There hasn’t been much going on in the news the past few days, so this young, hip millennial decided to catch up on Perfect Strangers.

“We could all use a break from political divisiveness,” I was thinking, sitting back to relax with the stalwart of ABC’s TGIF lineup.

But relax I could not. I’m increasingly concerned 1980s situation comedies weren’t completely realistic.

Balki, as a supportive friend to Chicago Chronicle advice columnist Lydia, offered to bring a piano up to her condo for a party.

Balki and Cousin Larry arrived that evening, expecting to load the piano into the elevator. They couldn’t make the angle work.

I began to question the feasibility of this episode early on. Why not just stand the piano up on its side? These two know how to solve problems. A couple years earlier, they managed to get out of that cabin after an avalanche, after all.

Lydia had even asked them to show up early. Why didn’t she plan on meeting them in her lobby?

Are we supposed to believe this building doesn’t have a freight elevator?!

Balki even suggested Cousin Larry could just head up to the party. Why couldn’t he have just gone up to the tenth floor, let Lydia know about the issue and send her down?

Maybe I’m being too hard on them. This would have been in the days before the cell phone, so maybe they were concerned constant trips up and down from her condo would have delayed the piano’s arrival.

Or maybe Cousin Larry and Balki just got cocky after their success at the cabin.

I’m certainly not overthinking this.

That reference to the tenth floor was what we know as “foreshadowing.” They ultimately decided to carry the piano up the stairs. Tragically, this did not allay my concerns about realism. On one step, the piano lands on Balki’s foot. When Cousin Larry goes to help, the piano breaks through a window.

Even if Lydia is livin’ it up at the party on the tenth floor, someone in the building must have heard the window break. I’m also concerned passersby might have been hit with falling glass.

But no one comes to check what’s happening in the stair well.

Then they get to the tenth floor only to realize the door is locked.

Only then do they decide to take the elevator up to the tenth floor and let themselves in from the other side. They still don’t think to check in with Lydia or any of these other so-called friends who never expressed any concern the two of them had never arrived for the party.

Maybe at this point, Balki and Cousin Larry have realized the only people they can truly depend on are Balki and Cousin Larry, so they don’t want to split up.

Maybe there’s a message there for all of us: at this time of division, let us not give up on ourselves or our ability to work together to reach a solution.

More substantially, though, one of them could have gone up the elevator while the other stayed with the piano. That could have prevented the piano from careening down the stairs and crashing through another window.

In the end, we learned Lydia didn’t even need the piano after all.

It’s as if this situation was entirely concocted. It just doesn’t make sense.