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* GainaxEnding: The final episode is a clip show in which Chris falls out of a plane on the way to Iraq, in the end he lands on "one of those discarded beds from the classic TV series ''Series/LoveAmericanStyle''"; unluckily, the mattress was made entirely out of explosives, blowing Chris up once again. A third season was planned but never happened.
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* GainaxEnding: The final episode is a clip show in which Chris falls out of a plane on the way to Iraq, in UsefulNotes/{{Iraq}}. In the end he lands on "one of those discarded beds from the classic TV series ''Series/LoveAmericanStyle''"; unluckily, the mattress was made entirely out of explosives, blowing Chris up once again. A third season was planned but never happened.
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* Retool:
** A minor one at the beginning of season 2: Chris moves out of his parents' house and Larry [[PutOnABus disappears]].
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''Get a Life'' was a demented, [[SurrealHumor surreal]] 1990 sitcom that aired on Creator/{{Fox}} for two seasons. It starred Creator/ChrisElliott as [[TheDanza Chris Peterson]], a friendly yet slightly psychotic 30-year-old paperboy and all-around loser who lives with his parents. The show followed Chris' strange adventures, which included becoming a male model, stalking beautiful women and rescuing vomiting aliens. Needless to say, the darkness and weirdness of the show got it cancelled after two seasons.
The show gained a cult following, and after years of DVD sets for the show being stuck in DevelopmentHell (due to show-runner David Mirkin's insistence that all episodes be released uncut, including the music), a complete series set was finally released by Creator/ShoutFactory on September 18, 2012.
The show gained a cult following, and after years of DVD sets for the show being stuck in DevelopmentHell (due to show-runner David Mirkin's insistence that all episodes be released uncut, including the music), a complete series set was finally released by Creator/ShoutFactory on September 18, 2012.
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''Get a Life'' was a demented, [[SurrealHumor surreal]] 1990 sitcom that aired on Creator/{{Fox}} for two seasons.Creator/{{Fox}}. It starred Creator/ChrisElliott as [[TheDanza Chris Peterson]], a friendly yet slightly psychotic 30-year-old paperboy and all-around loser who lives with his parents. The show followed Chris' strange adventures, which included becoming a male model, stalking beautiful women women, and rescuing vomiting aliens. aliens.
Needless to say, the darkness and weirdness of the show got it cancelled after twoseasons.
The showseasons even as it received excellent critical reviews, but it gained a cult following, following in that time and after years of DVD sets for the show being stuck in DevelopmentHell (due to show-runner David Mirkin's insistence that all episodes be released uncut, including the music), a complete series set was finally released by Creator/ShoutFactory on September 18, 2012.
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''Get a Life'' was a demented, [[SurrealHumor surreal]] 1990 sitcom that aired on Creator/{{Fox}}.Creator/{{Fox}} for two seasons. It starred Creator/ChrisElliott as [[TheDanza Chris Peterson]], a friendly yet slightly psychotic 30-year-old paperboy and all-around loser who lives with his parents. The show followed Chris' strange adventures, which included becoming a male model, stalking beautiful women and rescuing vomiting aliens. Needless to say, the darkness and weirdness of the show got it cancelled after two seasons.
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''Get a Life'' was a demented, [[SurrealHumor surreal]] 1990 sitcom that aired on Creator/{{Fox}}. It starred Creator/ChrisElliott as [[TheDanza Chris Peterson]], a friendly yet slightly psychotic 30 year old 30-year-old paperboy and all-around loser who lives with his parents. The show followed Chris' strange adventures, which included becoming a male model, stalking beautiful women and rescuing vomiting aliens. Needless to say, the darkness and weirdness of the show got it cancelled after two seasons.
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''Get a Life'' was a demented, [[SurrealHumor surreal]] 1990 sitcom that aired on Creator/{{Fox}}. It starred Creator/ChrisElliott as [[TheDanza Chris Peterson]], a friendly yet slightly psychotic 30 year old paperboy and all-around loser. The show followed Chris' strange adventures, which included becoming a male model, stalking beautiful women and rescuing vomiting aliens. Needless to say, the darkness and weirdness of the show got it cancelled after two seasons.
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''Get a Life'' was a demented, [[SurrealHumor surreal]] 1990 sitcom that aired on Creator/{{Fox}}. It starred Creator/ChrisElliott as [[TheDanza Chris Peterson]], a friendly yet slightly psychotic 30 year old paperboy and all-around loser.loser who lives with his parents. The show followed Chris' strange adventures, which included becoming a male model, stalking beautiful women and rescuing vomiting aliens. Needless to say, the darkness and weirdness of the show got it cancelled after two seasons.
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* RealSongThemeTune: "Stand" by Music/{{REM}}.
