Move Over Manic Pixie Dream Girl! The Manic Quirky Funny Girl is Here to Stay! From 'Pen15' to 'New Girl' MQFGs Rise Where MPDGs Fail!

The Manic Quirky Funny Girl succeeds where the Manic Pixie Dream Girl fails. The awkward off-beat standard of a MPDG is humorized instead of sexualized, giving quirky women strong on screen representation through a lens that is not defined by their relationships with men.