ASK ME ABOUT TIME! ASK ME!!!! -turns into a cartoon- -laughs maniacally like the woodpecker- everytime i hear the chorus of the music i crack up laughing remembering this scene from the NC review
It's amazing how much you can learn of the character's backstory in the theme. What's even more amazing is how well their stories are told and how it feels much longer than the 1 minute 32 seconds.
If only there were more shows like this one on TV today.....
@journeysoflifevlogs I'm amazed they cast over a dozen people you probably never see again to play family members just for the opening credits! Network shows don't even do real opening credits anymore, only HBO comes close to putting this much effort into an opening sequence.
@BiWinningAssKicker You must have been a child then to not know there was serious inflation and double digit interest on home loans, then the Savings and Loan crisis that caused a deep recession and cost the taxpayers over $100 billion dollars, not to mention the worldwide problems of that era. Educate yourself. Foul language is no substitute for thought and knowledge when you get out of school.
@bublyification Lol, can't believe i'm not alone on this one. It was driving me mad when i heard it. I was, like, where do i know that theme from? Then it came to me in a majestic flash of brilliance. Childhood memories!!
I have no problem with people having nostalgia for the past, I myself have occasionally been prone to it, but when it means that you sacrifce the future for the past, well, Langoliers, you get stuck in a world that is dead, rather than one waiting to be born.
@CombatSportFan Ha. Let's look at the 80's shall we? Rampant drug abuse, crime at all time highs, dropout rate too, the inner cities rotting like the cores of apples, don't give me that bullshit about how much better the past was.
@ariandynas Every era is going to have its issues, the problem is not with how well things are or are not today, it's with the overall mood and the general negativity and pessimism in society. Even with all that had gone wrong in the United States going into the 1980s, as the decade went on and into the 90s optimism began to grow and things began to improve across all of the U.S. Right now, things look a lot more like the 70s as far as general mode and feeling in the country.
Let's look at the present, shall we? Rampant drug abuse, crime at all time highs, education system in ruins, inner cities rotting like the cores of apples, almost nothing left of the justice system, massive unemployment, value of the dollar plummeting, crippling overpopulation, cataclysmic global warfare on the horizon, realilty scripted and sold to media congolmerates, horrible TV, horrible movies, horrible music.
At least in the '80's, we had TV, movies, and REAL rock 'n roll.
@CDenic A-freakin-MEN to that!!! I was born in 1979 and had the absolute best time growing up in the 80's. Hell, even the 90's were excellent even though I was going through puberty, lol. The new millenium so far has been, for a lack of a better term, F*CKED!! If this decade doesn't show any improvment, hopefully the next one will be a welcome return to everything that great and whole when I was a kid.
The people who being nostalgic here, no offense, but you make me sick with that. The world today is no better or worse than it used to be. Our perception has changed, the world is diffrent, it's no longer the world you knew, does that make it worse? To you, yes, to everyone else who didn't experience what you did? No. In 20 years we will be saying the same things about "kids today" and it will be no diffrent. So don't tell me how good things used to be. I'll look to the future thanks.
@ariandynas you sound like a typical young asshole kid. Just let us kids that happened to have been grown up in the late 80s and 90s to have nostalgia memories of classic tv that does not compare at all to today's mainstream tv shows. Look to the future all you want. Why do you gotta ruin it for the rest of us?
@ComePlayVelouria I'll thank you to know I DID grow up in the late nineties. And for the record, my statement of my opinion does not require you to call me an asshole. I grew up watching Transformers and G.I.Joe and He-Man, guess what? Looking back now, alot of those shows dont measure up like the used to. But if you like "old lady" then i'll leave you to your meanderings in the past where everything was soft edges unable to hurt you. Nostalgia is a lie we tell ourselves to feel better.
@ariandynas you sound like a typical young asshole kid. Just let us kids that happened to have been grown up in the late 80s and 90s to have nostalgia memories of classic tv that does not compare at all to today's mainstream tv shows. Look to the future all you want. Why do you gotta ruin it for the rest of us?
@ariandynas Calm down man and chill out. You know I somewhat agree with you. Certainly human behavior didn't magically change in the last 15-25 years and go from paradise and brotherhood to a cess pool of evil. No way, all kinds of bad stuff happened in the 80s and 90s as well. In those decades "the adults" then wanted to remember the 50s and 60s and to a lesser extent the 70s. People want to remember the good times of the past, even though we know it really wasn't that much better at all.
Go ahead and look to the future, because in 20 years, this planet will be a smoking wasteland...if we're lucky.
You know what nostalgia REALLY is? Realizing that you have a past worth remembering, because if you don't, your future will be just as empty and miserable. When I look back at where I came from, it reminds me of where I'm going and why I'm going there, even with the end of humanity's reign VERY near. I'm havin' a good time anyway, and anyone with a problem can die.
