# Daria. The anitdote to mundane television. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 17, 2006, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daria-the-anitdote-to-mundane-television/364888 "2006-07-17T17:34:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daria-the-anitdote-to-mundane-television/364888/1 "2006-07-17T17:34:52Z")
Of course, using the phrase “mundane television” is repetitious, isn’t it? :dubious: I miss this show. It ain’t out on DVD. Grump-grump-grump. Anybody heard any rumors about this coming out on DVD? ---
**Author:** ![Subway\_Prophet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Subway\_Prophet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subway_Prophet)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daria-the-anitdote-to-mundane-television/364888/2 "2006-07-17T18:12:04Z")
This is my stop. Time to get off. I may go pop. Excuse me. (DURHN-DUHRN-DURHNNNG) EXCUSE ME. (DURHN-DUHRN-DURHNNNG) Sorry, where was I? Oh yes - I haven’t heard anything about a DVD, I’m just glad I filled three VHS tapes when MTV did a marathon. Now back to my emo air-guitar… ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daria-the-anitdote-to-mundane-television/364888/3 "2006-07-17T18:43:23Z")
Daria is pretty much a younger Janeane Garafalo with striaght hair and glasses (I’m not looking up the spelling, so THERE). Not that there’s anything wrong with that. ---
**Author:** ![Corporate\_Hippie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/65b543/32.png) [@Corporate\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corporate_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daria-the-anitdote-to-mundane-television/364888/4 "2006-07-17T18:48:56Z")
Daria is one of those shows that is plagued by the large number of music copyrights necessary to release it to DVD, unaltered. The [wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daria) says Daria’s run was right before the TV-to-DVD boom, so the show’s producers didn’t know better about throwing hundreds of pop songs into the show. That link also has some info about Daria DVD petitions. Apparently on one site, Daria has been voted one of the top 10 requested DVD sets. I’m with you. I miss the show a lot. It would be great if a DVD publisher up to the challenge of collecting all those song liscenses would step up to bat. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daria-the-anitdote-to-mundane-television/364888/5 "2006-07-17T18:52:35Z")
I have a collection of Daria tapes, and there’s nothing like a bit of dry wit every so often, a commodity you don’t find much in American comedy. I love the scene when Jake has a heart attack and the nurse asks Daria, her sister and her mother if there’s anything going on at home that might have stressed him out, and the three of them stare at the nurse like deer caught in the headlights. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daria-the-anitdote-to-mundane-television/364888/6 "2006-07-18T03:03:18Z")
I love, love, love Daria! **The Sausage Creature** got me hooked, and now it’s my guilty pleasure. I hope they come out with a DVD! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![melondeca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daria-the-anitdote-to-mundane-television/364888/7 "2006-07-18T03:11:22Z")
I’m watching Daria right now. The new version of Winamp offers Shoutcast TV as one of their online services and there is an all Daria, all the time channel. So far today, Daria has been running commercial-free for 270 minutes. I just let it run and watch an episode or two when I have the time. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daria-the-anitdote-to-mundane-television/364888/8 "2006-07-18T15:50:33Z")
I was happy when i saw it was still on TV then I realized it was on one of the Nickelodeon channels. They would either trim out whole “contovertial” sections of episodes or not show them at all. A shame really.