The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human

A How-To-Do-It Guide.

A playful romantic comedy that frames modern courtship through the lens of an alien nature documentary, using deadpan narration and visual metaphors to gently mock human mating rituals.

David Hyde Pierce, playing an alien (credited as infinity-cubed in the opening credits), narrates a courtship in a late-20th century American city as an extraterrestrial nature documentary. The relationship "footage" is played straight, while the voice-over (with its most often wildly inaccurate theories) and elaborate visual metaphors add comedy.