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.

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.

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.

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".

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

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.

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".

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.