S01:E04 “Baby, You Can Drive My Car” (4/15/1986)

In this episode we dive a little bit deeper into cousin Larry’s neurotic tendencies. Balki decides he wants to learn to drive and Larry reluctantly agrees not only to be teacher but also to allow Balki to use his car to practice and to take the test. The only issue here is that Larry is insanely protective about his vehicle and Balki behind the wheel makes him just a little bit more than nervous.

In the banter between the two main characters in this episode is classic. Mark linn-baker as Larry plays a brilliant straight man to Bronson Pinchot’s goofy, crazy, off the wall, but completely lovable Balki.

This episode also gets into some further character development. Balki proves to have quite the brain and quite the vision as he proves to be able to read an impossibly tiny bit of text during his eye test and also spends about 10 seconds completing his written test and walks away with a perfect score. I will be interested to see how this new knowledge about Balki plays out in future episodes.