This episode provides examples of:
- Attack Backfire: Daria's and Jane's original intention was to humiliate Quinn with the documentary. Daria makes a last-minute edit when she has second thoughts on it, resulting in the video making Quinn even more popular. Averted in Jodie's opinion, who says after watching that movie, she feels a real sense of despair when looking at how sad Quinn's life is.
- Blatant Lies: Jodie's video was only footage of the supermarket strike and how Kevin inadvertently caused a brawl, with the video finishing with a title card "The End (though the fight for fair working conditions is never over)" because Brittany and one of the workers accidentally knock the camera. Mr. O'Neill thinks that Jodie used some symbolism at the end, and Jodie says "she went through some storyboards."
- Brainless Beauty: Subverted. Daria and Jane intend to expose Quinn as this. Later, Quinn reveals to them that she does care if others can't see beyond her appearance, and sometimes she wonders if the Fashion Club girls can talk about other stuff that doesn't involve clothes, boys, or cars.
- Conscience Makes You Go Back: Daria starts to feel guilty the night before the assignment, deciding to re-edit the video to put Quinn in a more sympathetic light.
- Heroic BSoD: After Daria wakes up from her nightmare, she finds Jake still in the living room, replaying endlessly the video of his child self falling from his bicycle and not getting his father's help. Daria has to help him realize that he got up by himself, making him get over his father's abandonment.
- Hidden Depths: Moments before Daria and Jane finish editing the video, Quinn enters the living room and talks to them about why she doesn't want to appear foolish in the video, revealing that she doesn't enjoy popularity as much as she seems to, and she even finds boring and tiresome that she can only talk with her friends about clothes and boys, but she still goes along because she thinks it's the only thing she's good at.
- Innocently Insensitive: Quinn tries to sneak into Daria's room for one of her outfits, only to reveal that she wanted it for a "Fashion Fails" themed party, indirectly insulting Daria's wardrobe. Instead of getting offended by it, Daria and Jane use it as an excuse to record Quinn at the party.
- Mid-Suicide Regret: The basis of one of Daria and Jane's aborted film project ideas.Jane: Can we get rid of the window part and give me something funny to say? And a poodle.
- Nightmare Sequence: Daria has a nightmare of her becoming Quinn, while the Fashion Club (all of them with Jane's face but with their original voices) are praising her.
- Too Dumb to Live: Kevin decides that it's a good idea to buy some snacks for his girlfriend at the supermarket... in the middle of a worker strike. He has to be rescued by Mack and Brittany.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Immediately realizing what Daria wanted to do with her video, Helen calls Daria out for intending to humiliate her own sister. While Daria didn't listen to her at first, later on, Daria and Jane started to feel guilty after Quinn gives them a piece of her mind on why it's so important to her to keep her shallow façade.
- Yes-Man: During the recording day, the Fashion Club only praise Quinn deeply about everything she does. Later, Quinn implies that she knows they have nothing else to discuss.
