[Daria's flashback #1, while Jake and Helen are arguing in another room; Daria is obviously frightened]
[offscreen] Dammit, Helen, that's it! How much am I supposed to take?
[offscreen] Jake, she's a child, she doesn't know any better!
[offscreen] That's what she wants you to believe!
[Daria's flashback #2, while Jake and Helen are arguing in another room; Daria is obviously frightened]
[offscreen] Dammit, Helen, that's it! How much am I supposed to take?
[offscreen] Jake, this isn't about you. It's about her, having a little trouble fitting in.
[offscreen] She doesn't want to fit in, damn it! Why can't you admit that?!
[offscreen] Jake, she's a child, she doesn't know any better!
[offscreen] That's what she wants you to believe!
[offscreen] Where are you going?!
[the front door, then another door slams, with little Daria wincing each time and pulling the covers up a little tighter ends flashback sequence]
Daria? Come on, the neighbors are starting to talk.
Um... good. Soon they'll progress to cave drawings and civilization will be on its way. [crawls out of the box just as Quinn approaches]
Daria! I remembered! You were right! I remembered I was three or four and it was nighttime and I woke up because Mom and Dad were fighting, and then Dad was yelling and a door slammed and then I heard a car start up and he drove away.
Thank you. I knew I wasn't imagining it. Do you remember what they were fighting about?
Um... yeah... they were fighting about you.
[Daria's flashback #3, little Daria is talking to the school counsellor)
DDoctor
Now, Daria... I want you to tell me what you see when you look at the picture. [holds up an inkblot]
What do you mean? That's not a picture.
DDoctor
Well, not the kind of picture we're used to seeing. This picture lets you make up what it's about.
Then why don't I just draw my own picture?
DDoctor
For instance... one little boy or girl might look at it and see a fire truck or a house. Another might see a herd of beautiful wild ponies running free across the plains.
It's just a black splotch.
DDoctor
Daria, what's your favorite game to play at recess?
I don't like games. I like to read.
PPsychologist
Don't you enjoy playing with the other children?
Not really. They never understand what I'm talking about, and then they make fun of me. [pause] I like to read.
[in the car]
I'm just saying, Daria. If you give the other boys and girls a chance, you might find someone you like. It takes all kinds.
I like lots of kids! [starts bouncing up and down]
Sweetie, it's a little hard for your father and me to keep taking time off from work to talk to the counselor. Why don't you meet us halfway and try talking to the other kids?
They don't say anything that interests me.
I talk a lot to the other kids, and they talk back!
[the car pulls into the driveway of their home]
Daria, how do you know they don't interest you?
[later that night, Daria is in bed, while Jake and Helen are arguing in another room]
[offscreen] Well, I don't know what to do. I'm at my wits' end.
[offscreen] Dammit, Helen, that's it! I go in there every day to face a psychotic boss, a job that makes me feel like a freakin' slave, then I have to come home and deal with this? How much am I supposed to take?
[offscreen] Jake, this isn't about you. It's about her, having a little trouble fitting in.
[offscreen] She doesn't want to fit in, damn it! Why can't you admit that?!
[offscreen] Jake, she's a child, she doesn't know any better!
[offscreen] That's what she wants you to believe!
[offscreen] Where are you going?!
[Daria's flashback #3 ends as Daria hides inside the box]
[at Mom's Diner, Daria is sitting at a booth as she sees Jane arrive; when Jane enters the diner, Daria rushes over and hugs her; Daria and Jane are sitting in the booth with their coffee]
I'm not quite getting this. You ran off because of a fight your parents had 11 years ago?
It's not the fight. It's the sudden realization that all these years, when I thought they were torturing me, in reality I was the one torturing them.
First of all, I don't think it's either-or. From where I'm sitting, you and your folks have done a great job of torturing each other. And second of all, you mean to tell me you don't know when you're busting them?
Yes, I know when I'm busting them. What I didn't realize is what a pain I've been when I thought I was just being me.
At age 6, I decide I don't need to talk to other kids ever again; my parents are the ones who get called into school. At 12, I decide to try out some Shakespearean insults on my teachers; my parents are the ones who get called into school. At 15, I start writing violent revenge fantasies just to get a reaction...
Your parents, et cetera, et cetera. Gotcha. But I never got the idea that they minded that much.
Yeah. Which just makes it even worse.
You really need to discuss this with them.
I know, but first I had to talk to someone I could trust.
Yeah, I'm sorry you didn't make it to the cove.
I'm not. It would have been good to see Tom, but this way, I got to talk to the person I trust most.
[last scene of the series; Daria and Jane are conducting one of the middle school student tours]
Now, over here is the lunchroom. As middle school veterans, you already know that this is the center for spitballs, laughing milk up through your nose, and food poisoning of every variety.
Who here wants to slip me a 20 to point out the popular table so you can start fighting for a seat now?
[the kids look on, confused by what they're hearing]
Okay. Let's move on to Hell and Purgatory, also known as the gym and locker rooms.
Where, for 20 bucks, I'll show you which showers haven't been peed in... to my knowledge.
[now the kids look shocked]
My friend is just kidding you, of course. They've all been peed in. [she and Jane then begin leading the students towards the gym] Now, as we head for the gym, take special note of the fine industrial grade lockers, which make the perfect noise when you bang your head against them.
JGJaveed - Goolybib founder
Hello! Whoo! I got seven words for you: I love Goolybib's integrated multi platform functionality! Yeah! Whoo!... ! But seriously, you know, a few days ago, when we were sitting down with Barack Obama, I turned to these guys and said, "OK, you know, we're making a lot of money. And yes, we're disrupting digital media. But most importantly we're making the world a better place through constructing elegant hierarchies for maximum code reuse and extensibility."
Gates, Ellison, Jobs, Dell. All dropped out of college. Silicon Valley is the cradle of innovation because of drop outs. College... has become a cruel expensive joke on the poor and the middle class that benefits only the perpetrators of it. The bloated administrators.
AMAudience Member
You are a dangerous man, spewing ignorance!
I don't think so. I'm just saying people should trust themselves more than a system that happily churns out unemployed debtors and provides dubious value.
AMAudience Member
The true value of a college education is intangible.
The true value of snake-oil is intangible as well.
Pied Piper is a proprietary site that lets you find out if your music is infringing on any existing copyrights. So, imagine you were a song writer, ok?
I don't think I could write a song.
Yeah, no, just imagine if you were.
I don't even think I could say, "Pied Piper is a proprietary site." Well, I just did but it wasn't easy.
DDoctor
You know, a while back, we had a guy in here in almost the exact same situation, "take the money or keep the company."
DDoctor
Well, a couple months later he was brought into the ER with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. I guess he really regretted not taking that money.
He shot himself because he turned down the money?
DDoctor
Yeah. Or no, he took the money. Or no. No, he did not. I don't... You know what? I don't remember. But whatever it was, he regretted it so much that he ended up shooting himself. And now he's blind.
DDoctor
Yeah, just FYI, if you're ever gonna shoot yourself, don't hold the gun up to your temple, ok? Because that just basically just took out both of his optic nerves and then, you know, half of his face. And then his wife left him, because... you know.
DDoctor
Right? He may have been a genius programmer but not so much in human anatomy. Or decision making, for that matter. Now he's got to live with all that and whatever terrible decision he made about the money