this is one of those shows that I remember watching but then as I got older, thought I made it all up. it didn't help that basically no one else I knew ever even heard of the show and thought I was bonkers whenever I mentioned it.
I found it! I knew there was a TV show from my childhood where in the opening a dude crashes a bicycle while checking out a woman, but I had no idea what it was called.
Fox had some really interesting shows in the ‘80s and ‘90s. In addition to Married with Children, there was this show, Malcolm in the Middle, Herman’s Head, In Living Color (where Jennifer Lopez got her start as a Fly Girl) and others.
@@jimskelton7531 Parker Lewis wasn't on fox it came on after fresh prince on what ever network that was NBC I think. Great show all the same love the Kubiak
loved this show! Too bad it only lasted a couple of seasons. The humor was way ahead of it's time. Chris played a similar character on Everybody Loves Raymond, he's so hilarious.
omg, I heard the song on the radio today, and new it was from a tv show. So I looked it up, and I forgot all about GET a LIFE. Good show that got canceled. "Stand in the place where you work...."
I love the way he throws the papers lol. I once filled in for a guy doing that job. It was utter chaos. Ha ha. I remember my friend would receive phone calls super early with people complaining. 😂
HOLY F-ING BALLS !!! MOST UNDERRATED TV SHOW OF ALL TIME , WHAT IS FUNNY IS IM 36 AND ITS 2020 , THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN OVER 25ish YEARS IVE THOUGHT TO MYSELF , I KNOW CHRIS ELLIOT HAD A SHOW AND I SAID TO MYSELF , I THINK ITS CALLED, GET A LIFE , SO I TYPED IT IN AND BAM! INSTANT GRATIFICATION :D , XD, GOOD TIMES. Really tho I have to watch some of this show NOW.
In this 1991-ish TV intro, a Chris Elliot gets distracted and rides his bike into a 3rd Generation Firebird. Around the same year, in Wayne's World, Lara Flynn Boyle get's distracted and crashes her bike into a 3rd gen Camaro.
The episode where he tryed to cure his sore throat by hanging himself with a noose was such a damned randomly ludacris STUPID image,It still cracks me up just to think about ! I wish I could get that clip as a gif.
I was around 14 when this was on, i loved this show. Does anyone remember another Fox show called Down the Shore? And Oops! or Whoops! about the end of the world survivors?
I remember watching this show as kid and thinking that this character was a loser and I would never end up like him. 20 years later, I am 30 years old and I live with my parents.
my favorite episode was the one when chris and his dad build a submarine in his shower and some how the shower fills with water and their trapped in the sub that was classic
I believe that was "Spewey and Me"-where the alien landed in his backyard and him and his landlord end up eating him to keep from being caught by the CIA. LOL!
this is tv at it's finest, truly the best show i believe it influenced tim n eric's comedy, too i never consciously realized how abstract it was it just made sense to me growing up i only knew one other person who found this show funny
I loved this show on Fox 5, hate that they cancelled it, it was too funny, I liked it alot, he always had me laughing, maybe others couldn't handle his sense of humor, but I could.
I remember this as a kid.Funny show!Fox back then had great shows.In Living Color,Married with Children,The Larry Sanders Show and Herman's Head.I still enjoy Fox's Sunday Night line up.Well,I hate Bob's Burgers :(
Funniest show ever!! One of the first sitcoms for the infant Fox Network. I guess the country wasn't ready for Chris Elliot's sick brand of humor so it was cancelled. Too bad :(
Si os gustan las series absurdas esta es la vuestra. Mi hermano y yo la vimos entera cuando la emitieron por Canal +. La verdad es que el prota es gilip... jaja
Smart move. You can deny the truth, or come to the realization that if your girlfriend does not appreciate the humor of Chris's stupidity she really has no clue, and you will never really connect on the important levels of relationships.
it makes me irrationally angry how little respect or attention this show gets for being so incredibly ahead of its time and influential to all anti-sitcoms that have come after it
I remember when this show came out right after Married with children, and the show tried to have kind of the same vibe. It just didn't work though, the jokes were way too forced.. Elliott character was more annoying than a guy who could have moments like AL Bundy did.
