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''For other uses of "The Misery Chick", see [[The Misery Chick (disambiguation)]].''
'''“The Misery Chick”''' was the thirteenth and
"The Misery Chick" was written by [[Glenn Eichler]].
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Former Lawndale High football star [[Tommy Sherman]], a student who had attended school three years previously, is returning to have a goal post named in his honor. [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]] is told of the his athletics exploits, including his tendency to score touchdowns by himself, his habit of crashing into goalposts while waving at the crowd and his induced coma from which he had awaken up to win the state championship years before. This description prompts sarcastic remarks about the student and his expected future life, both to [[Jane Lane|Jane]] and to [[Jodie Landon|Jodie]], the latter of whom is angry she has to write an introductory speech for Sherman.
However, Tommy Sherman is shown to be a very unpleasant and rude person, strutting through the school halls
Daria, who witnesses this behavior, is fed up
[[File:Tommy died.JPG|thumb|250px|left|"Err, what did just happen?"]]
The next days are filled with reactions to his death. Mrs. Li address a student’s assembly, praising Sherman, as with an inconsolable Kevin cries all throughout the ceremony. Daria, on the other hand,
Finally fed up with her friend’s absences, she goes meet
Jane admits she had been avoiding Daria because she didn’t want to remember that her comment might had caused the football player’s death, a notion Daria quickly dismisses, and the two clear the air on all the sore points: that Jane doesn't think Daria's a misery chick, and that Daria knows Tommy Sherman shouldn't have died but that he also wasn't a nice person. Afterwards, Jane admits she told Trent to say to anyone that visits that she was out running. "What a surprise, he forgot." "He didn't," replies Daria.
Soon everything is back to normal in Lawndale
* [[Glenn Eichler]] listed this as one of his top episodes [https://nerdist.com/article/daria-12-best-episodes/ in an interview with Nerdist] and said: "If you don’t smile constantly, people think there’s something wrong with you. And if something bad happens to a person you don’t know/care about, and you don’t act emotionally stricken, people think there’s something wrong with you. So to me, the point of that episode was there’s no reason to criticize her for the way she is. In fact, it’s perfectly valid, and in fact more honest than a lot of people."▼
==The original script==
*Daria and Jane mocking Jodie's speech goes on longer in the original script: "Because football is what made our country great. Studying? For losers." "Brewskis for everyone! Turn up the TV."
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[[Image:Tommy.jpg|thumb|300px|A hunky guy with an adman haircut, y'know.]]
* Tommy Sherman is described as a "big hunky guy" with his nose as a "jarring note in his appearance", squashed flat by football. "A carefully styled adman's haircut that says, "I love myself deeply."" (Which, in the end, he doesn't get drawn with) His swaggering strut down the corridor is "waiting for people to notice him."
* Li's speech was originally meant to go on longer, with platitudes about how "I believe the lesson lies not in this young man's death, but in his life." Daria was to react like she knows she's "hearing bullshit" but doesn't want to disrupt.
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==Trivia==
▲* [[Glenn Eichler]] listed this as one of his top episodes [https://nerdist.com/article/daria-12-best-episodes/ in an interview with Nerdist] and said: "If you don’t smile constantly, people think there’s something wrong with you. And if something bad happens to a person you don’t know/care about, and you don’t act emotionally stricken, people think there’s something wrong with you. So to me, the point of that episode was there’s no reason to criticize her for the way she is. In fact, it’s perfectly valid, and in fact more honest than a lot of people."
*In ''[[The Daria Diaries]]'', Sherman is mistakenly called Tommy ''Sheridan''.
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* [[The Misery Chicks]], by [[NightGoblyn]]
* [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=31060 "Whatever happened to Tommy Sherman?"] by [[Chris Tucker]]
*[https://outpost-daria-reborn.info/fanfic/the_prepaid_phone_card_call_of_tommy_sherman.txt ''The Prepaid Phone Card Call of Tommy Sherman''] by [[Peter Guerin]]
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