![]() The show was the first to employ Charlie Kaufman as a writer. Years before South Park, some episodes would end with Chris dying, only to come back as alive the following week. Chris Elliott, best known at that point as an oblivious, self-aggrandizing weirdo prone to bouts of anger who lived under the stairs on David Letterman’s Late Night show, portrayed the main character Chris Peterson, an idiotic 30 year old paper boy who lived with his parents, who can barely tolerate him. Long before Community and Cougar Town won over the hearts and minds of the internet savvy, on September 23, 1990, Get A Lifepremiered on Fox. The executives are vilified for about three months. The show gets taken to TV heaven to play with the other really old shows. Unfortunately it doesn’t get watched by anyone with a Nielsen box. Once in awhile an original, smart and/or weird show seems that it could potentially be profitable. Usually those shows are similar to those before it because they can see with empirical data that they have worked before. They tend to green light and keep programs that make money for themselves and their bosses. In reality, executives are not assassins of art so much as they selfishly attempt to maintain a job. After tousling their kids’ hair they Purell their hands and take one of their speedboats out for a ride with their favorite mistress. Executives get their assistants to make screengrabs of the most depressing tweets about a show’s cancellation to show their children on Christmas. They are only experts at bringing joy to the deserving loud minority that appreciate high brow things such as irony, only to take it away and watch as Tumblrs drown in their tears. They purchase Monets and use them as target practice. They are wretched slime, only existing to please the philistines that situate themselves in the middle of America that find Tim Allen and Jon Cryer funny. According to the internet, television network executives are a bunch of deplorable scumbags.
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