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{{trope}}
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He's stuffy. She's untamed. It's true love.
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[[British Stuffiness|Mr. Stuffy]] is in a rut: Life is boring because he plays by the rules. Along comes this [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl|wild and crazy woman to show him how to live life to its fullest]], and she just might [[An Aesop|learn a few things along the way]], too.
Though the most common form of this trope is from male creators who idealize femininity as a saving force, it could be [[Gender Flip
They could be [[Queer As Tropes|LGBT]], as well (e.g. a [[Deadpan Snarker]] [[Seme]] with a [[Keet]] [[Uke]], [[Gravitation|mentioning no names]]).
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* Ruby and Sapphire from ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' fit this perfectly. One other character even calls Sapphire "Wild Girl".
* Hinata Hyuga is not particularly uptight, but is certainly [[Shrinking Violet|not wild]]. Her crush [[Naruto]], on the other hand...[[Keet|really]], [[Idiot Hero|really]] is.
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* ''[[FAKE]]'': Ryo towards Dee which he will deny.
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* ''[[The Sandman|Death: The High Cost Of Living]]'' - A [[Perky Goth]] called [[The Grim Reaper|Death]] guides a [[Emo Teen|teen]] [[Emo|guy]] named Sexton on a journey of self
== Fan
* The popular, [[Fanon|not-quite-canon]]-[[Ship Tease|but-hinted-at]] pairing of Sasha Nein and Milla Vodello in ''[[Psychonauts]].'' They're long-time partners, and are without a doubt close ''friends,'' if not in love (though Milla definitely has feeling for Sasha). Sasha's the uptight one (of course; he's [[Germanic Depressives|German]]) and Milla's the wild party girl.
== Film ==
* ''[[Along Came Polly]]'' (which provides the page image).
* ''[[
* ''[[Bright Star]]'' - John Keats is man back in the [[Older Than They Think|1800s]] who is hidebound by convention, emotionally closed-off, undaring, and believes himself to be a failed poet. But along comes his muse, Fanny Brawne. She's a young, vibrant, fashionable, fiery, flirty, independent-minded, outspoken, strong-willed [[Dances and Balls|party girl]] who inspires him to write a sonnet that shares a name with the film's title. Will she challenge him and motivate him to new heights and help him achieve success that lasts until the 21st century? Well, it is based on a true story, so take a wild guess.
* ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]''
** Ditto for ''[[My Man Godfrey]]''.
* ''[[Crazy Beautiful]]''
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* ''[[Forces Of Nature]]''
* ''[[Garden State]]''
* ''[[Grease]]'' as well as ''[[Grease 2]]''
* ''[[Harold and Maude]]''
* An unremarkable short film called ''[[Headlong]]''. As the reviewer at [[Something Awful]] puts it:
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* ''[[Into the Night]]''
* ''[[Latter Days]]''
* ''[[Laws of Attraction]]'' She's a stuffy uptight cynical genius divorce lawyer! He's a free-spirited genius divorce lawyer who believes in true love! <s>[[They Fight Crime]]!</s> - uh, they're opposing counsel on a bunch of different cases! It's actually a pretty well-done, if forgettable, example of this trope, and it definitely doesn't hurt that Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore are damned good actors.
* ''[[
* ''[[My Sassy Girl]]''
* ''[[
* Gender-flipped in ''[[Ninotchka]]'' (and its musical remake, ''[[Silk Stockings]])''.
* ''[[The Owl And The Pussycat]]''
* ''[[Pretty Woman]]''
* ''[[Something Wild]]''
*
* ''[[Sweet November]]''
* ''[[A Walk to Remember]]''
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* Enid and Seymore from ''[[Ghost World]]''
* Lisa, Wyatt, and Gary from ''[[Weird Science (film)|Weird Science]]''
* ''[[Stacy: Attack
* ''[[Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day]]'' is an odd case: while they are not romantically entangled, the relationship between wild American Delysia Lafosse and stiff British governess Miss Pettigrew follows this trope pretty closely, with each learning something from the other.
* ''[[Notting Hill]]'' - William Thacker ([[Hugh Grant]]) is an unsuccessful Notting Hill bookstore owner who is depressed that his wife has dumped him. But all that will change when Anna Scott ([[Julia Roberts]]), the world's most beautiful woman and best-liked actress, enters his shop and changes his life with her glamorous Hollywood ways.
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* ''[[Yes-Man]]'' is a very obvious example of this. The stuffy Jim Carrey gets the wild Zooey Deschanel when he finally decides to start saying yes to things.
* This is pretty much the entire plot of ''[[The African Queen]]''.
* In ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the
* ''[[A Single Man]]''
* ''[[Charlie's Angels]]'' - Natalie & Pete
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* [[A Fish Called Wanda]], at least for Archie and Wanda.
