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"This Year's Model" was written by [[Glenn Eichler]] and [[Laura Kightlinger]].
==Summary==
Ms. Li has invited recruiters from the [[Amazon Modeling Agency]] to scout for new talent at Lawndale High. The recruiters, [[Romonica DeGregory]] and [[Claude]], will select a number of students for a special modeling class in the auditorium, and then award one of these students a modeling contract. Daria and Jane deride modeling altogether, both to Ms. Li and Romonica and Claude. Quinn, however, is quite enthused; she has been selected for the class in the auditorium and Romonica calls Helen to hint, quite unsubtly, that Quinn may be the winner of the contract. Helen allows Quinn to attend the class, but then asks Daria to go and keep watch on her sister. Daria agrees, but on cynical ground: she senses "potential for the total humiliation of Quinn here. I'd never forgive myself if I missed it."
===Daria's Reading Material===
Daria is reading Henry David Thoreau's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden ''Walden''] in the kitchen in the scene immediately following the class in the auditorium. This is a for school assignment: the opening scene has Mr. O'Neill trying (unsuccessfully) to engage Brittany Taylor in a discussion of whether Thoreau's retreat "to live deliberately" is a withdrawal from life or an attempt to understand its essentials. ''Walden'' is also referred to obliquely at the end of the episode, when her father exclaims in shock at the news of a scandal on the local news, "Does no one have any ethics anymore?" Daria replies, "Only you and Thoreau, Dad." After agreeing with his daughter, Jake goes off because he remember he has to "call that baby formula guy," presumably a reference to the ongoing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott Nestlé baby formula scandal.]
==“This Year's Model” and Fanfic==
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