Television is absolutely ridiculous in this day and age. Now it's all about this reality tv nonsense...I mean WHO CARES...? We're living reality! Perfect Strangers was one of my most favourite shows growing up and I'll never forget it.
This was the time in which you didn't have to cover your kids ears in order to watch television. I miss those days where you didn't have to curse in order to be "edgy" on television.
I miss opening credits that are longer than 5 seconds. One of the saddest developments in TV over the past years: the whittling down or virtual elimination of opening credit sequences in order to squeeze in even more commercials.
This was one of the most famous tv series in Bulgaria 10 years ago. I was great fan as a kid and now I am rewatching them. And yes, I feel nostalgic. Very nostalgic actually...
This should have made billboard top 10, no bullshit. Classic and extremely meaningful song. Something you don't get very often anymore. Brings me back to those childhood days.
Someone said: the sitcoms of these era made sense unlike the shows of today.... i totally agree! Even the themes songs made sense in my opinion the top 4 theme songs (with Lyrics) of sitcoms those times were 1. Perfect Strangers 2. Punky Brewster 3. Growing Pains 4. Family Ties Instrumental theme songs 1. Cosby Show 2. Benson 3. ALF hahahaha! I just miss the days when these sitcoms were showing, you really had to make time to watch unlike now you can tivo almost any show.
Another great song from back in the day. Most millenium shows can't compare to this time period. These shows made you feel good about things. You could just unwind at the end of the week. These days you watch shows and they either piss you off or you feel like mankind is just getting worse and worse. What happened? Bring shows like this back.
i like this song really it brings feeling of stepping out and being on ur own for the very first time. where u can say finally i'm now on my own. wow!! thanks robby
I wish this show lasted as long as Family Matters. it's one of those things where the Spin-off made more seasons. I thought this show was cool and is still one of my favorite shows! maybe they should've made more characters than just focus on Larry, Balky,Jennifer and stuff.....maybe that's why Family Matters lasted as long as they did cause you had a lot of characters!
seems that the opening of the show has led some persons to think that the show is about gay men who meet each other after each moves to chicago. in truth, the 2 men weren't gay. furthermore, 1 of the men eventually marries a woman, and the other man marries a different woman, and children are produced.
The people who directed the intro video are seemingly never seen sheep herding in real life. There are many jobs you can do in fancy suit but sadly herding sheeps is not one of them.
Maybe it's ment to be as sterotype of mediterranean country folk.
Such a damn good show. It wasn't just hilarious, it was just good. It made you feel good to watch it like most TV sitcoms would back then. I miss the 80's a lot whenever I see stuff like this. Nostalgia kicks in hard.
I Really like this show. i have some episodies on VHS Tape. Here in Argentina the tv is trash too...If you want good programs you have to watch Public Service TV..there you can watch a tv serie named Vientos de agua...search for it is very good is about people that come to Argentina from Europe...like my grandfathers.....in others channels only models with a lot of plastic in their asses.
@Berialavrenti in Public service TV named here as Canal 7 La television Publica the tv programs are good. In the other channels tv is bad, only asses, models with yellow painted hair, scandals and yanki movies.
I USED TO LOOK FORWARD TO FRIDAYS WHEN THIS DEBUTED ON TGIF, AND I WAS YOUNG WHEN THIS CAME OUT BUT I WATCHED ALL THE RERUNS, REMINDS YOU OF A BETTER TIME, THE WHOLE FAMILY HUDDLING AROUND THE TV, LAUGHING TOGETHER, ACTUALLY BEING TOGETHER, NOONE DOES THAT ANYMORE! WOW IM IN A MIND f#%#$ RIGHT NOW THINKIGN ABOUT THE PAST, MAN WE NEED TO GET BACK TO THAT FOR REAL
I agree!! Our family loved watching this and other TGIF shows on Friday evenings!! It was a great way for the family to come together after a long hard week of work and school, and a time to unite as a family with great wholesome family entertainment!! I can't say how awful tv has gotten over the years!! They don't make great wholesome family shows like this anymore!!
@MrCallmejoe2121 We will get back to that one day. Remember Perfect Strangers and its cousin shows came on the heels of the 1960s and 1970s when pessimism and negativity in our country was at an all time high. Then in the 80s the optimism began to build and exploded in the 1990s creating a much happier much more relaxed and loving society. We will get back there, just have faith and buy the DVDs to tide ya over. =)
yeah, but the good part of television today is that you can actually watch a show about pratically everything you have interest... Action, horror, thriller, comedy, super-heroes, homossexuals, etc.
I mean, back there the shows could be enjoyed by the whole family, and now the tendency is to slip the family: everyone watches whatever they want, one apart from the other.
