Daria

Daria is an American animated television series created by Glenn Eichler and Susie Lewis Lynn for MTV. The series focuses on Daria Morgendorffer, a smart, acerbic, and somewhat misanthropic teenage girl who observes the world around her. The show is set in the fictional suburban American town of Lawndale and is a satire of high school life, and full of allusions to and criticisms of popular culture and social classes.

Daria was originally broadcast from 1997 to 2002, and is a spin-off of Mike Judge's earlier animated Beavis and Butt-Head series, in which Daria appeared as a recurring character. Although Judge agreed to release the character to allow her to appear in the spin-off, he had no involvement in the production of Daria.

As the show's eponymous protagonist, Daria Morgendorffer appears in most scenes. Her immediate family (mother Helen, father Jake, and younger sister Quinn) and her best friend Jane Lane appear in nearly every episode. A number of secondary characters round out the regular cast.

The plots of Daria largely concern juxtaposition between the central character's jaded, sardonic cynicism and the values/preoccupations of her suburban American hometown of Lawndale. In a 2005 interview, series co-creator Glenn Eichler described the otherwise unspecified locale as "a mid-Atlantic suburb, outside somewhere like Baltimore or Washington, D.C.. They could have lived in Pennsylvania near the Main Line, though".

For comedic and illustrative purposes, the show's depiction of suburban American life was a deliberately exaggerated one. In The New York Times, the protagonist was described as "a blend of Dorothy Parker, Fran Lebowitz, and Janeane Garofalo, wearing Carrie Donovan's glasses. Daria Morgendorffer, 16 and cursed with a functioning brain, has the misfortune to see high school, her family, and her life for exactly what they are and the temerity to comment on it."

Set during Daria's high school years and ending with her graduation and acceptance into college, the principal location used for the show (outside of the Morgendorffer home) is Lawndale High School, a public education institution operating at high dysfunction.

The dynamics among the characters change during season four, when Jane begins a relationship with Tom Sloane, son of one of the town's richest families. Though Daria is hesitant to accept Tom at first, she and Tom find themselves becoming closer, culminating in a kiss in the season finale. The emotional and comedic turmoil among Jane, Tom and Daria was the centerpiece of the TV movie Is It Fall Yet?, and the relationship between Tom and Daria fueled several of season five's stories.

Cast

Image	Character	USA	Mex	Ita
	Daria Morgendorffer	Tracy Grandstaff	Laura Torres	MarinaMassironi
				Sonia Mazza
	Jane Lane	Wendy Hoopes	Gisela Casillas	Marina Thovez
			Alejandra de la Rosa
	Quinn Morgendorffer	Wendy Hoopes	MaríaFernandaMorales	Emanuela Pacotto
			Maggie Vera
	Helen Morgendorffer	Wendy Hoopes	Rocío Garcel
			Araceli de León
			Rebeca Manríquez
			Mónica Manjarrez
	Jake Morgendorffer	Julian Rebolledo	Jorge Roig	Stefano Albertini
	Tom Sloane	Russell Hankin	Israel Magaña
			Yamil Atala
			Jorge Ornelas
	Trent Lane	Alvaro J. Gonzalez	Víctor Delgado
			Alfonso Obregón
	Kevin Thompson	Marc Thompson	José Antonio Macías	Simone D'Andrea
	Brittany Taylor	Lisa Kathleen Collins	Claudia Motta	Lara Parmiani