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Hottest Job for a Male Love Interest in a Romantic Comedy

Architect

Flex pick · Craig Horlbeck

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  • Architect, pediatrician, journalist, chef and a grounded rich heir are attractive romantic-comedy jobs; architecture combines creativity and practicality. — Craig Horlbeck
  • Advertising evokes Don Draper’s womanizing; lawyer, businessman and widowed stay-at-home dad are considered, but unemployment is a barrier.
  • Chef, vet, urban planner and sports doctor are considered; plastic surgeon is too vain. Architect remains favored, with oil billionaire dismissed.
  • Realtor and marine biologist are added; marine research risks romantic unavailability.
  • Female sportswriter examples lead to sideline reporter as the best ESPN rom-com job; Trainwreck’s sports-doctor role enabled comic athlete interactions.
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Apex Mountain

Alec Baldwin; this kitchen (disputed)

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  • Streep is rejected here; her mid-eighties work and Devil Wears Prada through Iron Lady represent possible peaks, with no real career fallow period.
  • Baldwin possibly qualifies alongside 30 Rock and SNL.
  • Steve Martin’s late-seventies success is preferred; his-and-her sinks receive a positive discussion without a firm peak judgment.
  • Meyers’s peak shifts from The Holiday to Something’s Gotta Give based on film quality, nominations and box-office discussion.
  • Divorced-couple romances have earlier screwball peaks, including His Girl Friday and The Philadelphia Story.
  • Krasinski’s A Quiet Place and marriage to Emily Blunt displace this performance as his peak.
  • The Holiday’s British cottage is preferred for Meyers houses; this kitchen receives a best-kitchen vote but Something’s Gotta Give is defended for space, storage and island layout.
  • Lake Bell, Caitlin FitzGerald and Zoe Kazan receive no Apex endorsement.
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Probably Unanswerable Questions

Jake’s legal work; Streep’s laugh count; noodle ingredients; ex-spouse affairs

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  • Jake has a law partnership but implausibly plentiful free time; his actual legal practice remains unspecified.
  • Could this set a Streep laugh record? The proposed laugh-per-minute tally is comic speculation.
  • The noodle dish’s contents remain uncertain; a pesto pasta salad is suggested.
  • An affair with an ex is deemed acceptable only when the current spouse was the original affair partner; a blameless later spouse changes the judgment.
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