10 Best Daria Episodes
6. My Night At Daria's
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The penultimate episode of Daria's fifth and final season, My Night at Daria's was a definite high point in the latter seasons' attempts to earnestly humanize the show's lead character.
The episode opens with Daria and her then-boyfriend Tom Sloane crashing out after a late night study session. What follows is a humorous sequence of events that leads to rumors spreading around Lawndale High that Daria and Tom are sleeping together.
However, what begins as a lampooning of high school rumors soon turns into a genuinely touching look at relationships and intimacy that tackles Daria's tendency to push people away so as not to get hurt. The episode also does this in a way that wouldn't have really been possible without the previous five seasons of character development (Season 1 Daria never would have been nowhere near this sort of situation to begin with).
My Night at Daria's has a little bit of everything. It's funny, it's awkward, it's sarcastic, it's touching, it has Jake Morgendorffer being an idiot, and above all, it's human.