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"Prize Fighters" was the eleventh episode of season five of ''Daria'' (episode number 511). It first aired on MTV on June 11, 2001.▼
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▲'''"Prize Fighters"''' was the eleventh episode of season five of ''Daria'' (episode number 511). It first aired on MTV on June 11, 2001.
It was written by [[Neena Beber]].
==Plot Summary==
College approaches, so [[Helen Morgendorffer|Helen]] insists that [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]] starts searching for
Meanwhile, [[Jake Morgendorffer|Jake]] has a problem of his own: due to a mistake filling on-line buy forms, he has received an enormous quantity of frozen hot dogs, instead of the prime
A few days pass, and Daria receives a letter informing her she has made the finals for the prize and will be interviewed. She is surprised to
As Tom is helping preparing Daria for the interview, he informs her the Wizard Foundation has a very conservative attitude regarding the employment of women and minorities in top positions. Daria informs Jodie of this, hoping both would give up the process, but [[Andrew Landon]] - who already knows of Straum's views and has a hearty laugh at them - convinces both to go, saying if both of them refuse to take the opportunity, then they will never be able to change Wizard's attitude regarding employment. Daria ends up deciding to go, and has a (predictably fruitless) session with
Daria, Jodie and Upchuck are interviewed together by
[[Image:HotDiggityDogs.png|frame|right|Five bucks on Mr D.]]
In the end, none of the three Lawndale students gets the prize. Jodie and Upchuck lament over the possible wrong strategies they used in the interview. Daria also laments on not getting the prize, realizing that she did want it, just not enough. Both Daria and Jodie lament their lack of ethics in the whole application process. Later, as Jane and Daria talk about the situation, Jane confesses the reason for her angry reaction before: she was jealous that three intelligent students were competing for a prize she wouldn't be able to apply for, due to her lack of academic achievements. Both end up reminescenting over the fact hey are growing up and have to start joining the system.▼
▲In the end, none of the three Lawndale students
Meanwhile, Jake finds a way to get rid of the huge order of hot-dogs: he organizes a hotdog eating contest in Lawndale!▼
▲Meanwhile, Jake finds a way to get rid of the huge order of hot-dogs: he organizes a hotdog eating contest
==Timeline headaches==
Upchuck starting up "a dotcom" places this before the dot-com bubble burst, and written it would've been meant as a joke on how easy it was to set up a profitable dotcom ("''you've'' started a dotcom?" remarks Daria). Unfortunately, once the episode aired the bubble had burst months ago. The first stories about it being a bubble came out [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotcom_bubble#The_bubble_bursts in spring 2000], and Daria would've mentioned this to burst Upchuck's bubble (ho ho) if she'd been aware of such stories. This episode is unlikely to be taking place too early in the year (if you assume this occurs in 2000).
==Trivia==
* The Wizard Foundation, as a stereotypical "evil corporation" fronted by a racist, sexist "redneck billionaire", brings to mind [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot H. Ross Perot's] software and services firm, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Data_Systems Electronic Data Systems], notorious for its authoritarian corporate culture when Perot ran it.
* [[The Head (backgrounder)|The Head]] appears at the competition ''in two seperate places at the same time''
* Danada is an allusion to the Spanish expression ''de nada'' ("it was nothing"). So, his name and title could be translated as "Doctor of nothing."
=="Prize Fighters" and Fanfic==
[[Alternate universe]] versions of "Prize Fighters" include [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=33416 Not So Different 64: Where You Might Not Expect it] by [[J-D]], featuring a [[Gender Swap|gay male]] alternate of Daria.
The presence of Upchuck among Daria and Jane, and his set-up of the dotcom to woe the interviewer, is an indication of his resourcefull and intelligent traits, which have often been addressed in fanfiction.▼
▲The presence of Upchuck
In the [[Legion of Lawndale Heroes]] universe, Wizard Computers was co-founded by [[Russell Stark]]; it was the endowment of his multi-billion dollar fortune, and the full resources of the [[Quest Foundation]], that allowed for the creation and operation of the [[National Legion]] and the operations of Lawndale's [[Legion Tower]].
==External Links==
* [https://sites.google.com/site/dariatranscripts/511-prize-fighters "Prize Fighters" Transcript]
* [http://dariablog2.blogspot.com/2008/06/prize-fighters-revisited-au-style.html "Prize Fighters Revisited, AU Style,"] at the [[Daria Fandom Blog II]]
* [https://archiveofourown.org/works/17623430/chapters/42187979 Episode Analysis] by [[WellTemperedClavier]]
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