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The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human
« on: Jul 11^th, 2004, 9:32am »

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Came across this last night on the space channel- Hysterical!!!!

go rent this....

From the website:

THE STORY (MORE OR LESS)
The film opens with unintelligible sounds and an apparently matching unintelligible text unfolding on the screen. Each change appears to be a translation of another language until we begin to hear more familiar Earthbound languages...then, in English:

"Please adjust your universal translator to the language of your understanding--we will begin in 10 seconds..."

Then, a confident, seemingly knowledgeable voice begins to narrate what appears to be a simple romantic comedy--a friendly, boyish, and handsome young man spots a fresh, lovely, and sexy young woman dancing in a club and makes an awkward attempt to meet and impress her.

However, the studious and pontificating voice comments on nearly every action that takes place in the club--much like the seemingly all-knowing narrator of a nature documentary such as "The Nesting Practices of The Platypus" or "Meet The Wood Louse."

As we leave the club, we find that we are, in fact, watching a documentary from another world--"The Mating Habits Of The Earthbound Human," where an extra-terrestrial film crew (invisible, perhaps, or so small that we wouldn't notice them around?) has traveled to Earth to capture the images of the courtship and reproduction of the human species so as to inform the more intelligent citizens of the universe.

As for the narrator (David Hyde Pierce) he is utterly certain, if not pompous about every aspect of human behavior that he witnesses, wrong though he may be. When The Male agonizes over misplacing the phone number of The Female, we Earthbound folk can certainly sympathize, but the ever-present narrator can only assume it's business as usual.

Once things work out and the couple finally manage to go out on a date, and we see them comfortably getting to know one another while parked on Mullholland Drive, watching an L.A. sunset from high above the San Fernando Valley, the narrator notes calmly that "most say that this is the most beautiful aspect of the human mating ritual... other than the copulation..."

We go on to see the relationship develop through meeting the hostile father of The Female (Leo Rossi), and the goofy parents of The Male (Jack Kehler and Sharon Wyatt), the confusing, though well-meaning advice of the couple's closest friends (Markus Redmond, Lucy Liu, and Lisa Rotondi) as the couple continue through more and more intimate sexual behavior culminating in the risky contraceptive practice of "I'll pull out!"

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