HeyJaredNathan Rabin's Bad Ideas
Movie Reviews, Stephen King, Autism in Entertainment, Joy of Positvity and Weird-Ass Side Quests
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- Sep 30, 2026
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I’ve been less than a hundred dollars away from hitting the goal in my Maniac Pixie Dream Girl campaign for the last five hours. Won’t someone please put it over the goal line! (opens the original)
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It’s that time time again! Should I review Digger and/or Verity? (opens the original)
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The Ragingly Caucasian Emma Stone Played a Quarter-Chinese, Quarter-Hawaiian Manic Pixie Dream Girl in Uniform in Cameron Crowe’s Aimless Aloha (opens the original)
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Revisiting Elizabethtown, the Movie That Inspired Me to Coin the Phrase Manic Pixie Dream Girl, Proved a Surprisingly Emotional Experience (opens the original)
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2017’s It Is the Top-Grossing Horror Film of All Time and a Solid, if Derivative Fright Flick (opens the original)
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