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We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming for a special episode of Morgendorks! This week, we found ourselves honored/privileged/more than a little giddy to welcome Daria character designer, supervising director, and animation guru Karen Disher to the program! Ms. Disher was delightful enough to give us an hour of her time to talk about where Daria's character design came from, what she thinks of the show's continued legacy, the process of animating a weekly television show, what makes the character of Daria tick, and SO much more. It's a fascinating, funny, and insightful look into a show we adore. No exaggeration: If you listen carefully, you can actually hear Rob's heart beating during the early portions. It was a blast, and we hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed recording it!

Time to crush the relationship roles of the heteronormative patriarchy! Or maybe just poke away at it a bit? It's time for "Sappy Anniversary," this week on Morgendorks! When Daria and Tom's six-month anniversary approaches and he doesn't seem interested in celebrating, Daria's torn: Is this something she cares about? Does she care that he doesn't care? What does it mean? Relationships are hard, y'all. This one's a very interesting look at Daria's vulnerability, and we had a lot of fun talking about it. We also dig into the dot-com bubble era of the late 90s and early 00s, thanks to some Jake-related hijinks. Enjoy! Links: Episode Rankings Outpost Daria Reborn Patreon: patreon.com/morgendorks Email: morgendorks@gmail.com Twitter: @morgendorks Facebook: fb.me/morgendorks.podcast

Let's go ahead and mark our entry into season five with some hearty dialogues against capitalism: It's time for "Fizz Ed," this week on Morgendorks! When a cash-strapped Lawndale High turns to cola companies for those sweet, sweet vending machine contract dollars, Daria's forced to grapple with the juxtaposition of her moral objections and her general apathy. And for our cultural context, we take a look at the controversy surrounding vending machines in schools. Are the health risks acceptable? What about the morality behind treating students like a demographic? Enjoy! Links: Macmillan Publishers | No Logo, by Naomi Klein Centers for Disease Control | Childhood Obesity Facts Schoolchildren's Consumption of Competitive Foods and Beverages, Excluding à la Carte | Journal of School Health Vending Machines Source of Revenue for Schools | Newsday Episode Rankings Outpost Daria Reborn Patreon: patreon.com/morgendorks Email: morgendorks@gmail.com Twitter: @morgendorks Facebook: fb.me/morgendorks.podcast

When the whip comes down / When they nuke the town / When dead clowns can't clown / We'll still be freakin' friends. All right, y'all, let's wrap this sucker up. The first half of "Is It Fall Yet?" left us with a lot of questions, some concerns, and a whole bunch to look forward to—and here we are. Do Daria and Jane figure things out? Do Daria and Tom? Has Quinn really turned a corner and embraced her own intelligence? There's SO MUCH to talk about, and we're going to dig into all of it. Plus a bunch more. And for our fan segment at the end, we have some more chat about hair dyeing—as well as some sage advice to our younger listeners on the testing and choices we face in our vulnerable teenage years. Enjoy! Links: Episode Rankings Outpost Daria Reborn Patreon: patreon.com/morgendorks Email: morgendorks@gmail.com Twitter: @morgendorks Facebook: fb.me/morgendorks.podcast

We've finally arrived at the first Daria movie! This week, we're covering the first half (or so) of "Is It Fall Yet?" The turbulence of the season four finale hangs in the air and Jane and Daria still find themselves on the outs as they head into a summer in which they won't be seeing much of one another. With Daria trying to navigate relationships both starting and crumbling, Jane trying to navigate some surprisingly complex issues at an art commune, Quinn trying to commit herself to reaching her scholastic potential, and our B-Plot Gang all doing their own things, we've got a whole lot to cover. And if you can hang on for all of that, hang on a little bit more to hear some hair dyeing advice from a friend of the podcast! There'll be more of it in our next episode, as well! Links: Episode Rankings Outpost Daria Reborn Patreon: patreon.com/morgendorks Email: morgendorks@gmail.com Twitter: @morgendorks Facebook: fb.me/morgendorks.podcast

Season four has been a long and turbulent ride, and it's not about to get any smoother as we roll into its finale, "Dye! Dye! My Darling," this week on Morgendorks! When Jane pushes Daria into a hair dyeing adventure she's deeply uncertain about, things go horribly wrong—and it brings all of the tensions of the previous twelve episodes to a head (heheh). Love! Loss! Betrayal! This episode has it all! Ahhh! Oh! And for our cultural context (yaaayyy it's back), we look at the classic short story, "The Lady, or the Tiger?" What's it about? Why is it relevant beyond just being namedropped in this episode? Find out! Links: "The Lady, or the Tiger?" | Frank Stockton  Instagram Live Chat with Friend of the Podcast Dougystyle Episode Rankings Outpost Daria Reborn Patreon: patreon.com/morgendorks Email: morgendorks@gmail.com Twitter: @morgendorks Facebook: fb.me/morgendorks.podcast