And I mean it: I love 24, my sister loves The OC, my dad, Lost; and so on. But we never watch TV series together.
But the old stuff is still gold. family shows nowadays are on the disney channel which are for tweens....shows in the 80's and 90's were made for both adults and children.
i enjoy today's serialized shows, but the old stuff is just so nostalgic.
No arguing on that... Nowadays we have the advantadge of watching whatever you like, but the old stuff could be enjoyed by everyne, keeping the family together...
@mbanwait02 To be completely honest, this is the 80s version of Two and a Half Men. It's just as cammy. The only good thing is the theme. Trust me I watched it again, and I cringed.
My wife (years before she became my wife) & sister used to be close to tears at this opening. I suppose it was the bittersweet "goodbyes" & start of new beginnings. It really can grab you actually.
I agree it's a great show. I've watched every episode here on youtube. The only thing I have to say is that towards the end, prob season 7 and 8, the show really went downhill. It seemed to routine, I dunno maybe it's just me. When I started with season 1, I was absolutely hooked. Love this show, most epic theme song ever to.
@blkplaguelmc i dont know how much you watched the show but that must be larrys bigger cooler and overall much better at everything big brother...in the show he always cries about how his brother was the most loved by his parents and the most talented of all the kids lol.
When I was a kid, I used to think Mypos was somewhere in Canada because I always thought Balki rode a ferry on Lake Michigan into Chicago! Hahaha! I rarely saw the extended intro where it shows the Statue of Liberty!
So we traded in great shows like this and many others for shows about whores who want to marrry idiots and idiots who want to marry whores? Some say a lot of these shows are cheesy, but you know what I'd rather have these cheesy sitcoms than all these moronic "reality" shows.
@CStarz608 Thats too bad, it's creating a bunch of zombies! We had fun in the 70's &80's we rocked & rolled every nite & parties every day! not brainless texting or computers.....feel sorry for this generation..
@CStarz608 haha is so true but without the internet we would be able to look back at our memories so quickly...how I miss the nights looking forward to these shows and how sad I was when it ended
@24aaa Actually shows today are better overall. You just like them because you were a lot younger ack then and you felt a different range of emotions then.
@24aaa Actually shows today are better overall. You just like them because you were a lot younger back then and you felt a different range of emotions then.
@24aaa Yes its does your not alone on that feeling one bit that is why i dont have cable i just get the classic dvds and look up the ones that are not on dvd yet on here
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Greatest Song Ever
niedemencji 3 days ago
ASK ME ABOUT TIME! ASK ME!!!! -turns into a cartoon- -laughs maniacally like the woodpecker- everytime i hear the chorus of the music i crack up laughing remembering this scene from the NC review
tiamat234 4 days ago
I didn't know Cousin Larry was related to The Fonz.
PhilBrooksSES 2 weeks ago
HEY THIS ISN'T DEEP PURPLE lol
andjkh 2 weeks ago
I'm going to Boston!!! I'M GOING TO BOSTON!!!! AHHHHHH!!!
wakproductions2 2 weeks ago
LARRY AND BALKI LIVED IN A 1 BEDROOM APARTMENT- IF U KNOW WHAT I MEAN- LMAO
TheApplez69 2 weeks ago
Lol
livier7777 1 month ago
I love how the Fonzie wannabe is just chillin on his car waiting to give him a high five lol
stewart1matt 1 month ago
This was on the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror. LOL.
Manymusicman 2 months ago 2
Someone should put this song the The Sopranos opening title sequence, lol
psychicriver 2 months ago
I do not recognize this at all and I used to watch this show all the time. WTF?
psychicriver 2 months ago
Who is that super cool friend of Larry's at the beginning?
7freddie7 2 months ago 2
@7freddie7 Most likely one of his brothers. He came from a really big family.
snowangelnc 2 weeks ago
JDG Powned! :D
glabounwy 3 months ago
i like the synth in the end
pild3f0ns0 3 months ago
only the best intro music ever produced!
PaiRaiUno 3 months ago 3
i was just a kid when this was aired tv nowadays suck
pimpdogpatrick 3 months ago
do a spoof intro, Fatal Farm im looking at you!
VeNeM999 4 months ago
@VeNeM999 "standing tall..." *lifts camera*
undeadrising2 2 months ago
@jdkellyproductions2 "Perfect Strangers" Loading!! TV Series "TeenNick" Be Here!! "Nick At Nite Classic" Night. Coming Soon...
BLANKNOTING 4 months ago
Love the guy in the shades at :32 who's too cool to wave to Larry. "yeah, i'm just going to lean on the fence and watch you drive off, man"
ptanzmgt 4 months ago 2
this theme song is awesome.toooo baddd we dont have full episodes on youtube!!
