I AM LUUKING FOR MY KOZZEN LARRY!

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It took me a few tries afore I could watch My Favorite Year without thinking of Balki

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

MLB vs Paul Reiser!

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

mark linn baker is actually (weirdly enough) cited by a lot of actors as being sort of the "comic actor's comic actor!" he's really well-respected!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

xpost jesus fuck a doonesbury musical??!?

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-two years ago)

that is crossover wierdness. it's like bizarro x-files.

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

oh my god, is there a soundtrack???

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

MLB was also on L&O: Original Recipe with Joe Piscopo.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

That would be cool if that was the 3rd spin-off.Law & Order: Original Recipe
Joe Piscopo and Mark Linn-Baker star as two Kentucky Justice Dept. agents assigned the dangerous task of guarding 11 herbs and spices.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

If Serena Southerlynn perishes in a vat of fried chicken, it will be the best show ever.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

i was just going to start a thread about mark linn-baker but figured i'd check the archives first. ilx, i salute you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

a recent photo
http://images.usatoday.com/life/_photos/2004/07/22/theater-baker-inside.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Was he in "My Favorite Year" with Peter O'Toole?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

DB is a god among men.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

He WAS in "My Favorite Year" with Peter O'Toole! A winner is me!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Read upthread, my friend. xpost

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Well ok thanks for making me think, AGAIN, of the episode where Balki becomes a famous rapper. "Fresh Young Balki B" your song is in my head again. FUCK YOU.

― Allyzay flies casual (allyzay), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

oh jesus i could not even have dreamt that such an episode exists. please tell me you're not joking.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/es/a/a5/Borat.jpg

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

mark linn baker is in something that is coming out soon. I just saw him in a trailer. I can't remember what it is though.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I am not joking.

http://epguides.com/PerfectStrangers/guide.shtml

Ep. 114.

― Allyzay flies casual (allyzay), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF THIS SHOW WAS ON FOR EIGHT YEARS???????

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Later on, Larry falls down the stairs at the Chronicle and gets amnesia

God I miss this show

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

omg

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 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF THIS SHOW WAS ON FOR EIGHT YEARS???????

I'm still amazed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm more amazed that someone took the time to put an episode guide up.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Still boggling over here. EIGHT YEARS.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Standing tall, on the wings of my dreams
the rise and fall, of the wings of my dreams
My life, my dreams, nothing's gonna stop me now
whoah whoah whoah

Why can I still remember this shit 10 years later?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Larry wants to put some sparks back in his marriage, and after he fails with Balki's secret treasures, he goes shopping with Balki and accidentally gets locked in the store after hours with a mad dog on the loose.

― Allyzay flies casual (allyzay), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Balki's secret treasures

SO GODDAMN WRONG.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I so knew this was a donut yotch thruuud.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Larry decides to grow it big to make money off it unaware that growing it big has wacky side effects

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

OH NOES

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

MAGE IT BEEGER, LARRY, MAKE IT BEEGER!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

After reading every single episode summary I'm convinced Larry was a very greedy man.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

..or very insecure, in the latter case.

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Or closeted or...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, no, YOU DON'T BE RIDICULOUS!

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"closeted"

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The quartet are traped in a cabin burried alive by an avalanch and they try to dig a tunnel to the outside world.

That seems a little...edgy.

― Allyzay flies casual (allyzay), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Only if they die at the end.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

When a famous psychic visits the Chronicle, She goes into a trance and predicts that a bog storm will come and Larry will die at midnight after sitting on a sheep and eating a golden ring.

― Allyzay flies casual (allyzay), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

LARRY!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 November 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Larry's softball team has a chance of winning the championship but the star player wes sent to prison. So He promises to let Balki play until a star ringer shows up.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 3 November 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

The only picture I found of Balki on the back of the horse-drawn cart next to the AMERICA OR BUST sign is huge.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 3 November 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

BUST PLZ

― Dan (BOINGY BOINGY BOINGY) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 November 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

Those show descriptions make me hurt.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 November 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

Larry and Balki invite Jennifer and Mary Anne over for dinner but cannot agree on what to serve which cases a rift between them and eventually a rift between Jennifer and Mary Anne.

How is that an episode of an entire show???

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 3 November 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

Lydia has been offered the opportunity of having her on TV advice show but she has one problem, she's afraid of cameras. But Larry tries to force her to do the show because of a mistake he made in high school when he turned down an opportunity.

Creepy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 November 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bronsonpinchot.20m.com/images/hawaiian.jpg

― KSTFUNS (Ex Leon), Thursday, 3 November 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

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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 (fourteen years ago)

nine months pass...

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 (thirteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

Oh Balki

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 March 2013 17:07 (thirteen years ago)

ten months pass...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bg80jycIEAAGR1Y.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 February 2014 22:21 (twelve years ago)

Who they?

― Tuomas, Friday, 21 February 2014 13:55 (twelve years ago)

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 (twelve years ago)

why would tuomas even click on this thread?

― *plop* son (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 21 February 2014 16:36 (twelve years ago)

^zen koan

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 21 February 2014 16:37 (twelve years ago)

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 (twelve years ago)

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 (twelve years ago)

or you could just type "Cousin Larry" into Google

― sent as gassed to onto rt dominance (DJP), Friday, 21 February 2014 17:58 (twelve years ago)

i gotta say those two have aged pretty well, it's been like 25 years

― Nhex, Friday, 21 February 2014 18:50 (twelve years ago)

mark linn baker looks like Larry David

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 21 February 2014 18:50 (twelve years ago)

three years pass...

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 (eight years ago)

Dancing In The Moonlight

― Bazooka Jobim (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 21:28 (eight years ago)

one month passes...

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 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

This was a very relatable scenario in the 80s

― Embalming is a flirty business (DJP), Friday, 22 December 2017 17:56 (eight years ago)

Nothing beats the "magic cave" episode of Punky Brewster for sheer bugfuck 80s sitcom weirdness.

― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Friday, 22 December 2017 18:36 (eight years ago)

four years pass...

This is everything. pic.twitter.com/HVtPCkFUd0
— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) August 12, 2022

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 August 2022 15:01 (three years ago)

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

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 August 2022 15:01 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

The episode where they make pastry that explodes unless you burp is a classic

― formerly abanana (dat), Friday, 12 August 2022 22:12 (three years ago)

two years pass...

BALKI B
BALKI B

― her pal Santa falls to the floor (Neanderthal), Monday, 9 December 2024 04:02 (one year ago)

I knew this episode was ridiculous from memory but I didn't realize how much so until I just threw it on.

He gets a contract by simply dancing in front of an exec. A week later he's cutting a video

― her pal Santa falls to the floor (Neanderthal), Monday, 9 December 2024 04:03 (one year ago)

Also the voice dubbed in was 700 times worse than Balki's

Also the music video comes out like a week after they recorded it

― her pal Santa falls to the floor (Neanderthal), Monday, 9 December 2024 04:05 (one year ago)

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