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Perfect Strangers is an American sitcom that ran for eight seasons, from March 25, 1986, to August 6, 1993, on the ABC television network. Created by Dale McRaven, the series chronicles the rocky coexistence of midwestern American Larry Appleton (Mark Linn-Baker) and his distant cousin from eastern Mediterranean Europe, Balki Bartokomous (Bronson Pinchot).
Larry Appleton of Madison, Wisconsin moves to Chicago to become a photojournalist. Meanwhile, he takes a job at a corner discount store, Ritz Discount, owned by his landlord Mr. Donald Twinkacetti. One night his distant cousin Balki Bartokomous, a shepherd from the Mediterranean island of Mypos, appears on his doorstep.
Larry and Balki both work in the same basement room at the Chronicle. Balki works for Sam Gorpley, who regularly insults him. In the season 7 episode (Dimitri's World), Balki and Larry are promoted at the Chicago Chronicle. The two of them work together writing Dimitri's World, a comic strip about Balki's beloved sheep. They move to another ...
He played Balki Bartokomous, an immigrant from the fictional island of Mypos whose distant cousin, the more uptight Larry Appleton (Linn-Baker), reluctantly let him move into his Chicago apartment
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Larry's world was disrupted when a distant cousin from the (fictional) Mediterranean island of Mypos, Balki Bartokomous (Bronson Pinchot), showed up on his doorstep. Storylines revolved around Larry's attempts to show Balki the ways of American culture, although the neurotic Larry frequently proved to be just as naive as Balki. The series ran ...
Larry getting sick was the inevitability Jeff feared, and while he didn’t go mad as predicted in his haunting 1980 diary entry (“My brother Larry is on a purposeful collision course with death ...
Bronson Alcott Pinchot (/ ˈ p ɪ n tʃ oʊ /; born May 20, 1959) is an American actor.He is best known for playing Balki Bartokomous on the ABC sitcom Perfect Strangers (1986–1993).