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At Jodie's prompting, Daria joins the yearbook staff as a photographer--after exacting a bribe from her parents, of course. There she meets the photo editor, a former [[HomeschooledKids Homeschooled Kid]] named Ted [=DeWitt=]-Clinton. Daria finds his friendly naivete oddly endearing, though his social awkwardness and odd family lead others to think he's in a cult, alarming Daria's parents. Ted also has ten pages of the yearbook rededicated to charity workers instead of school clubs, angering many of the popular students throughout Lawndale High.

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At Jodie's prompting, Daria joins the yearbook staff as a photographer--after exacting extracting a bribe from her parents, of course. There she meets the photo editor, a former [[HomeschooledKids Homeschooled Kid]] named Ted [=DeWitt=]-Clinton. Daria finds his friendly naivete oddly endearing, though his social awkwardness and odd family lead others to think he's in a cult, alarming Daria's parents. Ted also has ten pages of the yearbook rededicated to charity workers instead of school clubs, angering many of the popular students throughout Lawndale High.

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* FauxHorrific: Ted's parents show up at Daria's house to confront her parents, enraged that she had the nerve to give their son ''gum''. Before they leave, Ted's father starts sobbing after revealing Daria also gave him a cassette of Music/TheBeatles.



* SustainedMisunderstanding: A lot of characters assume Ted's in a cult because of the way he acts.

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* SustainedMisunderstanding: A lot of characters assume Ted's in a cult because of the way he acts.acts, and then assume Daria's dating him.
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* PacManFever: Subverted. Daria invites Ted to go to an arcade towards the end, and they end up playing a paired virtual reality adventure title which has a pretty primitive environment but also displays their characters just as themselves wearing gleaming armor. They also spend an ''incredibly'' long time playing the machine when they would normally either have a cut-off time to allow new players, or would have to keep giving money to the attendant for continued play.
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The Maiden Name Debate needs to specifically bring up the issue of whether or not to keep the name.


* TheMaidenNameDebate: Ted's parents are Leslie [=DeWitt=] and Grant Clinton, though technically we don't know if they're married.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Ms. Barch gives one to Mr. [=DeMartino=] to get the yearbook pages back, while Daria gives one to Quinn at the very end after Quinn got the software that was promised to Daria.
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* IdiotBall: Helen and Jake grasp this pretty firmly when they both honestly believe Daria is lying about being in a relationship with Ted, when they should know by this point how little interest she has in dating and how completely out of character it would be for her to suddenly start. Especially one they've been told is in some cult, since she's far too intelligent to fall into something like that.

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* IdiotBall: Helen and Jake grasp this pretty firmly when they both honestly believe Daria is lying about being in a relationship with Ted, when they should know by this point how little interest she has in dating and how completely out of character it would be for her to suddenly start. Especially one with a boy they've been told is in some cult, since she's far too intelligent to fall into something like that.



* SustainedMisunderstanding: A lot of characters assume Ted's in a cult because of the way he acts

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* SustainedMisunderstanding: A lot of characters assume Ted's in a cult because of the way he actsacts.

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* IdiotBall: Helen and Jake grasp this pretty firmly when they both honestly believe Daria is lying about being in a relationship with Ted, when they should know by this point how little interest she has in dating and how completely out of character it would be for her to suddenly start. Especially one they've been told is in some cult, since she's far less too intelligent to fall into something like that.

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* IdiotBall: Helen and Jake grasp this pretty firmly when they both honestly believe Daria is lying about being in a relationship with Ted, when they should know by this point how little interest she has in dating and how completely out of character it would be for her to suddenly start. Especially one they've been told is in some cult, since she's far less too intelligent to fall into something like that.that.
* JerkassBall: This is probably the only episode where Brittany and Kevin are knowingly nasty to Daria over the ten pages cut from the yearbook on sports and clubs to the point Brittany even refers to Daria and Ted as "A couple of outsiders."


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* ManipulativeBitch: Quinn tries to take advantage of Daria supposedly "breaking up" with Ted by browbeating her into going on a double date as a gambit to get her to undo the cut yearbook pages.
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* IdiotBall: Helen and Jake grasp this pretty firmly when they both honestly believe Daria is lying about being in a relationship with Ted, when they should know by this point how little interest she has in dating and how completely out of character it would be for her to suddenly start. Especially one they've been told is in some cult, since she's far less too intelligent to fall into something like that.


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* SustainedMisunderstanding: A lot of characters assume Ted's in a cult because of the way he acts
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* MinorInsultMeltdown: Ted took Daria's behaviour in a bad note and compared her by saying "she's shallow like that Quinn girl". This clearly shakes Daria more than any insult she has ever received in the show.

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* OddFriendship: By the end of the episode Ted befriends Robert and the other jocks who were bullying him at the beginning of the episode.

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* OddFriendship: By the end of the episode Ted befriends Robert and the other jocks who were bullying him at the beginning of the episode.episode.
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* DieForOurShip: After this episode first aired, a lot of Daria/Trent shippers were unhappy about Ted's existence. This quickly died down when subsequent episodes showed that he wouldn't be a recurring character.

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At Jodie's prompting, Daria joins the yearbook staff as a photographer--after exacting a bribe from her parents, of course. There she meets the photo editor, a former [[HomeschooledKids Homeschooled Kid]] named Ted [=DeWitt=]-Clinton, Daria finds his odd personality oddly endearing, though it leads others to think he's in a cult, alarming Daria's parents. Ted also has ten pages of the yearbook rededicated to charity workers instead of school clubs, angering many of the popular students throughout Lawndale High.

