And he can put you on the floor with a damning deadpan question that he thinks he already knows the answer to. Yes, Greg is well aware what his name sounds like. He's heard all those jokes since kindergarten. Yes, he's aware that his profession of being a nurse is not what macho guys usually choose. He's heard all of those jokes, too.
Love is in the air.
But so are tension and fear, as anything that can go wrong does. And so is angst as Greg realizes that he can do absolutely nothing right. He inadvertently insults everything from Jack's beloved cat, appropriately named Mr. Jinx, to his dead mother, whose ashes are kept in an urn in the dining room. And when the cat and dead mom come together in a twist of fate worthy of Rube Goldberg thinking, the film explodes with laughter, thanks to the imaginative escalation from director Jay Roach. Filmmakers do not aim for slapstick.