What A Cartoon! - Get A Life "Girlfriend 2000"

My friends and I loved watching this back in high school when it first aired. I recognized the mother as the same one from that other early Fox classic, The Adventures of Beans Baxter. Unfortunately the schedule changes made it hard to keep up with in season 2. One of us had an obnoxious older brother who was almost 30 and still living at home so we often called referred to him as Chris Peterson. Now 30 some odd years later I hear he's still sponging of his parents.

Stephen C. Nedell

I pretty much knew Chris Elliot as the wacky friend of Bill Murray's character in Osmosis Jones... Which I know is generally hated, but it's one of my all time favorite movies and would love so much to hear Bob and Henry discuss it and / or it's spinoff series Ozzy & Drix!

I was unaware that this existed at all, but love it so much! I'm really glad the guys covered this because I had no exposure to this show when it aired.

It's almost shocking how much this feels like a live-action Simpsons in some respects, and was definitely a few years too ahead of its time for network execs to understand or at least allow to exist. Not that I dislike Chris Elliott (he's been great in the few things I've seen him in), but I'd never heard much about this before to the point that I had to look it up when you guys first mentioned it'd be on the schedule. If I can get my hands on the DVDs for a reasonable price here in Canada, I'd definitely be interested in checking out the rest of the show, even if that'll just frustrate me over how little of it exists. The split between Mirkin and Elliott/Resnick is damn unfortunate especially in lieu of the DVD release not having their involvement because regardless of whatever Mirkin says, the show wouldn't have worked the same without them. -- Incidentally, I think the first thing I ever saw Chris Elliott in was Scary Movie 2, a movie which is fucking terrible and really wastes his inclusion.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

Oh my gosh! I didn’t realize that was him on Schitt’s Creek! I just started watching that show I only recognized him from “How I Met Your Mother.” I’m a rube, so I guess I never actually knew who Chris Elliot was before now!

Sabrina

As a follow up, I saw the time travel episode you mentioned on YouTube after making the original post and I have faint memories of seeing that when it first aired (I was 4 in 1990.) It would make sense since I loved Married...With Children that I would watch this show.

Angel

I enjoy Chris Elliot, but I only have passing memories of this show. I don't think I ever caught it and most, if not all, of my exposure to it was likely through ads as I basically just know of it as a thing that existed at one point in time. I did check this episode out when I saw it on the schedule and I can certainly see promise in the show's format, but I could not get into this episode. The stalking plot is just too uncomfortable with so many real world examples of murderous stalkers out there. I just wasn't able to get past that and laugh at any of those jokes, even with it coming back around to have Chris murdered by his own stalker. And that laugh track is very unfortunate. It's easy to forget how every sitcom and sitcom-adjacent show from this era included one. It's something I definitely don't encounter in my television viewing in modern times and that is for the better.

Joe Hodgson

I'm sure I won't be the first person to tell you, Bob & Henry, that as Chris Elliott fans you need to watch Schitt's Creek. He plays the dirt bag mayor and is in pretty much every episode. I feel like you would both love it, and in Bob's case, I'm pretty sure Schitt's Creek is on the required reading list for Canadian citizenship these days.

Graeme Black Robinson

Cabin Boy was a film that also sadly came out at the wrong time. In a post Spongebob/Flapjack Era I think that film could've been an actual hit or at least a cult favorite. Brian Doyle-Murray has the perfect cranky sea dog voice and every pirate that isn't engaged in tragic anime backstories against a straw hat has his voice in my mind.

Devin Hoffarth

I'm glad someone else posted it so I didn't have to 😁

littleterr0r

Chris sounds like the original Kenny.

littleterr0r

For additional reading, I highly recommend Adam Resnick's recent(ish) book "Will Not Attend".

brian bonelli

Fun fact, "handsome boy modeling school" is also a hip hop duo composed of dan the Automator and prince paul. They were fans of get a life and based their first album on the episode, the prettiest week of my life. Pretty dope concept album. Check it out. Here's a sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w_HupwkGbE or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBchwMtDAwY

Frank Grimes

This reminds me of the all time great Onion headline “Man Who Bought Entire Series of Mama’s Family on VHS Never Going on EBay Drunk Again.”

Tyler M.

I remember the opening credits as a kid. Keep in mind I was very young in 1990 so this is probably one of my first tv related memories. My sister and I would get a laugh out of Chris falling off the bike and Stand by REM is forever the song that ends with Chris falling off the bike. I remember nothing else about this show. I live in Philadelphia so that Saturday night block was most likely preempted with the 10 O' Clock News since that news program seems to be iconic though not as iconic as our local Action News on ABC. I remember Cops and America's Most Wanted (with John Walsh) being the Saturday line up and not Cops and Mad TV. Mad TV would come later and *looks around* it was sometimes better than SNL.

Angel

Not sure of the status these day, but eBay used to be a good place to get bootleg shows. In the early-mid 2000s, I was able to buy stuff like Strangers With Candy, Tenacious D, Wonder Showzen, TV Funhouse, etc on eBay, pretty cheap on VHS or *maybe* DVD, I don't remember which.

hrhomer