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Daria, however, is so fed up with the situation that she decides to skip her grounding to go to the hockey game. She tells Jane and Jodie, who had visited to make sure she was all right (as a rumor had that she was being experimented on). Daria creates a careful plan of escape, involving a recording of her harmonica, leaving through the window and avoiding the neighborhood watch. However, when both parents leave phone messages stating they have to work late she just leaves the house by the front door.
The hockey game is going well when Daria arrives to watch, until [[
However, this fun outing ends for Daria when she comes home, finding Helen and Jake had arrived earlier and found Daria gone. There is another Family Court session the next day, but this time Daria is ready, negotiating a 'plea bargain' with her mother (in which she would manage her own times), using the cost of further grounding (including Monopoly, Scrabble and late-night harmonica playing) as leverage. Reluctantly, Helen and Jake accept.
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Barch batters Randy with a declaration of "payback time" - what's she out for revenge over??
Last episode to feature [[Marc Thompson]] as the voice of Upchuck. [[Geoffrey Arend]] would voice the character from the second season onward.
"[[The Daria Diaries]]" reveals that the family court was used again - this time on Jake, over carpet wear in the living room. Helen used "pacing photos" as evidence, and Daria was bringing Jane to practice being a courtroom sketch artist.
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===Rules===
The rules presented by Helen and Jake are displayed in
==== Tablet 1 ====
Rule I: "Persistence questioning on parental judgment is punishable. Occasional questioning of parental judgment indicates healthy skepticism and shall be permitted at the pleasure of mother and father (herein after referred to as the "ruling council")"▼
RULES
Rule II: "The ruling council shall determine when occasional questioning becomes persistent questioning and shall not be required to provide advance notice of said determination."▼
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Rule 2/9(*): "No pimple pads in the toilet"▼
Rule 3. "Wear your own damn sleepers when you walk (...)"▼
Rule 18. "The ruling council does not allow dates on school nights."▼
==== Tablet 2 ====
Rule 19. "Interdependent behavior shall be considered preferable to Independent behavior."▼
CONT...
Rule 20. "Curfew shall be considered to be 10 p.m. on school nights."▼
8. ''[Duplicate of Rule 1]''
Rule 21. "Telephone usage shall occur on an "as need (only?)" basis."▼
9. ''[Duplicate of Rule 2]''
FAMILY COURT
==== Tablet 3 ====
RULES
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12. Members of this household are expected to treat each other according to the established "norms" of respect and/or rules outlined in the Geneva Conventions of War.
==== Tablet 4 ====
RULES
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''(Helen points to this tablet when she states that "rules 21 through 26" describe a sign-in procedure to follow when coming home late.)''
===Episode Title===
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===Daria's Reading Material===
While grounded, Daria is shown reading Herman Melville's [
Later, when Quinn breaks down and asks her sister for a book, Daria is reading [[wikipedia:Fyodor Dostoevsky|Fyodor Dostoyevsky's]] [
Daria offers Quinn her copy of Homer's ''Iliad'':
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The episode begins with Daria being dropped off late in the evening from a car. Where she was and who she was with is never fully explained,. This is one of the comparatively few times we see Daria doing "normal" teenage things like coming home late. The event isn't specifically part of the episode's storyline, but rather just a part of the background.
The car that drops her off is the exact same car driven by "[[Backgrounder#Guy|Guy]]" in [[Malled]], who gave Daria a ride back in that episode (as part of [[Fashion Club]] detail). Is it him? If so, what were they both doing in the same place together?
When Daria herself was asked about it in [http://web.archive.org/web/20001209144400/http://www.mtv.com:80/mtv/tubescan/animation/daria/daria_chat_transcript.html an MTV online chat], she replied "I promised the governor I would never reveal that."
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==“The Big House” and Fanfic==
Events from this episode were included in "[[Morgendorffer Prison Blues]]," by [[Richard Lobinske]]. An [[Iron Chef]] on PPMB concerning the mysterious car that dropped Daria at her home at the episode's start spawned several fanfics, such as [[TAG]]'s "[[Special Delivery]]" and "[[True Lies]]."
==Transcript==
[[The Big House/transcript|Transcript]], originally from [[Outpost Daria]].
==External Links==
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* [http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/specialdelivery.htm "Special Delivery,"] by [[TAG]]
* [http://www.theangstguy.com/fanfics/truelies.htm "True Lies,"] by [[TAG]]
* [https://archiveofourown.org/works/17623430/chapters/41550347 Episode Analysis] for '''"The Big House"''' and [[The Teachings of Don Jake]] by [[WellTemperedClavier]]
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