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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|Gender Flipped]]. Mr. Stuffy could be [[Fragile Flower|Ms.]] [[Housewife|Stuffy]] and the [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|wild angel could be male]] and help the [[Shrinking Violet|little wallflower]] come out of her shell and [[Beautiful All Along|blossom gloriously into a beautiful rose!]] Also, compare [[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!]] -- [[Loveable Rogue]] meets [[Defrosting Ice Queen]].
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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Compare [[Savvy Guy Energetic Girl]]. Not to be confused with [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]] as the "Wild" part of this trope doesn't need to be Manic, a Pixie, a Dream, or a Girl.
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== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
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* ''[[Along Came Polly]]''
* ''[[Film/Angel A|Angel A]]''
* ''[[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 [[
* ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]'' -- although in something of a variation, it's Wild who falls for Uptight first, Uptight for many reasons wanting nothing to do with her for a large part of the movie. Wild doesn't so much teach Uptight to loosen up as she does drag him kicking and screaming into it.
** Ditto for ''[[My Man Godfrey]]''.
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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
* ''[[A Single Man]]''
* ''[[Charlies Angels]]'' - Natalie & Pete
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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 (TV)|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 Reimagined (TV)|Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]''. And because they somehow also manage to be [[Like Brother and Sister]], this kind of puts them under the [[Sibling Yin
* 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 [[I Carly]].
* 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.
* ''[http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/1460/medium/Free_Spirit_2.jpg Free Spirit]'' is a standard sitcom from [[The Eighties]] in which T.J. is a wise and reserved lawyer and wears sweater vests. Winnie is goofy and wacky and an immortal, magic-using [[Bewitched (TV)|witch]] with [[Eighties Hair|awesome hair]]. He has some kids [[Full House|but his wife is dead]]. She's the live-in nanny / [[Mr. Belvedere|housekeeper]]. Together, they spend 14 episodes making the audience wonder [[Will They or Won't They?]] ...before it was rightfully canceled.
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