Or at least Helen's, when it comes to selecting a college for her daughter.In the season 1 story, "College Bored", Helen was excited about taking Daria and Quinn to see Middleton College (from the Outpost Daria transcript):
Quinn - We have to visit a college of our choosing.
Helen - Great! We'll go to Middleton!
Jake - We'll all head up to the old alma mater this weekend!
Quinn - Wait! We get to pick the college, and no one said you could come.
Helen - But Quinn, your father and I would love it if you kids followed in our footsteps.
However, by the time Is It College Yet? rolled around, Helen had much less enthusiasm for Daria to attend her old college (Outpost Daria transcript):Daria – I didn’t get into the school that I wanted, and you wanted for me. What am I supposed to think about my prospects?
Helen – Your prospects? Daria, you’ll be going to your second choice college, not prison. Look at me, I went to Middleton. It’s not half the school that Raft is.
Daria – What?
Helen – Middleton’s not half the school that Raft is, as you know damned well. I applied to college during the height of the baby boom. Competition was so fierce I got rejected from my first and second choices. And, see, I lived to tell about it.
Daria – Um, Dad seems to think Middleton’s hot stuff.
Helen – Your father needs to maintain certain illusions about his youth in order to function. It’s…(forced laugh)…cute.
Which makes you wonder about what happened. Did the visit in "College Bored" turn Helen off of her old school? Was it a subtle plot to convince her daughters to be careful about the college they choose? A matter of Helen maturing as a mother? Or the writers not remembering the events of "College Bored"?
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"College Bored" was a Sam & Chris script, but Glenn & Peggy did IICY. The two shows aired about 4.5 years apart. The later writers went with a different idea.
Most importantly, though, Helen remembered the student who said her butt was huge, and she vowed to never set foot on that campus again.
Could also be that Helen originally didn't expect Daria to get into any better college with her attitude and lack of involvement. Then Daria got into Raft, and Helen revised her standards immediately.
But I like TAG's "big butt" theory, too. ;)
Maybe Middleton was more for Quinn than Daria. It's not like Quinn was going to have a lot of choices for college if something didn't change.
Could also be the Middleton Alumni association found out where she lived, and started sending begging letters for the endowment.
Besides the "different authors" theory, which makes me wonder why no one else caught that, do remember that Helen's first bit was stated in front of Jake. The second set of lines she stated when just with Daria.
First time she was encouraging the illusion while the second time she was being honest.
Well, honest as much as an attorney can be.
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