Sick, Sad World
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Sick, Sad World is a tabloid TV "news" show of which Daria Morgendorffer and Jane Lane are loyal fans. The program's bombastic continuity announcer is played by MTV Animation producer John Worth Lynn, Jr.
The show features such questionable news stories as the uncovering of Thomas Jefferson's pornographic "tell-all" sex journals ("The Declaration of In My Pants! Next on Sick Sad World") and "exposing" the habitual defecation of fish into the ocean ("Are fish using our oceans as their own private toilets??!!").
A number of the stories have a quite surreal or paranormal bent to them, such as stories about bats disguising themselves as squirrels to infiltrate neighbourhoods ("Rabid Rodent Ripoff!"), mountaineers scaling a mountain of seagull droppings ("Guano see some gutsy climbing?"), or zombies causing traffic accidents ("Brought back from the grave by black magic, but no one taught them to cross at the green! The Jaywalking Dead!"). It's unknown how many of these stories have any bearing on fact.
In "Just Add Water", Daria and Jane watched a very long marathon of this show.
In the game "Daria's Inferno", the gameplay hints are presented as SSW clips.