What I absolutely love about this style of this show is forever stuck in a very specific time period, yet it's somehow timeless with it's themes making it very rewatchable
I started watching Daria around 2015 and found it more poignant than anything else on television at the time. To this day, I believe it's the most accurate encapsulation of what it's like to be a teenager, even despite it's lack of modern technology.
@@richardchaines5570 per Wikipedia … Wendy Hoopes is an American actress best known for her roles on MTV's animated series Daria, where she provided the voices for three different main characters (Jane Lane, Helen Morgendorffer, and Quinn Morgendorffer).
In 2022 i got in a nasty car wreck and the only thing i had to watch at my aunts house were i was staying was the full boxset of daria. And i fell in love with it, and its still mt favorite series ever
Sadly, you didn't get the full experience, any music that was made by a band has been cut out and replaced with generic stock music because MTV was too cheap to keep paying for the rights.
@@lainiwakura1776 Not a month goes by that I don't wish I somehow had kept my VHS tapes of the episodes and also wish I had taped them all. I'd be figuring out how to digitize that shit. Sometimes with the stock music I can -remember- or -educated guess- what the original song was. I want that musical time capsule back.
There’s no other cartoon out there quite like Daria. Especially since its target audience is preteens to 20 y/o. The show doesn’t dumb down its comedy or hold the watchers hand, yet doesn’t rely on shock value, gore, or raunchiness like Rick and Morty, family guy, or other adult cartoons.I truly can’t think of another cartoon show in the past decade that is like this for this demographic. Lately, the only cartoons that age range have to grasp onto are ones made for younger audiences, but have competent enough righting to be enjoyable to older audiences too. Examples of this would be shows like gravity falls, Harvey beaks, chowder, owl house, even adventure time or regular show i would argue.
So many 'adult cartoons' are adult-oriented in the sense that they're not for kids. But then they focus so hard on trying to be unappealing to children that the writers forget to make something adults actually want to watch. It's too rare these days for shows like Daria that are mature but not edgy to get attention.
To this day, when I find myself in a volleyball scenario I think of the Daria opening credits and will just slowly stick out an arm after I entirely miss the ball
“I titled the video ‘brief’ because it genuinely is much shorter than it could have been” is extremely fair. I have drunkenly tried to communicate a thesis worth of information about random specifics from this show so many times 😂
"Universally Relevant" is a very important quality. I actually watched this in one sitting and i never do that. But everything was so concise and i never got the chance to lose interest somehow. Maybe it was that the show was so important to me and/or what you are saying is what i felt too, it makes me want to binge the whole series again. Its only been like 4ish years since the last time. Thank you for all your hard work on this 3hr video, it was bery enlightening! Subscribed
Jake is the GOAT, he is the best TV dad- He knows that he was mistreated as a kid and DOESNT pass that abuse and trauma to his own kids. Thats ending the cycle right there
Have you even seen the show? He is a horrible father. He doesn’t know anything about his children. He has a horrible temper. He doesn’t even try and cook, despite his wife being the primary breadwinner, and instead makes frozen lasagna every night. The bar for men really is on the ground.
I mean - he's never angry/yelling AT his kids. His kids clearly understand he cares. If his kids go to him he will help them, and his kids know hit. He is helpless around the house in many ways, but that's 90s dad for you - bad husband not always bad father. He also always backs up his wife and will follow her lead. We also dom't actually know who does housework besides cooking as far as I can remember. I'm guessing they have a maid/cleaning servoce and can easily afford eating out/delivery. Helen's not perfect either, but no one is. We also I don't think ever see him expect or demand Helen do house work. Which is important. He definitely has issues, and mental health issues. But I don't think he ever directs it at his kids, which matters. And he's BAD at relating to his kids, but it's also clear he TRIES.
Thanks for keeping me company while I do my makeup, clean up and game. I re-watched all of Daria again this year, my first time really doing so in my 30s and it's a show that really continues to age well because as you come back to it at different points in your life you take away entirely new, radical things from the show. I was a teen at the time the show originally aired. I related heavily to Daria and Jane. Which never really ends, they're the center voices of the show and the draw after all. But I remember in my 20s really paying attention to Quinn's character arc in a way I never really wanted to broach to myself in my teenage years where I struggled with my own perception of my gender and how to interact with makeup and fashion without feeling like I was "conforming" to something too mainstream or expected of me. After just embracing makeup and becoming enamored with discovering my personal sense of fashion in my 20s it gave me a new look on Quinn. Makeup and Fashion can be vapid, but it can also be transformative or a form of self-expression or even a therapeutic act. To some it's frivolous but to others it's something that is deeply connected to their sense of self just the same way sports can be to others. This year during my rewatch I predictably started paying more and more attention to Helen and Jake. I also discovered I disagreed with or saw a much larger fault with Daria and Jane more than I had before, seeing their very normal teenage behaviour through an older lens. I remember being like that and whoo... There are also fights that I never examined deeply before within Jane and Daria's friendship that I suddenly had such strong opinions about. Absolutely everything to do with Jodi and Mac have a whole new orchestra of nuance to it that I become more aware of and empathetic towards as I age. It was a good show to grow up with, I believe it affected me more positively than negatively in that aspect. It's a great show to revisit at new points in your life and see what you get out of it as a wiser person who maybe has gone through things in the show that you hadn't before. I'm sure it's WILD for people who grew up with this show that became parents and rewatch this.
