Daria and Recognizing Sarcasm

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I guess this is kind of a random post, but how many people watched the MTV cartoon Daria? Did you understand sarcasm before watching it? Did you understand sarcasm better after watching it? Or did most of it not make sense to you?

When I was growing up, my dad was always very sarcastic and I missed it most of the time, but in my last year of high school, I watched all 5 seasons on Hulu and I understand it a lot better now. When someone is being sarcastic, I don't always catch it, but I think I catch it at least half of the time now.

LOL....if you don't understand sarcasm after watching Daria, you'll never understand sarcasm!

I didn't really get sarcasm until I was a high school kid.

Yeah...I had a little crush on her.

She was cute...in that subtle way!

Hehehe... Daria is funny.

Daria has my type of humor, so I understood her sarcasm and similar dry sort of sarcasms. there are still types of sarcasm that I don't understand as easily, like blatant sarcasm just for the hell of it. saying "no" instead of "yes", for no reason besides "it's obvious". for some reason the voice inflection doesn't register in my brain and I miss it and get confused, whereas Daria's lack of voice inflection and logical sarcasm registers perfectly fine.

now I want to watch Daria! I have a crush on her too kraftie

I just spent this whole summer watching Daria.

Fosters Home for Imaginary friends helped me grasp sarcasm in some ways, mostly in meaning the opposite of what they're saying. But other ways that clearly aren't giving an opposite meaning, especially when they try using it more aggressive manners. Someone mad at me once told me to stop holding doors for people so I did it and they got mad at me.

Luckily the character of Daria was based on the life of my sister, so I was tempered to sarcasm from a young age.

Anyone having trouble with the sarcasm of Daria would be quite puzzled by Norm MacDonald.

I watched it on MTV & I have the DVDs. I understood her sarcasm but I have a hard time understanding it in real life.

Same as nick007, I got Daria's sarcasm just fine but I have a hard time recognizing random sarcasm in real life for the most part.

For me I think I had no problem understanding Daria's because I was ready for it. The whole show is a heap of dry sarcasm and so I was all set up to receive that signal, like a radio being tuned.

But in real life it feels like it comes out of nowhere, and that's why I don't catch it.