Top 20 "Daria" Episodes

A large refrigerator box revives painful memories in Daria that suggest that she is a burden on her parents by being herself.

Daria and Jane create an iconoclastic poster for a contest, only to find that the school demands it be altered against their wishes.

The return of the rest of the Lane family sends Jane, then Trent over to the Morgendorffer household. But a third visitor begins to shatter Daria's illusions of life with Trent.

When the faculty of Lawndale High goes on strike, Daria is forced to become the teacher of Quinn's class.

After an obnoxious local celebrity dies on a visit to Lawndale High, everyone seeks counsel from Daria about being miserable while Jane is being strangely distant.

Jane's brother Trent, who's also the lead singer of local grunge band "Mystik Spiral" is offered the chance to play in the upcoming Alternapaloosa tour. Since Daria harbor's an undeniable crush on Trent, Jane offers to pay for the gas in their van and take her for their attempted tour. The fashion club, and other Lawndale High students try to go to Alternapaloosa as well.

When Daria is given a special school project to write a short story featuring people she knows, she finds it unusually frustrating.

Daria's parents force her to get a job, so her father gets her one at a peanut stand in the mall. Much to her chagrin, her only co-worker at the stand is Kevin.

After Jane picks a fight with Daria, Daria realizes to her consternation that she has fallen in love with her best friend's boyfriend.

Reluctantly persuaded to try wearing contact lenses, Daria finds them physically, socially, and philosophically uncomfortable.

After the Morgendoffers bunk in a hotel after a house fire, Daria decides to stay with Jane, but Daria's growing friendship with Tom starts to strain the girls' relationship.

Daria objects to cheer-leading practice during PE. Jane joins the track team after falling for a guy on the team. After winning the race and popularity, will Jane still hang out with loser Daria?

On an errand for her father, Daria runs into her school's annual parade where she encounters a lost child and strange feelings on a chance meeting with Jane's boyfriend.

Desperate to avoid a meeting with a family therapist, Daria substitutes for Quinn on a babysitting gig. The family she ends up sitting for are the sickeningly-sweet Lester and Lauren Gupty, who have raised their kids Tad and Tricia into brainwashed little angels that only watch The Weather Channel on television, and avoid any sugar and junk food. It will take an artist extrordinare(yes, Jane) to rescue Daria from this nauseous night, and the Gupty kids from the sheltered lifestyle they've become so accustomed to.

Daria gets a driver's license. She uses it when her friends get arrested and need bail money. Sadly, Quinn tags along.

Daria moves to a new town and high school. While her sister passes the psychological test, Daria has to take a special (low self-esteem) class a few weeks. She makes a friend there.

Daria's aunt comes to visit, because the family's not dysfunctional enough already.

Egocentric Val comes "incognito" to Lawndale High to spend a day with Daria after her teacher sent her essay to Val teen girl magazine.

Quinn needs a quick passing grade in English, and ends up writing an impressive essay(by Lawndale standards, that is), but fears that it might give her a reputation as a nerd. Instead it gives her a new following as a trendy intellectual, something that Daria, a true intellectual can't stand. Since desperate times call for desperate measures, Daria is willing to consider such measures in order to persuade her sister to give up this facade.

Jake has a heart attack and his mother comes to the Morgendorffer household to take care of him; his heart attack inspires Quinn to study to become a heart doctor; two radio DJs broadcast their show outside Lawndale High.