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* SoapboxSadie: Downplayed. Daria gets pressured into helping Jane with the poster contest, and does so by collaborating on a piece that bluntly talks about a girl with an eating disorder. While Daria does get heated about the message when people keep misinterpreting it, she makes it clear she didn't want to enter a fluff contest and was trying to create something which would make the audience legitimately think. While she does fight to have the message preserved, she opts to simply bow out when Mr. O'Neill's alternative interpretation is a joke. Daria and Jane only take action when Ms. Li basically steals the poster and tries to present it with its bastardized message under their names. It shows that Daria has strong beliefs, and she strongly refuses to let someone use her to promote a message she doesn't believe in. But she's only willing to go to extremes when she gets pushed hard enough.
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Ms. Li didn't recognize that confessing her illegal deeds to a mother who doubles as a lawyer was a smart thing to do.
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Ms. Li didn't recognize that confessing her illegal deeds to a mother who doubles as a lawyer was wasn't a smart thing to do.do until Helen threatens a lawsuit.
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: InUniverse example: The poem Daria wrote for Jane's painting (which Principal Li and Mr. O'Neill thought to be too dark, but draws attention to a serious issue) is replaced with something completely different.
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Ms. Li didn't recognize that confessing her illegal deeds to a mother who doubles as a lawyer was a smart thing to do.
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* MamaBear: Helen may not like the poster Daria made but there is ''no way in Hell'' she'll let Ms. Li walk over her daughter.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Subverted. While Daria and Jane's parents were too distracted or offered little real help throughout the episode, Helen comes through at the last moment. When Mrs. Li calls, threatening Daria over the poster defacement, Helen lets her have it and threatens to sue the school for violating the girls' civil liberties.
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* AdultsAreUseless: AdultsAreUseless:
** Subverted. While Daria and Jane's parents were too distracted or offered little real help throughout the episode, Helen comes through at the last moment. When Mrs. Li calls, threatening Daria over the poster defacement, Helen lets her have it and threatens to sue the school for violating the girls' civil liberties.
** Subverted. While Daria and Jane's parents were too distracted or offered little real help throughout the episode, Helen comes through at the last moment. When Mrs. Li calls, threatening Daria over the poster defacement, Helen lets her have it and threatens to sue the school for violating the girls' civil liberties.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Despite trying to cope with losing his client and distracting himself with the house chores, Jake actually supports Daria's poster against Helen, explaining that it wasn't appropriate for the contest, but it was ''her'' message. Daria was impressed, while Helen [[DisproportionateRetribution dumped the entire bowl of pasta on his head]].
-->'''Jake:''' You see, if this poster is supposed to be propaganda promoting student life, it would be very bad. But if it's supposed to be Daria's personal vision of student life, it's very good. See?
-->'''Daria:''' Thanks, Dad!
-->'''Jake:''' You see, if this poster is supposed to be propaganda promoting student life, it would be very bad. But if it's supposed to be Daria's personal vision of student life, it's very good. See?
-->'''Daria:''' Thanks, Dad!
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* DumbassHasAPoint: Despite trying to cope with losing his client and distracting himself with the house chores, Jake actually supports Daria's poster against Helen, explaining that it wasn't appropriate for the contest, but it was ''her'' message. Daria was impressed, while Helen [[DisproportionateRetribution dumped the entire bowl of pasta on his head]].
-->'''Jake:''' You see, if this poster is supposed to be propaganda promoting student life, it would be very bad. But if it's supposed to be Daria's personal vision of student life, it's very good. See?
-->'''Daria:''' Thanks, Dad!
-->'''Jake:''' You see, if this poster is supposed to be propaganda promoting student life, it would be very bad. But if it's supposed to be Daria's personal vision of student life, it's very good. See?
-->'''Daria:''' Thanks, Dad!
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** Played straight with Mr. O'Neill, as he fails both in getting the message of Daria and Jane's poster, or stand up to Ms. Li to keep his promise to the girls.
** Averted with Ms. [=DeFoe=], who is the only one who listens to what Daria and Jane have to say about their message and allows them to exhibit it, since has both brilliant technique and bold statement.
* AllPeriodsArePMS: After dumping the bowl of pasta on Jake's head, Helen returns to the kitchen and gives a half-assed apology by blaming her reaction to her PMS.
** Averted with Ms. [=DeFoe=], who is the only one who listens to what Daria and Jane have to say about their message and allows them to exhibit it, since has both brilliant technique and bold statement.
* AllPeriodsArePMS: After dumping the bowl of pasta on Jake's head, Helen returns to the kitchen and gives a half-assed apology by blaming her reaction to her PMS.
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** Played straight with Mr. O'Neill, as he fails both in getting the message of Daria and Jane's poster, poster or stand standing up to Ms. Li to keep his promise to the girls.
** Averted with Ms. [=DeFoe=], who is the only one who listens to what Daria and Jane have to say about their message and allows them to exhibit it, since has both brilliant technique and boldstatement.
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* AllPeriodsArePMS: After dumping the bowl of pasta on Jake's head, Helen returns to the kitchen and gives a half-assed apology by blaming her reactionto on her PMS.
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* AllPeriodsArePMS: After dumping the bowl of pasta on Jake's head, Helen returns to the kitchen and gives a half-assed apology by blaming her reaction
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* BrickJoke: The RunningGag of Brittany painting "Don't circles" comes back when Daria and Jane deface their poster by painting one on it.
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* BrickJoke: The RunningGag of Brittany Brittany's painting "Don't circles" Circles" comes back when Daria and Jane deface their poster by painting one on it.
* TheGadfly: After getting roped into participating in the contest, Jane and Daria decide to troll the school by doing a piece about the BrutallyHonest reality of being a teenager with a satiric poster. They settle down for a pretty girl who is hiding her eating disorders.
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* GotVolunteered: Ms. Li uses this as an excuse to take Daria and Jane's poster as part of the school's exhibit. Helen calls her out on how this violates their civil liberties.
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* GotVolunteered: GotVolunteered:
** Ms. [=DeFoe=] doesn't do it with selfish intentions since she only wanted Jane to have a challenge by taking part in the contest. Jane has to accept Ms. [=DeFoe=]'s suggestion.
** Ms. Li uses this as an excuse to take Daria and Jane's poster as part of the school's exhibit. Helen calls her out on how this violates their civil liberties.
** Ms. [=DeFoe=] doesn't do it with selfish intentions since she only wanted Jane to have a challenge by taking part in the contest. Jane has to accept Ms. [=DeFoe=]'s suggestion.
** Ms. Li uses this as an excuse to take Daria and Jane's poster as part of the school's exhibit. Helen calls her out on how this violates their civil liberties.
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* ShrineToSelf: Upchuck's poster consisted on a self-portrait of himself with ALadyOnEachArm and a sports car. When Ms. Defoe asks him what message was intended, he says it was only a "personal goal".
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* ShrineToSelf: Upchuck's poster consisted on of a self-portrait of himself with ALadyOnEachArm and a sports car. When Ms. Defoe asks him what message was intended, he says it was only a "personal goal".
