Genetics professor with some social challenges (or aspergers/autism like) sets out to find a wife through a detailed scientific survey 
 He meets a student trying to identify her father and takes this on as a project also 
 would you believe it, her idiosyncracies rub off on him and he begins in some aspects to address his social issues, throw in some fish out of water, literal minded laughs (there are some laughs) along the way 
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