While flipping through the pages of the MTV Daria site, I came across Rock and Roll Randy's cameo, where he introduces other obscure background characters from the series, who were all deleted when their flipbooks were discontinued, so only he and a handful of others survive. (Randy's moniker is variously written as Rock 'N Roll, Rock & Roll, Rock-and-Roll, etc., but MTV seems to have liked "Rock and Roll," so we'll go with that.)
Randy actually shows up quite a few times in the series, judging from the episode synopses on Outpost Daria. He shows up in "Malled" (on the Mall of the Millennium trolley behind Daria and Jane), "The Big House" (in the roller hockey game, where he gets punched out by Barch after he knocks down DeMartino), "I Loathe a Parade" (kissing Dr. Shar, of all people), and apparently appears in "That Was Then, This Is Dumb," "A Tree Grows in Lawndale," and "Mart of Darkness," but I am not sure where. He even gets his own alter-ego picture as a scorpion-man, probably Scorpio from the incomplete astrological-sign series of alter egos from one of the two surviving the MTV.com flipbooks. He looks like your basic balding overweight middle-aged classic-rock DJ, undoubtedly working at an AM or FM station in Lawndale itself. A wild and crazy guy, at least in his own mind.
A search with Google doesn't reveal any fanfiction written about Randy whatsoever. Ruthless Bunny did an excellent job writing about either Bing or Spatula Man in one short story, but Randy (and his romance, or whatever it is, with Dr. Shar) remains untouched. Can this possibly be true? Is there nothing more to say about him?
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