Happy Dance

June 5, 2006 11:12 PM

A Montage of Perfect Strangers clips (YouTube flash video) I stumbled across this clip of Perfect Strangers clips. I had forgotten the show was so physical.
posted by jragon (49 comments total)

Umm, nothing against old worthless TV sitcoms, but Perfect Strangers? Oh god.
posted by Funmonkey1 at 11:22 PM on June 5, 2006

This is the apotheosis of Metafilter; the ultimate post. We can stop now.
posted by mr_roboto at 11:22 PM on June 5, 2006

What? You never heard of "Flush Dance"?
posted by dgaicun at 11:25 PM on June 5, 2006

HOH NO KOZEN LARI, DON' BE RIDIKOLOUS!
posted by jenovus at 11:28 PM on June 5, 2006 [2 favorites]

Son of a Stooge
posted by Cranberry at 11:29 PM on June 5, 2006

Ah, young love. Those two were such a match.

What? It wasn't supposed to be a pioneering gay sitcom? I want the five minutes I spent watching that clip back.
posted by kyleg at 11:30 PM on June 5, 2006

Why did I watch that?
posted by pointilist at 11:36 PM on June 5, 2006

Damn newbies are recking this site with posts like this.
posted by Jimbob at 11:37 PM on June 5, 2006

Wow, I had no idea Family Matters was a spin-off of Perfect Strangers.

I am a sad, sad man.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 11:38 PM on June 5, 2006

If we're taking a trip down memory lane, I give you the worst sitcom of the 1980s.
posted by Mr. Six at 11:40 PM on June 5, 2006

Heh. My wife loved Small Wonder. I think she modeled her childhood self after Vicky. And if she weren't out of the country without internet access right now, I'd be a dead man within 12 hours.
posted by mr_roboto at 12:10 AM on June 6, 2006

Wow, i've never laughed so hard in my life! No wait, i have.
posted by slater at 12:25 AM on June 6, 2006

oh jesus. This is going to end up a stroll down 1980s TV hell....

I feel like Bill the Cat wretching up a hairball at the very thought. "AAAAAAAACCCCKKKKK"
posted by Funmonkey1 at 12:34 AM on June 6, 2006

Now I know why I never got around to watching that show. The short one really sucks at physical comedy. It just makes me miss John Ritter.
posted by willnot at 12:37 AM on June 6, 2006

A horrifying flashback into what we had to endure (and what we thought was great) in the era before Seinfeld changed the standard sitcom formula, and before the internet dragged most of us away from our TVs for good.
posted by Effigy2000 at 1:35 AM on June 6, 2006

I had forgotten the show was so physical.

I had forgotten the show.
posted by zardoz at 1:58 AM on June 6, 2006

Cat painting, forgotten anniversaries and a moral at the 23rd minute. Those were the days.
posted by meech at 3:00 AM on June 6, 2006

This could be interesting to anthropologists of the distant future.
posted by pracowity at 3:25 AM on June 6, 2006

Anthropologists of the future, no matter how goddamn futuristic it is, will have neither the free time, wherewithal, or inclination to sift through the neverending miscellanies and pointless detritus of YouTube. Only MeFites have that gift.
posted by dgaicun at 4:07 AM on June 6, 2006

I got Mark Linn Baker's autograph as a kid. It is so awesome--I am so glad I did not chuck it out.
posted by Admiral Haddock at 4:25 AM on June 6, 2006

well, heaving and retching is physical, so I guess I would agree.
posted by horsemuth at 4:31 AM on June 6, 2006

Anthropologists of the future, no matter how goddamn futuristic it is, will have neither the free time...

The unspoken part of that was "as opposed to us in the present." A thousand years from now, when people live forever (maybe in their TiVo3000s), "people" will look at that stuff and wonder why someone with only 650,000 hours to live would spend 75 of them watching Perfect Strangers.
posted by pracowity at 4:34 AM on June 6, 2006

What fascinates me is that these clips were taken from just four episodes. It was a physical show!
posted by frecklefaerie at 5:24 AM on June 6, 2006

Sometimes, I am awake at six-something a.m., and I come to see what Metafilter hath wrought the night before.

