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* EveryoneHasStandards: Quinn surprisingly shows she has limits to how hard she wants to party. She'll eagerly direct a bunch of frat boys on how to play a drinking game, to the point she even gets crowned "Keg Queen," but she won't drink herself.


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** Kevin imagines being the biggest football player on campus and has a hotter girlfriend whom he eagerly dumped Brittany for.
** Brittany imagines college like a beauty pageant and gleefully has a desperate Kevin dragged off by security guards.
** Quinn thinks about getting a bunch of hot guys as roommates to fight over her.
** Jane... skips college altogether, using the money her parents saved to buy a studio.
** Daria imagines being promoted to grad student and offered to teach in Paris... so her professor can use her dorm room to have affairs with more attractive students.
--->'''Daria''': How come even in my fantasies everyone's a jerk?
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* DumbassHasAPoint: Even Jake knows better than to accept checks from college students, and is proud of Daria explicitly only take cash in exchange for writing papers.

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* DumbassHasAPoint: Even Jake knows better than to accept checks from college students, and is proud of Daria explicitly only take taking cash in exchange payments for writing papers.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Kevin doesn't register that he wasn't supposed to enjoy being stripped naked, covered in molasses, and left in an empty field in the middle of the night.


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* TooKinkyToTorture: Played with. Kevin's simply too stupid to understand he was being hazed by frat boys and found it fun when they stripped him and abandoned him in a field.

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* DeadlyPrank: Some Middleton boys start throwing stuff at Jake from their dorm window, escalating to tossing out a bathroom sink and then a piece of the building itself. Thankfully Jake moved out of the way or he would've been dead on impact.



* LethalPrank: Some Middleton boys start throwing stuff at Jake from their dorm window, escalating to tossing out a bathroom sink and then a piece of the building itself. Thankfully Jake moved out of the way or he would've been dead on impact.


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* NotSoAboveItAll: Helen initially finds it amusing when a frat boy asks for her panties as part of a prank, but then gets pissed off when he implies Helen's fat.

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* DumbassHasAPoint: Even Jake knows better than to accept checks from college students, and is proud of Daria explicitly only take cash in exchange for writing papers.



* HiddenDisdainReveal: Kevin and Brittany have fantasies about college life that include both of them ditching the other rather coldly. Kevin snarks about his "high school girlfriend" while Brittany gleefully has a desperate Kevin dragged away by security guards.

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* HiddenDisdainReveal: Kevin and Brittany have fantasies about college life that include both of them coldly ditching the other rather coldly. other. Kevin snarks and laughs about his "high childish high school girlfriend" girlfriend, while Brittany gleefully has a desperate Kevin dragged away by security guards.


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* LethalPrank: Some Middleton boys start throwing stuff at Jake from their dorm window, escalating to tossing out a bathroom sink and then a piece of the building itself. Thankfully Jake moved out of the way or he would've been dead on impact.
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** Kevin begns to fantasize about college, except all the college football players are a lot bigger than him. He shakes his head and restarts the dream with himself taller and more fit.

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** Kevin begns begins to fantasize about college, except all the college football players are a lot bigger than him. He shakes his head and restarts the dream with himself taller and more fit.

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* MirrorCharacter: Daria explaining to some of the students she was hanging out with over how to write their papers has some comparisons to Quinn explaining to a bunch of frat boys how they can play a drinking game. Daria begins a somewhat lucrative enterprise, Quinn gets crowned Keg Queen.



* NotSoDifferent: Daria explaining to some of the students she was hanging out with over how to write their papers has some comparisons to Quinn explaining to a bunch of frat boys how they can play a drinking game. Daria begins a somewhat lucrative enterprise, Quinn gets crowned Keg Queen.

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* FailedASpotCheck: Daria returns home to discover Quinn and their parents ecstatic that Quinn somehow got into "Manatee College." They apparently stopped reading after it mentioned Quinn got in, to which Daria reveals the "college" has no courses and is selling time-shares for several thousand dollars.



* HiddenDisdainReveal: Kevin and Brittany have fantasies about college life that include both of them ditching the other rather coldly. Kevin snarks about his "high school girlfriend" while Brittany gleefully has a desperate Kevin dragged away by security guards.
* {{Hypocrite}}: PlayedForLaughs when Daria reveals Helen made her stop writing papers for college students, stating it was wrong to profit off dishonesty and such. Daria then asked if that meant Helen was going to quit being a lawyer, and apparently they still aren't on speaking terms.



