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Jul 4, 2024 · Bronson Pinchot tells PEOPLE he and his former costar Mark Linn-Baker remain “very, very close.” “We text and call each other all the time. Mark, I mean, he's so embedded in my heart ...
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- The Show Was Inspired by The 1984 Olympics.
- Tom Cruise Warned Pinchot Not to Do Tv.
- Louie Anderson Was Originally Cast as Larry.
- The Show Was on The Air Three Weeks After The First Scene Was shot.
- Pinchot and Linn-Baker Nearly Knocked Each Other out.
- MyPOS Was Created to Avoid Offending anyone.
- Lucille Ball Was A Fan.
- Balki Was Named After Pinchot’s Sister’S Dog.
- Credit (or Blame) The Show For Family matters.
- The Show Helped Anchor ABC’s TGIF Dynasty.
PerfectStrangers.tv Television producers Thomas Miller, Robert Boyett, and Dale McRaven all agreed that watching international athletes experience American life while in Los Angeles for the 1984 Summer Olympics got them thinking about exploring that kind of culture shock in a series. While Pinchot was their first choice for European immigrant Balki...
Before landing Perfect Strangers, Pinchot had a supporting role in 1983’s Risky Business starring Tom Cruise. While on the set, Pinchot told US Magazinethat Cruise picked up on the fact he was low on funds. Cruise offered to lend him money and cautioned him against ever doing television. “Whatever you do, don’t do it,” Cruise allegedly told him. Pi...
PerfectStrangers.tv In a slightly more cynical version of the pilot, comedian Louie Anderson appearedas Cousin Louie opposite Pinchot’s Balki. Producers thought the chemistry was missing, so Anderson was let go; of the several actors to audition after his departure, everyone agreed Pinchot had the best dynamic playing against fellow Yale graduate M...
While ABC loved the premise and script for Perfect Strangers, executives thought the show might get lost in the wave of new shows premiering in the fall of 1986. Instead, they proposedproducers quickly assemble six episodes to debut in winter 1986 as a mid-season replacement. In order to do this, episodes were taped in record time, with one show ai...
ABC In a network-authorized, pre-Internet newsletter circulated among fans of the series, author Paula Wilshe relateda story of a 1988 taping that resulted in a bloody mess. For a scene where Larry is teaching Balki how to be more assertive, Pinchot grabbed his co-star and shook him so violently their heads collided. Both men went down: Pinchot dam...
After some discussion over making Balki a character of Greek descent, producers decided that he would hail from the fictitious country of Mypos. Accordingto Pinchot, this was done because the bizarre customs mentioned in the show might prove offensive to a real territory.
Both Pinchot and Linn-Baker perceived Perfect Strangers as a kind of spiritual cousin ofI Love Lucy and The Honeymooners, with physical, character-driven humor that was in contrast to the topical, “issue”-oriented sitcoms of the 1980s. When the show returned for a second season in August 1986, Lucille Ball told pressthat they were both “just great”...
PerfectStrangers.tv Sort of. In 1986, Pinchot told TV Guidethat "Balki" was short for “balcony,” which is what his family considered naming his sister’s dog when they were kids. They ultimately named the pet something else, but Balki stuck: Pinchot remembered it when producers were trying to decide what to name his character.
It’s not often that a spin-off exceeds the popularity of the original, but ABC’s Family Matters proved otherwise. The elevator operator in the duo’s apartment building was Harriette Winslow (Jo Marie Payton), who made regular appearances in the third and fourth seasons along with her police officer husband, Carl (Reginald VelJohnson). The character...
TGIF was ABC’s very clever, very effective marketing campaign that turned a block of its Friday night sitcoms into one marathon viewing session. To promote the idea, the cast of the various shows would shoot promotional material, usually at the very end of a long workday. It was unpaid work, and many casts (including Family Matters) felt it was fat...
It is noted that the series sometimes featured popular songs within certain episodes, though the versions by the artists who originally performed them were usually not used; instead they were commonly sung a cappella by Mark Linn-Baker and/or Bronson Pinchot's characters whenever the script called for Balki and/or Larry to sing within the episode.
Aug 6, 2023 · Mypos isn’t an actual Mediterranean isle, but try telling that to Balki (Bronson Pinchot), the shepherd-turned-immigrant of Perfect Strangers — or to Larry (Mark Linn-Baker), his bemused ...
May 16, 2024 · But when Mark Linn-Baker guest-starred on Family Matters in 1997, he played not Larry, but a character named Mr. Benner. So we’ll call it a loose spin-off. In recent years, he was a regular cast member on the WB sitcom Twins in 2005, which is basically Perfect Strangers just with fraternal twins.
Apr 23, 2017 · Perfect Strangers co-stars Bronson Pinchot and Mark Linn-Baker have been pals since their popular sitcom wrapped 24 years ago after six years on air. But they hadn’t appeared together...
Feb 18, 2024 · We look back at the former anchor of ABC’s TGIF, the beloved sitcom Perfect Strangers, starring Bronson Pinchot & Mark Linn-Baker.
