Daria - Complete Series - 8-DVD Box Set ( Daria - Complete Animated Series - 8-DVD Box Set )

Daria - Complete Series - 8-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Daria - Complete Animated Series - 8-DVD Box Set
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/NTSC/Region 0 )

Running Time:
1586 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Alternative Footage
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Music Video

Movie filmed in 1997 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Karen Disher
Guy Moore

Written By:
Glenn Eichler
Peggy Nicoll

Actors:
Tracy Grandstaff ..... Daria Morgendorffer (65 episodes, 1997-2001)
Wendy Hoopes ..... Jane Lane / ... (65 episodes, 1997-2001)
Julián Rebolledo ..... Jake Morgendorffer (60 episodes, 1997-2001)
John Lynn ..... Sick, Sad World Announcer (57 episodes, 1997-2001)
Janie Mertz ..... Brittany Taylor / ... (51 episodes, 1997-2001)
Marc Thompson ..... Kevin Thompson / ... (51 episodes, 1997-2001)
Ashley Albert ..... Tiffany Blum-Deckler / ... (43 episodes, 1997-2001)
Jessica Cydnee Jackson ..... Jodie Abigail Landon / ... (36 episodes, 1997-2001)
Wes Spencer ..... Dog (35 episodes, 1997-2001)
Alvaro J. Gonzalez ..... Trent Lane / ... (31 episodes, 1997-2001)
Sarah Drew ..... Stacy Rowe / ... (26 episodes, 1997-2001)
Nora Laudani ..... Ms. Angela Li (25 episodes, 1997-2001)
Russell Hankin ..... Tom Sloane (21 episodes, 1999-2001)
Geoffrey Arend ..... Charles 'Upchuck' Ruttheimer III / ... (21 episodes, 1997-2001)
Steven Huppert ..... Joey (20 episodes, 1997-2001)
Tim Novikoff ..... Jeffy (20 episodes, 1997-2001)
Paul Williams ..... Michael Jordan 'Mack' Mackenzie (13 episodes, 1997-1998)
Amir Williams ..... Michael Jordan 'Mack' Mackenzie (10 episodes, 2000-2001)
Bart Fasbender ..... Andrew Landon / ... (10 episodes, 1998-2001)
Willy Schwenz ..... Jesse Moreno (9 episodes, 1997-2001)
Amy Bennett ..... Mrs. Johansen / ... (9 episodes, 1997-2001)
Katie Kingston ..... Marianne / ... (6 episodes, 1997-2001)
Evan Farmer ..... Eric Schrecter / ... (6 episodes, 1998-2000)
Kiki Barrera ..... Steve Taylor / ... (6 episodes, 1999-2001)
Jessica Zaino ..... Stacy Rowe / ... (5 episodes, 1997)
Susie Lewis ..... Andrea (5 episodes, 1997-1999)
Lemon Krasny ..... Theresa (5 episodes, 1998-2001)
Wass Stevens ..... Max Tyler (5 episodes, 1999-2001)
Kevin Daniels ..... Michael Jordan 'Mack' Mackenzie (4 episodes, 1999)
Danielle Carin ..... Ms. Claire Defoe / ... (4 episodes, 1997-2001)
Rita Pietropinto ..... Aunt Amy Barksdale (3 episodes, 1998-2001)
Laurine Towler ..... Michele Landon (3 episodes, 1998-2000)
Brett Barsky ..... Sam (3 episodes, 1998)
Nicole Carin ..... Ms. Claire Defoe (2 episodes, 1997-1998)
Stefanie Layne ..... Lisa the cheerleader (2 episodes, 1999-2001)
Tracy Lee Bell ..... Dr. Shar / ... (2 episodes, 1997-2001)
Delon Ferdinand ..... Michael Jordan 'Mack' Mackenzie (2 episodes, 1997)
Barbara Soehner ..... Aunt Rita Barksdale (2 episodes, 1998-2001)
Sky Berdahl ..... Ted DeWitt-Clinton (2 episodes, 1998-2000)
Stacy Bass ..... Grandma Ruth Morgendorffer / ... (2 episodes, 1999)
Marjorie Frantz ..... Daria (unknown episodes)

