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A couple crosswicks, and some much-needed fixes. Not much I had to do here since the wick count for this page is unfortunately low (and it's been slightly over two decades since I saw this movie... X_x)
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* ChickFlick / RatedMForManly: The Narrator's description of the movies humans like. According to him, it boils down to one person dying slowly vs. many people dying quickly.
* CloudCuckooLander: The Wise Old Woman they try to buy condoms from. Turns out she's an alien.
* CloudCuckooLander: The Wise Old Woman they try to buy condoms from. Turns out she's an alien.
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* ChickFlick / RatedMForManly: ChickFlick: The Narrator's description of the movies humans like. According to him, it boils down to one person dying slowly vs. many people dying quickly.
*CloudCuckooLander: {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The Wise Old Woman they try to buy condoms from. Turns out she's an alien.
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** CurbStompBattle: Billy gets one punch in on Mike, but is then utterly annihilated by Mike and his friend Tony, both obvious bodybuilders and Mike a trained fighter. But that leads to...
*** GroinAttack: Jenny then protects Billy by kicking them in the balls.
*** GroinAttack: Jenny then protects Billy by kicking them in the balls.
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* CurbStompBattle: Billy gets one punch in on Mike, but is then utterly annihilated by Mike and his friend Tony, both obvious bodybuilders and Mike a trained fighter. But that leads to a GroinAttack, as Jenny then protects Billy by kicking them in the balls.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: After having overcome their differences, Billy and Jenny reconcile in the end, and welcome their conceived baby.
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* HumansThroughAlienEyes: The movie is presented as an alien wildlife documentary about, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin human mating habits]].
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Both main characters have several in the club:
** Jenny has the DumbJock, an ExtravertedNerd, and a guy who's just [[RuleOfCreepy creepy]].
** Billy has a GonkyFemme and a BadassBiker.
** Jenny has the DumbJock, an ExtravertedNerd, and a guy who's just [[RuleOfCreepy creepy]].
** Billy has a GonkyFemme and a BadassBiker.
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%% * AbhorrentAdmirer: Both main characters have several in the club:
%% ** Jenny has the DumbJock,an ExtravertedNerd, a nerd, and a guy who's just [[RuleOfCreepy creepy]].
%% ** Billy has a GonkyFemme and a BadassBiker.
%% ** Jenny has the DumbJock,
%% ** Billy has a GonkyFemme and a BadassBiker.
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* OverprotectiveDad: Jenny's father is constantly, and conspicuously, showing off his firearm collection to Billy.
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* TwerpSweating: Jenny's father is constantly, and conspicuously, showing off his firearm collection to Billy.
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** Billy has a GonkyFemme and a BikerBabe.
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** Billy has a GonkyFemme and a BikerBabe.BadassBiker.
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* TheDitz: Billy receives the result of his HIV test and is distraught when it's negative, forcing his friend Jimmy to tell him that negative means he doesn't have it.
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** Billy has a FatGirl and a BikerBabe.
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** Billy has a FatGirl GonkyFemme and a BikerBabe.
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* AbusiveParents: Billy has this in spades, with his dad yelling at him for being a bookish child and his mom shrugging it off. As an adult, his father stares down his girlfriend's cleavage and both parents are recovering alcoholics.
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* AbusiveParents: AbusiveParents:
** Billy has this in spades, with his dad yelling at him for being a bookish child and his mom shrugging it off. As an adult, his father stares down his girlfriend's cleavage and both parents are recovering alcoholics.
** Billy has this in spades, with his dad yelling at him for being a bookish child and his mom shrugging it off. As an adult, his father stares down his girlfriend's cleavage and both parents are recovering alcoholics.
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* AmicableExes: Very strangely played with. Despite Mike being physically abusive and beating up her boyfriend/fiancee, he's been invited to the wedding.
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* AmicableExes: AmicableExes:
** Very strangely played with. Despite Mike being physically abusive and beating up her boyfriend/fiancee, he's been invited to the wedding.
** Very strangely played with. Despite Mike being physically abusive and beating up her boyfriend/fiancee, he's been invited to the wedding.
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* LameExcuse: After Billy falls into the sand while trying for a kiss, he asks if it's too late to mention how romantic the stars are. The Narrator even lampshades it an an attempt at IMeantToDoThat.