TheFireflies1000 5 months ago
whats the song actually called?
hammerandclaw 5 months ago
without perfect strangers
there would be no family matters
There would be no Urkel!
Myytmovies 5 months ago
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH! I shall forever love Sitcoms!
PERFECT STRANGERS FOREVER!
RockyBalboa211 6 months ago
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eugene680 6 months ago
It's amazing how much you can learn of the character's backstory in the theme. What's even more amazing is how well their stories are told and how it feels much longer than the 1 minute 32 seconds.
If only there were more shows like this one on TV today.....
journeysoflifevlogs 6 months ago 3
@journeysoflifevlogs I'm amazed they cast over a dozen people you probably never see again to play family members just for the opening credits! Network shows don't even do real opening credits anymore, only HBO comes close to putting this much effort into an opening sequence.
falseprophecy 4 months ago
Where is Mark Baker?
Dfgarcia16 6 months ago
@Dfgarcia16 Still acting.
StoogeWatcher 5 months ago
I just saw Balki (Bronson)on my kids show Shake it up! i am glad to see they didn't forget about him!Whatever happened to Mark Baker?
Aimee51570 7 months ago
@Aimee51570 Still acting. Recently on Law & Order, Electric Company, and the movie How Do You Know?
StoogeWatcher 5 months ago 2
@StoogeWatcher Thanks that's good to know!
Aimee51570 4 months ago
@StoogeWatcher Thanks for the info!
Aimee51570 4 months ago
This is utopian great. Back when America was the greatest nation on earth. I still love the USA, but most people don't.
democratos89 7 months ago
I miss the show!! It was Awesome!
orangebowl79 7 months ago
Thumbs up if modern warfare 3 brought you here.
SlavicDemon 8 months ago
Thumbs up if you were brought here by The Simpsons :)
AgentSpeed92 8 months ago 2
When TGIF was still good.
zshaw7549 8 months ago 3
Mark Lin-Baker is so molesty looking.
Ztinkyy 8 months ago
SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xgmb45 8 months ago 3
@BiWinningAssKicker You must have been a child then to not know there was serious inflation and double digit interest on home loans, then the Savings and Loan crisis that caused a deep recession and cost the taxpayers over $100 billion dollars, not to mention the worldwide problems of that era. Educate yourself. Foul language is no substitute for thought and knowledge when you get out of school.
cywyhot 9 months ago
Delusional nitwit below.
Probesford 9 months ago
Balky has his own YouTube channel: user/probesford.
SupositoryRepository 9 months ago
@BiWinningAssKicker
In my opinion, Kenny Rogers said it best in his song "Let's Go Out". "All Good Things Must End"!
Smartboy8877 9 months ago
0:46, is that guy in the turtleneck Howard from "The Big Bang Theory"?
ResettisReplicas 9 months ago
America Or Burst
EMRAHsays 9 months ago
Scaring the little GIRL?!?!
MrSean24601 9 months ago
Man this song brings back memories of childhood, I wonder if this was filmed in chicago. Wow amazing
guestuser09 9 months ago
the three people who disliked this video were stopped
naganofan1 10 months ago
thumbs up if "the simpsons (treehouse of horror XV )" brought you here!
bublyification 10 months ago 10
@bublyification Lol, can't believe i'm not alone on this one. It was driving me mad when i heard it. I was, like, where do i know that theme from? Then it came to me in a majestic flash of brilliance. Childhood memories!!
harrhian 9 months ago
thumbs up if "the simpsons (treehouse of horror XV )" brought you here!
bublyification 10 months ago
As much as I love the 80's and 90's, The veiw of reality they posited was a lie, it is unreasonable to claim that the 80's were perfect.
ariandynas 10 months ago
SCARING THE LITTLE GIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRL!!!
KimboSliceisKingNigg 10 months ago 3
Too bad Bronson Pinchot was eaten by giant mutated meatballs....
android217 10 months ago 49
I have no problem with people having nostalgia for the past, I myself have occasionally been prone to it, but when it means that you sacrifce the future for the past, well, Langoliers, you get stuck in a world that is dead, rather than one waiting to be born.
ariandynas 10 months ago
@ariandynas The world of the 80s and 90s looked more alive than the one we've been living in the last decade.
CombatSportFan 10 months ago
@CombatSportFan Ha. Let's look at the 80's shall we? Rampant drug abuse, crime at all time highs, dropout rate too, the inner cities rotting like the cores of apples, don't give me that bullshit about how much better the past was.
ariandynas 10 months ago
@ariandynas Every era is going to have its issues, the problem is not with how well things are or are not today, it's with the overall mood and the general negativity and pessimism in society. Even with all that had gone wrong in the United States going into the 1980s, as the decade went on and into the 90s optimism began to grow and things began to improve across all of the U.S. Right now, things look a lot more like the 70s as far as general mode and feeling in the country.
