NPR: Dear Hollywood: These Things Do Not Make A Character Quirky Anymore

NPR: Dear Hollywood: These Things Do Not Make A Character Quirky Anymore: "The following things are among the things that simply are not quirky anymore, if they ever were.

An unusual transportation method (scooter, tricycle, Segway, roller skates)

Being followed around by an omniscient narrator

Obsessive fear of the government

Having a strangely hypnotic way with children

Engaging in stalking behavior

Blunt-cut bangs

An addiction to sugary junk food

Inappropriate headgear (football helmet in church, etc.)

Wearing headphones a lot

Numbness to social cues

Being looked at through a fisheye lens

Blank-staring through several montages

Being moved to tears by divas (e.g. Edith Piaf)

Having a cat/dog/ferret/rat/bird

Ironic T-shirts

Band T-shirts

Ironic band T-shirts

An obsession with silent movies

An action-figure collection (see also: superhero underwear and/or bedding)

A scruffy beard

A bow tie

Being unhygienic

Being overly hygienic

Stammering

Reading

Knowing basic facts about science

Walking around to the coo of a breathy female singer

Excessive blinking

Being pale (exception: Edward Scissorhands)

Compulsive list-making"

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