The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human

The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (1999) is a comedy you can watch online on iFILM. David Hyde Pierce plays an alien scientist who has come to document human courtship as a nature documentary — complete with the dry, authoritative narrator voice and elaborate theories that miss the point entirely.

His subjects are Billy and Jenny, two thoroughly ordinary late-20th-century Americans going through the rituals: the bar, the exchanged glances, the first date, moving in together. McKenzie Astin and Carmen Electra play it completely straight while Pierce's commentary explains everything wrong, solemnly. Lucy Liu appears in a supporting role. Director Jeff Abugov never breaks the deadpan — the romance is filmed sincerely, and that contrast with the alien's baffled analysis is where the film finds its comedy. Stream The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (1999) online on iFILM.