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==Summary==
When [[Quinn]] receives a bunch of flowers and gifts, she informs [[Daria]] that it's a sign of how much a guy cares, and after pestering her about her upcoming six-month anniversary with [[Tom]] (which Daria herself had forgotten about), Daria starts to wonder whether Tom is taking her for granted.
This assumption is reinforced when Daria and Tom get together and he'd rather just hang out than go out and do something, saying that "normal dates" are for people with no imagination. When [[Jane]] reveals during a heart-to-heart talk that Tom did some romantic things with her (like pony rides and fancy Italian dinners), Daria becomes even more convinced. When Tom stops by and asks Daria if she'd like to go for a walk -- after Quinn tries unsuccessfully to jog Tom's memory -- they end up sitting in the park, where Tom finds that Daria's mad at him but, naturally, stubbornly refuses to tell him why. He walks away rather than engage in a no-win argument, leaving Daria angry and upset (more at herself than at Tom).
Meanwhile, [[Jake]] gets involved in [[Buzzdome.com]], an Internet dot-com startup that's looking for fresh blood. He knows squat about the Internet, but figures he'd get in on the ground floor and make a killing on the initial stock offering. Turns out he missed the stock offering, but [[Noah Barkman]], Buzzdome's 24-year-old president, convinces him to stay on. Jake finds himself increasingly over his head, but in true Jake fashion, he plows ahead enthusiastically, determined to make a go of it. Unfortunately, his success is short-lived when his laptop computer crashes and takes his presentation with it. His subsequent presentation shows just how little he knows about the Internet game, but the experience isn't a total loss: Noah hires Jake as a consultant, to act as a one-man focus group for the market segment that's utterly confused about the Internet experience.
Daria tries to ask [[Helen]] for advice, and is told she shouldn't bother expecting too grand for an anniversary. Helen flashes back to her first wedding anniversary, where Jake gave her a home-made candle: a grotesque, unidentifiable lump. ("It's supposed to be a hobbit.") However, she knew that Jake had put time into making it, and that all that really matters is if your partner shows he loves you. Daria then asks what if he forgets the anniversary entirely: "Show no mercy," Helen scowls.
At school, Daria mopes around with Jane, kicking herself for not telling Tom what the problem had been. When she sees others being equally stupid with their romances and refusing to just talk plainly, she responds in horror: "This is like that scene in ''Pinocchio'' when he discovers he's growing ears like the rest of the donkeys." Jane tells her "then stop being an ass" and to talk to Tom.
At Tom's house, Daria reveals to him how when she realised he'd forgotten the anniversary, she began to worry that he was taking her for granted and didn't really care about the relationship, especially after hearing what he'd done with Jane. Tom reassures her that he does care for her, and explains that he only did those things with Jane after his relationship with her started fizzling out; he did romantic things to hide the fact that he no longer felt romantic. Now he knows anniversaries are important to Daria, they can celebrate; Daria claims they're not (Tom: "okay, then)" but they can celebrate anyway (Tom: "okay, then")
That night, Jake worries if Helen's bothered that he's a failure. "Not a bit", she says, before quickly saying he's not a failure and she still loves him. As proof, she takes out the old candle, something she keeps to remind herself why she fell in love with him. (Jake recoils in horror from it, asking "what the hell is that?!") Downstairs, Tom and Daria end up not celebrating their non-anniversary over a box of Quinn's chocolates -- after all, "celebrating anniversaries was her idea"...
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