Brian Danielson is the husband of Daria and Quinn's cousin Erin Danielson.
Appearance[]
Brian, full view
Brian is a tall young man with black hair and a very large smile. During his only appearance in the series he wore a black tuxedo with a turquoise corsage on the left side of his jacket.
Character Overview[]
Brian makes his only appearance on-screen during the episode I Don't, which centers around his marriage to Erin. He spends most of the time making chauvinist remarks, either as jokes (to the annoyance of Daria Morgendorffer) or in a futile attempt to diffuse a tense situation. He eventually flees his own wedding reception to escape his in-laws fighting, and when found in a bar he refuses to go back.
He once worked in government intelligence, according to himself and Erin. He did not have his job long, however, possibly because Erin liked telling everyone what Brian did for a living, and was fired after his honeymoon. Brian, after a brief session with the full Barksdale/Morgendorffer family. At some point, before (or possibly during) his relationship with Erin, he contracted herpes from an unknown partner.
In Season 5, his marriage was breaking down and it came out he was living off Erin's salary while studying for a real estate exam. Erin actually wants a divorce in Aunt Nauseam, hiring her aunt Helen to start the proceedings while revealing that he'd gotten her to sign a pre-nuptial that'd give him 50% of her assets if there was a divorce and that they'd only gotten married because he'd given her herpes and she felt nobody else would want her. However, during the episode, Brian is able to talk her out of it after flying to Switzerland and they had a second honeymoon there.
I'm not going back there. I don't care who sent you
Brian's last name was not revealed with precision in the show. It appears, from the way Daria referred to the wedding in I Don't, that his surname is Danielson, as the bride's name almost always comes first in wedding announcements by convention.
Trivia[]
- Rita Barksdale hates him.