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==Official statements on canon==
[[Image:Trentshipping.jpg|right|frame|Non-canonical, although it does make up a ''substantial'' portion of fanfiction.]]
[[MTV]] has never made an official statement on canon for either ''[[Daria (TV series)|Daria]]'' or ''[[Beavis and Butt-head]]'', and neither has Daria producer [[Glenn Eichler]]. In [https://web.archive.org/web/20160323202405/http://www.the-wildone.com/dvdaria/glenninterviewsfull.html an interview] with [[Kara Wild]], when talking about avoiding giving real-time dates for a TV series, said "the only purpose it serves is to get people upset about 'violating canon'", giving the impression that an official canon was not a priority for him.
[[Anne D. Bernstein]], however, jokingly referred to canon [https://web.archive.org/web/20160323202405/http://www.the-wildone.com/dvdaria/anneinterviewsfull.html in an interview], when talking about [[The Daria Diaries]] book: "I had to make up a ton of stuff that did not yet exist... and then it all became part of "the Daria Universe" so people had to follow what I established!". And the books written by Bernstein and future story editor Peggy Nicoll do indeed contain material that would later appear on the show itself: the names of Helen's sisters and all the details about Kevin's parents.
Something mentioned in an interview with MTV staff years after the show is not going to be canon, but will tell us about how the creators may have seen a character turning out or tidbits that they'd never fully got into the show. A number of these have been taken as 'canon' by many fans as a result, even though technically it isn't. A key example is that in his interview with Kara Wild, Glenn Eichler gave the location of [[Lawndale]] as being roughly in Maryland. The setting of Lawndale was never stated in canon and some parts of the show clash with a Maryland setting (''a desert'' being so close for one), but since it's the nearest we'll get to an answer, Lawndale is taken to be a Maryland suburb in fanfic after fanfic. Daria's old hometown, [[Highland]], was canonically placed in Texas in a 2011 ''Beavis and Butt-head'', but even before then it was commonly assumed to be in Texas because [[Mike Judge]] had said that this was where he envisaged it being.
==Off-canon canon==
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