Daria

Daria is an animated comedy that aired on MTV in the late 1990s and centered around the life of Daria Morgendorffer (voiced by Tracy Grandstaff), an intelligent, sarcastic, and angsty teenaged girl suffering through her high school years. The brainy Daria is best known for her monotonous voice and a lack of facial expressions, except for a smirk here and there. She lives with her beauty queen sister, Quinn (voiced by Wendy Hoopes), her overworked mother, Helen (also voiced by Wendy Hoopes), and her emotionally disturbed father, Jake (voiced by Julian Rebolledo). Daria's best friend is the artistic Jane Lane (voiced by Wendy Hoopes), and the two seem to share a privileged understanding of the stupidity of the other characters and the banality of high school life. Daria and Jane's other classmates are all stereotypes of typical teenage roles; the jock, the cheerleader, the goth, the popular girl, the overachiever, and more are all represented in the student body. Daria spends most of her time criticizing those around her, as she and Jane have the unique abilities to see through the trivialities of their high school existence. The show spans Daria's high school career, and ends as she graduates. The show was followed by two television movies, Is It Fall Yet? and Is it College Yet?, which acted as the finale for the series. Created by Susie Lewis Lynn and Glenn Eichler, Daria began as a spin-off from another popular MTV show, Beavis and Butt-head, though the titular characters from that show never appear on Daria. Daria's recognizable theme song, "You're Standing on My Neck," was performed by a band called Splendora. MORE