Hey, sometimes your dad accidentally sets the house on fire and you have to live at a swanky hotel for a few weeks but your sister basically claims the room as her domain so you've gotta go crash with your best friend instead except she's got her boyfriend over and they've been having ~issues~ but also he and you are getting along very very nicely and it makes things extremely complicated. That's just life, y'know? That's living. "Fire!" really cranks up the tension in a love triangle that has been building all season, and we get some truly wonderful character moments out of it. Lots to talk about here, as you can tell by the runtime. Oh! Also! Be sure to check out an Instagram livestream between friend of the podcast Dougystyle and yours truly, Rob, on December 9th at 7 p.m. EDT! We'll be chatting about Daria, Daria-related culture, and a bunch more over on his Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/douglasevasick/). Big fun! Links: Episode Rankings Outpost Daria Reborn Patreon: patreon.com/morgendorks Email: morgendorks@gmail.com Twitter: @morgendorks Facebook: fb.me/morgendorks.podcast

And lo it descends from on high, like a celestial being, or perhaps maybe just a bird that hit a skyscraper window: It's another episode of Morgendorks! This week, we're looking at the deeply unfortunately titled "Groped by an Angel." When Quinn starts believing hard in guardian angels, it's up to Daria to keep her eyes from rolling out of her head—but a party at Brittney's is about to test Quinn's faith. It's a weird episode that actually led to a lot of fascinating discussions! We also eschew our normal cultural context for some fan mail this week, which we'd normally feel a little bad about—but this fan mail is *awesome*. We had a blast with it. Thank y'all who take the time to write in, seriously. Enjoy! Links: What is Glitter? | The New York Times Breaking Glass with Sound | MIT Episode Rankings Outpost Daria Reborn Patreon: patreon.com/morgendorks Email: morgendorks@gmail.com Twitter: @morgendorks Facebook: fb.me/morgendorks.podcast

It's time for what probably amounts to the first and only Halloween episode of Morgendorks! This week, we're fortunate enough to be looking at "Legends of the Mall." When the Fashion Club gets lost in the wrong part of town and Jake, Trent, Daria, and Jane soon suffer a similar fate, we get a look into some of Lawndale's folklore—in the form of URBAN LEGENDS! WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE! Our cultural context is just us shooting the shit about urban legends for a while, because we both love the topic so much. This thing was a ton of fun to record, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it. Oh, by the by, since this is the last you'll hear from us before Election Day on November 3rd: VOTE. SWEET JESUS, VOTE. Links: The Urban Legend of the Hook Man | David Emery | liveabout.com Clown Statue | dacringeyfangirl | quotev.com Episode Rankings Outpost Daria Reborn Patreon: patreon.com/morgendorks Email: morgendorks@gmail.com Twitter: @morgendorks Facebook: fb.me/morgendorks.podcast

It's time for Morgendorks season four episode nine, "Mart of Darkness," or, as it may more widely become known: That Episode Where Rob was on Prednisone. This episode only looks shorter than most of the others we've done lately. Hoo, boy. ANYWAY: When Lawndale's new warehouse store sucks everybody into its vortex, our intrepid heroes must find their way through two hundred aisles of savings and what historians will refer to as The Sample Station War o' 2000. No cultural context this week because we got some wonderful fan mail we wanted to dig into. Thank you, yet again, to this incredible community. Y'all make hosting this podcast an absolute privilege. Josie Deane Firecolors Links: Episode Rankings Outpost Daria Reborn Patreon: patreon.com/morgendorks Email: morgendorks@gmail.com Twitter: @morgendorks Facebook: fb.me/morgendorks.podcast

October's here! And so is another episode of Morgendorks! This week, we're looking at "Psych Therapy," wherein Helen's work is offering her the chance at a big promotion—but it comes at the cost of having to get her entire family psychologically evaluated. Meanwhile, Jane starts a webcam that offers a 24/7 glimpse into her life. Huge invasion of privacy vibes coming off of this one, folks ... ... which means it's appropriate that our cultural context this week focuses on Jennicam, a somewhat forgotten piece of internet history that presaged livestreaming, reality television, social media, and so much more. Its founder was, for a time, arguably the biggest thing the internet had to offer. Now, her online presence is virtually nonexistent. It's a fascinating tale that ties into not only this episode of Daria but also the modern internet experience as a whole! Jennicam: Why the First Lifecaster Disappeared from the Internet | Gizmodo Jennicam | Reply All Jennicam: The First Woman to Stream her Life on the Internet | BBC Links: Episode Rankings Outpost Daria Reborn Patreon: patreon.com/morgendorks Email: morgendorks@gmail.com Twitter: @morgendorks Facebook: fb.me/morgendorks.podcast

