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* Sandi and Tiffany being interested in popularity (more than other students) and left bemused by Daria's lack of fashion
 
==The script==
 
Bernstein uploaded the shooting script (see Links) and in that:
 
* The acts come in different places - originally meant to go after the dinner scene and after the party crashers arrive.
 
* Daria is deliberately speeding up at the start when behind Quinn, to intentionally freak her out.
 
* Ms. Defoe and the Three J's get descriptions ("three nearly identical jockboys"), which the main characters do not. Upchuck, who Bernstein has said she created, gets a description just like them ("the least popular person at the party, besides Daria and Jane... due to his large ears, bad haircut, and the fact that he is really quite annoying") - this indicates Bernstein created the J's and Defoe too.
 
* When Jane describes Trent practicising the opening to ''Come As You Are'', a cut line has her say "he's almost got it".
 
* There are two gags cut from the dinner scene. After Quinn and Daria jointly rebel at their parents picking them up from parties, a cut gag: "Daria and Quinn look at each other, and are terribly embarrassed by their identical reaction. They pull away from each other in disgust." After Helen steers Daria into going: "Daria and Helen smile (daggers) at each other. Jake looks from one to the other, then nervously goes back to his meal. They keep smiling. Head down, his eyes shift between them one more time."
 
* "People are milling about in limited animation."
 
* Tiffany goes unnamed: she's simply called "Popular Girl Two".
 
 
==Errors==
Sandi is told about Quinn's popularity status, which she would already know because Quinn joined the Fashion Club last episode.
 
==Trivia==
 
The theme of popularity marks its first entrance here, which becomes a key element in later episodes and a huge quantity of Fanfiction. Daria's social status is confirmed by both Brittany and Tori Jericho as not popular, while "not so ''un''popular that you couldn't come to my party". Tori says Quinn "was new and cute, so she became, like, popular overnight".
 
Daria has actually ''been'' to parties in the [[Beavis and Butt-head (comics)|''Beavis and Butt-head'' comics]] on [[Beavis and Butt-head issue 16|two]] [[Activity Page: Science X-Periments#Trivia|occassions]] and [[Beavis and Butt-head issue 10|one was held at her house]]. She didn't seem happy in either case - her dislike of parties comes from experience.
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The background character nicknamed [[Shaggy]] appears herein and in one startling sequence is shown to be in two different places at the same time, leading to speculation that he has paranormal powers.
 
This is one of several early episodes where Tiffany talks at a normal rate, as opposed to the slow rate of speech which would become characteristic of the character. In the shooting script, she's simply called "Popular Girl Two" (with Sandi getting named).
 
In this early epepisode, Stacy is ''not'' part of Sandi's group but seems to be hanging out with other people. Was she not fully in Sandi's sphere of influence yet?
 
Sandi can be seen dancing up a storm on her own, without a care in the world.
 
Upchuck says the family den "was inspired by the novels of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Blixen Isak Dinesen]", which (considering her most famous book was ''Out of Africa'') is him being snarky about those fake tigers.
 
Upchuck is a lot less pervy in this episode than he'll become.
 
An episode of ''Family Guy'' has a shoutout to this episode, as Joe Swanson replicates the first part of Daria's interaction with Bobby Bighead (before running off crying "''You're mean!''")
 
Trent is curiously seen amongst the gatecrashers.
 
==Fanfiction Stories==
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==Transcript==
 
[http:[The Invitation//outpost-daria-reborn.info/ts_ep102.html transcript|Transcript]] originally from [[Outpost Daria]]
 
==External Links==
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* [http://www.buzzdome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/daria-invitation.pdf Shooting script of episode] at Anne Bernstein's website (PDF format)
* [http://dariaphans.blogspot.com/2007/03/power-of-giri-review-of-invitation.html “‘The Power of ‘Giri’: A Review of 'The Invitation’”] by [[CINCGREEN]] at the [[Daria Fandom Blog]], March 10, 2007
* [https://archiveofourown.org/works/17623430/chapters/41550290#workskin Episode Analysis] by [[WellTemperedClavier]]