Acting for Two: Many of the regular characters are voiced by the same actors & actresses:
Wendy Hoopes played Helen, Quinn and Jane Lane—3/5 of the main cast. According to the Daria Wiki, Jane is the closest to her normal speaking voice. Taken to a new level in "Daria!" (the Musical Episode), where she sings a duet with herself.
Marc Thompson voiced Mr. Anthony DeMartino, Mr. Timothy O'Neill, Kevin Thompson, Jamie, and Charles "Upchuck" Ruttheimer III (during the first season only).
Janie Mertz voices Brittany Taylor, Sandi and Linda Griffin, and goth girl Andrea in her last two appearances ("Mart of Darkness" and "Is It College Yet?")
However, 99% of the music has been replaced on DVD and streaming. So, unless you don't mind the replaced music, you'll have to look for a bootleg DVD set or old episodes recorded on a VHS. Also, all modern releases of "Is It College Yet?" is the rerun version that had parts cut for time reasons (and maybe some content). Of particular note, the unedited version does a better job setting up Daria and Tom's breakup.
Spain didn't got a proper local dub until 1999, as they used the Latin American Spanish dub instead. As a result, the latter used some Spaniard slang along with Mexican and other Latin American ones as well.
As a result of the entire music being replaced in the DVD and streaming versions, none of the foreign dubs are rerun again since their original broadcastings, since doing so would need to either remove the voice track or dubbing the whole series from zero.
No Export for You: Unlike Beavis And Butthead, the series was dubbed in very few languages (and all of them from Western countries). Other countries only showed a subbed version (like South Korea and Israel) or never bothered to broadcast the series in first place (like Japan).note Through in this last case, Daria was previously voiced in Japanese in the game Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity, when she was voiced by the late Tomoko Kawakami.
Real-Life Relative: In the Mexican Spanish dub, Helen Morgendorfer's first voice actress (Rocío Garcel) and Jake's VA (Jorge Roig Sr.) are married in Real Life.
Recycled Script: "Fair Enough", "Just Add Water", and (to a lesser extent) "Anti-Social Climbers" are just "The Daria Hunter" at a school-run Renaissance fair, a dingy casino cruise, and in the woods. There are some changes, but the following gags/scenes are the same for most or all the episodes:
"The Daria Hunter", "Fair Enough", and "Just Add Water" had Miss Barch making out with Mr. O'Neill ("Anti-Social Climbers" had a Fully Automatic Clip Show of the three times Barch and O'Neill made out when Ms. Barch thinks back to when she vowed never to pull another man's weight again).
"The Daria Hunter" and "Just Add Water" both had scenes of Jake and Helen fighting near the end of the episode.
"The Daria Hunter" and "Just Add Water" had scenes where it's established that Ms. Li and Helen hate each other.
"The Daria Hunter" and "Anti-Social Climbers" took place during a field trip in the woods.
"The Daria Hunter", "Just Add Water", and "Fair Enough" had Daria and Jane trying to get out of whatever social function they were in (Daria and Jane skipped the paintballing trip to go to the Great White Shark museum in "The Daria Hunter", Daria and Jane were trying to get some sleep after staying up all night watching a marathon of Sick Sad World on "Just Add Water"; and Daria and Jane tried to run from Upchuck by getting on a Ferris wheel, only to end up sharing the ride with a sobbing Stacy in "Fair Enough").
"The Daria Hunter" and "Anti-Social Climbers" ended with someone getting left behind (Sandi after she finally found a hidden bathroom and Jake and Helen after Ms. Li took their distributor cap in "The Daria Hunter", and Kevin got lost before finding Mr. O'Neill in "Anti-Social Climbers").
"Fair Enough" and "Just Add Water" both end with Kevin and Brittany stranded somewhere (Brittany continues driving despite that she is miles away from the school in "Fair Enough", while Kevin and Brittany are stuck on the casino cruise's only lifeboat in "Just Add Water").
"The Daria Hunter" and "Just Add Water" had scenes with Jake and Mr. DeMartino together (though in "Just Add Water", Jake doesn't remember Mr. DeMartino as the guy who shared his flask of whiskey with him and traded stories about their Hilariously Abusive Childhoods.
Screwed by the Network: Even though there were five seasons and two made-for-TV movies (and the creative team decided when the series was to end, as opposed to some MTV higher-up telling the creative team that they have to end itnote though the finale movie was made instead of a short postscript season that would have saw Daria and Jane adjusting to college life because MTV's animation department was about to be shut down, which is why the shows Clone High and 3 South were canceled after their first season, despite being considered average to very good), fans would argue that this still fits because the entire series wasn't released on DVD until 2010 (and, even then, some purists will argue that MTV should have kept the licensed music instead of redubbing it with generic production music), not to mention the reruns that aired on Noggin/The-N that edited out the more disturbing, sexual, and/or depressing contentnote yet they let Degrassi reruns air uncut and uncensored, even though the reason the DVDs took so long was to get as much of the licensed music as possible and getting all of it had, clearly, become a legal impossibility.
Much of the impression of this came around the third season, when MTV was engaged in a lot of Executive Meddling and constantly changing the time slot and/or preempting episodes for arbitrary reasons, apparently in an attempt to quash the series. While the series was treated somewhat better in the last two seasons, it left a bad taste in many fans' mouths and led to a lot of fan paranoia later on.
Underage Casting: Marc Thompson was 21 when the show first premiered, but he also provides the voices for Mr. O'Neill, who appears to be in his late 30s, and Mr. DeMartino, who appears to be in his mid-to-late 50s.
A few of the characters were based on people the staff worked with at MTV. Mostly backgrounders, but Brittany was based on then-VJ Jenny McCarthy and Jake was inspired by the legions of clueless business consultants that were attached to the MTV offices like barnacles on a humpback whale.
Subverted in-universe. Daria's assignment in "Write Where It Hurts", where she must write a story using people in her life. She struggles pretty hard to think of anything besides Macbeth rip-offs and card games.
, Jane is the closest to her normal speaking voice. Taken to a new level in "Daria!" (the Musical Episode), where she sings a duet with herself.