Sliders and Wings: Episode 46 -- Get a Life

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Hosted by Rachel Cox and Valerie Temple, Sliders and Wings is a podcast about the TV shows Sliders, Wings, and all the other forgotten TV shows of the 90s.

On this episode Val and Rachel and Special Guests Aaron and Greg (their respective spouses) discuss Get a Life, a television sitcom that was broadcast in the United States on the Fox Network from September 23, 1990, to March 8, 1992. The show stars Chris Elliott as a 30-year-old paperboy named Chris Peterson. Peterson lived in an apartment above his parents' garage (Elliott's parents are played by Elinor Donahue and his real-life father, comedian Bob Elliott). The opening credits depict Chris Peterson delivering newspapers on his bike to the show's theme song, "Stand" by R.E.M.

Hot Topics include:
1.) Early FOX programming "The lunatics were running the asylum" 2.) How does Cabin Boy hold up? 3.) Adult Swim prototyping 4.) Chris Elliott's leading man appeal 5.) Greg and Aaron's celebrity lookalikes 6.) S.P.E.W.E.Y. 7.) Elliott's other projects: FDR biopic and Action Family 8.) Greg's superpower to annihilate conversations 9.) Rachel's obsolete Get a Life quiz