O2D
Get A Life is one of the funniest shows ever.That's why it got cancelled.The average person would rather watch a bunch of fools learning important life lessons.That's their idea of comedy.Not only was this show extremely funny, they made very weird story choices that always worked.The show starts off being about a 30 year old paperboy, his parents and his best friend.In early episodes they try to give Chris other paperboy friends but they quickly disappear.Almost every episode contains a ridiculous musical montage and it never gets old.At one point in the first season they start having Chris die in most episodes and every time it's funny.For the second season,Chris moved into the garage of Bill Murray's brother and his parents only make a couple appearances after that.But the weirdest change they made is when Chris' best friend leaves his wife and she becomes the co-star of the series, even though her and Chris hate each other and she was barely in the first season.And it worked!This is by far one of the best TV shows ever.If you read this go find everything by Chris, Eagleheart, Cabin Boy, old Letterman clips, whatever you can find.You won't regret it.
S.R. Dipaling
I loved this show! FOX television,while a fairly savvy network through much of its run since 1990,seemed to be un-in-love with this show from about the first three or four episodes on and it could be seen as a minor miracle that they even bothered to retain it for a second year! As such,they still dealt it pretty harshly,moving it from the high profile Sunday night slot it debuted in to the easily ignored Saturday mid-evening slot. Needless to say,the ratings would drop and it gave FOX all the excuse it needed to officially dump the show at last.Chris Elliott's charm(or lack thereof)and grotesque goofiness was honed on David Letterman's NBC show through the 1980s,and is plugged into this wildly drawn premise of an overgrown paperboy. I felt it applied perfectly,brilliantly in this show. Great supporting turns by(among others)Bob Elliott(Chris' dad and accomplished comedian in his own right),Elinor Donahue,Robin Riker and Brian Doyle-Murray made this show fitfully funny and completely lacking sentimentality or schmaltz.I hope this show makes it to DVD(preferably sooner than later),assuming it hasn't already. I'd love to get reacquainted with these shows,and I imagine I'm not alone on this.
dmeehan-1
Get A Life was the greatest show to ever air on TV. I only taped 2 episodes, which I have dubbed to DVD, and watched a million time.... the Spewie episode,, and the finale episode.. I have nothing from season 1!!! The DVD's are not available in Canada!! please somebody!! rip & send!! of I will pay someone to burn their DVD's and send them to me!!! I BEG OF YOU!!!!! PLEASE HELP ME!!! email me thanks! I collect old TV shows. I'm also looking for: "Barretta" "six million dollar man" "bionic woman" "magic" "the incredible hulk". Get A Life was the greatest show to ever air on TV. I only taped 2 episodes, which I have dubbed to DVD, and watched a million time.... the Spewie episode,, and the finale episode.. I have nothing from season 1!!! The DVD's are not available in Canada!! please somebody!! rip & send!! of I will pay someone to burn their DVD's and send them to me!!! I BEG OF YOU!!!!! PLEASE HELP ME!!! email me thanks! I collect old TV shows. I'm also looking for: "Barretta" "six million dollar man" "bionic woman" "magic" "the incredible hulk
jmuduke
One of the funniest sitcom's ever! I don't know why this show didn't survive. I think the humor was ahead of it's time. My favorite episode was when the construction workers were doing some work in Chris' parent's kitchen, and they taught Chris how to yell out catcalls to women as they passed by. "Yeah, uh-huh. Pluck that banjo honey. Yeah, you have a very nice skirt on today." I hope Rhino comes out with more episodes on DVD.