I always felt bad for Stacy. She seems like she's a sweetheart but really insecure and the friends she's had forever, Tiffany and Sandi, are empty-headed and rude respectively. Quinn is a slight upgrade from those two but still none of Stacy's friends ever treat her with any kind of respect.
I was a teenager when this was airing and the intro clued me into why Daria appealed to me even though I’m a guy: Daria is a Stoicist role model. Funny as hell, but her attitude is pure stoicism. Marcus Aurelius was the perfect thinker to quote.
I just found your channel today and I must say that this was an amazing first impression. The retrospective was a nice and quick way to "rewatch" de show and to know more about it. I'm completely satisfied and will be looking forward to other videos you do (aside from the ones already done). Thank you for making this great content And thank you also, for making my work shift pass a lot quicker
aww shit I was about to go do some stuff but I guess I have to sit here for the next 3 hours because this is the video I've been waiting for without even realizing it.
I love Daria, but I hate the direction the show went in the last two seasons with the introduction of Tom. The stupid love triangle ruined a lot of the show for me in the last two seasons, albeit not all of it (because Tom wasn't in all of the episodes). This is the exact same thing that happened with As Told by Ginger (wink wink, retrospective idea?) where they introduced a romantic subplot into a show that was doing perfectly fine without one and completely ruined the feel and flow of the show with unnecessary drama and romance when that isn't why people fell in love with the show in the first place.
Yeah, on my rewatches I always kinda stop when he shows up. I don't like how Jane turns into a boy crazy jerk and all the dating drama that's always the focus of other shows starts to seep into Daria too.
As controversial Tom is, he’s good in sense that despite how Daria and Jane go against highschool drama they too can get caught up into it. They were highschoolers after all. Sure there could’ve been other drama to get point across but for product of its time it works
That plot development held up extremely well for me when I watched the show about a decade ago when I was in high school. Also an outcast with a single friend, she later found a boyfriend and expanded her social circle when I had to switch schools. Unlike Daria and Jane, my friend had completely abandoned me. Being a teenager is weird, and Daria couldn't have stayed in her bubble forever. The world (and hormones) overtake you and then you end up with completely different circumstances than the ones you began with. Daria mirrored a reality that though not necessarily the standard, can still happen - has happened - and will continue to happen. We're so desperate for intimacy and connection with a wider circle, that at times we leave those few we had at the start in favour of the greater group we found along the way. And I'm grateful Daria didn't remain a cynical joke with the protagonist saying what the audience is thinking, but rather her own person facing problems that now the audience has things to say about.
thought this show was about dams levees and other aquatic infrastructure -7:09 - nailed me there tho. just realized that the protagonist is looking at me and it is half the plot - that, and that this here guy will make you sane or make you crazy depending how long you hold on continuing to listen
I love that you made a retrospective of this series. Started watching it late last year and held off finishing it for months because I didnt want it to end. I'm gonna make a video essay on this cartoon as well since it's easily one of my favorite cartoons I've watched, but there's a lack of discussion for this show on youtube. Thanks for tha video.
My favorite animated series in high school. My youth pastor told me about this show back in February of 2012 because I too am monotone and was quite cynical. Was happy to have someone to look up to!
the pre-outro is so insightful great job i rly relate to daria in some ways and her being closed off and hypercritical but i’ve also recognized the need to extend people grace and empathy in their shortcomings i find it hard to trust people or see them as worth engaging with or if they’d even understand me but i love the message of us at the end of the day still being all human and despite our differences we can connect on a significant level and that the connections we build with those we choose to trust remind us of that
I love this video! I may not agree with every point, but you present your arguments very well and are very well spoken❤. I'm rewatching this video. I love that you don't waste time with what you have to say!
