Get a Life(TV show/series, 1990-1992)

Name: Get a Life
Genre: Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy
Released: 1990
Rating: 3.8

30min per episode | Genres: Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy

Scripted Reality in 2 seasons with 35 episodes

Rating: 3.8/5 (with 8 votes)

Get a Life is a television sitcom that was broadcast in the United States on the Fox Network from September 23, 1990, to March 8, 1992. The show stars Chris Elliott as a 30-year-old paperboy named Chris Peterson. Peterson lived in an apartment above his parents' garage (Elliott's parents are played by Elinor Donahue and his real-life father, comedian Bob Elliott). The opening credits depict Chris Peterson delivering newspapers on his bike to the show's theme song, "Stand" by R.E.M. The show was a creation of Elliott, Adam Resnick (like Elliott, a writer for Late Night with David Letterman), and writer/director David Mirkin (former executive producer/showrunner for Newhart and later for The Simpsons). Mirkin was executive producer/showrunner of the series and also directed most of the episodes. Notable writers of the series included Charlie Kaufman, screenwriter of Being John Malkovich; and Bob Odenkirk, co-creator of Mr. Show with Bob and David and Tenacious D. The show was unconventional for a prime time sitcom, and many times the storylines of the episodes were surreal. For example, Elliott's character actually dies in twelve episodes. The causes of death included being crushed by a gia... ()

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About Get a Life

Get a Life is a television sitcom that was broadcast in the United States on the Fox Network from September 23, 1990, to March 8, 1992. The show stars Chris Elliott as a 30-year-old paperboy named Chris Peterson. Peterson lived in an apartment above his parents' garage. The opening credits depict Chris Peterson delivering newspapers on his bike to the show's theme song, "Stand" by R.E.M. The show was a creation of Elliott, Adam Resnick and writer/director David Mirkin. Mirkin was executive producer/showrunner of the series and also directed most of the episodes. Notable writers of the series included Charlie Kaufman, screenwriter of Being John Malkovich; and Bob Odenkirk, co-creator of Mr. Show with Bob and David and Tenacious D. The show was unconventional for a prime time sitcom, and many times the storylines of the episodes were surreal. For example, Elliott's character actually dies in twelve episodes. The causes of death included being crushed by a giant boulder, old age, tonsillitis, stab wounds, gunshot wounds, falling from an airplane, strangulation, getting run over by cars, choking on cereal, and simply exploding. For this reason, it was a struggle for Elliott and Mirkin to get the show on the air. Many of the executives at the Fox Network hated the show and thought it was too disturbing and that Elliott's character was too insane.

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Trailer for Get a Life + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Get A Life(Opening Credits, 0:54)

Get a Life Seasons and Episodes

11/09/1991Season 2 - 13 episodes

#1 | 11/09/1991Chris Moves Out

Chris turns 31 and decides it's time to move out, so he goes in search of a new place to live and he moves into Gus' garage.

#2 | 11/16/1991Larry on the Loose

Larry takes off after to listening to Chris reminding him of everything wrong with his life. So Chris goes in search of Larry and when he fails, he goes in search of a new best friend.

#3 | 11/23/1991Meat Locker 2000

Chris and Sharon show their true feelings when they become trapped in a meat locker together.

#4 | 11/30/1991Health Inspector 2000

After finding a dead rat in his carton of milk, Chris decides to become a food inspector.

#5 | 12/07/1991Chris Gets His Tonsils Out

Chris must deal with the fact he is ready to undergo ""major"" surgery and he begins by trying to make peace with Sharon.

#6 | 12/14/1991Prisoner of Love

When his pen-pal gets released from prison, she comes to stay with Chris. She takes him hostage when the police come after her when she starts criminal activities under Chris' nose.

#7 | 12/21/1991Chris Becomes a Male Escort

Chris decides on a whim to become a male escort, hoping for free plays and dates with young women. What he gets is a elderly woman who is hard up.

#8 | 01/12/1992Girlfriend 2000

After getting hit by her car, Chris falls for (and stalks) a doctor, later while stalking her, he starts getting stalked by the girl from the drugstore who has fallen for him.

#9 | 01/19/1992Chris' Brain Starts Working

Exposure to toxic waste, found under Gus' house, turns Chris into a genius and with Gus he proceeds to enter and win spelling bees.

#10 | 02/02/1992Bad Fish

After eating bad shellfish, Sharon and Gus get amnesia, and Chris seizes the opportunity to convince them that they are his best friends.

#11 | 02/09/1992SPEWEY and Me

When an alien crashes in Gus' front yard, Chris tries to keep it from the government, but this alien is nothing like E.T. or ALF.

#12 | 03/01/19921977 2000

Chris time travels to save Gus' career as a law enforcement officer. However he soon discovers the trouble with messing with the past which includes two-headed zombies named Sharon.

#13 | 03/08/1992Clip Show

While on his first jet airplane flight, Chris falls out, and is disappointed when his life flashes before his eyes and it only covers the past eighteen months.

09/23/1990Season 1 - 22 episodes

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: Minnesota

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 2 languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES)

Status: Ended

First episode released on: 09/23/1990

Last episode released on: 03/08/1992

Cast: Chris Elliott

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