TV has no shortage of odd pairings (Oscar and Felix, Mork and Mindy, Lucy and Ethel, all of the Golden Girls). It's a trope as old as old as TV comedies themselves, but "Perfect Strangers" really pushed that idea pretty far. The '80's sitcom paired a simple American bachelor, Larry, with his distant (and I mean VERY distant) cousin, Balki, from the Mediterranean island of Mypos. What city did these mismatched cousins call home?
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"Perfect Strangers" was set in Chicago, where Larry had just started his life as a single bachelor living alone when Balki came to his door. And in "things that wouldn't ever happen today but seemed more normal back then," Larry let a complete stranger into his apartment and let him have the couch. Balki's charming chaos and Larry's absolute ambition ended up being the perfect pairing and the show was a hit. The show actually filmed in Los Angeles, but the creators picked Chicago as since it was a big city that hadn't been overused yet.
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