* Gender-reversed in ''[[The Sure Thing]]''.
* On ''[[
* ''[[Up]]'' starts out with a version of this between 10-year-olds. It's very
* ''[[Love Letters]]'' is a made-for-TV film directed by Stanley Donen, starring Laura Linney as Melissa Gardner Cobb and Steven Weber as Andrew Ladd. She is a freewheeling artist with plenty of sexual partners and a love of booze and has had a bad reputation since high school. He's a stalwart, stuffy Republican politician. Their letters to each other are his sail and her anchor, but she threatens to moon his respectable peers if his letters get too uniform.
== Literature ==
* Loretta Chase loves this trope: ''Mr. Impossible'' (Rupert is the wild one, Daphne is the nerd), ''Lord Perfect'' and ''Last Night's Scandal'' (Olivia is the wild one, Peregrine/Lisle is less so). Benedict and Bathsheba from ''Lord Perfect'' seem to be set up to be this trope, except that Bathsheba isn't nearly as wild as her daughter/the rest of her relatives are.
* At the end of the ''[[Dragaera|Khaavren]]'' trilogy, it is revealed that [[Blood Knight|Tazendra]] has been in love with [[Blue Oni|Aerich]] all along, and it seems to be mutual.
* Subverted
== Live
* Both major couples in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''.
** Worf and Jadzia: he's a stuffy [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]], she's a Trill with several hundred years' worth of memories who does whatever she can to avoid boredom.
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"Alright. What do you want?"
"Room service. I wanna be pampered. I want a staff to cater to our every whim - I wanna be ''embarrassed'' by the size of our room." }}
** Odo and Kira: he's a policeman so uptight he can't stand people moving the things in his room an inch out of place, she's a [[Fiery Redhead]] ex-guerrilla fighter with little respect for any rules but her own.
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* ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' - Penny moves into an apartment next door to two brilliant but socially awkward physicists and shows them how little they know about life outside of the laboratory.
* '' "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' - [[Angel]] is moody, broody, and [[Gypsy Curse|cursed by the Roma]]. Can Buffy help [[Incredibly Lame Pun|raise his spirits]] and break the curse? Yes. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Epicly]].
* Lee "Apollo" Adama and Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* This is gender-flipped in ''[[Gossip Girl]]'', with Blair as an uptight, proper, virginal lady, and Chuck a hedonist who likes his hookers to come in twos. She makes him less wild and more responsible, and he makes her far more sexual and liberated.
* As of the episode 'iOMG', this trope could be in the offing for 'Seddie' (Sam and Freddie') in [[iCarly]].
* Gender-flipped in ''[[Skins]]'' with Chris and Jal. Like the ''Gossip Girl'' example, Jal inspires Chris to work hard to get and keep a job, and Chris inspires Jal to let her hair down a little.
* ''[[Free Spirit]]'' was [http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/1460/medium/Free_Spirit_2.jpg
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* This is how the player character's relationship with [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Bastila]] appears in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]''.
* ''[[Mass Effect]]'' has several pairings that end up looking like this, especially Renegade Shepard and Miranda, and to a lesser extent Shepard and Liara.
* ''[[Final Fantasy VIII
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* The ''[[Ciem Webcomic Series]]'' seems to enjoy subverting this, playing it straight only with Candi and Denny. Denny allows Candi to learn to lighten up a little. Otherwise, Candi pairs with Donte in what feels like Uptight Loves Slightly-Less-Uptight. Steve and Miriam are a case of Wild Loves Slightly-Less-Wild. Worse in the comics than the alternate universe books, as comic Donte [[Shallow Love Interest|has all the personality of a cardboard box]].
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Futurama]]''; a female bureaucrat is attracted to Fry because he's so slobbish.
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'''Morgan Proctor:''' DIRTY BOY! Dirtydirtydirty!
'''Fry:''' I thought you were anti-dirty, not pro-dirty!?
'''Morgan Proctor:''' I'm surrounded by neat freaks all day. There's nothing kinkier to me than a filthy slop jockey like you!
'''Fry:''' Oh, stop... }}
* Courtney and Duncan in ''[[Total Drama Island]]''. She's an uptight priss with high hopes for her future; he's a wild teenage delinquent.
* Happens in [[The Simpsons]] when the eternally uptight Principal Skinner falls in love with the free-minded music teacher.
** Marge and Homer also fit, respectively.
* Seems to be the case for Kendall on ''[[Kick Buttowski]]'' who is the residential "Fun Police", a lover of school, rules, books and opera who seems to be holding a torch for the daredevil Kick... even going so far as to flat out tell her actual boyfriend that she wishes he could be more awesome like him (ouch!).
** Not that Kick hasn't complimented Kendall on her "elegance"...
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