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==Summary==
In English class, [[Quinn Morgendorffer|Quinn]] has had a bad grade but she pays no heed until [[Timothy O’Neill|O’Neill]] mentions she must have an A the following essay or she’ll fail. [[Helen Morgendorffer|Helen]] and [[Jake Morgendorffer|Jake]], warned by the teacher, try to insist her daughter studies harder, but their arguments make no progress and it takes [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]] to convince her when she mentions that Quinn could become the oldest of her class if she fails.
However, Quinn tries to avoid working by bribing her sister to do the writing. After some negotiation, Daria accepts, only to refuse a moment later when Quinn unintentionally insults her. She reiterates her refusal hours later when Quinn has to cancel her date to work.
Quinn eventually writes an essay entitled "[[Academic Imprisonment]]", comparing school to prison. It so impresses Mr. O'Neill—despite glaring mechanical flaws and a petulant tone&mdash that not only he gives her an A as he reads the text aloud and later has is published in the school’s newspaper.
The grade has unintended consequences: at the Morgendorffer’s, Quinn manipulates her parents into giving her money for the grade, a system Daria is quick to point the faults of by noting [i]she[/i] had consistently maintained high grades for long. And, at school, the consequences are deeper: Quinn’s published essay makes her appear smart and intellectual. Her initial distress is soon gone and she transforms being smart into a fad.
Daria, who had first been eager for Quinn’s to be known as smart (as she tough Quinn would become an outcast), soon despairs when she sees, during the following days, that Quinn has maintained her popularity and is assumed among classmates and teachers to be a good writer, despite her writings being awful. That perception causes an identity crisis on Daria and she only snaps out of it with the help of her father.
Meanwhile, Quinn has her share of problems: with so many girls following Quinn’s example and wearing black (imitating Quinn’s intellectual poseur), a furious [[Sandi Griffin|Sandi]] suspends Quinn from the [[Fashion Club]]. The later confides in [[Jane Lane|Jane]] that she thinks everybody’s making a big deal of her essay.
Daria is so fed up that, when the [[Three Js]] approach her to get things back to normal, she works out a plan. So that evening, at the Morgendorffer’s, Daria gets rid of her normal clothes ensemble and glasses, dresses in stylish jeans and a pink top and applies lipstick and mascara. She than proceeds to parade in full view of Quinn when the 3 J’s appear and loudly state they’re coming to take Daria out. In a panic on what Daria could do with that figure, Quinn breaks down.
The next day, everything is back to normal, as Quinn has reverted to her old self and clothes, has stopped pretending to be smart and quickly downplays her essay. A haughty Sandi accepts Quinn’s apology and lets her into the Fashion club again.
===Daria's Reading Material===
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