Loony Friends Improve Your Personality: Difference between revisions

* Explicit in ''[[Haunted Junction]]'': Hayato, who says [[I Just Want to Be Normal]], but is constantly dragged into supernatural mayhem. In the final episode we learn that the school spirits have been tormenting him specifically to avert a [[Bad Future]] in which he lives a "normal life" but never emotionally connects with anyone including his future wife and child. Which seems to lead into a happy ending...except that said [[Preacher's Kid]] was made so miserable by the constant torment that he voluntarily participated in a plan to kill or imprison all the school spirits; and there's no indication that things are going to get better for him.

* The plot of ''[[Happy Lesson]]'' kicks off when Chitose's teachers decide that what he really needs are five [[Hot Mom|Hot Moms]] running his life. (He discovers, much to everyone's surprise, that he does become a more well-adjusted person because of them.)

* The residents of ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'' spend most of their time driving Yusaku Godai insane with their alcohol-induced insanity, but also end up somehow making him the man he needs to be for Kyoko, as well as get Kyoko to reflect on her feelings for him.

* ''[[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' implies this is the case for Kyon, who became a much more outgoing and likable guy after exposure to the SOS Brigade. It ''inverts'' it with Haruhi, who became a more sympathetic person by hanging out with [[Locked Out of the Loop|apparently]] normal people.

 

== Film -- Live Action ==

* Claude from ''[[Hair]]'' epitomizes this trope.

* ''[[The Fisher King]]''. The "stiff guy" is a shock radio host, but he's still quite stiff. And the looney is...well...Robin Williams. As a crazy homeless guy. It's a surprisingly serious movie, but still, you can see where this is going.

 

== Live Action Television ==

** Deconstructed in "Studies of Advanced Movement", when Annie -- a similarly stuffy and uptight character (while hardly the [[Only Sane Man]]) -- is moving in with Troy and Abed, the show's primary source of wacky hijinks, and is advised to be flexible with them. After an increasingly trying and stressful first day of putting up with their antics, however, she snaps and delivers an angry lecture about how unfair it is that she always has to be the one to adapt to their personality quirks while they seem to show no intention of attempting to accomodate her.

* This is the basic plot of ''[[Producing Nobuta]]''.

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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