All Episodes of Get a Life
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Season 1
8.3/10276 votesLoading...Terror on the Hell Loop 2000
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1990
Chris talks Larry into taking the day off for the world premiere of the Hell Loop 2000, a 360 degree looped rollercoaster, where they get stuck at the top of the loop.
Director: David Mirkin
Writer: David Mirkin, Adam Resnick
8.6/10275 votesLoading...The Prettiest Week of My Life
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/1990
Chris decides to enter the exciting world of male modeling when he joins the Handsome Boy School of Modeling.
Director: David Mirkin
Writer: Adam Resnick
8.5/10252 votesLoading...Dadicus
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/1990
Chris convinces his father to accompany him to the father-son competition at the annual newspaper boy picnic.
Director: Tony Dow
Writer: Marjorie Gross
8.5/10257 votesLoading...A Family Affair
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/1990
Sharon's sister, Charleen, comes to visit and she is taken with Chris' charm, much to Sharon's chagrin.
Director: Dwayne Hickman
Writer: N/A
8.6/10251 votesLoading...Pile of Death
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/1990
Chris tries to raise money to help save a playground, so he tries to set a world record by having the most things piled on top of him.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Adam Resnick
8.7/10246 votesLoading...Paperboy 2000
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1990
The newspaper fires all the paper boys and replaces them with the Paperboy 2000, a paper delivering robotic vehicle, so Chris challenges it in a paper delivering contest.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Adam Markowitz, Bill Freiberger
8.7/10247 votesLoading...Drivers License
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1990
There's a new waitress at the local diner, and Chris wants to take her out, but he needs to drive a car for the date. His problem is he never got a license.
Director: David Mirkin
Writer: David Mirkin
8.4/10248 votesLoading...The Sitting
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1990
Chris becomes a house sitter in an old Victorian house that appears to be haunted.
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: Marjorie Gross, Adam Resnick
8.7/10253 votesLoading...Bored Straight
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/1990
While delivering papers in the bad side of town, Chris meets a group of young hoodlums and he decides to ""take back the streets"" by helping the kids.
Director: David Mirkin
Writer: Marjorie Gross
8.8/10255 votesLoading...Zoo Animals on Wheels
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/16/1990
Much to Sharon's dismay, Chris auditions for and gets the lead part in a local community theatre production of Andrew Todd Keller's musical Zoo Animals on Wheels.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Adam Resnick
8.5/10243 votesLoading...Roots
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/1991
Chris finds proof that makes him think he is adopted, so he sets off to find his natural parents, an Amish couple.
Director: Dwayne Hickman
Writer: Adam Markowitz, Bill Freiberger
8.8/10244 votesLoading...The Counterfeit Watch Story
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/3/1991
Chris goes to work for the police in a sting operation after he buys a counterfeit watch, the Chrono-Sync 2000.
Director: David Mirkin
Writer: Adam Resnick
8.9/10249 votesLoading...Chris vs. Donald
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/10/1991
At the family reunion Chris is still struggling to get out from under the shadow of his cousin.
Director: Dwayne Hickman
Writer: Adam Resnick
9.0/10244 votesLoading...Chris Wins a Celebrity
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/24/1991
Chris wins a weekend with his favorite talk show host, a contest the host first regrets he agreed to, but later Chris regrets he entered, when the host decides to stay.
Director: Dean Parisot
Writer: Adam Resnick
8.9/10240 votesLoading...Houseboy 2000
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 3/10/1991
After destroying her kitchen, Chris becomes Sharon's slave to work off the $2000 in damage and she also breaks his will.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Marjorie Gross
9.0/10246 votesLoading...Married
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 3/24/1991
During one day, Chris meets his soulmate, marries her and goes through an entire relationship with her.
Director: David Mirkin
Writer: David Mirkin
8.9/10234 votesLoading...Camping 2000
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/31/1991
Chris and Larry join Mr. Peterson on a camping trip, when Mr. Peterson manages to lose them, the hungry boys eat some berries that cause them to hallucinate.
Director: Dean Parisot
Writer: Steve Pepoon
8.9/10247 votesLoading...The Construction Worker Show
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/7/1991
Chris becomes a construction worker with the men who are renovating his parents kitchen. When they tell him one of their trade secrets, Chris has a problem with their dishonesty.
Director: David Mirkin
Writer: Adam Resnick
9.0/10238 votesLoading...The Big City
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/21/1991
Chris loses his wallet in the big city, and the big city give him the key to the city and other perks to make him feel better.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Marjorie Gross
9.0/10246 votesLoading...Neptune 2000
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/28/1991
When Chris was 12 he got a job as a paperboy so he could buy a submarine from the back of a comic book. Four to six hundred weeks later when the kit arrives, Chris and his father put it together; however when they embark on the sub's maiden voyage (in Chris's bathtub) they become trapped.
Director: David Mirkin
Writer: Steve Pepoon
9.1/10238 votesLoading...The One Where Chris and Larry Switch Lives
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/12/1991
Chris and Larry ignore an Indian curse and wind up switching places.
Director: David Mirkin
Writer: Edd Hall
9.0/10242 votesLoading...Psychic 2000
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/19/1991
Chris has a near death experience and is endowed with prescience and he sees a vision of Sharon being murdered.
Director: David Mirkin
Writer: David Mirkin