This really reflected high school just before 2000 for me. Notably the cliques weren't really antagonistic to the extreme we see, and were porous. I was a nerd in every way. I hung out with drama kids too. But sitting around and talking with the varsity sports players at a party wouldn't be weird. We didn't really socialize because our interests and attitudes were different, but it wasn't mean spirited. They were just people outside my friend group. Like. Brittany and Daria are practically congenial coworkers by the end. Quinn and her friends try to be "popular" and cliquey, but are they really popular? Daria seems to have the wider social circle. This was way more realistic. And the bullying ir lack there of was really subtle. Honestly again it was just really Quinn and her friends bullying each other. Bullying was a real problem but not this over the top nobke/peasant level crap you see out of Hollywood. I have heard high school has gotten worse, unfortunately. But I blame social media. The real enemies were never the other students. They were the stupidity of adults and society at large. But even the "bad guys" felt like people. Okay and my mom idolized Daria's mom ;-). It spoke to me. But I was basically the same age as Daria for its run.
I always liked the ending slides of the final episode where they show possible futures for the characters without actually saying they're canon. They feel like strangely plausible outcomes for all those characters (except maybe Tom).
I remember the first time I ever saw Daria on The N network back in 2003. I was only 8 years old at the time, and I couldn’t pick up on a lot of the nuances of the humor but it resonated with me regardless. It was like I knew the show was good and cool, but I didn’t know why. I’ve rewatched it a bunch of times since then and it’s awesome how well the first two seasons still hold up to me, over twenty years after my first viewing!
I assumed at first that this is a quick review of an old nostalgic fav of mine, until it dawned on me that it's 3 FREAKIN HOURS LONG, holy crap! You've just given us a TREAT! 😍🎉
Having never watched the series from start to finish and watching it off and off as a teenager I did not realize how much the characters grew through it.
You've done a lot of great work, and even pointed out a few things I'd missed over the years! However, when it comes to "I Loathe a Parade," you missed an EXTREMELY important moment of character development for Jodie. I was so disappointed, I couldn't finish the video. There's something really precious and unique about the character Jodie's inclusion in the show, and we see SO much of who she is throughout her B-plot with Mac on the float. I'm surprised you didn't think it was worth mentioning :/
I knew SOOOOO many girls in high school who reminded me of Daria----WAY more than I ever knew any Beavis and Butt Head types! When it came out, I thought it was high time someone showed an animated series that actually portrayed people I knew
YT decided to only make me aware of this amazing video and hasn’t done so for months (11/10 video per usual but definitely gonna binge everything made after The Boondocks vid because of how YT is)
The ironic thing about Helen whining about her mother’s favouritism towards her sister, is that she fails to see how she’s repeating the behaviour with her own children. Helen heavily favours Quinn over Daria, and often others and isolates her older child because Daria doesn’t fit the stereotype of pretty girly girl, whom Helen can live vicariously through.
I do have my mixed reactions on Daria. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. Although overall, it is still a good show. I especially liked it when it was dubbed in Spanish for Latin America. Also, after watching and tapping out on Velma, I'm convinced that Mindy Kaling (who at 45 is 5 years older than me, and therefore would have also been the target demographic for Daria) tried to "draw inspiration" for her revamped Velma, or that is to say, rip it off. In which case, it failed completely. Daria tried to be smart and observational in its edginess. And ironically, being a Beavis and Butthead spinoff, didn't contain too much vulgarity wgich made it more fresh. Velma was wuite the opposite, with its racially obsessed punchlines a bonus
Daria is an all-time great show, it straddled the line between pandering to a teen's perspective and challenging it through character growth. It also walked the tightrope of having that conversation and having fun with the characters. Chef's kiss. I love the format of this review! I'll have to watch the episodes and compare notes to see how much I agree with some of the conclusions, but I adore that I have the opportunity to do that now. :)
Huh. Recap reminded me I apparently really forgot the episode "The Misery Chick". I mean I remembered it. But I mostly remembered it being about how Daria was kind of struggling because she thought the guy was a douche, and was kind of glad he was gone. And everyone else was mourning him as some "great guy" as she saw it. Having to have Jane point out it wasn't that they were mourning him as a great man (which was rubbing her wrong) and thought her lack of sadness over a guy she didn't like dying meant she mourned, got over it, and had some wisdom... but that people weren't really mourning Tommy. They were instead caught up in the thoughts of mortality, life, purpose, and other philosophical thoughts and it was something that most people weren't comfortable with. Because all they wanted to do was live in a little box thinking about small things instead. Thus her kind of realizing that people weren't sad this guy died because they liked him. But they were reacting because his death reminded them there were bigger things than their petty concerns. And that her anger that they were talking up this guy was kind of misplaced and not seeing the real purpose. At least that's what I remember getting out of it. But man I felt 180 off base listening to that.