CombatSportFan 10 months ago
@ariandynas
Let's look at the present, shall we? Rampant drug abuse, crime at all time highs, education system in ruins, inner cities rotting like the cores of apples, almost nothing left of the justice system, massive unemployment, value of the dollar plummeting, crippling overpopulation, cataclysmic global warfare on the horizon, realilty scripted and sold to media congolmerates, horrible TV, horrible movies, horrible music.
At least in the '80's, we had TV, movies, and REAL rock 'n roll.
CDenic 10 months ago 4
@CDenic Lets look at the past shall we? We see... my god the EXACT same thing! Imagine that!
ariandynas 10 months ago
@CDenic A-freakin-MEN to that!!! I was born in 1979 and had the absolute best time growing up in the 80's. Hell, even the 90's were excellent even though I was going through puberty, lol. The new millenium so far has been, for a lack of a better term, F*CKED!! If this decade doesn't show any improvment, hopefully the next one will be a welcome return to everything that great and whole when I was a kid.
Lookinforhis1trulove 10 months ago 3
The people who being nostalgic here, no offense, but you make me sick with that. The world today is no better or worse than it used to be. Our perception has changed, the world is diffrent, it's no longer the world you knew, does that make it worse? To you, yes, to everyone else who didn't experience what you did? No. In 20 years we will be saying the same things about "kids today" and it will be no diffrent. So don't tell me how good things used to be. I'll look to the future thanks.
ariandynas 10 months ago
@ariandynas you sound like a typical young asshole kid. Just let us kids that happened to have been grown up in the late 80s and 90s to have nostalgia memories of classic tv that does not compare at all to today's mainstream tv shows. Look to the future all you want. Why do you gotta ruin it for the rest of us?
ComePlayVelouria 10 months ago
@ComePlayVelouria I'll thank you to know I DID grow up in the late nineties. And for the record, my statement of my opinion does not require you to call me an asshole. I grew up watching Transformers and G.I.Joe and He-Man, guess what? Looking back now, alot of those shows dont measure up like the used to. But if you like "old lady" then i'll leave you to your meanderings in the past where everything was soft edges unable to hurt you. Nostalgia is a lie we tell ourselves to feel better.
ariandynas 10 months ago
@ariandynas you sound like a typical young asshole kid. Just let us kids that happened to have been grown up in the late 80s and 90s to have nostalgia memories of classic tv that does not compare at all to today's mainstream tv shows. Look to the future all you want. Why do you gotta ruin it for the rest of us?
ComePlayVelouria 10 months ago
@ariandynas Calm down man and chill out. You know I somewhat agree with you. Certainly human behavior didn't magically change in the last 15-25 years and go from paradise and brotherhood to a cess pool of evil. No way, all kinds of bad stuff happened in the 80s and 90s as well. In those decades "the adults" then wanted to remember the 50s and 60s and to a lesser extent the 70s. People want to remember the good times of the past, even though we know it really wasn't that much better at all.
gothatway09 10 months ago
@ariandynas
Go ahead and look to the future, because in 20 years, this planet will be a smoking wasteland...if we're lucky.
You know what nostalgia REALLY is? Realizing that you have a past worth remembering, because if you don't, your future will be just as empty and miserable. When I look back at where I came from, it reminds me of where I'm going and why I'm going there, even with the end of humanity's reign VERY near. I'm havin' a good time anyway, and anyone with a problem can die.
CDenic 10 months ago 4
Thumbs up if The Nostalgia Critic and/or "The Langoliers" brought you here.
tvnutboy 10 months ago 82
@tvnutboy YUPPPPP!!!!
williamraymusic 10 months ago
Television is absolutely ridiculous in this day and age. Now it's all about this reality tv nonsense...I mean WHO CARES...? We're living reality! Perfect Strangers was one of my most favourite shows growing up and I'll never forget it.
MsPebbles777 10 months ago
This was the time in which you didn't have to cover your kids ears in order to watch television. I miss those days where you didn't have to curse in order to be "edgy" on television.
jericho4004 11 months ago
80's theme song got to love it
fatroc33 11 months ago
Because of this video, we are so happy we do the dance of joy.
HELPTHEPICKLEISALIVE 11 months ago
I miss opening credits that are longer than 5 seconds. One of the saddest developments in TV over the past years: the whittling down or virtual elimination of opening credit sequences in order to squeeze in even more commercials.
jordantaylor 11 months ago
The 3 thumbs down must really hate the Dance of Joy.
Wellch 1 year ago
I remember this intro from the premiere. They had an abridged version in later episodes.
