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This week we’ve chosen three movies that deconstruct the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope. We start with Kevin Smith’s very personal apology to Joey Lauren Adams in Chasing Amy (1997). Next up is a very vulnerable Jim Carrey and an effervescent Kate Winslet in Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). We finish with the adorable Joseph Gordon-Levitt and elfin Zooey Deschanel in Marc Webb’s (500) Days of Summer (2009). Also: Joe misses a Garfield joke. Shaving Ryan’s Privates. Rule 34. Denis Leary. Bi-erasure. Asshole tax. Call Me by Your Name (2017). Strangers in Paradise. Lacuna commercial. Garden State (2004). David Cross. New Girl (2011). Brick (2005). JGL speaks French. Clown Slap. The Graduate (1967). We play a game of “So quirky!” and then Dee tests Joe’s Replicant baseline.