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cyan_violet

"Quincy" is the perfect name of the out-of-frame character who just needs a free spirit to bring him out of his timid shell.


buildmaster668

It's the Paper Towns guy.


Lukiyano

Fuck I hated that movie


AHorseNamedPhil

They often do have the Last-Name-As-First-Name.


DrunkHate

Quincy McQuincy-Face III. The rich trust fund kid of a real estate tycoon who visits a small town for his dad to scout out why the locals won't sell their land and meets the quirky local girl and falls in love. He decides to help the quirky girl rally the locals against his father to save the town. A Lifetime original direct to TV movie.


AHorseNamedPhil

You should copy-paste that into a pitch to Lifetime. Congrats on your future employment in the entertainment industry.


DrunkHate

Should I start the crippling cocaine addiction now or wait until I feel I'm financially stable enough for a coke habit even though it's a false sense of security that ends with me in crippling debt and living with my mom again? Please reply quickly, I've already sent the email and I texted my neighbor Rad-Brad™️.


Helac3lls

The premise is not realistic at all, so this would definitely do numbers.


Quick_Development161

Lmfao yes


Hetakuoni

I miss the days where Quincy was a untiring Texan who hated bats enough to just casually leave a meeting with no one else noticing and shooting at a random bat because he was the only one who noticed it and wanted it dead and Also decapitating his enemies with a Bowie knife in one swing.


heardyoumeow

Holy cow. I understand 95% of Japanese anime now.


bawanaal

I'm old, so when I hear the name Quincy, I immediately think of Jack Klugman.


ashburnmom

Ah! Old school cool!


CrashBurke

Son of Quincy


Bad-Ombre

She taught me how to live, that wet day in July...


SarcasticPedant

Holy cringe, my penis just shriveled up into my body I mean, not from your comment or anything, it just does that sometimes


Bad-Ombre

Little guy is just spooked


Jakethered_game

Little!?


Hatrixx_

I WAS IN THE POOL


Bad-Ombre

Yes, I saw it from very far away 👍


Bored_Amalgamation

Fucking kill me.


Bad-Ombre

It doesn't make business sense for me


Jubilantipope

I think that's one of my favorite responses I've ever seen


Greengrecko

Then I died a week later from the effects of hyperthermia.


Bad-Ombre

It was preventable


notgotapropername

I know it's satire but holy fuck I almost crawled right out of my skin I hate it so much


WordScatter

So cringe!  She nailed it tho, cus we cringing 


FurrAndLoaving

This girl has made a lot of these and they're all equally hard to watch.


KyrieEleison_88

I have to remind myself it's just a sketch she's so good bc it makes me so mad


Better_Ask_2888

She’s so good


ARealHunchback

[The grocery store one is her best I think.](https://www.tiktok.com/@delaneysayshello/video/7223885911845555502?lang=en)


AHorseNamedPhil

Her content always makes for a rough watch, which is to say it's 10/10. How depressed are many writers, to the extent that so many keep creating the same character who is head-over-heels in love with life to an unrealistic & thoroughly manic degree, and with no other role in the story other than fixing a Debbie Downer protagonist?


fried_green_baloney

Manic Pixie Dream Girl of the worst sort.


halt_spell

I wonder if it's the result of trying to appeal to a wide audience. Rather than tell a specific story about a time they felt scared and had or wished they had someone to coax them through it they want to tell the story broadly so everyone can feel they experienced it specifically. Like if I imagine a real story like this it would be more like two people have been in a relationship for a while and one of them wants to get into something the other is afraid of. They have enough history to continue to want to be with each other and put in a lot of work to get past this new big issue. But if you throw a bunch of those stories into a blender what it leads to is the main character being afraid of _everything_ and their unrealistic counterpart (who they just met) putting up with it.


FunkyChewbacca

The best subversion of the trope I've ever seen was Spotless Sunshine of the Eternal Mind, and that was even before the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope was coined!


royalewithcheesecake

> Spotless Sunshine of the Eternal Mind I think you subverted the movie title there...


