One...Two...Tree!

Daria would be celebrating National Christmas Tree Day, but she's got more important things to worry about. She can enjoy the holiday once she's dealt with the unexpected hostage situation going on in the closet.

If you want a Christmas tree but don't have one yet, better get shopping and see if you can find someone to help you pick one out, since it's also National Salesperson Day. If you meet Theresa, be extra nice, because no one should have to deal with the Fashion Club as often as she does.

Meanwhile, perhaps the Yaegers will observe Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day by driving around in a classic Volkswagen Beetle and wearing clothing from the 1960s. If they did, then Daria's theory about the VW being a time machine could be proven correct!

"That's not a car. It's a time machine."

Twenty-five years ago today, on October 26, 1985, Marty McFly went back in time to November 5, 1955. At least, he did in Back to the Future, Part I. In just under five years, he'll show up again for the sequel, set in 2015. This prompts me to ask, where the hell are my hoverboard and self-drying clothes? Shouldn't we at least be seeing some prototypes by now?

Daria's line (quoted in the title) from "That was Then, This is Dumb" may have been a reference to the Delorean/time machine in the movies. Milo Minderbinder also wrote a hilarious parody of all three films in the trilogy. Check 'em out!

And now, how about some fandom news?

Liz Ruiz and Disco316 are engaged! Congratulations to both of them!

Quiverwing has posted more pictures from her trip to London.

Do you think Amelia from "Camp Fear" was annoying or not? Join the discussion!

Fan artist breitasparrow has posted "Thriller Bowl," a Halloween Daria work, in the Easel.

And speaking of fan art, minx is now taking requests for Halloween art!

Spring Ahead, or Stay in Bed

Set your clocks ahead one hour tonight, those of you in the U.S.

Sort of busy this morning dealing with house issues, will write more here soon on a more Daria-ish topic.

EXTRA NOTE: Lorenzo Sauchelli has posted a preview of Part 3 of Legion of Lawndale Heroes Special: Tokusatsu Team Up!

Fellow (Time) Travelers

Here is the infamous moment in "The Misery Chick" where we discover that the background guy nicknamed Shaggy (actually Dewey, according to Mr. O'Neill's seating chart in "Cafe Disaffecto") was a time traveler, visiting a football game with Tommy Sherman three years earlier, when Shaggy would have been 13 or so and in 7th grade.

Look closer, though. Every single person in the shot, except for the blonde in the foreground, is one of the background students present in Daria and Jane's classes in 10th grade, and they look exactly as they do three years later. Aside from Shaggy, we have (in the back row, left to right) the blonde girl who got a bad crystal ball reading from Barch in "Fair Enough," the kid in the blue jacket who sits a few seats behind Daria in some of her classes, and the Asian kid I think of as "Pink Shorts," who appears in "The Misery Chick" watching Tommy stride down the hallways. The red-haired girl on the front right is Kelly, who sits in the back of the room in Daria's first-season classes with Mr. O'Neill.

Yeah, so the animators botched it a little . . . or did they? Can some or all of Daria's classmates travel through time? Are Daria and Jane the only normal kids in the school? (Normal being a relative term here.)