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* NoodleIncident: Val's phone call outside of Ms. Li's office about her boyfriend cheating on her, which leads to her all but outright saying she was once pregnant.
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* DumbBlonde: Played with on Val's part. One one hand, she's a successful figure in the magazine world and is very media savvy; on the other hand, she behaves in a ditzy manner and is clueless about the audience she's reaching out to. On the other, ''other'' hand, she's savvy and shameless enough to hone in on any new facet of teen culture she stumbles upon and is willing to exploit it at the drop of a hat, showing a sort of passive-aggressive ruthlessness buried underneath that deluded attitude.
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* DumbBlonde: Played with on Val's part. One On one hand, she's a successful figure in the magazine world and is very media savvy; on the other hand, she behaves in a ditzy manner and is clueless about the audience she's reaching out to. On the other, ''other'' hand, she's savvy and shameless enough to hone in on any new facet of teen culture Teen Culture she stumbles upon and is willing to exploit it at the drop of a hat, showing a sort of passive-aggressive ruthlessness buried underneath that deluded attitude.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Val initially thinks Daria is some kind of "Popular, cool, and smart" teenager because it's trendy, but everyone keeps making confused expressions whenever Val asks if Daria is "cool". When she meets the Fashion Club, Val says out loud "Finally some popular people!". All her behavior patterns and meltdowns throughout the episode imply that Val always wanted to be the popular girl back in her youth and now is trying to live her frustrations through her magazine.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Despite Val claiming that she wants to be treated like everyone else, she keeps doing everything about herself, including stealing Mr. O'Neal's class out of boredom and turn it into a Q&A panel.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Invoked by Val, who claims she's 28 and that people sometimes mistake her for being 16. Daria, Kevin, and Brittany are all shocked at how this woman genuinely thinks she can pass for a 28 year old when she looks older than Daria's 40-something year old mother.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Invoked by Val, who claims she's 28 and that people sometimes mistake her for being 16. Daria, Kevin, and Brittany are all shocked at how this woman genuinely thinks she can pass for a 28 year old 28-year-old when she looks older than Daria's 40-something year old 40-something-year-old mother.
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-->'''Daria''': What do you mean by pushing yourself as some kind of role model when all you care about is how you look and what celebrities you know? Aren't teenage girls screwed up enough without you foisting your shallow values on them and making their lousy self-images worse?
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* SassyBlackWoman: Invoked in-universe. After Jodie makes an astute observation about the mindless content published in Val's magazine, Val responds by saying Jodie has "Great sassy energy" without bothering to actually acknowledge anything Jodie said. This covertly cements Val is not only self-deluded and egomaniacal, but also slightly racist.
* TakeThat: To the editor and founder of the now defunct ''Jane Magazine'', Jane Pratt.
* TakeThat: To the editor and founder of the now defunct ''Jane Magazine'', Jane Pratt.
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* SassyBlackWoman: Invoked in-universe. After Jodie makes an astute observation about the mindless content published in Val's magazine, Val responds by saying Jodie has "Great sassy energy" without bothering to actually acknowledge anything Jodie said. This covertly cements Val is not only self-deluded and egomaniacal, egomaniacal but also slightly racist.
* TakeThat: To the editor and founder of thenow defunct now-defunct ''Jane Magazine'', Jane Pratt.
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* YouKeepUsingThatWord: In addition to being TotallyRadical, Val keeps using words like "Jiggy" to describe stuff to others, despite people not really understanding what she means. In the end, Jake never understands what "edgy" is supposed to mean in general.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: In addition to being TotallyRadical, Val keeps using words like "Jiggy" to describe stuff to others, despite people not really understanding what she means. In the end, Jake never understands what "edgy" is supposed to mean in general.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Kevin and Brittany may not be the brightest bulbs in Lawndale, but, as mentioned below, even they are baffled that Val would try to claim that she's younger than she is.
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* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Jake never gets to understand what "edgy" really means. It doesn't help when Val describes "edgy" as:
-->'''Val''': "Edgy" is like going up to the edge of a cliff and looking all the way down and dancing anyway.
