The Fashion Club gets lost after Jake is unable to pick them up at the mall, so he goes to look for them alongside Daria, Jane, and Trent. In the meantime, the two groups start discussing Lawndale's urban legends.
- The Rattling Girl: Stacy tells the story of a girl who was popular (portrayed by Sandi) at Lawndale High in the 1960s. Realizing her eyelids were fat, she tried to lose enough weight so people would think she was perfect but became so skinny her bones could be heard rattling when she moved. After being humiliated at a dance, the girl swore revenge and began stalking the rest of Lawndale High's popular girls, sneaking into their rooms at night while they sleep and trying to bite off their eyelids. The lack of sleep caused the rest of the girls to gradually become worn out and tired looking, damaging their beauty and making them all unpopular.
- Metalmouth: While driving through a spooky expanse of woods, Trent recalls the tale of a metal shop teacher (portrayed by Mr. DeMartino) who'd grind his teeth when he was frustrated until he'd grounded them to nothing. Unable to afford dentures and getting teased by his idiot students, the teacher fashioned a set of sharp metal teeth. Unfortunately, his teeth picked up radio signals and he was laughed out of the school for singing "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" out loud. He now hides out in Lawndale's woods, waiting for unsuspecting drivers to stop by a certain light so he can rip apart their cars with his metal teeth.
- The House of Bad Grades: Trent's car stops in front of a house Jane claims is haunted. She explains that in the 1950s a family (portrayed by the Morgendorffers) installed a bomb shelter in their yard. One night, the eldest daughter (Daria) went inside the bomb shelter to work on her college applications in peace but fell asleep. The following morning her father had the shelter paved over with cement to put in a barbecue pit, unintentionally sealing the girl inside and trapping her in Lawndale forever. After she died the girl became an angry ghost who haunts any kids living in her old home, messing with their homework to make sure they'd be stuck in Lawndale just like her.
This episode provides examples of:
- Adults Are Useless:
- The framing device sees Jake trying not to be this as he desperately tries to find Quinn and get dinner ready in time for Helen coming home.
- The parents in "The House of Bad Grades" didn't bother to check if anyone was in the bomb shelter before it got covered by cement, and are barely phased by their oldest daughter's disappearance (to the point of assuming she ran away and became a beatnik).
- The Alleged Car: Trent’s car, as usual, is barely functional at best.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Jane points out logical flaws in Trent's story, but doesn't have a problem relating a completely separate urban legend.
- Audience Surrogate: Since the Morgendorffers only moved to town a couple of years ago, the others are telling them the stories, which are all local urban legends.
- Buried Alive: The girl in “The House of Bad Grades” went into her family’s unused bomb shelter to study in peace and ended up getting buried alive.
- Caught in the Bad Part of Town: When the Fashion Club gets off the bus, they’re left stranded in a sketchy neighborhood.
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: The Rattling Girl got her revenge on the girls of Lawndale High by making them all unpopular.
- Dull Surprise: As expected, not even being terrified is enough for Tiffany to talk, or in this case scream, like a normal person would.
- Evil Laugh: Daria, playing the eldest daughter in Jane’s story, does one after giving her victim bad grades but, of course, it’s done in her signature deadpan monotone.
- Fate Worse than Death: A staple in all three stories.
- Being stalked by a girl you teased and left unable to sleep until your eyes turn bloodshot and you become... unpopular.
- Waking up one morning to find you've ground your teeth to nothing, and since you can't afford new dentures you have to make a pair that end up receiving radio signals and force you to make an ass of yourself.
- The only thing worse than being buried alive is being buried alive in Lawndale.
- Ghost Story: The only one that technically counts as an actual ghost story is "The House of Bad Grades."
- Henpecked Husband: Jake drives himself crazy trying to accomplish the two simple tasks his wife assigned to him.
- Informed Attribute: The Rattling Girl was considered absolutely perfect and gorgeous after she lost weight, despite that she now looked like a skeleton wearing a flesh suit. It was people being able to hear her bones and not see them that made her an outcast.
- "Kiss the Cook" Apron: When Jake finally manages to cook the family dinner, he’s wearing one of these.
- Never Sleep Again: The popular girls in “The Rattling Girl” are unable to sleep because they hear the rattling bones of the girl they made fun of every time they close their eyes.
- No Can Opener: Urban Legend 1950s Jake built a survival bunker, in which 1950s Daria accidentally gets trapped. She doesn't worry too much until she realizes that the cans in the bunker are worthless since she doesn't have a can opener.
- Noodle Incident: Whatever left the funny smell in Trent's car, with the implication being it involved someone trying to pee in an old milk carton.
- Nothing but Skin and Bones: The Rattling Girl became so skinny you could see and hear her bones.
- Offing the Offspring: An accidental example, as the father in "The House of Bad Grades" had no idea his daughter was in the bomb shelter when he had it covered with cement. He doesn't even know she died, figuring she might've run away to become a beatnik.
- Oh, Crap!: Daria and Jake exchange shocked looks when Helen mentions stopping by the woods and hearing music even though her radio wasn't on...
- Real After All: The last shot of the episode is of Metalmouth's teeth clamped to the passenger door of Helen's car.
- Scary Teeth: Metalmouth doesn’t just make a normal pair of dentures for himself, he makes a set of super sharp, pointed metal teeth.
- Shout-Out: Two to The Wizard of Oz:
- As Daria and Jane are watching Sick Sad World in the Cold Open, a segment about “little crossdressers and the women who love them” plays. Daria then remarks, “If that woman was Judy Garland, this might make sense on a couple of levels.”
- When Sandi angrily tells the bus driver that he wasn’t letting her off at her house, he tells her to click her heels and get out because they’re at the end of the line.
- Skewed Priorities: The only reason the sister in "The House of Bad Grades" is terrified of nuclear holocaust is because of what it might do to her popularity.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: Kevin’s character in “Metalmouth” tries not to look scared in front of his girlfriend and does a terrible job. It’s a good thing Brittany’s so dumb.Kevin: Not me! I didn’t hear anything scratching at the door! I’m not scared!
- Teens Are Monsters:
- The Rattling Girl. It really says something when Stacey shares a ghost story about a monstrous teen, and the reoccurring character used to portray said monstrous teen is Sandi.
- In “Metalmouth,” Metalmouth only makes his metal dentures in the first place because of the ruthless teasing of his speech impediment by his students.
- The Tooth Hurts: The metal shop teacher who became Metalmouth managed to completely destroy all his teeth in a single night.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The father in "The House of Bad Grades" had his bomb shelter covered with cement to put in a new barbecue pit, unintentionally killing his older daughter by sealing her inside and thus turning her into a vengeful spirit.
- Urban Legend: All three of the stories that Stacey, Trent, and Jane tell are local legends.
- Vignette Episode: This episode consists of three stories: “The Rattling Girl,” “Metalmouth,” and “The House of Bad Grades.”
- Weight Loss Horror: The Rattling Girl’s diet works so well that she ends up looking like a walking skeleton and her bones rattle with every movement. Instead of being horrified though, her classmates just laugh at her.
- Weight Woe: The Rattling Girl lost weight after being told she was "Almost" perfect and then realized she had fat eyelids. Sandi dismisses the story as ridiculous because “There’s no such thing as being too skinny.”
