Her lasagna-stuffed home life offers no respite or reason to curb her cynicism. At school, she tolerates dunderheaded athletes and bimbo cheerleaders daydreams through classes taught by bleeding hearts, rage-aholics, and man-haters and acts as a one-person watchdog organization dedicated to keeping Lawndale High’s crooked administration honest. She’s hardly traditional leading-lady material, but on lease from Beavis and Butt-Head’s Highland stomping grounds, creators Glenn Eichler and Susie Lewis turned the character into the reluctant star of the 1990’s sharpest commentary on suburban American teenage life.ĭaria’s superior intelligence is both her super power and her kryptonite, a trait that makes her an outcast in any social situation. And out on the peripheries of Judge’s universe frowns Daria Morgendorffer - outfitted in her staple green jacket, black army boots, and thick-rimmed glasses - watching the latest episode of Sick, Sad World in her padded bedroom, armed with an acerbic wit and monotone tongue capable of annihilating any dumb jock, shallow fashionista, or hypocritical adult who crosses her well-insulated path. He’s made us laugh, cry, and reconsider through unlikely characters like Beavis and Butt-Head, Hank Hill, cubicled caricatures like Milton and Bill Lumbergh, and even President Camacho, who, compared to the current inhabitant of the Oval Office, seems like a tactful and seasoned diplomat. Since the mid-’90s, Judge has pointed a high-resolution lens - both scathing and sympathetic - at many of the institutions and absurdities firmly embedded in American culture. If all was right in the world and as it should be, animator and satirist Mike Judge would be a household name. This time we revisit Lawndale and the sick, sad world of Daria Morgendorffer.

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