-->'''Jake''': WHAT THE HELL DOES ''THAT'' MEAN?!
-->'''Val''': "Edgy" is like going up to the edge of a cliff and looking all the way down and dancing anyway.
-->'''Jake''': WHAT THE HELL DOES ''THAT'' MEAN?!
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* EmbarrassedByAChild: Val, head of a major national teen magazine, immediately ran off to change outfits after getting a critique by Sandi, the president of the Fashion Club of Lawndale High.]]
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* EmbarrassedByAChild: Val, head of a major national teen magazine, immediately ran off to change outfits after getting a critique by Sandi, the president of the Fashion Club of Lawndale High.]]
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* EmbarrassedByAChild: Val, head of a major national teen magazine, immediately ran off to change outfits after getting a critique by Sandi,[[FromTheMouthsofBabes the president of the Fashion Club of Lawndale High.]]
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* EmbarrassedByAChild: Val, head of a major national teen magazine, immediately ran off to change outfits after getting a critique by Sandi,[[FromTheMouthsofBabes Sandi, the president of the Fashion Club of Lawndale High.]]
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* EmbarrassedByAChild: Val, head of a major national teen magazine, immediately ran off to change outfits after getting a critique by Sandi, the president of the High School Fashion Club of Lawndale High.
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* EmbarrassedByAChild: Val, head of a major national teen magazine, immediately ran off to change outfits after getting a critique by Sandi, Sandi,[[FromTheMouthsofBabes the president of the High School Fashion Club of Lawndale High. High.]]
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* EmbarrassedByAChild: Val, head of a major national teen magazine, immediately ran off to change outfits after getting a critique by Sandi, the president of the High School Fashion Club of Lawndale High.
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* VillainousBreakdown: At first, Val arrives in a yellow-blue outfit because she didn’t know the “Colors of the School Day”[[note]]Which is an attempt from Ms. Li to give more publicity to the school through Val’s participation[[/note]] was a made-up trend. Then Sandi presents herself as the president of the Fashion Club and informs her that primary colors are out of trend. Val has a freak-out and furiously calls her assistant for an emergency outfit while running to the bathroom.
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* VillainousBreakdown: At first, Val arrives in a yellow-blue outfit because she didn’t know the “Colors of the School Day”[[note]]Which is an attempt from Ms. Li to give more publicity to the school through Val’s participation[[/note]] was a made-up trend. Then Sandi presents herself as the president of the Fashion Club and informs her that [[ArmorPiercingResponse primary colors are out of trend. trend]]. Val has a freak-out [[WeakWilled freak-out]] and furiously calls her assistant for an emergency outfit while running to the bathroom.
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* IRejectYourReality: Val lives in a fantasy world where people believe her when she tells them she's 28. Not only does she look older than Helen, but not even Kevin and Brittany are dumb enough to believe her.
-->'''Val''': Not bad for a 28 year old, huh?
-->'''Daria''': 28?!
-->'''Val''': I know, most people think I'm like 16. When Drew and I go clubbing, I'm always the one who gets carded.
-->'''Daria''': These clubs, are they very, very dark?
-->'''Val''': Not bad for a 28 year old, huh?
-->'''Daria''': 28?!
-->'''Val''': I know, most people think I'm like 16. When Drew and I go clubbing, I'm always the one who gets carded.
-->'''Daria''': These clubs, are they very, very dark?
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-->'''Val''': Whenever Drew and I go clubbing, I'm always the one to get carded.
-->'''Daria''': These clubs, are they very, very dark?
-->'''Daria''': These clubs, are they very, very dark?
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* DumbassHasAPoint: Jake's enraged reaction to Val's description of "edgy" is on the nose because of how stupid it was.
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* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Jake never gets to understand what "edgy" really means.
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* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Jake never gets to understand what "edgy" really means. It doesn't help when Val describes "edgy" as:
-->'''Val''': "Edgy" is like going up to the edge of a cliff and looking all the way down and dancing anyway.
