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''Get a Life'' is a television sitcom that was broadcast in the United States on the Fox Network from September 23, 1990, to March 8, 1992. The show stars Chris Elliott as a 30-year-old paperboy named Chris Peterson. Peterson lived in an apartment above his parents' garage (Elliott's parents are played by Elinor Donahue and his real-life father, comedian Bob Elliott). The opening credits depict Chris Peterson delivering newspapers on his bike to the show's theme song, "Stand" by R.E.M. The show was a creation of Elliott, Adam Resnick (like Elliott, a writer for ''Late Night with David Letterman'') and writer/director David Mirkin (former executive producer/showrunner for ''Newhart'' and later for ''The Simpsons''). Mirkin was executive producer/showrunner of the series and also directed most of the episodes. Notable writers of the series included Charlie Kaufman, screenwriter of ''Being John Malkovich''; and Bob Odenkirk, co-creator of ''Mr. Show with Bob and David'' and ''Tenacious D''. The show was unconventional for a prime time sitcom, and many times the storylines of the episodes were surreal. For example, Elliott's character actually dies in twelve episodes. The causes of death included being crushed by a giant boulder, old age, tonsillitis, stab wounds, gunshot wounds, falling from an airplane, strangulation, getting run over by cars, choking on cereal, and simply exploding. For this reason, it was a struggle for Elliott and Mirkin to get the show on the air. Many of the executives at the Fox Network hated the show and thought it was too disturbing and that Elliott's character was too insane. After only two VHS/DVD volumes were released, Chris Elliott confirmed that Shout Factory would be releasing the complete series of the show on September 18, 2012 - the first time all of the show's episodes were made commercially available. == Synopsis == Chris Peterson is a carefree, childlike bachelor who refuses to live the life of an adult. At the age of 30, Chris still lives with his parents and maintains a career delivering newspapers (the ''St. Paul Pioneer Press''), a job that he has held since his youth. His job also shows his refusal to mature as he does not take advantage of the early end of that workday to go to a second job or take classes that would sharpen his abilities. He has no driver's license (instead, riding his bicycle wherever he goes). He is depicted as being childish, naïve, gullible, foolish, occasionally irresponsible, and extremely dimwitted. Chris is often the subject of abuse from his friends and family. He is often seen dancing (involving a silly back-and-forth step while swinging his arms) to the piano tune "Alley Cat" by Bent Fabric. His lack of intelligence is exaggerated to absurd levels: at one point, he tries to leave his parents' house but is unable to operate the front door. He also fell out of an airplane after opening the plane's exterior door, believing that it led to the restroom. Chris's parents (Fred and Gladys Peterson) are a vapid late middle-aged couple who are almost always seen in their pajamas and robes (even when they leave the house). They are often shown doing something abnormal like polishing handguns, or trying to shoot the deer that ate the flower bulbs out of their garden. Gladys (Elinor Donahue) is a smiling, caring mother who dotes on Chris, though often makes cynical, passive-aggressive comments about him and his lifestyle. Fred (Bob Elliott) is a blunt, wise-cracking old man, who is constantly exasperated by his son (often calling him a "horse's ass"), and seems to have a reckless disregard for Chris's well-being (on one occasion, Chris demonstrated how his father taught him to use a shotgun by placing the barrel in his mouth). However, there have been rare times when Fred has supported Chris, namely when Chris takes rare steps to doing something adult, such as working up the courage to go on his first date. When unlicensed Chris commandeered Fred's car, Fred staves off an arrest for Chris simply saying he did not realize Chris borrowed it. In the early episodes, Chris wants little more than to spend his days reliving his childhood with his father and his best friend, Larry Potter (Sam Robards). Larry was Chris's friend since childhood, but, unlike Chris, Larry has since "grown up", owns a house, works a dead-end job as an accountant, and has a wife, Sharon (Robin Riker) and two children. Chris's decision not to get a license was a rare time he showed foresight: as he tells Larry, that unlike him he was not tempted to drive to a makeout spot, implying that Larry was forced into a shotgun wedding by Sharon's family. Sharon is an overbearing housewife who does not want her husband associating with Chris, preferring instead that he make friends with more sophisticated socialites that better befit their image. It is implied that she is a sadistic dominatrix with her husband in private. Sharon despises Chris (and as such is Chris's main antagonist), and Chris takes any opportunity to irritate her. At one point, Chris has a fling with her sister. Larry is envious of Chris's carefree lifestyle and is often coerced by Chris into joining him in his adventures, despite his wife's wishes. To Chris's dismay, Larry eventually heeds his advice and leaves his wife and children at the beginning of the second season. Larry leaves a message for Chris that he is gone for good, and Chris, in his typical, ignorant manner, then wolfs down the message, as he believes paper is something to be eaten. This leaves Sharon traumatized, and she becomes more and more obsessed with killing Chris in revenge. In a defiant nod to Fox Network demands that his character "be more independent", Chris Peterson announced it was high time to find a place of his own and moved out of his parents' house at the beginning of the second season, much to his parents' amazement and joy (although he now lives in a nearby neighborhood and still frequently visits his parents), and into the garage of ex-cop Gus Borden, played by Brian Doyle-Murray, who had been fired from the police force for urinating on his boss. He is a gruff, demeaning sociopath with a short temper and minimal tolerance for Chris's antics, which Chris seems to be oblivious to, while looking up to Gus as a sort of paternal figure. For that reason, Gus serves as Chris's comic foil throughout the second season. On rare occasions, however, Gus does things to help out Chris, similar to the rare times Fred was a genuine father to Chris. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Get a Life (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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