History YMMV / Daria

* DieForOurShip: Tom can get this treatment from those who ship Daria with Trent, despite the producers themselves being very disparaging towards the idea of Daria/Trent going down. If Tom happens to show up in fan works involving a Daria/Trent pairing, expect him to receive RonTheDeathEater treatment where he's presented as an abusive JerkAss who deserves to get killed in a nasty manner.

** Glasses being automatically uncool. The episode 'Through A Lens Darkly' relies on the presumption that wearing glasses of any style is considered unfashionable, so choosing not to wear them is vain. The episode never even considers that Daria refusing to try contact lenses <i>also</i> a stylistic choice, and hypocritical considering it comes at the cost of learning to drive properly.

** During the final episode of Season 1, we find out that Mack's full name is Michael Jordan Mackenzie. He explains that his original name was Michael James, but after his father saw Michael Jordan in a playoff game, he changed James to Jordan. Of course, the episode was created over a decade before a Lebron ''James'' became a professional basketball player with the same super-stardom as Michael Jordan.
** Geoffrey Arend, the ([[TheOtherDarrin second]]) voice of Upchuck, the ultimate CasanovaWannabe who disgusts or even outright creeps out all the girls he's constantly hitting on? Married to Creator/ChristinaHendricks!

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** Aside from the music (Which [[ScrewedByTheLawyers you wouldn't see on the home releases due to licensing issues]]), the show is ''very'' much a time capsule of the TurnOfTheMillennium. Some pretty notable examples include:

** Quinn in general is a case of ValuesDissonance where her only crimes are being interested in fashion and men being attracted to her. Quinn's interest in fashion isn't just to chase popularity, she is genuinely knowledgeable in the fashion world and will drop everything to help anyone who comes to her for help in that area. (even Daria.) Characters will berate her for having nothing worthwhile in her brain, but she's just a kid who is still figuring out who she wants to be. This is particularly cruel in "Is it Fall Yet" where the first boy she really liked insults her intelligence, even though he knows the reason she got a tutor in the first place was out of a desire to do better. Modern viewers might even find Daria's snide comments towards her get uncomfortably close to slut shaming, especially when her suitors are older men.

** Quinn, in "Antisocial Climbers", gets all the blame when the school's food and supplies get left behind. Meanwhile, Joey, Jeffy, and Jamie get no heat despite being the three idiots who left the food and supplies behind so that they could carry Quinn's bags even though they were fully capable of carrying more than one bag.

** One episode has Kevin sharing some [[CloudCuckoolander "wisdom"]] he learned in the aftermath of an injury that nearly ended his football career. To this, Brittany is wowed and says that he'd make a wonderful father, to which Daria then ends with "To a coconut". In the 20th Anniversary [[WhereAreTheyNow follow-up]] in Entertainment Weekly, it's revealed that not only is Kevin [[GoodParents a great father]] [[HappilyMarried and is married to Brittany,]] but is also a stay-at-home Dad.

* SignatureScene: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqJTMl1F9Wg Daria defining "edgy"]].

** David Sorenson, Queen's tutor who appears only in "Is It Fall Yet?" and who showed sympathy for Daria. For many fans of the series, he could have been an alternate love interest for Daria. Or a friend. Or even a love interest for a more mature Quinn.

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: "''Daria's Inferno''" was not well received (although the storyline is generally regarded as up to the series' standards), and "''Daria's Sick Sad Life Planner''" was criticized by the MoralGuardians for molding journal entries to Daria's viewpoint.

* SeasonalRot: Part of the fandom thinks that the series began to show signs of exhaustion from the third season onwards, with the presentation of wacky episodes (“Depth Takes a Holiday”, “Daria!”, “The Lawndale File”) that escaped the realism that characterized the show in previous seasons, and that the deterioration was compounded by the appearance of Tom Sloane and the subsequent love conflicts involving him, Jane and Daria, when the show, to many fans, came to resemble ''Series/DawsonsCreek''. Another part of the fandom, however, believes that the final two seasons brought more character development to Daria. The fifth season has also been criticized, not only for the unpopular and ill-fated romance between Daria and Tom, but also for giving the fashion club excessive screen time to the detriment of the main characters.

* FanNickname: Mack is also known as "Saint Mack," due to him being one of the few characters to be both nice and generally together.

** One episode has Kevin sharing some [[CloudCuckoolander "wisdom"]] he learned in the aftermath of an injury that nearly ended his football career. To this, Brittany is wowed and says that he'd make a wonderful father, to which Daria then ends with "To a coconut." In the 20th Anniversary [[WhereAreTheyNow follow-up]] in Entertainment Weekly, it's revealed that not only is Kevin [[GoodParents a great father]] [[HappilyMarried and is married to Brittany,]] but is also a stay-at-home Dad.

