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"Quinn the Brain" was written by [[Rachel Lipman]].
"Quinn the Brain" was written by [[Rachel Lipman]].

{{quote|A (very) brief burst of intellectual activity by Quinn gets her an instant reputation as a "brain."|MTV website summary}}


==Summary==
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==“Quinn the Brain” and Fanfic==
==“Quinn the Brain” and Fanfic==


This episode is a common rationale for the [[Tired Daria Fandom Tropes|trope]] that Daria, underneath her unfashionable clothing and behind her glasses, is conventionally attractive - and very much so - and just covering it up. Quinn's reaction to Daria's appearance at the end of the episode is taken as evidence, that Quinn is scared of the school finding out how Daria really looks; although her reaction may simply be due to the idea of Daria being like her (just as Daria disliked Quinn taking ''her'' role), without regard for the level of success. A number of alternate endings to this episode have been written as a means of allowing the "cute" Daria to last longer than the trip from her room to Quinn's door.
This episode is a common rationale for the [[Tired Daria Fandom Tropes|trope]] that Daria, underneath her unfashionable clothing and behind her glasses, is conventionally attractive and just covering it up; numerous fanfics have run with this idea. Quinn's reaction to Daria's appearance at the end of the episode is taken as evidence, that Quinn is scared of the school finding out how Daria really looks. Other fans argue that Quinn's reaction is due to the idea of Daria being like her just as Daria disliked Quinn taking ''her'' role, without regard for the level of success, and the whole 'transformation' scene is a pisstake on 'girl takes glasses off & becomes hot' stories as Daria looks exactly the same but without glasses on.

[[YouthofOz]]'s "[http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=47226 Life That Dare Not Speak Its Name]" takes place around this story, showing how irritated Sandi was and revealing it was her that gave Daria the idea of "show[ing] Quinn what it feels like to steal who you are".


A [[Novelization|novelization]] of [http://web.archive.org/web/20110519151840/http://outpost-daria.com/fanfic/ep203_quinn_the_brain.html this episode] has been written by [[Martin J. Pollard]].
A [[Novelization|novelization]] of [http://web.archive.org/web/20110519151840/http://outpost-daria.com/fanfic/ep203_quinn_the_brain.html this episode] has been written by [[Martin J. Pollard]].

The story [[A Tale of Two Brains]], by [[Richard Lobinske]], of the [[John Lane]] series, has a somewhat altered version of this episode.


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