Family Matters

  • Premiered: Sep 1989
  • Episodes: 215
  • Followers: 131
  • Ended
  • ABC (US)
  • Friday at 20
  • Adventure Comedy Drama Family Science-fiction

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Season 3
3x1
Boom!
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 20, 1991
Urkel rescues an orangutan from laboratory experiments. Carl steps on a treadmill booby trapped with a bomb.
3x2
Brain Over Brawn
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 27, 1991
Urkel's future hangs in the balance during a rope-climbing contest pitting brains against brawn to win Laura's affections.
3x3
The Show Must Go On
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 04, 1991
In the school play, Romeo Steve looks forward to kissing Juliet Laura when the original Romeo lands in the hospital with appendicitis.
3x4
Words Hurt
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 11, 1991
Sleepwalking Urkel undergoes hypnosis to uncover the cause of his anger: he thinks Carl hates his nerdy guts.
3x5
Daddy's Little Girl
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 18, 1991
Laura's behavior suddenly changes when she meets Carl's younger new partner and surf's up for Steve.
3x6
Citizens' Court
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 25, 1991
Urkel is so bugged when Carl squashes his pet beetle that he takes him to court - TV's Citizen's Court - to settle the matter.
3x7
Robo-Nerd
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 01, 1991
Steve creates the Urkelbot, a mechanical Urkel that is all too much like its creator.
3x8
Making the Team
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 08, 1991
When Laura gets snubbed by fellow cheerleaders, she seeks advice from Urkel, who tries out for the basketball team and ends up as equipment manager.
3x9
Born to Be Mild
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 15, 1991
A street gang causes trouble for the Winslows, and things become personal when they vandalize Rachel's Place and attack Eddie. Carl wants to take matters into his own hands, but Urkel decides to infiltrate the gang and tricking them into confessing.
3x10
The Love God
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 22, 1991
Steve thwarts Eddie's potential romance, while Carl is undercover in drag.
3x11
Old and Alone
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 29, 1991
Laura may be sorry for banishing Urkel from her life: in her dreams, she's a 90-year-old spinster whose only visitor is a now-married Urkel.
3x12
A Pair of Ladies
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 06, 1991
Rachel reluctantly hires a loudmouthed, pushy Harriette to help at the restaurant; and Urkel bets the ranch on Carl's cutthroat poker game at home with the guys.
3x13
Choir Trouble
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 20, 1991
Steve joins the Winslows at church with faith that he'll get into the choir, but he's kicked out by new choir director Rachel, whose position has gone to her head.
3x14
A Test of Friendship
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Air date
Jan 10, 1992
The Winslows are ripped off when Carl dozes off; Urkel takes the heat after helping Eddie cheat on a chemistry test.
3x15
Jailhouse Blues
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 17, 1992
Visiting cousin Clarence is a slick dude ready for some action in the Winslow 'hood and a bad influence on a vulnerable Eddie, who winds up being arrested together with Steve.
3x16
Brown Bombshell
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 31, 1992
Mother Winslow regales Eddie's classmates with tales of her late fighter-pilot husband and of World War II's Tuskegee Airmen.
3x17
Food, Lies and Videotape
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 07, 1992
Urkel enrolls in a home economics class with Laura, thinking it'll be a piece of cake, but he soon learns he less than an A-student.
3x18
My Broken-Hearted Valentine
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 14, 1992
Lonely and depressed after breaking up with Ted, Laura grants Urkel a few bittersweet hours of bliss as her valentine; Gwendolyn charms Richie with "yucky goo-goo stuff"; and Harriette and Carl search for admirable qualities in each other.
3x19
Woman of the People
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 21, 1992
When squeaky-clean Laura enters the race for student-council president, snooty rival Cassie Lynn vows to gather dirt on her. Meanwhile, neighbors elect Harriet Neighborhood Watch leader and Carl is down in the dumps about it.
3x20
Love and Kisses
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 28, 1992
Hoping to win Laura, Urkel strikes a deal with R&B singer Johnny Gill: his treasured baseball card in exchange for serenading her; Carl and Harriette discover that their honeymoon love nest is of the outdoor type.
3x21
Stop, in the Name of Love
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 13, 1992
Laura's encouraging words cast a love spell on Waldo; Carl and Lt. Murtagh trade insults in a food fight over Mother Winslow's bad driving.
3x22
The Urkel Who Came to Dinner
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 03, 1992
Urkel's stay at the Winslows brings chaos when he swallows a fish that Carl was "fish-sitting," urges Richie to fight a preschool bully and drives away Laura's study mate.
3x23
Robo-Nerd II
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 24, 1992
It's hasta la vista to the criminal element and hello Urkelbot after Urkel revives his robot for law-enforcement use in solving a rash of convenience store robberies on Carl's beat; meanwhile new shampoo changes the women.
3x24
Dudes
Episode overview
Air date
May 01, 1992
Laura sees red when Urkel, Eddie and Waldo appear on Dudes, a TV dating show that Laura claims is sexist; Carl's birthday gets little attention from his family.
3x25 Season finale
Farewell, My Laura
Episode overview
Air date
May 08, 1992
Urkel plays bumbling, hard-boiled gumshoe Johnny Danger in a 1940s film noir spoof with Laura as a sultry client who needs protection for her aunt Rachel singer and supper-club owner marked for murder.

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