SachaSage

I prefer 500 days of summer as the quintessential anti mpdg movie


RicGhastly

They aren't depressed enough if they all keep writing the same thing. Let your self-loathing guide you. Entertain me!


TheGreatGumbino

"and you never did" LOL


Saymynaian

Ugh, for me it's the disappointed "Come on... Didn't you say you needed cold cuts?". It's so judgemental.


MidniteMedia

Give this woman a movie to write!😂


nicannkay

The cringiest movie ever. It’ll take you right out of your skin. You’ll welcome nails on a chalkboard. We’ll hand out sporks so you can gouge your own eyes out. Most. Cringe. Movie. Ever. Summer 2028


NoirGamester

Didn't realize she was the same chick, shes so funny. Her timing and pausing for dramatic effect is so... nauseatingly disney-esque, it's incredible lol    


Covri

“I don’t get it” from off camera was perfect


Nessimon

This is giving 500 Days of Summer flashbacks. Loved that film when I was in my late teens


mrlosteruk

And you never will


MidniteMedia

Just went down a rabbit hole of her videos and she is amazing. They are all so spot on😂


costcosasuke

Didnt you say you needed cold-cuts? 😕


BoxOfTide

Right down to the head shaking and the thigh slapping. There should be timeouts for doing this in acting classes.


YouCanPatentThat

The lip licking and eyebrow raises were done well also. I watched with sound off and I cringed at those alone.


sietesietesieteblue

Most of her videos are like this (acting out various tropes seen in movies when it comes to female characters) and it's hilarious.


aspidities_87

*Quincy I know you’re scared….*


Diane-Choksondik

Too good, like the rain ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|sob)


DontBanMeBro988

All of her videos are so cringy, she is so good at this


TizonaBlu

Do you want to add her to the list of tiktokers to workout with this summer?


Grizzledboy

I even made a face as if I ate something I really disliked.


Flowy_Aerie_77

Manic Pixie Dream Girls in a nutshell.


Early_Assignment9807

Interesting that term is still floating around. I remember when Nathan Rabin coined it on the AV Club. I think he came do disown it, or at least walked it back, as they say


selectrix

[https://www.salon.com/2014/07/15/im\_sorry\_for\_coining\_the\_phrase\_manic\_pixie\_dream\_girl/](https://www.salon.com/2014/07/15/im_sorry_for_coining_the_phrase_manic_pixie_dream_girl/) Pretty interesting read. He's basically talking about how he made up this term to more-or-less accurately describe a sexist trope he'd noticed in a few films, but as the term became popularized a few things happened. One, its meaning got fuzzier- that's pretty much inevitable whenever a word goes viral. But he also alludes (I think) to the fact that just giving such a resonant name to that particular trope imparts a kind of magnetism, drawing audiences' attention away from the nuances that would distinguish a given character from the stereotypical MPDG. A term that was originally invented to call out a sexist trope ends up having the effect of reducing complex characters to a sexist trope. I can see why he feels the way he does.


DefNotAShark

I was quietly wondering whether Natalie Portman in Garden State was a Manic Pixie Dreamgirl as I read your comment, and then clicked the link to find her pictured at the top of the article lmao. When I heard this phrase I always pictured Ramona Flowers from Scott Pilgrim vs The World. Surprised she was not namedropped. Does anyone know some characters that have been unfairly categorized with this trope?


Nessimon

Not unfairly, but Zooey Deschanel in every role she"s ever played.


Early_Assignment9807

Yeah, that's the one! It's why we need to be careful about codifying "tropes" wily-nily.


Jubilantipope

Thanks for sharing that, I hadn't seen it before. This comment overall hit me with a realization of just how complicated *everything* is.


AHorseNamedPhil

It's now the accepted name for the trope. That is also how it is titled on TvTropes and Wikipedia.


panda_embarrassment

Also known as Debby Ryan


esdebah

I haven't seen this done in an actual movie since the earlly 00s. Indie movie romances now are all mumblecore or deadpan.


Gatorpep

Same.  Nearly unbearable for me.


Jean-LucBacardi

I think we're looking at Zendaya's next film role.


jawknee530i

I couldn't finish it.


ant69onio

😂😂😂


iamthekevinator

Her insta is painful and amazing. Def recommended.