Wikipedia says that they planned from the start to radically change the cast, setting, and tenor of this show every year -- as they did between Seasons 1 and 2. Had the show continued beyond Season 2 Chris would have become a homeless drifter, moving out of the ex-cop's garage and "traveling around America, meeting different people every week and making all of their lives just a little bit worse."
This show was ahead of its time. In 1990 it was considered really strange for a grown man to be like him, deliver papers and live with his parents. Fast forward about 15 years later and see there are quite a lot of Chris Petersons It also tested his lifestyle against his friend Larry who would be considered normal. Today more and more people are seeing through the shallow materialistic lifestyle of corporate drones who live to work and spend In a way Chris could be considered an anti hero for modern movements of tiny home, minimalism or freedom based lifestyle
I'm 17, so Get A Life ended before I was even born, but it is one of my favorite shows. I grew up watching it on VHS, my dad loves Chris Elliott, and even after 20+ years it's still better than the stuff that they expect people my age to watch. I can't believe that it's so under-rated and unheard of.
I guess I was the only one out of all the people I know that watched this show. I try to describe it to people and look at me like 😕. Lol I thought this show was hilarious
So sad to hear that Bob Elliott, who played Fred Peterson on this show passed away on February 2, 2016. he played Fred Peterson on this awesome show. R.I.P. Bob Elliott, you were a great TV and radio personality.
This show was kind of prophetic, in a way. There are many people between the ages of 20 and 40 who are like Chris Elliot's character in real life. Thirty to fifty years ago, such individuals and circumstances, I believe, were far less common.
Yes they were less common for many reasons. Remember this show took place in the Bush 41 years, before NAFTA, so blue collar union manufacturing jobs were still plentiful. The cost of college in inflation adjusted dollars was about half of today (still double what the boomers paid in the 70s). Also young people today make about 22% less than young adults did in 1989, despite working an average of 7 more hours a week. All and all this show took place before neo-liberalism destroyed the middle class.
Back then, the idea of an able bodied 30 year old man living with his parents and delivering newspapers was so preposterous that they were able to base a prime time sitcom on it. Back then it was okay to make fun of losers. That was your incentive to not be one. Today the only people it’s okay to mock are enemies of the establishment.
O.k., this show was an unexpected delight. Totally insane and random. I never heard my dad laugh harder than the time when Chris got lock out of the big city and turned into a skeleton waiting to get back in. And he normally wouldn't take the time for weird shows like this. Thus began my brief obsession with everything Chris Elliot. Cabin Boy, anyone?
....and other great FOX comedy shows like the "Duet" spin-off "Open House", "It's Garry Shandling's Show", "Parker Lewis Can't Lose", "The Tracey Ullman Show", "Molloy", "Get a Life", "True Colors", "Comic Strip Live", "The Sunday Comics", "Roc", "Drexell's Place", "Herman's Head", "Charlie Hoover", "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures", "Down the Shore", "Rachel Gunn, R.N.", "The Edge," "Flying Blind", "The Ben Stiller Show", "Shaky Ground", "The Chevy Chase Show", "The Sinbad Show", "Townsend Television", "Bakersfield, P.D.", "The George Carlin Show", "Living Single" (which inspired NBC's "Friends") ,"Martin", and the non-comedical shows of "21 Jump Street", and its spin-off "Booker", "America's Most Wanted", "Cops", "Totally Hidden Video", "Alien Nation", "Against the Law", "Beverly Hills 90210", "Melrose Place", "New York Undercover", "Class of '96", "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.", "South Central", and "The X-Files", among many other shows, aired on Fox during the time of the show's prime.
Do I remember this opening? Yes! Even now, when I see Chris at the end still looking at the woman, and I know what's going to happen to him, I want and try to tell him to face the street, 'cause if you keep looking at her, you're going to smash into that red car, but I can't because I'm too busy laughing knowing what's going to happen and understanding why it came to that (Personally, I don't blame him; she's quite a looker; she looks just as good coming as she does going!).
The first time I ever heard of this show was around 2002 while I was watching this old recording tape of a bunch of early The Simpson's Episodes my dad had recorded in the early '90's where it shows a promo for the show during a commercial break around maybe 1992.
