Join us for this July’s Chicago Cartoon Club meeting! This month we'll be screening select episodes of the classic 90s MTV animated sitcom Daria with the original score.

Daria, a spin-off of Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butthead, centers on the bookish and misanthropic teen Daria Morgendorffer, along with her best friend sarcastic and artistic Jane Lane, and her popular and vapid younger sister, Quinn. The show is set in the fictional suburban American town of Lawndale and is a satire of high school life, full of allusion to and criticisms of popular culture and social classes of the late 90s.

For those who may not know, the original sound team for Daria took full advantage of the licensing rights for popular music MTV had at the time, and made a stellar score that was fully of-the-time.

But once Daria reached syndication (and now in the age of streaming), the rights to the score were lost and the music was replaced with a more generic sound. Even the (very low quality) official Daria boxset does not feature the original score, but with the power of the internet, fans of the show have pieced together the OG soundtrack for our viewing pleasure!

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