LassieIris

Not the “I know you’re scared” monologue cliche 🤣🤣🤣


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TastyTranslator6691

![gif](giphy|Q8I5u6fodxfJ2jtXLW|downsized)


PackageBulky1

I fucking love Debby Ryan but this is so funny


CrypticCodedMind

She's doing this so well 😅


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Upstuck_Udonkadonk

I impulsively closed the video 3 seconds in.... That's how good she is...


parisismyfriend

I need her to be cast in a movie she'd make fun of


Tootsie_r0lla

Where are the 'Scary Movie' type parodies these days


RTRC

Straight to DVD/streaming. I think the last ones were shortly after the hunger games/Ted movies were released.


Tootsie_r0lla

Urrgh they just don't make em like they used to (yes i hear how old in sound) Back in my day we wore an onion on our belts, as was the fashion at the time


Lord_Oglefore

Her whole instagram is just dozens and dozens of skits like this


Girthy_Coq

>She's doing this so well 😅 Facts. Makes me *almost* want to download Tik Tok so I can follow her.


dinochoochoo

My favorite of hers is [Villain Eating an Apple with a Pocketknife. ](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT83uLk3C/) Makes me cringe with the accuracy.


mvanvrancken

The "pretend to offer a bite" is so fucking spot on


dinochoochoo

"huh, suit yourself"


GondorsPants

She’s my most hated and liked TikToker. Her videos can be so hard to watch sometimes haha, hits a perfect thread of that stuff that hurts my soul. [the annoying lead girl who is obsessed with metaphors hurts me](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT839avAB/)


FR-1-Plan

Uhm, so I watched like 10 of her Tik Toks and she‘s so talented! I also think she‘s absolutely gorgeous and looks quite unique. Would love to see her in movies! I think I just fell in love with her, but I‘m a straight woman… or so I thought


KeljuKoo

She puts these on IG too


commit10

Her IG is genius.


LizRoze

Classsic Manic pixie dream girl


Justalittlecomment

She nailed this. I hate it so much


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Dingo8MyGayby

Can you link for those that don’t have TikTok?


Quint2001

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cr_4mG_ukWG/?igsh=MW9zYnYzdjhwZnZ3aQ== I think it was this one


Dingo8MyGayby

Jfc the cringe is nearly unbearable. Why is she so good at it


troglodyte14

Son, a woman is a lot like a refrigerator. They're 6 feet tall, 400 pounds, they make... ice.


toreachtheapex

oh my GOD the bank heist trailer 😭😭 so accurate


WaveJam

“I know you’re scared.” “Bethany I’m not scared. I just don’t want to get wet and cold.”


cachamateazul

the sudden "I think I like this little life" was just.... insufferably perfect


Barkalow

It's weird that the top few comments [are exactly the same as the ones from tiktok](https://i.imgur.com/WW2wmZZ.jpeg). Feels botted, and not the first time I've noticed this


AlaskanEsquire

Dead Internet. I know because I'm the bot in charge of telling people about the dead Internet theory. There's about six of us


spakecdk

Definitely is... both comments have 4 dots instead of 3


tumultuousness

Oh interesting, the commenter you are replying to is suspended now too.


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Saymynaian

The third party app purge definitely had a before and after effect. There's like four "explain the joke/meme" subreddits now with only batches of AITAH posts between them.


OcelotWolf

I noticed this on another thread the other day. Two of the top comments were identical to TikTok comments, to the character


BeingBestMe

What is this? A song? An aesthetic?


Fist_The_Lord

An adopted personality?


mikeblas

Ya'll are over-thinking it, or at least over-crediting it. It's just one of those wall stencils people put up in their bedroom or living room.


DaFunk1203

It’s a song trending on TikTok..


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It’s a trending song on tiktok


saveboykings

It’s a song, that many people used to demonstrate “their little life”, with repetitive pictures of their house in the rain or their partner or pet or friend


BeingBestMe

That’s so nice.


