Perfect Strangers - TV Show - (1986 - 1993)
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Topic: Perfect Strangers - TV Show - (1986 - 1993)
Posted By: Archisorcerus
Subject: Perfect Strangers - TV Show - (1986 - 1993)
Date Posted: April 25 2022 at 03:30
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This was very popular in Turkey back in the day, but IMDb says that it is not that much; it hasn't received even 10K ratings there. I'm curious whether it wasn't that much known when it was aired in the previous millennium in the US and/or globally; or that it just lost its popularity over time. It was one of my favourite TV shows then, by the way. 
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Posted By: nick_h_nz
Date Posted: April 25 2022 at 04:11
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I voted for “I watched it, it was great”, because I loved it at the time. But I was just a wee sprog, and it’s been decades since I watched it. I’ve often found going back to things I liked as a child now, I really don’t appreciate them at all. Some I appreciate more for nostalgic reasons than because of how good they actually might be. And only a very few seem to have stood the rest of time, and are as enjoyable now as they were back then. I wonder, if I were to watch this show again, if I would still enjoy it? ------------- https://tinyurl.com/nickhnz-tpa" rel="nofollow - Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: April 25 2022 at 09:47
| Yes, I watched it. It wasn't that good. It was ok. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: April 25 2022 at 15:28
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Watched it-- medium content, great cast. It was a decent late '80s Odd Couple variation. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 25 2022 at 15:54
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I watched it quite often and quite enjoyed it. Its the kind of show that I would watch if it was on, but I wouldn't go out of my way to watch it or video record it. My wife had told me she liked it and I know my mother had liked it. I was and still am more into the British comedies (very big on Black Adder at the time). For a comedy show from the US that overlaps with the same time that Perfect Strangers was on, I much preferred The Larry Sanders Show. And from Canada, we had Kids in the Hall (sketch comedy). ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: nick_h_nz
Date Posted: April 26 2022 at 00:37
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^ UK comedy always trumped US, back then. Even though I liked Perfect Strangers as a wee sprog, I would have picked any number of UK comedies over it, if I had the choice. On both radio, and tv, New Zealand tended to play a mix of both UK and US media, so it was sometimes possible to see both the UK and US versions of a comedy. Again, with the caveat that I’ve not seen any of them since then, so am relying on childhood appreciation, whether the show was UK in origin and then copied by the US (which seemed to be the norm), or US in origin and then copied by the UK (far less common), it was always the UK version that seemed the funnier of the two, to me. ------------- https://tinyurl.com/nickhnz-tpa" rel="nofollow - Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect |
Posted By: Archisorcerus
Date Posted: April 26 2022 at 03:53
| ^ I'm also in the same camp with you both. British comedy rules! For me, American comedy is on a par with Turkish comedy: great, but not the best. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: April 27 2022 at 18:25
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I don't remember much about this show except that it featured a rather annoying character named Balkie and an actor (the other lead in the series) who was in a movie called My Favorite Year with the late Peter O'Toole. This is a mostly forgotten show in my opinion. Who remembers Wings and Mad About You? Both of those were better than this although they are both very forgotten also. A little more recently you had Scrubs and My name is Earl.
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Posted By: darksinger
Date Posted: May 05 2022 at 21:56
I like that movie! I found out that the Mark Linn Baker character, Benjamin Stone, was based on Mel Brooks. I also just read on imdb that Selma Diamond, who played Lil the seamstress (and Selma Hacker on Night Court) was a writer for Your Show of Shows, which was what the show Benjamin Stone worked for was based on. I was never much into Mad About You. Wings was okay if you chopped out Crystal Bernard and the two brothers (although one of the funniest moments was when everyone thought the Rebecca Schall's character was a murderer in hiding and Steven Weber knocked himself out thinking she was going to kill him and then everyone catches her standing over him with a frozen leg of lamb). Scrubs was funny but not my favorite show and I never saw My Name is Earl.
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