Perfect Strangers (Seasons 1–8)

Perfect Strangers (1986) is a classic American sitcom you can watch online on iFILM. Balki Bartokomous, a wide-eyed shepherd from the made-up Mediterranean island of Mypos, lands in Chicago on the doorstep of his distant cousin Larry Appleton.

Larry wanted a quiet bachelor apartment and got a roommate who reads neither the city nor sarcasm but greets every morning with pure delight. Bronson Pinchot and Mark Linn-Baker build the whole show on contrast: one frets and overthinks, the other beams and gets it gloriously wrong. Their "Dance of Joy" became the series' signature bit.

It ran eight seasons on ABC as a cornerstone of the network's TGIF lineup and even spun off Family Matters. This is comfort-food television from the late eighties, sweet-natured and tidy by the closing credits. Stream every season of Perfect Strangers online on iFILM.