... Unfortunately, today, it was this.
posted by blacklite at 5:44 AM on June 6, 2006

Is that music Jive Bunny? Wow, a double treat.
posted by phirleh at 6:09 AM on June 6, 2006

I cannot believe how unbelievably GAY those two look now. Gayer than treeful of rainbow-colored parakeets on Judy Garlands porch.

And as Seinfeld taught us, not that there's anything wrong with that.
posted by Ber at 6:19 AM on June 6, 2006

I liked that show back in the day!

Worst sitcom (that was popular) was and still is Full House. I hate that show!
posted by SisterHavana at 6:27 AM on June 6, 2006

I had forgotten the show was so physical.

Yeah, I remember it to be far more cerebral.
posted by boost ventilator at 6:27 AM on June 6, 2006

I am doing the Mipos Dance of Lame.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:27 AM on June 6, 2006

I hated this show more than Hamas hates Israel.
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 7:22 AM on June 6, 2006 [1 favorite]

I used to love Perfect Strangers, then I underwent an experimental treatment and found myself trying to cope with my new found brilliance, then a mouse died, now I like Perfect Strangers again.
posted by I Foody at 7:55 AM on June 6, 2006

I cannot believe how unbelievably GAY those two look now.

Everything from the 80s looks gay in hindsight. Even Rambo and Mister T look gay. Don't get me started on Duran Duran and Mister Mister. Oh, and some gay dude named Boy George.
posted by blucevalo at 7:55 AM on June 6, 2006

The Hair!! MY EYES!!!


"I say to my brother, 'You are Iiiiinnnnsaaaaaaaaane'"
posted by humboldt32 at 7:59 AM on June 6, 2006

I used to love that show. Bronson Pinchot, all else aside, was willing to do some pretty stupid crap to get a laugh in a thankless parody of a role. Gotta respect that. OK not actually but still.

Does anyone else remember My Two Dads, featuring a pre-respectability Paul Reiser and that bearded genetic hybrid offspring of Billy Ray Cyrus and Kenny Loggins?
posted by waxbanks at 8:19 AM on June 6, 2006

God, if ever there was a time for this, it is now.


posted by Gamblor at 8:20 AM on June 6, 2006

If you watch that clip muted, and put on Unchained Melody in the background, it suddenly makes much more sense.
posted by mkultra at 8:40 AM on June 6, 2006

Holy crap, that thing went on forever.
posted by JT at 9:07 AM on June 6, 2006

so it wasn't the greatest show. it was still fun and creative at times. what's wrong with that?
posted by ambulance blues at 9:29 AM on June 6, 2006

I am reminded that Pefect Strangers existed.

Get out of the city!
posted by sonofsamiam at 9:38 AM on June 6, 2006

Well, I lasted 22 seconds. Longer than I ever gave the show, so there's hope.
posted by squirrel at 9:40 AM on June 6, 2006

Just couldn't get enough of that video?
posted by sonofsamiam at 9:43 AM on June 6, 2006

Later, haters. That rawked!
posted by ColdChef at 10:23 AM on June 6, 2006

that was fuckin' awesome. i miss that show.
posted by Doorstop at 11:39 AM on June 6, 2006

*chuckle*

I wish I could feel guilty for inflicting this link, but I just don't.
posted by jragon at 5:37 PM on June 6, 2006

I never watched the show (I hated all TV during that period) but I just laughed my butt off at this clip. Delightful.

Man, the pants, the shoulders, and the hair were HORRIBLE during that period, though.
posted by Peach at 7:51 PM on June 6, 2006

oh I loved that show. JUST KISS EACH OTHER ALREADY.
posted by jann at 11:40 PM on June 6, 2006

that bearded genetic hybrid offspring of Billy Ray Cyrus and Kenny Loggins?

Don't me knockin' my man B.J.

Seriously, B.J.? I think somebody threw the 80s into the wash with some ghey and it all came out pink.
posted by dhartung at 2:09 AM on June 7, 2006

... and The Bear.

Not a real bear, mind you, but a hairy primate. Named Bear. And no matter how much trouble Bear got into, it was nothing a little B.J. couldn't fix.
posted by mkultra at 5:14 PM on June 8, 2006

Loved that show. If that's wrong, I don't wanna be right.

Thanks for the clip :)
posted by bullitt 5 at 5:40 PM on June 8, 2006