Autocorrect issue with your script or something? 1:33:00-ish as you call the episode "Jane's Addiction" which makes sense and all but the title card calls it "Jane's Addition", as in arithmetic instead. As someone with a struggle with dyslexia and making similar goofs a lot of the time I can distinctly understand that.
The episode was originally called "Jane's Addiction" but as that's also the name of a band, so for copyright reasons later releases changed the title slightly.
"34:38 Itt vaszn't against their vills. Jane y Daria vr sittinh riiht therr inn Lis' rvvm vitth their piqqtschr. All thej had tov dov vasz vallk a capl ar soo feet and taek itt bach. Vhat tha hell vasz Li gojnh tov dov, giw'em Kanh Fvv?"
No doubt. It's more fulfilling to be who you are. I was taught this lesson and learned it thankfully at the age of seven or six. I know I had to learn through it twice because I was a military brat and then I went to civilian. I chose the right path & yeah I was made fun of a lot. Still am. I'd like to die knowing that people knew who I was whether they liked me or not. °~•.☆.•~°
I’m from Canada and honestly I cannot watch the mall episode because it just reminds me of going to West Edmonton Mall, even now, and how busy and complicated the whole experience is.
That used to happen to me with the Simpsons all the time. Topics, subjects or even just phrases would show up in that weeks tv episode. But it stopped happening when i stopped watching obviously, to me anyway...
What I absolutely love about this style of this show is forever stuck in a very specific time period, yet it's somehow timeless with it's themes making it very rewatchable
I started watching Daria around 2015 and found it more poignant than anything else on television at the time. To this day, I believe it's the most accurate encapsulation of what it's like to be a teenager, even despite it's lack of modern technology.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
100/10
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This is a sign I should rewatch Daria.
Just thought that 😂
Lfg plz do
I want to download the Daria Restoration Project, but my computer storage is at it's limit... and I refuse to watch it without the original music.
But I always get so sad on Boxing Daria
The beauty is starting over
I love how Jane, Daria’s mom & Quinn are all the same voice actor. It’s awesome 👏
Oh....whoa
WHAT? My mind is blown
That is some vocal range
@@richardchaines5570 per Wikipedia … Wendy Hoopes is an American actress best known for her roles on MTV's animated series Daria, where she provided the voices for three different main characters (Jane Lane, Helen Morgendorffer, and Quinn Morgendorffer).
WOAH😮
In 2022 i got in a nasty car wreck and the only thing i had to watch at my aunts house were i was staying was the full boxset of daria. And i fell in love with it, and its still mt favorite series ever
Sadly, you didn't get the full experience, any music that was made by a band has been cut out and replaced with generic stock music because MTV was too cheap to keep paying for the rights.
@@lainiwakura1776 Not a month goes by that I don't wish I somehow had kept my VHS tapes of the episodes and also wish I had taped them all. I'd be figuring out how to digitize that shit. Sometimes with the stock music I can -remember- or -educated guess- what the original song was. I want that musical time capsule back.
There’s no other cartoon out there quite like Daria. Especially since its target audience is preteens to 20 y/o. The show doesn’t dumb down its comedy or hold the watchers hand, yet doesn’t rely on shock value, gore, or raunchiness like Rick and Morty, family guy, or other adult cartoons.I truly can’t think of another cartoon show in the past decade that is like this for this demographic. Lately, the only cartoons that age range have to grasp onto are ones made for younger audiences, but have competent enough righting to be enjoyable to older audiences too. Examples of this would be shows like gravity falls, Harvey beaks, chowder, owl house, even adventure time or regular show i would argue.
So many 'adult cartoons' are adult-oriented in the sense that they're not for kids. But then they focus so hard on trying to be unappealing to children that the writers forget to make something adults actually want to watch.
It's too rare these days for shows like Daria that are mature but not edgy to get attention.
DARIA VIDEO DROPPED, LIFE IS GOOD 😭
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It truly doesn't take much to make us happy? Does it?😂✨🖤💀✨
@@cmaden78 it really doesnt
I really liked this retrospective, Daria is one of my favorite shows, is also my comfort show. Thanks for this video
To this day, when I find myself in a volleyball scenario I think of the Daria opening credits and will just slowly stick out an arm after I entirely miss the ball
“I titled the video ‘brief’ because it genuinely is much shorter than it could have been” is extremely fair. I have drunkenly tried to communicate a thesis worth of information about random specifics from this show so many times 😂
Have I met you?!😂 Because I'm certain I have had a drunk discussion about this with someone 🤣✨🖤
@@cmaden78 I’d like to believe I am one of many 😂💀
"Universally Relevant" is a very important quality. I actually watched this in one sitting and i never do that. But everything was so concise and i never got the chance to lose interest somehow. Maybe it was that the show was so important to me and/or what you are saying is what i felt too, it makes me want to binge the whole series again. Its only been like 4ish years since the last time.
