# Get A Life **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 18, 2000, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-a-life/33654 "2000-09-18T21:04:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-a-life/33654/21 "2000-10-09T16:33:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Purd Werfect \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Snooooopy \* > > \*\*I loved hearing R.E.M.'s “Stand” at the beginning of “Get A Life” – for me, it kind of validated my worship of a band that, at the time, was just starting to transcend its cult status. But the new USA reruns have wiped “Stand” away in favor of some generic music. > > > > I can’t wait for the episode featuring Hot Dog Boy. \*\* > > I think the first episode actually started out with “Cecilia Ann” by the Pixies, off their album, “Bossanova”. I remember being very surprised, as this preceded the days when a college radio song could go from zero-to-car commercial in under 60 seconds. \*\* It wasn’t the first episode, but I do remember hearing “Cecilia Ann.” It was used for a training sequence in the episode when Chris and his dad entered a father-son athletic contest. ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-a-life/33654/22 "2000-10-09T18:44:36Z")
**Family Guy** - Is this show off the air again? This has to be one of the best animated shows ever. **Get a Life** - I think FOX is definitely trying to piss people off by pulling these non-typical-not-quite-like-a-NBC-sitcom show. **Space: Above and Beyond** - I use to watch this show religiously on FOX before they pulled it. Man, I was so pissed. Fortunately, Sci-Fi channel is showing re-runs. **The State** - Why oh why did they try going onto CBS? I miss ya, Louie! Louie: “Does someone got a bowl of something?” Person: “I do!” Louie: “What is it?” Person: “Applesauce!” Louie: “I wanna dip my balls in it!!!” Crowd: “Yay!” ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-a-life/33654/23 "2000-10-09T20:53:18Z")
hmmmm Piano strikes again. _Mr. Show_ great great show. _Action_ already on F/X and I’m loving every second of it. Was there a better show on TV? I’d be hard pressed to find it. _Get a Life_ great great show. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-a-life/33654/24 "2000-10-09T22:22:38Z")
First and foremost. THE MONKEES!!! I love them. They used to be on Nick at Nite and ocasionally on Screen Gem Networks. I’m going to have to start ordering episode tapes via [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com). God, the Devil, and Bob. My bro and I loved this show, and would tape it whenever possible. one of the greatest animated shows. Other than that i’m being fulfilled in terms of TV Shows. I’m getting a bit too much of the Facts of Life though. Family Guy is still on, and the Wonder Years could get annoying with the voice thing… ---
**Author:** ![3waygeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e95f7d/32.png) [@3waygeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3waygeek)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-a-life/33654/25 "2000-10-09T22:48:52Z")
> [@](#): > > I can’t wait for the episode featuring Hot Dog Boy. Fortunately, you didn’t have to wait too long – it was today’s episode. ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2000, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-a-life/33654/26 "2000-10-10T06:37:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kasuo \* > [B **The State** - Why oh why did they try going onto CBS? I miss ya, Louie! > > Louie: “Does someone got a bowl of something?” > Person: “I do!” > Louie: “What is it?” > Person: “Applesauce!” > Louie: “I wanna dip my balls in it!!!” > Crowd: “Yay!” > \*\* Ever see the one with Louie at the last supper? The sketch ends with the disciples leaving with Louie. Ponchus Pilate (sp?) shows up and asks where Jesus is. “He went that way,” Jesus says wearily. “Wearing shirtsleeves, talking about his balls.” [dialogue approximated due to author’s weed impaired memory] ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2000, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-a-life/33654/27 "2000-10-10T07:34:24Z")
The Addams Family The real one. They had a movie. They had a second movie (which I liked actually). They have a miserable new version. But other than Nike at Night having on for one “special” week, they don’t show the REAL Addams family. Why is this? Is this not what Nick at Night is for? ---
**Author:** ![kawliga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@kawliga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kawliga)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-a-life/33654/28 "2000-10-11T07:22:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OrcaChow \* > \*\* > I’d also like to see reruns of “Freaks and Geeks,” but they didn’t make enough episodes for it to go into syndication. > \*\* “Freaks and Geeks” airs Tuesday nights at 8 on the Fox/Family channel. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-a-life/33654/29 "2000-10-11T07:41:31Z")
There was an ABC show that lasted 1/2 a season called “Hondo.” It developed a cult following on cable reruns many years later. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-a-life/33654/30 "2000-10-11T07:48:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Doug Bowe \* > \*\* There was an ABC show that lasted 1/2 a season called “Hondo.” It developed a cult following on cable reruns many years later. \*\* That short? Wow. I can remember always seeing it listed in the TV section, generally in some hideous time slot like 9 a.m. on Sundays on TBS or TNT. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-a-life/33654/31 "2000-10-11T14:47:57Z")
