Perfect Strangers outtakes

[zoetropez76]

Oh, Balky. You made Mark-Linn Baker seem almost funny.

[GojyotheFeared]

Family Matters, Perfect Strangers, Who's The Boss and the Cosby Show!

God how I miss these shows.

Family matters is still on on tbs and other stations once in a while and I have the Cosboy Show on dvd, but I really miss Perfect Strangers and Who's The Boss.

[GojyotheFeared]

Man I wish they would release this on dvd already. I really loved this show growing up!

My favorite part was the episode where something catches on fire and they're both in there with a fire extinguisher and having a fire extinguisher fight!

[wickkidda]

i thought balki was a real foreigner as a kid

[cgarbiano]

What a great show that was !

[ElSijo1]

These people obviously had SO much fun making the show, I guess that's why it was so good. :)

[parissmiles]

apparently, when i was really little, i adored this show. i would ask to watch "balki" and get really excited when it was on.

i'm recently rediscovering it and actually just ordered the dvds of seasons 1 & 2 from netflix.

[PowderedToastGirl]

Now I so happy I do the Dance of Joy!!!!!!!!

[babydoll96]

We need to petition Warner Bros to release the rest of this series on DVD!! It was the best ever.

[diapertommy]

I love this show, Although NO CHANCE of TV Land aring this because all they air anymore is stupid reality shows and Joan Rivers........

[taramattiest]

@diapertommy i know - stupid and depressing

[diapertommy]

@taramattiest I know Tara... TV Land is NOTHING like they used to be anymore. It was ashowing the classic's that made TV Land a cable channel everybody wanted and now nobody want's! I can watch Roseanns, Everybody Loves Raymond, The Nanny, Home Improvement on my local channel's They need to go back to what made them GREAT. Suggestion's>>> Perfect Stranger's, Cannon, The Fugitive, Barnaby Jones, The Street;s of San Francisco, The F.B.I, Gomer Pyle, Petticoat Junction, Happy Day's Family, .....

[Faelsun]

The ninja episode was the best ever.

[litemirrors]

This show was so cool, I wonder what happened to it and why no trace exists :?

[tomsokoli]

larry appleton looks like richard simmons,,lol

[Mac3622]

Why don't they ever bring this show back in syndication? I liked it more than Who's the Boss.

[harrisonfanalways]

Bronson looked HOT there at the end.. He was A HUNK!

[looneytoon76]

I used to love this show

back in the early ABC TGIF days

[HayleyCometra]

Oh! I loved this show as a little kid, mostly because I loved Balkey's innocence.

All that laughing in the background... This show was filmed in front of a live audience? Somehow, that doesn't sound like a laugh track to me.

[Coastergeekperson04]

Yes, it has an audience.

[bostonscholar]

Was so upset when my cousin told me that Balki's voice wan't his "real voice.....

[WastedPo]

@HayleyComet, yes it was a live audience. I think most sit-coms were filmed before an audience.

As an aside: I've noticed that people in general tend to assume that comedy shows all have "canned laughter." Whenever sitcoms are discussed, you will always encounter those who (derisively) refer to the fake "laugh track" even though the laughs are real. In actuality I think very few shows used laugh tracks, and when they did, it was very obvious from the style of filming. (Get Smart, Brady Bunch)

[James76255]

@WastedPo By the late 70's most sitcoms were filmed in front of an audience, but some of them would still make use of laugh tracks during certain parts of the show. I know Happy Days and Diff'rent Strokes both got a lot of use out of laugh tracks when the audience they had didn't laugh in the "right places".

[WastedPo]

@James76255, yes, but there's a difference between using the occassional laugh track in the sound mix to enhance the final product, and assuming (as most people literally seem to) that every single audience laugh in every single sitcom is "canned."

[marc726]

this was hilarious lol thanks for this.  i miss those two.

[dramagal19]

That was so funny thanks

[wanloveida]

I love old sitcoms.... wow!

For me:

1) Golden Girls.

2)Perfect Strangers.

3)Wonder years.

[saz1127]

perfect list

[wanloveida]

Gee! Thanks!

[Coastergeekperson04]

"So speople,"

[zoetropez]

They really were perfect strangers. Two Academy Award mainstays, Linn-Baker and Bartokomous. They were really the voice of the generation, or maybe even the voice of the 20th century. Maybe the voice of humanity.

[flapjack2007]

The same snide comments could be made about the Three Stooges, Laurel & Hardy, etc.

[zoetropez]

No. I know Larry Fine. Larry Fine is a friend of mine. But Larry Fine is no Mark Linn-Baker.

[Umagaraga]

Brilliant... Perfect Strangers was and still is on of the best shows ever created..... period

[Coastergeekperson04]

Wow, they now have outtakes available for every show EXCEPT Family Matters!

