ep #5: manic pixie dream girl is to depressed demon nightmare boy is to…

Pete Davidson, Travis Barker, and Machine Gun Kelly are only one Depressed Demon Nightmare Boy away from being the four horsemen of the apocalypse. There are somehow only three nightmare boys, but a surplus of manic pixie dream girls. In this episode, Elizabeth and Ivy discuss the long term existence and effects of the manic pixie dream girl trope and how it found it’s equal in the year 2021, when it seemed like quirky hot girls existed in a void.