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The MTV animation is intelligent, misanthropic and deeply relatable – and a battle cry for outcasts everywhere
Back in the late 90s, when MTV’s Beavis and Butt-Head had reached dizzying heights of sniggering virality, one of its ancillary characters – a bespectacled teenage girl named Daria – somehow got a spin-off. If Beavis and Butt-Head was Cheers, Daria was its Frasier.
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