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Family Matters

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Family Matters	comment	Family Matters is a Dom Com that aired from 1989 to 1998. Set in Chicago, it was originally conceived as a spin-off of Perfect Strangers focusing on the deadpan snarking elevator operator Harriette Winslow and her police officer husband, Carl, and introducing the rest of their middle-class family. It served as one of the anchors of ABC's TGIF block before moving to CBS in 1997 along with its sister series, Step by Step. It's notable for being one of the most successful shows that features a predominantly African American cast. It was also the last scripted live-action American primetime series that debuted in the 1980s to remain on the air; the only other scripted American show that debuted in the 1980s and is still in production is The Simpsons.Midway through Season 1, the annoying neighbor and Stereotypical Nerd Steve Urkel was introduced, intended as a one-shot character revolving around Carl finding a tame guy to take his daughter Laura to a dance. Jaleel White hit the role so enthusiastically that his character went over massively with the live audience attending the episode's taping.note Legend has it that a group of college kids at the taping went as far as to start chanting "Urkel! Urkel!" This was a pleasant surprise for the producers, who quickly signed up White to return as a regular. By the second season, Steve (or "Urkel" as he was often referred to) had become so popular that almost every episode featured him in a prominent role.Steve's wackiness and prominence got to the point where he became the go-to example of a Black and Nerdy Stereotypical Nerd. As the show went on, Steve came to dominate it, and more and more episodes revolved around him and his wacky sci-fi inventions.The Winslows came to be defined by their relationship with Steve: Carl became the father figure, as Steve's own parents were implied to be neglectful at best, the oldest son Eddie was his best friend, Laura was his unrequited love interest, Estelle always recognized his good heart, Richie saw him as an Honorary Uncle, and Harriette kept Carl from killing him. In fact, the youngest daughter, Judy, was phased out because she didn't have much interaction with him.note Jaimee Foxworth stated in one of her Facebook posts that she and Jaleel White didn't really get along.Sometimes described as a Spiritual Successor of Happy Days, the two shows have many superficial similarities: Both shows had the same production company, and were spinoffs of a popular series. Both are about a married couple with three children living in a Midwestern city. In each series, a minor character introduced as an afterthought quickly becomes wildly popular and dominates the show, one of the three original siblings mysteriously disappears and is never mentioned again, and the person for whom the show was created in the first place eventually leaves it entirely. Both had a local hangout/burger joint which burned down due to carelessness by one of the characters, only to reopen under new management. Both shows originally used an already famous song as the opening theme in the first few episodes, which is later replaced by another song created only for the show.In 2019, White would reprise his role as Urkel in the animated series, Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?. In 2021, it was announced he would reprise the role again in an animated film, Did I Do That to the Holidays? A Steve Urkel Story. Although the project was initially shelved following the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, it would see a proper digital release in November 2023 under the title Urkel Saves Santa: The Movie!.
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Family Matters / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Family Matters / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Steve annoys the hell out of the Winslows, especially Carl and Laura, mainly because he's extremely awkward and clumsy, and quite annoying. But while it appears that the Winslows can barely stand him, it's clear that despite Steve's flaws, they do love him and consider him a part of their family, even if they have a hard time showing it. This was shown more in the later seasons, especially with Carl and Laura, whose negative feelings towards Steve gradually softened after he moved in with them. This came to a head in the last season, where Steve and Laura start to date, and in the third-to-last episode Steve and Laura get engaged, and in the final episode the Winslows officially welcome Steve into the family.
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Family Matters / int_129749df	type	All Men Are Perverts
Family Matters / int_129749df	comment	All Men Are Perverts: In one episode, Eddie even refuses to introduce his male friends (other than Steve) to Greta because "they're all players."
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Family Matters / int_13646b1b	type	My Friends... and Zoidberg
Family Matters / int_13646b1b	comment	My Friends... and Zoidberg: Carl does in "Father Time" when he says he the richest man in the world because he has a beautiful wife, great kids, and Steve.
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Family Matters / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Family Matters / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Carl often plays poker with some of his fellow cops. When Steve joins one of their games, he loses his accordion money to Lieutenant Murtaugh. Carl gives Steve the money to buy the accordion instead, but Steve decides to keep playing until he gets back at Murtaugh. Steve nearly cleans Murtaugh out, but then Murtaugh offers up his cherished $200 watch as collateral. Steve accepts this, and when Murtaugh thinks he's won with a flush Steve reveals he has four of a kind, switching the role he had with Murtaugh when Murtaugh won his accordion money. Murtaugh is so depressed at losing his watch that he simply sits at Carl's table muttering "four tens" over and over again. Fortunately, Steve only wanted to play for fun and gives Murtaugh back his watch.
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Family Matters / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Family Matters / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: "The Gun" features one of the characters getting shot.
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Family Matters / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Family Matters / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: In "Rachel's Place", when Laura tells Steve that he shouldn't do in any cooking, he asks what could go wrong. In the very next scene, Leroy's is burned down. In "Boxcar Blues", while Carl and Steve are trapped inside a boxcar, Steve tells Carl to relax as it's not like they're going anywhere. Immediately after Steve says this, the train takes off. When one of the Winslows, usually Carl, comments on what a peaceful, quiet day it is, it almost immediately results in Steve bursting through the door. When Myra threatens to sue Steve for "Alienation of Affection", he declares that she'd need "the best lawyer in America" to win. Myra opens the door and lets in her attorney: Johnnie Cochran.
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Family Matters / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Family Matters / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Fletcher, Estelle's eventual second husband. He's just as active as she is.
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Family Matters / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
Family Matters / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: Steve's inventions were often so amazing, and began appearing with so much frequency, that the show could have quite reasonably been considered a sci-fi/comedy rather than a simple Dom Com during the last few seasons.
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Family Matters / int_17b30e42	type	Pro Wrestling Episode
Family Matters / int_17b30e42	comment	Pro Wrestling Episode: "Psycho Twins," featuring the Bushwhackers as themselves. The episode plays with Pro Wrestling Is Real, as when circumstances force Steve and Carl to wrestle, the Bushwhackers try to carry them to a good match, only to lose it and fight for real when they find out Carl is a cop. The episode was later inducted by WrestleCrap.
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Family Matters / int_19cc20f3	type	One-Person Birthday Party
Family Matters / int_19cc20f3	comment	One-Person Birthday Party: One episode has Steve celebrating his 20th birthday by himself. When Carl finds out, he spends the rest of the episode trying to make it up to him.
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Family Matters / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
Family Matters / int_1b60dcba	comment	The Bully: Many of the show's incidental characters are this - or, at least, those whose presence revolves around Eddie, Steve and Laura. By the time all three characters are in college, this makes almost no sense.
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Family Matters / int_1b68e2e2	type	The Chase
Family Matters / int_1b68e2e2	comment	The Chase: Multiple examples, always Played for Laughs: A frequent Running Gag had Carl chase Steve through the house whenever Steve's inventions or clumsiness damaged it. Laura chased Steve through the house a couple of times when she suffered from his clumsiness. When Eddie and Waldo tried to repair Waldo's snowmobile, they accidentally started it and sent it crashing through the house and into the living room. Carl then chased Eddie out of the house, with Harriette chasing Waldo a few moments later.
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Family Matters / int_1b8ff67c	type	Above the Influence
Family Matters / int_1b8ff67c	comment	Above the Influence: In "Eau de Love", Steve accidentally gets splashed with his own aphrodisiac and has to fight off the aggressive advances from the normally hostile Laura. In the end, after he puts on the antidote, she doesn't seem to remember what happened, and the situation reverts to status quo.
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Family Matters / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Family Matters / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Steve's parents are never seen in person.
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Family Matters / int_1c8e096e	type	Childhood Friend Romance
Family Matters / int_1c8e096e	comment	Childhood Friend Romance: Steve and Laura are engaged in the final season.
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Family Matters / int_1cd602ef	type	Calling Card
Family Matters / int_1cd602ef	comment	In "Born to Be Mild", after the Dragons street gang vandalizes Rachel's Place, including leaving a Calling Card, Rachel asks Carl to arrest them. Carl says he and his partners will, but the gang members will be back on the street in two hours because their associates will give them phony alibis and the graffiti tags aren't enough evidence to indict. It's only after Steve goes undercover and tricks the gang into confessing on tape that the police can finally put them behind bars.
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Family Matters / int_1cfd58fc	type	Clown Car
Family Matters / int_1cfd58fc	comment	Clown Car: The Season 4 episode "Driving Carl Crazy" introduces Steve's Isetta. The credits depict the Winslows and Steve all coming out of the Isetta one after another while wacky circus music plays.
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Family Matters / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
Family Matters / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: In "Presumed Urkel", Dexter Thornhill reveals that he framed Steve because he was jealous that the latter is better than him. In "Revenge of the Nerd", it is revealed that the reason why Nick acts like a jerk is because he jealous of Carl because the latter has a family, while he is divorced.
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Family Matters / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Family Matters / int_1dfd19f9	comment	"Good Cop, Bad Cop" tackles racial profiling, with Eddie getting harassed by two white cops for driving in an all-white neighborhood. Carl rightfully steps up and confronts the cops for their actions.
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Family Matters / int_1e52d870	type	Dance Sensation
Family Matters / int_1e52d870	comment	Dance Sensation: The Urkel Dance. In its appearance, Steve gets almost everybody to participate, leading them to do "The Urkel".
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Family Matters / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Family Matters / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: In "The Good, the Bad and the Urkel", everybody is constantly looking for the source of the incidental music, which continues outside of the dream at the end of the episode. At the end of "Midterm Crisis", after getting into a small food fight, Steve, Eddie, and Waldo decide to go after "them" instead, referring to the viewers watching at home. They then throw eggs at the camera. At the end of another episode, the Winslows are spring cleaning, and Steve brings a humongous vacuum cleaner. Once he turns it on, it sucks in the entire scene (literally), leaving Steve in front of a black background with the Winslows shouting from inside the vacuum. "A Pirate's Life for Me" ends with Urkel on a pirate ship, where he blasts a cannonball into the sky and through the viewer's television screen. He then pops out from inside the TV and tries to reach for it.
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Family Matters / int_1f19f198	type	Back-to-Back Badasses
Family Matters / int_1f19f198	comment	Back-to-Back Badasses: Twice with Bruce Lee Clones (literal ones).
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Family Matters / int_20e20e99	type	Not the Intended Use
Family Matters / int_20e20e99	comment	Not the Intended Use: Steve uses the transformation chamber to turn him into Stefan or his "Bruce Lee" persona, but Carl once tried using it to fix his vision problems so he wouldn't have to get glasses. Unfortunately, Myra sabotaged the chamber to try and make Stefan permanently be Steve. The malfunctioning chamber "Urkelizes" Carl and turns him into a nerd.
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Family Matters / int_21321e38	type	Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing
Family Matters / int_21321e38	comment	Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing: Clingy, hyperactive Steve and short-tempered Carl is the most common dynamic. Steve also serves as the Gleeful whenever he interacts with the sarcastic Laura. In later seasons, Genki Girl Myra and Deadpan Snarker Laura have this dynamic on their better days, especially in the episode where they move in together. Not so much when Myra is being antagonistic towards Laura, which happens a lot.
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Family Matters / int_21c05222	type	Long-Runners
Family Matters / int_21c05222	comment	Long-Runners: The show aired for nine seasons.
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Family Matters / int_21c95ce9	type	Anti-Alcohol Aesop
Family Matters / int_21c95ce9	comment	Anti-Alcohol Aesop: In "Life of the Party", when Laura and a friend throw a rooftop party, Willie and Waldo spike the punch, and a drunk Steve, who did not know that the punch contained alcohol, falls off the side of the building. Rachel has to rescue him while he dangles from a ledge. In "Tips for a Better Life", Eddie joins a fraternity and has a bout with alcoholism. The episode shows how being an alcoholic affects the whole family by having them be annoyed at his behavior, ending with his father threatening to kick him out of the house if he continues to drink. At the end of the episode, Eddie learns that he shouldn't drink alcohol until he is old enough to be responsible.
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Family Matters / int_221a4bf4	type	Iconic Sequel Character
Family Matters / int_221a4bf4	comment	Iconic Sequel Character: Subverted with Steve himself, who actually debuted midway through Season 1. This is played straight with characters like Waldo and Myra, who were introduced in Seasons 2 and 4, respectively.
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Family Matters / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Family Matters / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: The B plot for "Busted" kicks off when Carl accidentally dumps out the ashes of Rachel and Harriette's great aunt, mistaking her urn for a candy tin. "Farewell, My Laura", Steve's murder mystery story, has the Running Gag of Johnny Danger accusing someone in the room of the murder, only for the lights to go out while the suspect gets shot offscreen. It happens to a total of six people.
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Family Matters / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
Family Matters / int_22a27b19	comment	Alpha Bitch: Cassie Lynn Nubbles, a stuck-up cheerleader in high school, who tries to blackmail Steve and Laura. As Steve put it, she's "the poster child for useless people".
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Family Matters / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
Family Matters / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: "Finding the Words" ends Harriette and Rachel reuniting with their long lost father Jimmy, and it's implied that he would become a major recurring character. Sadly, he never appears again after this episode.
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Family Matters / int_2379224f	type	Astral Finale
Family Matters / int_2379224f	comment	Astral Finale: The final episode has Steve going up to the NASA space station.
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Family Matters / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Family Matters / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Carl, the voice of reason.
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Family Matters / int_246330ec	type	Noir Episode
Family Matters / int_246330ec	comment	Noir Episode: Season 3's season finale; "Farewell, My Laura", focuses on a screenplay written by Steve featuring him as a private eye named Johnny Danger.
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Family Matters / int_25f33d8	type	Sick Episode
Family Matters / int_25f33d8	comment	Sick Episode: Steve winds up in the hospital with appendicitis in "Number One with a Bullet", leaving a happy Carl to excite over the fact that Steve will need to spend three days in the hospital and away from him. Later on, Carl winds up having to share a room with Steve after a confrontation with a criminal has left him with an injury. Daniel Wallace gets sick with appendicitis in "The Show Must Go On", leaving Steve to be cast as Romeo in Daniel's place.
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Family Matters / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Family Matters / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: In the earlier seasons' intro, the Winslows would be seen bicycling over a bridge, the same one seen in the opening credits of Perfect Strangers for most of that show's run. Specifically, it's the Irv Kupcinet Bridge.
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Family Matters / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Family Matters / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: In "Dream Date", Steve and Laura have a heartfelt conversation on the balcony during prom night, which culminates in them sharing a Big Damn Kiss. Beforehand, however, Steve unwittingly shuts the door into a random guy's face, knocking him into another student and starting a huge fight amongst the promgoers. All of this happens in the background while Steve and Laura have their heart-to-heart.
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Family Matters / int_27725a69	type	Nice Character, Mean Actor
Family Matters / int_27725a69	comment	Nice Character, Mean Actor: invoked Buddy Goodrich. Onscreen, Goodrich is a loving father. Offscreen, he's a manipulative jerk who hassles Carl, who's only there to get him to move his car out of a handicapped spot, reveals he's only at a charity event for the money, shoves (and later tries to punch) Carl, twists the event to look like the victim to the press, then threatens to have his assistant commit perjury and finally attempts to bribe Carl with a job as a "technical assistant" for his show.
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Family Matters / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Family Matters / int_28cd01ca	comment	"Finding the Words": a friendly old man named Jimmy visits the house and is invited to stay for the night. After spending some time with the family, Jimmy approaches Carl in private and reveals who he really is: he's the Disappeared Dad of Harriette and Rachel, long thought to have been killed in the Korean War.
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Family Matters / int_28ea0e57	type	Cock Fight
Family Matters / int_28ea0e57	comment	Cock Fight: Richie vs. 3J in "Le Jour d'amour". Richie wins.
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Family Matters / int_297170d3	type	Halloween Episode
Family Matters / int_297170d3	comment	Halloween Episode: There are five in total: "Dog Day Halloween", "Whose Kid is it Anyway?", "Dark and Stormy Night", and the "Stevil" duology (which opened with a Content Warning from Steve due to its creepy nature).
