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PLEEEEZ HELP ME FIND MY KOZZEN LARRY! I MEESS HEEEMM
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 07:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 07:13 (twenty years ago) link
― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 07:14 (twenty years ago) link
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― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago) link
ok i'm a little surprised at my vitriol there. sorry, mat, all forgiven.
― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:03 (twenty years ago) link
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― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:05 (twenty years ago) link
What do you mean? The role of Cousin Larry wasn't actually mentioned in this book on Russian theatre; I just recognized the name Mark Linn-Baker and said "wait, wasn't he...?".
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago) link
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― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:07 (twenty years ago) link
He was a great foil to Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year...but somewhere along the way...
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:07 (twenty years ago) link
He appeared in the role of Hysterium in the 1995 Broadway stage production of 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'.
Played "Marvelous" Mark Slackmeyer in the Broadway production of "Doonesbury - The Musical"
His christened name is Mark Linn Baker (without the hyphen). Linn is actually his middle name, not part of his last name. When he joined the actors union, there already was a Mark Baker, so he combined his middle name with his last name. His father made up his middle name "Linn" in honor of Leonid Tolstoy.
Mark is a partner in Manhattan's West Bank Cafe.
Wife Adrianne Lobel is a set designer. They have one daughter.
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:11 (twenty years ago) link
xpost jesus fuck a doonesbury musical??!?
― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago) link
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― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:17 (twenty years ago) link
When Trudeau took what at the time was an unusual break for comic artists -- I think it was something like a year and a half off, around 83-84 -- part of his time was spent writing the musical or rather cowriting it. I still have never seen it, but my understanding was that it covered the 'missing time' during the break, when Mike and JJ got married and the original 'Walden' crew finally went their separate ways.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:17 (twenty years ago) link
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― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link
http://epguides.com/PerfectStrangers/guide.shtml
Ep. 114.
― Allyzay flies casual (allyzay), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link
God I miss this show
― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link
and in hopes of going into labor, Larry and Balki take Jennifer up in the balloon.
― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm still amazed.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
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― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link
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. : (
― Abbott, Sunday, 4 November 2007 02:13 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Abbott, Sunday, 4 November 2007 02:15 (sixteen years ago) link
1993 ???
― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 4 November 2007 03:41 (sixteen years ago) link
PERFECT STRANGERS
1986-1993
R.I.P.
― Abbott, Sunday, 4 November 2007 03:45 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
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.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 November 2007 05:17 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 November 2007 05:24 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 November 2007 05:26 (sixteen years ago) link
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...
― roxymuzak, Sunday, 4 November 2007 05:28 (sixteen years ago) link
A Greek Seduces Chicago
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 November 2007 05:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Chicago Gets Greeced Up
― latebloomer, Sunday, 4 November 2007 06:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Perfect Strangers - The Complete First and Second Seasons
On DVD tomorrow!
― svend, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 00:29 (sixteen years ago) link
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.)
― Abbott, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 00:32 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 03:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, they do, but in a really saccharine way. Like how a Library of Congress summary fits a novel.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 05:08 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 05:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Thank god, the Balki B video is still on YouTube for instant roffles, so to repost:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F28LW9NWOCk
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 August 2008 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Thursday, 16 July 2009 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Being robbed of watching that second episode has been a lifelong grudge we both share.
Oh good, Balki B video link still works.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 July 2009 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
This is the greatest thing ever.
http://nothingsgonnastopmenow.com/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha
just to sing the song
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
oh there are some shitty entries on the dream board
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
quality video game
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
dammit, beaten by minutes!
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
lolling at the tri-island area
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
beaten by an hour actually
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't cotton on to catching stars til about halfway through, I was too busy singing
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
We've had a few Wikipedia links above but anyway, a further celebration:
http://decanting-cerebral.tumblr.com/post/44323013452/16-ways-of-looking-at-perfect-strangers-via-wikipedia
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 March 2013 23:27 (eleven years ago) link
Oh Balki
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 March 2013 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bg80jycIEAAGR1Y.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 February 2014 22:21 (ten years ago) link
Who they?
― Tuomas, Friday, 21 February 2014 13:55 (ten years ago) link
tuomas if there was an embed for getting a thread to slap someone in the face i would paste it in below even if it inadvertently slapped everyone else who loaded this thread in the face because then it would also slap you in the face for asking such a fundamentally dense question about the very thread in which you were asking it, my gawd
― j., Friday, 21 February 2014 15:01 (ten years ago) link
why would tuomas even click on this thread?
― *plop* son (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 21 February 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
^zen koan
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 21 February 2014 16:37 (ten years ago) link
Because it had a weird title and I was trying to understand what it was about. I read the first 10 posts or so, but I still didn't get it. Who is cousin Larry?
― Tuomas, Friday, 21 February 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link
Hey Tuomas, I don't know if you use Chrome, but if you do you can right-click on any pic in the world and click "Search google for this image", which will usually tell you what you're looking at.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 21 February 2014 17:13 (ten years ago) link
or you could just type "Cousin Larry" into Google
― sent as gassed to onto rt dominance (DJP), Friday, 21 February 2014 17:58 (ten years ago) link
i gotta say those two have aged pretty well, it's been like 25 years
― Nhex, Friday, 21 February 2014 18:50 (ten years ago) link
mark linn baker looks like Larry David
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 21 February 2014 18:50 (ten years ago) link
Oh...oh dear.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/perfect-stranger-things-gives-larry-and-balki-a-new-roo-1820220807
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
Dancing In The Moonlight
― Bazooka Jobim (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 21:28 (six years ago) link
the episode where larry falls asleep for days after drinking a jar of balki’s medicine is the apex of eighties sitcom art
― barreras, Friday, 22 December 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link
i was watching the first season of Newhart (80s innkeeper one) on Hulu when i had the flu and 80s sitcoms are sort of weirder than today's "weird" sitcoms in a way
one episode literally involved them learning their was a witch buried in their basement and hiring Larry Daryl and Daryl to dig up the bones so they could bury them in the church graveyard, but then Joanna decides she likes having the witch in their basement because she was wrongfully accused so they cancel the job and just keep the witch's bones in their basement
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 December 2017 17:12 (six years ago) link
This was a very relatable scenario in the 80s
― Embalming is a flirty business (DJP), Friday, 22 December 2017 17:56 (six years ago) link
Nothing beats the "magic cave" episode of Punky Brewster for sheer bugfuck 80s sitcom weirdness.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Friday, 22 December 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
This is everything. pic.twitter.com/HVtPCkFUd0— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) August 12, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 August 2022 15:01 (one year ago) link
And in sharing it a friend (a published playwright) makes a case
The writers of that show understood farce, which is really rare - and they could act it, which is rarer - in the beginning when the show was basically two rooms, the newspaper and the apartment, it was like a really fun play from the 30s-50s https://t.co/eUWl6i4an1— Justin Sherin (@wychstreet) August 12, 2022
Glad to know my childhood was spent watching quality TV
― Mar - a - Lago, or 120 Days of Sodom (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 12 August 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link
The episode where they make pastry that explodes unless you burp is a classic
― formerly abanana (dat), Friday, 12 August 2022 22:12 (one year ago) link