This is like the intersection of everything I love.

I feel cold.

@TheHonJudgeSmails: I can't watch it at work!! Help me! Highlights? I love Balki and cousin Larry.

My favorite old-school commercial that painfully integrated rap was "one dumb move can blow your groove", a just-say-no PSA. i even had a poster with all the lyrics on it in my room. anyone remember it?

I was a fan of Perfect Strangers, but Balky's role in True Romance really solidified my love for him.

Bronson Pinchot is a genius.

What most people don't know is that that song was written by the world's greatest composer: Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern -schplenden -schlitter -crasscrenbon -fried -digger -dangle -dungle -burstein -von -knacker -thrasher -apple -banger -horowitz -ticolensic -grander -knotty -spelltinkle -grandlich -grumblemeyer -spelterwasser -kürstlich -himbleeisen -bahnwagen -gutenabend -bitte -eine -nürnburger -bratwustle -gerspurten -mit -zweimache -luber -hundsfut -gumberaber -shönendanker -kalbsfleisch -mittler -raucher von Hautkopft of Ulm. To do justice to this man, thought by many to be the greatest name in German Baroque music, we present a profile of Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern -schplenden -schlitter -crasscrenbon -fried -digger -dangle -dungle -burstein -von -knacker - thrasher -apple -banger -horowitz -ticolensic -grander -knotty -spelltinkle -grandlich -grumblemeyer -spelterwasser - kurstlich -himbleeisen -bahnwagen -gutenabend -bitte -ein -nürnburger -bratwustle -gerspurten -mit -zweimache - auuber -hundsfut -gumberaber -shönendanker-kalbsfleisch -mittler -aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm.

@BalknChain: ML-B and Pinchot at their finest. I don't know what else to say.

Also, he slips in a rhyme with his "Don't be ridikkulos" catchphrase.

This makes me do the Dance of Joy

Highlights? Don't be reeDICulos.

BalknChain, I am sending a box of bibibakas over to your office STAT (concealed therein is a YouTube-enabled laptop).

Also, my favorite oldschool commercial...

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I'm not a chicken, you're a turkey!

Something's Happening

says it all

Dr. Johnny Fever rapping? Blasphemy!

@FitnessMadeSimple: I never watched Perfect Strangers but Bronson Pinchot was great with the cocaine dumped in lap.

Head of the Class! Oh, leather jacket wearing guy, I had such a crush on you when I was nine, that I currently regret as you were never hot....

@BaconCat: Dear God, man, you've earned your weekend.

I'm sorry but the best white rap of the 80's hands down belongs to Teen Witch:

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The absence of Dimitri the stuffed sheep brings tears to my heart.

Oh, and @adminslave: Me too!

@BalknChain: @ExecutiveIntern: I tried to keep my love for Perfect Strangers ironic, but it was hard.

@BullfightsOnAcid:"As I look at them I think to myself that I will bever be as hip as they are...."
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@TheHonJudgeSmails: ha, wonderful. 'Twill tide me over until I get home ;)

I've got a hankering for some pig snout with saffron!

@Muzzy van Hossmere: I think I entered puberty at the moment that Eric and Simone finally kissed.

@spencegrad: much appreciated, I can watch vid, but can't have the sound on, too many people around :(@Bell County: no need to hide it, I love Balki, the workout episode where they couldn't move afterwards was hysterical

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@BalknChain:
When you're rolling out the dough, just make sure to roll it slow.
If you roll the dough too thick, bibibabka make you sick.

@rina: Yes, Eric and Simone! This is taking me back, I am remembering bad TV I forgot I watched in the first place...oh shit, I actually watched Charles in Charge, didn't I? Some things should remain repressed.

@fileunder:
Argh! "too quick" not "too thick"!

@fileunder: heee, this is why you have a star!

@adminslave:
"The frazzy haired Jew girl wanted to turn back"

That was hilarious! Thanks for linking to it.

@BalknChain:
Ha! I would have finished with the second verse ("When you pour the filling in...") but thought the star would be taken away if I did.

@rina: @adminslave: And then Eric was going to wear his leather jacket over to Sarah Lawrence so that he could stay with Simone. It was quite swoon-worthy at the time.

@BullfightsOnAcid: Welcome! I need to find a way to download 'The Most Popular Girl.'

@Muzzy van Hossmere: OMG, seriously? She went to SLC (I went to SLC!)? I would tell my old college friends, but I'm the only one who watched bad 80s sitcoms as a youngling instead of having childhood memories. They're just jealous.

@Astigmatism: Yes, I am ready for said weekend and will enjoy it in accordance with its directions. using the weekend in a fashoin contravening the directions automatically makes the weekend fun guarantee null and void and indeminfies the - Wow, Zyban makes me quirky.

What about "My name's Barney Rubble and I'm here to say/ I dig Fruity Pebbles in a major way!"

@BullfightsOnAcid: Oh no you DIDN'T!!! I love that fucking movie!

@adminslave: I know the feeling. I've been trying for years to convince my friends that Family Matters was a spin-off of Perfect Strangers but none of them believed me because apparently they had better things to do as children than read the TV Guide. Thank god for wikipedia.

um guys this

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is important, i mean apparently balki was rapping a lot

@rina: I occasionally challenge people to describe a bad late 80s-90s TV show/movie that I haven seen. Being a latch-key kid had very minor pluses. I hope to one day find the person who remembers a film that I caught as a kid that primarly involved a bunch of high school kids who turned themselves invisible and kept getting caught in the girls locker room naked (when invisibility wore off, they were stuck naked in public). I just want to know for sure that it existed and I didn't make it up. It was, if there is such a thing, the poor man's Zapped.

It was once said that when the likes of Alex P. Keaton started using words like "fresh" and "dope," all street cred on shows geared toward prepubescent white girls would be lost. I sorely disagree.

Also, I liked the preppy dude on Head of the Class, you know the one who always sat next to Simone or was it Mike Tyson's ex punching bag, Robin?

@adminslave: Was it the Invisible Kid?

@adminslave: Amazingly, he actually has a pretty flourishing career as a producer.

Also, the episode where they put on Little Shop of Horrors was my absolute favorite half-hour (or was it a "to be continued"? In which case, hour, natch) of television for years!

@rina: Yes! You are golden. I probably should have been able to guess the title.

@collegecallgirl: That's what I'm talking about.
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@DorothyMantooth: Exec producer of One Tree Hill? Say it ain't so, Eric, say it ain't so!

@adminslave: I know, right?! Dude's freakin' prolific (with the crap).

They need head scarves.

@BullfightsOnAcid: I love you. Srsly.
"Top That" still randomly pops into my head every once in awhile, BUT...
@adminslave: "The Most Popular Girl" will always remain my favorite.
Teen Witch is in my top three favorite really bad movies (with Road House and Dirty Dancing of course)

I can't believe we don't have a 2Corey's rap linked here somewhere. I mean we ARE talking white people badly rapping in the 80's after all.

@BullfightsOnAcid: Holy fuck. I'm committing Top That to memory. See ya later the first 25 lines of The Canterbury Tales!

@allyzay: I was a HUGE Perfect Strangers fan... Why do I not remember this!?!?!?!?

My favorite sitcom rap was when Sam Malone did it when he had the sportscasting job. Totally unexpected and hilarious.