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Family Matters / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Family Matters / int_2a090d00	comment	Carl hilariously acknowledges this in "Father Time", going through a litany of Steve's previous inventions and concluding that a time machine is "no big deal" at this point. In the same episode, when asked where he got the plutonium to make his time machine's nuclear batteries, Steve casually replies, "RadioShack." Carl is unfazed.
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Family Matters / int_2ab49f53	type	Bruce Lee Clone
Family Matters / int_2ab49f53	comment	Bruce Lee Clone: Steve actually becomes one occasionally through the use of his transformation chamber.
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Family Matters / int_2b2249a8	type	You Wouldn't Hit a Guy with Glasses
Family Matters / int_2b2249a8	comment	You Wouldn't Hit a Guy with Glasses: Many ruffians did just that with the bespectacled Steve. However, the one time it isn't done for laughs is a frighteningly close encounter way back in Season 1. "In a Jam" sees a bully, "Bull" Watson, intimidating Steve and constantly threatening him with serious injury if he doesn't give him his lunch money. When Steve tells Bull he's not giving in any more, Bull takes a napkin dispenser, crushes it with one hand and implies that's going to happen to Steve if he refuses again. When Steve stands his ground again the next day, Bull grabs Steve, cocks his fist and is about to punch Steve in the face. However, this is averted when Eddie shows up in time to defend Steve and stop Bull.
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Family Matters / int_2d38ee1b	type	Fratbro
Family Matters / int_2d38ee1b	comment	Frat Bro: Eddie is encouraged by one to join the Beta Chi fraternity, which is supposedly the "coolest fraternity in all of IOU." Of course, the guy is a complete Jerkass, so how his fraternity became so popular is a mystery.
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Family Matters / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
Family Matters / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: In "Steak-Out", Carl's put on an undercover sting with an attractive female coworker. He can't tell Harriette because he's undercover, but she gets wind of his late-night meetings with the other woman and becomes jealous. In "Till Death Do Us Apartment", Eddie brings two girls back to the apartment he shares with Waldo. Maxine shows up and, thinking that Waldo's cheating on her, breaks up with him. Luckily, the girls are so moved by Waldo's sorrow, and so disgusted by Eddie's actions, that they explain everything to Maxine.
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Family Matters / int_2e3ab929	type	Assumed Win
Family Matters / int_2e3ab929	comment	Assumed Win: After the high school science lab blows up in "Presumed Urkel," Laura tells Harriette that a student trial is planned for Steve, adding that other students are planning a party to celebrate Steve's anticipated expulsion.
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Family Matters / int_2e7e9bb3	type	Brought Home the Wrong Kid
Family Matters / int_2e7e9bb3	comment	Brought Home the Wrong Kid: In "Whose Kid Is It Anyway?", Waldo takes Richie trick-or-treating, and comes home with another little boy in the same costume.
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Family Matters / int_2ef005ab	type	Vocal Evolution
Family Matters / int_2ef005ab	comment	Vocal Evolution: Stevil, the Demonic Dummy from Steve's Halloween nightmare, starts off with a deep and genuinely menacing voice, obviously done with a voice filter. In his second appearance, the filter is removed, and his actor (director Richard Correll) does a voice that's more akin to Chucky.
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Family Matters / int_2ef4abcf	type	Boring Vacation Slideshow
Family Matters / int_2ef4abcf	comment	Boring Vacation Slideshow: In one episode, Carl refuses to tell Steve where Laura is. Steve decides to "entertain" Carl by showing him a photo reel of his trip to the Wisconsin Cheese Festival. Carl finds the reel so frustratingly boring that he tells Steve where Laura is.
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Family Matters / int_2fc21a19	type	Distaff Counterpart
Family Matters / int_2fc21a19	comment	"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Urkel" has Steve Winslow, Steve Urkel's Distaff Counterpart, saying this as well to Laura Urkel.
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Family Matters / int_301476a3	type	Car Meets House
Family Matters / int_301476a3	comment	Car Meets House: In "The Crash Course", Eddie fails his driving test, but takes Jolene out for a ride anyway. He ends up driving the car into the house: "Aunt Oona" has a variant of this: Waldo and Eddie drive a snowmobile into the living room.
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Family Matters / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
Family Matters / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: What happens when the Winslows find out that Steve's parents are moving to Russia:
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Family Matters / int_310f67d2	type	Unrequited Love Switcheroo
Family Matters / int_310f67d2	comment	Unrequited Love Switcheroo: Steve and Laura.
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Family Matters / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
Family Matters / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: After Steve gets together with Laura, Myra threatens to sue her for alienation of affections, hiring Johnnie Cochrane to represent her. This argument has the following problems: At the time of the series, alienation of affections was only an actionable tort in six states, with Illinois not being one of them. Additionally, to make a case for alienation of affections, Myra would have to be married to Steve, and Laura would have to woo him away from their otherwise intact marriage. In this case, Steve and Myra were dating, not married; Myra dumped Steve, for reasons that had nothing to do with Laura, and Steve and Laura got together only after the breakup, not beforehand. Not only would Cochran's involvement not change any of this, but, being an experienced attorney, there is no way he would be stupid enough to touch such a case. In addition to the above, there is a thing called Civil Rule 11, which states that if a lawyer knowingly argues a frivolous case, he is liable to punishment by the courts.
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Family Matters / int_33f1c576	type	Not Helping Your Case
Family Matters / int_33f1c576	comment	Not Helping Your Case: When Carl is angry at Eddie for breaking his curfew, Weasel explains that Eddie's late because he was watching Weasel moon meter maids. Carl isn't pleased to learn that Weasel's dropping his pants to female law enforcement officers.
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Family Matters / int_345a4c75	type	Interrogation Flashback
Family Matters / int_345a4c75	comment	Interrogation Flashback: In "Words Hurt", Steve is put under a sleep-induced hypnosis so he can tell the Winslows why he's been sleepwalking and attacking Carl the past few nights, and a flashback plays as he tells them.
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Family Matters / int_34889673	type	Gender Flip
Family Matters / int_34889673	comment	Gender Flip: "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Urkel" has Laura's guardian angel subjecting her to a Dream Sequence where she becomes Laura Urkel, Steve's Distaff Counterpart. Steve himself becomes Steve Winslow, essentially a male Laura.
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Family Matters / int_35499a79	type	Title-Only Opening
Family Matters / int_35499a79	comment	Title-Only Opening: The final three seasons.
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Family Matters / int_354b12fe	type	Why Are You Looking at Me Like That?
Family Matters / int_354b12fe	comment	Why Are You Looking at Me Like That?: Harriette recruiting Carl to play a Mall Santa in "Deck the Malls."
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Family Matters / int_35543514	type	Just Eat Gilligan
Family Matters / int_35543514	comment	Just Eat Gilligan: Any one of the Winslows could have taken out a Hollywood Restraining Order or pressed several charges against Steve for multiple counts of stalking, harassment and property damage at minimum. This is also made more egregious considering that Carl is a cop.
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Family Matters / int_38718ea8	type	Beautiful All Along
Family Matters / int_38718ea8	comment	Beautiful All Along: Aunt Oona from Altoona. It helps that Donna Summer portrayed her.
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Family Matters / int_38958f33	type	Black and Nerdy
Family Matters / int_38958f33	comment	Black and Nerdy: In an alternate universe where she and Steve have Swapped Roles, Laura is the nerdy Laura Urkel. When Carl was "Urkelized" due to Myra messing with the transformation chamber, Carl alternated between his normal persona and a nerdy "Carl Urkel" version.
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Family Matters / int_391d6577	type	Sequel Escalation
Family Matters / int_391d6577	comment	Sequel Escalation: The first season is very laidback with low-stakes scenarios, often focusing on small problems within the household. Season 2 is when the stakes start to rise, with episodes involving more dangerous (even life-threatening) situations like bank robbers and near-death experiences. Then once Steve’s kooky inventions are introduced in later seasons, the show takes an entirely new direction (see below).
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Family Matters / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Family Matters / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: In "Finding the Words", Steve briefly sings "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" by Tony Orlando and Dawn. Telma Hopkins (Rachel) sang backup on the original song. In a case that crosses over with Celebrity Paradox, Maxine mentions owning a Punky Brewster lunchbox as a kid. Her actress, Cherie Johnson, also starred in that show.
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Family Matters / int_3946634e	type	The Smart Guy
Family Matters / int_3946634e	comment	The Smart Guy: Steve.
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Family Matters / int_3a997df4	type	Comically Oversized Butt
Family Matters / int_3a997df4	comment	Comically Oversized Butt: In the episode "Old and Alone," Laura has a bad dream where she ages 75 years overnight, turning into a 90-year-old spinster with grey hair, wrinkles, and an enormous rear end. It's the latter that draws the most commentary from her family, with her mother observing, "You could serve dinner for eight on that butt."
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Family Matters / int_3aa2ac42	type	G-Rated Drug
Family Matters / int_3aa2ac42	comment	"Life in the Fast Lane," a Season 7 episode where Steve breaking things almost didn't have a "ha-ha" ending. He had gone into a stupor when he accidentally mistakes Laura's diet pills for his own Vitamin C supplements, and while in the garage, barely avoids seriously injuring himself when some large boxes come crashing down (in one of the typical for the series chain reaction accidents).
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Family Matters / int_3ac8ba6a	type	Ignorant About Fire
Family Matters / int_3ac8ba6a	comment	Ignorant About Fire: In "Rachel's Place", Steve is clumsy enough to set Leroy's on fire. He had foolishly tried to put out a grease fire with water, only to realize too late why that is never a good idea.
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Family Matters / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Family Matters / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Whenever someone badgers Carl into standing up to Captain Savage, or just telling him some bad news, expect Carl's fears about Savage's reaction to be completely justified. One instance even ends with Carl being punished so unfairly, he ultimately goes Laughing Mad and gives Harriette a "The Reason You Suck" Speech for making him go against his gut and prove himself right.
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Family Matters / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Family Matters / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Apparently, breaking out in a weird purple rash and everything tasting like mustard for two weeks has something to do with polyester chafing Carl's thighs as revealed in "Brain Over Brawn". In "Flying Blind", Steve reveals that he's banned from all commercial airlines, apparently due to an incident involving "a faulty pet carrier and a wolverine".
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Family Matters / int_3c8be88f	type	Bird-Poop Gag
Family Matters / int_3c8be88f	comment	Bird-Poop Gag: When Carl sees Steve holding a bird whistle, he's skeptical about its effectiveness in attracting birds. At Steve's encouragement, Carl tries it out. Several seconds later, a flock of birds fly above them and leaves a massive amount of droppings in their wake. Steve and Carl are unharmed because Steve holds an open umbrella over the both of them, but Carl's car, which is parked outside, isn't so lucky:
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Family Matters / int_3cb287ce	type	Bad Date
Family Matters / int_3cb287ce	comment	Bad Date: To think the date in "The Big Fix" is supposed to be a "non-date". Steve and Laura goes to a fine restaurant, but (naturally) everything that can go wrong, does go wrong as Steve tries too hard. And what does go wrong, short of accidentally setting the place on fire? He asks for bad violin music to serenade Laura, he gobbles down frog legs, he causes a waiter to trip and create a domino effect of accidents, and he asks for his chauffeur to take a photo of the two "enjoying" their date. Needless to say, Laura can't wait to go home. Years later, Laura would laugh about the date and admit it was a fond memory of the man she would later marry ... a kid who thought so much of her he was determined – and tried too hard – to make it perfect.
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Family Matters / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Family Matters / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: In "Rachel's Place", Steve and Laura both work at a Local Hangout named Leroy's. When they're closing up, Steve offers to cook Laura some food. Laura advises him not to, but Steve says What Could Possibly Go Wrong?. One Jump Cut later, Leroy's is burning to the ground. Laura explains to the fire inspector that a grease fire started on the stove, which she could have dealt with, but Steve tried to put it out with water. Since oil and water don't mix, pouring water on a grease fire actually spreads it. (Which you’d expect Steve with his superscience to know, but nobody’s perfect.) In "Dog Day Halloween", Steve and Laura wind up being held hostage during a bank robbery. At one point during the stand off, Steve has an Imagine Spot where he confronts the robber and beats him up, saving everyone. When he decides to actually do it for real, the robber immediately intimidates him with his gun and Steve quickly returns to sitting on the floor. After Carl and his partners diffuse the situation, he explains to Steve that his reaction was natural and he and the other officers are only able to confront men like the robber because they are trained for it. In "Born to Be Mild", after the Dragons street gang vandalizes Rachel's Place, including leaving a Calling Card, Rachel asks Carl to arrest them. Carl says he and his partners will, but the gang members will be back on the street in two hours because their associates will give them phony alibis and the graffiti tags aren't enough evidence to indict. It's only after Steve goes undercover and tricks the gang into confessing on tape that the police can finally put them behind bars. When Carl suggests cloning money with Steve's cloning device, Steve points out that the mass influx of cash or valuable goods would throw the world economy into absolute chaos, regardless of where the influx came from. He also points out no one really wants to deal with the mass chaos of such a dramatic economic shift. In "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do", Myra, disgusted with the way Steve has changed over the years, breaks up with him, expecting him to change so that she will take him back. Based on Status Quo Is God and The Unfair Sex, prevalent in contemporary sitcoms, you'd expect Steve to win Myra back, probably via increasingly elaborate hijinks that prove he is the same man she fell in love with. It is implied that this is what Myra expects. Alternatively, given Status Quo Is God, you'd expect Myra to come to accept that Steve is growing up, and for them to get back together shortly afterward. Unfortunately for Myra, neither scenario happens. Instead, her dumping Steve gets him to take a good long look at his life and realize that he has outgrown the person he used to be — and consequently, outgrown his relationship with Myra. He ends up with Laura, who has developed feelings for him, and Myra's subsequent jealous antics end up alienating Steve even further. Eddie is a Lovable Jock who's also popular with the ladies, not unlike Theo Huxtable and Bubba Higgins. But unlike the latter two, Eddie never applies himself in school and relied solely on his popularity and athleticism to coast through life, and which he winds up not being accepted to college. He ends up on the police force with Carl, but even that doesn't go too well since he doesn't take the job seriously and believes that being his son will expedite his career trajectory.
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Family Matters / int_3ee91def	type	Fantastic Comedy
Family Matters / int_3ee91def	comment	Fantastic Comedy: The show started as a Dom Com, but it became this as Steve's scientific inventions became more and more bizarre.
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Family Matters / int_3f319f89	type	WronglyAccused
Family Matters / int_3f319f89	comment	In "Presumed Urkel", Steve's Wrongly Accused of blowing up the school science lab and put on trial. The prosecutor calls Carl to testify about all the damage Steve has done to the Winslows' property. When Laura cross-examines Carl as Steve's defense lawyer, she gets Carl to mention that Steve always admitted he was responsible for the damage. When she asks him why Steve insists that he's innocent this time, Carl says that it's because Steve clearly didn't do it.
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Family Matters / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
Family Matters / int_3f7a958b	comment	In a last-season episode, Steve is at a college party when Laura, drunk out of her mind, starts trying to seduce him. This seems like a golden opportunity for Steve—who's pined after Laura for years at this point—to finally make his move...but he instead turns her down, helps get her to bed so she can sleep off the booze, and leaves the party. Laura then reveals the truth to her girlfriends: she was tipsy, not wasted, and decided to give Steve a test to see what he would do. It ends up being the right choice, as his kindness and chivalry win Laura over for good.
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Family Matters / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Family Matters / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: Steve changes from a Be Yourself paragon to a Transformation Ray abuser. Unlike most examples, he gets better after he manages to clone himself. Rather than transforming into Stefan, Steve opts to improve himself the old-fashioned way. Several episodes even center around him trying to change the way he talks and dresses in order to be less grating.
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Family Matters / int_414ac0d	type	College Is "High School, Part 2"
Family Matters / int_414ac0d	comment	College Is "High School, Part 2": The students at BIT, which Steve briefly attends before transferring to IOU, are a bit more like real college students, but still unrealistically blunt in the way they haze Steve at the beginning. Played straight when Laura, Eddie and Steve attend IOU.
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Family Matters / int_4159744	type	The Magic Poker Equation
Family Matters / int_4159744	comment	The Magic Poker Equation: Used twice in "A Pair of Ladies".
