Daria: A Tree Grows in Lawndale (2000)
Season 4, Episode 3
8/10
Tommy Sherman's memorial tree
29 September 2016
Warning: Spoilers
This episode highlights the Friday Night Lights importance of football (not the soccer football (the European one, AC Milan, Manchester, if you know what I mean) in American high schools and society generally. With Kevin's self-inflicted injury (he destroyed the Tommy Sherman memorial tree), house prices drop, the football team cannot win a game, and Kevin loses his self-esteem.

Thankfully order is restored in the Lawndale universe at the end, with even a flower sprouting from Kevin's crutch implanted in the Tommy Sherman memorial tree spot.

I think MTV should consider rebooting Daria. I'd love to know Daria's take on 9/11 (The wrap-up movie Is it College Yet? didn't deal with 9/11 even though it was broadcast about 6 months after), hipsters, same sex marriage, Trump, globalization, social media, music videos, The Sopranos.
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