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Soon everything is back to normal in Lawndale high, though Daria gets to lay things down when asked a question about Tennyson's "better to have loved and lost" quote, as she says realising that life is both good ''and'' painful is being realistic, not miserable, and recognises pain is better than feeling nothing. Despite all this, Daria is still approached a few days later. This time by [[Sandi Griffin|Sandi]], whose cat [[Fluffy]] is ill. However, Daria is now ready, demanding a cash payment in advance of delivering blunt, though effective, advice.
==Behind the scenes==
* [[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."
*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."
*After Jodie says "You think I like this?", Jane would have responded with: "You're ''dating'' a football player." Jodie's response was the illuminating: "Mack's cool. Besides, do you see the mothers of Lawndale lining up to introduce me to their sons? I don't think so." This idea that Mack and Jodie are together in part because of race would be used in "[[The Daria Diaries]]".
[[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." While he can be read as dismissing Daria in the show, his reaction is written as "stunned".
* 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.
* Two cut lines when Daria visits Casa Lane establish that Jane's been using the "gone running" excuse for two days now to avoid Daria, which Daria has not picked up on. Later, after Daria tells Jane that Trent didn't forget this, the scene continued and Jane says "I ''hate'' running" - as this line was cut, she was established as actually loving it for later episodes.
[[File:Collosal_jerk.GIF|thumb|250px|right|Daria and Jane in "The Misery Chick". Daria's coloring is far different from her usual looks.]]
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* The Nostalgia Critic [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/32657-dougs-favorite-tv-shows held up this episode] as an example of ''Daria'' handling issues that teenagers would have to go through, comparing it to a real-life death of a disliked student at his school. He praised the episode for accurately how teenagers would be confused about how they should feel.
==“The Misery Chick” and Fanfic==
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==External Links==
* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Q7lqexyXjvrc0nWdP2IavYKBjaY6w3jr Original script]
* [https://sites.google.com/site/dariatranscripts/113-the-misery-chick Episode Transcript]
* [https://archiveofourown.org/works/17623430/chapters/41550365 Episode Analysis] by [[WellTemperedClavier]]
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