Trivia-P.S.

Friday, October 19, 2007

The pilot to "Perfect Strangers" was originally filmed with Louis Anderson as the Cousin Larry character.
Though Larry and Balki proudly and excitedly place their trophies on the mantle, they're never seen after this episode.
When Balki comes home excited and dancing, Jennifer is over hanging out with Larry. However, although no time seems to elapse during the commercial break, following the break, she is inexplicably gone.
In "Hunks Like Us", Larry and Balki meet Jennifer and Mary-Anne at the health club. However, in this episode, they apparently live in their building.
The girls are excited to find a bottle of wine in the ski lodge, and Larry later implies that everyone had been drinking some. However, in "Hunks Like Us..." the girls said specifically that they don't drink wine.
This episode was aired well out of production order, which resulted in multiple seeming goofs. First, Larry doesn't know what "ding-ding-machmoud" is, even though it was actually the basis of Larry and Balki's fight in "Trouble in Paradise". Second, the entire premise of the episode is Larry trying to find or take a picture to enter in the local paper's photo contest, and it is only revealed at the end of the episode that Larry wins tenth place. However, in "Tux for Two" Larry's invitation to the formal party at an art gallery was due to his already having placed tenth in this very contest.
It seems odd that, considering that he has his own bedroom, Larry would choose to hide all of his junk food in the living room, where Balki could find it.
For the entire first two seasons, Balki slept on the sofa bed in the living room. When Balki discovers Larry's snacks hidden under the couch cushion, Larry suggests that they might have been there for years, completely neglecting that Balki had folded out the sofa every night for two seasons.
In previous and subsequent episodes, the door to Larry and Balki's apartment is to the right of the fireplace (when facing the door). However, in this episode, Jennifer and Mary-Anne exited and Larry and Balki enter the apartment through a door to the left of the fireplace.
At one point, Balki declares 'It's not over until Roseanne Barr sings!'- over a year before she'd do infamous National Anthem rendition at the San Diego Padres game!
When you see Balki floating, if you watch close, you can see the cables that holding him in the air.
When the camera watches the boys go to the isolation booth the girls are in one of the chairs with the locking arm down. When it goes back to the girls, the locking arm is up again and they put it down.