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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Laurie on August 05, 2007, 07:38:11 AM

Title: Get a Life
Post by: Laurie on August 05, 2007, 07:38:11 AM
I have never seen this show. There are 35 episodes, but only 8 are out on DVD. What a rip!  :'( >:( :'(

Even worse!! They're out of print, so I'd have to pay 40 bucks EACH for used DVDs. WTF?
Title: Re: Get a Life
Post by: Richard_From_CHI on August 05, 2007, 08:34:12 AM
Cough *bittorrent* cough.

Buy the ones available for sale. Stealing is bad.
Title: Re: Get a Life
Post by: Laurie on August 05, 2007, 09:16:08 AM
Cough *bittorrent* cough.

Buy the ones available for sale. Stealing is bad.

I'm ashamed to admit that I did look and was unable to find anything.

I'll pay $80 for a collection compiling every episode. Gladly. But for eight episodes? Buuuuuullshit.
Title: Re: Get a Life
Post by: Richard_From_CHI on August 05, 2007, 03:01:46 PM
I'll keep my eyes open at the bootleg DVD stands at Wizard World Chicago for you.
Title: Re: Get a Life
Post by: Laurie on August 05, 2007, 03:04:11 PM
I'll keep my eyes open at the bootleg DVD stands at Wizard World Chicago for you.

That's very sweet of you! Thanks.
Title: Re: Get a Life
Post by: jed on August 05, 2007, 03:08:49 PM
This place (http://www.allmyfavoriteshows.com/movie/comedy/Get_A_Life.html) has all 35 episodes for $48.00. I'm not sure how legitimate it is.

Title: Re: Get a Life
Post by: Andy on August 05, 2007, 04:10:24 PM
I'm all about the get a life bootlegs if they are more than the 8 episode official release.
Title: Re: Get a Life
Post by: LostInReno on August 05, 2007, 05:00:55 PM
Yeah bootlegs are the only way to get it. My brother got his on Ebay
Title: Re: Get a Life
Post by: octopus volcano on August 05, 2007, 10:36:34 PM
I got mine at a comic book/toy convention 10 years ago or so...

I also have a VHS of 4 hours of Chris Elliott bits from Letterman, which is amazing.  It used to be available for a "donation" from a guy who ran a fan site years ago.  I've been meaning to convert it to DVD, subdivided into recurring characters, etc.  Has anyone else seen this or would have any interest in a DVD of it?
Title: Re: Get a Life
Post by: Laurie on August 05, 2007, 11:10:45 PM
Has anyone else seen this or would have any interest in a DVD of it?

I would, I would! I best know Chris Elliot from his guest appearances on Letterman, and I love them.
Title: Re: Get a Life
Post by: Stan on August 06, 2007, 06:47:45 AM
Has anyone else seen this or would have any interest in a DVD of it?

I would, I would! I best know Chris Elliot from his guest appearances on Letterman, and I love them.

 The Guy Under the Stairs? Marlon Brando doing the banana dance?

 Yes please.
Title: Re: Get a Life
Post by: octopus volcano on August 06, 2007, 11:41:20 AM
The tape has stuff spanning like 10 years, from the young and creepily Amish-bearded Chris to guest appearances after he stopped working on the show.  Marlon Brando, Regulator Guy, the Guy Under the Seats, the Chris Elliott, Jr. Show (a la Morton Downey, Jr.), the Fugitive Guy, etc.  Brilliant.  It doesn't contain, however, one of my favorite TV moments ever: Chris comes on as a guest, only wearing a black speedo.  The audience roars for 2 minutes straight while Chris acts nonplussed at the reaction.  Then he has a short, dry chat with Dave and leaves.

If I take on the challenge of putting this on a DVD I'll let the FOTs know about it!

There's a fair amount of goodies on YouTube also.
Title: Re: Get a Life
Post by: bobby. on November 16, 2008, 06:59:13 PM
This show is pyooooooooor GOLD (ta ta Josh!).

"I got better things to do, okay? Adult things. Like, uh, playing with matches. And, uh, eating candy from strangers. Yeah, that's right... strangers... who, by the way, have the best candy. But I guess you wouldn't know that, would you?"

Title: Re: Get a Life
Post by: crumbum on November 16, 2008, 07:57:38 PM
I've had the official collection on my Zip queue (Canadian equivalent of Netflix) for nine months now. Is it the other Canadian FOTs that are ahead of me in line? Emma, if you've been holding on to that thing please put it back in the mail.
Title: Re: Get a Life
Post by: samir on November 16, 2008, 08:16:54 PM
there wasn't enough of elliott jr. on SNL last night to form an opinion of her comedy stylingz.
Title: Re: Get a Life
Post by: break on November 16, 2008, 09:17:00 PM
I love it, i've still got the VHS set I bought off of Ebay ten years ago.  My parents were always big Chris Elliott fans from the Letterman days so when Get a Life premiered it was required viewing in our house. 
Title: Re: Get a Life
Post by: emma on November 16, 2008, 10:53:49 PM
Emma, if you've been holding on to that thing please put it back in the mail.

I am full-on innocent! It is probably Paycheque.

Though if we are talking of Canadian (Torontonian) things, is there some kind of shady absurdist corner of the P-Mall where one could maybe pick this up?