so cynical or adult, but also that as The N began to rely less on subsidies from Viacom and more on ad revenue, its executives chose to make their channel less geared toward education than escapism. In 2016, [https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/10/youre-standing-on-my-neck-the-life-and-death-of-th.html Glenn Eichler compared] the lack of original music in the DVDs to The N (and [[Logo]]), which did use the original music, and said he ~~prefered~~preferred the former: "on those networks the show is jarringly, destructively edited to squeeze in even more ads, or to meet standards and practices guidelines. And the audio is compressed so brutally that the whole episode sounds like it was recorded in a tin can."