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I love daria. I didn’t really watch it on MTV - just an episode here and there, but ended up sitting through all the DVD’s one summer. It’s a really great sho

I love daria. I didn’t really watch it on MTV - just an episode here and there, but ended up sitting through all the DVD’s one summer. It’s a really great show, and I don’t understand why people get their panties in a twist over the original music being cut out of the DVDs. It was never a part of the story (except for the R:E:M song, but I think they kept it in), which together with its characters can more than stand on their own.

sumtechguy 5y ago
B&B does stand on its own away from the videos. But the videos are also part of where they really shined. So you can buy the 4 box sets. But you are really getting about 1/3rd of the content from that show. Some of the videos are on the extras discs in the packs. Watching Mike Judge comment on MTV culture through the eyes of B&B was part of the fun. The last season they put the segments in. Watching them riff on Jersey Shore was most amusing.
- wodenokoto 5y ago
  I was talking about daria, not because and butthead.
autoexec 5y ago
> I don’t understand why people get their panties in a twist over the original music being cut out of the DVDs. I'm guessing that's because you didn't watch the show while it was airing. The music in Daria originally came from what was new and popular at the time episodes aired. The show's soundtrack was essentially the same as the viewer's day to day soundtrack. You could hear a new song on MTV, maybe spending hours watching MTV just waiting for the song to come back on, and then suddenly the song you've been listening to and listening for all week would turn up in an episode. It wasn't that the songs they used were directly relevant to the story in the episode, rather that the songs were directly relevant to the lives of the viewers. It was something that didn't (and really couldn't) happen anywhere else but because MTV had the access to the music they could pull it off. Also, if you've mostly only seen the DVDs with generic music you might not realize how good the original soundtrack was. Many many songs used in the show are simply amazing. If you were an avid MTV watcher at the time, watching the show years later with the original soundtrack would bring back many old favorites. You can still find playlists of the original soundtrack at least so if you haven't had the pleasure I'd recommend checking them out.

sumtechguy 5y ago

B&B does stand on its own away from the videos. But the videos are also part of where they really shined. So you can buy the 4 box sets. But you are really getting about 1/3rd of the content from that show. Some of the videos are on the extras discs in the packs. Watching Mike Judge comment on MTV culture through the eyes of B&B was part of the fun. The last season they put the segments in. Watching them riff on Jersey Shore was most amusing.

wodenokoto 5y ago
I was talking about daria, not because and butthead.

autoexec 5y ago

> I don’t understand why people get their panties in a twist over the original music being cut out of the DVDs. I'm guessing that's because you didn't watch the show while it was airing. The music in Daria originally came from what was new and popular at the time episodes aired. The show's soundtrack was essentially the same as the viewer's day to day soundtrack. You could hear a new song on MTV, maybe spending hours watching MTV just waiting for the song to come back on, and then suddenly the song you've been listening to and listening for all week would turn up in an episode. It wasn't that the songs they used were directly relevant to the story in the episode, rather that the songs were directly relevant to the lives of the viewers. It was something that didn't (and really couldn't) happen anywhere else but because MTV had the access to the music they could pull it off. Also, if you've mostly only seen the DVDs with generic music you might not realize how good the original soundtrack was. Many many songs used in the show are simply amazing. If you were an avid MTV watcher at the time, watching the show years later with the original soundtrack would bring back many old favorites. You can still find playlists of the original soundtrack at least so if you haven't had the pleasure I'd recommend checking them out.