-->'''Jake''': WHAT THE HELL DOES ''THAT'' MEAN?!
-->'''Val''': "Edgy" is like going up to the edge of a cliff and looking all the way down and dancing anyway.
-->'''Jake''': WHAT THE HELL DOES ''THAT'' MEAN?!
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Even ''Kevin and Brittany'' are smart enough to tell Val is a complete moron for thinking she can claim she's 28 even though she obviously is ''not''. Hell, Daria herself is shocked to hear Val say it with a straight face, indicating she probably assumed Val wasn't that stupid.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Even ''Kevin and Brittany'' are smart enough to tell realize Val is a complete moron for thinking she can claim she's 28 even though she obviously is ''not''. Hell, Daria herself is shocked to hear Val say it with a straight face, indicating she probably assumed Val wasn't that stupid.lying through her teeth about only being 28.
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* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Val keeps repeating the words "Jiggy" and "Edgy". Jake never gets to understand what "edgy" really means.
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* TotallyRadical: Val uses slang like "jiggy" and "whack" in an effort to seem younger. It's exactly as painful as it sounds.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord:Val keeps repeating the words "Jiggy" and "Edgy". Jake never gets to understand what "edgy" really means.
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* AdultsDressedAsChildren: Val, in an effort to seem younger and appeal to (and wring energy and spending money out of) her demographic. Even Quinn points it out.
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* AdultsDressedAsChildren: Val, in an effort to seem younger and appeal to (and wring energy and spending money out of) her demographic. Even Quinn points it out.
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* AdultsDressedAsChildren: Val, in trying to seem younger than she is, people already know she looks as old as Jake yet still suck up to her.
** Just to emphasise this, Val's face is drawn with extra lines that even Helen, who's in her mid-fourties, isn't drawn with.
** Just to emphasise this, Val's face is drawn with extra lines that even Helen, who's in her mid-fourties, isn't drawn with.
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* AdultsDressedAsChildren: Val, in trying an effort to seem younger than she is, people already know she looks as old as Jake yet still suck up and appeal to her.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Val is the founder and editor of "Val" magazine and while initially written off as simply a clueless moron obsessed with the delusion she's still a teenager, she's also a shameless egomaniac trying to co-opt and exploit all aspects of teen life in modern America for the sake of shilling her magazine and making money.
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* DumbBlonde: Played with on Val's part. One one hand, she's a successful figure in the magazine world and is very media savvy; on the other hand, she behaves in a ditzy manner and is clueless about the audience she's reaching out to. On the other, ''other'' hand, she's savvy and shameless enough to hone in on any new facet of teen culture she stumbles upon and is willing to exploit it at the drop of a hat, showing a sort of passive-aggressive ruthlessness buried underneath that deluded attitude.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Invoked by Val, who claims she's 28 and that people sometimes mistake her for being 16. Daria, Kevin, and Brittany are all shocked at how this woman genuinely thinks she can pass for a 28 year old when she looks older than Daria's 40-something year old mother.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: By the end of the episode Daria finally snaps at Val and tells her off for being a domineering, manipulative blowhard.
-->'''Daria''': What do you mean pushing yourself as some kind of role model when all you care about is how you look and what celebrities you know? Aren't teenage girls screwed up enough without you foisting your shallow values on them and making their lousy self-images worse?
-->'''Val''': Now look here, missy. I mean, what are you, Dar, a teacher? I am a role model! I'm in touch with the teen within.
-->'''Daria''': Why don't you get in touch with the 30-something without? Your readers aren't going to be teenagers forever, unlike you. A real role model would be teaching them stuff they can use.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: By the end of the episode Daria finally snaps at Val and tells her off for being a domineering, manipulative blowhard.
-->'''Daria''': What do you mean pushing yourself as some kind of role model when all you care about is how you look and what celebrities you know? Aren't teenage girls screwed up enough without you foisting your shallow values on them and making their lousy self-images worse?
