I AM LUUKING FOR MY KOZZEN LARRY!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meego

this site is useful btw: http://www.poobala.com/crossoverlist.html

This area is devoted to spin offs of shows and crossovers between shows. When shows crossover or spin off other shows the implication is that those shows share a reality. If The Jeffersons and Archie Bunker can meet each other they clearly are part of the same world as opposed to Archie Bunker being able to turn on his TV and watch The Jeffersons. Now when you figure in that many shows do LOTS of crossovers with various shows that can lead to tons of shows all theoretically being part of the same reality (Yeah, I know - I've got waaay too much time on my hands). Click here to go to lists of crossovers and spin offs broken down into groups by their shared realities.

...useful or insane?

I Dream of Jeannie and Law & Order are in the same shared reality!

Three cast members of Gilligan's Island, Bob Denver, Dawn Wells, and Russell Johnson, had a guest appearance on an unaired episode titled Mommy 'n' Meego.

it's kind of frightening how much my youth was spent watching horrible sitcoms

oh christ this thread

Hahaha

<3

i want mypos to be real

FRESH
YOUNG
BALLLK-I
B!

i loved this show, as a kid

"Now we do the dance of joy"

i want mypos to be real

Don't we all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vbnLYROCj8

I have not watched that since childhood.

Did that just say "Produced by Philip Roth"?

BALKI BARTOLKOMOS, CONSUMER ADVOCATE:

There was this one where Balki's favorite cereal, which promised 100 raisins in every box, bought a share of stock in the cereal, which he framed on his wall. After the first commercial break and probably some subplot, Balki counted the raisins in his new box of cereal and THERE WERE ONLY 67 RAISINS. He was crushed until Larry pointed out the stock meant he owned part of the company. After the second commercial break, Balki met up with the president of the company and shared his disappointment. The president realized what a grave error he made, commended Balki, and instituted a program to make sure at least 100 raisins in every box.

This show gave me some mixed up ideas about finance.

Another example: Balki opens a checking account (was it ever established if he was a naturalized citizen?). In his excitement, he bought Maryann a pack of gum and Larry a lightbulb with one of his new checks. But then, he BOUNCED a check by buying, IIRC, a tapestry of some collies. And I didn't get to see the rest of the episode, so I was horrified and anxious for a whole week. Did Balki get arrested? Did Larry kick him out of his apartment?

Larry tries to kickstart his career and gets tipped off that Dolly Parton is in town committing adultery. So he decides to follow her until he could get a picture to sell to newspapers. Meanwhile, Balki will do a favor for anyone who will ask for it so Larry teaches him to say "no" once and a while, but it backfires on him.

Ha! I remember this one: I had to ask my dad what adultery was. He comtemplated whether I should be allowed to continue watching my FAVORITE SHOW.

The unspecified pronoun in the second sentence kind of kills the didacticism here!

Balki hasn't been sleeping due to a nightmare that has been haunting him about him not being able to help out at harvest season back on Mypos.

"Future Shock"

Jennifer has been given a promotion but if she accepts it, she has to move to LA. Larry refuses to tell her how he feels as a fear of rejection but later that evening, he has a dream about being a lonely old man with Balki and Mary Anne married, rich, living upstairs.

!!!!

Larry and Balki throw a Halloween party with their friends and after six hours of watching scary movies, Larry wakes up and discovers that Balki is an alien from "Planet Mypos" and is turning everyone into Mypiots by putting vests on them.

This one actually scared me as a kid. Larry gets stabbed in the chest in a surprisingly gory fashion!

Did that just say "Produced by Philip Roth"?

Maybe that's how Mark Linn-Baker got to play Zuckerman?

Larry and Balki wind in jail after refusing to reveal a source of a commodity scandal to protect the freedom of the press. They won't stop there they are very persistent to keep their sources and take the hard time, But they later get two dangerous cell mates.

I love these summaries because they hardly sound like comedies at all.

It's a very psychotic evening when Marvin Berman, who tried to blow up Larry and Balki, visits them for dinner to apologize. But in the process, they mistakenly think that the mob is after them and they are surrounded by killers.

Larry is going duck hunting with Mr. Wainwright and Balki wants to go to get revenge on something that happened to him when he was a kid involving a duck. Larry lets him go when he sees what a great shot Balki is but it turns into a disaster when Balki will only let them kill one kind of ducks - pterodactyls.

Okay I REALLY want Mypos to be real is pterodactyls are still there!

Mr. Wainwright promotes Balki as the editor of the Sunday Children's page where he draws a comic trip of a sheep named Dimitri and Larry is assigned to fill in the dialogue "bubbles." But Larry and Balki can't agree on the sheep's sensibility.

Those summaries are just still amazing. Beckett couldn't have done better.

i remember all of these

these summaries are making me think that
they should remake this show in nu-sitcom style with handheld cameras, no laugh track and starring ryan seacrest and tyra banks

Balki in Wikipedia

This actually makes sense:

The character of Balki was based upon a foreign exchange student Dale McRaven knew in high school.

In an episode originally aired August 6, 1993, Mary Anne gave birth to their son, Robespierre-Boinki Bartokomous.

