Perfect Strangers

- Season 3

(1987)

When Larry takes a new job at the Chicago Chronicle, Balki feels his job at the discount store is no longer enough for him. So he gets a job in the mail room at the Chronicle, but his new boss Mr. Gorpley is not going to make it easy for him.

Larry makes Balki promise to help him lose weight, and a Mypiot never breaks his promise...

Balki learns about sexual harassment through experience, when Olivia Crawford, editor of the Sunday Magazine, makes a pass at him and threatens his job.

Balki is proud to own his first share of stock in his favorite cereal company, until he finds out they make false promises to their customers.

Balki and Jennifer are trying to get Larry a new typewriter and surprise him with it. So they sneak around. And when Larry discovers their sneaking around, he assumes the worst.

When a psychic has a premonition while holding Larry's lucky pen, Balki worries that "Mr. Death" is coming to take his cousin.

After Larry and Balki get beaten up by a bully, they decide to learn karate for self-defense.

Balki and Larry go undercover to bust a guy selling cheap counterfeit jewelry at Balki's night school.

Jennifer gets a job opportunity but it requires for her to move. Larry doesn't like it but he says nothing. Balki tells him he should speak up or he could live to regret it. He goes to sleep and dreams that several years later he is all alone.

When the guys get cable, Balki becomes so entranced by 24 hour TV, that it interferes with his life and threatens to cost him his job.

When Larry's joke article gets turned in by mistake, he talks Balki into helping him break into the Chronicle to exchange it for the real one.

The newspaper is shooting a TV ad and Balki gets selected to be in it. But after taking acting lessons from Larry, things don't go as planned.

Larry regrets teaching Balki the importance of keeping confidential information he learns in the mail room, when he realizes Balki knows whether Larry got the raise he needs to buy his dream car.

Larry fears for his life when Balki invites the paroled Vince Lucas, a criminal they helped send to jail, to stay with them until he starts a new job.

When Balki's Myposian dessert (bibi-babka) is a big hit, Larry convinces him to sell them to a local restaurant. But the chef needs 2000 in two days. Can they make that many in time or will the Bibi-Babka Business be bust?

When the cousins win a supermarket shopping spree, Balki sees it as a chance to have fun, but of course Larry has a plan...

Larry, instead of calling a plumber, tries to fix Jennifer's pipes himself.

Wanting to resolve an argument with Larry, Balki handcuffs the two together right before an important lunch meeting.

When Larry's brother, whom he's been jealous of because he's so popular who is now a big shot, comes for a visit. He pretends to be a big shot himself. But when his brother stays longer than expected things get out of hand.

Balki claims to have met Carl Lewis at a convenience store and had to lend him money because he forgot his wallet buy Larry is convinced that someone took advantage of his cousin once again.

Larry pushes Balki to try and finish at the top of his high school class.

Balki is excited about a visit from his grandmother, but Larry must break the news to him that Yaya Biki died on the way to Chicago.