Love Ain't All You Need

Can we please, for the love of all that is holy, stop making romantic comedies? They are no longer original. It is virtually impossible to make a romantic comedy and have it not be utterly boring and predictable. Even the parodies are tired and cliche, which is a pretty much a sign that things are not going very well. And the fact that people keep trying to play the genre completely straight is pretty damn embarrassing. Honestly, I don't even find the "good" ones entertaining, mostly because I have never been able to stomach a single romance in pretty much any movie,* except for a very small list, so an entire movie about nothing BUT romance makes me want to slice my arm off with a table saw, and I'm not even entirely sure what a table saw is.

Here is a run-down of every romantic comedy ever made:
-One of the leads will be awkward and "quirky", yet somehow still charming. If male, he will somehow go against all standards of attractiveness, but still never be actually ugly. If female, she will be "ugly", here meaning "wears glasses and perhaps a sweater".
-The other lead will be rich, popular, "sexy", or some combination of the three. They will have some sort of obligation from their parents to get married before they get "old", here meaning "over thirty".
-They meet each other in some sort of awkward fashion, like perhaps bumping into one another at a book store or some other geeky affair, unless it takes place in a high school, in which case it will happen in a lunch room.
-The rich/successful lead will slowly but surely fall for the geeky/quirky lead's awkward "charm".
-They begin to date. Montages involving beaches, bicycles, and ice cream ensue, as well as wacky hijinks. There will probably be some sort of running gag involving a bizarre animal with an inappropriate name.
-Some sort of fight occurs. A problem comes up in the relationship somehow.
-The audience doesn't care because we know they will get together anyway because we aren't retarded.
-They do.
-Kissing and sex.
-Roll credits with obnoxious pop song.
-I demand my money back, because apparently I'm bad at pattern recognition and didn't see this coming.

No, having Adam Sandler in it will not make it any better. That usually makes it worse.

*And they seem to cram the damn things into fricking EVERYTHING. Can't we just have a nice, well-written story without a shoehorned romantic sub-plot?