Synopsis:

In the community of Lawndale, Daria Morgendorffer is a girl who stands apart. Smart and cynical with a studied cool reserve that compliments a perceptive eye and a razor sharp sarcastic wit while hiding her strong personal integrity, she endures life both with her dysfunctional family while, as an misunderstood outsider, she must deal with the shallow and condescending people around her, the kind of person that her vain and shallow brat of a younger sister, Quinn, epitomizes. With her best friend, the equally cynical Jane Lane, these two face the challenge with all the considerable wit and intelligence needed to show their foolish enemies up. Yet events would occur throughout the series that would challenge their friendship even as they learn to accept new friends they can respect like Mack Mackenzie and Jodie Landon and especially Tom Sloan who becomes the focus of an unexpected rivalry. All the while, they face trials of growing up along with the changes that life brings.

The people of Lawndale just don't get Daria Morgendorffer - she's cool with that! You see Daria was born alienated and now she's just trying to make it through high school with as little human contact as possible. Popularity friends activities...whatever. Daria lacks enthusiasm but she makes up for it with sarcasm.
Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: Esteemsters
Original Air Date-3 March 1997
Daria Morgendorffer moves from Highland, Texas(see 'Beavis and Butt-head'(1993)) to a suburb called Lawndale, where she finds her sister gains instant popularity. Unaccustomed to her intelligence and sarcastic wit, Lawndale High School gives her a psychological exam where they assume she has low self-esteem, and assign her to a special class for kids with low self-esteem. There she meets student artist extrodinare Jane Lane, a girl who shares her sense of humor, her disdain for suburban banality, and her love for the tabloid TV show 'Sick, Sad World.' Together they fight the forces of stupidity for truth, justice,... and pizza.

Season 1, Episode 2: The Invitation
Original Air Date-10 March 1997
In appreciation for helping dimwitted cheerleader Brittany Taylor out with an art class, Daria is invited to a party held by the popular crowd in a gated community. Though uninterested and indecisive about whether or not she wants to go, she realizes that her presence there might be the perfect opportunity to humiliate Quinn, and takes Jane along with her for kicks... hopefully.

Season 1, Episode 3: College Bored
Original Air Date-17 March 1997
Fearing that Daria and Quinn won't be prepared for college, after meeting some clients who are preparing their three-year-old daughter for it, Helen and Jake force them into Lawndale High's college prep course, and take them on a tour of their alma mater; Middleton College. Like so many parents, they find college life has changed since they've been there, and both girls get caught up in two different activities while getting the guided tour.

Season 1, Episode 4: Cafe Disaffecto
Original Air Date-24 March 1997
Lawndale's local cybercafé has a break-in, and Mr. O'Neill thinks he can prevent future vandalism and theft by restoring it as one of the hip coffee houses of the 1960's. When Daria is forced into joining the other students into raising money for repairs, and later performing on stage with one of her essays, the kids, parents, and teachers of Lawndale have no idea what she has in store for them.

Season 1, Episode 5: Malled
Original Air Date-31 March 1997
Mrs. Bennett takes her economics class on a field trip to the Mall of the Millenium. Daria and Jane want nothing to do with this trip, but have no way out of it, however all is not lost when Daria discovers Quinn and the rest of the Fashion Club skipping school there.

Season 1, Episode 6: This Year's Model
Original Air Date-7 April 1997
Daria is roped into participating when a fashion business comes to Lawndale High.

Season 1, Episode 7: The Lab Brat
Original Air Date-14 April 1997

Season 1, Episode 8: Pinch Sitter
Original Air Date-9 June 1997
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.

