History WesternAnimation / DariaIsItFallYet

-->'''Daria:''' And I judge myself unfit for human contact.
-->'''Helen:''' That's exactly what you ''will'' be if you don't start engaging with the rest of us! [[StepfordSnarker You keep hiding your real face behind that antisocial mask]] and one day the mask will ''be'' your face. I'm not letting that happen. You're working at that camp!

-->'''Jane:''' I did make one friend at that camp, but she got a little fresh.
-->'''Daria:''' ...You're not kidding, are you?

-->'''Daniel''': No, we all know critics tend to get carried away. But what was I thinking when I created a work that seems to have turned out both seminal and semiotic?
-->'''Jane''': "I can't believe I'm getting away with this?"

%%* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Daniel Dotson is famous in-universe for a work called "Paper Plate Genocide." Most of the artists eat it up, but Jane and Allison aren't impressed.

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Daniel Dotson is famous in-universe for a work called "Paper Plate Genocide." Most of the artists eat it up, but Jane and Allison aren't impressed.

After [[WhamEpisode The Kiss]], when [[TheSnarkKnight Daria]] accidentally betrayed her OnlyFriend [[CoolLoser Jane]] by stealing her boyfriend [[TallDarkAndSnarky Tom]], Jane decides to get away from a repentant Daria by going to an artist's colony for the summer. There she makes a friend named [[ManipulativeBitch Alison]], who is attracted to Jane and causes her to question her own sexuality.

* PetTheDogMoment: When Stacy got a question wrong and freaked out, David wasn’t really annoyed with her because unlike Sandi and Tiffany, Stacy was actually putting effort to learn something and even told her that while trying to comfort her.

** Link is basically a genderflipped version of what Daria was in her childhood, to the point it takes her a lot of effort to get him to open up. Despite the misunderstanding, Link takes up on Daria's offer to be penpals.

* BurgerFool: Mack is forced to look for a summer job to pay off his father for all the allowances he had as a child, ending with a job as the ice-cream truck driver. When he finally gets enough money, he just dumps the job to Kevin and Brittany.

** While it's not a radical change, Link starts to open up to Daria during the camp, even after he gets angry at her for the misunderstanding. He ends up accepting Daria's offer to be penpals, and takes the first steps by writing her a short letter complaining about his step-father.
* ContinuityNod: Mack and Jodie’s summer activities were mentioned in previous episodes during season four. Jodie noted how Mack had been overdrawn on his allowance since he was in elementary school, and was finally going to pay his dad back by taking a job driving an ice cream truck. Jodie meanwhile, was unable to talk her parents out of forcing her into a summer internship, and excessive “volunteer” work.

* DefrostingIceKing: Link takes a while to start trusting Daria, but his own insecurities made him get away by interpreting Daria's efforts to get closer to him as an obligation from her part. He eventually accepts Daria's offer to be penpals by writing her a brief letter about his problems at home with his step-father.

* TheDogBitesBack: For once, Quinn isn't deterred by Sandi's sneering and commits to answering a question [[SmarterThanYouLook she knew]] the answer to. The meta ending montage also includes a still of Quinn pushing Sandi's face in her lunch.

* DepravedBisexual: Alison, not in the usual AnythingThatMoves sense, but she's a ManipulativeBitch who tries to seduce Jane and dates Daniel Dotson just to get up in the art world.

* InsufferableGenius: Daniel Dotson's utterly in love with himself and his horrible artwork, and it doesn't help that he's surrounded by asskissers willing to feed his ego if he can give their careers a boost.

* BrattyHalfPint: Link is basically a genderflipped version of what Daria was in her childhood, to the point it takes her a lot of effort to get him to open up. Despite the misunderstanding, Link takes up on Daria's offer to be penpals.

* {{Irony}}: While running the "summer camp", Mr. O'Neil is surprisingly unconcerned with the desires of the campers, keeping them inside doing arts and crafts when they want to be outside swimming and hiking. This is implied to be more about his own comfort than anything else and he regularly puts words in peoples' mouths and talks over campers, at one point seemingly [[NiceJobBreakingItHero ruining Daria's attempt to honestly reach out to help a troubled boy.]] Mr. DiMartino ends up having a much easier time winning the kids over and encourages them to do what they want.

* Irony: While running the "summer camp", Mr. O'Neil is surprisingly unconcerned with the desires of the campers, keeping them inside doing arts and crafts when they want to be outside swimming and hiking. This is implied to be more about his own comfort than anything else and he regularly puts words in peoples' mouths and talks over campers, at one point seemingly {{NiceJobBreakingItHero ruining Daria's attempt to honestly reach out to help a troubled boy.}} Mr. DiMartino ends up having a much easier time winning the kids over and encourages them to do what they want.

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Daniel Dotson is famous in-universe for a work called "Paper Plate Genocide." Most of the artists eat it up, but neither Jane nor Allison is impressed.