I used to watch this when I was like 13...it was one of those crazy, nasty comedies like "Married With Children". Chris Elliot remind me so much of Tom Green..
It's funny that in the 1990s everyone made fun of Chris peterson for living with his parents and having a "crappy" job and now a lot of us ARE Chris Peterson
Even though I'm not a fan of REM, I have to admit that I'm pretty impressed that they did a TV theme ( or allowed the song to be on the show ) especially for such a great show as this. I'll always remember the one where Chris gets his mail order Submarine and puts it together in the shower.
😏The 90's had some great tv show's like "Dream On" for HBO and hidden gems like "Get a Life and Parker Lewis Can't Lose" on Fox. "Saved By The Bell, Family Matter's, Step By Step, American Gladiators, In Living Color, Roc, My Brother & Me, New York Undercover, The Wonder Year's" all great show's from the early to mid 90's!
@TargetRender He was on the last funny season(1994 - 1995)of SNL.It started to suck after Farley,Sandler,and Nealon left at the end of that year.SNL just sucks now. The only things even remotely funny are the political parodies and Weekend update.I watch it occasionally hoping that it will get funny again but i guess that will never happen.Maybe its just that the younger writers have a different sense of humour.
this is one of those shows that I remember watching but then as I got older, thought I made it all up. it didn't help that basically no one else I knew ever even heard of the show and thought I was bonkers whenever I mentioned it.
hippiefreak66 SAME
Same, I remember it but was only 4 at the time.
Omg, same. Thanks, internet. Now I can show people that I didn't make this stuff up
Hahaha this one and also True Colors.
Wow I'm not alone lol
I'm 34 and remember this show, which is basically a footnote in TV history. Because of the intro I got into REM, lol.
Wow!!...............
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My condolences
I am almost 50 and have this entire set on cleaned up DVD. This show rules!
I found it! I knew there was a TV show from my childhood where in the opening a dude crashes a bicycle while checking out a woman, but I had no idea what it was called.
Same here, I Forgot the name too. It was funny!
Fox had some really interesting shows in the ‘80s and ‘90s. In addition to Married with Children, there was this show, Malcolm in the Middle, Herman’s Head, In Living Color (where Jennifer Lopez got her start as a Fly Girl) and others.
Don't forget Parker Lewis can't lose.
Holly shit Herman's head!!!
@@jimskelton7531 Parker Lewis wasn't on fox it came on after fresh prince on what ever network that was NBC I think. Great show all the same love the Kubiak
@@donaldbartholomew7915 actually, Parker Lewis was on FOX.
Where would That ‘70s Show fit in?
This Show was Hilarious. I'm gonna send this intro to my Siblings to see if they remember this..
+Melinda Banks Isom just saw the whole series on youtube last year laughing
I recall I liked it back in the day.
I miss these abstract early 90s shows.
1 of the best shows in the early 90s. I was young as hell but i damn sure remember this, Herman's Head, and Parker Lewis.
I never forgot Herman's head. It was different. I remember the people inside his brain telling him what to do.
Wow Herman’s head
Beans Baxter
3 great shows!!
The original Fox lineup
I like that opening. I liked the line-up. We had Married with Children after that was Get a Life and then In Living Color.
i remember watch that show when i was 4 or 5 years old.i love all old tv shows
A show that was so far beyond its time. Hysterical and amazing.
Home sweet home.
loved this show! Too bad it only lasted a couple of seasons. The humor was way ahead of it's time. Chris played a similar character on Everybody Loves Raymond, he's so hilarious.
One of the best series of all times
omg, I heard the song on the radio today, and new it was from a tv show. So I looked it up, and I forgot all about GET a LIFE. Good show that got canceled. "Stand in the place where you work...."
I love the way he throws the papers lol. I once filled in for a guy doing that job. It was utter chaos. Ha ha. I remember my friend would receive phone calls super early with people complaining. 😂
HOLY F-ING BALLS !!! MOST UNDERRATED TV SHOW OF ALL TIME , WHAT IS FUNNY IS IM 36 AND ITS 2020 , THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN OVER 25ish YEARS IVE THOUGHT TO MYSELF , I KNOW CHRIS ELLIOT HAD A SHOW AND I SAID TO MYSELF , I THINK ITS CALLED, GET A LIFE , SO I TYPED IT IN AND BAM! INSTANT GRATIFICATION :D , XD, GOOD TIMES. Really tho I have to watch some of this show NOW.