Fire up the hot air balloon, it's time for a new episode of Morgendorks! This week we're looking at "Of Human Bonding," wherein Daria gets some not-quite-quality time with Jake and Helen gets some equally questionable quality time with ... the Fashion Club? Okay, let's see how that goes. We don't have a cultural context this week, unfortunately, but as you can see by the length of the episode we still had plenty to say. Although a solid, like, thirty minutes of it is just Rob ranting about Jake. So there's that. Links: Episode Rankings Outpost Daria Reborn Patreon: patreon.com/morgendorks Email: morgendorks@gmail.com Twitter: @morgendorks Facebook: fb.me/morgendorks.podcast

Time for another Morgendorks! This week: "I Loathe a Parade." It's Homecoming time at Lawndale High, which can only mean one thing: Daria goes on a toilet paper run and stumbles across both a parade and the long-forgotten Tad Gupty, who can't find his parents, so she ends up escorting him around, but she also runs into Tom, who decides to tag along, and then they start getting along way more than usual and it's a weird vibe and also Upchuck's driving a swinger mobile. Such a quaint yearly tradition. In the wake of the tragic death of Chadwick Boseman, our cultural context this week focuses on the importance of representation in media. How well are we doing? Spoiler: Not well at all. But it underscores the potential of a show like Jodie's upcoming series, and that's worth talking about. Inequality in 900 Popular Films: Examining Portrayals of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, LGBT, and Disability from 2007-2016 | USC Annenberg  Episode Rankings Outpost Daria Reborn Patreon: patreon.com/morgendorks Email: morgendorks@gmail.com Twitter: @morgendorks Facebook: fb.me/morgendorks.podcast

By failing to get this episode out on time, did we succeed? We'd like to think so. It's time to talk about "The F Word," this week on Morgendorks! When Mr. O'Neill assigns his class to purposefully fail at something, it throws everything into disarray. Brittany's unpopular! Kevin sucks at sports! Jane's a ... cheerleader? This one waits two acts before going off the rails entirely. And for cultural context, we talk about the risk-averse (or is it risk-aware?) behavior of the Millennial generation. Is it that they don't want to embrace failure, or is it that they have so little margin for error they can't fathom taking that kind of chance? Links: YouTube | 1960's Royal Shake-a-Puddin' Commercial Forbes | Millennials Don't Want to 'Embrace Failure' Investopedia | Millennials are Risk Averse and Hoarding Cash Episode Rankings Outpost Daria Reborn Patreon: patreon.com/morgendorks Email: morgendorks@gmail.com Twitter: @morgendorks Facebook: fb.me/morgendorks.podcast

Pull out your magnifying glass and dig deep into that reservoir of televised crime dramas, it's time for "Murder, She Snored," this week on Morgendorks! When Daria falls asleep to a knockoff "Charlie's Angels" episode, the dream sequence that unfurls runs the gamut of crime drama references from the past forty years—all in the service of solving the mystery of THE MURDER OF KEVIN THOMPSON. It's a weird one, folks, and one of us loved it a whole hell of a lot. Won't say which one, but, hint: It's the one who's maybe now a big damn hypocrite for having slammed "The Daria Hunter." This episode of Morgendorks is a bit different, too, because the cultural context is weaved throughout instead of dropped in at the end. Please enjoy! American Psychological Association | The Truth About Lie Detectors (aka Polygraph Tests) YouTube | Charade (2/10) Movie CLIP - Mr. Lampert's Funeral (1963) HD Episode Rankings Outpost Daria Reborn Patreon: patreon.com/morgendorks Email: morgendorks@gmail.com Twitter: @morgendorks Facebook: fb.me/morgendorks.podcast

Let us leave behind these earthly confines and take to the air majestically, like Kevin off the back of a motorcycle into the Tommy Sherman memorial sapling. It's time to look at "A Tree Grows in Lawndale," this week on Morgendorks! When Kevin gets into a motorcycle accident and is left unable to play football, he sinks into a deep depression—taking the entire town of Lawndale with him. And for our cultural context, we look at how the success of your local high school football team may actually, in fact, have an impact on your property values. The world is weird. Speaking of weird, we derail almost immediately when one of us hits up Google on a totally relevant search for Daria BDSM fanfiction. So ... yay.  Links: "Winning Pays: High School Football Championships and Property Values" | Journal of Housing Economics "The High School Football Stadium Effect in Houston Real Estate" | Houston Agent Magazine "Cost of High School Football Stadium Rises to $70 Million" | American School & University Episode Rankings Outpost Daria Reborn Patreon: patreon.com/morgendorks Email: morgendorks@gmail.com Twitter: @morgendorks Facebook: fb.me/morgendorks.podcast

