...than one would expect for a person of color to post on Martin Luther King's birthday.
Yeah. This is from the animated MTV series Daria, and one of the most celebrated episodes ever - Quinn The Brain. I've always liked to think that this moment from the show proves two major plot points that many people don't like to think about (well, the ones who are in the 'Daria's an unattractive girl, and we wish people woukd stop portraying her in that manner!' camp):
1. Daria is an attractive girl who could EASILY compete with her younger sister Quinn in terms of looks, popularity and just having herself a slobbering he-harem of guys at her beck and call. Let's be honest - Daria in Quinn's day uniform? She'd have the boys begging for her to notice that they exist!
2. Several seconds after Daria walked past Quinn's room like this, and Quinn heard their dad call out those fateful words ("Daria, your dates are here!") Quinn relented her poser, pseudo-intellectual phase. She knows which side her bread's buttered on... and more importantly - who has her own butterfly knife.
3. The events of Quinn The Brain are canon. No disputing them because of the plot, and unlike episodes like Depth Takes A Holiday or Daria!, there's no disputing them because, well, the writers may have been smoking a couple of blunts loaded up with B.C. bud while working that word processor. (Yes, I know I said two - but, then again, that's just me.)
Finally, IMHO, Daria's cuter than Quinn - and from fanfic, Quinn's a screamer while Daria's a breather. Advantage - Daria.
Of course, your results and perversions may vary - but then again, isn't that what today is all about? (Okay, not really, but if you can't piss people off slightly during a national holiday that many people are STILL annoyed about (and many more are, but are afraid to mention it aloud for fear of, well, whatever they're afraid of happening to them) - then when CAN you piss them off?
Just remember, kids - it's always better to be pissed off... than pissed on.
Happy MLK, Jr.Day, everyone.
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But who would have MLK Jr. liked more? Daria or Quinn?
So a breather's better than a screamer? To each his own, I suppose . . . ;-P
Daria, of course. She's smarter, so they'd have things to actually talk about, and she's also far more discreet about things. She could also allay suspicions, because she's 'the smart chick who's doing research on 'The Movement'...
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