This show was a lot of fun and it had a really unique and different sense of humour. I remember at the time arguing with my dad about what was funnier this show or Cosby and I liked both shows but this was more my or a younger sense of humour but my dad could not understand me liking this show at all. It was so different and Chris Elliott was great as the useless loser 40 year old who still had a paper route and lived with his parents, who were always sitting around in their housecoats and didn't even like him. No way to really describe the show other than that, you have to see it and love it or hate it you have to admit it is a great show as far as being different from anything else on TV at the time. Cabin Boy was a good movie too!

I guess I have no taste at all. After all, I loved this show and watched every episode when it first aired. However, its success was very short-lived and so America sent the message that it wasn't impressed. I wonder if it was really because the show was bad ("stupid", yes--"bad", no), or because it wasn't marketed well or because after the first season they kept re-tooling and messing with a good formula. Often this "re-tooling" is the kiss of death, and in this case it certainly was true. The comedic balance was gone and the episodes seemed choppier and less funny--but still excellent to my apparently low standards. I also think that MANY people have a hard time suspending disbelief and just didn't know what to think about these rather surreal episodes. I loved ZOO ANIMALS ON WHEELS, Chris going in search of his REAL Amish parents or the automated newspaper delivery machine that nearly put this 30 year-old newspaper boy out of business! What a show--too bad it was canceled and too bad only selected episodes are available on DVD.UPDATE: The show has finally been released on DVD. You will most likely notice that season one was MUCH better. Season two seemed much more aimless and unfunny---they they were having trouble sustaining the concept.

A lot of television humor is recycled from past shows, or just the same theme over and over again. I won't go into examples, but I think you understand what I'm saying. This show, however, was original and showed the world that Chris Elliot is a brilliant comedian. Does anyone remember that Elliot got his start on "David Letterman" on NBC as the "Conspiracy guy", who would stand up in the audience, interrupt the show, and accuse Letterman of some "cover-up" involving missing files and Connie Chung? Then he would run through a door and get run over (usually by a floor buffer). "Get a Life" was very funny and quite original. I guess my favorite episode was the one where the alien Chris found would ooze out some vile, and disgusting stuff out of his body, and Chris ate it. He got Brian Doyle-Murray to eat some, too. They said it tasted like pudding. The alien seemed disgusted that they were eating the stuff, too. I really liked this show and I wish Fox had kept it on longer.

The wide-eyed innocence of (an overextended) youth, in the person of Chris Elliott, refuses -- episode after episode -- to submit to the reality of an adult world, no matter the patent absurdity of his childishness. Even with his bitingly sarcastic father constantly trying to slap him in the face with reality, Chris's character maintains his hilarious naiveté, to such an extent that he often convinces the world to join him in it and bend to his will.Anyone who remembers their childhood and what it was like dreaming mail-order dreams that fail when the postman finally arrives cannot help but admire and envy Chris's tenacity in holding onto those dreams forever. Even now, more than a decade later, just the thought of Chris the infantile adult ordering a submarine kit through the mail then building and using it in his bathtub/shower has me laughing to the point of tears.