Their unifying characteristic is they're not romantic. They have this inability to recognize the simple romantic needs of their counterpart. They just never know the right thing!

There's a Baxter in every single romantic comedy,

David [Wain] and I had been writing a spoof of romantic comedies, and we started thinking about this stereotypical character. We started imagining an entire movie about him.

I went to college thinking of maybe pursuing a career in film criticism.

[Showalter, 35, came up with the moniker for the arrested-development archtype because he wanted it to sound universal. But Shlomo Why not? It couldn't hurt!] You know who he is, ... Baxter is the Mensch. He's the Pickle Guy from [the film] 'Crossing Delancey,' that nice Jewish boy who the girl discovers is not really the one she had in mind.

I'm not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they're really cute obviously. They are both wild and domestic at the same time.