PR: Get A Life: The Complete Series on DVD Sep 18

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All 35 episodes of the show are included in the 5-Disc set along with an essay written by Tom Shales and bonus features with the cast and crew, including interviews, audio commentary, a Paley Center panel from 2000, deleted scenes and alternate versions of select episodes without the laugh track.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 14, 2012

Get A Life: The Complete Series

STARRING CHRIS ELLIOTT
TO BE RELEASED BY SHOUT! FACTORY

FINALLY, ALL 35 UNCUT EPISODES OF THE
ULTIMATE ANTI-SITCOM IN A FIVE-DVD SET!

IN STORES SEPTEMBER 18

Los Angeles, CA - Get A Life, starring Chris Elliott as America's most lovable psycho, will finally be made available in its entirety on DVD when Shout! Factory releases Get A Life: The Complete Series on September 18! All 35 episodes of the show are included in the 5-Disc set along with an essay written by Tom Shales and bonus features with the cast and crew, including interviews, audio commentary, a Paley Center panel from 2000, deleted scenes and alternate versions of select episodes without the laugh track.

Get A Life: The Complete Series is based on the surreal, twisted, gratuitously violent, hilarious misadventures of Chris Peterson -- a 30-year-old paper boy with an ever decreasing grasp on reality. Starring Chris Elliott (Eagleheart), Executive Produced by David Mirkin (The Simpsons) and created by Chris Elliott, Adam Resnick and David Mirkin, Get A Life has earned a rabid and disturbing cult following. Costarring Bob Elliott, Robin Riker, Elinor Donahue, Sam Robards and Brian Doyle-Murray, the show aired on Fox from 1990 - 1992.

Get A Life blazed new trails in television with its absurd plotlines and offbeat humor, following Chris Peterson as he lives above his parents garage (with Chris Elliott's own father playing Chris Peterson's father), and engages in activities like enrolling in the Handsome Boy Modeling School, getting stuck upside down for hours on the Hell Loop 2000, JOINING A STREET gang, befriending a FOUL, SPEWING alien, becoming a male escort, FIGHTING the homicidal killing machine that is the unnecessarily huge 17-Ton Paperboy 2000, using time travel to keep his friend Gus from peeing on his police captain, and VIOLENTLY dying in MANY episodes.

Get A Life was a brilliantly designed anti-sitcom, its ingenious and disturbing comedy influencing many of those that would follow. As Tom Shales writes in the essay accompanying Get A Life: The Complete Series, "...Get A Life wears the 'cult classic' badge with honor, with pride and, shall we say -- as the hero of the show might say in his predictably pretentious way -- with a certain air of absolute uncertainty." Get A Life, Shales concludes, was "a laugh-your-bleep-bleep ass off show -- one impeded by as few commercial compromises and patronizing precedents as possible.... Get A Life influenced far, far more comedy than it was influenced by."

Shout! Factory is a diversified entertainment company devoted to producing, uncovering and revitalizing the very best of pop culture - The Stuff You Grew Up On But Never Outgrew. Founders Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos have spent their careers sharing their music, television and film faves with discerning consumers the world over. Shout! Factory's DVD offerings serve up classic, contemporary and cult TV series, riveting sports programs, live music, animation and documentaries in lavish packages crammed with extras. The company's audio catalogue boasts Grammy(r)-nominated boxed sets, new releases from storied artists and lovingly assembled album reissues. These riches are the result of a creative acquisitions mandate that has established the company as a hotbed of cultural preservation and commercial reinvention. For more on Shout! Factory, visit www.shoutfactory.com.

Bonus Features:
* A Conversation With Executive Producer/Co-Creator David Mirkin And Writer/Producers Jace Richdale And Steve Pepoon
* Paleyfest 2000! Featuring David Mirkin, Elinor Donahue, Brian Doyle-Murray,
Robin Riker, Charlie Kaufman, Bob Odenkirk, Steve Pepoon And Jace Richdale
* Audio Commentaries
* Deleted Scenes
* Alternate Audio Version Without Laugh Track On Select Episodes
* And more!

Program Running Time: +/- 14 hours

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News Editor June 29, 2012, 7:20 am