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** Jodie gets fed up with the hypocrisy of her and Mack being elected Homecoming King and Queen every year, as well as how humiliating she finds standing on a float in a poofy dress waving to the crowd. Just as she and Mack decide they're sick of playing along with the charade, she sees a young black girl in the crowd waving and looking at her with shining, hopeful eyes. She smiles and promptly stands up again to keep waving.

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** Jodie gets fed up with the hypocrisy of her and Mack being elected Homecoming King and Queen every year, as well as how year: she knows that the town only does it to seem progressive by putting two of the only Black students in the school on a parade float. She also finds it humiliating she finds standing on a float in to wear a poofy princess dress waving and wave to the crowd. Just crowd as she a TokenMinority. But just as Jodie and Mack decide they're sick of playing along with the charade, she sees a young black Black girl in the crowd waving and looking at her with shining, hopeful eyes. She smiles and promptly stands up again to keep waving.
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* "Jake of Hearts", in a slightly odd way, has the three Morgendorffer ladies showing how much they care about old Jake. This is one of the episodes that shows Daria's DaddysGirl tendencies and it's amazing to see Helen staying home to do her best at cooking and taking care of Jake after his mild heart-attack (under the bitter vigilance of her mother in law). But the most surprising of all is Quinn: she has never displayed open affection for her parents but she starts bawling her eyes out the very second she hears her dad suffered a heart-attack. She then proceeds, entirely of her own volition, to dedicate herself to STUDYING to become a cardiologist (in the dumbest way possible, of course, but it's obvious how seriously she's taking it!). It's not until they're sure Jake is doing better than Helen and Quinn go back to normal. Meanwhile, while Daria's face is as unshakeable as always, she has a hert to heart ([[JustForPun heh]]) with her old man and a couple outbursts that show what she's really feeling like at the moment (also serving as warnings to not mess wth her for the time being).

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* "Jake of Hearts", in a slightly odd way, has the three Morgendorffer ladies showing how much they care about old Jake. This is one of the episodes that shows Daria's DaddysGirl tendencies and it's amazing to see Helen staying home to do her best at cooking and taking care of Jake after his mild heart-attack (under the bitter vigilance of her mother in law). But the most surprising of all is Quinn: she has never displayed open affection for her parents but she starts bawling her eyes out the very second she hears her dad suffered a heart-attack. She then proceeds, entirely of her own volition, to dedicate herself to STUDYING to become a cardiologist (in the dumbest way possible, of course, but it's obvious how seriously she's taking it!). It's not until they're sure Jake is doing better than Helen and Quinn go back to normal. Meanwhile, while Daria's face is as unshakeable as always, she has a hert heart to heart ([[JustForPun heh]]) with her old man and a couple outbursts that show what she's really feeling like at the moment (also serving as warnings to not mess wth her for the time being).
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* "Jake of Hearts", in a slightly odd way, has the three Morgendorffer ladies showing how much they care about old Jake. This is one of the episodes that shows Daria's DaddysGirl tendencies and it's amazing to see Helen staying home to do her best at cooking and taking care of Jake after his mild heart-attack (under the bitter vigilance of her mother in law). But the most surprising of all is Quinn: she has never displayed open affection for her parents but she starts bawling her eyes out the very second she hears her dad suffered a heart-attack. She then proceeds, entirely of her own volition, to dedicate herself to STUDYING to become a cardiologist (in the dumbest way possible, of course, but it's obvious how seriously she's taking it!). It's not until they're sure Jake is doing better than Helen and Quinn go back to normal. Meanwhile, while Daria's face is as unshakeable as always, she has a hert to heart ([[JustForPun heh]]) with her old man and a couple outbursts that show what she's really feeling like at the moment (also serving as warnings to not mess wth her for the time being).
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* Jane actually connects to her art students in "The Old and the Beautiful" in a way neither she nor Daria expected. They seemed excited to act out and have fun with her more wild project ideas, such as making voodoo dolls and painting over murals. Seeing as she was volunteering at the hospital, its likely most of her students were either chronically or critically ill, and her morbid sense of humor might have even been a comfort to them.
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** Ms. Defoe, after initial concerns that the poster was mocking people with eating disorders, becomes the only adult to wholeheartedly support the girls and their poster once the message is clarified for her.
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** Kevin in particular displays an uncharacteristic amount of concern over Daria's well-being, just as he did earlier on in "The Big House", showing that despite Daria's cold attitude towards him he still considers her one of his closest friends.
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** A smaller one but Britney using her "subversive" message by putting a circle and a line through her painting become this when Daria and Jane do the same thing to their meddled-with poster. It may have been a stupid idea from the cheerleader at first but the fact that the other girls used that idea to make a statement shows that they do respect Britney, despite shallowness.

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* In "Arts and Crass", Jake delivers a rather smart comment about Daria's art project to the point that Daria herself is impressed by it.