This is a nice remaster. Better than I remember it when it first aired. Was it this clear when it aired on the O&O's?
tsntana 1 year ago
This was one of the most famous tv series in Bulgaria 10 years ago. I was great fan as a kid and now I am rewatching them. And yes, I feel nostalgic. Very nostalgic actually...
boogie1master 1 year ago
indeed
monxanderlu 1 year ago
This show was almost like the male version of the "Mary Tyler Moore" show. Two people starting over and living their dreams.
kitkatt24 1 year ago
thumbs up if a dragon transformation vid brought u here xD
dragonpro3 1 year ago
Thumbs up if The Simpsons brought you here
nohopeinfear97 1 year ago 3
This should have made billboard top 10, no bullshit. Classic and extremely meaningful song. Something you don't get very often anymore. Brings me back to those childhood days.
kltiswhoib 1 year ago
haha the 3 dislikes weren't born then LOL
Dieseldemen 1 year ago
@Dieseldemen no three dislikes are icarly/hanna montana loving fags.
mrprettyricky3000 1 year ago
@mrprettyricky3000 haha sad isn't it!!
Dieseldemen 1 year ago
@Dieseldemen SAD BUT TRUE!LOL!
mrprettyricky3000 1 year ago
On 0:31 the on guy leaning on the fence almost looks like Bob Saget from Full House doesn't he?
rct126 1 year ago
kapitanmike 1 year ago
I will ALWAYS love this... my family used to get together... and it was our FAMILY QUALITY TIME
ariellejsa 1 year ago
Another great song from back in the day. Most millenium shows can't compare to this time period. These shows made you feel good about things. You could just unwind at the end of the week. These days you watch shows and they either piss you off or you feel like mankind is just getting worse and worse. What happened? Bring shows like this back.
adel78ify 1 year ago
@adel78ify I so totally agree!!!
kapitanmike 1 year ago
i like this song really it brings feeling of stepping out and being on ur own for the very first time. where u can say finally i'm now on my own. wow!! thanks robby
meterman432110 1 year ago
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kapitanmike 1 year ago
one of my fav show damn i miss the 80's
charell765 1 year ago
Did you guys here about the Perfect Strangers movie that Paramount is making?
chromethink 1 year ago
*sigh* So much just happened to my brain in one minute. :')
boogersanchez 1 year ago
1:02 :)
CSRgamer 1 year ago
I wish this show lasted as long as Family Matters. it's one of those things where the Spin-off made more seasons. I thought this show was cool and is still one of my favorite shows! maybe they should've made more characters than just focus on Larry, Balky,Jennifer and stuff.....maybe that's why Family Matters lasted as long as they did cause you had a lot of characters!
MaxL214 1 year ago
Is that guy supposed to be Cousin Larry's mom?!
mountholyoke 1 year ago
We're still laughing to death Larry and Balki!
We have a DVD of their.
TheJonMulder 1 year ago
balki played a gay guy on beverly hills cops!
jasonxxxvoorhees 1 year ago
seems that the opening of the show has led some persons to think that the show is about gay men who meet each other after each moves to chicago. in truth, the 2 men weren't gay. furthermore, 1 of the men eventually marries a woman, and the other man marries a different woman, and children are produced.
coventrygardens 1 year ago
THESE WERE THE TIMES WHEN THE WORLD STILL LOVES AMERICA !!!
salmanpakipaki 1 year ago 3
@salmanpakipaki really ?
mqmqmwmw 1 year ago
Balki is herding sheeps with SUIT ON??
The people who directed the intro video are seemingly never seen sheep herding in real life. There are many jobs you can do in fancy suit but sadly herding sheeps is not one of them.
Maybe it's ment to be as sterotype of mediterranean country folk.
StarlingKnight 1 year ago
Man, I love this show! It was supposed to take place in Chicago!!! My hometown!
MrJumper282003 1 year ago
i love when bronson pinchot appears with eddie murphy, and he's gay lol
ThepathtotheforesT 1 year ago
Man this song goes great with about anything.
GreaseKid94 1 year ago
Oh man, what a bus ride! From Ney York to Chicago!??
kitkatt24 1 year ago
what a happy song!!!! makes u feel so good !!
zkdevil 1 year ago
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Such a damn good show. It wasn't just hilarious, it was just good. It made you feel good to watch it like most TV sitcoms would back then. I miss the 80's a lot whenever I see stuff like this. Nostalgia kicks in hard.
MilkyLicker3587 1 year ago
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MilkyLicker3587 1 year ago
My god I remember this show.
