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==Timeline headaches==
At the beginning of the episode, Quinn is holding the wall calendar open at [[May 12]] when she says that it is Daria and Tom's six-month anniversary.
However, Quinn says you can count the relationship starting from The Kiss ''or'' the first date, and "let's say we ignore the instance of sleazy backstabbing" when she gets six months. Fandom had long ignored "ignore" until late 2021, when it got flagged up in a timeline discussion by [[Erin Mills]]. That still leaves the problem that the first date was happening in June, which still puts a six-month anniversary before January. However, if you assume Quinn means the first date from when Tom and Daria patched things up at the end of IIFY?, which would be August, then this episode is sometime in February.
This episode satired the dot-com bubble of 1995-2000, though by the time the episode would have been written (after summer 2000) the bubble was starting to end - unfortunately, by the time it ''aired'' the bubble was rapidly deflating and the companies Buzzdome.com parodies were going under. In fanfiction, this is part of the reason why some fans assume Daria graduated in 2000, which puts this episode in 1999; the previous episode fits that theory. And then "[[Is It College Yet?]]" had a sign placing the story during or after 2001...▼
(Either way, whichever month this is, it's chilly out as Daria's wearing a warmer top. Which she's not wearing last ep!)
▲This episode satired the dot-com bubble of 1995-2000
===Real world timeline headaches===
To have aired in Feb 2001, this episode would've likely been written in early 2000 ("[[Esteemsters]]" was finished in January 1996 and aired in March 1997). The dotcom bubble was officially noticed to have burst in the summer but concerns that it was going to burst (or already had) first hit the mainstream on 20th March 2000, [https://www.barrons.com/articles/SB953335580704470544 when ''Barrons'' put out an article saying many tech firms were cash-starved and "that unpleasant popping sound is likely to be heard before the end of this year"].
Which means this episode satirising dotcoms was written possibly weeks before the bell started to toll!
==Trivia==
Helen first misses Jake, then later will explicitly say she's glad she married the "kind, decent, intelligent man I fell in love with all those years ago". After this episode, aside from a spat in "[[Camp Fear]]", we stop seeing the recurring subplot that Helen and Jake's marriage is unsatisfying and in dire
This episode introduced Sameer and Zhengdong at Buzzdome.com, but it was another five years before it was confirmed (in an interview with Bernstein) how their names were spelt.
=="Sappy Anniversary" and Fanfic==
* "[[Daria, Buzzed Up and Sold Out?]]" by [[EntrancedCat]] is a mashup of this episode and "[[Is It Fall Yet?]]", with Daria interning at Buzzdome and dealing with sexual harassment.
* "[[A Knight to Remember]]" by [[TAG]] is a sequel pairing Zhendong and [[Monique]], with the former worried the dotcom bubble is going to burst and that Noah doesn't realise it.
==External Links==
===On “Sappy Anniversary” the Episode===
* [https://sites.google.com/site/dariatranscripts/502-sappy-anniversary "Sappy Anniversary" Transcript]
* [https://archiveofourown.org/works/17623430/chapters/41551481 Episode Analysis] by [[WellTemperedClavier]]
===Alternate-Universe Versions of “Sappy Anniversary”===
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