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Family Matters / int_41f3b3a2	type	Generic Cop Badges
Family Matters / int_41f3b3a2	comment	Generic Cop Badges: Carl is a Sergeant, and later a Lieutenant, in the Chicago Police Department. His uniform uses generic "Police Dept." shoulder patches and a generic oval badge rather than the CPD's distinct five-pointed star.
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Family Matters / int_44bed14c	type	Hostage Situation
Family Matters / int_44bed14c	comment	Hostage Situation: At least three episodes: Season 2's "Dog Day Halloween", where Steve, dressed up as Superman for Halloween, fantasizes about saving Laura, as both of them are among the hostages during a bank robbery. Season 2's "I Should Have Done Something", where the hostage situation is referred to, having taken place a year earlier, but is described in detail: a mentally deranged, drugged-out individual had robbed a convenience store and taken an elderly customer hostage; the police arrive and seemingly talked the criminal into surrendering, but just a split second before he is actually arrested, the suspect shoots and kills his hostage. The focus then is on Carl mourning the hostage's death and dwelling on the fact that if he could had done things differently, the hostage would likely still be alive. Season 6's "My Uncle the Hero" has a brief hostage situation, where — as Carl's giving a (predictably) boring tour of the police station to nephew Richie's class — a rookie officer momentarily takes his eyes off an arrestee; the arrestee then grabs another officer and makes his demands. Carl's quickly able to defuse the situation and nobody gets hurt.
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Family Matters / int_4506c7cc	type	Reel Torture
Family Matters / int_4506c7cc	comment	Reel Torture: In the cold open of "That's What Friends Are For", Steve drop by to see Laura, only to be told by Carl that she doesn't want him to know where she is. Steve decides to "entertain" Carl by showing him a photo reel of his trip to the Wisconsin Cheese Festival. The reel barely starts before Carl breaks and not only divulges where Laura is but how long she will be there and what she is wearing:
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Family Matters / int_455fda51	type	RoadTripEpisode
Family Matters / int_455fda51	comment	Road Trip Episode: Season 5's "It Didn't Happen One Night", in which Steve drives Laura to Cincinnati for a cheerleading competition. The trip comes to a halt when Steve's car breaks down, and they're forced to stay at a hotel for the night.
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Family Matters / int_45d22aad	type	Sweet and Sour Grapes
Family Matters / int_45d22aad	comment	Sweet and Sour Grapes: "Who's Afraid of the Big Black Book?" has Carl being passed up for the position of captain of his precinct, which he was a lock to get, in favor of Commissioner Geiss' son. Instead of complaining or refusing to do his job, Carl takes the situation in stride and keeps doing the best possible work he can, which earns him the captain's admiration. At the end of the episode, the new captain tells his father that Carl was the driving force behind the cops averting a gang war; he resigns his position and gives it to Carl instead, which means he got what he wanted, along with the respect of Commissioner Geiss.
Family Matters / int_45d22aad	featureApplicability	1.0
Family Matters / int_45d22aad	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_45d22aad
Family Matters / int_4638d8fd	type	ThemeTuneCameo
Family Matters / int_4638d8fd	comment	Theme Tune Cameo: There's only one instance where the theme song is used outside of the opening credits and scene transitions: in "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Urkel", the melody can be heard getting progressively faster as Tyrone (Laura's Guardian Angel) rewinds time.
Family Matters / int_4638d8fd	featureApplicability	1.0
Family Matters / int_4638d8fd	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_4638d8fd
Family Matters / int_464ceda5	type	Pair the Dumb Ones
Family Matters / int_464ceda5	comment	Pair the Dumb Ones: Downplayed with Maxine and Waldo. Maxine is more flighty and unschooled than dumb. But Waldo's that perfect storm of unschooled, slow on the uptake, sarcasm blind and plain weird.
Family Matters / int_464ceda5	featureApplicability	1.0
Family Matters / int_464ceda5	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_464ceda5
Family Matters / int_46754750	type	Inadvertent Entrance Cue
Family Matters / int_46754750	comment	When one of the Winslows, usually Carl, comments on what a peaceful, quiet day it is, it almost immediately results in Steve bursting through the door.
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Family Matters / int_46754750	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_46754750
Family Matters / int_4766ca14	type	Volleying Insults
Family Matters / int_4766ca14	comment	Volleying Insults: Laura has this dynamic with Ziggy in "Opposites Attract", combined with Belligerent Sexual Tension. Myrtle and Greta's default interaction mode, when they're not getting more physical with each other.
Family Matters / int_4766ca14	featureApplicability	1.0
Family Matters / int_4766ca14	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_4766ca14
Family Matters / int_47929816	type	Lights Off, Somebody Dies
Family Matters / int_47929816	comment	Lights Off, Somebody Dies: "Farewell, My Laura" features Johnny Danger, Steve's character, cornering all the suspects in the murder of supper club owner Rachel and accusing each of the other characters. As soon as he accuses the character in question, the lights go out and the accused dies, cutting the number of suspects down to the culprit: Laura Wigglesworth.
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Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_47929816
Family Matters / int_47bf7e16	type	Local Hangout
Family Matters / int_47bf7e16	comment	In "Rachel's Place", Steve and Laura both work at a Local Hangout named Leroy's. When they're closing up, Steve offers to cook Laura some food. Laura advises him not to, but Steve says What Could Possibly Go Wrong?. One Jump Cut later, Leroy's is burning to the ground. Laura explains to the fire inspector that a grease fire started on the stove, which she could have dealt with, but Steve tried to put it out with water. Since oil and water don't mix, pouring water on a grease fire actually spreads it. (Which you’d expect Steve with his superscience to know, but nobody’s perfect.)
Family Matters / int_47bf7e16	featureApplicability	1.0
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Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_47bf7e16
Family Matters / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Family Matters / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Waldo.
Family Matters / int_47fea76b	featureApplicability	1.0
Family Matters / int_47fea76b	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_47fea76b
Family Matters / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Family Matters / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Steve sets out to reinvent himself and his image after Family Matters moves to CBS.
Family Matters / int_4a3e547f	featureApplicability	1.0
Family Matters / int_4a3e547f	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_4a3e547f
Family Matters / int_4a7c8e22	type	Roommate Drama
Family Matters / int_4a7c8e22	comment	Roommate Drama: In "Movin' On", Laura, who has recently reached adulthood, moves into an apartment with Myra. However, Myra's quirky Genki Girl personality drives Laura crazy, so Laura decides to move back to her parents' house. It helps that, even before moving in together, Laura and Myra were already Vitriolic Best Buds.
Family Matters / int_4a7c8e22	featureApplicability	1.0
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Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_4a7c8e22
Family Matters / int_4b21fad1	type	Ruptured Appendix
Family Matters / int_4b21fad1	comment	Ruptured Appendix: In "Number One With a Bullet", Steve collapses on the Winslows' living room floor from a ruptured appendix.
Family Matters / int_4b21fad1	featureApplicability	1.0
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Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_4b21fad1
Family Matters / int_4c30f8f0	type	Twitchy Eye
Family Matters / int_4c30f8f0	comment	Twitchy Eye: When the Winslows go to see a family therapist for their Urkel-related stress in "What's Up Doc", Carl is suffering from this. One session completely cures his twitch...and then it comes right back when he sees the therapist's bill.
Family Matters / int_4c30f8f0	featureApplicability	1.0
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Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_4c30f8f0
Family Matters / int_4ca056e4	type	The Dentist Episode
Family Matters / int_4ca056e4	comment	The Dentist Episode: Steve taking Richie to the dentist to calm his fears until the dentist needs to sedate the need to fill a cavity, and the gas makes him act completely wacky and cause havoc. This pure comedic segment is the B-plot of the very non-comedic main story of “Bad Cop, Good Cop,” where a frightened Eddie has been racially profiled by a racist veteran officer and his rookie partner.
Family Matters / int_4ca056e4	featureApplicability	1.0
Family Matters / int_4ca056e4	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_4ca056e4
Family Matters / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
Family Matters / int_4d044580	comment	Motive Rant: Dexter Thornhill gives one of these after being exposed for framing Steve for blowing up the school science lab.
Family Matters / int_4d044580	featureApplicability	1.0
Family Matters / int_4d044580	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_4d044580
Family Matters / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Family Matters / int_4e7c4536	comment	In the above-mentioned episode "Fight the Good Fight", Laura receives a racist note that reads, "If you want Black History, go back to Africa", followed by a shot of the word "nigger" spray painted on her locker. In most airings of the episode, the shot is omitted.
Family Matters / int_4e7c4536	featureApplicability	1.0
Family Matters / int_4e7c4536	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_4e7c4536
Family Matters / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Family Matters / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: In the above-mentioned episode "Fight the Good Fight", Laura receives a racist note that reads, "If you want Black History, go back to Africa", followed by a shot of the word "nigger" spray painted on her locker. In most airings of the episode, the shot is omitted. In "Farewell, My Laura", one scene shows Rachel's 1940s counterpart suspiciously staring off into the distance. After Johnny Danger tries getting her attention, she lifelessly slumps into the table, revealing a knife in her back. "Born to Be Mild" has the shot Rachel's Place completely trashed after a break-in from The Dragons. To make matters worse, Eddie later arrives to show that they didn't just target the restaurant.
Family Matters / int_4e7f703c	featureApplicability	1.0
Family Matters / int_4e7f703c	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_4e7f703c
Family Matters / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Family Matters / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The first five episodes have "What a Wonderful World" as the opening theme, instead of the show's famous theme song "As Days Go By". The pilot seems to imply that the Winslows are living in an apartment. This was likely a carryover from Perfect Strangers where Harriette and Carl lived in the same building as Balki and Larry. All episodes after that makes it clear that the Winslows are living in a house. In the first season, Laura was meant to be the smart but not very popular type, as seen in episodes like "Laura's First Date", in contrast to her older brother Eddie being the Book Dumb but outgoing teenager. While her intelligence remains the same, she became a popular Dude Magnet cheerleader following Steve's introduction, to create the "nerd pursues popular girl" dynamic. In the early episodes, Eddie is written to be comically dimwitted. Steve wasn't introduced until episode 12. Due to his popularity, the producers filmed new cold opens for episodes 4, 7, 8, and 10 with him in them, which were used for syndication. The Season 1 DVD restored the original cold opens in three out of four cases; the fourth (for episode 4, "Rachel's First Date") appears to be lost to history. Since Waldo is better known nowadays as Eddie's dimwitted best friend, it's easy to forget that in his first two official appearances, he was the Mook of one of the local bullies, albeit one that was still dimwitted and not very mean. And before that, his actor, Shawn Harrison, briefly appears in the Season 1 episode "The Party" as a random guest at Eddie's party.
Family Matters / int_4f4372e9	featureApplicability	1.0
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Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_4f4372e9
Family Matters / int_524d1e4a	type	Hated Item Makeover
Family Matters / int_524d1e4a	comment	Hated Item Makeover: Harriette is horrified by the "makeover" that Carl gave the living room with cheap furniture he found at a police auction, which includes a broken cameo set, a lamp with bullet holes, a carpet with a body outline on it, and a large porcelain dog. After she banishes him to the couch, he soon regrets his decision.
Family Matters / int_524d1e4a	featureApplicability	1.0
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Family Matters / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Family Matters / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: In a non-romantic example, one of Eddie's teachers, Miss Conners, gets slammed with this in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad House". Led to believe Eddie's home is dysfunctional, she pays an investigative visit. She founds the house a complete mess and the kids living on junk food (because Harriette is on strike), Carl going out to score drugs (for an undercover sting), and Mother Winslow going out to buy men (at a charity auction). Steve has a couple of moments of this where Myra thinks he's making out with or hitting on Laura.
Family Matters / int_52d1f46e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Family Matters / int_53027509	type	Long-Runner Tech Marches On
Family Matters / int_53027509	comment	Long-Runner Tech Marches On: The Winslows upgrade to a cordless phone in Season 5.
Family Matters / int_53027509	featureApplicability	1.0
Family Matters / int_53027509	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_53027509
Family Matters / int_53211774	type	Multi-Part Episode
Family Matters / int_53211774	comment	Multi-Part Episode: The show has a few of them within the last four seasons. Season 6 has the two-parters "To Be or Not to Be" and "We're Going to Disney World". Season 8 has the biggest one in the series, the three-part saga "Paris Vacation". The series finale, "Lost in Space", is split into two episodes.
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Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_53211774
Family Matters / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Family Matters / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: In "Money Out the Window", Eddie and his friends get in trouble with a Loan Shark, so he sends a giant Scary Black Man named Bones to intimidate them. Bones does just that while also being surprisingly polite about it. In fact, he even befriends Steve over their shared love of polka.
Family Matters / int_537dd8fe	featureApplicability	1.0
Family Matters / int_537dd8fe	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_537dd8fe
Family Matters / int_5466745d	type	Clear Their Name
Family Matters / int_5466745d	comment	Clear Their Name: In "Presumed Urkel", Steve is framed for blowing up the school chemistry lab and put on trial. Laura acts as his lawyer, and not only proves that Steve is innocent but that he was framed by Dexter Thornhill, who was sick of being beaten by Steve every year in the school science fair.
Family Matters / int_5466745d	featureApplicability	1.0
Family Matters / int_5466745d	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_5466745d
Family Matters / int_5490360d	type	Foodfight!
Family Matters / int_5490360d	comment	The over the top food fights.
Family Matters / int_5490360d	featureApplicability	1.0
Family Matters / int_5490360d	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_5490360d
Family Matters / int_55473bc9	type	CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable
Family Matters / int_55473bc9	comment	CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: In "Saved by the Urkel", Carl gets electrocuted, leading to him being saved by Steve. Textbook Hollywood CPR ensues, but he doesn't forget a mouth barrier.
Family Matters / int_55473bc9	featureApplicability	1.0
Family Matters / int_55473bc9	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_55473bc9
Family Matters / int_55a37945	type	Badass Family
Family Matters / int_55a37945	comment	Badass Family: The Winslows, Steve and 3J included. Carl, who has taken down crooks and has verbally defended his family (and Steve) several times and helped to defuse a bomb. This is understandable because he's a cop. But then there's Steve, Richie and 3J (as Bruce Lee Clones) defeating a street gang, Estelle judo throwing a crook, Rachel tightrope walking on a clothesline several stories in the air (in heels) to save a drunk Steve from plummeting to his death and Harriette telling off her boss.
Family Matters / int_55a37945	featureApplicability	1.0
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Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_55a37945
Family Matters / int_55f92df9	type	Wire Dilemma
Family Matters / int_55f92df9	comment	Wire Dilemma: In "Boom!", Carl finds himself on a treadmill that will detonate without a runner. It speeds up, and Lt. Murtaugh enters. The two switch out long enough for Carl to catch his breath, and, on a whim, Carl settles for the yellow wire.
Family Matters / int_55f92df9	featureApplicability	1.0
Family Matters / int_55f92df9	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_55f92df9
Family Matters / int_5653262d	type	Foodfight!
Family Matters / int_5653262d	comment	Foodfight!: In "Baker's Dozens", Rachel, Carl, Laura, and Eddie have one after they let the pressure of completing an order of 12,000 lemon tarts finally get to them. In "Hell Toupee", Laura and Myra's food fight against each other ultimately becomes a massive one in the school cafeteria once Steve inadvertently gets hit. At the end of "Midterm Crisis", Steve, Eddie, and Waldo get into a small food fight. "Love Triangles" really takes the cake (no pun intended) with a six-minute scene of characters attacking each other with chocolate pies. It starts off as a fight between Laura and Maxine, but Steve, Eddie, and Carl eventually get roped into the mess.
Family Matters / int_5653262d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Family Matters / int_565ce678	type	Game Show Appearance
Family Matters / int_565ce678	comment	Game Show Appearance: When Carl and Steve have a quarrel that can't be resolved by normal means, they take their case to American Gladiators, thanks to Waldo being cousins with the Gladiator Sabre. Eddie made two game show appearances of his own.
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Family Matters / int_56f127dc	type	Stereotypical Nerd
Family Matters / int_56f127dc	comment	This happens to Laura in "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Urkel" when her guardian angel grants her wish for Steve to know what it's like to be her. Since Steve is now a normal kid and part of the Winslow family, Laura has to take Steve's place as a Stereotypical Nerd in the Urkel family.
