Daria is walking home, minding her own business as usual, when she is suddenly accosted by a short man in green and a big guy in a toga. It soon comes out that these are the Anthropomorphic Personifications of St. Patrick's Day and Valentine's Day, respectively, and they need Daria's help to get Christmas, Halloween and Guy Fawkes' Day back to Holiday Island.
Yes, my friends; this is Daria's infamous Bizarro Episode.
Having been roped into this task, Daria finds the renegade holidays—snarky, self-obsessed teenagers all—difficult to convince. Unfortunately, they soon decide to shack up at her house, and she'll have to get rid of them if she wants her life to get back to normal. Especially since Valentine's Day has made her parents into Sickeningly Sweethearts, which in turn leads Quinn to think that they're trying to have another baby.
This episode provides examples of:
- Anthropomorphic Personification: At one point Daria calls them "holiday spirits" for lack of a better description.
- Big Eater: Christmas is implied to be one since he gets annoyed over finding no Christmas-themed baked goods at Daria's place.
- Bound and Gagged: Daria finds Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's Day tied up in the living room closet, presumably done so by the other holidays off-screen.
- British Rock Star: Guy Fawkes' Day who looks a lot like Sid Vicious.
- Christmas in July: In the Sick, Sad World segment, a mall owner does this in an attempt to drive up profits.
- Entitled Bastard:
- Christmas, Halloween and Guy Fawkes' Day pretty much invite themselves into the Morgendorffers' house and then do nothing but complain that Daria isn't providing for their every weird need.
- Christmas and Guy Fawkes' Day also got annoyed over Halloween refusing to share her pay check when she starts working at a coffee shop, and it devolves into a fight.
Jane: Why should she share her paycheck?Trent: Exactly. - Happiness Is Mandatory: On Holiday Island, apparently.
- Heel–Face Turn: George Washington's Birthday eventually joins the other holidays' band as a harpsichord player.
- Hidden Depths: You'd think Sandi might harbour antipathy for children, what with bearing the curse of two kid brothers from hell, but she gushes over the thought of a baby.
- It's a Wonderful Plot: St. Patrick's Day tries to invoke this by showing Daria life without the holidays, only for Daria to have no clue what he's talking about.St. Patrick's Day: You see Daria, you really had a wonderful life.Daria: What the hell are you talking about?
- Let's Have Another Baby: What Quinn thinks is going on with Helen and Jake. Actually, once the spell wears off and she mentions it, Jake reacts with horror at the idea.
- Parental Sexuality Squick: Daria and especially Quinn get this; Quinn is actually convinced that they're trying to have another baby, because why else would they...you know?
- Pet the Dog: Sandi frets over Quinn's frazzled state and sends her home to recuperate.
- Rock Trio: Christmas, Halloween and Guy Fawkes' Day, though they don't follow the instrumental version of this trope.
- Sickeningly Sweethearts: Helen and Jake, after Valentine's Day zaps them with his love taser.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Christmas only seems to be willing to eat sugary, seasonal food (and, for some reason, pizza).
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight:
- Most of the characters who hear about the holidays at least have a token moment of disbelief; Trent, however, seems to have no trouble accepting it.
- For that matter, most people don't seem to find the holidays odd just by their appearance.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Halloween, Christmas and Guy Fawkes' Day seem to be something like this.
- Xtreme Kool Letterz: Christmas prefers to be called "X" (short for "X-Mas").
