The Daria Annotation
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Quinn the Brain
Loose Threads: None yet. Notables: Mr. O'Neill's talk about "the competitive and discouraging" aspects of grading is very similar to one of the cornerstones of the Progressive Theory of Education (the one that has held sway in US public schools since the 1950s), which finds objective standards very distasteful. Mr. O'Neill wanted to be a gymnast, but couldn't master the high bar (he managed to break both arms). Brittany is wearing a pig backpack... it looks exactly like the pig from the movie "Babe"... which is what Kevin calls her all the time. Jake has had phone sex. Corey (the obnoxious guy from "Esteemsters") reappears. When Mr. O'Neill is about to read Quinn's essay, there's a student on the right of the screen who looks a lot like the recurring character "Judith" on "Third Rock from the Sun." Quinn's essay compares schools to prisons, a fairly common comparison. The theme of school as prison is an ironic one considering the conversation between Helen and Ms. Li in the previous episode (The Daria Hunter). Which includes the line: "It's interesting that you draw a distinction between school and prison because from what I hear you run the one pretty much like the other". Apparently she does. When Quinn's essay gets put on the Morgendorffer fridge, Daria notes that it's "quite a wall of distinction." It must be just for Quinn's stuff... the only other things on it are a kindergartner's drawing and a DMV citation. The school paper is the "Lawndale Lowdown". Quinn's locker contains a teddy bear, a list of Fashion do's and don'ts, and a ribbon in the shape of a 'Q.' One of the nerds at lunch is the kiss-up from Mr. O'Neill's self-esteem class in "Esteemsters." When Quinn encounters Daria in the lunchroom, she's wearing a hat and sunglasses, which is particularly similar to the getup Mrs. Krabbaple wore in "The Simpsons" when she and Principal Skinner were first dating. Pay close attention to the guy in the background when she's there: He moves along the cafeteria line, then stands still at the inanimate cashier. Brittany calls Kevin a high-school Casablanca. She was going for Casanova, but since Casablanca is considered a very romantic movie she probably got close enough for her. Stacy writes poetry. |
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