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Family Matters / int_57d42f3f	type	The Bride with a Past
Family Matters / int_57d42f3f	comment	The Bride with a Past: Captain Savage's fiancée. It turns out he knew about her past, accepted it, and was offended at Carl portraying it as a bad thing.
Family Matters / int_57d42f3f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Family Matters / int_5860c090	type	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis
Family Matters / int_5860c090	comment	Nick Neidermeyer, the next-door neighbor and Sitcom Arch-Nemesis to the Winslows. Sleazy, obnoxious, and unbearably rude towards the whole family, including Richie and 3J, Nick bears no sympathetic qualities whatsoever, which makes it all the more satisfying whenever he gets his comeuppance. The ending of "Revenge of the Nerd" finally gives him some Hidden Depths and reveals him to be Sour Outside, Sad Inside. He then completely disappears afterwards.
Family Matters / int_5860c090	featureApplicability	1.0
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Family Matters / int_5977de6c	type	Write What You Know
Family Matters / int_5977de6c	comment	Write What You Know: invoked In "Short Story", Rachel writes a short story that is based on her family.
Family Matters / int_5977de6c	featureApplicability	1.0
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Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_5977de6c
Family Matters / int_5979acea	type	Fragile Speedster
Family Matters / int_5979acea	comment	Fragile Speedster: Steve is this when he competes against Carl on American Gladiators. His thin frame makes it easy for the gladiator to win the Joust, but he's also fast enough to win the Wall event.
Family Matters / int_5979acea	featureApplicability	1.0
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Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_5979acea
Family Matters / int_598513bb	type	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling
Family Matters / int_598513bb	comment	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Book Dumb and irresponsible Eddie (Foolish) and serious and hard-working Laura (Responsible). This is often lampshaded by her parents.
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Family Matters / int_5b351f0d	type	IntercontinuityCrossover
Family Matters / int_5b351f0d	comment	Intercontinuity Crossover: Steve made appearances on both Full House and Step by Step. In the latter case, it was tied directly into what Steve had been doing in his own show (his jet-pack glitched and rocketed him into the next state).
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Family Matters / int_5ccae0c1	type	Dinner with the Boss
Family Matters / int_5ccae0c1	comment	Dinner with the Boss: Played with when Harriette's boss, Nick, is invited to play poker with Carl and his friends.
Family Matters / int_5ccae0c1	featureApplicability	1.0
Family Matters / int_5ccae0c1	featureConfidence	1.0
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Family Matters / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Family Matters / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: The importance of family, or, to quote the opening song, "the bigger love of the family". This theme is much more prominent in the first two seasons, with many episodes involving the Winslows getting through different scenarios as a family. While it isn't as prominent in the post-Steve seasons, there are still plenty of episodes that still hold true to the message.
Family Matters / int_5ce7dbb9	featureApplicability	1.0
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Family Matters / int_5d044c3c	type	Alternate Catchphrase Inflection
Family Matters / int_5d044c3c	comment	Alternate Catchphrase Inflection: Steve usually says guiltily, "Did I do that?" after causing a mishap. In "Robo-Nerd", he makes a robot called the "Urkelbot", which locks him in a closet and makes moves on Laura. Upon hearing this, Steve charges through the door, which surprises him and he says, "Did I do that?" in astonishment.
Family Matters / int_5d044c3c	featureApplicability	1.0
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Family Matters / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
Family Matters / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: "Presumed Urkel" is this in a nutshell, with Laura as Steve's defense attorney, Principal Shimata as the judge, and Waldo, comically, as the bailiff.
Family Matters / int_5d3e7c6	featureApplicability	1.0
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Family Matters / int_5e63fb11	type	Allegedly Dateless
Family Matters / int_5e63fb11	comment	In the first season, Laura was meant to be the smart but not very popular type, as seen in episodes like "Laura's First Date", in contrast to her older brother Eddie being the Book Dumb but outgoing teenager. While her intelligence remains the same, she became a popular Dude Magnet cheerleader following Steve's introduction, to create the "nerd pursues popular girl" dynamic.
Family Matters / int_5e63fb11	featureApplicability	1.0
Family Matters / int_5e63fb11	featureConfidence	1.0
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Family Matters / int_5e965a73	type	Nice, Mean, and In-Between
Family Matters / int_5e965a73	comment	Nice, Mean, and In-Between: In Eddie's trio of friends, Waldo is nice (Kindhearted Simpleton), Weasel is mean (an irresponsible schemer), and Eddie is in-between (well-meaning but sometimes selfish). Out of the girls, though they aren't seen as a trio very often, Maxine is nice (usually friendly and easygoing), Myra is mean (Clingy Jealous Girl who often antagonizes Laura), and Laura is in-between (a reasonable but sarcastic girl).
Family Matters / int_5e965a73	featureApplicability	1.0
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Family Matters / int_5f798c84	type	Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere
Family Matters / int_5f798c84	comment	Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: Reaches a cruel level in "The Big Reunion," when Carl goes on a diet. Carl is still waiting to be served his meal of vegetables while the rest of the family enjoys a lasagna dinner. The next day, during a turn on an exercise bike, he sees two food commercials and a commercial for a film called My Dinner with Andre. At this point, Laura and Judy walk in with a cupcake. Laura neglectfully leaves it in the living room, then doubles back to get it before Carl can.
Family Matters / int_5f798c84	featureApplicability	1.0
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Family Matters / int_602d0357	type	Prefer Jail to the Protagonist
Family Matters / int_602d0357	comment	Prefer Jail to the Protagonist: In "Farewell, My Laura", Steve's story portrays himself as a detective named Johnny Danger trying to find the identity of Rachel's murderer. Upon suspects dropping like flies and Laura Wigglesworth holding him at gunpoint when it's just the two of them, Johnny disarms her. Johnny then offers her the choice to hook up with him if she doesn't want to go to jail, which she answers by turning herself in. Laura lampshades the ending asking why Steve didn't have them end up together with him replying he wanted to save that ending for real life, which at least got Laura to chuckle.
Family Matters / int_602d0357	featureApplicability	1.0
Family Matters / int_602d0357	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_602d0357
Family Matters / int_6289c429	type	Oven Logic
Family Matters / int_6289c429	comment	Oven Logic: Laura tries to cut the baking time in half for a home ec. cake by doubling the oven temperature. Hilarity Ensues.
Family Matters / int_6289c429	featureApplicability	1.0
Family Matters / int_6289c429	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Matters	hasFeature	Family Matters / int_6289c429
Family Matters / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
Family Matters / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: A heroic example occurs in "Number One With a Bullet" when a man is threatening to shoot Carl:
Family Matters / int_648fe274	featureApplicability	1.0
Family Matters / int_648fe274	featureConfidence	1.0
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Family Matters / int_6774150c	type	If I Can't Have Youâ€¦
Family Matters / int_6774150c	comment	Willie Fuffner, one of the worst bullies on the show. In "Requiem for an Urkel", Laura refuses to go to dance with him, so Willie threatens to beat up any other guy in the school who goes to the dance with Laura, unless the guy is Steve, in order to humiliate her. When Steve confronts him for his actions, they get into a fight. It turns out Willie was hated by many other guys he had bullied before, and they all finally find the courage to stand up to him. He later appears again in "Life of the Party" to take revenge on Steve, and decides to spike Steve's drink with alcohol at a party, causing Steve to get drunk and almost falling from a building. He and his friend Waldo are later arrested.
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Family Matters / int_6a669b5b	type	Lost Wedding Ring
Family Matters / int_6a669b5b	comment	Lost Wedding Ring: Down the master bathroom sink.
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Family Matters / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Family Matters / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: After a poor showing on the basketball court, Steve makes it clear to Waldo that he and Eddie take their streetball league very seriously, even if Waldo doesn't. Realizing this, Waldo begins to take tap dancing lessons to improve his coordination and avoid being The Load on the court. It works.
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Family Matters / int_6c62b1a8	type	Covered in Gunge
Family Matters / int_6c62b1a8	comment	Covered in Gunge: Carl has ended up covered in flour, soap and artificial snow, always due to some Urkel-related mishap. Laura has been covered in everything from mashed potatoes to milkshakes to pie stuffing, again due to various Steve-related mishaps.
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Family Matters / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Family Matters / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Two separate episodes featured actors from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. In "Teachers Pet", Walter Emmanuel Jones portrays one of the students who gives Steve a hard time while he's trying teach a class, which causes Steve to turn into Stefan Urquelle. "Karate Kids" features Jason David Frank as a member of a local gang terrorizing a park and Steve transforms himself, along with 3J and Richie, into Bruce Lee Clones in order to fend them off.
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Family Matters / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Family Matters / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: An unusually high-ratio count: seven, over a nine-year run.
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Family Matters / int_6f465fea	type	The Triple
Family Matters / int_6f465fea	comment	The Triple: In "Mr. Badwrench", Harriette asks the kids what they want for breakfast:
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Family Matters / int_71a9a645	type	Bested at Bowling
Family Matters / int_71a9a645	comment	Bested at Bowling: In "Bowl Me Over", Carl refuses to accept defeat by Harriette in a bowling match and demands a rematch. Harriette admits she let Carl win the second time.
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Family Matters / int_71e514b5	type	Don't Try This at Home
Family Matters / int_71e514b5	comment	Don't Try This at Home: In "Teacher's Pet", after a bunch of pencils drop from the ceiling and hit Robbins, Stefan looks at the camera and says, "Kids, don't try this at home."
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Family Matters / int_7220ed55	type	Token White
Family Matters / int_7220ed55	comment	Token White: Rodney, Eddie's friend in the first two seasons. Lieutenant Murtaugh, Carl's first boss on the force, and Commissioner Geiss, Carl's boss in the last two seasons. (Captain Savage, Carl's second boss, is an aversion). Nick Niedermeyer, the other annoying neighbor.
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Family Matters / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Family Matters / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The DVD cover for Season 1◊. While Steve overshadowing everyone else is accurate of the series as a whole, this was not the case in Season 1: he only has a prominent role in a handful of episodes, and was shoehorned into a few new cold opens for syndication in order to create the illusion that he was always a part of the show. About half the episodes in the set are entirely Steve free. Additionally, Valerie Jones, the actress who played Judy Winslow in the pilot, is also featured on the cover, instead of Jaimee Foxworth, who played Judy from the second episode onwards.
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Family Matters / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
Family Matters / int_75d6bf40	comment	Laura has this dynamic with Ziggy in "Opposites Attract", combined with Belligerent Sexual Tension.
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Family Matters / int_76c42cce	type	Pronouncing My Name for You
Family Matters / int_76c42cce	comment	Pronouncing My Name for You: The pronunciation of the last name of the school janitor, Alfred Looney. The other cast members (except for Steve after Mr. Looney's initial appearance) generally pronounce his name the way it looks like it's meant to be said, whereupon he will correct them by saying, "That's Loo-NAY. It's French!" Could double as his catchphrase, which Carl angrily lampshades in "The Looney Bin" about the fifth time Mr. Looney says it.
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Family Matters / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Family Matters / int_7870735b	comment	"Born to be Mild" has a street gang named the Dragons who come into Rachel's Place and causes trouble. When Rachel, Harriette, Laura and Eddie stand up to them and tell them to leave, they refuse and try to vandalize the place only for Carl to arrive in time to stop them and force them to leave. That very night, the family finds out that the Dragons broke into the restaurant after closing time and heavily vandalized the place. If things weren't already bad enough, a bruised and bloodied Eddie staggers into the restaurant.
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Family Matters / int_795002b2	type	Puddle-Covering Chivalry
Family Matters / int_795002b2	comment	Puddle-Covering Chivalry: In "Pulling Teeth", Waldo goes on a date with Maxine. When he's telling about the date to Eddie later, he mentions that he placed his jacket on a puddle so she could cross... then picked up the jacket and placed it on her. When he realized what he'd done, he sat in the puddle so they would match.
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Family Matters / int_797d10	type	Celebrity Star
Family Matters / int_797d10	comment	Celebrity Star: Plenty. Notably examples includes Johnny Gill, Larry Johnson, Donna Summer, and The Bushwhackers.
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Family Matters / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Family Matters / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: Carl does this in "Father Time" when he leaves a note for his past self, telling him to invest in Microsoft, Disney, and Holiday Barbie. It works when he returns to the present, discovering that he is the richest man in the world. Unfortunately for Carl, he learns that this had disastrous consequences when he arrives at his new home.
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Family Matters / int_7b21ef92	type	Later-Installment Weirdness
Family Matters / int_7b21ef92	comment	Later-Installment Weirdness: While this is true concerning the later seasons, Season 8 in particular really highlights how much the show had changed: Carl hilariously acknowledges this in "Father Time", going through a litany of Steve's previous inventions and concluding that a time machine is "no big deal" at this point. In the same episode, when asked where he got the plutonium to make his time machine's nuclear batteries, Steve casually replies, "RadioShack." Carl is unfazed. "A Pirate's Life for Me" involves a time machine sending the characters back in time to a pirate ship in the 1700s. Words cannot describe how surreal it is watching Carl, Laura, and Maxine fighting a group of pirates.
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Family Matters / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
Family Matters / int_7b8b3def	comment	In a case that crosses over with Celebrity Paradox, Maxine mentions owning a Punky Brewster lunchbox as a kid. Her actress, Cherie Johnson, also starred in that show.
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Family Matters / int_7bfff4ca	type	Mock Headroom
Family Matters / int_7bfff4ca	comment	Mock Headroom: A dream sequence shows Steve inside a computer screen with a Headroom-esque background.
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Family Matters / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Family Matters / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Seen in virtually every episode, especially the early Steve years, thanks to his never-ending clumsiness. The Winslows' never-ending exasperation with him breaking things is expanded upon in several episodes, most notably: In "Words Hurt," Steve is so traumatized by Carl's rant over a busted model ship that he sleepwalks into the Winslows' house and repeatedly raps Carl over the head with a rolled-up newspaper. Steve has no idea that he's doing it and isn't sure why. The Winslows hire a therapist, who hypnotizes Steve and figures out the truth. "What's Up Doc?": A flashback-filled episode from Season 6, featuring numerous "how Steve breaks things" incidents. Harriette once again comes to Steve's rescue by reminding the family of all the times he has helped them resolve various crisis. "Life in the Fast Lane," a Season 7 episode where Steve breaking things almost didn't have a "ha-ha" ending. He had gone into a stupor when he accidentally mistakes Laura's diet pills for his own Vitamin C supplements, and while in the garage, barely avoids seriously injuring himself when some large boxes come crashing down (in one of the typical for the series chain reaction accidents). The Winslows are not the only people who suffer from Steve's clumsiness. Season 2's "Rachel's Place" shows Steve working at Leroy's, which is popular with teenagers. Instead of a paycheck, Leroy gives Steve a bill for all the dishes he's broken. When Steve tries to cook Laura some supper, he ends up starting a fire that burns down the whole restaurant. When Leroy says Screw This, I'm Outta Here and refuses to rebuild it, Rachel gets a loan from Estelle, Carl and Harriette to buy the property and turn it into Rachel's Place.
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Family Matters / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Family Matters / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In "Dog Day Halloween", when Steve daydreams about fighting the robber, he and Laura have the following exchange:
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Family Matters / int_82da9d46	type	Mundane Fantastic
Family Matters / int_82da9d46	comment	Mundane Fantastic: Steve's sci-fi inventions in the otherwise realistic setting of Family Matters.
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Family Matters / int_83adab21	type	One-Neighbor Neighborhood
Family Matters / int_83adab21	comment	One-Neighbor Neighborhood: Steve's the only neighbor that the Winslows mention for about five years, until Nick moves into the house on the opposite side.
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Family Matters / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Family Matters / int_863fa679	comment	In "The Gun", a gang of girl thugs not only steal Laura's jacket by tearing it off her body and beating her, but they also actually shoot another girl because she refused to give them her new shoes. We never see these girls get any punishment. All in all, we don't really know what happened to them afterwards.