** Ms. Barch: Abandoned by her husband after 22 years of a bad marriage and now blames all males for being just as bad as her husband (until Mr. O'Neill comes along). Watch that scene in "The Daria Hunter" when she finds out that Mr. O'Neill actually cares about her plight. When she says, "You're sensitive, yet you're a male," she sounds like she's about to cry.

* ThemePairing: The "[[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue Future Alter Egos]]," though not firmly canon, go even farther [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight by pairing]] DepravedBisexual Allison with TheAlcoholic Lindy, as both are morally ambiguous characters who are introduced in [[TheMovie movies]].

** Ted [=DeWitt=]-Clinton is introduced as a socially awkward potential love interest to Daria in "The New Kid." He was also one of the few characters who left Daria tongue-tied at the end of an episode. Ted could have gone on to become a recurring character and possibly eventually become Daria's actual boyfriend despite their awkward start but after his first appearance, he quietly disappears from the series, save for a minor speaking role in "I Loathe A Parade."

* UnintentionallySympathetic: Generally, there are a lot of characters who deserve Daria's snark. However, during "Life in the Past Lane," Daria really goes overboard on harping on Jane's new date, Nathan, a retro guy who's really into the 1940s. Even though Nathan is only showing an interest in the culture, music, and style of the 40s, Daria decided to rain on his parade repeatedly by telling him just how racist and conformist the 40s were. And even after Nathan acknowledges Daria's criticisms and admits that his favorite era had its flaws and social inequalities, what does Daria do? ''She continues to snark at him and annoy him'' to the point where Nathan, quite justifiably, decides that he would really rather have as little to do with Daria as possible. Granted Nathan was eventually revealed to be a bit of an obsessive jerk towards the end of the episode but Daria's JerkAss behavior towards him before then was still completely uncalled for.

** Daria's entire emotional arc throughout the show has her being forced to confront that even if she's a smart and opinionated young woman, she is still like every other girl in the world with similar faults and capabilities. She can get flustered over sex, fail to live up to her own standards, make dumb mistakes, and be nasty to people who don't deserve it. That said, she's still a compassionate young woman who does genuinely care about her family and friends, would never actively wish harm on anyone, and will strive to do the right thing if she honestly believes she needs to. In light of how storytelling and media began to focus on heroines who are "not like the other girls," only for the message to later be deconstructed by showing why that can be such a harmful statement, Daria manages to stand out as an early examination of this type of thinking.

* GeniusBonus: While it may seem odd that Britney was left out of the modeling seminar, it does make sense since its a well-known fact most designers prefer models with smaller cup-sizes, since it is easier to fit them. When the designers have Britney do a model walk for them, they even make hand gestures regarding her breasts, drawing attention to this.

** Is Quinn's eagerness to be a ChickMagnet yet unwillingness to settle down with one guy simply because she's young and doesn't want to be tied down or because she's closeted in some form or another? Besides how seriously she caters to [[AlphaBitch Sandi]] despite Sandi obviously seeing her as a [[TheRival threat]] to her popularity, Quinn becomes notably invested in [[TheAlcoholic Lindy's]] well-being during "Is It College Yet?"

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Daria has a large number of fans in Argentina, probably because of her resemblance to Argentine cultural icon, ''ComicStrip/{{Mafalda}}''. The show is also quite popular in Britain, where it aired at one point on Creator/ChannelFive.

* FanPreferredCouple: [[PseudoRomanticFriendship Daria/Jane]] seems to be vastly preferred over any other pairing featuring one of the two, likely due to the show's focus on the intimacy of their friendship.
** A strong second place runner-up would be the pairing of Trent with Daria. While popular with fans, the pairing never officially happened in the show and not only that, the producers of the show were openly disparaging towards the idea, with Glenn Eichler and Susan Lewis coming out and saying that the pairing would have never worked out and that anyone thinking Daria/Trent would have worked was just not watching the show they were making.
** Although very unpopular at the time the series originally aired, the [[OfficialCouple Tom/Daria]] pairing seems to have gained greater acceptance, at least from a portion of the public, perhaps because of their knowledge of the directions taken by the plot, or by some viewers' heightened awareness, coming with maturity, about Trent's sloppy lifestyle, and it is now easier to find comments that the Tom and Daria had much in common and made a good couple, and regretting that they parted ways at the end of the series.
** There is also some fandom for [[FoeYayShipping Quinn/Sandi]], with the author interpreting Sandi's hostility as her conflicting feelings over her attraction to her biggest rival.
** Many future!fics have Quinn/David, with David realizing that Quinn did get to mature after her CharacterDevelopment.