|
Get A Life - Best TV Show Ever? Presented by Matt on 04/09/00  I can't believe I've gone this long without brining attention to perhaps the greatest television show in history - past, present, and future. Chris Elliot's starring role in the failed early 90s sitcom, Get a Life, paved the way for psychosis to be an integral part in today's entertainment medias. The original premise of the show was to have ultimate 30 year old loser, Chris Peterson, prove his worthlessness time and time again by still being a paperboy & by having the intelligence of a sponge. As the show progressed, things got weirder. Chris started dying in every episode. Body parts would fall off. Corrupt spelling bees would be displayed prominently. Season 2 featured a 31-year old Chris finally moving away from home into the garage of Gus Borden, a bitter ex-policemen with a drinking problem and an affinity for roadkill meat. After convincing his best friend Larry to run away from him, Larry's estranged wife Sharon has made it her personal mission to kill Chris at any given opportunity. (despite one episode where they have sex while trapped in a meat locker)  Here's some of the chief episodes of this show...and I'm not kidding - these are the actual plots: * Spewey & Me - Chris finds a space alien in his backyard. He names him 'Spewey', which is an acronym for 'Special Person...Entering the World...Egg Yolks'. Spewey bites and maims everyone from Chris' landlord Gus to the Pope, which Chris does his best to keep him out of the hands of the government and Michael Jackson's private zoo. Unfortunately, while off to buy medicine for the Spewster, Gus beats Spewey to death with a rake and eats him. * Amnesia 2000 - Chris throws a party, and obviously no one shows up. Gus and Sharon (Chris' mortal enemy) pity him and stay around for it. Chris serves them rotten shellfish from a wheelbarrow, causing them to have amnesia. Convincing them afterwards that he's their leader & also half-jackalope, he tried to mold them in his own image, making them dance to the tune of Alley Cat for seven hours straight. When they realize what's gone on, they rip off Chris' head and play soccer with it in the front yard. * Strange Brew - after being exposed and nearly killed by toxic waste, Chris and Gus awaken with new talents. Gus is an origami master, able to fold napkins into the most delicate of forms, while Chris gains super-intelligence. They decide to employ Chris' new smarts to win every spelling bee in the world. While the 'bee groupies' eventually start to annoy Chris, they make it all the way to the championships. Unfortunately, the effects of the toxic waste wear off, and Chris forgets how to spell 'pants'. The masses turn on him, sickened that he'd cheat the spelling bee organization by way of toxic waste. Chris' guide to time-travelling - The five known ways to travel back in time: 1. Running like a girl at the speed of light.  To date, there has never been a show anything like this on television. The combination of the entire cast and crew knowing they wouldn't be around for a third season invoked them to do the weirdest shit possible, and they delivered. It's truly a classic. Acid-induced dreams are no match for the insanity of Get A Life. It only lasted two seasons, and frankly, reruns of Tony Robbins' informercial did better viewership. But Get A Life amassed a cult following, and for about seven years bootleg tapes made their way into the underground circuit, a full set costing as much as 300 dollars. Luckily, the series is now available on official home video and DVD. You will NEVER see anything like it. From Amazon.Com - To purchase Get a Life on DVD, click here. To purchase Get a Life on VHS, click here. Still not conviced? I've uploaded an entire script from one of the episodes for your viewing enjoyment. It's the script for 1977 2000, where Chris goes back in time to save Gus' career as a police officer, trying to stop him from urinating on the captain. Strange stuff... Click here.  Enjoy! Matt
|