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=== “[[Depth Takes a Holiday]]”===

This is the most notorious of the fantasy episodes, in which various popular holidays appear as [[Holiday Island]] teenagers, wandering around [[Lawndale]] and interacting with Daria, Jane, and others. In the [[Last Summer]] tale, "[[Comforting a Confused Soul]]," [[Richard Lobinske]] has Daria write a short story called "Depth Takes a Holiday," which follows the episode as given. (In the succeeding [[Falling Into College]] series, Daria even dresses up as the character [[Halloween (character)|Halloween]] for a party.) [[Kara Wild|Kara Wild's]] second fanfic, "[[A Desperately Needed Ending (to "Depth Takes a Holiday")]]," speculated that Daria ate a tainted piece of fruitcake at school, which led to a drug trip that produced the fantasy episode. However, some fantasy and science-fiction fanfics assume the dimensional wormhole in the back of the [[Good Time Chinese restaurant]] was real, leading to fairly wild universe-crossing tales (e.g., "[[Illusions]]," "[[Three]]," "[[Luuuv Story]]," "[[Scarlett (story)|Scarlett]]," and "[[A Hard Days' Night]]").

 

[[Image:quinnquinn.gif|left|frame|Quinn has a conversation with her reflection in "Daria!"]]

=== “[[Daria!]]” ===

A musical set during a hurricane? Daria and Jane dancing and singing? Again, most fanfic writers assume this did not actually occur. In [[Richard Lobinske|Richard Lobinske's]] story "[[Freshman Spread]]," Daria mentions that it was a dream of Trent's and, from the snippet of lyrics, had written down at least part of it. "[[A Hard Days' Night]]" suggests the episode happened as shown, but was caused by alien invaders spraying [[Lawndale]] with psychoactive chemicals before a hurricane swooped by.