Jodie Landon is a fictional character from the

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animated series ''

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''. She was voiced by Jessica Cydnee Jackson. In 2020,

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ordered a spinoff series, ''Jodie'', which will depict the character as a

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post-college graduate entering her first job at a tech company.

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was announced as an executive producer for the show and would voice the title role. In May 2022, it was announced that ''Jodie'' would instead be an animated television film but it was dropped by MTV Entertainment Studios and Comedy Central with the producers having the ability to shop it elsewhere.

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Jodie Landon is one of Lawndale High's few Black students. Her boyfriend throughout the series is Michael "Mack" Mackenzie. In the ''Daria'' series finale ''

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'', Jodie decides to attend the fictional Turner College, a

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, despite being accepted to Crestmore, a fictional top college.

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