Family Matters (1989)
A long-running dramedy centering on the Winslow family, a middle-class African American family living in Chicago, and their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel. A spin-off of Perfect Strangers.
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3x01 Boom!
21 September, 1991 4:30 am
Urkel rescues an orangutan from laboratory experiments. Carl steps on a treadmill booby trapped with a bomb.
3x02 Brain Over Brawn
28 September, 1991 4:30 am
Urkel's future hangs in the balance during a rope-climbing contest pitting brains against brawn to win Laura's affections.
3x03 The Show Must Go On
05 October, 1991 4:30 am
In the school play, Romeo Steve looks forward to kissing Juliet Laura when the original Romeo lands in the hospital with appendicitis.
3x04 Words Hurt
12 October, 1991 4:30 am
Sleepwalking Urkel undergoes hypnosis to uncover the cause of his anger: he thinks Carl hates his nerdy guts.
3x05 Daddy's Little Girl
19 October, 1991 4:30 am
Laura's behavior suddenly changes when she meets Carl's younger new partner and surf's up for Steve.
3x06 Citizens' Court
26 October, 1991 4:30 am
Urkel is so bugged when Carl squashes his pet beetle that he takes him to court - TV's Citizen's Court - to settle the matter.
3x07 Robo-Nerd
02 November, 1991 4:30 am
Steve creates the Urkelbot, a mechanical Urkel that is all too much like its creator.
3x08 Making the Team
09 November, 1991 4:30 am
When Laura gets snubbed by fellow cheerleaders, she seeks advice from Urkel, who tries out for the basketball team and ends up as equipment manager.
3x09 Born to Be Mild
16 November, 1991 4:30 am
A street gang causes trouble for the Winslows, and things become personal when they vandalize Rachel's Place and attack Eddie. Carl wants to take matters into his own hands, but Urkel decides to infiltrate the gang and tricking them into confessing.
3x10 The Love God
23 November, 1991 4:30 am
Steve thwarts Eddie's potential romance, while Carl is undercover in drag.
3x11 Old and Alone
30 November, 1991 4:30 am
Laura may be sorry for banishing Urkel from her life: in her dreams, she's a 90-year-old spinster whose only visitor is a now-married Urkel.
3x12 A Pair of Ladies
07 December, 1991 4:30 am
Rachel reluctantly hires a loudmouthed, pushy Harriette to help at the restaurant; and Urkel bets the ranch on Carl's cutthroat poker game at home with the guys.
3x13 Choir Trouble
21 December, 1991 4:30 am
Steve joins the Winslows at church with faith that he'll get into the choir, but he's kicked out by new choir director Rachel, whose position has gone to her head.
3x14 A Test of Friendship
11 January, 1992 4:30 am
The Winslows are ripped off when Carl dozes off; Urkel takes the heat after helping Eddie cheat on a chemistry test.
3x15 Jailhouse Blues
18 January, 1992 4:30 am
Visiting cousin Clarence is a slick dude ready for some action in the Winslow 'hood and a bad influence on a vulnerable Eddie, who winds up being arrested together with Steve.
3x16 Brown Bombshell
01 February, 1992 4:30 am
Mother Winslow regales Eddie's classmates with tales of her late fighter-pilot husband and of World War II's Tuskegee Airmen.
3x17 Food, Lies and Videotape
08 February, 1992 4:30 am
Urkel enrolls in a home economics class with Laura, thinking it'll be a piece of cake, but he soon learns he less than an A-student.
3x18 My Broken-Hearted Valentine
15 February, 1992 4:30 am
Lonely and depressed after breaking up with Ted, Laura grants Urkel a few bittersweet hours of bliss as her valentine; Gwendolyn charms Richie with "yucky goo-goo stuff"; and Harriette and Carl search for admirable qualities in each other.
3x19 Woman of the People
22 February, 1992 4:30 am
When squeaky-clean Laura enters the race for student-council president, snooty rival Cassie Lynn vows to gather dirt on her. Meanwhile, neighbors elect Harriet Neighborhood Watch leader and Carl is down in the dumps about it.
3x20 Love and Kisses
29 February, 1992 4:30 am
Hoping to win Laura, Urkel strikes a deal with R&B singer Johnny Gill: his treasured baseball card in exchange for serenading her; Carl and Harriette discover that their honeymoon love nest is of the outdoor type.
3x21 Stop, in the Name of Love
14 March, 1992 4:30 am
Laura's encouraging words cast a love spell on Waldo; Carl and Lt. Murtagh trade insults in a food fight over Mother Winslow's bad driving.
3x22 The Urkel Who Came to Dinner
04 April, 1992 5:30 am
Urkel's stay at the Winslows brings chaos when he swallows a fish that Carl was "fish-sitting," urges Richie to fight a preschool bully and drives away Laura's study mate.
3x23 Robo-Nerd II
25 April, 1992 4:30 am
It's hasta la vista to the criminal element and hello Urkelbot after Urkel revives his robot for law-enforcement use in solving a rash of convenience store robberies on Carl's beat; meanwhile new shampoo changes the women.
3x24 Dudes
02 May, 1992 4:30 am
Laura sees red when Urkel, Eddie and Waldo appear on Dudes, a TV dating show that Laura claims is sexist; Carl's birthday gets little attention from his family.
3x25 Farewell, My Laura
09 May, 1992 4:30 am
Urkel plays bumbling, hard-boiled gumshoe Johnny Danger in a 1940s film noir spoof with Laura as a sultry client who needs protection for her aunt Rachel singer and supper-club owner marked for murder.
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