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"Quinn the Brain" was written by [[Rachel Lipman]].
==Summary==
==Summary==
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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 ''she'' 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 as 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 Daria to suffer an identity crisis and she
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 continues to despair that nobody notices Quinn's writing is rubbish and that she's losing the "brain" role to Quinn - and since Quinn's "a brain with bouncy hair", "I can't compete". Unwilling to end up as an even ''less'' popular brain, when the [[Three Js]] approach her to get things back to normal, she works out a plan - one she knew would work all along but couldn't "bring myself" to do before.
That evening, at the Morgendorffer’s, Daria takes a photo of Quinn, marked with a detailed list of 'attributes', and procedes to make herself up to resemble Quinn. When the 3 J’s arrive, loudly stating they’re coming to take Daria out ("by the way, how's Quinn?"), Daria starts to show off her new look in full view of her sister. After a few seconds, Quinn panics and flees for the J's, conceding defeat.
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.▼
▲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 and Jane remark everything's back to normal - i.e. "Thinking: bad".
==Trivia==
[[Image:QuinnAnalysis.jpg|thumb|300px|To defeat the enemy, Daria must ''become'' the enemy.]]
* Daria remarks to Quinn, "You could be left back and be the oldest freshman at Lawndale High." This puts this episode during Quinn's first year at Lawndale High, and fits the 'two season = a year' theory of Daria timelines.
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* When [[Jamie White]] talks in the first scene, he has a different voice actor to normal. The usual actor comes back later.
* "Through a Lens Darkly" shows Daria can barely see without her glasses, so how the heck did she manage to Quinn up after she'd taken them off?!
* Daria already owned a long pink T-shirt.
===Daria's Notes on Quinn===
Her guidelines on the photo are:
* "Midriff flesh exposure: 3 inches. Check navel for lint."
* "Hair bouncy, shimmering, highlights. Oh just try to do something"
* "Jeans: Cute. Posture: Fun. Attitude: Happy. Prognosis: Hopeless."
===Daria's Reading Material===
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