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Family Matters / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Family Matters / int_87bb6874	comment	In "False Arrest", Carl arrests Buddy Goodrich, the star of a popular TV show, for parking in a handicapped spot and then assaulting him when he (politely) told the actor to relocate his car. To cover up the bad press, Goodrich plans to have his assistant lie about the incident. He then tries to buy Carl off with a bribe by saying he'll hire him as a "technical consultant" on the show. Goodrich is a Villain with Good Publicity, so everyone already doubts Carl, and the two men, plus the assistant, are the only ones who know what really happened. It would be easy for Carl to accept the bribe and make the incident disappear...but instead, he remarks "I can't shave with my eyes closed," explaining that he wouldn't be able to look at himself in the mirror if he took the money.
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Family Matters / int_8a07e085	type	Denser and Wackier
Family Matters / int_8a07e085	comment	Denser and Wackier: Until Steve turned science into magic, this was just a mundane sitcom.
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Family Matters / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
Family Matters / int_8a9eb844	comment	"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Urkel" has a frustrated Laura wishing that Steve could experience what he puts her through. Her guardian angel grants her wish by turning Steve into Steve Winslow and turning Laura into Laura Urkel, a female version of Steve. The Perspective Flip shows her what life is like for Steve, and she becomes much nicer to him after that. A more subtle version also occurs with Carl and Harriette. Typically, Carl is the one to suffer from Steve's mishaps and Harriette has to restrain him from chasing Steve. In this episode, Harriette is the one who ends up suffering from Laura Urkel's clumsiness and Carl is the one who has to restrain her from chasing Laura.
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Family Matters / int_8ac90da4	type	Retail Riot
Family Matters / int_8ac90da4	comment	Retail Riot: In the first Christmas Episode, Carl gets caught up in one while shopping for the popular Freddy Teddy toy. The fact that the other shoppers are willing to mob a cop really says something about their desperation.
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Family Matters / int_8af2a61f	type	Camping Episode
Family Matters / int_8af2a61f	comment	Camping Episode: "A Camping We Will Go" has Steve tag along with Carl, Eddie, and Waldo on a camping trip, despite Carl's claims that he knows everything about camping and Steve will only mess up his methods. Sure enough, Steve surveys the campsite to watch for geysers, knows how to keep his food safe from bears, and even how to cook steak over a campfire, all while Carl falls behind and fails at everything, since he actually knows very little, In the end, when his tent is destroyed by a geyser, he is forced to thank Steve for his help and admit that Steve was the real expert.
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Family Matters / int_8afadb7e	type	Department of Child Disservices
Family Matters / int_8afadb7e	comment	Department of Child Disservices: 3J doesn't have much stability in his life until mentored by Steve and fostered by the Winslows. This is lampshaded repeatedly in "3J in the House."
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Family Matters / int_8b221a63	type	Reed Richards Is Useless
Family Matters / int_8b221a63	comment	Reed Richards Is Useless: Despite the sheer variety of inventions Steve had used over the run, the rest of the Family Matters universe is identical to the Chicago of the '90s. This is occasionally justified In-Universe, like when Steve destroyed a cloning device he created worried it could be used for evil, or withdrew his transformation chamber from a public contest fearing what society would do with it.
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Family Matters / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Family Matters / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Eddie gets married to Myrtle in "Nightmare at Urkel Oaks" after her father bribes Eddie with $10 million. He wakes up during a Cat Fight between Greta and Myrtle that he's caught in the midst of and is quite relieved to know that the whole incident was just a nightmare.
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Family Matters / int_8cbd311b	type	Good Angel, Bad Angel
Family Matters / int_8cbd311b	comment	Good Angel, Bad Angel: Played straight twice in "Do the Right Thing", where both Carl and Steve encounter their angels during a specific dilemma; Carl ponders on whether he should return a lost (and very valuable) bracelet or not, while Steve gets torn between tutoring his "rival" Todd properly, or screwing him over by giving him the wrong answers. In the classic fashion, the angels and devils are played by the characters' respective actors.
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Family Matters / int_8cda3dc2	type	Flawed Prototype
Family Matters / int_8cda3dc2	comment	Flawed Prototype: Many a cold open had Steve testing these in the Winslow's house (with Carl the unwilling test subject more often than not) resulting in property damage, bodily harm, a mess, or some combination thereof. The original Cool Juice that turned Steve into Stefan was this, as the resulting person was vain and shallow. Steve is shown refining the formula on-screen before trying it again. The first version of Urkelbot went crazy and tried to kidnap Laura, forcing Steve to destroy him. Later, when Steve rebuilt Urkelbot, he corrected the defects in Urkelbot's microchips. Urkelbot became a police officer, helping Carl catch an armed robber, but then he became a dancer when he decided policework was too dangerous.
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Family Matters / int_8d612fe6	type	Swapped Roles
Family Matters / int_8d612fe6	comment	Swapped Roles: In "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Urkel", Laura tells Steve that she wants him out of her life and wishes that he knew how it was like to be her. Her wish is granted by her guardian angel and Steve and Laura switch places. Steve become a part of the Winslow family as a normal kid with a normal voice, while Laura becomes a nerd and pursues for Steve's affections. This time around, it's Steve who tells Laura that he wants her out of his life and even coldly slams the door in her face after she tells him that she'll still love him. Carl and Harriette swap roles in this episode too. Normally, Carl is the one who suffers from Steve's mishaps and Harriette stops him from chasing Steve. In the alternate scenario, Harriette is the one who suffers from Laura's mishaps and Carl is the one who has to stop her from chasing Laura. Laura even addresses her as "Big Gal", in contrast to Steve usually calling Carl "Big Guy". Another example occurred when Steve is in his Stefan persona and Carl has been "Urkelized" after Myra sabotaged the transformation chamber. Stefan ends up being the one annoyed by Carl, and ends up trading roles with Carl when he yells at Carl to go home. Carl replies that he doesn't have to take this, and he's going home.
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Family Matters / int_8dc8a02d	type	Derailing Love Interests
Family Matters / int_8dc8a02d	comment	Derailing Love Interests: Myra has always been a Clingy Jealous Girl, especially where Steve is concerned. But during the breakup arc in the last season, she goes off the deep end: she breaks up with Steve, but it's a ploy to get him to beg her to take him back. Then, when he refuses to continue the relationship, she sues him for "Alienation of Affection" and even gets Johnnie Cochrane as her lawyer. Oh, and she installs a spy cam in his glasses so she can watch him through a monitor in her bedroom.
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Family Matters / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Family Matters / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: In "Fight the Good Fight", Laura's locker is defaced and she's harassed for starting a petition to add Black History to the regular school curriculum. "Born to be Mild" has a street gang named the Dragons who come into Rachel's Place and causes trouble. When Rachel, Harriette, Laura and Eddie stand up to them and tell them to leave, they refuse and try to vandalize the place only for Carl to arrive in time to stop them and force them to leave. That very night, the family finds out that the Dragons broke into the restaurant after closing time and heavily vandalized the place. If things weren't already bad enough, a bruised and bloodied Eddie staggers into the restaurant. "Life of the Party" deals with the dangers of getting drunk. There's a rooftop party, Willie spikes the punch, causing Steve to get drunk and fall off the roof. He catches himself on a ledge, and Rachel has to tightrope walk a clothesline to rescue him. "Finding the Words": a friendly old man named Jimmy visits the house and is invited to stay for the night. After spending some time with the family, Jimmy approaches Carl in private and reveals who he really is: he's the Disappeared Dad of Harriette and Rachel, long thought to have been killed in the Korean War. In "Like a Virgin", Eddie's teased for being a virgin and eventually had to confront his friends for it. In "Good Cop, Bad Cop", Eddie gets stopped and roughed up by a pair of cops because he's a black kid in a white neighborhood, and has to deal with the aftereffects of discrimination. "The Gun" deals with guns and has a friend of Laura and Maxine's getting offscreen shot in the shoulder. They even have a special segment after the episode where the actors talk about how dangerous guns are.
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Family Matters / int_916e370d	type	Unknowingly Possessing Stolen Goods
Family Matters / int_916e370d	comment	Unknowingly Possessing Stolen Goods: In "Hot Stuff", Eddie buys a stereo system for his car from a guy Weasel knows. However, after Eddie informs Steve he only paid $400 for the system and Steve notices the serial numbers were filed off the equipment, they realize the system was stolen.
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Family Matters / int_9315c635	type	Lovable Jock
Family Matters / int_9315c635	comment	Eddie is a Lovable Jock who's also popular with the ladies, not unlike Theo Huxtable and Bubba Higgins. But unlike the latter two, Eddie never applies himself in school and relied solely on his popularity and athleticism to coast through life, and which he winds up not being accepted to college. He ends up on the police force with Carl, but even that doesn't go too well since he doesn't take the job seriously and believes that being his son will expedite his career trajectory.
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Family Matters / int_933576c8	type	Mighty Glacier
Family Matters / int_933576c8	comment	Mighty Glacier: Carl is this when he competes against Steve on American Gladiators. His bulk makes him too slow to win the Wall event, but it also allows him to No-Sell the gladiator's attacks in the Joust and easily win.
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Family Matters / int_94ac3e9b	type	Cutting the Electronic Leash
Family Matters / int_94ac3e9b	comment	Cutting the Electronic Leash: A pre-cell phone version occurs in "The Show Must Go On" where Lt. Murtaugh gives Carl a beeper. Carl stomps on it when Murtaugh beeps him during Laura's school play over yet another frivolous issue.
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Family Matters / int_95b875b1	type	Not Me This Time
Family Matters / int_95b875b1	comment	Not Me This Time: In "Presumed Urkel", Steve's Wrongly Accused of blowing up the school science lab and put on trial. The prosecutor calls Carl to testify about all the damage Steve has done to the Winslows' property. When Laura cross-examines Carl as Steve's defense lawyer, she gets Carl to mention that Steve always admitted he was responsible for the damage. When she asks him why Steve insists that he's innocent this time, Carl says that it's because Steve clearly didn't do it. In "My Bodyguard," Steve becomes the target of a grocery store robber. He and Myra seek Carl's help, and Steve explains that he thinks the robber is stalking him because he saw someone looking in his bedroom window. Carl and Harriette turn and stare at Myra, who says, "I don't do that anymore!"
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Family Matters / int_96cc4848	type	"Dear John" Letter
Family Matters / int_96cc4848	comment	"Dear John" Letter: When Waldo goes off to culinary school, he writes such a letter to Maxine, but it's sloppy work even for him.
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Family Matters / int_96dea090	type	D.I.Y. Disaster
Family Matters / int_96dea090	comment	D.I.Y. Disaster: "Mr. Badwrench" centers around a do it yourself home bathroom repair idea. Naturally, the toilet flusher ends up turning on the shower, the sink ends up turning on the bathtub, the bathtub ends up turning on the sink, etc.
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Family Matters / int_970ca74e	type	Big "OMG!"
Family Matters / int_970ca74e	comment	Big "OMG!": Harriette has this reaction when Carl calls home to announce that Rachel's Place has been attacked. Steve says this when Carl gives him a sterling silver pen as a Christmas present.note Carl assumed that Commissioner Geiss had given him the same gift of Christmas fudge that the latter gave to the rest of the police force, and he re-gifted his unopened gift box to Steve.
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Family Matters / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Family Matters / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: When the Winslows see a therapist about their Urkel-related stress, Eddie reveals how Steve spilled the beans to his date Sue about how he took a girl named Tiffany to an expensive French restaurant when he told Sue he wasn't dating anyone else and took her to a cheap chicken joint. An infuriated Sue dumps Eddie and he blames Steve, even though Sue herself called him out for being a lying two-timing snake.
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Family Matters / int_98d866ab	type	Ageless Birthday Episode
Family Matters / int_98d866ab	comment	Ageless Birthday Episode: Several episodes are devoted to Carl's birthday with no mention of his age.
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Family Matters / int_9a2aee13	type	Heroic Bystander
Family Matters / int_9a2aee13	comment	Heroic Bystander: Steve attempts to invoke this in "Dog Day Halloween," when he, Laura, and some other patrons are held hostage in a bank robbery. This is subverted when the dangerous robber with the gun scares him off. Carl ultimately saves the day by donning a disguise and disarming the robber with the help of a pizza box full of trick snakes. The next morning, Steve reveals that he feels like a coward; Carl reassures him that he did the best he could under the circumstances, and that trying to play hero would have caused more problems than it solved. Carl then tells Steve that he's proud of him for sticking by Laura's side during the crisis, and thanks him for inspiring the pizza box trick with a prank he'd played earlier.
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Family Matters / int_9acd7704	type	Dom Com
Family Matters / int_9acd7704	comment	Dom Com: The series is about a working-class family in Chicago.
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Family Matters / int_9d4b58ba	type	I Let Gwen Stacy Die
Family Matters / int_9d4b58ba	comment	I Let Gwen Stacy Die: In "I Should Have Done Something", Carl blames himself for a hostage situation that went tragically wrong, even though he and his fellow officers followed procedure to a T. What happened was that a drug-crazed man robbed a convenience store and took an elderly man hostage, but just as it appeared Carl had successfully negotiated with the suspect to free his hostage, the young man shot the hostage in the head, killing him instantly. Carl finally gets closure when he meets with the hostage's widow at a cemetery, and learns that no one except for the robber is responsible.
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Family Matters / int_9d6427ec	type	Time Travel
Family Matters / int_9d6427ec	comment	Time Travel: Steve invents a time machine and uses it in two episodes during Season 8: "Father Time" and "A Pirate's Life For Me".
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Family Matters / int_9e99d232	type	The Series Has Left Reality
Family Matters / int_9e99d232	comment	The Series Has Left Reality: After Steve's introduced, his inventions introduce a number of sci-fi plots to the setting. We’re talking teleportation pads, cloning, robots, and most famously of all, transformation chambers.
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Family Matters / int_9f62723d	type	Get Out!
Family Matters / int_9f62723d	comment	Get Out!: Carl says this to Steve multiple times when he's angry at him. "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Urkel" has Steve Winslow, Steve Urkel's Distaff Counterpart, saying this as well to Laura Urkel.
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Family Matters / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Family Matters / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Carl Urkel (Carl's nerdy persona in "To Be or Not to Be") is accompanied by a distinctively goofy theme that accentuates his new personality. The same music also plays when Eddie turns himself into a nerd in Season 8's "What Do You Know?"
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Family Matters / int_a06cfb93	type	Stalking Is Funny if It Is Female After Male
Family Matters / int_a06cfb93	comment	Stalking Is Funny if It Is Female After Male: Inverted. Steve's stalking Laura is presented as funny and sympathetic... although that's only because Steve is a little coward who wouldn't - or couldn't - hurt a fly. Myra's stalking of Steve, on the other hand, is considered creepy, especially in the final season where she's portrayed as an Ax-Crazy villain.
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Family Matters / int_a18042f1	type	Left the Background Music On
Family Matters / int_a18042f1	comment	Left the Background Music On: When Steve and Carl set aside their differences in a manly hug and make-up, sentimental music swells in the background. Carl then asks where the music is coming from and they're shown looking under the sofa cushions. In the Noir Episode "Farewell, My Laura", Laura Wigglesworth, Laura's character, is a Femme Fatale that has drums play every time she's does a Supermodel Strut. When she leaves, Johnny Danger, Steve's character, wonders to himself, "Where did she hide those drums?".
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Family Matters / int_a220d528	type	What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Family Matters / int_a220d528	comment	What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: When Steve and Laura are working at Leroy's, Steve offers to cook Laura some supper on the grill. Laura isn't sure Steve should be messing with the grill, but he says this. One Gilligan Cut later, Leroy's is burning to the ground. Notably, several members of the Studio Audience muttered "uh oh" when Steve said it was time he became a chef.
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Family Matters / int_a3026af9	type	Wedding Smashers
Family Matters / int_a3026af9	comment	Wedding Smashers: Greta interrupts the wedding ceremony between Eddie and Myrtle in "Nightmare at Urkel Oaks" as the moment to Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace is ongoing. Cat Fight ensues.
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Family Matters / int_a3c0c1df	type	Dance Party Ending
Family Matters / int_a3c0c1df	comment	Dance Party Ending: "Pound Foolish" ends with Donna Summer (as Aunt Oona) singing her hit song "She Works Hard For the Money" while the rest of the cast joins her for a dance party. "They Shoot Urkels, Don't They?", the dance marathon episode, appropriately ends with each character grooving down the dance floor in pairs.
