Editing Daria (section)

==Premise==
The series centers on [[Daria Morgendorffer]] (again voiced by Tracy Grandstaff, coming back from her role in ''[[Beavis and Butt-Head]]''), a smart, acerbic, somewhat [[Misanthropy|misanthropic]]/cynical teenage girl who, along with her best friend, aspiring artist [[Jane Lane (Daria)|Jane Lane]], observes the world around her. The show is set in the fictional [[suburb]]an American town of Lawndale, and is a satire of [[High school (North America)|high school]] life, full of allusions to and criticisms of popular culture and social classes. As the show's [[eponymous]] protagonist, Daria appears in most scenes with [[List of Daria characters|her immediate family]] (mother Helen, father Jake, and younger sister Quinn) and/or Jane. It is set during Daria's high school days and ends with her graduation and acceptance  into college. The principal location used for the show (outside of the Morgendorffer home) is Lawndale High School, a public-education institution filled with flamboyant and dysfunctional characters. The dynamics among the two lead characters changed during season four, when Jane began a relationship with Tom Sloane. Though Daria is hesitant to accept Tom at first, fearing she will lose her best friend, she and Tom find themselves becoming closer, culminating in a kiss in the season finale. The emotional and comedic turmoil among Jane, Tom, and Daria was the centerpiece of the TV movie ''[[Is It Fall Yet?]]'', and the relationship between Tom and Daria fueled several of season five's plotlines.

The plots of ''Daria'' largely concern a juxtaposition between the focal character's blunted, sardonic cynicism and the values/preoccupations of her [[suburb]]an American hometown of Lawndale. In a 2005 interview, series co-creator Glenn Eichler described the otherwise unspecified locale as "a mid-Atlantic suburb, outside somewhere like [[Baltimore]] or [[Washington, D.C.]] They could have lived in [[Pennsylvania]] near the [[Philadelphia Main Line|Main Line]], though".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.the-wildone.com/dvdaria/glennanswers.html |title=DVDaria Petition - Buy Daria DVDs! |publisher=The-wildone.com |date=March 16, 2005 |access-date=October 11, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150822210542/http://www.the-wildone.com/dvdaria/glennanswers.html |archive-date=August 22, 2015 }}</ref> For comedic and illustrative purposes, the show's depiction of suburban American life was a deliberately exaggerated one.<ref>[http://www.the-wildone.com/dvdaria/glennfollowup3.html "Follow-up Questions (Set #3) with Glenn Eichler"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150822203649/http://www.the-wildone.com/dvdaria/glennfollowup3.html |date=August 22, 2015 }}, the-wildone.com, June 11, 2005. "... The whole world of Daria was a bit unreal."</ref> In ''The New York Times'', the protagonist was described as "a blend of [[Dorothy Parker]], [[Fran Lebowitz]], and [[Janeane Garofalo]], wearing [[Carrie Donovan]]'s glasses. Daria Morgendorffer, 16 and cursed with a functioning brain, has the misfortune to see high school, her family, and her life for exactly what they are and the temerity to comment on it."<ref>{{cite news|last=Gates|first=Anita|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/16/arts/television-radio-in-praise-of-the-most-unpopular-girl-at-lawndale.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|title='Daria': In Praise of the Most Unpopular Girl at Lawndale|newspaper=The New York Times|date= May 16, 1999|access-date= March 19, 2012}}</ref>