Time for the cast of Daria to answer the call of the wild—and time for us to cover "Antisocial Climbers," this week on Morgendorks! When a class trip up a mountain gets stranded in a blizzard, the whole gang finds themselves stressing over what might become of them. Quinn, particularly, because there's a good chance the group draws and quarters her. Why? Find out with us! Also, we dive into the tragic and harrowing story of the Donner Party—a real-life example of westward expansion gone wrong that has inspired a huge amount of our media over the past century-and-a-half, including (in small part) this episode! Links: "Snowed-In" | TV Tropes "Braving the Blizzard" | TV Tropes Lansford W. Hastings: A Man Who Would be King | Tahoe Weekly "The Best Land Under Heaven," by Michael Wallis (Amazon) "The Indifferent Stars Above," by Daniel James Brown (Amazon) "Transformations," by Anne Sexton (Amazon) Episode Rankings Outpost Daria Reborn Patreon: patreon.com/morgendorks Email: morgendorks@gmail.com Twitter: @morgendorks Facebook: fb.me/morgendorks.podcast

Can't believe we're already at season four, but here goes: It's time to talk about "Partner's Complaint," this week on Morgendorks! When the rift between Daria and Jane—you know, the one we thought was smoothed over at the end of last season—drives them to partner up with other people for an economics project, our B-Plot Gang gets some much-needed airtime. Parts of this one are stunningly relevant even twenty years later, and it's worth checking out. And for our cultural context this week, we spend some (nowhere near enough, because that podcast would never actually end) time talking about systemic racism—that rotten chunk of the societal bedrock designed specifically to make life harder and less prosperous for one entire section of the population. If you're out there protesting, if you're contributing, if you're having the difficult conversations, if you're donating, if you're voting for people who will put an end to the bullshit: Thank you. Please keep the pressure on. <3 If you'd like to donate but aren't sure where to start, New York Magazine's got a list of 115 organizations that may or may not help. The Minneapolis-based organization Reclaim the Block also put together this Google Doc of places to donate. Links: UC Berkeley | Consumer-Lending Discrimination in the FinTech Era Business Insider | This Chart Showing The Gap Between Black And White Life Expectancy Should Be A National Embarrassment Ijeoma Oluo | So You Want to Talk About Race (Amazon) Outpost Daria Reborn Website: morgendorks.podbean.com Patreon: patreon.com/morgendorks Email: morgendorks@gmail.com Twitter: @morgendorks Facebook: fb.me/morgendorks.podcast

And just like that the curtain falls on Daria season three with "Jane's Addition," here on Morgendorks! When Daria, Jane, and Trent come together (kinda) to work (kinda) on a multimedia project (kinda)—and it coincides with a cute new guy monopolizing Jane's time—it begins to pull on the threads of Daria and Jane's friendship. Crushes will end! New crushes will begin! Rob will stun us with his complete inability to work with a German accent! All of this, and more! And in our cultural context, we dive briefly into the ways in which the technological revolution of the late 90s impacted high school life. Plus: fan mail! Outpost Daria Reborn Website: morgendorks.podbean.com Patreon: patreon.com/morgendorks Email: morgendorks@gmail.com Twitter: @morgendorks Facebook: fb.me/morgendorks.podcast

It's time to hit the high seas and hold an ill-fated casino night, here on Morgendorks! This week: "Just Add Water." When Ms. Li demands everybody attend the school's newest fundraising activity—a casino night aboard a luxury liner—it gives the entire Morgendorffer clan a brand spanking new setting for their litany of regular issues. But what's that on the horizon? AVAST! THE TRASH BARGE APPROACHETH. Speaking of trash barges, we're going to dive into the absolutely insane and wonderful story of the Mobro 4000, a barge that just wanted a home for itself and its 3,100 tons of Long Island garbage—and went more than 6,000 miles in search of it, becoming the most-watched pile of garbage in human history. Yeah, it's wild. Stay safe out there! Links: Quartz | How Often Do People Fall Overboard on Cruise Ships? Vice | The Most Watched Load of Garbage in the Memory of Man Newsday | Long Island's Infamous Garbage Barge of 1987 Still Influences Laws Outpost Daria Reborn Website: morgendorks.podbean.com Patreon: patreon.com/morgendorks Email: morgendorks@gmail.com Twitter: @morgendorks Facebook: fb.me/morgendorks.podcast