Daria
That Was Then, This is Dumb
TV Flash files “That Was Then, This is Dumb” as hour 18 of 65 in the TV Flash guide — Daria (1997–2002) on MTV, season 2, episode 5, aired 1998-03-16, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E05: listed hour 18 of 65 in the Daria guide, hour 5 of 13 in season 2. It aired 1998-03-16 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “I Don't” (S02E04). Next is “Monster” (S02E06).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Daria and Jane accompany Trent to a flea market, while Jake and Helen's old college drop in for a reunion weekend.
Viewer FAQ
Where does That Was Then, This is Dumb sit in the Daria guide?
S02E05 is listed hour 18 of 65 — hour 5 of 13 in season 2, season 2 episode 5.
When did Daria S02E05 air?
That Was Then, This is Dumb aired 1998-03-16 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Is it a Beavis and Butt-Head spinoff?
Yes — Daria was introduced there, then got her own dry MTV series. The tone is a different species.
In the series
Why this series still plays
MTV’s deadpan antidote to teen gloss: a trench coat, a monotone, and a high school that deserves every eye-roll. Daria Morgendorffer treats popularity as a failing grade while Jane Lane draws the real picture. Adolescent satire that still feels like a private language — smart without being cruel, cooler than the jocks it refuses to chase.
So about the trench coat. MTV, 1997–2002: a sarcastic teen endures suburban high school with artistic best friend Jane Lane, treating popularity as a failing grade. Glenn Eichler and Susie Lewis Lynn spun Daria Morgendorffer out of Beavis and Butt-Head and made her a dry cult queen. Tracy Grandstaff's monotone. Wendy Hoopes's Jane drawing the real picture. Lawndale performing every phoniness the side-eye required. TV movies extended the story beyond the series proper. Adolescent satire as a private language —…
Filed against
- Tracy Grandstaff as Daria Morgendorffer
Tracy Grandstaff’s Daria Morgendorffer made MTV’s deadpan antidote to teen gloss — a trench coat, a monotone, and a high school that deserved every eye-roll. Popularity as a failing grade; Jane Lane drawing the real picture. TV Flash…
- Wendy Hoopes as Jane Lane
Wendy Hoopes’s Jane Lane drew the real picture on Daria — MTV’s deadpan antidote to teen gloss, a trench coat’s best friend, a high school that deserved every eye-roll. Daria treated popularity as a failing grade; Jane made art the other…
- Julian Rebolledo as Jake Morgendorffer
Julian Rebolledo’s Jake Morgendorffer dad’d Daria into suburban satire — MTV’s deadpan antidote to teen gloss, a trench coat, a monotone, a high school that deserves every eye-roll. Daria treating popularity as a failing grade while Jane…
- Marc Thompson as Various
Marc Thompson voiced the Lawndale extras as various on Daria — MTV’s deadpan antidote to teen gloss, a trench coat, a monotone, Jane Lane drawing the real picture. Adolescent satire as a private language. TV Flash files him as 1990s…