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* LameExcuse: IMeantToDoThat: Lampshaded by the narration. After Billy falls into the sand while trying for a kiss, he asks if it's too late to mention how romantic the stars are. The Narrator even lampshades it an an attempt at IMeantToDoThat.
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* ChickFlick/RatedMForManly: The Narrator's description of the movies humans like. According to him, it boils down to one person dying slowly vs. many people dying quickly.
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* ChickFlick/RatedMForManly: ChickFlick / RatedMForManly: The Narrator's description of the movies humans like. According to him, it boils down to one person dying slowly vs. many people dying quickly.
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* UnreliableNarrator: Among other things David Hyde Pierce's narrator tells the audience is that sex is painful and giving birth is joyful, oral sex is used to taste test sex cells, and that Jenny removing her hair stick is her "pulling a bone out of her skull".
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* UnreliableNarrator: Among other things David Hyde Pierce's narrator tells the audience is that sex is painful and giving birth is joyful, oral sex is used to taste test taste-test sex cells, and that Jenny removing her hair stick is her "pulling a bone out of her skull".
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A {{Mockumentary}} on the subject of late 90s dating, from the perspective of an alien observer, complete with WildlifeCommentarySpoof style narration. It tells the story of The Male (Billy), a twenty-something accountant, and his budding relationship with The Female (Jenny), an attractive computer worker, described and analyzed (sometimes [[UnreliableNarrator hilariously inaccurately]]) by an alien narrator.
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A {{Mockumentary}} on the subject of late 90s dating, from the perspective of an alien observer, complete with WildlifeCommentarySpoof style narration. It tells the story of The Male (Billy), a twenty-something accountant, and his budding relationship with The Female (Jenny), an attractive computer worker, described and analyzed (sometimes [[UnreliableNarrator [[EntertaininglyWrong hilariously inaccurately]]) by an alien narrator.
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* SpermAsPeople: Played with. People in white clothes are used to symbolize sperm. They reach the end of the track and are confused that they don't find an egg, get caught in a plastic tarp, and get gunned down, to symbolize non-vaginal sex, condoms, and spermicide respectively.
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* AmicableExes: Very strangely played with. Despite Mike being physically abusive and beating up her boyfriend/fiancee, he's been invited to the wedding
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* AmicableExes: Very strangely played with. Despite Mike being physically abusive and beating up her boyfriend/fiancee, he's been invited to the weddingwedding.
** Ed the thieving stoner and Robert the InsufferableGenius are right next to him.
** Ed the thieving stoner and Robert the InsufferableGenius are right next to him.
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!!The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human contains examples of these tropes:
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** Jenny has the DumbJock, an ExtrovertedNerd, and a guy who's just [[RuleOfCreepy creepy]].
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** Jenny has the DumbJock, an ExtrovertedNerd, ExtravertedNerd, and a guy who's just [[RuleOfCreepy creepy]].
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A {{Mockumentary}} on the subject of late 90s dating, from the perspective of an alien observer, complete with WildlifeCommentarySpoof style narration. It tells the story of The Male (Billy), a twentysomething accountant, and his budding relationship with The Female (Jenny), an attractive computer worker, described and analyzed (sometimes [[UnreliableNarrator hilariously inaccurately]]) by an alien narrator.
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A {{Mockumentary}} on the subject of late 90s dating, from the perspective of an alien observer, complete with WildlifeCommentarySpoof style narration. It tells the story of The Male (Billy), a twentysomething twenty-something accountant, and his budding relationship with The Female (Jenny), an attractive computer worker, described and analyzed (sometimes [[UnreliableNarrator hilariously inaccurately]]) by an alien narrator.
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* SpermArePeople: A literal example, as the sperm in the film are men dressed in white clothing with swim caps. They're later seen at the wedding as guests and the organ player.
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* LesYay: The Narrator says that after Jenny reacts badly to the pregnancy, her friend Lydia tries to hook up with her.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece - of the Nineties
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* WhatAnIdiot: Billy receives the result of his HIV test and is distraught when it's negative, forcing his friend Jimmy to tell him that negative means he doesn't have it.
* WildlifeCommentarySpoof: The entire movie is this for observing aliens.
* WildlifeCommentarySpoof: The entire movie is this for observing aliens.