Thank you for all your hard work on this 3hr video, it was bery enlightening! Subscribed
So hyped! I have lost count how many times I've watched this show. It was a childhood staple for me and it has aged like fine wine.
Jake is the GOAT, he is the best TV dad- He knows that he was mistreated as a kid and DOESNT pass that abuse and trauma to his own kids. Thats ending the cycle right there
Bob Belcher is another TV dad who uses his bad relationship with his father as motivation to be a good one to his kids. Or Heinz Doofenshmirtz.
Have you even seen the show? He is a horrible father. He doesn’t know anything about his children. He has a horrible temper. He doesn’t even try and cook, despite his wife being the primary breadwinner, and instead makes frozen lasagna every night. The bar for men really is on the ground.
I won't say he is a perfect person but his trying to be better than his dad was to him is admirable.
@@illizcit1Is he though? Is he really trying to be better? Or is he just not actively harming them? There is a difference.
I mean - he's never angry/yelling AT his kids. His kids clearly understand he cares. If his kids go to him he will help them, and his kids know hit. He is helpless around the house in many ways, but that's 90s dad for you - bad husband not always bad father.
He also always backs up his wife and will follow her lead. We also dom't actually know who does housework besides cooking as far as I can remember. I'm guessing they have a maid/cleaning servoce and can easily afford eating out/delivery.
Helen's not perfect either, but no one is.
We also I don't think ever see him expect or demand Helen do house work. Which is important.
He definitely has issues, and mental health issues. But I don't think he ever directs it at his kids, which matters.
And he's BAD at relating to his kids, but it's also clear he TRIES.
Daria grew up to become Diane in Bojack
yeah, there's only one white girl voice actor for all the girl characters on Daria so I get the confusion, but Diane is fuckin Vietnamese
That is an epic idea😊
Daria is intp and Diane is infp, basically a version of daria who's more in touch with her feelings
Sarah Lynn: "But she (Diane) is asian Daria, with the glasses, the jacket and the whole 'blah...' attitude."
@@blutroyale8072 it's a show where people are horses and dogs and stuff but somehow, it's also true that Diane is not really Asian
Thanks for keeping me company while I do my makeup, clean up and game. I re-watched all of Daria again this year, my first time really doing so in my 30s and it's a show that really continues to age well because as you come back to it at different points in your life you take away entirely new, radical things from the show.
I was a teen at the time the show originally aired. I related heavily to Daria and Jane. Which never really ends, they're the center voices of the show and the draw after all. But I remember in my 20s really paying attention to Quinn's character arc in a way I never really wanted to broach to myself in my teenage years where I struggled with my own perception of my gender and how to interact with makeup and fashion without feeling like I was "conforming" to something too mainstream or expected of me. After just embracing makeup and becoming enamored with discovering my personal sense of fashion in my 20s it gave me a new look on Quinn. Makeup and Fashion can be vapid, but it can also be transformative or a form of self-expression or even a therapeutic act. To some it's frivolous but to others it's something that is deeply connected to their sense of self just the same way sports can be to others.
This year during my rewatch I predictably started paying more and more attention to Helen and Jake. I also discovered I disagreed with or saw a much larger fault with Daria and Jane more than I had before, seeing their very normal teenage behaviour through an older lens. I remember being like that and whoo... There are also fights that I never examined deeply before within Jane and Daria's friendship that I suddenly had such strong opinions about. Absolutely everything to do with Jodi and Mac have a whole new orchestra of nuance to it that I become more aware of and empathetic towards as I age. It was a good show to grow up with, I believe it affected me more positively than negatively in that aspect. It's a great show to revisit at new points in your life and see what you get out of it as a wiser person who maybe has gone through things in the show that you hadn't before. I'm sure it's WILD for people who grew up with this show that became parents and rewatch this.
My oldest is 20. Yes I watched it in high school and college. Yes it's very different watching it with my now grown up kid😅💀🖤🥀✨
I always felt bad for Stacy. She seems like she's a sweetheart but really insecure and the friends she's had forever, Tiffany and Sandi, are empty-headed and rude respectively. Quinn is a slight upgrade from those two but still none of Stacy's friends ever treat her with any kind of respect.
Yeah. That's why it was satisfying to watch her grow more and more spine as the series went on.
I was a teenager when this was airing and the intro clued me into why Daria appealed to me even though I’m a guy: Daria is a Stoicist role model. Funny as hell, but her attitude is pure stoicism. Marcus Aurelius was the perfect thinker to quote.
