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"Quirk, loosed from its moorings, quickly becomes exhausting. It's easy for David Cross's character on 'Arrested Development' to cover himself in paint for a Blue Man Group audition, or for the New Zealand duo on 'Flight of the Conchords' to make a spectacularly cheesy sci-fi video about the future while wearing low-rent robot costumes. But the pleasures are passing. Like the proliferation of meta-humor that followed David Letterman and Jerry Seinfeld in the '90s, quirk is everywhere because quirkiness is so easy to achieve: Just be odd... but endearing. It becomes a kind of psychographic marker, like wearing laceless Chuck Taylors or ironic facial hair—a self-satisfied pose that stands for nothing and doesn't require you to take creative responsibility. Just because you can doesn't mean you should." [Atlantic]