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* ShoutOut: The workings of spermicidal gel are depicted as a [[Terminator2JudgmentDay large guy in a flat top and biker gear carrying a machine gun]] shooting the sperm.
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* ShoutOut: The workings of spermicidal gel are depicted as a [[Terminator2JudgmentDay [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay large guy in a flat top and biker gear carrying a machine gun]] shooting the sperm.
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A {{Mockumentary}} on the subject of late 90s dating, from the perspective of an alien observer, complete with WildlifeCommentarySpoof style narration. It tells the story of Billy, a twentysomething accountant, and his budding relationship with Jenny, an attractive computer worker, described and analyzed (sometimes [[UnreliableNarrator hilariously inaccurately]]) by an alien narrator.
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A {{Mockumentary}} on the subject of late 90s dating, from the perspective of an alien observer, complete with WildlifeCommentarySpoof style narration. It tells the story of Billy, The Male (Billy), a twentysomething accountant, and his budding relationship with Jenny, The Female (Jenny), an attractive computer worker, described and analyzed (sometimes [[UnreliableNarrator hilariously inaccurately]]) by an alien narrator.
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* AmicableExes: Very strangely played with. Despite Mike being physically abusive and beating up her boyfriend/fiancee, he's been invited to the wedding
* ChickFlick/RatedMForManly: The Narrator's description of the movies humans like. According to him, it boils down to one person dying slowly vs. many people dying quickly.
* ChickFlick/RatedMForManly: The Narrator's description of the movies humans like. According to him, it boils down to one person dying slowly vs. many people dying quickly.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall - One of the cutaway 'sperm running up against a barrier' jokes is shown being filmed in the background of a later scene, much to the confusion of Billy.
* LesYay:
* LesYay:
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall - LeaningOnTheFourthWall: One of the cutaway 'sperm running up against a barrier' jokes is shown being filmed in the background of a later scene, much to the confusion of Billy.
* LesYay: The Narrator says that after Jenny reacts badly to the pregnancy, her friend Lydia tries to hook up with her.
* LesYay: The Narrator says that after Jenny reacts badly to the pregnancy, her friend Lydia tries to hook up with her.
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* SpermArePeople: A literal example, as the sperm in the film are men dressed in white clothing with swim caps.
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* SpermArePeople: A literal example, as the sperm in the film are men dressed in white clothing with swim caps. They're later seen at the wedding as guests and the organ player.
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* WackyMarriageProposal: Billy proposes to Jenny in the waiting room of an abortion clinic. The Narrator says this is perfectly normal.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall - One of the cutaway 'sperm running up against a barrier' jokes is shown being filmed in the background of a later scene.
* TheNineties: Set solidly in an era before cell phones and online dating, but with (big, beige) computers
* OverprotectiveDad - Jenny's father is constantly, and conspicuously, showing off his firearm collection to Billy.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece - of the Nineties
* TheNineties: Set solidly in an era before cell phones and online dating, but with (big, beige) computers
* OverprotectiveDad - Jenny's father is constantly, and conspicuously, showing off his firearm collection to Billy.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece - of the Nineties
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Both main characters have several in the club:
** Jenny has the DumbJock, an ExtrovertedNerd, and a guy who's just [[RuleOfCreepy creepy]].
** Billy has a FatGirl and a BikerBabe.
* AbusiveParents: Billy has this in spades, with his dad yelling at him for being a bookish child and his mom shrugging it off. As an adult, his father stares down his girlfriend's cleavage and both parents are recovering alcoholics.
** Jenny's dad is a GunNut who threatens Billy several times at their first meeting and [[ShotgunWedding shows off a holstered pistol at their wedding]]. Not that [[DomesticAbuse her]] [[TheStoner previous]] [[InsufferableGenius boyfriends]] didn't warrant some caution.
* AlmostKiss: Billy and Jenny are sitting on swings in a park and pushing themselves closer for their first kiss... then Billy slips and falls on his ass.
* CloudCuckooLander: The Wise Old Woman they try to buy condoms from. Turns out she's an alien.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Jenny's ex Mike. He tries to drag her off when he runs into her while she's on a date with Billy, which leads to...