Season 1, Episode 9: Too Cute
Original Air Date-16 June 1997
When a potential new fashion club member's recent plastic surgery impresses the other members, they seek to follow in her footsteps, and pressure Quinn into doing the same, whether she needs it or not. As she tries to get Daria to help her on this quest, the doctor offers to give her some extra treatment whether she wants it or not. Will Daria enjoy watching her sister humiliate herself as she tries to get enough money to go through with the procedure? Or will she try to reason with her?

Season 1, Episode 10: The Big House
Original Air Date-30 June 1997

Season 1, Episode 11: Road Worrier
Original Air Date-7 July 1997
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.

Season 1, Episode 12: The Teachings of Don Jake
Original Air Date-14 July 1997
Jake takes the family camping for a relaxing weekend getaway... if they can survive it. Trent and Jane are forced to attend a family reunion.

Season 1, Episode 13: The Misery Chick
Original Air Date-21 July 1997
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.

Season 2
Season 2, Episode 1: Arts 'n' Crass
Original Air Date-16 February 1998
Daria and Jane create an iconoclastic poster for a contest, only to find that the school demands it be altered against their wishes.

Season 2, Episode 2: The Daria Hunter
Original Air Date-23 February 1998
Lawndale High School goes on another field trip, this time to a local paint-ball course, with Helen & Jake as parental chaperones. The true savage nature of everybody's personality is revealed on this trip. Daria and Jane opt to sneak out toward another nearby tourist attraction that proves to be a complete rip-off.

Season 2, Episode 3: Quinn the Brain
Original Air Date-2 March 1998
Quinn needs a quick passing grade in English, and ends up writing a 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.

Season 2, Episode 4: I Don't
Original Air Date-9 March 1998
Daria is ordered to be a bridesmaid for her cousin's wedding, but she finds a kindred spirit in her Aunt Amy.

Season 2, Episode 5: That Was Then, This Is Dumb
Original Air Date-16 March 1998
Willow and Coyote Yeager, some former hippie friends of Helen and Jake, come to visit the Morgendorffer household, causing them to doubt their own value system. Daria and Quinn stick around to use their protest activities against them, and so Quinn can flirt with their son, until Jane invites her to help Trent and Jesse sell their parents' old records at a flea market.

Season 2, Episode 6: Monster
Original Air Date-23 March 1998
Daria and Jane decide to follow Quinn around on one day for a video project for school and the opportunity to make her look ridiculous is irresistible.

Season 2, Episode 7: The New Kid
Original Air Date-29 March 1998
Daria starts to fall for an eccentric new kid who puzzles her as much as he intrigues.

Season 2, Episode 8: Gifted
Original Air Date-29 June 1998
Daria and Jodie are invited to explore enrolling at an elite school for gifted students.

Season 2, Episode 9: Ill
Original Air Date-6 July 1998
A mysterious rash lands Daria in the hospital, but her reticence to let people know why she's there leads to some outlandish rumors at the school.

Season 2, Episode 10: Fair Enough
Original Air Date-13 July 1998
Hear ye, hear ye. Lawndale High is hosting a Renaissance Fair. See Quinn cast as the lead in a play. See Mr. DeMartino as the Black Knight. See Daria try to escape.

Season 2, Episode 11: See Jane Run
Original Air Date-20 July 1998
Whenever Jane isn't painting or creating other works of art, she like to run. So in order to spite the wrath of a tyrannical P.E. teacher, meet a cute boy, and keep herself and Daria from getting a failing grade in gym, she goes out for Lawndale High's Track & Field team and becomes an instant jock, much to the dismay of Daria, the quintessential anti-jock.

Season 2, Episode 12: Pierce Me
Original Air Date-27 July 1998
While helping Trent pick out a birthday present for Jane, Daria is talked into getting her belly button pierced.

Season 2, Episode 13: Write Where It Hurts
Original Air Date-3 August 1998
When Daria is given a special school project to write a short story featuring people she knows, she finds it unusually frustrating.

Season 3
Season 3, Episode 1: Daria!
Original Air Date-17 February 1999
As a hurricane bears down on Lawndale, the entire town reacts in the only sane manner: by breaking into song.

