Have an Eggs-celent Holiday! (Sorry.)

Happy Easter to everyone who celebrates it! The bunnies on the left aren't the kind usually associated with the holiday, but I don't think we'll hear Upchuck complaining any time soon.

If you're more interested in Easter eggs, then Joey might be able to help you out. I don't know about you, but I think I'll pass.

I have been informed by Charles RB that Daria has been featured in a Beavis and Butt-head Easter story comic. You can view a page from it here. Thanks, Charles RB!

If you'd like some Easter-related Daria fanfic and fanart, look no further than Thea Zara's Easter Egg Hunt collection! Be warned--there will be "awwww!"

Now go forth to hunt eggs and bite the heads off chocolate rabbits!

She Is the Egg Man, Not the Walrus

Today is Easter, hope your day is filled with many chocolate ellipsoids and good tidings. And Helen Morgendorffer says this about that.

Did you know that today is also World Rat Day? No? Shame on you. It's for the pet fanciers. This day is also the anniversary of the day Congress finally settled on a design for the U.S. flag, which only took them only a few decades, of course.

Some sources claim this is School Librarian Day, which would of course fall on a Sunday and not a school day. There is disagreement over the date, though, some quoting April 23rd. Whatever. Our best to you, Kristen Bealer the fan librarian, hope you don't mind being our mascot. We have a furry suit for you somewhere around here.

Do you like nerdy girls like Daria? Check out this blog post covering "retro nerd girls" from the movies and TV. Wow, didn't know there were so many!

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• NEW! Finn Morgendorffer 41: It's Called Boston, by HolyGrail2007 (Part 2): “So anyway, I hatched this plan to get Jane to go up to BFAC and see the sights and meet some people and look at some art and...” “You are aware this plan can backfire on you in so many ways it would take too long to mention them?”
  
• RATBOY!! by Roentgen (COMPLETE!): "Kevvie, take that off. Your fur smells funny." "Aw, babe!" [Just in time for World Rat Day!]
• Ring-a-Ling, by Doggieboy (Part 1): “I’ll get it!” Quinn Morgendorffer yelled as the phone rang. Her older sister, Daria, lay on the couch and watched Robot Monster on the television. “Of course you will,” she muttered and chewed on some popcorn. She chuckled as bubbles came out of Ro-Man’s radio-thingy. “Ah, why can’t they make movies like this again?”

Wrestling & Wienerheads

Daria made a very early appearance on Beavis and Butt-head 16 years ago today in the episode, "Babes R Us." Check it out here while you can, read about it here, and buy the priceless artwork here. A short segment of this show, featuring Our Heroine, was included on the DVD for Is It College Yet? as an "Easter egg." She looks a bit different than she usually does.

Just a little something to perk up your day.

Oh, also in the realm of brightening your day, Pinkminx has revealed her remarkable artistic side with a portrait of Daria from her fanfic, "Reaped Out." Nice!

Plus Wouter has drawn a new one-page comic: "Daria and the Battle of the Sexes."

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• Helen Morgendorffer's Secret Past, by Kangaballs (Part 2): "You're going to trial for intent to sell and you didn't think I'd find out about it?!" Helen Morgendorffer stood with the phone cradled in her ear and her hands on her hips, pacing her office floor back and forth rapidly, trying hard not to yell or lose control. She couldn't risk her boss coming in and catching her using business time for personal phone calls. "What do you MEAN you didn't smoke it? I KNOW THAT. The problem is you were trying to SELL it and that's even worse!"
• Reaped Out, by Pinkminx (Part 14): "Oh, come on, look we all eventually get an old boyfriend or girlfriend on a Post-It."
• Tales of the Ringbearers: With New Responsibility, by Richard Lobinske (Part 3): Amazed at the feeling of being able to fly unaided after years of piloting helicopters, Archangel was in one of the middle positions of a finger-four formation with Don Javier's team. Below them, zombies retreated from the onslaught of multiple Ringbearer teams toward a distant, solid black arch.

Easter Eggs Once Again

A little Easter fun for everyone, from the Sick Sad Life Planner CD.
More evidence that the Morgendorffers are some flavor of Christian, not Jewish, etc.

For the audio, click here. Did Daria and Quinn search for Easter eggs in Lawndale?
They're kind of old for that, aren't they? Figures Jake was behind it.

An Easter Egg Gets Toasted

Here's a cute little urban legend from the Easter Egg Archive. A couple years ago, someone wrote in and said that the woman seen in the golf commercial at the hotel where the Morgendorffers stay during the episode "Fire!" was actually Peggy Hill, from King of the Hill. This was interesting, so I got a screen cap of the commercial (at right, click on it for larger image) and a pic of Peggy Hill, and compared them. The brunette hair and glasses are there, but nothing else. The hair and glasses aren't even an exact match. So much for that Easter Egg. (However, the episode was written by Peggy Nichol. Coincidence? I think not, though I am not sure what I mean by that.)

So . . . don't believe everything you read. Except here.

CORRECTION: Anonymous (thank you) sent the URL to a much clearer image in Comments, and the lady golfer does not wear glasses. She has a sun visor on. So much for that!