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[[Image:O'Neill_ohno!.jpg|thumb|left|250px|O'Neill, showing his 'wants to cry' face]]
Mr. O'Neill primarily teaches English (at Lawndale it is called "Language Arts") and also teaches an after-school course on Self Esteem, at which [[Daria Morgendorffer]] and [[Jane Lane]] meet. [[The Daria Diaries]] also have him teaching Drama ("Dramatic Horizons") and present English and Language Arts as seperate subjects. He is shown to be well aware of a vast swathe of classic literature, such as Canterbury Tales, War and Peace, Walden, and Dante's Inferno, and uses them in his class - however, his ''grasp'' of the literature and their meaning seems suspect: in "[[Fair Enough]]", he asked the class why Tolstoy made War and Peace "so darn unpleasant" (and seemed thought-provoked when Daria joked it was so nobody would want a sequel).
Mr. O'Neill was gentle, soft spoken and ludicrously sensitive, very in touch with his emotions but incapable of controlling them. His English assignments were often ill-disguised attempts to get his students to express personal pain or experiences, and he himself would often cry in class. His ability to perform such simple tasks as remembering his own students' names was come and go at best. During the summer holidays, he ran the disastrous [[Okay To Cry Corral]].
In "[[Is It Fall Yet?]]", when confronted by [[Link]], he stated that he truly cared about helping young people. Link's response that "you suck at it" left him very upset and frantically trying to dismiss the statement.
In "[[Fair Enough]]", for the first and only time he snapped at a student who was acting up ([[Brittany Taylor]]) to get them to pay attention, but immediately went back to his usual style after he'd got their attention.
He lives in an apartment building in Lawndale, where a despondent Timothy had his worries of failing as a teacher eased by Daria and Jane in the episode [[The F Word]].
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