Rappin' his way across the sea!

January 12, 2007 9:59 AM

The Fresh Young Balki B! You just can't be a super cool television character from the late 1980s or early 1990s unless you have your own personalized hip happening dance. Sweet baby!
posted by Servo5678 (33 comments total)

Man, I was embarrassed when I noticed I had previously viewed "Do The Bartman."
posted by drezdn at 10:08 AM on January 12, 2007

I think "Do the Fonzie" sort of invented this, in a horrible Jump the Shark kind of way. (I think it was actually after he jumped the shark, though.)

Couldn't find a YouTube link, but here's a link to a Real Player file if you really, really need to see it.
Featuring Suzi Quatro.
posted by chococat at 10:18 AM on January 12, 2007

Weel, the dancing chicks were nice, at least.
posted by jonmc at 10:18 AM on January 12, 2007

Don't be ridiculous!

This is a seriously AWESOME post.
posted by miss lynnster at 10:27 AM on January 12, 2007

I have a personal rule not to partake in any 80's nostalgia unless I have some coke to snort.
posted by Dr-Baa at 10:32 AM on January 12, 2007

Not exactly the same, but Ninja Rap, featuring a young vanilla ice.
posted by drezdn at 10:33 AM on January 12, 2007

The hair... the hair....
posted by hal9k at 10:53 AM on January 12, 2007

TGIF! Whatever happened to that anyway?
posted by wilky at 10:53 AM on January 12, 2007

I thought his name was Valki
posted by parmanparman at 11:01 AM on January 12, 2007

The internet has gotten too big.
posted by mazola at 11:06 AM on January 12, 2007

Oh Nostalgia... Might I cuddle with you this evening reminiscing of TGIF, and wake up tomorrow morning with dreams of Saturday Morning Cartoons.
posted by blastrid at 11:10 AM on January 12, 2007

I half-expected to laugh condescendingly. I wasn't prepared for the full-body revulsion at it all. Sometimes I get too into these videos, because I found myself wondering what on earth was going through each dancer's head as they went from retarded dance move to even more retarded dance move. Sure, it was a paycheck, but I have to figure even the backup dancers thought this little number was asinine. I'm sure at least one wondered about the direction of their own life while dancing backup to some unholy combination of marketing one half of a sitcom duo and the worst example yet seen of tapping into
"what the kids are listening to these days". Not to mention Bronson Pinchot had to have at least one "What the fuck am I doing?" moment of clarity just before bursting through that electrified door.


That stupid video depressed me. I need to get out of LA.
posted by quite unimportant at 11:20 AM on January 12, 2007 [2 favorites]

ORCH HITS!!1!!1!!11!
posted by sourwookie at 11:27 AM on January 12, 2007

I had SUCH a crush on Bronson Pinchot back in the day (sigh).
posted by amyms at 11:38 AM on January 12, 2007

All this frightens me in ways I can not begin to express. Of course, growing up in the 80's and early 90's I remember NGOTB where 'the rad.' Girls would come to school singing a New Kids song....it was a slow and painful death on the playground let me tell you.
posted by Holy foxy moxie batman! at 11:39 AM on January 12, 2007

er that's NKOTB. I have no idea what I was thinking with the G except maybe gruesome
posted by Holy foxy moxie batman! at 11:40 AM on January 12, 2007

Yeah, I favorited it! And I don't regret it, either!!!</
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 11:45 AM on January 12, 2007

I do regret that half formed tag at the end of my previous comment, but DUDE! Perfect Strangers! Woo!!!
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 11:47 AM on January 12, 2007

All those videos made me wince.
posted by chillmost at 11:53 AM on January 12, 2007

Wow, what a weird and flashy time.
posted by arcticwoman at 12:02 PM on January 12, 2007

in living color called, they want their bit back.
posted by phaedon at 12:22 PM on January 12, 2007

Sure, it was a paycheck, but I have to figure even the backup dancers thought this little number was asinine. I'm sure at least one wondered about the direction of their own life while dancing backup to some unholy combination of marketing one half of a sitcom duo

Uh, you realize that was an in-show parody, and not a side project?
posted by dhartung at 1:02 PM on January 12, 2007

I sincerely love the Revenge of the Nerds song.
posted by jefbla at 1:47 PM on January 12, 2007

Ok, what's sad is that I remember this, before seeing it.

TGIF! Oh how I hated that stupid dinosaur show.
posted by ninjew at 2:16 PM on January 12, 2007

There should be a warning on that "personalized" link, which just brought me within a split second of watching an Urkel video. I'd call it NSFAAAAT (Not Safe For Anyone Anywhere At Any Time).
posted by gompa at 2:31 PM on January 12, 2007

Could be worse, gompa

The day the Urkel sex video surfaces is the day the earth is (rightfully) sundered.
posted by Merlyn at 2:54 PM on January 12, 2007

Is that from the 80s by any chance?
posted by slow, man at 2:59 PM on January 12, 2007

The only comprehensible reaction on the 80s was writing "American psycho".
posted by phuture-4000 at 4:36 PM on January 12, 2007 [1 favorite]

Hehe, seeing that makes me grateful that I didn't watch much TV back then.
posted by Joseph Gurl at 4:48 PM on January 12, 2007

I got only 30 seconds in and started hiccupping. It's toxic.
posted by toma at 5:10 PM on January 12, 2007

Does anyone remember the episode in which Balki’s hired by a mob-boss to carry drugs, and he learns to walk a “different” way everyday? Hilarious.
posted by hadjiboy at 9:21 PM on January 12, 2007

When my friend was breaking into TV writing, one TV job he had was personal assistant to Mr. Pinchot. When visiting my friend one day in Mr. Pinchot's office at Paramount, I had the unique opportunity to peruse the box of crazy mail from not one, but two women who were psychotically obsessed with Bronson. Whenever they saw him on TV they could see how very much in love with them Bronson was, and they knew that they would be together forever one day etc. It was creepy. But I was impressed that even such minor and talentless celebrities as Bronson Pinchot attracted celebrity stalkers. It made me never want to be famous. Rich, OK, but famous? No thanks.
posted by bephillips at 9:24 PM on January 12, 2007 [1 favorite]

I remember watching True Romance for the first time with my then gf/fiance. Bronson Pinchot wandered in about halfway through and proceeded to stage manage a drug deal while riding a roller coaster and puking his guts out. My S.O. couldn't believe it. She just kept saying, "Oh my god, it's Balki. No, no... not Balki." Needless to say, she was even more upset when she saw the finale.

P.S. Quite Unimportant... You're not allowed to leave L.A. until you've made ten more posts like that one.
posted by Clay201 at 10:16 PM on January 12, 2007