The BEST episodes written by John B. Collins

Long Before We Met...
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7.95
17 votes

#1 - Long Before We Met...

Mork & Mindy - Season 4 - Episode 7

Mork accompanies Mindy to her high school reunion and gets upset when Mindy associates with an old boyfriend. Mork then attempts to go back in time to the prom and do away with the boyfriend.

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Speak, Memory
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7.82
11 votes

#2 - Speak, Memory

Perfect Strangers - Season 6 - Episode 17

Jennifer's mother comes to town and wants to meet Larry, and Jennifer doesn't think that her mother will approve of her marrying him. Later on, Larry falls down the stairs at the Chronicle and gets amnesia which last during the dinner where Larry meets Mrs. Lyons.

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Disorderly Orderlies
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7.79
19 votes

#3 - Disorderly Orderlies

Perfect Strangers - Season 5 - Episode 14

Balki tries to get Larry to do volunteer work at the hospital but he refused until he discovered that a famous football player is a patient there hoping that he can get an interview to advance his career.

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Old Muggable Mork
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7.70
19 votes

#4 - Old Muggable Mork

Mork & Mindy - Season 3 - Episode 19

Grandma Cora comes to visit, but the trip takes a turn for the worse when she gets mugged. Mork conceives a plan to get even with the muggers.

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The Sunshine Boys
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7.67
12 votes

#5 - The Sunshine Boys

Perfect Strangers - Season 6 - Episode 11

Larry's popular high school rival Bunky McDermott comes to see him and invites him and Balki to a formal dinner party and make him a member of his popular club. Larry is so excited and lies to Bunky about going to the Caribbean but to convince him, Larry and Balki spend some time in a tanning bed and end up getting sunburned.

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Dog Gone Blues
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7.62
34 votes

#6 - Dog Gone Blues

Perfect Strangers - Season 2 - Episode 12

Balki got a dog and wants to keep it even though it is against the lease. So Larry and Balki do their best to hide it from Twinkacetti.

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Mork and the Bum Rap
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7.61
17 votes

#7 - Mork and the Bum Rap

Mork & Mindy - Season 3 - Episode 10

Mork becomes a vagrant in order to help Mindy open a children's hospital.

Blast from the Past
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7.56
16 votes

#8 - Blast from the Past

Perfect Strangers - Season 5 - Episode 18

It's a very psychotic evening when Marvin Berman, who tried to blow up Larry and Balki, visits them for dinner to apologize. But in the process, they mistakenly think that the mob is after them and they are surrounded by killers.

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I Don't Remember Mama
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7.55
18 votes

#9 - I Don't Remember Mama

Mork & Mindy - Season 4 - Episode 15

Mork has been making boring reports to Orson, so Orson erases all of Mork's memories of his family. Mindy and Mearth do everything they can to get Mork to remember them.

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The Gift of the Mypiot
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7.50
20 votes

#10 - The Gift of the Mypiot

Perfect Strangers - Season 4 - Episode 9

On Christmas Eve, Larry and Balki throw a Christmas party at their apartment for all their friends. But when Balki realizes that Mr. Gorpley is lonely, he invites him who causes a lot of trouble with snide attitude and everyone wants to throw him out. But Balki insists on spreading a little Christmas cheer his way too.

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Family Feud
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7.42
12 votes

#11 - Family Feud

Perfect Strangers - Season 6 - Episode 5

A 500 year-old feud in the Bartokomous family is back when their rival Zolton Bauchelitis is coming to fight a duel with Balki. Larry gets caught up in it and must fight Zolton himself. However, they don't try and kill each other, the winner takes the loser's ears.

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Taking Stock
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7.40
20 votes

#12 - Taking Stock

Perfect Strangers - Season 3 - Episode 4

Balki buys one share of stock in a cereal company and discovers that there isn't enough raisins in a box that they advertise. Knowing that the company is cheating the public, he decides to go to head office to complain and Larry goes with him.

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Good Skates
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7.40
20 votes

#13 - Good Skates

Perfect Strangers - Season 5 - Episode 1

When Larry finds out that Grant, a co-worker of Jennifer's is impressing Jennifer by raising money for a ""big brothers"" roller skating marathon, he gets jealous of him and lies about his roller skating ability to win Jennifer.