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''Get a Life'' was a demented, [[SurrealHumor surreal]] 1990 sitcom that aired on Creator/{{Fox}}. It starred Chris Elliott Creator/ChrisElliott as [[TheDanza Chris Peterson]], a friendly yet slightly psychotic 30 year old paperboy and all-around loser. The show followed Chris' strange adventures, which included becoming a male model, stalking beautiful women and rescuing vomiting aliens. Needless to say, the darkness and weirdness of the show got it cancelled after two seasons.
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* AdBreakDoubleTake: Played straight in "A Family Affair" when Larry and Sharon catch Chris in bed with Sharon's sister.
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* WellDoneSonGuy: Subverted. Chris actually thinks that Fred is proud of him. He could not be more wrong.
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* WellDoneSonGuy: Subverted.InvertedTrope. Chris actually thinks that Fred is proud of him. He could not be more wrong.
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* BasementDweller: Chris (in Season 1, though technically it's "upstairs duplex apartment dweller", but it's still his parents' house, and he drops in on them ''constantly'')
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* BasementDweller: Chris (in in Season 1, though technically it's "upstairs duplex apartment dweller", but dweller"--but it's still his parents' house, and he drops in on them ''constantly'')''constantly''.
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* BasementDweller: Chris (in Season 1, tho technically it's "upstairs duplex apartment dweller", but it's still his parents' house, and he drops in on them ''constantly'')
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The show gained a cult following, and after years of DVD sets for the show being stuck in DevelopmentHell (due to Show-runner David Mirkin's insistence that all episodes be released uncut, including the music), a complete series set was finally released by Creator/ShoutFactory on September 18, 2012.
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* FunWithAcronyms: Chris' alien friend Spewey, which Chris says stands for "'''S'''pecial '''P'''erson '''E'''ntering the '''W'''orld...'''E'''gg '''Y'''olks"
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* FunWithAcronyms: Chris' alien friend Spewey, which Chris says stands for "'''S'''pecial '''P'''erson '''E'''ntering the '''W'''orld...'''E'''gg '''Y'''olks"'''Y'''olks".
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* YouLookFamiliar: Creator/BrianDoyleMurray played Ted Baines, runner of Handsome Boy Modeling Agency in Season One, and then showed up as forcibly-retired cop Gus Borden, Chris' landlord in Season Two.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Sapphire from "The Prettiest Week of My Life."
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* BodyHorror: Some of the mutations Chris and Gus undergo in ''Chris' Brain Starts Working''.
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* HappyDance: Chris' bizarre back-and-forth hand-flapping line dance.
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''Get a Life'' was a demented, surreal [[SurrealHumor surreal]] 1990 sitcom that aired on Creator/{{Fox}}. It starred Chris Elliott as [[TheDanza Chris Peterson]], a friendly yet slightly psychotic 30 year old paperboy and all-around loser. The show followed Chris' strange adventures, which included becoming a male model, stalking beautiful women and rescuing vomiting aliens. Needless to say, the darkness and weirdness of the show got it cancelled after two seasons.
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* GainaxEnding: The final episode is a clip show in which Chris falls out of a plane on the way to Iraq, in the end he lands on "one of those discarded beds from the classic TV series Love, American Style", unluckily the mattress was made entirely out of explosives, blowing Chris up once again. A third season was planned but never happened.
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* GainaxEnding: The final episode is a clip show in which Chris falls out of a plane on the way to Iraq, in the end he lands on "one of those discarded beds from the classic TV series Love, American Style", unluckily ''Series/LoveAmericanStyle''"; unluckily, the mattress was made entirely out of explosives, blowing Chris up once again. A third season was planned but never happened.
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* FashionModel: Chris enters a modeling school, and in the attempt to hit the big time he gets himself arrested at a fashion show.
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* InnocentAliens: Spewey is anything but. He constantly beats Chris up, frequently vomits on him, and inexplicably excretes pus from his elbows.
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* FunWIthAcronyms: Chris' alien friend Spewey, which Chris says stands for "'''S'''pecial '''P'''erson '''E'''ntering the '''W'''orld...'''E'''gg '''Y'''olks"
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* FunWIthAcronyms: FunWithAcronyms: Chris' alien friend Spewey, which Chris says stands for "'''S'''pecial '''P'''erson '''E'''ntering the '''W'''orld...'''E'''gg '''Y'''olks"
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* CloudCuckoolander: Chris. He lives in his own little world where reality rarely intrudes, and he constantly misunderstands the people and situations he encounters.
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%% STOP RENAMING FUCKING HEADERS ALREADY, MARK LUNGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:(
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''Get a Life'' was a demented, surreal 1990 sitcom that aired on Creator/{{Fox}}. It starred Chris Elliott as [[TheDanza Chris Peterson]], a friendly yet slightly psychotic 30 year old paperboy and all-around loser. The show followed Chris' strange adventures, which included becoming a male model, stalking beautiful women and rescuing vomiting aliens. Needless to say, the darkness and weirdness of the show got it cancelled after two seasons.