-->'''Val''': Now look here, missy. I mean, what are you, Dar, a teacher? I am a role model! I'm in touch with the teen within.
-->'''Daria''': Why don't you get in touch with the 30-something without? Your readers aren't going to be teenagers forever, unlike you. A real role model would be teaching them stuff they can use.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Even ''Kevin and Brittany'' are smart enough to tell Val is a complete moron for thinking she can claim she's 28 even though she obviously is ''not''. Hell, Daria herself is shocked to hear Val say it with a straight face, indicating she probably assumed Val wasn't that stupid.
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* SassyBlackWoman: Invoked in-universe. After Jodie makes an astute observation about the mindless content published in Val's magazine, Val responds by saying Jodie has "Great sassy energy" without bothering to actually acknowledge anything Jodie said. This covertly cements Val is not only self-deluded and egomaniacal, but also slightly racist.
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* BlatantLies: Val keeps claiming that she wants to blend and go unnoticed. The local reporters say Val's office called them to announce her arrival.
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* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Val keeps repeating the words "Jiggy" and "Edgy". Jake never gets to understand what "edgy" really means.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Despite Val claiming that she wants to be treated like everyone else, she keeps doing everything about herself, including stealing Mr. O'Neal's class out of boredom and turn it into a Q&A panel.
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* AdultsDressedAsChildren: Val, in trying to seem younger than she is, people already know she looks as old as Jake yet still suck up to her.
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* TheManStickingItToTheMan: Val is always talking about being "edgy" and cutting edge, Daria is having none of that.
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* TheManStickingItToTheMan: TheManIsStickingItToTheMan: Val is always talking about being "edgy" and cutting edge, Daria is having none of that.
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* AgeInappropriateDress: Val. She dresses not too differently from the Fashion Club. Quinn lampshades it.
---> Didn't she seem a little old for that outfit?
* DramaQueen: Val, Val, Val.
* DumbBlonde: Played with on Val's part. One one hand, she's a successful figure in the magazine world and is very media savvy; on the other hand, she behaves in a ditzy manner and is clueless about the audience she's reaching out to.
* HeelRealization: When Daria offers a scathing speech about "edgy", one can see Quinn looking very depressed. What makes her popular, makes her just another teenage face in the crowd to be exploited.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Daria at the end, when Val publishes a story called "The Story of D" where she calls her an "anti-teen", Daria is fine with it and offers a rare smile.
---> Hey, I'm jiggy with it.
---> Didn't she seem a little old for that outfit?
* DramaQueen: Val, Val, Val.
* DumbBlonde: Played with on Val's part. One one hand, she's a successful figure in the magazine world and is very media savvy; on the other hand, she behaves in a ditzy manner and is clueless about the audience she's reaching out to.
* HeelRealization: When Daria offers a scathing speech about "edgy", one can see Quinn looking very depressed. What makes her popular, makes her just another teenage face in the crowd to be exploited.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Daria at the end, when Val publishes a story called "The Story of D" where she calls her an "anti-teen", Daria is fine with it and offers a rare smile.
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* TheManStickingItToTheMan: Val is always talking about being "edgy" and cutting edge, Daria is having none of that.
---> As far as I can make out, 'edgy' occurs when middlebrow, middle-aged profiteers are looking to suck the energy- not to mention the spending money- out of the "youth culture". So they come up with this fake concept of seeming to be dangerous when every move they make is the result of market research and a corporate master plan.
* TakeThat: To the editor and founder of the now defunct ''Jane Magazine'', Jane Pratt.
---> As far as I can make out, 'edgy' occurs when middlebrow, middle-aged profiteers are looking to suck the energy- not to mention the spending money- out of the "youth culture". So they come up with this fake concept of seeming to be dangerous when every move they make is the result of market research and a corporate master plan.
* TakeThat: To the editor and founder of the now defunct ''Jane Magazine'', Jane Pratt.
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Daria wins the chance to hang out with a teen magazine editor named Val who tries (and fails) at being in touch with today's youth.
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