Season 3, Episode 2: Through a Lens Darkly
Original Air Date-24 February 1999
Daria is reluctantly persuaded to try wearing contact lens only to find them simultaneously physically, socially and philosophically uncomfortable.

Season 3, Episode 3: The Old and the Beautiful
Original Air Date-3 March 1999
The new spirit of 'volunteerism' is mandatory at Lawndale High. While reading to senior citizens, Daria finds that her unenthusiastic tone makes her just as unpopular at the nursing home as at school.

Season 3, Episode 4: Depth Takes a Holiday
Original Air Date-10 March 1999

Season 3, Episode 5: Daria Dance Party
Original Air Date-17 March 1999

Season 3, Episode 6: The Lost Girls
Original Air Date-24 March 1999
Mr. O'Neill submits one of Daria's essays to a contests in a teen girl magazine, and she wins. Her prize, if you can call it that, is to spend the day with the self-important editor of the eponymous magazine, a woman who thinks Daria's writing makes her 'edgy,' and spends much of her time trying to hold onto her youth and celebrity contacts. Jane believes it'll give Daria a chance to return the favor and spend a day at the editor's desk in New York City, but how much 'edgieness' can she possibly handle?

Season 3, Episode 7: It Happened One Nut
Original Air Date-7 July 1999
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.

Season 3, Episode 8: Lane Miserables
Original Air Date-14 July 1999
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.

Season 3, Episode 9: Jake of Hearts
Original Air Date-21 July 1999
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.

Season 3, Episode 10: Speedtrapped
Original Air Date-28 July 1999
Daria finally gets her driver's license, just before Jake and Helen take off on a marital retreat. When Jane and Mystik Sprial are pulled over in some hick town and thrown in jail for their inability to pay a traffic fine during an attempted concert tour, Daria must come to the rescue with bail money from the Lane household. To further complicate things, Quinn decides to tag along for the ride, and transforms it into more of an adventure that she was hoping for.

Season 3, Episode 11: The Lawndale File
Original Air Date-4 August 1999
Secret service agents visit Lawndale High, and urge students to keep an eye of for students that might be different, and thus a threaten their safety, as well as the safety of the country. Though Daria & Jane become suspect numbers one and two, they actually start to notice an outbreak of weirdness among their fellow students, faculty members, and even relatives.

Season 3, Episode 12: Just Add Water
Original Air Date-11 August 1999

Season 3, Episode 13: Jane's Addition
Original Air Date-18 August 1999
When Jane falls for a new boyfriend named Tom, Daria fears for her friendship.

Season 4
Season 4, Episode 1: Partner's Complaint
Original Air Date-25 February 2000
Daria and Jane and Brittany and Kevin have respective spats and decide not to work on an economics project together; thus Daria works with Jodie, Jane with Brittany and Kevin with Mac.

Season 4, Episode 2: Antisocial Climbers
Original Air Date-3 March 2000

Season 4, Episode 3: A Tree Grows in Lawndale
Original Air Date-10 March 2000
Daria talks Kevin into buying a motorcycle when she sees him buying a leather jacket in order to impress Brittany, but instead he settles for a moped. When he tries to perform a stunt on the Lawndale High School grounds(thanks to the prodding of his fellow pupils), he sustains a minor injury, and collides with a tree honoring former football great Tommy Sherman(see episode #1.13), causing a decline in the LHS football season, and rumors of a curse throughout Lawndale High, and beyond.

Season 4, Episode 4: Murder, She Snored
Original Air Date-17 March 2000

Season 4, Episode 5: The F Word
Original Air Date-31 March 2000
Inspired by a lecture and the tribulations of Thomas Edison and the Wright Brothers, Mr. O'Neill encourages his class to pick something to fail at for personal growth. All his pupils get out of it instead are misery, grief, and despair, including Daria who may be forced to supervise Quinn at an upcoming mall fashion exhibit, and Jane, who's becoming so popular that she might replace Brittany as... a CHEERLEADER!!

