8.0/1082 votes#1 - All News That Fits
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1987
Larry gets a job at the Chicago Chronicle local newspaper as a reporter and brings Balki to find a job. Mr. Burns the city editor hires Balki in the mail room but Mr. Gorpley the mail room boss doesn't want him there and tries everything to fire him.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
8.1/1080 votes#2 - Weigh to Go Buddy
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1987
When Larry discovers that he has gained 7 pounds, He goes on a diet that won't work. So Balki gives him a Mypos diet but Larry has trouble following it and Balki won't let him quit.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1079 votes#3 - Sexual Harrassment in Chicago
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/1987
The editor of the Chronicle's Sunday Magazine makes a play for Balki but he isn't interested. She won't take no for an answer and anyone who ever tried to report her lost their jobs.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
7.7/1080 votes#4 - Taking Stock
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/1987
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.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
8.2/1075 votes#5 - Better Shop Around
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/1987
While grocery shopping, Balki wins a shopping spree to happen the next day and he thinks it would be fun. But Lary makes a plan to get certain things to sell for an air conditioner which takes all the fun out of it.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: Bob Keyes
8.0/1081 votes#6 - Your Cheatin' Heart
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/1987
Jennifer is planning on buying a surprise typewriter for Larry and asks Balki for help barganing at a clearance sale. Larry gets suspicious after he sees Balki and Jennifer sneaking around, and thinks they're having an affair.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/1082 votes#7 - The Horn Blows at Midnight
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1987
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.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
8.4/1083 votes#8 - Karate Kids
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1987
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.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
8.0/1079 votes#9 - Night School Confidential
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1987
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.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: Barry O'Brien
8.0/1078 votes#10 - Future Shock
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/25/1987
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/1076 votes#11 - Couch Potato
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/2/1987
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.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
8.1/1083 votes#12 - The Break In
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/9/1987
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.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: David Ketchum
7.8/1071 votes#13 - To Be or Not to Be
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/6/1988
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.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
8.2/1073 votes#14 - My Lips Are Sealed
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/13/1988
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.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
8.4/1084 votes#15 - The Pen Pal
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/27/1988
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.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
8.2/1086 votes#16 - Just Desserts
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/3/1988
After Balki serves Larry, Jennifer, and Mary Anne some ""bibi-bobkas"" (Mypoian cream puffs), Larry suggests selling them but baking them cannot be rushed.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.5/1091 votes#17 - Pipe Dreams
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/10/1988
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10118 votes#18 - Bye Bye Biki
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/24/1988
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1074 votes#19 - The Graduate
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 3/9/1988
Balki manages to graduate night school at the top o his class but soon finds out that there is no graduation ceremony. So Larry talks to the principal and arranges one.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
7.8/1082 votes#20 - Defiant Guys
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 3/11/1988
Larry is very angry at Balki for making him late for work and won't speak to him so Balki handcuffs them together and loses the key during Larry's important luncheon sate with Mr. Burns and the publisher R.T. Wainwright.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
8.3/1075 votes#21 - My Brother, Myself
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/18/1988
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.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
8.1/1076 votes#22 - You Gotta Have Friends
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 3/25/1988
While Larry is doing some important research, Balki goes out to the races and when he gets back, he tells Larry about meeting Carl Lewis but Larry doesn't believe him since he has taken Balki's money and left.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Perfect Strangers Season 3
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The chronicles of the rocky coexistence of midwestern American Larry Appleton and his distant cousin from eastern Mediterranean Europe, Balki Bartokomous.
Genre:Comedy
Network:ABC
Season 3 Ratings Summary
"All News That Fits" is the best rated episode of "Perfect Strangers" season 3. It scored 8/10 based on 82 votes. Directed by Joel Zwick and written by N/A, it aired on 9/22/1987. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Weigh to Go Buddy".