The show gained a cult following, and after years of DVD sets for the show being stuck in DevelopmentHell (due to Show-runner David Mirkin's insistence that all episodes be released uncut, including the music), a complete series set was finally released by Creator/ShoutFactory on September 18, 2012.
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* AntiHero: Chris, though he isn't really aware of it.
* BasementDweller: Chris (in Season 1, tho technically it's "upstairs duplex apartment dweller", but it's still his parents' house, and he drops in on them ''constantly'')
* BlackComedy
* ClipShow: The final episode of the series, set up as Chris' life flashing before his eyes as he falls from an airplane.
* DistractedByTheSexy: The TitleSequence shows Chris on his paper route. When a scantily clad woman picks up her newspaper, Chris is so busy ogling her that he rides his bicycle into a parked car.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Inverted. Some of the first season is almost like a normal sitcom. The show would get a great deal weirder in Season 2.
* EveryoneChasingYou: [[spoiler: Happens to Chris at the end of "The Big City".]]
* HenpeckedHusband: Larry
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: A good amount of episodes have the subtitle "2000".
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Fred.
* ManChild: Chris.
* PutOnABus: Larry.
* RealSongThemeTune: "Stand" by Music/{{REM}}.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Multiple times in "1977 2000"
* StalkerWithACrush: Chris falls in love with and stalks a woman doctor who isn't interested in him at all. Later in the same episode, Chris gets his own stalker as well.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Chris tends to die a lot. Most infamously in "Married" when [[spoiler:the episode abruptly ends with a giant boulder falling on him for no reason.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: Subverted. Chris actually thinks that Fred is proud of him. He could not be more wrong.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: If you pay attention, the show takes place in the fictional [[UsefulNotes/TwinCities Minneapolis]] suburb of Greenville, Minnesota, and the paper Chris delivers is the Saint Paul Pioneer Press.
* YouLookFamiliar: Creator/BrianDoyleMurray played Ted Baines, runner of Handsome Boy Modeling Agency in Season One, and then showed up as forcibly-retired cop Gus Borden, Chris' landlord in Season Two.
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''Get a Life'' was a demented, surreal 1990 sitcom that aired on Creator/{{Fox}}. It starred Chris Elliott as [[TheDanza Chris Peterson]], a friendly yet slightly psychotic 30 year old paperboy and all-around loser. The show followed Chris' strange adventures, which included becoming a male model, stalking beautiful women and rescuing vomiting aliens. Needless to say, the darkness and weirdness of the show got it cancelled after two seasons.
The show gained a cult following, and after years of DVD sets for the show being stuck in DevelopmentHell (due to Show-runner David Mirkin's insistence that all episodes be released uncut, including the music), a complete series set was finally released by Creator/ShoutFactory on September 18, 2012.
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* AntiHero: Chris, though he isn't really aware of it.
* BasementDweller: Chris (in Season 1, tho technically it's "upstairs duplex apartment dweller", but it's still his parents' house, and he drops in on them ''constantly'')
* BlackComedy
* ClipShow: The final episode of the series, set up as Chris' life flashing before his eyes as he falls from an airplane.
* DistractedByTheSexy: The TitleSequence shows Chris on his paper route. When a scantily clad woman picks up her newspaper, Chris is so busy ogling her that he rides his bicycle into a parked car.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Inverted. Some of the first season is almost like a normal sitcom. The show would get a great deal weirder in Season 2.
* EveryoneChasingYou: [[spoiler: Happens to Chris at the end of "The Big City".]]
* HenpeckedHusband: Larry
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: A good amount of episodes have the subtitle "2000".
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Fred.
* ManChild: Chris.
* PutOnABus: Larry.
* RealSongThemeTune: "Stand" by Music/{{REM}}.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Multiple times in "1977 2000"
* StalkerWithACrush: Chris falls in love with and stalks a woman doctor who isn't interested in him at all. Later in the same episode, Chris gets his own stalker as well.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Chris tends to die a lot. Most infamously in "Married" when [[spoiler:the episode abruptly ends with a giant boulder falling on him for no reason.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: Subverted. Chris actually thinks that Fred is proud of him. He could not be more wrong.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: If you pay attention, the show takes place in the fictional [[UsefulNotes/TwinCities Minneapolis]] suburb of Greenville, Minnesota, and the paper Chris delivers is the Saint Paul Pioneer Press.
* YouLookFamiliar: Creator/BrianDoyleMurray played Ted Baines, runner of Handsome Boy Modeling Agency in Season One, and then showed up as forcibly-retired cop Gus Borden, Chris' landlord in Season Two.
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