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whuddabout family matters?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meego
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link
this site is useful btw: http://www.poobala.com/crossoverlist.html
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I Dream of Jeannie and Law & Order are in the same shared reality!
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:51 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link
it's kind of frightening how much my youth was spent watching horrible sitcoms
― latebloomer, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link
oh christ this thread
― HI DERE, Friday, 3 August 2007 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Hahaha
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 August 2007 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link
<3
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 3 August 2007 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link
i want mypos to be real
― brownie, Friday, 3 August 2007 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
FRESH YOUNG BALLLK-I B!
― Abbott, Saturday, 3 November 2007 22:56 (sixteen years ago) link
i loved this show, as a kid
"Now we do the dance of joy"
― Heave Ho, Saturday, 3 November 2007 23:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Don't we all.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 November 2007 23:05 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vbnLYROCj8
I have not watched that since childhood.
Did that just say "Produced by Philip Roth"?
― roxymuzak, Saturday, 3 November 2007 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― Abbott, Saturday, 3 November 2007 23:47 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― Abbott, Saturday, 3 November 2007 23:50 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Abbott, Saturday, 3 November 2007 23:52 (sixteen years ago) link
"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.
!!!!
― Abbott, Saturday, 3 November 2007 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― Abbott, Saturday, 3 November 2007 23:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe that's how Mark Linn-Baker got to play Zuckerman?
― G00blar, Saturday, 3 November 2007 23:58 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Abbott, Saturday, 3 November 2007 23:59 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Abbott, Sunday, 4 November 2007 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― Abbott, Sunday, 4 November 2007 00:06 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Abbott, Sunday, 4 November 2007 00:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Those summaries are just still amazing. Beckett couldn't have done better.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 November 2007 00:10 (sixteen years ago) link
i remember all of these
― rrrobyn, Sunday, 4 November 2007 00:14 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― rrrobyn, Sunday, 4 November 2007 00:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Balki in Wikipedia
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 November 2007 00:18 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― G00blar, Sunday, 4 November 2007 00:28 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Sunday, 4 November 2007 00:30 (sixteen 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