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I just found your channel today and I must say that this was an amazing first impression. The retrospective was a nice and quick way to "rewatch" de show and to know more about it. I'm completely satisfied and will be looking forward to other videos you do (aside from the ones already done). Thank you for making this great content
And thank you also, for making my work shift pass a lot quicker
She had her Duhria moments but they were done well and didn't make me side eye the show. This goes in the 'Must buy the boxset' list.
aww shit I was about to go do some stuff but I guess I have to sit here for the next 3 hours because this is the video I've been waiting for without even realizing it.
Tariq somehow made me interested in this show, and now I can finally figure out what the heck it is
For me, it was ShadyDooRags and I started marathoning it. As an autistic girl, I identify with Daria so much, it's painful!
I love Daria, but I hate the direction the show went in the last two seasons with the introduction of Tom. The stupid love triangle ruined a lot of the show for me in the last two seasons, albeit not all of it (because Tom wasn't in all of the episodes). This is the exact same thing that happened with As Told by Ginger (wink wink, retrospective idea?) where they introduced a romantic subplot into a show that was doing perfectly fine without one and completely ruined the feel and flow of the show with unnecessary drama and romance when that isn't why people fell in love with the show in the first place.
Yeah, on my rewatches I always kinda stop when he shows up. I don't like how Jane turns into a boy crazy jerk and all the dating drama that's always the focus of other shows starts to seep into Daria too.
As controversial Tom is, he’s good in sense that despite how Daria and Jane go against highschool drama they too can get caught up into it. They were highschoolers after all. Sure there could’ve been other drama to get point across but for product of its time it works
That plot development held up extremely well for me when I watched the show about a decade ago when I was in high school. Also an outcast with a single friend, she later found a boyfriend and expanded her social circle when I had to switch schools. Unlike Daria and Jane, my friend had completely abandoned me. Being a teenager is weird, and Daria couldn't have stayed in her bubble forever. The world (and hormones) overtake you and then you end up with completely different circumstances than the ones you began with. Daria mirrored a reality that though not necessarily the standard, can still happen - has happened - and will continue to happen. We're so desperate for intimacy and connection with a wider circle, that at times we leave those few we had at the start in favour of the greater group we found along the way. And I'm grateful Daria didn't remain a cynical joke with the protagonist saying what the audience is thinking, but rather her own person facing problems that now the audience has things to say about.
You are in the minority here. The show gets much better when the love plot is introduced. That is what allows Daria to actually grow as a character.
yeah every time i watched the show , i had to stop watching it as soon as tom was introduced
I would stay up late to watch this on TV and now I have this on DVD my teens love this show too. It's so good.
I wish the DVDs had the original music. It just wasn't the same with the generic tracks.
I haven't watched the video yet, but there are surprisingly barely any Daria videos on TH-cam. Especially this long❤❤❤
thought this show was about dams levees and other aquatic infrastructure
-7:09 - nailed me there tho.
just realized that the protagonist is looking at me and it is half the plot - that, and that this here guy will make you sane or make you crazy depending how long you hold on continuing to listen
I love that you made a retrospective of this series. Started watching it late last year and held off finishing it for months because I didnt want it to end. I'm gonna make a video essay on this cartoon as well since it's easily one of my favorite cartoons I've watched, but there's a lack of discussion for this show on youtube. Thanks for tha video.
This was a really good retrospective of the entire show run and helped put some perspective on the characters' overall journeys. Loved this!
This was such an incredible video! Thank you for taking all the time to review this. I loved watching it and getting a long walk down memory lane.
My favorite animated series in high school. My youth pastor told me about this show back in February of 2012 because I too am monotone and was quite cynical. Was happy to have someone to look up to!
I love Daria and rewatch yearly. This kind of the video is the exact kind i've been looking for. A thorough retrospection. Thank you so much.
Yeah, I’m glad that you gave me a brief retrospective. I couldn’t imagine sitting there for seven hours, but three hours is just fine.😅
Thanks for the ending, I got all my chores done while listening to this. Also completely forgot about the movies, I will have to rewatch
Clearly I’m going to watch a 3 hour Daria analysis 💕 #lalalalala
the pre-outro is so insightful great job
i rly relate to daria in some ways and her being closed off and hypercritical but i’ve also recognized the need to extend people grace and empathy in their shortcomings
i find it hard to trust people or see them as worth engaging with or if they’d even understand me but i love the message of us at the end of the day still being all human and despite our differences we can connect on a significant level and that the connections we build with those we choose to trust remind us of that
I love this video! I may not agree with every point, but you present your arguments very well and are very well spoken❤. I'm rewatching this video. I love that you don't waste time with what you have to say!
