Get a Life - Vol. 1

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Summary: "Wanna buy a monkey?"
Review: Perhaps one of the dumbest, yet funniest shows ever made comes to DVD. Having been one of the hardcore fans for the month or so that this show was televised, I was excited to see it finally available on DVD. This DVD contains four classic episodes from the series. If you like dumb comedy, in the spirit of Conan O'Brien, Adam Sandler, the Simpsons, or the Farrely Brothers (Kingpin, Dumb & Dumber, and Something About Mary), then this may be the comedy that you have been looking for. Original series fans will be reminded of a time when bad shows ruled the networks. While many think this show was a total waste, I have not laughed this hard in a long time. I could summarize each of the four episodes on the DVD, but all that needs to be said is you will laugh you a** off. Chris Elliott...a comic genius that has yet to reach his full potential. Some day these episodes will be classics and watched endlessly in Europe like Jerry Lewis.

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Summary: More Volumes Please!
Review: Please Rhino, give us more episodes on DVD!

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Summary: This isn't funny
Review: The best part of my DVD is the FBI warning at the beginning and the theme song. I am 4 episodes into to the first dvd and I have not laughed even once. The humor is not clever. It is Chris Elliot falling down and hurting himself over and over again, or exposing himself to radiation, and then someone cranks up the laugh track. I liked Chris okay on David Letterman; he wasn't the main attraction, but his skits there were okay, and I appreciated them. Unfortunately, so far in this first season, this series sucks. It isn't funny; it isn't clever. The idea behind the series, a loser who still lives with his parents and has a paper route has promise. The execution is pathetic.


Let me give you an example of one of the most clever things on the show. Chris falls in love with a gal in the 4th episode and he confides in Gus that everywhere he looks, he sees this girl's face. Gus points out that he has pictures of her put up all over his room. And the camera shows lots of pictures of this girl all over his wall. Big laughs from the "audience." Now, if that sounds funny to you and put a smile on your face, you will love this series. Later on, this gal throws a rock from her window and hits Chris in the head. Again, the laugh track is cranked up. For me, I don't know if I will watch past this 4th episode.

There are many good reviews here, which are an absolute mystery to me. Maybe the key is, if "Married With Children" is your idea of high comedy, then "Get a Life" maybe right down your alley.

Notice on several reviews, people recall how great this series was when they were 11 or 13; but when they see it again, they are suprised as to how bad it is now. Maybe this would appeal to your 12 year old kid; and maybe if your intellect level is that of a 12 year old, this could be the show for you. "Friends," which is not my idea of a great show by the way, is probably too subtle for you.

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Summary: Huh?
Review: The Best show off all time. Chris Elliott is amazing. The funniest human on Earth and Neptune! KPANTS!

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Summary: Great Series--Almost perfect DVD
Review: The only problem I have with this DVD is the music substitution. FOX has replaced the original songs 'Georgie Girl' and 'To Sir With Love' with generic bland music in order to save money. Shame on them! Still this is one of the stars of my DVD collection. I never thought I'd see the day...but wait, episodes 3 and 4 are coming too! All I can say is if they keep making them I'll keep buying them. But PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE keep the original song soundtracks! There are also DVD sound options without the laugh track! Priceless!

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Summary: Hilarious but NOT ENOUGH
Review: There is nothing funnier than Chris Elliott on this DVD but a mere 4 episodes is a joke. Please provide more and you're likely to get more buyers.

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Summary: Good Tacky Humor
Review: These shows work best when they are poking fun at social preconceptions about rehabilitating troubled teens, the supposed cute and loveable magic of aliens, and modeling school. Chris Elliot makes you laugh through exaggeration and self parody. It nice to have the option of no laugh track on the DVD and I noticed that without the laughs the shows seemed to be more disturbing in places instead of funny (the "oh I am suppose to laugh at that" effect). Some of the jokes fall flat but the ones that work had me laughing so hard, especially the repeated car accidents of Girlfriend 2000 and the ET parody with Spewey and Me. Wish I could have seen more of the father in this collection and we need a collection with "Zoo Animals on Skates". This is a fun collection at a reasonable price.

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Summary: A Sitcom that is Guaranteed to Entertain the Viewer
Review: This DVD offers a rare opportunity to some of us; the diehard fans of this sitcom, which appeared on Fox Network in late 1980s and 1990s. This is one of the few funniest TV comedies ever created that did not succeed in TV ratings because it was not aired on a major network. This show is about a 30 year old paperboy who never grows up in every sense of the word. He lives with his retired parents and run into all kinds of zany, sometime off-beat antics that provides entertainment to young and old. It was quite disappointing to many of us that it did not reappear in reruns, but this DVD offers a rare opportunity to view four episodes. The Prettiest Week of my Life is hilarious. Spewey & Me is a grotesque episode that producers could have spared the fans from seeing it; you feel like puking to see Chris drink body-exudates of an alien, and at the end he cuts it open and eat the cooked meat. This is gruesome to say the least for a sitcom. The producers could have sold better and funnier episodes of the show; let us hope the success of this DVD may persuade producers to of the show to market all episodes, and a DVD with 12 episodes are made available to all the fans.

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Summary: One of the best DVD's I own
Review: This is one of the best DVD's I own (next to Clerks). Chris Elliott is really funny and can play a moron so well. I never watched this when it was on the air, but I rented it after I heard it was good. I was extremely surprised at how funny it was. Chris just keeps getting stupider each episode. If anything, get this just for "Girlfriend 2000". It's the funniest thing that has ever been on tv. This is the best tv show next to Upright Citizens Brigade. If you like stupidity at it's best go buy "Get a Life". Both videos are contained here for the price of one.

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Summary: The greatest sitcom (?) of all time...............
Review: This series was groundbreaking in it's humor, it's use of the word "bastard", and is well deserving of it's cult following. At the time, I thought my friends and I were the only people on earth that worshipped this show. Fortunately there are a few more. Now, how about a big Hot Dog Boy kiss?