* LoanShark: The bursar advises Jake to borrow money from a business that's imlied to be a front for the Mafia.

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* LoanShark: The bursar advises Jake to borrow money from a business that's imlied implied to be a front for the Mafia.
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* ExactWords: Daria never separated from the tour guide... who then took her to her dorm and introduced Daria to the essay business.
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* WackyFratboyHijinx: One {{Fratbro}} asks Helen for her underwear, which his fraternity wants to use as a flag. Kevin also alludes to this (see NakedPeopleTrappedOutside).

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* WackyFratboyHijinx: One {{Fratbro}} asks Helen for her underwear, which his fraternity wants to use as a flag. Kevin also alludes to this (see NakedPeopleTrappedOutside).NakedPeopleTrappedOutside).
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Misuse. It\'s Genre Savvy, not just \"savvy\".


* GenreSavvy: When she offers to start writing term papers for money, Daria knows better than to accept checks from college students, and Jake is clearly proud of her for knowing that.
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* DoWrongRight: When Jake finds out Daria is selling papers to college students.
-->'''Jake''': And she made you pay in cash.
-->'''Student''': That's right.
-->'''Jake''' (''smirking''): Good girl.


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* GenreSavvy: When she offers to start writing term papers for money, Daria knows better than to accept checks from college students, and Jake is clearly proud of her for knowing that.


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* NotSoDifferent: Daria explaining to some of the students she was hanging out with over how to write their papers has some comparisons to Quinn explaining to a bunch of frat boys how they can play a drinking game. Daria begins a somewhat lucrative enterprise, Quinn gets crowned Keg Queen.


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* StealthInsult: The frat boy who wants Helen's underwear for a fraternity prank pretty much says he wants them because he thinks they're big, i.e., because of how big Helen is.
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** Kevin begns to fantasize about college, except all the college football players are a lot bigger than him. He shakes his head and restarts the dream with himself taller and more fit.


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* OutOfFocus: We only see the Morgendorffers' college trip; we hear a bit about the other characters', but absolutely nothing about Jane's.

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Daria and Quinn get into hi-jinks while visiting Middleton College, Helen and Jake's alma mater, as part of a college prep course.

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Helen and Jake start worrying about Daria and Quinn get Quinn's future and push the girls into hi-jinks while visiting Middleton College, Helen and Jake's alma mater, as part of taking a college prep course.course. One assignment for the course is to visit a college, so the whole family goes to Middleton, Jake and Helen's alma mater. The girls and their tour guide, a college girl named Heather, get separated from their parents, and HilarityEnsues when Quinn tries to join a sorority and Daria gets a job writing the students' essays.


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* AmoralAttorney: {{Discussed}}.
-->'''Daria:''' My mom wouldn't let me keep [the money]. She said it was wrong to encourage cheaters and to profit from them.
-->'''Jane:''' So, she's giving up being a lawyer?
-->'''Daria:''' I asked her that, and I'm sure some day we'll once again be on speaking terms.
* EducationMama: The episode begins with the Morgendorffers visiting some friends with a three-year-old daughter. They've already bought her ''My First S.A.T. Study Guide,'' prompting Helen and Jake to push Daria and Quinn into the college prep course.
* FantasyTwist: In Daria's ImagineSpot about college life, she imagines a school administrator promoting her to teach at their Parisian campus in her first week. However, it turns out that he just did it so that he could use her dorm to [[HotForStudent carry out affairs with the female students]].
-->'''Daria:''' How come even in my fantasies everyone's a jerk?
* ImagineSpot: Daria, Jane, Quinn, Kevin and Brittany each have one about what college will be like.
* LoanShark: The bursar advises Jake to borrow money from a business that's imlied to be a front for the Mafia.
* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: According to Kevin, on his college trip some frat boys stripped him, covered him in molasses and left him outside in the middle of the night. He seems to find this funny.
* WackyFratboyHijinx: One {{Fratbro}} asks Helen for her underwear, which his fraternity wants to use as a flag. Kevin also alludes to this (see NakedPeopleTrappedOutside).
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Daria and Quinn get into hi-jinks while visiting Middleton College, Helen and Jake's alma mater, as part of a college prep course.course.
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