Mark Linn-Baker

Mark Linn-Baker plays Larry Appleton on Perfect Strangers, the Chicago cousin who never quite recovers from Balki Bartokomous arriving from Mypos and doing the Dance of Joy. ABC’s TGIF finds its fish-out-of-water engine; Bronson Pinchot’s accent is the instrument. Linn-Baker is the straight man as a full-time job — a sitcom that later spun off Family Matters and taught a night how to launch from a living room. Cousin-comedy as a brand.

Mark Linn-Baker works Perfect Strangers as Larry Appleton on ABC from 1986–1993. The desk's first stop is s01e01. Knock Knock, Who's There? is Mypos at the door: Pinchot's accent as the instrument, Linn-Baker the straight man who never quite recovers. That hour teaches the stance; later codes only prove it held. Linn-Baker on Perfect Strangers remains catalog craft on ABC from 1986–1993.

Linn-Baker does the close-up work ensemble television lives on. Larry Appleton is that face. s02e01 is where the performance still argues. Hello Baby is season two's greeting: fish-out-of-water engine now a TGIF religion, don't be ridiculous already weather. s03e01 is the later check. All the News That Fits is a newsroom-title open: Chicago cousin-comedy still dancing, the later Family Matters spin already in the wings. Larry Appleton stays expensive in the cut.

Straight men get less merch. Larry photographs as the grouch and plays as the reason the joy has a rent check. On TV Flash Linn-Baker is 1980s catalog craft: the Appleton who made a TGIF engine feel like a marriage of convenience, then left the Dance looking like it happened to someone who still had to go to work.