With Trent in her bed while she's wearing little more than a nightshirt, Daria ponders her options in this scene from "Lane Miserables." Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) is on her shirt, and today is the 173rd anniversary of that great author's birth. Not sure how much longer she would have had that shirt on if Jane hadn't shown up.Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn is mentioned in two different Daria episodes: "Write Where It Hurts" (on the blackboard in Mr. O'Neill's class) and "Lake Miserables". (Trent remembers reading it but seems to confuse it with Huckleberry Hound, an early Hannah-Barbera cartoon character.) It inspired and is entwined with a recent fanfic, "One More River to Cross."
More interesting is the issue of the Mark Twain nightshirt, which reappears in numerous Daria fanfics: "Generation Gap," "Visitation," and "Call of Quinnthulhu," among others. Fans must have really liked that nightshirt, or the scene in which it appeared.
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Here I thought that headline was soooooo clever, but no one said anything about it. Well, forget you, man.
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