Get a Life (1990)

Chris Elliott plays Chris Peterson, a 30-year-old paperboy still living with his parents in St. Paul, and the show treats the family sitcom as something to take apart. Episodes swerve into the absurd and the plainly bleak, which is why it feels closer to later cult comedy than to anything else Fox aired from 1990 to 1992. Two seasons and 35 episodes, built as standalone stories, so there is no cliffhanger waiting at the end; the creators' plan to turn Chris into a hobo in a third season simply never happened. Expect some episodes to land harder than others. If you like Tim Robinson's sketches or Eric Andre's chaos, this is a missing ancestor.