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* In "Arts and Crass", Jake delivers Daria and Jane are tasked with making a rather smart comment poster about student life for an art contest; they come up with a subversive message about eating disorders, which the administration insists they alter. Jake, of all people, comes up with a defense, pointing out that the poster should be judged by Daria's art project intent, not what her teachers wanted her to the point that do. Daria herself is so impressed that she sincerely thanks her father for his wise words.
** Later in the episode, the high school staff take the poster
by it.force and alter it without Daria and Jane's consent, prompting them to sneak in after hours to vandalize it. Principal Li realizes they are the culprits and calls Helen to threaten "drastic action." Helen, who originally thought her daughter should modify the poster, learns that Daria didn't consent to the changes or even entering the art contest...and proceeds to go full MamaBear on Principal Li, threatening a "big, fat lawsuit" for the violation of Daria's civil liberties. Helen may not understand Daria, but she ''does'' love her, and woe to the idiot who threatens her daughter. Similarly, Daria gives one of her [[WhenSheSmiles rare smiles]] as she watches Principal Li crumble under Helen's tirade, proving that she loves her mother, too.
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** Jane and Quinn giving Daria advice after she sees Trent head out with another girl for a date. This also helps Daria get over her crush on Trent (thought she does let herself imagine a perfect future with him at the end of the episode).

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** Jane and Quinn comforting Daria and giving Daria her advice after she sees Trent head out with another girl for a date. This also helps Daria get over her crush on Trent (thought she does let herself imagine a perfect future with him at the end of the episode).
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*** There's also the possibility that when Tiffany said "We were just trying to be polite", she was saying that she and Stacy were being polite to SANDI, being the only one truly unaware of the truth, and not wanting her to feel stupid.

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*** There's also the possibility that when Tiffany said "We were just trying to be polite", she was saying that she and Stacy were being polite to SANDI, being thinking that she was the only one truly unaware of the truth, and not wanting her to feel stupid.



** Given how oblivious Mr. O'Neill is most of the time, he genuinely wanted Daria to give the tours to the freshmen. While Daria assumes it's because she can make the misfits like her feel welcomed, Mr. O'Neil's point is to demonstrate Daria is not as antisocial as she claims to be. For him is a little moment where he shows how much he cares about Daria as a student.
** Jake telling Daria that they were proud of her, not in spite of her troubles fitting in, but ''because'' of them, stating that it's part of "the deal" for having a daughter of such staggering intellect and insight that she would naturally have anti-social tendencies.

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** Given how oblivious Mr. O'Neill is most of the time, he genuinely wanted Daria to give the tours to the freshmen. While Daria assumes it's because she can make the misfits like her feel welcomed, Mr. O'Neil's point is to demonstrate that Daria is not as antisocial as she claims to be. For him is a little moment where he shows how much he cares about Daria as a student.
** Jake telling Daria that they were proud of her, not in spite of her troubles fitting in, but ''because'' of them, stating that it's part of "the deal" for having a daughter of such staggering intellect and insight that she would naturally have anti-social tendencies.tendencies and they have never wished that she would change herself to fit in, only wishing that she didn't have such a hard time of it.
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* In "The New Kid", Quinn is genuinely sympathetic (for about 5 seconds) towards Daria after her date with Ted ends in disaster.
** Daria actually went on a date with a boy that she held some degree of interest in, showing a crack in the armor that she usually keeps herself wrapped in.
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* Daria in "Gifted", when she has her conversation with Jodie who confesses her chafing at being "[[PositiveDiscrimination Queen of]] [[TokenMinority the Negroes]]" at school and wishing to be more like Daria and her [[TheSnarkKnight fearless candor]]. At that, Daria confesses that she occasionally wishes she could be more like Jodie and when Jodie is flattered by that statement, you see Daria respond "I'm not saying all the time", with that small smile that she grants only to the people who deserve it.

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* Daria in "Gifted", when she has her conversation with Jodie who confesses her chafing at being "[[PositiveDiscrimination Queen of]] "Queen of [[TokenMinority the Negroes]]" at school and wishing to be more like Daria and her [[TheSnarkKnight fearless candor]]. At that, Daria confesses that she occasionally wishes she could be more like Jodie and when Jodie is flattered by that statement, you see Daria respond "I'm not saying all the time", with that small smile that she grants only to the people who deserve it.



** Jodie gets fed up with the hypocrisy of her and Mack [[PositiveDiscrimination being elected Homecoming King and Queen every year]], as well as how humiliating she finds standing on a float in a poofy dress waving to the crowd. Just as she and Mack decide they're sick of playing along with the charade, she sees a young black girl in the crowd waving and looking at her with shining, hopeful eyes. She smiles and promptly stands up again to keep waving.

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** Jodie gets fed up with the hypocrisy of her and Mack [[PositiveDiscrimination being elected Homecoming King and Queen every year]], year, as well as how humiliating she finds standing on a float in a poofy dress waving to the crowd. Just as she and Mack decide they're sick of playing along with the charade, she sees a young black girl in the crowd waving and looking at her with shining, hopeful eyes. She smiles and promptly stands up again to keep waving.

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