Episode
Perfect Strangers: Car Tunes
Overview
Larry buys a new car radio that gets stolen. So he puts an alarm in the car that keeps going off all night. So they try to catch the thief red-handed by hiding in the trunk and get taken on an unexpected ride.
Details
- Series
- Perfect Strangers
- Season
- Season 7
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1991-12-06
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Car Tunes is Episode 12 in Season 7 of Perfect Strangers. It aired on 1991-12-06. The runtime is 22 min.
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Episode 11: Dimitri's World
Mr. Wainwright promotes Balki as the editor of the Sunday Children's page where he draws a comic trip of a sheep named Dimitri and Larry is assigned to fill in the dialogue ""bubbles."" But Larry and Balki can't agree on the sheep's sensibility.
Episode 13: Two Angry Men
Balki gets his and Larry's names drawn for jury duty which starts the day before Jennifer has a pre-paid, non-refundable vacation to Bermuda booked for her and Larry. Balki holds out for not guilty endangering Larry's plans.
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Episode 10: Wild Turkey
On Thanksgiving, Larry goes into the turkey selling business with over 50 turkeys roaming their backyard—and one of the turkeys may have eaten Jennifer's wedding ring.
Episode 14: Missing
After Dimitri is kidnapped, Balki has a mental block that prevents him from drawing it in the paper. so Larry and Balki try to catch the kidnapper in the basement of the Chronicle.
Episode 9: Citizenship (2)
Larry travels to Mypos to try and persuade Balki's mama to let him come back to America. But before he can talk to her, Larry settles happily into the relaxed life style of Mypos and wants to stay. Eventually, he gets fed up and talks to Balki's mama who realizes that it would really make him happy to let him come back to America where is finally sworn in as an American Citizen.
Episode 15: Going Once, Going Twice
Larry goes to an auction to cover a story and brings Balki with him and Larry demonstrates the bidding procedure at an auction and they wind up buying a very expensive bottle of wine for $21,000. They now must hide it from Jennifer until they can go back to the auction and resell it.
Episode 8: Citizenship (1)
Balki has passed his Citizenship test and is about to be sworn in as an American Citizen. So Larry arranges for Balki's mama (Bronson Pinchot in a dual role) to come to American to witness him being sworn in. When Balki's mama discovers that he will not come back to Mypos to live, She is angry and Balki has to go back to Mypos.
Episode 16: Yes Sir, That's My Baby
When Balki shows Larry that Jennifer has been knitting booties, The possibility that Jennifer is pregnant causes Larry to imagine Larry and Balki's future sons becoming best friends in the nursery trying to escape.
Episode 7: The Gazebo
Larry and Balki are building a new gazebo in their back yard and as they struggle to build it, it reminds Jennifer and Mary Anne of Laurel and Hardy as we see them in a parody of Laurel and Hardy trying to build a gazebo.
Episode 17: Wayne Man
Balki wins an all-expenses paid trip to Las Vegas but is sad when they can't get any tickets to see Wayne Newton. Jennifer attempts to call up an old boyfriend who can get her tickets, But a jealous Larry calls up Wayne's people and tells them that Balki is going deaf and manages to get tickets. After the concert, Wayne wants to meet Balki personally but Larry is afraid the truth will come out.
Episode 6: Fright Night
When Balki finds out that there is a ghost in their house, Larry refuses to believe it. Jennifer and Mary Anne are convinced when Balki shows them a book about it. So they go up to Balki's room (where the ghost lives) and wait for him to come out. Even when miraculous things start to happen, Larry still doesn't believe it until he's attacked.
Episode 18: The Elevator
Larry decides to impress Mr. Wainwright by enlisting himself and Balki to move his brand new oversized couch up the elevator to his office while the elevator is under repair.