[eldorado61guy]

And 'Green Acres'.

[Coastergeekperson04]

Well, I have seen one really short blooper from Family Matters, but I can't find it anywhere.

[Irideika]

I don't get what is funny on the outtake from the episode where Vince comes to their home after being released from prison (the outtake where they are both sitting on the kitchen floor and Larry bangs Balki's head on the counter)... That scene has several scripted head-banging incidents, so why laugh about it? Me confused.

[boochibabe]

I think it was the fact Mark threw his head back so hard and hit the stove by himself that made Bronson laugh and then Mark followed suit.

[LadyFireSprite]

I have a feeling that this might have been a first take, and the head-banging incident may have not supposed to have occurred at all. They probably decided to have that as a staple of the scene later. Maybe not, though. I'm just going off of an interview Bronson gave once where he said that all their unscripted ad lib scenes are still planned out. They could have done this and then put it in the final version later. *shrug* Whatever happened, it was funny.

[Irideika]

It just would seem odd that given how they are sitting against something hard, it would not have been planned / scripted that way...

[GojyotheFeared]

@Irideika

It was both of their heads banging against something that made them both laugh.

[FanikII]

They even had Dmitri on for a scene, did you see Dmitri(Balki's stuffed sheep)?

[sassymuzik]

i miss this show!

[studmuffin0681]

Lots of great outtakes there from our favorite cousins Larry and Balki.

[milky1milky]

hahaha this is so funny :D

[amazingjecklebrother]

serge

[tomarkenfan83]

I want more Perfect Strangers! I have seasons one and two on DVD and I want more!

[flambazot]

This is Treasure !!

[dallas8106]

Awesome outtakes, thanks for sharing. But man if Mark doesn't beat up Bronson a lot. LOL!

[74802006]

i used to love watching perfect strangers

[bphutchins]

where did you find these at??? I wish they would release this show on dvd already!

[boochibabe]

These were shown on talk shows Bronson and Mark did back when the show was on and were about the only bloopers I'd ever seen aired for the series. Seasons one and two are out on DVD but no word yet on the rest of the series being released.

[thesaint19811982]

Almost all episodes are available here on YouTube. Just type Perfect Strangers along with the episode name & there you have it. Each episode is divided into 3 parts.

[jee108]

was family matters a rip off from perfect strangers

[boochibabe]

Family Matters was a spin-off from Perfect Strangers, yes.

[jaeladarling]

Actually, Family Matters was more of a continuation of Harriett Winslow's life. I'm assuming you know that Harriett was a PS character. :)

[popoff21]

LMAO at 00:58-1:11

[AMPDOG2]

I haven't seen this in age i use to love this show.

[jordiekjo]

Where did you get these outtakes from?

And I wonder why they are not included on the DVD?

Such a great show!

[papillonaquatique]

At 1:28 was Bronson really hurt?

[boochibabe]

The sound was dubbed on to show Mark stepped on his foot, and yeah, I'm sure with those heavy ski boots Mark had on it didn't feel too good, especially since Bronson was just wearing socks at the time! :(

[Linz2121]

There was another person who had a lot of great Perfect Strangers Clips but they deleted all of them...they even had the Karate Kids clip and the one where Larry is scene as an old man pining for Jennifer and Balki is all rich and high class....can you find those?

[boochibabe]

I'm sorry, we don't post any clips from the episodes themselves, just PS related stuff.  But there are others on here who have clips, just search for "Perfect Strangers" and they should come up.

[thenightstalker13]

i also loved this show

[nov3lia]

it's out on dvd!!

[sweetgirl4JC]

They've always had such chemistry those two guys. Love them. CAtch them on dvd. They just started being released 2/5/2008

[jeev212121]

i must agree stephangrace its so true

[stephgrace17]

I loved this show when I was a kid. There wasn't anything else better than TGIF. Life was so simple then:)

[Desiitaliangirl]

TGIF...was the best. I miss those days! I love Perfect Strangers!

[HeatherWarner1569]

I agree stephgrace17! Perfect Strangers, Full House, Step-by-Step, Family Matters. Those were the best!

[TheCheshireofQuidget]

I remember when I first saw this after watching all the clips on YouTube how astonished I was when I heard Bronson speak out of character! I don't know why it surprised me so much...

More bloopers please!

[Maddog81182]

Hey I saw the mom from Family Matters on here. I forgot she was on here at one time, and I saw on the TGIF intros that Staci Keanan was on going places as well as Step by Step. Ironic where people start!

[boochibabe]

Yes, Harriette Winslow was originally a character on Perfect Strangers, and Family Matters was a direct spin-off of Perfect Strangers! A lot of people don't even know that. :)

[Maddog81182]

I know i didn't.

