As I said it was way too funny, and didn't belong on FOX. The show is much akin to Firefly in its esoteric ideas and writing style. It should have been broadcast on NBC. Put it on after Seinfeld, and it would have been a smash hit. Anything is better than "Friends". Yuck.
Spewie rules, by the way.
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well, luckily my parents are as open to comedy as I am, so they kept their tapes of the show, and i transferred them to digital tape about three years ago, but time had taken its toll on the cassete. So I too am ecstatic about the shows release on dvd.
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It was far ahead of its time.
It led to Family Guy, American Dad, South Park
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
All excellent shows. Where would comedy be without it? Some dreary, unfunny, CBS wasteland.
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Was it before the Simpsons? I could find the answer myself in 11 seconds, but I dont wanna.
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Same year
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Same year
Makes sense, Simpsons first season sucked. Get A Life influenced The Simpsons even more than Family Guy and the rest.
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I think the Simpsons started out a year earlier. The first season started in 1989.
shareI think the Simpsons started out a year earlier. The first season started in 1989.
Now you know why the first season of The Simpsons sucked.
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this show ran its entire first season sandwiched Sunday nights at 8 30 right in between In Living Color and Married with Children
now i can't exactly see the logic of having it after in living color...2 radically different audiences there, but the ratings must have been good enough because it did get a 2nd season, unfortunately fox moved it from its nice sunday night spot to saturday nights at 9 30 following "the Edge" another sketch comedy show....they tried to build an absurdist comedy hour on saturday nights which failed because both shows followed COPS, and how on earth is Get A Life supposed to follow COPS????
then fox made a last ditch attempt to save get a life by running the rest of the eps they had for the 2nd season back on Sunday nights (this time at 10 o clock) after Herman's Head....the ratings by the way improved much, but by this point I think Fox had already written it off as too weird for them...(They wanted to be more coventional, it got replaced in the following fall by Flying Blind which was solid if i remember correctly but much more of a traditional sitcom)
the white zone is for unloading passengers...
who shot who in the what now?
Thanks TV Jesus...!
shareI think the Simpsons started out a year earlier. The first season started in 1989.
Cheating is just another way of being prepared. ~~ Coach McGuirkshare
This show is like "Seinfeld" with a laugh track.
'Get a Life' influenced 'South Park.' Kenny dying reminds me of Chris' many deaths.
shareA frind of mine saw Chris at a booksigning and simply said
"Your cockfights suck you bastard"..
Chris laughed wholeheartedly...
The first season of the Simpsons actually aired in 1990... "Simpsons Roasting on a Open Fire" was broadcast for Christmas, 1989 as a special that ended up becoming the pilot.
And yes, the first season of the simpsons was almost a traditional sitcom, animated, and with the occasional surreal moment. Later seasons it become crazy, I can see Homer Simpson's character being influenced by Chris Elliot
HahA! That is just so random!
shareThis show is like "Seinfeld" with a laugh track. The canned laughter is the only thing that bothers me about this show. It paved the way for smart and funny sitcoms in the '90s. And now we're left with ... well, what are we left with?
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Thanks for the heads-up. I've seen the Rhino DVDs at a record store, but they were extremely pricey (in the $30 range, I believe). It seems that canned laughter should be fairly easy to release from most TV shows because it's recorded on a separate track and added after the filming. It wouldn't be so easy with live studio audiences, but I don't mind the laughter there.
shareYes.....................or 25 years behind its time, if you figure that Green Acres was in its own time.
Absurdish humor television was invented by Green Acres, period.
It really was. A lot of the early Fox shows were like that. I always thought Get a Life and Titus were two of Fox's finest moments but they didn't promote those shows.
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