I remember this show. It was so underrated.
I was 7 when this came out and this whole time I only remember the actor looking like Daniel Stern!
In this 1991-ish TV intro, a Chris Elliot gets distracted and rides his bike into a 3rd Generation Firebird. Around the same year, in Wayne's World, Lara Flynn Boyle get's distracted and crashes her bike into a 3rd gen Camaro.
It is finally being released on DVD again. Can't wait
One of the greatest shows ever.
this show was frickin awesome highly underated.
The episode where he tryed to cure his sore throat by hanging himself with a noose was such a damned randomly ludacris STUPID image,It still cracks me up just to think about ! I wish I could get that clip as a gif.
I watched this show growing up
I was around 14 when this was on, i loved this show. Does anyone remember another Fox show called Down the Shore? And Oops! or Whoops! about the end of the world survivors?
I remember watching this show as an adult, I really liked it
Ahh, the early 90s.
Ahhh the 90's when kids used to go outside and chill before the internet turned us all into chair sitting zombies....
ok boomer
@@fzpseudotimestretch ok boomer is just the new r/woosh
Played out and not funny anymore.
That being said i am now a boomer for agreeing with op
I remember watching this show as kid and thinking that this character was a loser and I would never end up like him. 20 years later, I am 30 years old and I live with my parents.
This show ages well because so many shows since it was cancelled have ripped it off.
In the early 90's on FOX.
my favorite episode was the one when chris and his dad build a submarine in his shower and some how the shower fills with water and their trapped in the sub that was classic
Great show. everyone loves it, never should have canceled it.
I believe that was "Spewey and Me"-where the alien landed in his backyard and him and his landlord end up eating him to keep from being caught by the CIA. LOL!
My Childhood Show Show Was So Funny 😂 I’ve To Find The DVD Set Of Something 😅
This defines my childhood
this is tv at it's finest, truly the best show
i believe it influenced tim n eric's comedy, too
i never consciously realized how abstract it was
it just made sense to me
growing up i only knew one other person who found this show funny
good times
But it jumped the shark when Chris moved into that guy's garage.
RIP, Bob Elliot
The redhead lady is in front of the Munsterz house
+Steve French Betty Applewhite's home on Listeria Lane-Desperate Housewives.
I believe that's also the Klopeck's house in 'The Burbs'.
@@raymondkitchen6137 Yes, Colonial Street on the Universal - Hollywood backlot.
Fox had some pretty good shows back in the day, Get a life, Rock, In Living Color, Hermans Head
I loved this show on Fox 5, hate that they cancelled it, it was too funny, I liked it alot, he always had me laughing, maybe others couldn't handle his sense of humor, but I could.
I remember this as a kid.Funny show!Fox back then had great shows.In Living Color,Married with Children,The Larry Sanders Show and Herman's Head.I still enjoy Fox's Sunday Night line up.Well,I hate Bob's Burgers :(
Last shot, when he crashes: that's the Munster house in the background.
I thought this show was the funniest thing on TV I loved it
Omg you LUCKY,IS it possible up upload them?
Funniest show ever!! One of the first sitcoms for the infant Fox Network. I guess the country wasn't ready for Chris Elliot's sick brand of humor so it was cancelled. Too bad :(
This is guy played also on Everyone Loves Raymond and was just as funny.
same here
i couldn't think of the name of show but i know it came on after Herman's Head on Sunday nights. wow that's cool
I was trying to remember which show this was the theme song to. Thanks UA-cam.
At 49 second mark is the munster house
Hell yeah, there use to be good shows.
Si os gustan las series absurdas esta es la vuestra. Mi hermano y yo la vimos entera cuando la emitieron por Canal +.
La verdad es que el prota es gilip... jaja
R.E.M. Stand!
"is this the tug that's gonna take us out to the queen mary?"
