Get A Life

Chris talks his best friend Larry into taking the day off from his job so they can go to the amusement park and ride the new Hell Loop 2000, a 360-degree looped rollercoaster. However the fun ends when they get stuck upside down at the top of the loop. Julie Brown guest stars as TV reporter Connie Bristol. The opening theme is before and after the pilot.

Chris decides to enter the exciting world of male modeling when he joins the Handsome Boy School of Modeling. Brian Doyle-Murray guest stars as Ted Bains.

Chris convinces his father to accompany him to the father-son competition at the annual newspaper boy picnic. James Hampton guest stars.

Sharon's sister comes to visit and she is taken with Chris' charm, much to Sharon's chagrin.

In order to raise money to help save his childhood playground, Chris attempts to set a world record by having the most things piled on top of him.

Chris and the other paper boys lose their jobs when the newspaper replaces them with the Paperboy 2000, a gigantic paper-delivering robotic vehicle. To get everyone's job back, Chris challenges Paperboy 2000 to a paper-delivering contest.

Chris becomes infatuated with a new waitress at the local diner (Anastasia Barzee) and wants to take her out on a date, but she'll only go if he takes her on a drive around town. However, Chris never got a driver's license and tries to keep that fact a secret when he "borrows" his dad's car for his date.

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

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.

Much to Sharon's dismay, Chris auditions for and gets the lead part in a local community theatre production of Andrew Todd Keller's musical "Zoo Animals on Wheels" (a parody of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals "Cats" and "Starlight Express").

Chris finds evidence that makes him think he is adopted, so he sets off to find his natural parents, an Amish couple. When he finds them, they are even less prepared for Chris' bizarre behavior than Fred and Gladys.

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

At the annual Peterson family reunion, Chris is still struggling to get out from under the shadow of his more successful cousin Donald (Jackie Earle Haley).

Chris wins a contest, where his favorite talk show host will spend a weekend at his place. The squalor of the Elliott residence makes the host try to get out of the contest, until Chris gets him in on some of his fun activities. However, after enjoying some of Chris' zany antics, the host says he is through with Hollywood, to Chris' regret. Martin Mull guest stars.

After destroying her kitchen, Chris becomes Sharon's slave to work off the $2,000 in damage.

In the span of one day, Chris meets his soulmate (Deborah Shelton), marries her and goes through an entire relationship with her.

Chris and Larry join Chris' dad Fred on a camping trip. When Fred manages to lose them, the hungry boys eat some berries that cause them to hallucinate.

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.

During a visit to "The Big City" (somehow set in the 1930s or 1950s) that resembles New York City, Chris believes his wallet was stolen after he was slipped a "mickey". Chris soon becomes a celebrity known affectionately in the City as "Walletboy".

When Chris was 12 he got a job as a paperboy so he could buy a submarine from an ad in the back of a comic book. Chris and his father put it together. However, when they embark on the sub's maiden voyage (in Chris's bathtub), they become trapped.

After stealing an arrowhead from an Indian burial ground, Chris and Larry become cursed and wind up switching lives. Chris then has 24 hours to return the arrowhead or suffer the fate of being married to Sharon forever.

Chris has a near-death experience after choking on cereal and is endowed with prescience. However he becomes worried when one of his visions is of Sharon being murdered.