History Recap / DariaS1E04

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Mrs. Johanson collapses because of hypoglycemia, and when she wakes up, Daria refuses to give her chocolate, arguing it could kill her. Actually, ''hypo''glycemia means that she has ''low'' blood sugar (as opposed to ''hyper''glycemia), so if anything, the chocolate might have been a good ad hoc treatment. That said, Mrs. Johanson ''did'' mention to Daria and Jane her doctor explicitly said she wasn't supposed to eat chocolate just before she collapsed, making it more understandable why the girls wouldn't give her any.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Daria's visibly concerned when she sees Mrs. Johanson is having trouble breathing, and while Daria and Jane don't really help her after she passes out, Daria will not sell any chocolate to the woman out of fear of harming her health (since Johanson said she wasn't supposed to have chocolate on her doctor's orders).

* KickTheDog: While in Ms. Li's office as they're being grilled for not selling chocolate to Mrs. Johanson, Ms. Li asks if she wanted to buy the chocolate for her family. Jane rather cruelly jokes Mrs. Johanson has no family because she ate them.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: School principal Angela Li doesn't force Daria and Jane to mandatorily participate in fundraising for and/or performing at the school's coffeehouse, and reasonably only withholds having the participation credited to Daria's record (until Daria relents after Jane reminds her of the consequences given by Daria's parents for refusing to participate), unlike future schemes of Ms. Li where she makes participation automatically mandatory.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: School principal Angela Li doesn't force Daria and Jane to mandatorily participate in fundraising and/or performing at the school's coffeehouse, and reasonably only withholds having the participation credited to Daria's record (until Daria relents after Jane reminds her of the consequences from refusing to participate), unlike future schemes of Ms. Li where she makes participation automatically mandatory.

* TheQuietOne: [[{{Goth}} Andrea]] expresses her poetry for one of the few times she speaks in the series (out of the whole audience, only Daria and Jane approve of the poem):

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Mrs. Johanson collapses because of hypoglycemia, and when she wakes up, Daria refuses to give her chocolate, arguing it could kill her. Actually, ''hypo''glycemia means that she has ''low'' blood sugar (as opposed to ''hyper''glycemia), so if anything, the chocolate might have been a good ad hoc treatment.

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Kevin asks both Mack and Daria why he should be interested in studying Shakespeare. After a moment of thought, both mention that "''{{Hamlet}}'' has a skull in it."

* {{Flanderization}}: Discussed. Kevin is too dumb to be able to appreciate Creator/WilliamShakespeare, so they told him the easy part: that there is a skull in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''

* DirtyCommies: Daria's essay whips the students into an anti-communism riot which gets the coffee house shut down.

!!Tropes present in this episode:

* TeachersOutOfSchool: Kevin and Brittany happen to visit Mr. [=DeMartino=]'s house while going door-to-door. He proceeds to conduct the discussion as if it were a Q&A session in class (i.e.: condescendingly).

** Daria apparently had a recorder, which her parents forced her to practice, until it got run over by the car. [[WildMassGuessing Presumably Daria left it in the driveway on purpose]].

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Mrs. Johanson collapses because of hypoglycemia, and when she wakes up, Daria refuses to give her chocolate, arguing it coud kill her. Actually, ''hypo''glycemia means that she has ''low'' blood sugar (as opposed to ''hyper''glycemia), so if anything, the chocolate might have been a good ad hoc treatment.

* DoorToDoorEpisode

* NoodleIncident: Daria apparently had a recorder, which her parents forced her to practice, until it got run over by the car. [[WildMassGuessing Presumably Daria left it in the driveway on purpose]].

* OneSceneWonder: Andrea makes her first appearance just to deliver a bizarre bitter poem.

After a computer is stolen from Lawndale High's cyber cafe, it is re-positioned as a traditional coffee-house. After Daria fails to raise money for the re-opening, she is roped in to perform at the house's opening night.

After a computer is stolen from Lawndale High's cyber cafe, it is re-positioned as a traditional coffee-house. After Daria fails to raise money for the re-opening, she is roped in to perform at the house's opening night.