>>95657
Yeah, it was kind of an animated sitcom that spun off from the original Beavis & Butthead shorts. The premise is, Daria is in high school. She's the protagonist. She's surrounded by giggling cretins and shallow children in (almost) adult bodies, and that's the comedy engine that keeps the whole thing trundling along.
Looking back on it, she does get almost all the best lines, but she's kind of an unlikeable sarcastic pooch, too. She's certain that she has fifty IQ points on just about everyone else, and the show leans into it. Just about every other character is a mouth-breathing troglodyte or a vapid cotton-candy zombie. She is plain and nerdy looking and delivers every line in an emotionless deadpan that now looks maybe a little more like what the shrinks call a "flat affect," but her contempt fur everyone and everything around her comes through loud and clear. Maybe it hasn't aged well. If you watch it critically (and maybe you're not really supposed to) she comes across as being too young to be that bitter, especially given her placidly untroubled upper-middle-class existence in the Houston 'burbs. I have the weird kind of mind that makes me want to deconstruct this stuff. In any more realistic setting she'd be pretty insufferable.
Anyway. It was an off-the-cuff remark. I hope Cassandra is more likeable than Daria is. But the comparison came to me and I felt compelled to type
