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Summary: Sadly Dull
Review: I remembered watching this show and laughing hysterically, but at the same time, I enjoyed Married with Children. It seems that my sense of humor has altered over the past 10 years. These episodes, some of which I remember enjoying during the original airdates, are astoundingly unfunny. The four episodes, spanning two years of the show's original run, make it evident that Chris Elliott couldn't decide whether to play the character as a naive idiot or as a psychotic idiot. Unfortunately, the awkward mixture of the character types keeps him from exploring the extreme absurdity of either role. With the exception of a couple of throw-away lines from "Girlfriend 2000," Get a Life disappoints by wallowing far below the bar. Rent if you must, or avoid at all cost.
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Summary: The best show ever
Review: I've waited along time to see Get A Life reruns and finally it's here. Chris Elliot was way ahead of his time. I feel if this show was out now it would be one of the highest rated shows on T.V. This DvD doesn't have much in extras but who needs them when you have 4 great episodes. I wish there was more. I want all 35 hopefully Rhino will release more.
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Summary: BEST COMEDY SERIES EVER TO HIT TV
Review: If you like witless humor such as what you'll find in shows like "Spin City," then you'll hate this show. But if you like creative humor from a comic genius, then you'll die watching these 4 episodes. Chris Elliot has a unique comedy style which never caught on with many viewers; but watch these 4 shows and you'll be starting a petition to bring the show back. "Spewey and Me" will kill you. An alien crashes on his front lawn, and Chris befriends him even though all the alien does is beat and vomit on him. If you saw his later movie, "Cabin Boy," you'll be a bit disappointed because he eased off the comedy he brought to "Get A Life." But these are episodes you can watch over and over again, then cry after you see the junk they put on TV to replace this. So when you see a poor review for this show, perhaps it was given by a person who thinks "Spin City" is funny. Or maybe somebody who cracks up at the commercials for "Veronica's Closet." Or maybe it's just some demented, crazed junkie (I hear some drugs make funny things dumb and dumb things funny).
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Summary: mikeknox.com
Review: Isn't this everyone's dream? Living at home over your parent's garage at 30. Sleeping all day and going over to you neighbor's house who's a retired cop and beating the snot out of an alien named SPEWEY. SPACE PERSON something or rather who has pudding come shooting out of his elbows and makes great cold cuts.
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Summary: Stupid but Brilliant
Review: It isn't often that you find a program where the creators "get it". Get a Life gets it. People with enough brains to understand the wit behind the silly antics will thoroughly enjoy this series. Too bad it isn't complete, but I'll take what I can get. I had to wait ten years for another program like this to surface, and it too was short lived. After watching this, check out Strangers with Candy. Lets hope that it doesn't take another decade for cutting edge humor to hit the airwaves.
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Summary: Finally on DVD....
Review: It took Rhino home video long enough to put "Get a Life" on DVD, But at last it's here. They managed to not improve the video quality by much, only fit four episodes on a DVD (I'm suprised the series lasted that long) that doesnt have any of the added features that DVD usually brings (commentary, multiple angles, French, etc.). I give the show all five stars for its perverse humor and total lack of a budget, But the less-than-overflowing DVD was a real let-down. I'd recomend this to any fan of the show, or anyone who's never seen the program before but is a big fan of over the top humor.
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Summary: Best show that was ever cancelled
Review: It was a loss when they cancelled this show. Chris Elliot's style requires you to have an oddball sense of humor, or you just won't get it. This is one of the funniest shows to ever be on television. I just finished watching all 4 episodes, and the show is as goofy as I remember. Hopefully more Get A Life DVD's will come out soon. The submarine episode is the one I remember almost laughing up a lung.
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Summary: The greatest Anti-Sitcom ever!
Review: It's safe to say that without Chris Elliott's GET A LIFE, we probably would never have seen the success of the Farrelly Brothers or ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. GET A LIFE set new frontiers in TV comedy by taking the standard sitcom format and turning it on its head.
The premise was simple: a 30-year-old paperboy still lived at home with his rather less-than-concerned parents (played by Elinor Donahue and Chris' real-life father, Bob Elliott) who tolerated him as best they could while he got into one mess after another.
But this was no LEAVE IT TO BEAVER. Whereas most sitcoms would take such a premise and turn it into a formulaic, feel-good giggle-fest, GET A LIFE dared to make its lead character into a bizarre man-child who could never see how truly ridiculous his inane behavior was to others. He lived in his own self-contained world where he was the coolest and hippest guy on the planet. What saved the character from being either a creep or the butt of everyone's joke was his underlying naivete and childlike innocence, which, in the end, was often enough to help him (barely) triumph over the evil forces in his neighborhood.
Embodied perfectly by Chris Elliott, the indestructible "Chris Peterson" was a brilliant sitcom creation who managed to last two seasons on Fox. But that was only half the story. The other great thing about GET A LIFE was how the series took standard-issue sitcom plots and twisted them into deranged new forms. This was like the TWIN PEAKS of sitcoms in the way it constantly challenged the boundaries of both good taste and common sense in order to get a reaction from its stunned audience. The humor ran the gamut from low-brow to madcap to surreal. In the 2nd Season, almost every episode ended with Chris getting killed.
The GET A LIFE VOL. 1 DVD collects four great episodes from the first season, including the hysterical "The Prettiest Week of My Life," in which Chris trains to be a runway model. One of the funniest bits is a takeoff on the infamous Irene Cara scene from FAME.
It's a shame that Rhino never got around to releasing the entire series on DVD, but at least the 8 episodes available on VOL. 1 and 2 are enough to give viewers a sizable appreciation of this short-lived but memorably off-beat sitcom.
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Summary: Rhino, we want more!
Review: Low budget, sometimes poorly acted, and yet utterly hillarious and enjoyable. This show was (and still is) a landmark comedy series which seems to have quite a rabid following. Rhino, if you're reading this, please release more episodes on DVD! (Especially 'Zoo Animals on Wheels') Even if you watch the show and don't like it, you will at least have seen one of the most strange and original shows ever to make it to network TV.
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Summary: A lesson in life and love.
Review: Only in the world of Chris Elliot (and perhaps mine) could a foul creature that brings violence (and vomit) to our world be construed as a messenger of love. Then toss in the dream of being a male model, stalking some Genius girl *beep*, and teaching some street thugs a lesson in love, and what do you get? A recipe for hilarity....and love.
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