Pop Culture References in Wizard101: Empyrea – Cabal Lambaster Balkhi

Cabal Lambaster Balkhi – Balki Bartokomous
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Cabal_Lambaster_Balkhi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Strangers_(TV_series)

This Cabal member is working under Medulla. He appears briefly after his defeat during the storyline quest The Eyes Have It and instance quest Oaky-Doke.

Perfect Strangers is an American sitcom that ran for eight seasons, from March 25, 1986, to August 6, 1993, on the ABC television network. Created by Dale McRaven, the series chronicles the rocky coexistence of midwestern American Larry Appleton (Mark Linn-Baker) and his distant cousin from eastern Mediterranean Europe, Balki Bartokomous (Bronson Pinchot).

The series chronicles the relationship of Larry Appleton (Mark Linn-Baker) and his distant cousin Balki Bartokomous (Bronson Pinchot). Larry, a Wisconsin native from a large family, has just moved into his first apartment in Chicago, and is savoring his first taste of privacy when Balki, a hitherto-unknown cousin from a Mediterranean island, “Mypos”, arrives intending to move in with him.

Balki, who was a shepherd on Mypos, interprets what little he knows about the United States by relying on his own (often out-of-context) recollections of American pop culture (“America: Land of my dreams and home of the Whopper”). Balki’s signature is his “Dance of Joy”, a cross between the do-si-do and the hokey pokey that he performs (with Larry) to celebrate good fortune.

The current list of all the (known) Empyrea references can be found here.

Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.

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