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At Jodie's prompting, Daria joins the yearbook staff as a photographer--after exacting a bribe from her parents, of course. There she meets the photo editor, a former [[HomeschooledKids Homeschooled Kid]] named Ted [=DeWitt=]-Clinton, [=DeWitt=]-Clinton. Daria finds his odd personality friendly naivete oddly endearing, though it leads his social awkwardness and odd family lead others to think he's in a cult, alarming Daria's parents. Ted also has ten pages of the yearbook rededicated to charity workers instead of school clubs, angering many of the popular students throughout Lawndale High.


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* DieForOurShip: After this episode first aired, a lot of Daria/Trent shippers were unhappy about Ted's existence. This quickly died down when subsequent episodes showed that he wouldn't be a recurring character.
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* OddFriendship: By the end of the episode Ted befriends Robert and the other jocks who were bullying him at the beginning of the episode.
* OneSceneWonder: Ted himself. After this episode, many fans expected him to be a recurring character ([[DieForOurShip and some weren't happy about that]]), but he only has two other [[TheCameo cameos]] throughout the rest of the series, once of which is silent.

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* OddFriendship: By the end of the episode Ted befriends Robert and the other jocks who were bullying him at the beginning of the episode.
* OneSceneWonder: Ted himself. After this episode, many fans expected him to be a recurring character ([[DieForOurShip and some weren't happy about that]]), but he only has two other [[TheCameo cameos]] throughout the rest of the series, once of which is silent.
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* HomeschooledKids: Ted. He's very outgoing, but clearly doesn't get how most teenagers act, and because of his family's old-fashioned habits, is unaware of television, CDs, or gum.

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* HomeschooledKids: Ted. He's very outgoing, but clearly doesn't get how most teenagers act, and because of his family's old-fashioned habits, is unaware of television, CDs, [=CDs=], or gum.


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* OddFriendship: By the end of the episode Ted befriends Robert and the other jocks who were bullying him at the beginning of the episode.

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* GuyOfTheWeek: Ted, to Daria.



* OneSceneWonder: Ted himself. After this episode, many fans expected him to be a recurring character ([[DieForOurShip and some weren't happy about that]]), but he only has two other [[TheCameo cameos]] throughout the rest of the series, once of which is silent.

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* OneSceneWonder: Ted himself. After this episode, many fans expected him to be a recurring character ([[DieForOurShip and some weren't happy about that]]), but he only has two other [[TheCameo cameos]] throughout the rest of the series, once of which is silent.
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* NotADate: Daria and Ted go on a "yes it is" version. Daria's double date with Robert is officially a date, but they don't even get anywhere before she aborts.

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* NotADate: Daria and Ted go on a "yes it is" version. Daria's double date with Robert is officially a date, but they don't even get anywhere before she aborts.aborts.
* OneSceneWonder: Ted himself. After this episode, many fans expected him to be a recurring character ([[DieForOurShip and some weren't happy about that]]), but he only has two other [[TheCameo cameos]] throughout the rest of the series, once of which is silent.

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At Jodie's prompting, Daria joins the yearbook staff as a photographer--after exacting a bribe from her parents, of course. There she meets the photo editor, a former [[HomeschooledKids Homeschooled Kid]] named Ted DeWitt-Clinton, Daria finds his odd personality oddly endearing, though it leads others to think he's in a cult, alarming Daria's parents. Ted also has ten pages of the yearbook rededicated to charity workers instead of school clubs, angering many of the popular students throughout Lawndale High.

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At Jodie's prompting, Daria joins the yearbook staff as a photographer--after exacting a bribe from her parents, of course. There she meets the photo editor, a former [[HomeschooledKids Homeschooled Kid]] named Ted DeWitt-Clinton, [=DeWitt=]-Clinton, Daria finds his odd personality oddly endearing, though it leads others to think he's in a cult, alarming Daria's parents. Ted also has ten pages of the yearbook rededicated to charity workers instead of school clubs, angering many of the popular students throughout Lawndale High.


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* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Ted is blond and also extremely naive and innocent.


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* TheMaidenNameDebate: Ted's parents are Leslie [=DeWitt=] and Grant Clinton, though technically we don't know if they're married.
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* HeroicBSOD: When Ted compares Daria to Quinn.


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* KarmaHoudini: Ms. Barch beats up Mr. [=DeMartino=] to get the pages of the yearbook back and [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale suffers no consequences for it]].

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* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: Daria says this repeatedly about Ted. As a matter of fact, it's pretty obvious the two like each other.

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* {{Foil}}: Ted lacks understanding of social cues, but is very outgoing and friendly; Daria ''does'' understand how people act, but deliberately breaks those rules to be anti-social.
* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: Daria says this repeatedly about Ted. As a matter of fact, it's pretty obvious the two like each other.other.
* HomeschooledKids: Ted. He's very outgoing, but clearly doesn't get how most teenagers act, and because of his family's old-fashioned habits, is unaware of television, CDs, or gum.
* NotADate: Daria and Ted go on a "yes it is" version. Daria's double date with Robert is officially a date, but they don't even get anywhere before she aborts.
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At Jodie's prompting, Daria joins the yearbook staff as a photographer--after exacting a bribe from her parents, of course. There she meets the photo editor, a former [[HomeschooledKids Homeschooled Kid]] named Ted DeWitt-Clinton, Daria finds his odd personality oddly endearing, though it leads others to think he's in a cult, alarming Daria's parents. Ted also has ten pages of the yearbook rededicated to charity workers instead of school clubs, angering many of the popular students throughout Lawndale High.
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!!Tropes present in this episode:

* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: Daria says this repeatedly about Ted. As a matter of fact, it's pretty obvious the two like each other.

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