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Home Alone
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7.37
60 votes

#14 - Home Alone

Step by Step - Season 1 - Episode 14

Frank and Carol go off for a romantic weekend getaway, leaving Dana in charge with one rule-- no parties. The ""lover's retreat"" turns out to be less than desirable, yet Frank and Carol decide to try to make it work anyway. That is until Frank's back goes out. Meanwhile, Dana decides to have a study group with 2 friends, and to be fair she allows everyone else 2 friends as well. Al and JT's friends ignore the rule, Karen invites her 4 finalists, and then a party breaks out. JT ends up getting stuck in the chimney just before Frank and Carol return.

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My Brother, Myself
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7.29
17 votes

#15 - My Brother, Myself

Perfect Strangers - Season 3 - Episode 21

Larry's successful brother Billy (Ted McGinley) comes down for a visit, and Larry is upset because he brags about his success. So he tricks Balki into lying to Billy to make him think Larry is more successful.

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Eyewitless Reports
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7.27
11 votes

#16 - Eyewitless Reports

Perfect Strangers - Season 5 - Episode 22

A Chronicle Tour sends Mr. Gorpley, Larry and Balki & Jennifer and Mary Anne to a cabin in the forest where they encounter a 'Mad Dog' killer who escaped from prison. The killer is later apprehended but they all tell different stories about the capture which confuses the state trooper.

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Prose and Cons
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7.22
18 votes

#17 - Prose and Cons

Perfect Strangers - Season 4 - Episode 17

Larry and Balki wind in jail after refusing to reveal a source of a commodity scandal to protect the freedom of the press. They won't stop there they are very persistent to keep their sources and take the hard time, But they later get two dangerous cell mates.

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Poetry in Motion
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7.20
15 votes

#18 - Poetry in Motion

Perfect Strangers - Season 5 - Episode 6

Larry and Balki discover that Lowell Kelly, a famous poet used to live in their apartment and his unpublished poem is hidden there. So they search for it but Balki doesn't know that Larry plans to sell it after he discovered that it would be worth about $100,000.

Future Shock
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7.19
26 votes

#19 - Future Shock

Perfect Strangers - Season 3 - Episode 10

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.

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The Dance
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7.16
112 votes

#20 - The Dance

Step by Step - Season 1 - Episode 2

Frank wants to take Carol to an expensive restaurant; but Carol has agreed to be on the committee of Al's dance. After being dumped by a boy, Al stays in the dumps until she's rescued by her science fair pen pal: Steve Urkel. And since Frank can't take Carol out, he shows up at the school dance and finds a way to work in a little romance anyway.

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Ten Speed and a Soft Touch
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7.14
29 votes

#21 - Ten Speed and a Soft Touch

Perfect Strangers - Season 2 - Episode 17

Larry and Balki become 'big brothers' to a troubled teenager who is always stealing. They do fine until Larry accuses him of stealing his bike.

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The Heart Burgler
star
7.00
4 votes

#22 - The Heart Burgler

Charles in Charge - Season 3 - Episode 25

When Sarah tries to get closer to a boy that she likes by inviting him over to study, she is upset when he pays more attention to Charles than her. Buddy's girlfriend seems more attracted to Charles than him.

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Arnold the Entrepreneur
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6.80
5 votes

#23 - Arnold the Entrepreneur

Diff'rent Strokes - Season 7 - Episode 8

Entrepreneur Arnold reluctantly allows Sam to be a part of his new scheme, when Sam realizes only Arnold will reap the profits, he breaks up the partnership and becomes the competition.

You Get What You Pay For
star
6.80
9 votes

#24 - You Get What You Pay For

Happy Days - Season 11 - Episode 9

Howard decides that it is necessary to build a second bathroom after he's forced to shave at the dining room table. To save money, he decides to allow Fonzie's students to build the room. Howard doesn't realize that the room will take all semester to complete, and this hurts his plan to make a killing in whisper-quiet toilets. He fires Fonzie and the students and says he'll finish the bathroom himself.