Celebrate Get A Life’s 25th anniversary with a supercut of all Chris Elliott’s deaths

Perhaps most charming was its DIY attitude toward special effects and filming conventions. As executive producer David Mirkin told Vulture a few years ago, the show took great pride in its offbeat techniques and approaches. These things were most prominent in the Get A Life scenes where Elliott’s character is punched, slapped, kicked, stabbed, shot at, hit by a car, run over, or pushed off a roof. In many cases, he actually dies from this violence, although in a few notable cases (tonsillitis, drinking explosive juice) he brings on the destruction himself.

All of these instances are surreal or slapstick, and not at all scary. Still, the glee with which the fictional Chris is treated like a punching bag is completely in line with Get A Life’s subversive charms. Here’s a supercut of some of these deaths (as well as a compilation of injuries and violence which appeared in the series finale), to get a sense of just what Elliott’s character was up against.