ABSTRACT
Daria morgendorffer, who starred in her own mtv animated show, Daria, was a smart-mouthed, misanthropic 16-year-old, perpetually dressed in a mustard-yellow shirt, a green jacket with wide lapels, a charcoalcolored skirt, big round glasses and knee-high combat boots. With her sharp tongue and wicked sense of humor, Daria made being a brainy misfit look cool. In the first episode which aired in the spring of 1997, Daria was found by psychologists at her new school, Lawndale High, to be suffering from “low self-esteem.” She explained to her lawyer-mother, Helen, that she did not have low self-esteem, she simply had “low esteem for others.” And thus began the five-year run of one of MTV's most successful animated features.