Season 4, Episode 6: I Loathe a Parade
Original Air Date-7 April 2000
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.

Season 4, Episode 7: Of Human Bonding
Original Air Date-14 April 2000

Season 4, Episode 8: Psycho Therapy
Original Air Date-28 June 2000
Helen's law firm has her and her entire family come to a psychological center for personality evaluations.

Season 4, Episode 9: Mart of Darkness
Original Air Date-5 July 2000
The new warehouse store is the place to go... out of your mind. Daria, Jane and many others are forced to brave the soul-crushing horror of discount shopping.

Season 4, Episode 10: Legends of the Mall
Original Air Date-12 July 2000
Driving around Lawndale, Daria hears several of the local suburban legends.

Season 4, Episode 11: Groped by an Angel
Original Air Date-19 July 2000
Quinn's obsession with guardian angels gets on Daria's nerves. A party at Brittany's introduces us to her stepmother... who looks and acts exactly like her.

Season 4, Episode 12: Fire!
Original Air Date-26 July 2000
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.

Season 4, Episode 13: Dye! Dye! My Darling
Original Air Date-2 August 2000
After Jane picks a fight with Daria, Daria realizes to her consternation that she has fallen in love with her best friend's boyfriend.

Season 5
Season 5, Episode 1: Fizz Ed
Original Air Date-19 February 2001
Over the protests of Daria and Jane, Principal Li makes a sponsorship deal with a pop company for Lawndale High that gets ridiculously out of hand.

Season 5, Episode 2: Sappy Anniversary
Original Air Date-26 February 2001
Daria doesn't know what's worse: that Tom seems to have forgotten their six-month anniversary, or how stereotypical she feels for being upset by it.

Season 5, Episode 3: Fat Like Me
Original Air Date-5 March 2001
An argument between Sam & Chris Griffin that interrupts a fashion club meeting leads to a broken leg for Sandi. During her recovery, she gains a considerable amount of weight, thereby violating the fashion club's by-laws and forcing her to resign, but not before she coerces Quinn into doing so herself, leaving Stacy and Tiffany struggling to keep it afloat. Meanwhile, Daria and Jane who have been spending the week betting each other over the behavior of their fellow Lawndale residents, place a hefty wager on whether or not the fashion club will survive this latest crisis.
Season 5, Episode 4: Camp Fear
Original Air Date-12 March 2001

Season 5, Episode 5: The Story of 'D'
Original Air Date-19 March 2001

Season 5, Episode 6: Lucky Strike
Original Air Date-26 March 2001
When the faculty of Lawndale High goes on strike, Daria is forced to become the teacher of Quinn's class.

Season 5, Episode 7: Art Burn
Original Air Date-2 April 2001

Season 5, Episode 8: One J at a Time
Original Air Date-21 May 2001

Season 5, Episode 9: Life in the Past Lane
Original Air Date-28 May 2001

Season 5, Episode 10: Aunt Nauseam
Original Air Date-4 June 2001

Season 5, Episode 11: Prize Fighters
Original Air Date-11 June 2001
Daria, Jodie and Upchuck are in the running for a top scholarship prize. Unfortunatley, this competition makes Jane feel left out(see 'See Jane Run,' Episode #2.11), and to make matters worse, she finds that the company that sponsors the scholarship has a record of discriminatory hiring practices. Will the Lawndale brainiac compromise her principles and learn how to be a kiss-up?

Season 5, Episode 12: My Night at Daria's
Original Air Date-18 June 2001
Tom falls asleep in Daria's bed, spurring rumors that they're sexually active (thanks to Quinn), which eventually makes her consider putting those rumors to rest by giving up her virginity for real.

Season 5, Episode 13: Boxing Daria
Original Air Date-25 June 2001
A large refrigerator box revives painful memories in Daria that suggest that she is a burden on her parents by being herself.

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