SulliMike241 1 year ago
I miss these kind of series... they have better stories than what most of our current programming are showing...
kaijinu 1 year ago
yes i love this song i don't even know what this show is lol
drpope 1 year ago
love this version of theme from 1:15 on wards.
mbanwait02 1 year ago
1980's TV sitcoms were the best. 2000's TV sitcoms only care about skimpy girls and cheap laughs.
eugene680 1 year ago
this just made me vomit blood.
screwfacegutstabber 1 year ago
I Really like this show. i have some episodies on VHS Tape. Here in Argentina the tv is trash too...If you want good programs you have to watch Public Service TV..there you can watch a tv serie named Vientos de agua...search for it is very good is about people that come to Argentina from Europe...like my grandfathers.....in others channels only models with a lot of plastic in their asses.
jeanmarcARG 1 year ago
@jeanmarcARG
i did not know that berlusconi's power even reached to argentina?
so your tv programming is the same rubbish as in italy and spain?
Berialavrenti 1 year ago
@Berialavrenti in Public service TV named here as Canal 7 La television Publica the tv programs are good. In the other channels tv is bad, only asses, models with yellow painted hair, scandals and yanki movies.
jeanmarcARG 1 year ago
Whatever happened to Cousin Larry?
jmklotz 1 year ago
Borat is a rip off of Balki.
LongLiveOx 1 year ago
LARRY = TED MOSBY!
drshiz 1 year ago
nothing gonna stop me naah~
thundertower 1 year ago
that's my sister in green at :45 haha haven't seen this in years! just posted this on her facebook page. she's gonna love that LOL
raveballs 1 year ago
Remem my childhood
annagando 1 year ago 3
I USED TO LOOK FORWARD TO FRIDAYS WHEN THIS DEBUTED ON TGIF, AND I WAS YOUNG WHEN THIS CAME OUT BUT I WATCHED ALL THE RERUNS, REMINDS YOU OF A BETTER TIME, THE WHOLE FAMILY HUDDLING AROUND THE TV, LAUGHING TOGETHER, ACTUALLY BEING TOGETHER, NOONE DOES THAT ANYMORE! WOW IM IN A MIND f#%#$ RIGHT NOW THINKIGN ABOUT THE PAST, MAN WE NEED TO GET BACK TO THAT FOR REAL
MrCallmejoe2121 1 year ago 15
I agree!! Our family loved watching this and other TGIF shows on Friday evenings!! It was a great way for the family to come together after a long hard week of work and school, and a time to unite as a family with great wholesome family entertainment!! I can't say how awful tv has gotten over the years!! They don't make great wholesome family shows like this anymore!!
redsoxfan426 1 year ago 3
@MrCallmejoe2121 Calm down, stop shouting.
HELPTHEPICKLEISALIVE 11 months ago
@MrCallmejoe2121 its called christmas and everybody hates it for the all the reasons you want it to return
thefriendsociety 11 months ago
@MrCallmejoe2121 We will get back to that one day. Remember Perfect Strangers and its cousin shows came on the heels of the 1960s and 1970s when pessimism and negativity in our country was at an all time high. Then in the 80s the optimism began to build and exploded in the 1990s creating a much happier much more relaxed and loving society. We will get back there, just have faith and buy the DVDs to tide ya over. =)
CombatSportFan 10 months ago
MEMORIES!!!!!
television today is absolute garbage. Even shows that i enjoy like lost and 24 cannot compare to gems like
Perfect Strangers....they are classics that can be enjoyed by the whole family.
mbanwait02 1 year ago 6
yeah, but the good part of television today is that you can actually watch a show about pratically everything you have interest... Action, horror, thriller, comedy, super-heroes, homossexuals, etc.
I mean, back there the shows could be enjoyed by the whole family, and now the tendency is to slip the family: everyone watches whatever they want, one apart from the other.
And I mean it: I love 24, my sister loves The OC, my dad, Lost; and so on. But we never watch TV series together.
LeyrLettstat 1 year ago 2
But the old stuff is still gold. family shows nowadays are on the disney channel which are for tweens....shows in the 80's and 90's were made for both adults and children.
i enjoy today's serialized shows, but the old stuff is just so nostalgic.
mbanwait02 1 year ago 2
No arguing on that... Nowadays we have the advantadge of watching whatever you like, but the old stuff could be enjoyed by everyne, keeping the family together...
LeyrLettstat 1 year ago
totally agree!
claroalejandro22 1 year ago
@mbanwait02 To be completely honest, this is the 80s version of Two and a Half Men. It's just as cammy. The only good thing is the theme. Trust me I watched it again, and I cringed.
AttackMyAss 10 months ago
My wife (years before she became my wife) & sister used to be close to tears at this opening. I suppose it was the bittersweet "goodbyes" & start of new beginnings. It really can grab you actually.
klwewf 1 year ago 2
all i can say is "what a fucking show" the best ever!