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Family Matters / int_a3f1531b	type	Standard Snippet
Family Matters / int_a3f1531b	comment	Standard Snippet: Expect "Strangers in the Night" to be played over romantic dance scenes.
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Family Matters / int_a41f13e5	type	Bad Job, Worse Uniform
Family Matters / int_a41f13e5	comment	Bad Job, Worse Uniform: The Mighty Weenie's hat. Carl gets a part time job there during Season 4, and when Eddie gets a promotion, he's told that he no longer needs to wear "that stupid thing" by his boss.
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Family Matters / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
Family Matters / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: The show's title can be translated as "Family Is Important" or "Regarding Issues Concerning Family". Most episodes deal heavily with one meaning or both.
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Family Matters / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Family Matters / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: "No. 1 With a Bullet" opens with Steve swooning over Laura as usual, until a sudden pain in his side makes him pass out. The Winslows think he's just being overdramatic... until they realize he's not waking up. "Driving Carl Crazy" has Carl trying to control his temper for the sake of his blood pressure. After a failed driving lesson with Steve results in his garage getting wrecked, Carl completely loses it and furiously berates Steve; while it's comically over-the-top like usual, it takes a serious turn once Carl starts feeling faint from his skyrocketing blood pressure. "The Brother Who Came to Dinner" switches between two drastically different plot lines: a serious story involving Carl and his estranged brother Frank, and a wacky, lighthearted plot involving Steve, Eddie, a wrestling contest and a force field-creating power belt.
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Family Matters / int_a551708b	type	Grandparent Favoritism
Family Matters / int_a551708b	comment	Grandparent Favoritism: Downplayed with Estelle. While she does love and respect her son Carl, she is also quick to scold him when he goofs up royally. She also acts as a respected mentor and mediator whenever he has an issue or disagreement with one of the children, particularly Eddie or Steve, who has a deep shared respect for her as if she were his own grandmother.
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Family Matters / int_a5603c88	type	Gotta Have It, Gonna Steal It
Family Matters / int_a5603c88	comment	Gotta Have It, Gonna Steal It: "The Gun" centers around Laura having her leather jacket stolen by gang members, upon which they are arrested for their crime, but let out on bail. Later, her and Maxine's friend, Josie, gets a pair of super cool high-top sneakers that are all the rage among teenagers. Then she gets shot by those gang members when they try to steal her shoes.
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Family Matters / int_a5f168ab	type	Let Me at Him!
Family Matters / int_a5f168ab	comment	Let Me at Him!: Several people have done this when Steve's clumsiness pushes them too far. Usually, Carl is the one who tries to chase Steve, with the rest of the Winslows having to stop him. When Steve accidentally burns down Leroy's, Leroy tries to throttle him and Carl is the one who stops him.
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Family Matters / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
Family Matters / int_a6e8221e	comment	In "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do", Myra, disgusted with the way Steve has changed over the years, breaks up with him, expecting him to change so that she will take him back. Based on Status Quo Is God and The Unfair Sex, prevalent in contemporary sitcoms, you'd expect Steve to win Myra back, probably via increasingly elaborate hijinks that prove he is the same man she fell in love with. It is implied that this is what Myra expects. Alternatively, given Status Quo Is God, you'd expect Myra to come to accept that Steve is growing up, and for them to get back together shortly afterward. Unfortunately for Myra, neither scenario happens. Instead, her dumping Steve gets him to take a good long look at his life and realize that he has outgrown the person he used to be — and consequently, outgrown his relationship with Myra. He ends up with Laura, who has developed feelings for him, and Myra's subsequent jealous antics end up alienating Steve even further.
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Family Matters / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Family Matters / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Steve's bullies would often get away with what they did to him. And the audience would often even laugh at his misery, like when someone hung him by his suspenders from a hook on the wall. In "Fight the Good Fight", when Laura tries to get more Black History in school, someone not only leaves her a note saying that she should "go back to Africa", but also writes a racial slur on her locker door. As far as we know, the person who did this was never caught. In "The Gun", a gang of girl thugs not only steal Laura's jacket by tearing it off her body and beating her, but they also actually shoot another girl because she refused to give them her new shoes. We never see these girls get any punishment. All in all, we don't really know what happened to them afterwards.
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Family Matters / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
Family Matters / int_a7382a73	comment	In "Dog Day Halloween", Steve and Laura wind up being held hostage during a bank robbery. At one point during the stand off, Steve has an Imagine Spot where he confronts the robber and beats him up, saving everyone. When he decides to actually do it for real, the robber immediately intimidates him with his gun and Steve quickly returns to sitting on the floor. After Carl and his partners diffuse the situation, he explains to Steve that his reaction was natural and he and the other officers are only able to confront men like the robber because they are trained for it.
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Family Matters / int_a806691d	type	Casanova Wannabe
Family Matters / int_a806691d	comment	The Casanova Wannabe: Eddie (Steve to an extent).
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Family Matters / int_a8217606	type	Sweet Polly Oliver
Family Matters / int_a8217606	comment	Sweet Polly Oliver: After not being taken seriously at a used car lot, Laura returns as "Larry."
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Family Matters / int_aa368af0	type	Two Scenes, One Dialogue
Family Matters / int_aa368af0	comment	Two Scenes, One Dialogue: In "Pulling Teeth", this is how Waldo's interest in Maxine and how their first date went is revealed.
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Family Matters / int_aa5b4f2c	type	Wedding Episode
Family Matters / int_aa5b4f2c	comment	Wedding Episode: "Mama's Wedding", wherein Estelle marries Fletcher Thomas.
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Family Matters / int_ac36578e	type	Or Was It a Dream?
Family Matters / int_ac36578e	comment	The episode "Father of the Bride" was mostly this trope...Or Was It a Dream?.
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Family Matters / int_aca32000	type	Armor-Piercing Response
Family Matters / int_aca32000	comment	Armor-Piercing Response: In "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do", Eddie is prepared to drop out of college and an argument with Carl ensues. Eddie tells Carl he wants a job where he can make a difference, where he works with people he respects and admires, and which is exciting and different every day. When Carl demands to know where Eddie expects to find such a fairy-tale job, Eddie responds, "It's your job, Dad." This is downplayed in that it doesn't win Eddie the argument, but now Carl has to take him seriously.
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Family Matters / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Family Matters / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: A rare Studio Audience example happens when Steve and Laura are working at Leroy's and Steve says he'll cook Laura some suppper. Several people in the audience can audibly be heard saying "uh oh" when Steve says he should become a chef.
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Family Matters / int_ad5283e1	type	Robot Girl
Family Matters / int_ad5283e1	comment	Robot Girl: Laurabot's built after Urkelbot's shut down and reprogrammed.
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Family Matters / int_add729b8	type	Nobody's That Dumb
Family Matters / int_add729b8	comment	Nobody's That Dumb: In "Midterm Crisis", when Eddie and Steve accidentally eat Waldo's gourmet cake for his midterm, they try to cover up the situation by baking the same cake, but end up blowing up the oven. When Waldo arrives, they both come clean and Waldo gets upset by them and tells them off:
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Family Matters / int_ae050352	type	Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind
Family Matters / int_ae050352	comment	Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind: In "Number One With a Bullet", Steve attacks a would-be assailant with a metal bedpan during a hospital stay.
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Family Matters / int_ae0e2472	type	Contrasting Replacement Character
Family Matters / int_ae0e2472	comment	Contrasting Replacement Character: Rodney and Penny, the original best friends of Eddie and Laura, respectively, couldn't stand Steve. The last time Rodney was mentioned, he was even trying to get Eddie to ditch Steve. Their more notable successors Waldo and Maxine are nicer to Steve and more willing to be friends with him, although the former only after his Heel–Face Turn.
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Family Matters / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Family Matters / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Everyone takes turns at this, but actually Steve managed to outdo them all, especially towards people who says and/or do something stupid.
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Family Matters / int_ae9651d2	type	Double Don't Know
Family Matters / int_ae9651d2	comment	Double Don't Know: In "Whose Man Is It Anyway?", 3J asks Carl for help in finding his parents, and Carl gets ahold of his mother in short order. However, motherhood had a rough start for her; she's trying to get her life together and doesn't want 3J to know her yet. When Harriette asks Carl how they're supposed to negotiate this when 3J wants so desperately to know his mother, Carl says he just doesn't know what they're going to do.
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Family Matters / int_aebdaf03	type	Sentimental Music Cue
Family Matters / int_aebdaf03	comment	Sentimental Music Cue: Downplayed as the series didn't employ this as much. "The Good, the Bad and the Urkel" out and out breaks the fourth wall when the characters can hear the cue, and look around wondering where it came from.
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Family Matters / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Family Matters / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: In "False Arrest", Carl arrests Buddy Goodrich, the star of a popular TV show, for parking in a handicapped spot and then assaulting him when he (politely) told the actor to relocate his car. To cover up the bad press, Goodrich plans to have his assistant lie about the incident. He then tries to buy Carl off with a bribe by saying he'll hire him as a "technical consultant" on the show. Goodrich is a Villain with Good Publicity, so everyone already doubts Carl, and the two men, plus the assistant, are the only ones who know what really happened. It would be easy for Carl to accept the bribe and make the incident disappear...but instead, he remarks "I can't shave with my eyes closed," explaining that he wouldn't be able to look at himself in the mirror if he took the money. In "Who's Afraid of the Big Black Book?", Commissioner Geiss promotes his son, rather than Carl, to the position of captain, despite Carl having more experience. Carl's understandably upset, and tries to remain professional—but when a major gang fight is in danger of breaking out, the new captain is paralyzed with indecision and begs Carl to help him devise a plan. Carl is clearly tempted to tell him that it's the captain's job to figure that out, which would both get him fired and serve as a healthy dose of revenge—but he ultimately realizes that innocent people's lives are more important than his hurt feelings, and he quickly develops a strategy that averts the fight (which earns him a round of applause from the audience). Later, both men then get more of these moments: when Geiss congratulates the precinct on a job well done, Carl easily could have taken the credit for himself (which, again, would be a great bit of vengeance), but instead acts maturely and tells Geiss that it was all the captain's idea. Similarly, the captain could accept Carl's praise and make himself look like a hero, but instead immediately admits the truth about what happened, telling his father that he appreciates the gesture but knows that Carl is a much better choice for the job. Commissioner Geiss, proud of his son for telling the truth and equally proud of Carl for his hard work, addresses him as "Captain" Winslow, ensuring the promotion goes to the right person. In a last-season episode, Steve is at a college party when Laura, drunk out of her mind, starts trying to seduce him. This seems like a golden opportunity for Steve—who's pined after Laura for years at this point—to finally make his move...but he instead turns her down, helps get her to bed so she can sleep off the booze, and leaves the party. Laura then reveals the truth to her girlfriends: she was tipsy, not wasted, and decided to give Steve a test to see what he would do. It ends up being the right choice, as his kindness and chivalry win Laura over for good.
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Family Matters / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Family Matters / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: This happens to Laura in "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Urkel" when her guardian angel grants her wish for Steve to know what it's like to be her. Since Steve is now a normal kid and part of the Winslow family, Laura has to take Steve's place as a Stereotypical Nerd in the Urkel family. In "Father Time", Carl learns this the hard way when he alters the past in order to make himself rich. This is after he complains about paying the bills earlier in the episode.
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Family Matters / int_b1ed0e0c	type	Rank Up
Family Matters / int_b1ed0e0c	comment	Rank Up: Carl starts the series as a sergeant in the Chicago PD, and over the course of the series, gets promoted to Lieutenant and eventually Captain, with a new boss each time (Lieutenant Murtaugh, Captain Savage, and finally Commissioner Geiss).
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Family Matters / int_b21ddb6b	type	Content Warnings
Family Matters / int_b21ddb6b	comment	Content Warnings: "Stevil" has Steve warning viewers of its potentially scary content. This was a few months before the TV rating system was introduced in America.
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Family Matters / int_b2283870	type	Retool
Family Matters / int_b2283870	comment	Retool: While the show never officially changed formats, episodes from the first 2-3 seasons, when it was a family-oriented sitcom, to the final 2-3 seasons, when it turned into a fantasy sitcom, are indeed very different in feel.
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Family Matters / int_b2f26025	type	Genki Girl
Family Matters / int_b2f26025	comment	In later seasons, Genki Girl Myra and Deadpan Snarker Laura have this dynamic on their better days, especially in the episode where they move in together. Not so much when Myra is being antagonistic towards Laura, which happens a lot.
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Family Matters / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Family Matters / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: In "Rock Video", Steve says this when Eddie tells him to focus the camera on him and not the band: In "Father of the Bride", Carl turns on the television and immediately falls asleep when he sees that Hudson Hawk is showing. Then in his dream, he wakes up to the sound of the TV, sees that Hudson Hawk is still airing, then promptly goes back to sleep. When Steve and Carl get trapped in the past in "A Pirate's Life for Me", Steve attempts to look at the bright side of things.
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Family Matters / int_b58b7975	type	Kindhearted Simpleton
Family Matters / int_b58b7975	comment	In Eddie's trio of friends, Waldo is nice (Kindhearted Simpleton), Weasel is mean (an irresponsible schemer), and Eddie is in-between (well-meaning but sometimes selfish).
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Family Matters / int_b6cc7fc0	type	Dysfunctional Family
Family Matters / int_b6cc7fc0	comment	Dysfunctional Family: In "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad House," Eddie learns that claiming to be from a dysfunctional family when you're not is nothing to joke about. Eddie does so after he's faced with a multi-game suspension from the basketball team after pulling a "last straw" classroom prank. Miss Conners buys Eddie's claim and becomes deeply concerned about his home life and cries on Steve's shoulder. Steve, wanting to cheer her up, suggests that she visit the family at home to see what's going on and why this student is acting out; both the Winslows and Eddie are not identified in her lament to Steve. Because the house is in total disarray — after Harriette followed through with a threat to "go on strike" to protest the others for not helping out with the chores and so forth — things look mighty bad when Miss Conners visits (and observes in secret), and she bursts in when Carl complains to Harriette that he couldn't find his old clothes to go out on a drug bust ("You know I like to wear my plaid shirt when I go out to buy drugs!"). Carl eventually is able to figure out what Eddie had told Miss Conners and clears things up. Needless to say, he isn't happy with his son.
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Family Matters / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
Family Matters / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: Steve's always portrayed as a Dogged Nice Guy trying to win over the girl he loves. His behavior is never portrayed as anything more than annoying at its worst and ultimately pays off with them getting together. Myra and Myrtle behaving virtually the same way towards him and Eddie, respectively, is always made out to be the actions of two crazy women.
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Family Matters / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Family Matters / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: At the end of "Scenes from a Mall", Steve complains about Myra to Laura. He says he doesn't know what to do with Myra because she won't take "no" for an answer and is obsessed with him. Then in the same scene, he starts asking Laura out multiple times, and keeps insisting, despite Laura saying "No!" every time. In "Beauty and the Beast", Harriette recruits the girls for a beauty contest and they initially refuse because of the thought of there being a bathing suit competition but join when they're assured there isn't one or anything like it. Come the actual contest, Maxine wears a pretty skanky outfit during the talent showcase.
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Family Matters / int_b76f2a49	type	Class Reunion
Family Matters / int_b76f2a49	comment	Class Reunion: "The Big Reunion" sees Carl dieting in anticipation of his twentieth anniversary high school reunion, only to find that all his best friends from back in the day are fatter than him.
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Family Matters / int_b7f082b6	type	Logical Fallacies
Family Matters / int_b7f082b6	comment	Logical Fallacies: In "Choir Trouble", Steve joins the Winslows' church. He reports that his father doesn't approve, because "You can't see or feel God." Steve supposedly counters with: "I can't see or feel an atom, but I know it exist." Estelle tells him that's what it means to have faith, despite the fact an atom is visible under certain microscopes. If you want to be technical, you can feel atoms too. It just takes a lot of them grouped together before you can.