** CurbStompBattle: Billy gets one punch in on Mike, but is then utterly annihilated by Mike and his friend Tony, both obvious bodybuilders and Mike a trained fighter. But that leads to...
*** GroinAttack: Jenny then protects Billy by kicking them in the balls.
* CreativeClosingCredits: The credits are just black and white names, but the characters are described as they are in the film, i.e. The Male, The Female, The Female's Asian Friend, The Wise Old Woman, etc...
* EpicFail: Billy gets a number from the hottest girl in the club, then leaves it in his suit that he sends to the dry cleaners. All that's left is shreds.
* LameExcuse: After Billy falls into the sand while trying for a kiss, he asks if it's too late to mention how romantic the stars are. The Narrator even lampshades it an an attempt at IMeantToDoThat.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall - One of the cutaway 'sperm running up against a barrier' jokes is shown being filmed in the background of a laterscene.
scene, much to the confusion of Billy.
* LesYay:
* MsFanservice: In the mid-Ninties, Carmen Electra was about as high up on the hot scale as any actress.
* TheNineties: Set solidly in an era before cell phones and online dating, but with (big, beige)computers
computers.
*OverprotectiveDad - OpenMouthInsertFoot: When Billy loses Jenny's number, his best friend tries to console him by telling him that because she was so hot, she probably gave him a fake number.
* OverprotectiveDad: Jenny's father is constantly, and conspicuously, showing off his firearm collection to Billy.
* PoorCommunicationKills: It's so loud in the club, Jenny can't hear Billy's compliment on her dancing. So he tries to mime it and ends up humping air. She then [[FoodSlap throws a drink in his face]].
* PottyEmergency: Billy tries to show Jenny how much he wants her by holding off going to the bathroom. He only makes it a few seconds before dancing around uncomfortably. Jenny's laugh shows him she was just screwing with him and he makes a mad dash in.
* TheQuest: Billy attempts to find Jenny by calling every "J. Smith" in the LA phone book. Jenny is thoroughly impressed.
* ReallyGetsAround: Jenny's friend Lana. Her answering machine message is that Jenny is hotter, but she puts out. She's even described in the credits as "The Female's Slutty Friend".
* RescueSex: Played with. Jenny ends up protecting Billy from her ex, but rewards Billy with a blowjob [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption because he tried to save her even though he knew he would fail.]]
* ShoutOut: The workings of spermicidal gel are depicted as a [[Terminator2JudgmentDay large guy in a flat top and biker gear carrying a machine gun]] shooting the sperm.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Jenny's reasoning for going out with Billy, after the JerkJock, SmugSnake, and TheStoner were fun at first, then all turned out horrible.
* SpermArePeople: A literal example, as the sperm in the film are men dressed in white clothing with swim caps.
* TheILoveYouStigma: Billy has a great deal of difficulty saying it, likely as a response to his
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece - of theNinetiesNineties
* UnreliableNarrator: Among other things David Hyde Pierce's narrator tells the audience is that sex is painful and giving birth is joyful, oral sex is used to taste test sex cells, and that Jenny removing her hair stick is her "pulling a bone out of her skull".
* WhatAnIdiot: Billy receives the result of his HIV test and is distraught when it's negative, forcing his friend Jimmy to tell him that negative means he doesn't have it.
* WildlifeCommentarySpoof: The entire movie is this for observing aliens.
** Jenny has the DumbJock, an ExtrovertedNerd, and a guy who's just [[RuleOfCreepy creepy]].
** Billy has a FatGirl and a BikerBabe.
* AbusiveParents: Billy has this in spades, with his dad yelling at him for being a bookish child and his mom shrugging it off. As an adult, his father stares down his girlfriend's cleavage and both parents are recovering alcoholics.
** Jenny's dad is a GunNut who threatens Billy several times at their first meeting and [[ShotgunWedding shows off a holstered pistol at their wedding]]. Not that [[DomesticAbuse her]] [[TheStoner previous]] [[InsufferableGenius boyfriends]] didn't warrant some caution.
* AlmostKiss: Billy and Jenny are sitting on swings in a park and pushing themselves closer for their first kiss... then Billy slips and falls on his ass.
* CloudCuckooLander: The Wise Old Woman they try to buy condoms from. Turns out she's an alien.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Jenny's ex Mike. He tries to drag her off when he runs into her while she's on a date with Billy, which leads to...
