Lucky Strike (Daria episode)
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| “Lucky Strike” | |
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| Daria episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 58 (506) |
| Written by | Peter Elwell |
| Directed by | Ted Stearn |
| Original airdate | March 26, 2001 |
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Lucky Strike is episode six of season five of Daria. It aired on March 26, 2001 and was writen by Peter Elwell.
[edit] Plot Summary
The teachers of Lawndale High go on strike after Ms. Li refuses to give them a ten-percent raise in their salaries.
The next day, Ms. Li hires two substitue teachers. Mrs. Stoller takes over Mr. DeMartino's history class, and Mr. Ken Edwards takes over Mr. O'Neill's English class.
Mrs. Stoller is really an elderly woman who thinks that her students are first-graders. She calls Kevin "Cubie" after he tells her he's a Q.B. and keeps chiding at him because of his posture and calls Daria "Darlene" because Daria "sounds like a hippie name." She gives the class a test on the colors of the American Flag, and Kevin gets an F- for answering yellow, even though the flag was right in front of him!
Mr. Edwards proves that he wants to know his female students too well, specifically Tiffany Blum-Deckler, after he starts acting out his novel "about a professor who wants to fertilize a budding child-woman". When Helen hears about this from Quinn, who is absolutely clueless to what Mr. Edwards was really doing, she calls the school and has him fired. In desperation, Ms. Li makes Daria take over Mr. O'Neill's class as "Ms. Darlene."
Quinn can't deal with Daria being her teacher, mainly because Sandi is chiding her about her "relationship" with Ms. Darlene and forcing her to get Daria to go easy on them during their test on Romeo and Juliet. However, Daria convinces Quinn that she's smarter then she thinks, and come test time, Quinn manages to get a good grade, as does the rest of the class. Sandi, Tiffany, and Stacy each got a D- for writing about the 1996 movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes rather than the play.
Sandi starts to chew Quinn out, but Quinn shuts her up by making hints that she has bunch of pictures of Sandi with hugh braces. Quinn then reveales that she and Daria are indeed sisters. Sandi tries to turn this against Quinn, but learns that everyone already knew that Daria and Quinn were sisters, they were just being polite about it.
In a side story, Trent and Jane get pulled into helping the striking teachers, while Mr. DeMartino manages to get Ms. Li to give the teachers their ten-percent. When he returns to class with his self-esteem reignited, he asks Kevin a question about the Revolutionary War, and Kevin answers "the Golf War?" Mr. DeMartino then starts crying.
[edit] Trivia
- This episode finally broke the long-lasting running gag of Quinn saying that Daria is anything but her sister, and reveals that everyone already knew that she and Daria were sisters but were just being polite about it.
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