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Family Matters / int_b90e8dc1	type	Hard-to-Light Fire
Family Matters / int_b90e8dc1	comment	Hard-to-Light Fire: When Steve and Carl are lost in the woods when cutting down a Christmas tree, Steve has three matches in his survival kit. When Carl lights the first, Steve sneezes it out, but got the firewood lighted on the second try.
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Family Matters / int_ba0791de	type	First Girl Wins
Family Matters / int_ba0791de	comment	First Girl Wins: In the end, Laura eventually does warm up to Steve. The end of the series has the two engaged and had the show ran one more season, would've seen them wed.
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Family Matters / int_ba56f91c	type	Transformation Ray
Family Matters / int_ba56f91c	comment	Transformation Ray: Steve's transformation chamber.
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Family Matters / int_bc37d80d	type	So Proud of You
Family Matters / int_bc37d80d	comment	So Proud of You: In "Dog Day Halloween", Steve and Laura end up as hostages in a bank robbery, which Carl and the cops eventually foil. Steve later tells Carl that he feels like a failure, because he dreamed of standing up to the robber to save Laura and even tried to do so, but quickly lost his courage when the crook flashed his gun. Carl makes it clear that he has nothing to be ashamed of—trying to push around an armed robber isn't brave, it's foolish—and says that he's proud of Steve for being there for Laura regardless. He then points out that it was one of Steve's pranks, a fake pizza box full of springing snakes, that gave the cops the idea on how to stop the crook, and assures Steve that he did the right thing.
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Family Matters / int_bdf0640e	type	You're Not My Father
Family Matters / int_bdf0640e	comment	You're Not My Father: Played with; Carl expresses concern that Fletcher can't care for his mom the way his that his dad did. They are able to make peace before the wedding.
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Family Matters / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Family Matters / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Penny Peyser, Laura's original best friend. Nick Neidermeyer.
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Family Matters / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Family Matters / int_bef696dd	comment	In "Stevil", the whole episode turns out to be just a dream. It even winds up being a dream within a dream of sorts, with Steve "waking up" and Eddie attempting to perform brain surgery on him with a cake mixer. Steve finally wakes up for real, and is scolded by Eddie for behaving so oddly during holidays.
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Family Matters / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Family Matters / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Vonda Mahoney had this reputation. She offered to be with Steve when he helped her pass her algebra exam. Ultimately, Steve found out that the reason why she did this was because she wanted to be popular. He convinced her that she no longer had to do this, much to Eddie's chagrin.
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Family Matters / int_c007c53	type	Cool and Unusual Punishment
Family Matters / int_c007c53	comment	Cool and Unusual Punishment: Carl devises a couple of these for Eddie: When Eddie takes the family car out after failing his driving test and smashes it through the front of the house, Carl grounds him for a month, forbids him from taking his driving test for another two months after that and forces him to do work at anything Carl or Harriette might decide to pay for the damage. When Eddie gets arrested after joyriding in a stolen car, Carl signs him up for the Meals on Wheels program. Eddie will have to spend every Saturday for the next year participating at 6:00am. The real kicker was that when he gave Eddie the news, it was already 1:00am on a Saturday. When Eddie and Waldo accidentally drive Waldo's snowmobile through the kitchen and into the living room, Carl grounds Eddie until he can repay Carl the $800 it cost to fix the damage.
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Family Matters / int_c045d894	type	Locker Mail
Family Matters / int_c045d894	comment	Locker Mail: In the Very Special Episode "Fight the Good Fight," Laura finds her locker open with a racist note attached to it in response to her petition for a Black history course.
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Family Matters / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
Family Matters / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Son!: When Steve sleepwalks into Carl and Harriette's bedroom and smacks Carl with a newspaper in the episode "Words Hurt", the Winslows hire a psychiatrist to figure out why he's doing it. It turns out that Steve heard Carl rant about how he hated him for wrecking his model ship. Harriette and Rachel both give Carl the cold shoulder, and Estelle tells Carl she's going to take another look at his birth certificate to see if he's really her son.
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Family Matters / int_c1c07d6f	type	Rejection Affection
Family Matters / int_c1c07d6f	comment	Rejection Affection: Steve spends the entire run aggressively trying to win Laura's affections even though she is repulsed by him. His perseverance pays off in the end. One possible reason why the story arc of Steve's continued pursuit of Laura was continued long after she turned him down had to do with his overall popularity and ratings draw. Had he been a one-off character (like he was originally intended to be), he'd have been arrested or in the very least slapped with a restraining order. Plus, by the end of the show's run, geek was starting to be considered chic. In-Universe, he's gotten a steady girlfriend and changed his image to be less geeky, and Laura finally took notice.
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Family Matters / int_c2c80ef	type	Neck Lift
Family Matters / int_c2c80ef	comment	Neck Lift: After racking up a bill for broken dishes, Steve complains to his employer, Leroy:
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Family Matters / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Family Matters / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Several minor characters disappeared with no onscreen explanation. This includes Laura's best friend Penny after Season 1, Eddie's sleazy best friend Rodney after Season 2, Carl's boss Lt. Murtaugh after Season 4, and Eddie's other friend Weasel after Season 5. Judy, the youngest daughter, disappears after Season 4.
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Family Matters / int_c3782352	type	Exiled to the Couch
Family Matters / int_c3782352	comment	Exiled to the Couch: In "Son", Carl and Eddie get into a fight over Eddie losing Carl's screwdriver. As a result, Eddie decides to move out. Harriette tries to get Carl to talk to Eddie, but he stubbornly refused:
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Family Matters / int_c3ae004a	type	Re-Cut
Family Matters / int_c3ae004a	comment	Re-Cut: The syndicated version replaced several of Season 1's cold openings to include Steve. Since the creators weren't expecting him to become the massively popular character he turned out to be, they decided that introducing him in small portions during reruns was a good way to help more naturally integrate him into the cast, as opposed to him suddenly showing up in every episode out of the blue after his debut appearance, with zero indication by the Winslows that they even knew he existed until then.
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Family Matters / int_c3c77510	type	There Is Only One Bed
Family Matters / int_c3c77510	comment	There Is Only One Bed: Involving Steve and Laura in a motel in "It Didn't Happen One Night". During the whole ordeal, Steve takes crap from Laura until he finally snaps and unloads on her:
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Family Matters / int_c435ec5d	type	Aesop Amnesia
Family Matters / int_c435ec5d	comment	Most of the Winslow family act like this toward Steve in every episode, regardless of how he helped them out in the previous episode.
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Family Matters / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Family Matters / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Pretty much Waldo's go-to thought process. Weasel gets the guys to go in on betting on football with his "foolproof" method. After every one of his bets goes badly, he explains his process:
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Family Matters / int_c605da88	type	Establishing Shot
Family Matters / int_c605da88	comment	Establishing Shot: Miller - Boyett loved to use these, and made a habit of it.
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Family Matters / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Family Matters / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In "The Science Project", Steve creates a self-aware nuke, which has a video screen with an AI version of himself on it in front of pretty much the same background as Max Headroom. The AI Steve even does the Max Headroom-type stuttering. (Upon meeting Fletcher, Mother Winslow's boyfriend) Carl: I'm Carl Winslow, who the hell are you? Steve has a pen pal by the name of Cory Matthews.note This is not a crossover, as the two never meet onscreen. The space uniform Myra wears in one of her last appearances is also the uniform of the Visitors in V.
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Family Matters / int_c8f5c41d	type	Supermodel Strut
Family Matters / int_c8f5c41d	comment	Supermodel Strut: Laura plays a Femme Fatale-esque character named Laura Wigglesworth in the Noir Episode "Farewell, My Laura", and she always walks with an exaggerated sultry strut.
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Family Matters / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Family Matters / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: One of Steve's more interesting quirks is that most of his inventions don't work: some catastrophic event makes them go haywire. It also makes things worse than what they are. He actually references this in "My Uncle the Hero" where he's trying to throw Myra a surprise birthday party, and he invents a mechanical cake that he's supposed to jump out of. He tells Laura it's "one of my inventions that actually works!" Sure enough, though, the thing goes haywire just after he says that, though his usual line doesn't follow and he instead does a "spoke too soon" routine, furthering how comedic this scene is. In “Taking Credit”, the writers poke fun at themselves with this line from Mother Winslow:
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Family Matters / int_ca7ec334	type	Two Lines, No Waiting
Family Matters / int_ca7ec334	comment	Two Lines, No Waiting: In "Making the Team", Steve and Laura joins Vanderbilt High's basketball team and cheerleading squad, respectively. A Friday night is the first real performance for both.
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Family Matters / int_ca8db933	type	Higher Education Is for Women
Family Matters / int_ca8db933	comment	Higher Education Is for Women: This was played straight within the Winslow family. Laura was a straight A student and was on her way to become a lawyer. Eddie was never good in school, and even though he spent a couple of years in college, he would drop out to become a policeman instead. Steve, however, is an aversion, as he too had always had been a straight A student and was excelling in college.
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Family Matters / int_cc3c365f	type	Goofy Print Underwear
Family Matters / int_cc3c365f	comment	Goofy Print Underwear: Usually Steve's, who had been pantsed, had his clothes (aside from his boxers) blown away by a large fan, and actually had the majority of his clothes disintegrated by a lightning strike.
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Family Matters / int_cceab1c4	type	Special Aesop Victim
Family Matters / int_cceab1c4	comment	Special Aesop Victim: In "The Gun", Laura and her friends are harassed by a gang who are carrying around guns. Later on, one of Laura's friends brings a gun for protection but ends up being shot anyway.
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Family Matters / int_cef6a167	type	Second Place Is for Losers
Family Matters / int_cef6a167	comment	Second Place Is for Losers: This is why Dexter Thornhill framed Steve for blowing up the school science lab.
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Family Matters / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Family Matters / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Happens a few times with Steve: In "Jailhouse Blues", Steve repeatedly tries to warn Eddie not to go for a joyride in a stolen car with his cousin Clarence. Eddie ignores his warning, and Clarence forces Steve to come with them so he won't rat them out. The next shot consists of all of them lining up for mug shots. In "Surely You Joust", Carl and Eddie are installing a satellite dish on the roof. Steve tries to warn Carl that the wood screws he's using aren't strong enough to hold the dish in place, and advises him to use masonry screws instead. Carl scoffs at the idea, but Steve is proven painfully right when he, Carl, and Eddie fall off the roof after the dish breaks loose. In "Saved by the Urkel", Steve tries to warn Carl that the lamp he's fixing isn't safe and that he could get electrocuted. Again, Carl blows him off, and promptly gets electrocuted when he plugs the lamp in. In "A Camping We Will Go", Steve tells Carl, Eddie, and Waldo not to set their tent on a particular spot of the campground because it is right on a geyser. Steve is proven right when the geyser erupts destroying their tent.
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Family Matters / int_cf9b131f	type	Muscles Are Meaningless
Family Matters / int_cf9b131f	comment	Muscles Are Meaningless: Not intentional, but Jaleel White became a well-built, athletic adult later in the show's run. Steve was supposed to be toothpick-thin with almost no masculine strength, so it wasn't always convincing. This is pretty much the reason why the Bruce Lee Clone episodes were written. White was an athletic and well-built young man (and huge Bruce Lee fan).
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Family Matters / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Family Matters / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: In "Short Story", Rachel decides to write a short story that is based on her family when Laura tells her that she should write one about them.
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Family Matters / int_d308cbb0	type	Character Catchphrase
Family Matters / int_d308cbb0	comment	Character Catchphrase: Daniel Wallace's "That'd be me." "(Myra) is one sick puppy."
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Family Matters / int_d30dfd1c	type	Ridiculous Exchange Rates
Family Matters / int_d30dfd1c	comment	Ridiculous Exchange Rates: Waldo is in the fictional Banana Republic of Santo Porto when he's Wrongly Accused of theft and arrested. Carl, Eddie and Steve come down to try and get him out of jail, but Carl balks at paying the huge bail. The guys try to break Waldo out of jail, and Hilarity Ensues until the police chief catches them in the act. He immediately threatens to arrest all of the guys unless they pay a fine on top of Waldo's bail. As it turns out, the huge sum the police chief demands is in Santo Porto dollars, which comes out to about $30 in American currency. Carl cheerfully hands over the money, and the police chief lets them all go:
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Family Matters / int_d34cbda2	type	Implausible Deniability
Family Matters / int_d34cbda2	comment	Implausible Deniability: Steve combined this with a catchphrase: "Did I do that?"
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Family Matters / int_d38a4a3	type	Identically Named Group
Family Matters / int_d38a4a3	comment	Identically Named Group: In the episode "The Big Reunion", it's revealed that Carl was part of a high school band named The Darnells. The other three band members were all named Darnell, only Carl was the Odd Name Out.
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Family Matters / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Family Matters / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Carl does this to Eddie in one episode after when Eddie repeatedly comes home drunk after attending college parties. When it doesn't seem to get through to Eddie, Carl kicks him out of the house. However, Eddie's plans to move in with Waldo fall through as Waldo angrily chews him out for getting drunk as well (Waldo doesn't drink so he would drive Eddie home, who would then insult him for being stupid). Eddie decides to stop getting drunk and patches things up with Carl.
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Family Matters / int_d3d94018	type	Girls with Moustaches
Family Matters / int_d3d94018	comment	Girls with Moustaches: Judy’s fourth grade teacher, who the kids all call "Fuzz Lip".
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Family Matters / int_d5687477	type	Estranged Soap Family
Family Matters / int_d5687477	comment	Estranged Soap Family: Rachel leaves the show, but somehow her son Richie stays around, which means that his mother is still around somewhere. She is apparently unable to make it to a number of important events.
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Family Matters / int_d6707631	type	Waxing Lyrical
Family Matters / int_d6707631	comment	Waxing Lyrical: At least twice, the kids use lines from Bobby Brown's "It's My Prerogative" in Season 1. Myra does this with a Stevie Wonder song.
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Family Matters / int_d94e9b0c	type	Umbrellas Are Lightning Rods
Family Matters / int_d94e9b0c	comment	Umbrellas Are Lightning Rods: In "Struck by Lightning", Steve gets struck by lightning three times, one incident of which implies the lightning hit his umbrella.
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Family Matters / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Family Matters / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Steve invents a time machine, and Carl witnesses him testing it. Carl is completely unfazed by it: In "A Pirate's Life for Me", when Steve and Carl go back in time to the golden age of piracy, Eddie casually mentions where they've gone, and everyone else reacts as if they'd left on a trip to the grocery store.
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Family Matters / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Family Matters / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In "Baker's Dozens", the Winslow kids leave the kitchen in rapid succession twice, the first being when Harriette asks who's going to help with the dishes for a second time, while the second one occurs when everybody realizes that the kitchen is still a mess following the food fight. Additionally, Rachel leaves the kitchen during the former moment as well. In "Sitting Pretty", Laura and Judy are running a babysitting service. When all of their babysitters back out, Laura decides to have them babysit the kids: In "Rachel's Place", Steve accidentally burns down Leroy's restaurant. Carl tries to console Leroy by saying he can rebuild it better than ever, but Leroy says he's too old to start over. He takes his insurance money and retires to Florida, selling the property to Rachel. Late in "They Shoot Urkels, Don't They?", Harriette proposes for Carl and Steve to call it a draw since everybody is exhausted from dancing for hours at the dance marathon. However, Carl and Steve, who have been stubbornly competitive against each other throughout the episode, refuse, resulting in both her and Myra leaving, followed by everyone who's still in the dance hall, including Fletcher, Estelle, and the D.J. providing the dance music. Carl and Steve continue to dance in the now-empty dance hall by themselves despite this: Real life example is Jo Marie Payton leaving the show during the final season, despite the fact she was the character the show originally originated from when it started.
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Family Matters / int_daa59ba1	type	Puppy Love
Family Matters / int_daa59ba1	comment	In "Le Jour d'amour", Steve hosts three shorts split into stories about First Love, True Love, and Lasting Love.
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Family Matters / int_dceccabf	type	Cat Fight
Family Matters / int_dceccabf	comment	Myrtle and Greta's default interaction mode, when they're not getting more physical with each other.
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Family Matters / int_e0c470a1	type	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You
Family Matters / int_e0c470a1	comment	At the end of "Midterm Crisis", after getting into a small food fight, Steve, Eddie, and Waldo decide to go after "them" instead, referring to the viewers watching at home. They then throw eggs at the camera.