Smart move. You can deny the truth, or come to the realization that if your girlfriend does not appreciate the humor of Chris's stupidity she really has no clue, and you will never really connect on the important levels of relationships.
it makes me irrationally angry how little respect or attention this show gets for being so incredibly ahead of its time and influential to all anti-sitcoms that have come after it
must have been a bad time slot-- every one I know who actually watched it loved it
That's what I have to say to some people who make really gross comments on Yotube, "Get A Life." The theme song is cool. :)
GLEE
I remember when this show came out right after Married with children, and the show tried to have kind of the same vibe. It just didn't work though, the jokes were way too forced.. Elliott character was more annoying than a guy who could have moments like AL Bundy did.
I was only 9 or 10 when this was on TV, though I still remember this intro, and have been a huge fan of R.E.M. my entire life
Exactly. Me too. I was around 9. I can't believe I still remember the song.
@dale gribble get a life
@dale gribble you should do some more editing
Same here!! I was 9 and came here because I saw Chris Elliot on another show.
Same
Memories, man. This takes me back to a good time in my life.
Wikipedia says that they planned from the start to radically change the cast, setting, and tenor of this show every year -- as they did between Seasons 1 and 2. Had the show continued beyond Season 2 Chris would have become a homeless drifter, moving out of the ex-cop's garage and "traveling around America, meeting different people every week and making all of their lives just a little bit worse."
This show was ahead of its time. In 1990 it was considered really strange for a grown man to be like him, deliver papers and live with his parents. Fast forward about 15 years later and see there are quite a lot of Chris Petersons
It also tested his lifestyle against his friend Larry who would be considered normal. Today more and more people are seeing through the shallow materialistic lifestyle of corporate drones who live to work and spend
In a way Chris could be considered an anti hero for modern movements of tiny home, minimalism or freedom based lifestyle
Agreed, the fact that the main character died in some episodes, and Bob Odinkirk was a writer!
Michael Rotondo, the 30 year old guy who got evicted from his New York State childhood home by his parents. (May 2018). Art imitates Life !
agreed
I should not have read that while high. Whoa......🤔🤔🤔🤔
The Democrats have a lot of voters.
I'm 17, so Get A Life ended before I was even born, but it is one of my favorite shows. I grew up watching it on VHS, my dad loves Chris Elliott, and even after 20+ years it's still better than the stuff that they expect people my age to watch. I can't believe that it's so under-rated and unheard of.
What a classic show! I loved when Chris got stuck in the submarine in his shower! "Spewey And Me" also a classic!!!
I guess I was the only one out of all the people I know that watched this show. I try to describe it to people and look at me like 😕. Lol I thought this show was hilarious
So sad to hear that Bob Elliott, who played Fred Peterson on this show passed away on February 2, 2016. he played Fred Peterson on this awesome show. R.I.P. Bob Elliott, you were a great TV and radio personality.
This show, and Chris Elliott, was ahead of its time..can see the influence on stuff like Arrested Development and Tim & Eric.
Chris crawled, so Tom Greene could run
This show was kind of prophetic, in a way. There are many people between the ages of 20 and 40 who are like Chris Elliot's character in real life. Thirty to fifty years ago, such individuals and circumstances, I believe, were far less common.
Yes they were less common for many reasons. Remember this show took place in the Bush 41 years, before NAFTA, so blue collar union manufacturing jobs were still plentiful. The cost of college in inflation adjusted dollars was about half of today (still double what the boomers paid in the 70s). Also young people today make about 22% less than young adults did in 1989, despite working an average of 7 more hours a week. All and all this show took place before neo-liberalism destroyed the middle class.
Back then, the idea of an able bodied 30 year old man living with his parents and delivering newspapers was so preposterous that they were able to base a prime time sitcom on it.
Back then it was okay to make fun of losers. That was your incentive to not be one. Today the only people it’s okay to mock are enemies of the establishment.
O.k., this show was an unexpected delight.
Totally insane and random.
I never heard my dad laugh harder than the time when Chris got lock out of the big city and turned into a skeleton waiting to get back in. And he normally wouldn't take the time for weird shows like this.
Thus began my brief obsession with everything Chris Elliot.
Cabin Boy, anyone?