This really reflected high school just before 2000 for me.
Notably the cliques weren't really antagonistic to the extreme we see, and were porous. I was a nerd in every way. I hung out with drama kids too.
But sitting around and talking with the varsity sports players at a party wouldn't be weird. We didn't really socialize because our interests and attitudes were different, but it wasn't mean spirited. They were just people outside my friend group.
Like. Brittany and Daria are practically congenial coworkers by the end.
Quinn and her friends try to be "popular" and cliquey, but are they really popular? Daria seems to have the wider social circle.
This was way more realistic.
And the bullying ir lack there of was really subtle. Honestly again it was just really Quinn and her friends bullying each other. Bullying was a real problem but not this over the top nobke/peasant level crap you see out of Hollywood.
I have heard high school has gotten worse, unfortunately. But I blame social media.
The real enemies were never the other students. They were the stupidity of adults and society at large. But even the "bad guys" felt like people.
Okay and my mom idolized Daria's mom ;-). It spoke to me. But I was basically the same age as Daria for its run.
As a Brit I really appreciated Guy Fawkes/Bonfire Night being portrayed by a punk.
I always liked the ending slides of the final episode where they show possible futures for the characters without actually saying they're canon. They feel like strangely plausible outcomes for all those characters (except maybe Tom).
I love how this is called a "brief" retrospective and is 3 hrs long
Bro i love your analysis so far so damn smart omfg
I remember the first time I ever saw Daria on The N network back in 2003. I was only 8 years old at the time, and I couldn’t pick up on a lot of the nuances of the humor but it resonated with me regardless. It was like I knew the show was good and cool, but I didn’t know why. I’ve rewatched it a bunch of times since then and it’s awesome how well the first two seasons still hold up to me, over twenty years after my first viewing!
I was watching the first half of your Bob's Burgers retrospective. Ill finish it later. I love this show.
Best way to start the day!!
Ty for making this it is very brief but its still nice to think about these episodes again
Aaaahh..the pure joy of finding this video..
> a brief retrospective
> 3:00:00 runtime
alright, you've won me over.
I assumed at first that this is a quick review of an old nostalgic fav of mine, until it dawned on me that it's 3 FREAKIN HOURS LONG, holy crap!
You've just given us a TREAT! 😍🎉
favourite show of all time
Omg so excited for this
Did not disappoint!! Congrats on another great video :)
Having never watched the series from start to finish and watching it off and off as a teenager I did not realize how much the characters grew through it.
Love Daria…this is amazing. I’m only like a minute in
LOL great video man. I loved your introspections. I alwayssss have videos on in the background, so I feel called out hahah
Yesss I love your content
Best Thursday morning ever.
You've done a lot of great work, and even pointed out a few things I'd missed over the years! However, when it comes to "I Loathe a Parade," you missed an EXTREMELY important moment of character development for Jodie. I was so disappointed, I couldn't finish the video.
There's something really precious and unique about the character Jodie's inclusion in the show, and we see SO much of who she is throughout her B-plot with Mac on the float. I'm surprised you didn't think it was worth mentioning :/
I knew SOOOOO many girls in high school who reminded me of Daria----WAY more than I ever knew any Beavis and Butt Head types! When it came out, I thought it was high time someone showed an animated series that actually portrayed people I knew
i love daria, i saw 3hrs and buckled in
I really need to rewatch this show again
Great Video!
"You see the trees Daria?"
The wind told me something good was gonna happen today :)
No mention of dariacore in this video would be my 9/11. I'll get back to this in a few nights whenever I finish this vid
YT decided to only make me aware of this amazing video and hasn’t done so for months (11/10 video per usual but definitely gonna binge everything made after The Boondocks vid because of how YT is)
To be fair, this video is 11 hours old.
@@viedogaems Even despite that fact alone your videos are staying a joy per usual ngl :)
@@viedogaems
I enjoy this video and
may there be lots more of them .
Omg this is gonna be a good TH-cam and dinner night. Daria video hell yeah ❤❤❤❤
"20:00 Sam aw tha 'riesrtsch' issz a fellanj? Vhat satsch 'riesrtsch'?"
Omg 3 hours of Daria?! 🎉
So 90s yet so modern at the same time. I think Tracy Grandstaff said that high school never changes.
i bought a bootleg copy of the daria seasons off of ebay years ago. It still have all of the original music from the original aired date.
How did I miss this for 3 months
You did so well bro 😊
Omg yay thank you viedo gaems!!!!
The ironic thing about Helen whining about her mother’s favouritism towards her sister, is that she fails to see how she’s repeating the behaviour with her own children. Helen heavily favours Quinn over Daria, and often others and isolates her older child because Daria doesn’t fit the stereotype of pretty girly girl, whom Helen can live vicariously through.