Two of my housemates are immigrants and our inherent cultural differences lead to a lot of taxing shenanigans around the house. At first, I kinda let it get under my skin, but lately have taken to muttering "Balki, Balki, Balki..." under my breath. It helps.

Oh man, Balki was already doing a comic for the Chicago Chronicle at age 28. I'll be outdone by a man who wears brocade vests. : (

The lyrics to the Dance of Joy song are approximately:

Dai-dai-dai-dai
Dai dai, duh dai dai dai
Hey
Hey
Hey
Hey
Dai-dai, duh dai duh
Hey!

HAHAHAHA

My brother and I would do the dance of joy any time we were fucking happy, and (jesus) my high school boyfriend and I did too.

1993 ???

PERFECT STRANGERS

1986-1993

R.I.P.

Oh god, a whole Wikipedia section on Mypos:

Mypos is the fictional island country which Balki Bartokomous is from. Its exact location is never specifically stated, but it is clearly modeled on the Greek Isles and so is presumably located near Greece in the Aegean, Ionian or Mediterranean seas. It has some customs which are unusual by American standards. In one episode Balki wears a traditional necklace that is in the shape of the island, which resembles Cyprus.

Mypos neighbors the also fictional island of Skeptos to the west and the fictional island of Pathos to the east. Together the three islands form the Tri-Island Area.

Cuisine includes:

* Halkidiki: A Myposian travel food which consists of milk, eggs, flour, honey, and goat spleen set out at room temperature until it gets that "little green fur" (as Balki described it).
* Booglie muzacman: Pig bladder stuffed with cheese.
* Dingding makhmud: Pig snout with saffron.
* Bibbibabka: A Myposian delicacy which must be prepared very carefully or it will explode. As Balki puts it, "If you don't make the bibbibabka in the traditional Myposian way, The bibbi in the babka... goes boom." Balki has a mnemonic device to aid in the preparation of bibbibabka in the form of a song (to the tune of "Limbo Rock"): "When you're rolling out the dough, just make sure you roll it slow. If you make the dough too quick, bibbibabkas make you sick...", etc.

Customs include:

* At bed time: in the middle of the day, someone rings a bell, and each person lies down to take a nap wherever they happen to be. On Mypos when it is a person's birthday, the person whose birthday it is gives presents to other people.

Misc facts:

* The king of Mypos was King Ferdinand, who was king until 1991. It is not known when he became king, but it was prior to 1986. After King Ferdinand died in 1991, the queen of Mypos was Queen Cookie. The royal family of Mypos were the only people on the island who had indoor plumbing.

* From the episode "The Lottery", if Balki won the jackpot he would pay off the Mypos national debt of $635.

* According to Balki, Mypos has only one phone on the entire island, located in the country's single 7-11 store. ("But it has Call Waiting.")

* The national sport of Mypos is long-distance spitting.

* In the episode "Ladies and Germs," it is established that Mypos has developed a cure for the common cold, a horrible-tasting potion brewed from herbs and fish parts. Balki makes the potion for Larry, who has a cold. But Larry drinks too much of the potion and falls asleep for three days.

* Other than during the opening credits when Balki waved goodbye, Mypos was only shown in one episode "Citizenship" in Season 7. Including convincing the travel agent that there was such a country, Larry traveled there to convince Balki's mother that her son, who had become a U.S. citizen, was happier back in Chicago.

DVD FORTHCOMING:

Warner Home Video will release the first and second seasons on a four-disc DVD set in Region 1 for the very first time on February 18, 2008.

Wow:

In the German dubbing, Balki was said to be an actual Greek and Mypos a Greek island. Even the show was called Ein Grieche erobert Chicago (A Greek captures Chicago), and in the opening credits Balki said that he became bored with his sheep in Greece, so he went to America to visit his cousin.

I'm sorry, the title in America so should have been A Greek Captures Chicago. It would still be running today.

Is it "captures" as in "beguiles", or...

A Greek Seduces Chicago

Chicago Gets Greeced Up

Perfect Strangers - The Complete First and Second Seasons

On DVD tomorrow!

Holy shit, the man's gonna have so many more reasons to hate my Netflix abuse! (Yesterday we got "Little Monsters" and a docu called "God Told Me To" about murderers, neither of which I remember even putting on the q, let alone moving to the top.)

I can't sink any dollars into this, but someone out there please tell me that the episode guide descriptions actually fit the episodes. I just need to know.

Oh, they do, but in a really saccharine way. Like how a Library of Congress summary fits a novel.

The first guy I dated, pretty much the only reason I came to his house is because he had some Perfect Strangers episodes he'd taped as a kid.

Thank god, the Balki B video is still on YouTube for instant roffles, so to repost:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F28LW9NWOCk

My brother just emailed me:

I remembered that perfect strangers is on AOL TV. At least some episodes. So I decided to see if that second episode of their winter expedition and cabin avalanche was on there. Of course the episode is not on there but the first part is! Will we EVER find out what really happened? Will I ever forgive mom and dad for taking us from grandma's house the one time it actually comes on tv? What awful torture must I bear?!

I knew you could sympathize. Thanks. I love you!

-Merr1ck

P.S. For torture inducing memories, the first episode is here: http://video.aol.com/video-detail/perfect-strangers-snow-way-to-treat-a-lady-part-1/355878549