Episode
Perfect Strangers: To Be or Not to Be
Overview
When Larry and Balki are chosen to be in the commercial for the Chicago Chronicle, Larry takes his acting abilities too far and goes overboard.
Details
- Series
- Perfect Strangers
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 13
- Air date
- 1988-01-06
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
To Be or Not to Be is Episode 13 in Season 3 of Perfect Strangers. It aired on 1988-01-06. The runtime is 24 min.
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Episode 12: The Break-In
Balki accidently delivers Larry's offensive article to the publisher. So they break in late at night to retrieve it and end up on the ledge dealing with someone trying to commit suicide.
Episode 14: My Lips Are Sealed
After Mr. Gorpley gets information out of Balki about what's in the mail, Larry tells him that it's against the rules for him to give away what's in the mail. But in order to buy his dream car, he needs to know about his raise that was processed in the mail.
More episodes from this season
Episode 11: Couch Potato
When Larry and Balki get cable TV, Balki becomes glued to the TV and won't stop watching it to the point where he forgets about his job, sleep, and never goes out anymore. So Larry must make an important decision of getting rid of the cable.
Episode 15: The Pen Pal
Vince Lucas the racketeer that Larry and Balki testified against has been paroled and Balki invites him into their apartment after writing to him ever since he went to prison. Even though he threatened them, Balki trusts him but Larry's too scared.
Episode 10: Future Shock
Jennifer has been given a promotion but if she accepts it, she has to move to LA. Larry refuses to tell her how he feels as a fear of rejection but later that evening, he has a dream about being a lonely old man with Balki and Mary Anne married, rich, living upstairs.
Episode 16: Just Desserts
After Balki serves Larry, Jennifer, and Mary Anne some "Bibbi Babkas" (Myposian cream puffs), Larry suggests selling them but baking them cannot be rushed.
Episode 9: Night School Confidential
Balki is cheated by a con artist who sold him counterfeit watches. And after getting no help from the police, Larry and Balki go undercover to expose the con artist and put him out of business.
Episode 17: Pipe Dreams
Jennifer asks Larry if he can call a plumber for her to fix her shower head while she's away. Larry decides that to impress her he'll fix it himself and as Larry and Balki try and put everything together, things go extremely wrong and they end up flooding Jennifer and Mary Anne's bathroom.
Episode 8: Karate Kids
While at a happy hour restaurant, Larry and Balki get beaten up at a bar by a bully who hit on Jennifer. So they decide to take karate and after several weeks of fine training, Larry insists on returning to the bar to pick a fight with the bully.
Episode 18: Bye Bye Biki
Balki is excited because his 106 year old grandmother Biki is coming to America to see him but when she switched planes in New York, she died at the airport and Balki has a hard time accepting it and pretends to be happy.
Episode 7: The Horn Blows at Midnight
When a famous psychic visits the Chronicle, She goes into a trance and predicts that a bog storm will come and Larry will die at midnight after sitting on a sheep and eating a golden ring. Larry thinks that it is just superstition until a storm comes out of nowhere.
Episode 19: The Graduate
Balki manages to graduate night school at the top of his class, but soon finds out that there is no graduation ceremony. So Larry talks to the principal and arranges one.