3 hours long omll thank uuu
next on sick sad world!
Rad video!! Loved it ^_^♡♡♡
A 3 hour Daria Video? Omggg
I just recently rewatch es Daria
we eating good tonight boys
watching this while listening to dariacore
i fucking love this show why did i not see this sooner
TBF Daria is kind of right, Most people who don't read dont have an internal monolouge
I do have my mixed reactions on Daria. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. Although overall, it is still a good show. I especially liked it when it was dubbed in Spanish for Latin America.
Also, after watching and tapping out on Velma, I'm convinced that Mindy Kaling (who at 45 is 5 years older than me, and therefore would have also been the target demographic for Daria) tried to "draw inspiration" for her revamped Velma, or that is to say, rip it off. In which case, it failed completely. Daria tried to be smart and observational in its edginess. And ironically, being a Beavis and Butthead spinoff, didn't contain too much vulgarity wgich made it more fresh. Velma was wuite the opposite, with its racially obsessed punchlines a bonus
Daria is an all-time great show, it straddled the line between pandering to a teen's perspective and challenging it through character growth. It also walked the tightrope of having that conversation and having fun with the characters. Chef's kiss.
I love the format of this review! I'll have to watch the episodes and compare notes to see how much I agree with some of the conclusions, but I adore that I have the opportunity to do that now. :)
I liked this show. Especially Quinn.
Huh. Recap reminded me I apparently really forgot the episode "The Misery Chick". I mean I remembered it. But I mostly remembered it being about how Daria was kind of struggling because she thought the guy was a douche, and was kind of glad he was gone. And everyone else was mourning him as some "great guy" as she saw it. Having to have Jane point out it wasn't that they were mourning him as a great man (which was rubbing her wrong) and thought her lack of sadness over a guy she didn't like dying meant she mourned, got over it, and had some wisdom... but that people weren't really mourning Tommy. They were instead caught up in the thoughts of mortality, life, purpose, and other philosophical thoughts and it was something that most people weren't comfortable with. Because all they wanted to do was live in a little box thinking about small things instead.
Thus her kind of realizing that people weren't sad this guy died because they liked him. But they were reacting because his death reminded them there were bigger things than their petty concerns. And that her anger that they were talking up this guy was kind of misplaced and not seeing the real purpose.
At least that's what I remember getting out of it. But man I felt 180 off base listening to that.
Autocorrect issue with your script or something? 1:33:00-ish as you call the episode "Jane's Addiction" which makes sense and all but the title card calls it "Jane's Addition", as in arithmetic instead. As someone with a struggle with dyslexia and making similar goofs a lot of the time I can distinctly understand that.
The episode was originally called "Jane's Addiction" but as that's also the name of a band, so for copyright reasons later releases changed the title slightly.
Oh come on what is the 11-hour cut on this video, lol
I don't want to brief retrospective I what the whole thing.
"34:38 Itt vaszn't against their vills. Jane y Daria vr sittinh riiht therr inn Lis' rvvm vitth their piqqtschr. All thej had tov dov vasz vallk a capl ar soo feet and taek itt bach. Vhat tha hell vasz Li gojnh tov dov, giw'em Kanh Fvv?"
No doubt. It's more fulfilling to be who you are.
I was taught this lesson and learned it thankfully at the age of seven or six.
I know I had to learn through it twice because I was a military brat and then I went to civilian.
I chose the right path & yeah I was made fun of a lot. Still am.
I'd like to die knowing that people knew who I was whether they liked me or not.
°~•.☆.•~°
Have you considered doing a brief analysis of SICK SAD WORLD? It was truly peak TV. Really changed my life
2:31:32 i love this scene so much
this is very interesting...
Hmmm. A brief three hour video...
I wouldn’t call it a BRIEF retrospective 😂
"here's your warning to start looking for something else to listen to" lmao
I’m from Canada and honestly I cannot watch the mall episode because it just reminds me of going to West Edmonton Mall, even now, and how busy and complicated the whole experience is.
'brief' ❤
WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THIS SHOW TODAY RANDOMLY???!!! BEST DAY OF MY LIFE 🥰
That used to happen to me with the Simpsons all the time. Topics, subjects or even just phrases would show up in that weeks tv episode. But it stopped happening when i stopped watching obviously, to me anyway...
This shows better than velma and there’s no comparison to why.
As a Daria fan, I can appreciate the satire in calling a 3 hour video "brief"
I was actually in high school/college when this aired. I shopped at Contempo Casuals and Delia's but felt more like Daria😂