The WORST episodes of Get a Life

Every episode of Get a Life ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Get a Life!

A 30-something guy still lives with his parents and works as a paperboy and tries to avoid growing up and being responsible at all costs.

Last Updated: 9/26/2024Network: FOXStatus: Ended
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Meat Locker 2000
star
5.50
6 votes

#1 - Meat Locker 2000

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/23/1991

Chris and Sharon show their true feelings when they become trapped in a meat locker together.

Directors: David Mirkin
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The One Where Chris and Larry Switch Lives
star
5.50
4 votes

#2 - The One Where Chris and Larry Switch Lives

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/12/1991

Chris and Larry ignore an Indian curse and wind up switching places.

Directors: David Mirkin
Writer: Edd Hall
Watch Now:Amazon
Girlfriend 2000
star
5.71
7 votes

#3 - Girlfriend 2000

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/12/1992

After getting hit by her car, Chris falls for (and stalks) a doctor, later while stalking her, he starts getting stalked by the girl from the drugstore who has fallen for him.

Directors: David Mirkin
Writer: David Mirkin
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Larry on the Loose
star
5.80
5 votes

#4 - Larry on the Loose

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/16/1991

Larry takes off after to listening to Chris reminding him of everything wrong with his life. So Chris goes in search of Larry and when he fails, he goes in search of a new best friend.

Directors: David Mirkin
Writer: Bob Odenkirk
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The Big City
star
5.80
5 votes

#5 - The Big City

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/21/1991

Chris loses his wallet in the big city, and the big city give him the key to the city and other perks to make him feel better.

Directors: Peter Baldwin
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Bad Fish
star
6.00
5 votes

#6 - Bad Fish

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/2/1992

After eating bad shellfish, Sharon and Gus get amnesia, and Chris seizes the opportunity to convince them that they are his best friends.

Directors: David Mirkin
Writer: Bob Odenkirk
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Psychic 2000
star
6.00
6 votes

#7 - Psychic 2000

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/19/1991

Chris has a near death experience and is endowed with prescience and he sees a vision of Sharon being murdered.

Directors: David Mirkin
Writer: David Mirkin
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The Sitting
star
6.08
13 votes

#8 - The Sitting

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1990

Chris becomes a house sitter in an old Victorian house that appears to be haunted.

Directors: David Steinberg
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The Counterfeit Watch Story
star
6.08
12 votes

#9 - The Counterfeit Watch Story

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/3/1991

Chris goes to work for the police in a sting operation after he buys a counterfeit watch, the Chrono-Sync 2000.

Directors: David Mirkin
Writer: Adam Resnick
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Chris Moves Out
star
6.13
8 votes

#10 - Chris Moves Out

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/9/1991

Chris turns 31 and decides it's time to move out, so he goes in search of a new place to live and he moves into Gus' garage.

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Neptune 2000
star
6.20
5 votes

#11 - Neptune 2000

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/28/1991

When Chris was 12 he got a job as a paperboy so he could buy a submarine from the back of a comic book. Four to six hundred weeks later when the kit arrives, Chris and his father put it together; however when they embark on the sub's maiden voyage (in Chris's bathtub) they become trapped.

Directors: David Mirkin
Writer: Steve Pepoon
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Paperboy 2000
star
6.22
9 votes

#12 - Paperboy 2000

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1990

The newspaper fires all the paper boys and replaces them with the Paperboy 2000, a paper delivering robotic vehicle, so Chris challenges it in a paper delivering contest.

Directors: Peter Baldwin
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Roots
star
6.23
13 votes

#13 - Roots

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/1991

Chris finds proof that makes him think he is adopted, so he sets off to find his natural parents, an Amish couple.

Directors: Dwayne Hickman
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Camping 2000
star
6.33
9 votes

#14 - Camping 2000

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/31/1991

Chris and Larry join Mr. Peterson on a camping trip, when Mr. Peterson manages to lose them, the hungry boys eat some berries that cause them to hallucinate.

Directors: Dean Parisot
Writer: Steve Pepoon
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Prisoner of Love
star
6.38
8 votes

#15 - Prisoner of Love

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/14/1991

When his pen-pal gets released from prison, she comes to stay with Chris. She takes him hostage when the police come after her when she starts criminal activities under Chris' nose.

Directors: David Mirkin
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Pile of Death
star
6.38
13 votes

#16 - Pile of Death

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/1990

Chris tries to raise money to help save a playground, so he tries to set a world record by having the most things piled on top of him.

Directors: Peter Baldwin
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The Construction Worker Show
star
6.43
7 votes

#17 - The Construction Worker Show

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/7/1991

Chris becomes a construction worker with the men who are renovating his parents kitchen. When they tell him one of their trade secrets, Chris has a problem with their dishonesty.

Directors: David Mirkin
Writer: Adam Resnick
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Chris Wins a Celebrity
star
6.45
11 votes

#18 - Chris Wins a Celebrity

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/24/1991

Chris wins a weekend with his favorite talk show host, a contest the host first regrets he agreed to, but later Chris regrets he entered, when the host decides to stay.

Directors: Dean Parisot
Writer: Adam Resnick
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Clip Show
star
6.50
6 votes

#19 - Clip Show

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/8/1992

While on his first jet airplane flight, Chris falls out, and is disappointed when his life flashes before his eyes and it only covers the past eighteen months.

Directors: David Mirkin
Writer: David Mirkin
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Chris Gets His Tonsils Out
star
6.50
6 votes

#20 - Chris Gets His Tonsils Out

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/7/1991

Chris must deal with the fact he is ready to undergo ""major"" surgery and he begins by trying to make peace with Sharon.

Directors: David Mirkin
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Chris vs. Donald
star
6.60
10 votes

#21 - Chris vs. Donald

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/10/1991

At the family reunion Chris is still struggling to get out from under the shadow of his cousin.

Directors: Dwayne Hickman
Writer: Adam Resnick
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Chris Becomes a Male Escort
star
6.63
8 votes

#22 - Chris Becomes a Male Escort

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/21/1991

Chris decides on a whim to become a male escort, hoping for free plays and dates with young women. What he gets is a elderly woman who is hard up.

Directors: John Fortenberry
Writer: Adam Resnick
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Bored Straight
star
6.67
12 votes

#23 - Bored Straight

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/1990

While delivering papers in the bad side of town, Chris meets a group of young hoodlums and he decides to take back the streets by helping the kids.

Directors: David Mirkin
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Drivers License
star
6.69
13 votes

#24 - Drivers License

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1990

There's a new waitress at the local diner, and Chris wants to take her out, but he needs to drive a car for the date. His problem is he never got a license.

Directors: David Mirkin
Writer: David Mirkin
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Houseboy 2000
star
6.75
8 votes

#25 - Houseboy 2000

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/10/1991

After destroying her kitchen, Chris becomes Sharon's slave to work off the $2000 in damage and she also breaks his will.

Directors: Peter Baldwin
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