....and other great FOX comedy shows like the "Duet" spin-off "Open House", "It's Garry Shandling's Show", "Parker Lewis Can't Lose", "The Tracey Ullman Show", "Molloy", "Get a Life", "True Colors", "Comic Strip Live", "The Sunday Comics", "Roc", "Drexell's Place", "Herman's Head", "Charlie Hoover", "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures", "Down the Shore", "Rachel Gunn, R.N.", "The Edge," "Flying Blind", "The Ben Stiller Show", "Shaky Ground", "The Chevy Chase Show", "The Sinbad Show", "Townsend Television", "Bakersfield, P.D.", "The George Carlin Show", "Living Single" (which inspired NBC's "Friends") ,"Martin", and the non-comedical shows of "21 Jump Street", and its spin-off "Booker", "America's Most Wanted", "Cops", "Totally Hidden Video", "Alien Nation", "Against the Law", "Beverly Hills 90210", "Melrose Place", "New York Undercover", "Class of '96", "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.", "South Central", and "The X-Files", among many other shows, aired on Fox during the time of the show's prime.
Do I remember this opening? Yes! Even now, when I see Chris at the end still looking at the woman, and I know what's going to happen to him, I want and try to tell him to face the street, 'cause if you keep looking at her, you're going to smash into that red car, but I can't because I'm too busy laughing knowing what's going to happen and understanding why it came to that (Personally, I don't blame him; she's quite a looker; she looks just as good coming as she does going!).
She appeared in the episode Chris gets Married as the women who he cheated with on his wife (Deborah Shelton)
@@MrJacMac1968yes and I like how they tied the character into the episode; even though she received a beating at the hands of Deborah Shelton.
What is the name of the lady bending down to get the newspaper
Lee Garlington
Now this show came on an Sunday after the Hindus I remember watching this show as an kid it was crazy lol
The first time I ever heard of this show was around 2002 while I was watching this old recording tape of a bunch of early The Simpson's Episodes my dad had recorded in the early '90's where it shows a promo for the show during a commercial break around maybe 1992.
I remember this show = too funny! Looool!!
Wow the memories, smh I haven't heard this intro since I was around 9 in 1992 and I can still remember the words 😄
TIL this was Charlie Kaufman's first writing credit
I used to watch this when I was like 13...it was one of those crazy, nasty comedies like "Married With Children".
Chris Elliot remind me so much of Tom Green..
It's funny that in the 1990s everyone made fun of Chris peterson for living with his parents and having a "crappy" job and now a lot of us ARE Chris Peterson
Hey at least you have a roof over your head.
Wow classic I remember this show
I miss this show, it was genius.
Gary Gulman brought me here. he talked about this shit as if it was the best show ever made.
Greatest TV show ever
Damn...the 90´s was a helluva drug...
I used to watch this show as a kid. I thought it was hilarious
I remember watching this show in the early 1990s. It came on between "The Simpson's" and "Married...With Children."
Indeed, I remember watch it with my mom, and Married With Children. I became an REM fan because of this show
Even though I'm not a fan of REM, I have to admit that I'm pretty impressed that they did a TV theme ( or allowed the song to be on the show ) especially for such a great show as this. I'll always remember the one where Chris gets his mail order Submarine and puts it together in the shower.
When he blocked the shower with the periscope!
😏The 90's had some great tv show's like "Dream On" for HBO and hidden gems like "Get a Life and Parker Lewis Can't Lose" on Fox. "Saved By The Bell, Family Matter's, Step By Step, American Gladiators, In Living Color, Roc, My Brother & Me, New York Undercover, The Wonder Year's" all great show's from the early to mid 90's!
The peak of The Fox lineup when it was the Simpsons, Married with Children, Garry Shandling, Tracey Ullman, and Get a Life
@TargetRender He was on the last funny season(1994 - 1995)of SNL.It started to suck after Farley,Sandler,and Nealon left at the end of that year.SNL just sucks now. The only things even remotely funny are the political parodies and Weekend update.I watch it occasionally hoping that it will get funny again but i guess that will never happen.Maybe its just that the younger writers have a different sense of humour.
the awesomest. i love chris elliot!
How is it that so few people remember this show? It always amazes me how most people seem to have forgotten it.
This is the funniest show of all time. It literally was the pioneer of autism humor and I LOVE it
Isnt this that show that comes after the simpsons
Omg this reminds me of high school. The good old days. Sigh.