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Family Matters / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
Family Matters / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: Season 7's "Teacher's Pet" is basically The Nutty Professor, with Steve acting as a substitute teacher and later turning into Stefan when his class doesn't take him seriously.
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Family Matters / int_e409de66	type	Manipulative Editing
Family Matters / int_e409de66	comment	Manipulative Editing: Almost got Carl convicted in a later episode. Subverted in "The Jury" when Carl and Steve have to serve on the same jury. Steve uses his computer to prove the defendant's innocence by exposing the manipulative editing of the main evidence against him.
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Family Matters / int_e4900915	type	Ridiculously Human Robots
Family Matters / int_e4900915	comment	"Robo-Nerd II" features Steve repairing Urkelbot to help the police catch an armed robber. Later, when Urkelbot quits policework because of the danger, Steve builds "Laurabot" as his girlfriend.
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Family Matters / int_e502e268	type	Family Theme Naming
Family Matters / int_e502e268	comment	Family Theme Naming: Robert, Rachel, and Richie Crawford.
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Family Matters / int_e5206db8	type	Brains Versus Brawn
Family Matters / int_e5206db8	comment	Brains Versus Brawn: The plot of the aptly titled "Brain Over Brawn" revolves around this, with the brainy Steve challenging the Jerk Jock Alex to a rope climbing competition. While Alex climbs the rope using his own strength, Steve is able to beat him by using his jetpack to fly to the top.
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Family Matters / int_e5db3cec	type	The Board Game
Family Matters / int_e5db3cec	comment	The Board Game: The show spawned a family board game called "Do the Urkel!", named after the eponymous dance number from "Life of the Party". It came with bowtie-shaped cards, some Steve Urkel finger puppets (which players would use to dance around the board), and plastic Urkel glasses.
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Family Matters / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Family Matters / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Willie Fuffner, one of the worst bullies on the show. In "Requiem for an Urkel", Laura refuses to go to dance with him, so Willie threatens to beat up any other guy in the school who goes to the dance with Laura, unless the guy is Steve, in order to humiliate her. When Steve confronts him for his actions, they get into a fight. It turns out Willie was hated by many other guys he had bullied before, and they all finally find the courage to stand up to him. He later appears again in "Life of the Party" to take revenge on Steve, and decides to spike Steve's drink with alcohol at a party, causing Steve to get drunk and almost falling from a building. He and his friend Waldo are later arrested. Dexter Thornhill, Steve's academic rival from Season 5's "Presumed Urkel". Jealous of Steve's academic performance, having always taken second place in the science fair while Steve took first every year, and always calling him "Yuckel", he would go so far as to frame him for blowing up the school's science lab by tampering with his latest science fair project, a graffiti remover, by adding explosive chemicals into it and turning up the Bunsen burner to the maximum point in an effort to get him expelled, especially serving as prosecutor in the Vanderbilt student court, only for Laura, who represented Steve in spite of her being annoyed about his calls for love at the time, to eventually expose him in the end, upon which he himself ends up expelled and likely sent to juvie. Toni Procopio, a gang member and one-time antagonist from Season 6's "The Gun". She and hard work apparently don't go together that she's willing to resort to murder (hence the name of the episode) to steal what others have earned, from a leather jacket owned by Laura to tennis shoes owned by one of Laura's close friends, namely Josie. A student at Vanderbilt High School like the Winslows and Steve, even the teachers are scared of her. She was arrested for stealing Laura's jacket, but let out on bail, upon which she threatens to shoot Laura and Steve if either of the two testify at her trial. Because she never told her parents (her father, a policeman, most especially) about Toni pulling a gun on her, Laura is considering buying a gun of her own from a classmate illegally selling them, which he had done earlier with Josie. After Toni tries to steal Josie's tennis shoes and shoots her, despite her being armed herself, we don't exactly know what happens to her afterwards; we can only assume that she and her friends were expelled from school and sent to jail for good or were likely killed due to gun violence themselves or they managed to get away with their crimes scot-free. While Carl is used to dealing with gang and gun violence on a daily basis, it doesn't really hit home until it happens to your own child. Nick Neidermeyer, the next-door neighbor and Sitcom Arch-Nemesis to the Winslows. Sleazy, obnoxious, and unbearably rude towards the whole family, including Richie and 3J, Nick bears no sympathetic qualities whatsoever, which makes it all the more satisfying whenever he gets his comeuppance. The ending of "Revenge of the Nerd" finally gives him some Hidden Depths and reveals him to be Sour Outside, Sad Inside. He then completely disappears afterwards.
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Family Matters / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Family Matters / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial:
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Family Matters / int_e7011bb3	type	Garage Sale
Family Matters / int_e7011bb3	comment	Garage Sale: The set-up in the plot of the series' last pre-Steve episode, "The Quilt." An heirloom quilt gets mixed in with other merchandise at the sale, and when a museum curator offers Laura top dollar (several hundred dollars) for the quilt — uncaring of what it means to the family — Laura wilts under pressure and makes the sale. It is only after Estelle (the grandmother) does little to hide her disappointment that Laura realizes she made a huge mistake and has to get the quilt back any way she can. Only thing is, negotiating with this stubborn, uncaring curator well-experienced in her field is a difficult if not impossible proposition ... but somehow, Laura succeeds.
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Family Matters / int_e8b49369	type	Lie Detector
Family Matters / int_e8b49369	comment	Lie Detector: Steve uses one on Carl in "Words Hurt".
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Family Matters / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
Family Matters / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: "Bugged" plays with this in a very interesting manner: a scene transitions to in a normal fashion, and something that's been clearly on a character's mind throughout the episode, such as Myra hideously overreacting to Steve fantasizing about another woman, happens. Suddenly, the scene shimmers out, revealing itself to be nothing more than a fantasy. The episode "Father of the Bride" was mostly this trope...Or Was It a Dream?. In "Stevil", the whole episode turns out to be just a dream. It even winds up being a dream within a dream of sorts, with Steve "waking up" and Eddie attempting to perform brain surgery on him with a cake mixer. Steve finally wakes up for real, and is scolded by Eddie for behaving so oddly during holidays. Eddie gets married to Myrtle in "Nightmare at Urkel Oaks" after her father bribes Eddie with $10 million. He wakes up during a Cat Fight between Greta and Myrtle that he's caught in the midst of and is quite relieved to know that the whole incident was just a nightmare.
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Family Matters / int_ea8fd9af	type	Acquaintance Denial
Family Matters / int_ea8fd9af	comment	Acquaintance Denial: Waldo is able to get Immature to perform at their prom because he is related to one of the members. His only condition is that Waldo never tell anyone that they're related. Steve is able to figure it out due to a Borrowed Catchphrase.
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Family Matters / int_eb5b71fe	type	Clingy Jealous Girl
Family Matters / int_eb5b71fe	comment	Out of the girls, though they aren't seen as a trio very often, Maxine is nice (usually friendly and easygoing), Myra is mean (Clingy Jealous Girl who often antagonizes Laura), and Laura is in-between (a reasonable but sarcastic girl).
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Family Matters / int_eb6da8ef	type	Crossover
Family Matters / int_eb6da8ef	comment	Crossover: The Full House episode "Stephanie Gets Framed" deals with one of DJ's friends complaining that her irritating cousin from Chicago is coming to San Francisco to visit: that cousin turns out to be none other than Steve, who proceeds to wreak as much havoc in the Tanner household as he usually does with the Winslows. Step by Step: In "The Dance", Steve arrives to help Mark with a science project. He then helps Al deal with the pain of being dumped. Furthermore, the Family Matters episode "Brain Over Brawn" originally ended with Steve breaking through the Winslows' roof, as a result of his malfunctioning jet-pack, and crash landing in Port Washington, Wisconsin, the setting of Step by Step, in a near-seamless transition between the two shows.note Since they aired back-to-back on TGIF at the time. However, since they no longer air together, the syndicated version of the episode instead has Steve flying over Chicago. Steve makes a random cameo in "A Star Is Born", loading a clapperboard in a movie for some reason. Steve makes some quick, non-speaking cameo appearances in the short-lived sitcom Meego, which was another Miller/Boyett show that debuted when this show moved to CBS. Many years after the series ended, Steve would appear in Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?.
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Family Matters / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Family Matters / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Most of the Winslow family act like this toward Steve in every episode, regardless of how he helped them out in the previous episode. Steve even acts like this sometimes. In "Hell Toupee", he outright tells Myra that "As soon as I get a feeling that Laura wants me, I'm done with you." Lots of minor characters such as Carl's boss Lt. Murtaugh, Rodney (Eddie's best friend in the first two seasons), Weasel (another friend of Eddie's), alpha bitch Cassie Lynn, many of Laura's love interests, and Nick, the annoying neighbor in the later seasons.
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Family Matters / int_edeafb2e	type	Malicious Misnaming
Family Matters / int_edeafb2e	comment	Malicious Misnaming: In "Presumed Urkel", Dexter Thornhill refers to Steve as "Yuckel".
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Family Matters / int_ee3efdfe	type	Chemistry Can Do Anything
Family Matters / int_ee3efdfe	comment	Chemistry Can Do Anything: As seen with Steve's transformation chamber.
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Family Matters / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
Family Matters / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: Carl doesn't want to get glasses when he starts having vision problems, so he tries using Steve's transformation chamber to improve his eyesight. Unfortunately, Myra sabotaged the chamber to try and make Stefan be permanently Steve, and it "Urkelizes" him by turning him into a nerd.
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Family Matters / int_f163b235	type	Rival Turned Evil
Family Matters / int_f163b235	comment	Rival Turned Evil: Dexter Thornhill was so sick of being beaten by Steve in the annual state science fair every year that he framed Steve for blowing up the school science lab in an effort to get him expelled.
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Family Matters / int_f197c220	type	Burger Fool
Family Matters / int_f197c220	comment	Burger Fool: Mighty Weenie is this, complete with low pay and embarrassing uniform.
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Family Matters / int_f5e9c7b7	type	Cast the Expert
Family Matters / int_f5e9c7b7	comment	Cast the Expert: invoked In "A Ham Is Born", Carl moonlights as a security guard at a movie studio where a police drama is being filmed. The movie director is annoyed at Carl's opinion of a film scene until Carl mentions his 20-year experience as a Chicago police officer. After Carl demonstrates the actual procedure for arresting criminals, the impressed director decides to cast Carl as the new lead of the film. Ultimately, Carl quits his career as a film star because he, as a married man, refuses to kiss the leading actress, even if it was only part of the script.
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Family Matters / int_f5f79e56	type	Hard-Work Montage
Family Matters / int_f5f79e56	comment	Hard-Work Montage: Used during the construction of Rachel's Place.
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Family Matters / int_f6db5b1e	type	RidiculouslyHumanRobot
Family Matters / int_f6db5b1e	comment	Ridiculously Human Robot: In "Robo-Nerd", Steve creates Urkelbot, which soon develops a mind of its own and wants Laura for itself. A later episode, "Robo-Nerd II", had Steve fix Urkelbot's defective microchips to keep him from going crazy. He became a cop working alongside Carl, but later quit to become a professional dancer when he decided policework was too dangerous.
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Family Matters / int_f8c7515b	type	Borrowed Catchphrase
Family Matters / int_f8c7515b	comment	Borrowed Catch Phrase: Carl and Laura have both asked "Did I do that?" when they were the ones that caused the damage instead of Steve. School janitor Alfred Looney asked Steve "Did you do that?" when he thought that Steve blew up the school science lab. In a case of Swapped Roles, Stefan has this exchange with Carl Urkel: Carl once said "Shh, not while he's pouring", to keep someone from disturbing Steve during a lab experiment.
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Family Matters / int_f97b5d33	type	Shoo Out the Clowns
Family Matters / int_f97b5d33	comment	Shoo Out the Clowns: In Season 2's "Finding the Words", Steve's comical B-plot is quickly wrapped up (ending with him getting shoved out of the house by Laura) right before the much more somber final act involving Harriette, Rachel, and their father.
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Family Matters / int_f9a3fedc	type	Vignette Episode
Family Matters / int_f9a3fedc	comment	Vignette Episode: Taking Credit where Rachel tells Judy and Richie about giving credit where it’s due when Richie tried to hog the credit after baking a cake with Judy. She talks about Carl sharing credit with his boss, and Eddie taking credit for Urkels work. In "Le Jour d'amour", Steve hosts three shorts split into stories about First Love, True Love, and Lasting Love.
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Family Matters / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Family Matters / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Any situation involving one of Steve's catchphrases. Any mention of Steve's parents and their loathing of him. Carl going berserk and chasing Steve after the latter's antics pushes him too far. The over the top food fights. In "Dog Day Halloween", Laura, who is wearing a Tina Turner costume, is referred to as different singers such as Aretha Franklin and Patti LaBelle.
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Family Matters / int_fed733ad	comment	Musical Trigger: In "Chick-a-Boom," Steve's involved in arranging a dinner party for Commissioner Geiss, and an explosive powder he invented is mistaken for pepper. It's primed to detonate when "Roll Out the Barrel" is played at the party.
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Family Matters	hasFeature	Sidelined Protagonist Crossover / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Signature Laugh / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Signature Line / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Significant Monogram / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Signing-Off Catchphrase / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Sleepwalking / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Smack on the Back / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Smart People Build Robots / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	So Bad, It Was Better / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Something Blues / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Sounds of Science / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Special Aesop Victim / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Split-Screen Phone Call / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Spotlight-Stealing Squad / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Stalking Is Funny if It Is Female After Male / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Stalking Is Love / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Standardized Sitcom Housing / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Staying with Friends / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Stereotypical Nerd / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Sticky Fingers / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Still Believes in Santa / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Stock Series Finales / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Straw Loser / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Stuffed into a Locker / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Subways Suck / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Suddenly Sober / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Sue Donym / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Super Ringer / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Suspect Existence Failure / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Sweet and Sour Grapes / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Sweet Polly Oliver / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Take This Job and Shove It / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Talk Show Appearance / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Teens Are Short / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Termite Trouble / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	That Was Objectionable / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	The B Grade / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	The Bad Guys Are Cops / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	The Bride with a Past / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	The Cast Showoff / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	The Dentist Episode / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	The Ditherer / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	The Glasses Come Off / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	The Joy of X / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	The Klutz / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	The Magic Poker Equation / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	The Pete Best / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	The Precious, Precious Car / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	The Real Remington Steele / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	The Series Has Left Reality / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	There Is Only One Bed / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	There Was a Door / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	There Will Be Toilet Paper / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	This Banana is Armed / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Tie-In Cereal / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Time Travel for Fun and Profit / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Title-Only Opening / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Token Houseguest / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Token White / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Too Good to be True / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Transformation Ray / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Treadmill Trauma / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Tropaholics Anonymous / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Trope Codifier / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Trust Password / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Tuckerization / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Twitchy Eye / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Two Scenes, One Dialogue / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Two-Teacher School / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Umbrellas Are Lightning Rods / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Underappreciated Women's Work / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Unique Pilot Title Sequence / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Unknowingly Possessing Stolen Goods / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Unpopular Popular Character / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Unrelated Brothers / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Unwanted Gift Plot / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Vacation Episode / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Valentine's Day Episode / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Values Resonance / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Vampire Episode / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Violence Really Is the Answer / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Virgin-Shaming / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Wacky Americans Have Wacky Names / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	/ int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Walking Disaster Area / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	We Will Not Use Photoshop in the Future / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Wedding Episode / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	What a Piece of Junk / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"? / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Wicked Weasel / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Wire Dilemma / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Women Are Wiser / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Work Off the Debt / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Worse with Context / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Worst Aid / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Write Who You Know / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Wrong Line of Work / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Wrong-Name Outburst / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	You Are Fat / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	"You!" Exclamation / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	You Put the "X" in "XY" / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	You Wouldn't Hit a Guy with Glasses / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Your Door Was Open / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	You're Not My Father / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Zig-Zagging Trope / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Astral Finale / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Bandage Wince / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Dish Dash / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Hypno Fool / int_99055407
Family Matters	hasFeature	Nerd / int_99055407
familymatters	sameAs	Family Matters

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