Does anyone else miss that quirky little MTV comedy, **Austin Stories**? (The misadventures of a group of slackers in Austin, TX.) Man, I loved that show. Also, **Square Pegs** was pretty funny, plus you’ve gotta love a show with a theme song performed by The Waitresses. I also loved **God, The Devil and Bob**. Damn spineless advertisers. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-a-life/33654/32 "2000-10-11T15:50:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JBirdman12 \* > [BEver see the one with Louie at the last supper? The sketch ends with the disciples leaving with Louie. Ponchus Pilate (sp?) shows up and asks where Jesus is. “He went that way,” Jesus says wearily. “Wearing shirtsleeves, talking about his balls.” [dialogue approximated due to author’s weed impaired memory] \*\* On one of the very last episodes, perhaps THE last episode, they did a sort of kabuki-theatre thing with lots of their recurring characters. I thought it was particularly funny, since I was taking Japanese at that time and picked up most of the dialogue without the subtitles. “I will make pilgrimages to your graves, and dip my balls in them.” hehehe… And I miss Doug. “You don’t get it, Dad! Forget it, I’m outta he-ee-e-e–e-ere.” The State has a book out, by the way, called _State by State with The State_. It’s a travel book with information on all 50 states, except Utah (you’ll understand why when you read it) and Connecticut, whose entry is just “Nothin’.” The book is DAMN funny. Back to the OP: it bugs me that “Stand” wasn’t the theme when I taped Get A Life yesterday (for the first time). Licensing problem, you think? ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-a-life/33654/33 "2000-10-11T16:04:58Z")
The show I’d like to see back in syndication was on on Fox about 6 years ago called “The Edge”. It was like SNL, but only about 30 minutes. They had the funniest skits I’ve ever seen that blew SNL out of the water. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-a-life/33654/34 "2000-10-11T16:11:26Z")
_Mr. Terrific_ (starring Stephen Strimpell as Stanley Beamish) and _Captain Nice_ (starring William Daniels as Carter Nash). These both ran for a few scant months in 1967, horrifyingly, back-to-back. “Horrifying” because they were BOTH super-hero parody shows, in the style of _Get Smart_ (Buck Henry was one of the creators of _Captain Nice_). The big joke behind each show was that a nebbishy protagonist gained super-powers through the consumption of a powerful drug (this was 1967, after all). William Daniels went on to portray John Adams in _1776,_ be the voice of KITT in _Knight Rider,_ and win an Emmy for _St. Elsewhere._ Nothing ever became of Stephen Strimpell. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-a-life/33654/35 "2000-10-11T16:24:46Z")
“Mr. Terrific” and “Captain Nice”—jeez, I hadn’t thought of THOSE in a good long time, Mr. PBS! Ah, memories of my 1960s childhood taking root in front of the teevee . . . “The Pruitts of Southhampton” . . . “Love on a Rooftop” . . . “Accidental Family” . . . “The Ugliest Girl in Town” . . . Guess that explains why I have not yet won that Nobel Prize or cured any diseases. My noggin is too stuffed with 1960s theme songs. —“Zis has been a Filmvays Presentation, dahling!” ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-a-life/33654/36 "2000-10-11T17:46:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JBirdman12 \* > Ever see the one with Louie at the last supper? The sketch ends with the disciples leaving with Louie. Ponchus Pilate (sp?) shows up and asks where Jesus is. “He went that way,” Jesus says wearily. “Wearing shirtsleeves, talking about his balls.” [dialogue approximated due to author’s weed impaired memory] Because of that very episode, I dressed up as Louie for Halloween that very year (1994 I think) and walked around with a pair of golf balls, asking everyone if I could dip my balls in stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-a-life/33654/37 "2000-10-11T18:51:57Z")
Speaking of skit comedy, the **Ben Stiller Show** was pretty damn funny. Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo, and the fourth guy whose name I don’t remember, but who was also damn funny. Sure would love to see Comedy Central pick up and replay some of those episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Voorvie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/22d042/32.png) [@Voorvie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voorvie)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-a-life/33654/38 "2000-10-11T19:05:07Z")
Freaks & Geeks was so great! I was so bummed when they cancelled that, wrote letters to the execs at NBC and everything! I’ve been recording them each week (2 episodes air each week on The Fox Family Channel as someone else pointed out). Last night they showed a never before aired episode (Bill’s mom hooks up with gym teacher Mr. Fredericks!) and next week another never before aired episode about Neil’s cheating father. DON’T MISS IT! In the 80’s there was this show called “Paper Dolls”. It was a campy, Dynasty-type show about models and such and I was addicted! There was this big cliff hanger episode and the next week I went to watch and it was interrupted by Dan Rather or someone like that talking about some bombing somehwere, IIRC. And then, they never showed it again! I was really bummed! I’m giving a “shout out” to The Young Ones. Unforgettable characters, for sure! ---
**Author:** ![Myrr21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Myrr21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrr21)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-a-life/33654/39 "2000-10-11T19:53:14Z")
'nother vote for \*\* Nowhere Man \*\* and \*\* The State. \*\* (throw in a vote for \*\* The Sentinel, \*\* too. UPN at its best/worst) \*\* Family Guy \*\* was in fact, cancelled, but revived from the grave because it’s so frickin good. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-a-life/33654/40 "2000-10-12T08:42:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Voorvie \* > \*\* > I’m giving a “shout out” to The Young Ones. Unforgettable characters, for sure! \*\* I only saw one episode of that – I vaguely remember them going on a game show and one of them messed with the questions. I always wanted to see more, but I was too young at the time and couldn’t stay up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-a-life/33654.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-a-life/33654.md?page=3)