** CurbStompBattle: Billy gets one punch in on Mike, but is then utterly annihilated by Mike and his friend Tony, both obvious bodybuilders and Mike a trained fighter. But that leads to...
*** GroinAttack: Jenny then protects Billy by kicking them in the balls.
* CreativeClosingCredits: The credits are just black and white names, but the characters are described as they are in the film, i.e. The Male, The Female, The Female's Asian Friend, The Wise Old Woman, etc...
* EpicFail: Billy gets a number from the hottest girl in the club, then leaves it in his suit that he sends to the dry cleaners. All that's left is shreds.
* LameExcuse: After Billy falls into the sand while trying for a kiss, he asks if it's too late to mention how romantic the stars are. The Narrator even lampshades it an an attempt at IMeantToDoThat.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall - One of the cutaway 'sperm running up against a barrier' jokes is shown being filmed in the background of a later
* LesYay:
* MsFanservice: In the mid-Ninties, Carmen Electra was about as high up on the hot scale as any actress.
* TheNineties: Set solidly in an era before cell phones and online dating, but with (big, beige)
*
* OverprotectiveDad: Jenny's father is constantly, and conspicuously, showing off his firearm collection to Billy.
* PoorCommunicationKills: It's so loud in the club, Jenny can't hear Billy's compliment on her dancing. So he tries to mime it and ends up humping air. She then [[FoodSlap throws a drink in his face]].
* PottyEmergency: Billy tries to show Jenny how much he wants her by holding off going to the bathroom. He only makes it a few seconds before dancing around uncomfortably. Jenny's laugh shows him she was just screwing with him and he makes a mad dash in.
* TheQuest: Billy attempts to find Jenny by calling every "J. Smith" in the LA phone book. Jenny is thoroughly impressed.
* ReallyGetsAround: Jenny's friend Lana. Her answering machine message is that Jenny is hotter, but she puts out. She's even described in the credits as "The Female's Slutty Friend".
* RescueSex: Played with. Jenny ends up protecting Billy from her ex, but rewards Billy with a blowjob [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption because he tried to save her even though he knew he would fail.]]
* ShoutOut: The workings of spermicidal gel are depicted as a [[Terminator2JudgmentDay large guy in a flat top and biker gear carrying a machine gun]] shooting the sperm.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Jenny's reasoning for going out with Billy, after the JerkJock, SmugSnake, and TheStoner were fun at first, then all turned out horrible.
* SpermArePeople: A literal example, as the sperm in the film are men dressed in white clothing with swim caps.
* TheILoveYouStigma: Billy has a great deal of difficulty saying it, likely as a response to his
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece - of the
* UnreliableNarrator: Among other things David Hyde Pierce's narrator tells the audience is that sex is painful and giving birth is joyful, oral sex is used to taste test sex cells, and that Jenny removing her hair stick is her "pulling a bone out of her skull".
* WhatAnIdiot: Billy receives the result of his HIV test and is distraught when it's negative, forcing his friend Jimmy to tell him that negative means he doesn't have it.
* WildlifeCommentarySpoof: The entire movie is this for observing aliens.
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A {{Mockumentary}} on the subject of late 90s dating, from the perspective of an alien observer, complete with WildlifeCommentarySpoof style narration. It tells the story of Billy, a twentysomething accountant, and his budding relationship with Jenny, an attractive computer worker, described and analyzed (sometimes [[UnreliableNarrator hilariously inaccurately]]) by an alien narrator.
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!!The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human contains examples of these tropes:
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall - One of the cutaway 'sperm running up against a barrier' jokes is shown being filmed in the background of a later scene.
* TheNineties: Set solidly in an era before cell phones and online dating, but with (big, beige) computers
* OverprotectiveDad - Jenny's father is constantly, and conspicuously, showing off his firearm collection to Billy.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece - of the Nineties
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!!The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human contains examples of these tropes:
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall - One of the cutaway 'sperm running up against a barrier' jokes is shown being filmed in the background of a later scene.
* TheNineties: Set solidly in an era before cell phones and online dating, but with (big, beige) computers
* OverprotectiveDad - Jenny's father is constantly, and conspicuously, showing off his firearm collection to Billy.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece - of the Nineties