[Hervorragend604]

I've never heard any such thing, and it doesn't make much sense to me, but I guess it's possible. How exactly are the two shows supposed to be connected?

[boochibabe]

It's absolutely true! Jo-Marie Payton France played Harriette Winslow on Perfect Strangers starting in season 3. She was the elevator operator at the Chicago Chronicle. Her police officer husband, Carl Winslow (played by Reginald VelJohnson) appeared in the PS episode Crimebusters. They wrote Harriette out and gave her her own show, Family Matters. Balki and Larry even did a scene in the first episode of Family Matters which was sadly cut out and never shown.

[Hervorragend604]

Oh, I see. It's probably because they cut that scene in the first episode of Family Matters that I never connected the two shows. Come to think of it, I don't think I've seen the very first ep. of either show. I always watched 80's & 90's sitcoms sporadically. Anyway, thanks for knowledge! Now I know something else that lots of other peopl don't know.

[superELsucko]

I have a quick question that I hope someone can answer for me, what was Balki's toy sheep/lamb named? Please somebody,anybody tell me I can't remember for the life of me and it's driving me crazy lol.

[boochibabe]

It was Dimitri.  :)

[superELsucko]

Thank you I have been trying to remember that for about 9yrs lol. Now I can use it as a trivia fact that nobody else will remember. You rock

[rockstar918]

this so funny im only 12 and i lov this show i got the all 8 seasons of the on dvd on the coumputer u con get but it's a $108.99 for cost of shipping it adds up to $132.00 im still waitting for it

[boochibabe]

How wonderful you have discovered the show!! :)

Anyone selling episodes online are selling bootlegs, and sadly I repeatedly hear stories of people either never getting what they order or getting inferior product on broken discs with no chance of refund. Please, do NOT buy from anyone online claiming to have the shows on DVD, the show has NEVER been released on DVD to date, they are all bootleggers!

[rockstar918]

u mean my mother paid all that money for nothin

[boochibabe]

I hope not!! I do worry, though, as those sites are NOT legitimate. :( Do let us know what happens!

[rockstar918]

i got riped off my mother is very upset

[boochibabe]

I'm so so sorry. :(

I wish these sites were not allowed to advertise DVDs like they do.

[DarthBias]

Did ya'll get in touch with the BBB? Perhaps they can do something.

[bibibabkagirl]

u should put more outtakes up. if u have some, that would be great. cuz mark linn-baker is such a nut! haha. they're both so funny! you should totally put some more outtakes up.

[boochibabe]

I wish I had more, but this is all! For some reason they just didn't show PS outtakes on the usual blooper shows. :(

[purplegymshoes]

I didn't get to catch this show on tv having been born in 1988, but I watched it realy early in the morning when they aired it on Nick a few years ago. Stupid me didn't figure out until about two years ago that Bronson Pinchot didn't actually talk like that. :/

[bibibabkagirl]

OMG! ME TOO! I watched it when it was on Nick at Nite!! And I thought that he was really from another country! Amazing. haha

[purplegymshoes]

Lmfao! Exact same as me. :P Kind of embarrassing lollll.

[bibibabkagirl]

lol. i know. but i still love it. i just wish that i was around when it first came on. :( but alas... haha

[bibbinluv]

gosh i miss perfect strangers.. i watched their every single show.. i so love them !..

[sburtelson]

I love this show!! The memories it brings back.. Is it ever going to be on DVD? Thanks for posting this!

[sharholler]

Great bloopers! I am anxiously awaitng the DVD release of this great show. Never before have I seen bloopers from Perfect Strangers. Thanks again!

[feehirst]

I have the complete series on dvd, and have never seen any bloopers,so thankyou for posting them,there fab!!!

Just the best show ever!!! ;-)

[musiclover58]

How in the world did you ever manage to get the whole series on DVD ?? I have been trying but the only places that have them are the sites that everyone says are ripoffs !! -I would love to get the series with good quality --HELP !!

[brettactordirector]

Me and my family's all-time favorite show. I've never seen any bloopers from it before. Thanks for posting! =)

[ThirdOfJune4444]

Awesome bloopers! This is one of my favourite shows of all time! Thanks for posting these outtakes...brought back a lot of memories. Loved Larry!!!!

[dingding3109]

When was this aired

[ElKayeVideos]

February 8, 1989. There was one night which Bronson was on Arsenio Hall and Mark was on Pat Sajak and they each showed a different blooper reel. These are about the only outtakes from the series which ever seemed to air on TV!

[Dibrini]

"I have...........a plan!" (Cousin Larry)

[Jubilee2]

I liked the one where they were snow bound in the cabin Can u maybe get yer hands on that one ?