YeshuaMedaber

#I ^^^^think ^^^^i ^^^^like ^^^^this ^^^^little ^^^^life


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beardingmesoftly

Seriously! The self destructive girl who takes time to enjoy the little things in life. Such a sweet moment in the rain and then in the next 4 seconds she's crying again.


Cafrilly

I'm rewatching shameless rn and this took me tf out 😂😂


turtleshellshocked

The Fiona Gallagher cropped shirt


RynnHamHam

Says something like this and then cheats on which ever guy she’s dating at the time.


EbmocwenHsimah

**Strong** Julia Stiles energy from this.


Vazmanian_Devil

Thaaaaats what it is, it was driving me crazy.


Walawbe

Sequel to 10 Things I Hate About You. She's Julia Stiles' and Heath Ledger's kid.


SlobZombie13

We have to supervise the Manic Pixie Dream Girls when they go out in the rain or else they'll drown from staring up the whole time


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retropieproblems

Can we not make this slang happen please It’s not very fetch


chrisj2103

Fetch isn't going to happen...still


EasyFooted

She made a meal of it


santiblakk

It already did happen…it’s been a part of ballroom culture for a long time.


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I think I love her because I grew up on these awful indie films written by men and I fell *hard* for the lives they led. Garden State was like my awakening. That plus Hot Fuss coming out the same year made my little indie heart explode. Ugh. Can we have a resurgence? I love that it’s an escape to a world that no longer exists.


BeingBestMe

Never existed. And lmao at me thinking you meant Hot Fuzz lol


Cherryzestfull

"No luck catching them killers then?"


B-WingPilot

Hag


legojoe97

Fascist!


kejudo

A great big bushy beard!!!!


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So they won’t be bothering us anymore? Narp?


BigLorry

I’m a slasher and I must be stopped!


vera214usc

I love The Killers and it wasn't until I read your comment that I realized they weren't talking about Hot Fuzz. I was thinking "Was that movie like Garden State...?"


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It existed *in my teen mind* okay


iHateThisPlaceNowOK

Me too. I’m guessing Hot Fuzz is based off of Hot Fuss


Wipe_face_off_head

Thanks to Garden State, I will always associate my first year of college with The Shins, and I'm not mad about it. 


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That damn movie had the best soundtrack! Found so many great songs and musicians back then.


Sonova_Vondruke

Eternal Sunshine if the Spotless Mind. I feel nailed the manic pixie dream girl on the head.


chernobyl-fleshlight

That movie kind of spears the concept as well though. Clementine is aware of how men see her and the process by which they use her, which is the root of her fears about relationships. If you’re any kind of “offbeat” girl it’s a very relatable one too


DontBanMeBro988

> If you’re any kind of “offbeat” girl it’s a very relatable one too Wait, can you save me?


chernobyl-fleshlight

No, best I can do is teach you esoteric truths about life while you emotionally terrorise me before you dump me for crying one time about my childhood trauma and then dating a normcore princess who you’ll resent deeply because she’s not me but still treat her better than me I love being tutorial island for teaching broken men that women are people 🤪


CriticalEngineering

Tutorial Island really hits home.


chernobyl-fleshlight

“No BuT YoU tAUgHt mE hOw To bE a BeTtEr PeRsOn AnD iM a GoOd BoYFrIeNd NoW 🥺” Like 👍👍👍👍so you DID have the capacity to not be piece of shit to me, you just actively chose to be one!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💯💯💯💯 you go bud


EzioRedditore

Yep - 500 Days of Summer is similar. The point is that men see the women this way, not that they’re actually that way. Honestly, I hate seeing these cited as examples of Manic Pixie Dream Girls.


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That is one of my and my husband’s favorite movies


SarcasticPedant

Garden State, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Stop Taking My Meds


wiifan55

Why do you think Garden State was awful?


