I AM LUUKING FOR MY KOZZEN LARRY!

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.

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.

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

Ep. 114.

God I miss this show

and in hopes of going into labor, Larry and Balki take Jennifer up in the balloon.

I'm still amazed.

Why can I still remember this shit 10 years later?

SO GODDAMN WRONG.

That seems a little...edgy.

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

oh there are some shitty entries on the dream board

quality video game

dammit, beaten by minutes!

lolling at the tri-island area

beaten by an hour actually

I didn't cotton on to catching stars til about halfway through, I was too busy singing

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

Oh Balki

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

Who they?

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

why would tuomas even click on this thread?

^zen koan

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?

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.

or you could just type "Cousin Larry" into Google

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

mark linn baker looks like Larry David

Oh...oh dear.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/perfect-stranger-things-gives-larry-and-balki-a-new-roo-1820220807

Dancing In The Moonlight

the episode where larry falls asleep for days after drinking a jar of balki’s medicine is the apex of eighties sitcom art

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

This was a very relatable scenario in the 80s

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

This is everything. pic.twitter.com/HVtPCkFUd0

— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) August 12, 2022

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

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