Quote: (06-24-2013 01:34 PM)Tuthmosis Wrote:
Daria is the precursor to the 2010s snarky, unfeminine, cat-loving, "sarcastic," tattoo-having, pierced-up, frumpy American bitches we complain about.
Is it any coincidence that Janeane Garofalo voiced the character?
Yeah. I remember seeing the show when it originally aired and being taken aback by how relentlessly cynical it was. It definitely signaled a shift in the zeitgeist. Suddenly it was now cool to always be sarcastic, to not trust other people, and to be sullen joykill.
For example, notice the scene in the video of Daria being hugged by her teacher. She calls out lawsuit! And the teacher shamefacedly pulls back. Haha funny but that kind of joke would not have been made even a few years earlier.