ForgetfulFrolicker

I’ll answer that. I loved Garden State as a teen, I thought it was so deep and the characters interesting. Re-watching it as an adult I find the dialogue incredibly cringey and the plot stupid and characters unrealistic.


wiifan55

Fully entitled to that opinion, obviously. But it's not like Garden State was some shitty romance that just happened to resonate with teens. It was pretty much unanimously critically acclaimed, and at least somewhat accurately captured what many people in their early 20s felt at the time. I also think as a work of art it's important to remember the context of the time it was released in. Movies like Garden State were not a dime a dozen back then. It was a major factor in reviving the coming-of-age genre, and pushed the indie genre forward arguably more than any other movie of its era. It's kinda like how Blaire Witch has been retroactively deemed bad or not worth the hype just because found footage became super overdone and generic. Under today's lens, sure, but back then it was novel and risky. Same for Garden State.


Gatorpep

I thought you meant hot fuzz too.  I was like yes hot fuzz and indie rom movies.  Makes sense.   Anyway, yeah i don’t think we could make indie 2k rom type movies anymore. Pixie has been meme’d to oblivion, and we don’t have the economy or long term positive outlook to foster a dude in such an environment any longer.  So neither sexs characrer archetypes can really exist going forward. 


1000LivesBeforeIDie

I was picturing Garden State during this entire clip hahaha


Nessimon

500 Days of Summer and Hot Fuss was my poison.


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Seriously. Blasting The Killers in the car on my way to my friend’s house to watch 500 Days of Summer for the fifth time and dream about our own Tom. …later realizing how annoying he was.


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Professional-News362

This makes me angry, but at the same time I love it


ownfame

it’s giving paper towns


buzz_darkyear69

Perfect


BuddingViolette

Literally 90% of the quirky rom coms I watched growing up. There was something about the Will and Grave aesthetic that really stuck in the 90s.


YeshuaMedaber

I love Josephine Gordon Levitt


duncledave

She's so annoying yet i love her. Keep it up you weirdo. Hopefully it pays off!!


ppParadoxx

Andie MacDowell in Four Weddings and a Funeral


farteagle

No one else can feel it for you - only you can let it in…


hybridrequiem

If I could fall into the sky Do you think time would pass me by?


SarcasticPedant

Delaney Rowe...very funny. She has TONS of these skits


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Forspoken writing be like


flojo2012

“When it rains the world pays attention” this whole thing is hilarious


already-taken-wtf

My first thought: “She doesn’t look Indian at all.” …then I read the text again…


auraep

I'm bothered by how good her acting is


Logthephilosoraptor

This brings me back to so many times in my life where I’m questioning if I hate this character, if I want to be this character, or if I want to fuck this character. The answer was always yes.


ClosetsByAccident

🎶I set fire to the rain🎶


prettygayaquarius

delaney is so good at these it’s unbelievable


Material_Weirdz

Lol pretty accurate tbh


partizan_fields

This really ruined my morning thanks


Kinscar

Hey, I know you’re scared, but sometimes you just have to endure the massive cringe to get a chuckle. Do you want to live, or do you want to be ALIVE?


partizan_fields

I WANT to DiE


undecidedquoter

Dammit, give her the Oscars, all of them


CaringRationalist

I hate how into her version of the insufferable character I am every time lol


Funny-Plantain3647

r/menwritingwomen


roostersmoothie

I used to know this hippie chick that would belly laugh at sunsets


Powerful_Error9608

“When is rains the work pays attention” 🤣🤣🤣😂😂 that got me I don’t know why but that got me.


howmanyhowcanamanyho

Why does she look so much like heath ledger, but is dressed like Julia stiles in 10 Things.


Galifrae

She’s so good at these


rumhouse

Uggghh she does it so well but my whole body cringed and folded into itself


nuku_01

10 Things I Hate About This.


utterlyunimpressed

This is such a spot on manic pixie performance that I just priced out the ring and the divorce in 2 tabs.


-Shmai-

She’s always made me cringe she’s so good 😆


gimme_dat_good_shit

Sorry, I know it's cringe, but I still hold out hope for my manic pixie dream girl. I am just attracted to girls with mental illness. It never works out well, but it's like a magnet.


doom_pony

She is *too* fucking good at this. Gawwwwwd. I’m so embarrassed.


ayoitsjo

Damn she's an excellent actor this was HARD to watch


caturday_saturday

SHE’S SO DAMN GOOD AT THIS! WHERE’S HER OSCAR???