I Finally Got a Chance to See "Quinn the Brain"

Yep, as a guy who didn't have cable during the earliest seasons of Daria, I finally got a chance to see QTB. I loved it! It was hilarious.

Things I liked about this ep:

(1) In imitation of Quinn, other girls at school start wearing lots of black. The Fashionistas can't get Quinn out of her new black outfits even by quoting chapter and verse from "Waif" magazine, which recommends eggplant. Quinn tellingly remarks: "I can't help it if I have influence at this school." Confirming once again, as if we needed reminding, that except for Quinn the FC girls are NOT particularly popular.

(2) Sandi goes to ask Daria to help change Quinn's ways and is suddenly so nervous she can only gulp and stammer. Other posters here have commented the FC finds Daria scary. Now I know why they say that. They tend to ignore her most of the time, of course.

(3) Daria at first complains her "identity" is being stolen. It obviously isn't. This is a rare example of Daria acting im- mature. Later she complains Quinn's writing is terrible and Quinn is just being pretentious. This is a more substantive criticism.

(4) I loved the way Daria looked when she stole Quinn's original look. She looked kinda hot, just between you and me.

QTB will definitely go on my list of favorite eps.

Steve Cross

And interesting that, despite the popular wisdom that Quinn's popular because of her looks, in this case it's actually the reverse - her popularity enables her to influence what's considered good-looking.

Quinn's quite cute, of course, but she's hardly drop-dead gorgeous, even by high-school standards. She's popular largely because she's a great flirt and sweet-talker. The other FCers do rely solely on their looks, it appears.

Yep. If you had to narrow it down to one scene, that's the one.

Actually, they often make nasty comments when Daria's out of earshot. Mostly for Quinn's "benefit".

Well, she's also discovering that she LIKES being the "class brain". And the "family brain".

kinda??????

M Man
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So go ahead, lock me up with your homework and your tests! Rob my freedom with your reading and your thinking! As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between school and prison is the wardrobe. Or do you want to take away my outfits, too?

Tsk, tsk, tsk. Watch out you guys, you're sweating all over the animation cell! Aww, now she's wrinkled!

I'm afraid *I* for one beg to differ on this one, as my drawing-lust ended long ago with Jessica Rabbit...

"*What?!* What do ya mean she's just a drawing?!"

--Adam

"Adam Spradlin" wrote in message news:BIYN6.42723$[email]...

Oh! Jessica Rabbit....

You have not lived until you have been in a room full of men from all races, classes, and cultures get into a long heated discussion about a sexy female animated character, particularly Mrs. Rabbit.

Of course a real, living and breathing, female will distinctly point out that the object of their affection does not physically exist, so why go on and on about it?

The typical answer: "For the same reason we go to strip clubs. We know the boobs ain't real either. So what?!"

Such is the male animal...<God! I feel like a commentator on Animal Planet or something....>

Firah

Firah wrote in message news:g%1O6.32262$[email]...

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races,

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*David Attenborough voice*

And now, we observe, the male undergoing the strange, process known as, getting pissed.

"Mark Whickman" wrote in message news:9eafkb$as$[email]...

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Pissed?

Why?

The reply made a very valid point. There was no comeback to that one.

Firah

Firah wrote in message news:%S8O6.33628$[email]...

It was supportive.

"Mark Whickman" wrote in :

And I think that he meant the british meaning of pissed, i.e. drunk rather than the american meaning of annoyed :)

Phill.

Phill Harvey-Smith wrote in message news:[email]...

14 Units in 3 hours on saturday and I still walked home without throwing up!

*silence*

LET ME HAVE MY MOMENT OF PRIDE!

In article , Mark Whickman wrote:

Knowing the troubles involved in English and the use/incompatibilities in the US, did you mean "pissed" as in "drunk", "angry" or "urination"?

;)

chika wrote in message news:[email]...

Drunk. Out of skull.

Mark Whickman said:

*gulp* Aaah. Thank you, Prince of the Scythians. Now, out of _which_ of your enemies' heads was _this_ particular goblet made?

Jordan S. Bassior wrote in message news:[email]...

your

'is.

*points and glowers*

In article , Mark Whickman wrote:

Jake: Skull goblet? Ewwwww! <shudders>

Know all men by these presents, that the aforesaid chika did write in news:[email], on the date of 23 May 2001:

Tiffany: Drinking out of other people's heads is soooo wrong.

-Mark Steese a/k/a Corvus Marinus

Corvus Marinus wrote in message news:[email]...

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Personally I'm wondering what Andrea thinks about all this.

In article , Mark Whickman wrote:

Aha.. which usually leads to the third state!

Mine's a pint of diesel, don't forget the brolly! :)

chika wrote in message news:[email]...

"urination"?

Wuss. :)

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Tut tut! Anything to get out of a round! :)

chika wrote in message news:[email]...

I prefer the bounce skull off table routine. I don't like the vomit at the end though....

In article , Mark Whickman wrote:

"Then there were the guts. I didn't like the guts. Yuk!" - Bubbles, PPG

chika wrote in message news:[email]...

I wish I knew where that came from.

*bounce*

In article , Mark Whickman wrote:

It was where the Powerpuff Girls were explaining to the (naked) Mayor why they were laughing so much when they rescued him...

Time for bed, said Zebedee! :)

I suspect a translation problem:

pissed (UK): drunk pissed (US): annoyed

Whilst we're on the subject of misunderstood words it was announced in the news this week that the term "french fries" came about because World War I soldiers not only mangled the name "frites", but got the country wrong too (they're Belgian). Apparently Belgium has decided to make renewed efforts to set the record straight and reclaim their national dish.

-Shez.

Shez wrote in message news:[email]...

Nothing better than english potatoes fried belgian style and served with Menorcan mayo.

I think I've put this quote from movie director Brian G. Hutton once before on this ng, but it's time to do it again: "The secret to good make-believe is: always make believe it's *real*"

M Man
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Quinn: ... and then Sandi went out to get the same shoes that I had first, the cute little T-straps with the glitter-buckle, and Stacy's like "Sandi, I love your sandals" like Sandi had such great taste or something when all she did was copy me, I mean, everyone knows I wrote the book on strappy sandals at Lawndale, not an actual book, of course, that would make me some kind of an egghead freak. Who do I talk to around here to schedule a facial?

Adam Spradlin wrote in message news:BIYN6.42723$[email]...

There's a picture of daria as Ms Rabbit somewhere.

"Mark Whickman" wrote in message news:9eafic$71p$[email]...

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Go to the Glitterberries site under the Fan Art section. You'll find it there.

"MMan37x" wrote in message news:[email]...

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I think we got into this debate last winter. Basically we said that the FC is nothing without Quinn.

If 'Fat Like Me', 'Daria Dance Party' and QTB didn't bear this out nothing else will.

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Yes Quinn has a winning personality, she's a manipulating little be-yotch at times but she's got something the other girls don't have: charm.

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I for one thought Daria looked delicious in her Quinn outfit.

I'd get her soda....

:)

I usually have a top 10 list of Daria episodes and, depending on my mood, the episodes rotate and change from time to time.

However, QTB has never dropped out of that list.

Not even once.

Firah