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Get a Life
I may be one of the few who remembers a little seen Chris Elliot show which aired during the infancy of the Fox broadcasting network. It was a sitcom called, “Get a Life,” which tracked the life of a 30-year-old paperboy (Elliot) and all his weird antics (R.E.M.’s “Stand” was the theme song). Personally, I loved the show, though I was only 15 at the time and my critical faculties had not yet been honed by years of National Lampoons films, a decade of “Married … with Children,” and endless reruns of “Saved by the Bell.” So, you know, my tastes have sharpened quite a bit since that time.
Anyway, there is really only one episode in the entire 22-episode run of “Get a Life,” that I remember: Chris Elliot wins a contest, the prize being the opportunity to hang out with a celebrity for a day – in this case, Martin Mull. So during an “Afternoon Delight” montage, Martin and Chris go out and do crazy things that sitcom characters in zany programs do, and at the end of this little segment, Elliot and Mull are hiding behind bushes, egging cars. Suddenly, a police cruiser drives by, which they pelt with a few eggs. The cruiser does a little Tokyo drift thing and the cops jump out of the car and pull their pistols. They start unloading a few rounds at Chris and Martin, who run for it, high-fiving one another once they escape the hail of bullets and find a clearing. Absurdist comedy, y’all. Funny as hell.
Unfortunately, the scene isn’t nearly as funny when “Afternoon Delight” is not playing, the thrower of eggs is a 14-year-old kid, and the recipient is a homicidal lunatic. But that’s what happened in Ohio over the weekend. Police are searching for the driver of an SUV, who shot and killed Danny Crawford, who he thought was throwing eggs at him.
The eighth-grade student at Westmoor Middle School was with two other boys, one of whom threw an egg at an SUV … the boy said Danny did not throw the egg.He said when the SUV stopped, he and Danny fled down an alley …the driver, he said, followed while the third boy ran in another direction.
The boy said the driver stopped the SUV, got out and began to run after them. The boy said while he ran through one back yard, Danny found himself trapped in the alley.
He said when he got to his house, he heard six shots.
Six shots! For one egg? Chris Elliot would not be amused. Uncool, Mr. Homicidal Maniac. Uncool.
