Talk:Perfect Strangers (TV series)

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The Last paragraph is confusing. Who are "Mark" and "Linn-baker?"

Contents 1 Should Mypos have its own article? 2 Remaining trivia section + major edits. 3 Trivia (Moved from main article) 4 More exterior locations? 5 Premise Section POV 6 Looking for help writing an article about the spin-offs and crossovers of this series

[edit] Should Mypos have its own article?

Has there been enough information about the fictional island nation of Mypos to justify a seperate article? I recall in one episode a "mood lampchop" was in the shape of Mypos, giving an idea of what the island looked like and throughout the series, Balki gave considerable information about the nation and its culture. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 4.254.113.17 (talk) 21:49, 19 December 2006 (UTC).

i believe that in "stephen kings it" there's a scene from perfect strangers on television at the jewish man's house.

[edit] Remaining trivia section + major edits.

Moving remaining trivia section here after integrating as many "facts" as possible into the article per WP:WPTCU. If anyone can integrate these remaining factoids into the article, please feel free to do so, just don't re-add the entire trivia section please. I also removed unnecessary info about Family Matters. Most, if not all, of that info can be found on that article's page and tagged article for references. Pinkadelica 03:31, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia (Moved from main article)

• ABC aired reruns of the show in its daytime lineup from August 1989 to July 1990 at noon (EST). It was replaced by a new version of Match Game.
• Larry's last name was inspired by the Wisconsin city Appleton.
• Bronson Pinchot's identical twin brother Justin had a guest role on the episode titled "It Had to Be You". The character he played (named Nico) was identical to Balki and dated Mary Anne while Balki dated a woman identical to Mary Anne.

[edit] More exterior locations?

I just added a section to detail the actual locations of the buildings used in the exterior shots in the show. However, the only one I know of is the main apartment building. Does anyone know where the large Victorian house or the Chronicle building are located?

• The Chronicle building is in reality known as the London Guarantee Building, located at 360 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago.

I also corrected the assertion that Larry and Balki had moved in the third season... the apartment did appear different, but I believe it was meant to be the same place, just a minor set change to meet the needs of the show. Halixi72 (talk) 16:11, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

• I have reversed your section about the apartment change, because the following facts are indisputable in support of the new apartment starting in season three:

• • The interior of the apartment seen from the third season onward was very different from that seen in the first two. It was not a "minor" set change. Some elements were similar, such as the fireplace and the bookshelf - but this is television, and things get recycled for economy reasons. But the strong differences between the two apartments is not difficult to establish. Among other differences, there was at least one additional bedroom, the front door was in a different location, the kitchen was to the right of the family room instead of behind it. The kitchen counter was completely reoriented, becoming a more frquently-used focal point of action, and the kitchen as a whole had a more modern look (tiling, blinds).

• • The apartment exterior seen in season three and onward was in fact a new building, and its location is known and verifiable. It is located at the northwest corner of West Dickens Avenue and North Clark Street in the Lincoln Park district of Chicago. The apartment building still stands, and is virtually unchanged in appearance from when the sequences were originally filmed in 1987.

• • The apartment change was anticipated in the show's storyline. In one of the final episodes of the second season ("Tux For Two"), Larry states that he hopes that he and Balki would be in a "new apartment" within a "couple of months" if he could get a job working at a newspaper.

• • Actor Bronson Pinchot himself is on record at the time as saying it was a new apartment...

There's another problem on the situation comedy, Perfect Strangers. "The first hurdle to get over is the tryout," says talented Bronson Pinchot, one half of the comedy team with Mark Linn-Baker. "It's a gigantic crapshoot but if you get the audience's attention, you must figure out how to keep them entertained." On Perfect Strangers, Pinchot and Linn-Baker, who play comic cousins, are getting a new apartment "so we won't wind up as Laverne and Shirley. We'll each have our own bedrooms and girlfriends. People were starting to ask questions. "In a situation comedy, the workplace is very popular. So we're getting new jobs, too. We'll both work on a Chicago newspaper. I'll be in the mailroom but only feet away from Mark so we can have lots of mishaps. I won't have as thick an accent this year. I couldn't be that naive forever."

— Jim Bawden, "TV repairs", Toronto Globe, August 15, 1987

Zevonsky (talk) 16 December 2007 —Preceding comment was added at 08:29, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Premise Section POV

A lot of the content in the premise reads more like an argumentative essay than a neutral article. Specifically, the author speculates about how the characters interaction "transcends" the immigrant in America theme. I think this is too POV. Any thoughts? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kuanhui (talk • contribs) 15:39, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Looking for help writing an article about the spin-offs and crossovers of this series

I am writing an article about all of the series which are in the same shared reality as this one through spin-offs and crossovers. I could use a little help expanding the article since it is currently extremely dense and a bit jumbled with some sentence structures being extremely repetitive. I would like to be able to put this article into article space soon. Any and all help in writing the article would be appreciated, even a comment or two on the talk page would help. Please give it a read through, also please do not comment here since I do not have all of the series on my watch list. - LA @ 17:26, 16 March 2008 (UTC)