Your Top 5 Episodes

You actually named all my favorites in the order of my preference, except for "Fair Enough." Also, I do prefer "Boxing Daria" over "Write Where it Hurts" mainly because seeing story after story does get a little old after a while, but her final one is great of course. In a lot of ways, too, I think "Boxing Daria" is much more relateable in the sense that we see how her alienation in her early childhood affects every and all aspects of her life--family, friends, romances, school, and even her interests (i.e. reading and writing, which both require some solitude to flourish). No matter how we the viewers think about our lives, we have all been damaged or hurt by people who did not do so intentionally. And even though we all must have at least one person in whom we can confide, everyone feels lonely at some point, just like Daria must feel most of the time. As you mentioned, both these episodes give great insight on what goes on in Daria's head, and the stories are simple enough to be universal and profound.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
*~Tennessee Williams~*

Oh gosh, only 5? Well, here goes, in approximate order - really it changes according to my mood:

1. Write Where it Hurts
2. Arts n' Crass
3. Quinn the Brain
4. Through a Lens Darkly
5. Art Burn


"Why is it that every time I need to get somewhere I get waylaid by jackassery?"

I think my favorites are a bit unconventional, but they are:

1. The Teachings of Don Jake - This is the Daria episode which I loved as a kid. It is definitely the first episode I always think of when I think Daria. I just find the whole episode so funny from the camping trip gone wrong to the Lane family reunion.

2. See Jane Run - Jane is my favorite character, so I usually enjoy Jane episodes. This is probably my favorite Jane episode, because it shows her excelling at something other than art. Great Jane-centric episode.

3. Pierce Me - Sooooo hilariously cute....Daria's whole crush on Trent. It's just so hard not to enjoy these Daria crushing on Trent episodes, because they provide such comedy and normality to Daria, and you kind of remember that she is indeed like any other teenage girl, crushing on the "cool" older dude.

4. Boxing Daria - A great Daria episode. I thought this was a brilliant last episode, because it finally kind of sheds some light on why Daria is the way she is. It was a heavy episode, but at the same time it still had some of Daria's classic charm.

5. Daria! - The musical episode is so hilarious to me! I think some people don't like it, but to me it is just so cheesy it's funny. It is clearly a parody episode of musicals, and I thought it was done wonderfully. God god dammit! Lol.

It's hard narrowing down to just 5, there are soooooo many other episodes I absolutely LOVE, but I went with these since these were the ones which had a big impact on me as a Daria fan, entertained me the most, etc.

you are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.

Honestly I like all of them but...

1. Arts n Crass

2. Pierce me

3. Quinn the Brain

Those 3 are classics no doubt, picking a 4 and 5 were harder. Notice the top 3 were all from season 2.

4. See Jane Run

5. Road Warrior

Honorable mentions: Lane Miserables, Daria!, It Happened One Nut. and Fat Like Me.

Worst: Depth Takes a Holiday, Too Cute, and Antisocial Climbers

1. Mart of darkness
2. It happened one nut
3. Art burn
4. Partners complaint
5. I don't

Some say that's what drove him to madness, others
say, you know, no.

5) Misery Chick - Mainly coming from some personal experience. I was sort of the school's "misery chick", and I'm sure if I was attending school in my senior year when we lost two students that I would have been in Daria's shoes; being unpopular but being asked how I deal with being "miserable" and "gloomy".

4) Write Where It Hurts - Reasons you said.

3) Arts n' Crass - I love that we do see Helen get involved with something in Daria's life instead of having someone else do it, and the conversation between her and Ms. Li was perfection.

2) Daria! - It was just an all-around fun episode that was a way for the show to cut loose. This and I'm a sucker for musical themed episodes of shows.

1) Boxing Daria - For a way to close the show, it was dark and an interesting way to see into Daria's head (as you said). And I've never seen a more relatable episode of the show until then and it was nice to see a somewhat serious episode of the show.

"I'll go,because I am Cinema!" - Ben (Man Bites Dog)

No particular order.

Road Worrier
Write Where It Hurts
Daria!
Fair Enough
Jake of Hearts

I wish this could be a top ten!

5. Cafe Disaffecto
4. Boxing Daria
3. I Loathe a Parade
2. Jake of Hearts
1. Arts 'N Crass