TheDotComKid84 2 years ago
I agree it's a great show. I've watched every episode here on youtube. The only thing I have to say is that towards the end, prob season 7 and 8, the show really went downhill. It seemed to routine, I dunno maybe it's just me. When I started with season 1, I was absolutely hooked. Love this show, most epic theme song ever to.
blkplaguelmc 2 years ago
One of my favorite shows.
coolbmartin 2 years ago
AWESOME!!!
jeffsomer 2 years ago 3
Man, do I remember watching this, the dance of joy, all the antics... anyone know if this has come to DVD?
TheBitdefender 2 years ago 2
yes, season 1 and 2 are in a dvd set available now.
meanwolf21 2 years ago
dont know man, im trying to find out the same thing. I want the whole box set.
salemskc 2 years ago
Oh boy!this brings back so much memories, where did the time all go!Cousin Balki use 2 crack me up.They don't make them like they use 2.Great show!
zaidx24 2 years ago 2
@zaidx24
it is it is! I think Balki is H-O-T HOT!
Kenzie317 2 years ago
Watched this on TGIF every Friday night back in the day. Good television shows are not made anymore.
zshaw7549 2 years ago 4
amen to that most tv is crap these days.
Surfer041 2 years ago 4
I agree. I loved this when It first came out. Such a shame they dont make comedies like this.
toolz123 2 years ago
Who is the guy in the sunglasses that is too cool for everything? Why did he bother to see Larry off if he was gonna be a d-bag about it?lol
tcstylist 2 years ago 3
Lmao, I always see people saying that's Bob Saget. It's def. not but, he definitely looks like a d-bag.
blkplaguelmc 2 years ago
@blkplaguelmc i dont know how much you watched the show but that must be larrys bigger cooler and overall much better at everything big brother...in the show he always cries about how his brother was the most loved by his parents and the most talented of all the kids lol.
TheDotComKid84 2 years ago
pretty sure that was a Jeffrey Dahmer cameo.
MONARCHPROJECT 2 years ago
When I was a kid, I used to think Mypos was somewhere in Canada because I always thought Balki rode a ferry on Lake Michigan into Chicago! Hahaha! I rarely saw the extended intro where it shows the Statue of Liberty!
baronvg 2 years ago
So we traded in great shows like this and many others for shows about whores who want to marrry idiots and idiots who want to marry whores? Some say a lot of these shows are cheesy, but you know what I'd rather have these cheesy sitcoms than all these moronic "reality" shows.
gundamredframe 2 years ago 9
I love this theme song. ^^
soseztheleadr 2 years ago 4
there were many great television series during the 1980s. somehow modern series cannot compare to show from the 60s, 70s and 80s.
it makes you feel...nostalgic. really, really nostalgic. makes you wish it was those times again, doesn't it?
by the way, i am 30 years old.
24aaa 2 years ago 42
@24aaa I totally agree with you. so many great sitcoms from the 80's. today's garbage is all about cheap laughs. I am also the same age as you.
mbanwait02 1 year ago
@24aaa . . i am only 18 years old and i agree!!!!!!
The only shows i watch are 80's and 90's
Married with children, perfect strangers, fresh prince, etc
Today's shows . . well, you rarely find a good one like two and a half men.
mattttttt7 1 year ago
@24aaa 80S RULED!!!!! WITH TV & MUSIC!
jvflexx 1 year ago
@jvflexx The internet and texting rule now.
CStarz608 1 year ago
@CStarz608 Thats too bad, it's creating a bunch of zombies! We had fun in the 70's &80's we rocked & rolled every nite & parties every day! not brainless texting or computers.....feel sorry for this generation..
jvflexx 1 year ago
@CStarz608 haha is so true but without the internet we would be able to look back at our memories so quickly...how I miss the nights looking forward to these shows and how sad I was when it ended
77KANG77 1 year ago
@24aaa Actually shows today are better overall. You just like them because you were a lot younger ack then and you felt a different range of emotions then.
MrAtalukdar 1 year ago
@MrAtalukdar
adel78ify 1 year ago
@24aaa Actually shows today are better overall. You just like them because you were a lot younger back then and you felt a different range of emotions then.
MrAtalukdar 1 year ago
@MrAtalukdar Really? I'd love to see these mythical shows of which you speak.
JWLJN 1 year ago
@24aaa Yes its does your not alone on that feeling one bit that is why i dont have cable i just get the classic dvds and look up the ones that are not on dvd yet on here
goldengirlsfan22 1 year ago
I love the high fives Larry gets on his way out
tcstylist 2 years ago
q super o sea
appsenta 2 years ago
one of the best of 80's TV
specterkev 2 years ago 11
awsome show!! 80'S rule!!!!
bradkoski 2 years ago 8
Catchy song! I remember this show from way back!
huskobon 2 years ago
One of the best series of all times!
serverfreak1982 2 years ago 2