BEST USE OF TWO YALE DRAMA GRADS OF ALL TIME: Don't really have the time to post this, but whatever. According to the Captivate Network (torturing imprisoned office workers with yesterday's news since 2002), Perfect Strangers debuted 20 years ago this approximate week or month, depending upon the accuracy and timeliness of Captivate's factoid. Even more amazing, it ran for seven seasons. That's right, more than twice as many seasons as Arrested Development and seven times as many seasons as Freaks and Geeks.
Once, when visiting LA long before I moved here, a friend and I were roped into seeing a taping of a "hit TV show." It turned out to be Perfect Strangers, and I believe that the whole process of attendance violated the Geneva Conventions. We were put on a bus, sent out to the Valley somewhere, warmed up (in theory) by exactly the kind of stand-up comedian that you would expect to open for Perfect Strangers, and force-fed take after take of Balki and Larry getting stuck in an elevator. The worst thing about it was the unhinged-looking girl in the front row with clothes about 10 years out of date who went into hysterics every time Bronson Pinchot appeared and who carried a sign that said "Balki I [heart] You." I guess there's a stalker for every star. It's hard to believe that happened 15 or 20 years ago, but I'll take the fact that I can't imagine this happening today as a sign that the world is a better place.
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