Family Matters

Family Matters Season 1 Episodes

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Season 1 Episode Guide

Episode 1 - Season 1, Episode 1: The Mama Who Came to Dinner

Mother Winslow asserts a little too much authority when she comes to live with her son Carl and his family.

  

Episode 1 - The Mama Who Came to Dinner

Mother Winslow asserts a little too much authority when she comes to live with her son Carl and his family.

  

Episode 2 - Two Income Family

The Winslows must cut costs when Harriette loses her job as an elevator operator.

  

Episode 2 - Season 1, Episode 2: Two Income Family

The Winslows must cut costs when Harriette loses her job as an elevator operator.

  

Episode 3 - Short Story

The Winslow family members have mixed reactions when they realize they are the characters in a story Rachel has sold to a magazine.

  

Episode 3 - Season 1, Episode 3: Short Story

The Winslow family members have mixed reactions when they realize they are the characters in a story Rachel has sold to a magazine.

  

Episode 4 - Rachel's First Date

Desperate for some time alone with Harriette, Carl encourages Rachel to start dating again.

  

Episode 4 - Season 1, Episode 4: Rachel's First Date

Desperate for some time alone with Harriette, Carl encourages Rachel to start dating again.

  

Episode 5 - Straight A's

Eddie thinks he must be getting smarter when he comes home with perfect marks until he learns the truth--his friend Rodney has played a joke on him.

  

Episode 5 - Season 1, Episode 5: Straight A's

Eddie thinks he must be getting smarter when he comes home with perfect marks until he learns the truth--his friend Rodney has played a joke on him.

  

Episode 6 - Season 1, Episode 6: Basketball Blues

Carl pushes a reluctant Eddie to try out for the high school basketball team. Aunt Rachel experiments with gourmet recipes.

  

Episode 6 - Basketball Blues

Carl pushes a reluctant Eddie to try out for the high school baskeball team. Aunt Rachel experiments with gourmet recipes.

  

Episode 7 - Season 1, Episode 7: Body Damage

Carl is chosen to drive an antique police car in the Columbus Day parade, but Rachel wrecks the car and has to fix it before Carl finds out.

  

Episode 7 - Body Damage

Carl is chosen to drive an antique police car in the Columbus Day parade, but Rachel wrecks the car and has to fix it before Carl finds out.

  

Episode 8 - Mr. Badwrench

While Carl unsuccessfully tries to install a shower, Rachel tries to convince everybody that her baby boy really can talk.

  

Episode 8 - Season 1, Episode 8: Mr. Badwrench

While Carl unsuccessfully tries to install a shower, Rachel tries to convince everybody that her baby boy really can talk.

  

Episode 9 - Stakeout

Harriette becomes jealous because Carl's new partner is beautiful, shapely -- and likes to bowl!

  

Episode 9 - Season 1, Episode 9: Stakeout

Harriette becomes jealous because Carl's new partner is beautiful, shapely -- and likes to bowl!

  

Episode 10 - Season 1, Episode 10: False Arrest

Carl arrests the Winslow family's favorite television star.

  

Episode 10 - False Arrest

Carl arrests the Winslow family's favorite television star.

  

Episode 11 - The Quilt

Laura has a garage sale and mistakenly sells Mother Winslow's priceless 200-year-old quilt.

  

Episode 11 - Season 1, Episode 11: The Quilt

Laura has a garage sale and mistakenly sells Mother Winslow's priceless 200-year-old quilt.

  

Episode 12 - Season 1, Episode 12: Laura's First Date

Laura's first date turns into a nightmare when three boys arrive to take her to the school dance.

  

Episode 12 - Laura's First Date

Laura's first date turns into a nightmare when three boys arrive to take her to the school dance.

  

Episode 13 - Season 1, Episode 13: Man's Best Friend

The children bring home a stray dog that has a habit of chewing on things--and Carl changes his mind about pets.

  

Episode 13 - Man's Best Friend

The children bring home a stray dog that has a habit of chewing on things--and Carl changes his mind about pets.

  

Episode 14 - Season 1, Episode 14: Baker's Dozens

Policeman Carl Winslow's recipe for lemon tarts leads to a family business venture.

  

Episode 14 - Baker's Dozens

Policeman Carl Winslow's recipe for lemon tarts leads to a family business venture.

  

Episode 15 - The Big Reunion

Carl is too embarrassed to attend his high school reunion because of the weight he's gained.

  

Episode 15 - Season 1, Episode 15: The Big Reunion

Carl is too embarrassed to attend his high school reunion because of the weight he's gained.

  

Episode 16 - The Party

Things get out of control when the Winslow children are left alone for the evening.

        

Episode 16 - Season 1, Episode 16: The Party

Things get out of control when the Winslow children are left alone for the evening.

     

Episode 17 - The Big Fix

Eddie talks his sister Laura into going on a date with Steve Urkel, the school nerd.

  

Episode 17 - Season 1, Episode 17: The Big Fix

Eddie talks his sister Laura into going on a date with Steve Urkel, the school nerd.

  

Episode 18 - Sitting Pretty

The Winslow home fills with children when Laura starts a baby-sitting service.

  

Episode 18 - Season 1, Episode 18: Sitting Pretty

The Winslow home fills with children when Laura starts a baby-sitting service.

  

Episode 19 - In a Jam

While Carl Winslow auditions for a job as a television traffic reporter, Eddie helps Steve with a school bully.

  

Episode 19 - Season 1, Episode 19: In a Jam

While Carl Winslow auditions for a job as a television traffic reporter, Eddie helps Steve with a school bully.

  

Episode 20 - The Candidate

Eddie runs for president of the freshman class because he thinks it will make him more popular with girls.

  

Episode 20 - Season 1, Episode 20: The Candidate

Eddie runs for president of the freshman class because he thinks it will make him more popular with girls.

  

Episode 21 - Season 1, Episode 21: Bowl Me Over

Battle lines are drawn in the Winslow family when the women challenge the men to a bowling match.

  

Episode 21 - Bowl Me Over

Battle lines are drawn in the Winslow family when the women challenge the men to a bowling match.

  

Episode 22 - Rock Video

Eddie Winslow starts his own band but becomes a little too "star-struck."

  

Episode 22 - Season 1, Episode 22: Rock Video

Eddie Winslow starts his own band but becomes a little too star-struck.

  

Episode 23 - Season 2, Episode 1: Rachel's Place

After Steve accidentally burns down the local hamburger joint, he suggests Rachel buy it and run it herself. With the help of Carl, Harriette and Mother Winslow, she does.

  

Episode 24 - Season 2, Episode 2: Torn Between Two Lovers

Steve Urkel mistakenly believes Rachel is romantically attracted to him as she prepares a candle-lit dinner--for her loan officer.

  

Episode 25 - Season 2, Episode 3: Marriage 101

To her horror, Laura gets paired with Steve for a class project in which the participants pretend they are married. Harriette is depressed because Carl takes her for granted--until he recognizes the error of his ways by hearing how Steve treats Laura.

  

Episode 26 - Season 2, Episode 4: Flashpants

Harriette and Carl Winslow compete in a dance contest with Carl's police captain and his wife. Both men injure themselves but insist on continuing.

  

Episode 27 - Season 2, Episode 5: The Crash Course

Steve Urkel faces a future in military school when, to win Eddie Winslow's friendship, he falsely confesses to crashing the Winslow family car.

  

Episode 28 - Season 2, Episode 6: Boxcar Blues

While Carl Winslow chases a suspect, he gets trapped in a moving boxcar with Steve Urkel. Steve's uncertainty about choosing a career leads Carl to the realization that he should no longer pressure his own son to become a cop.

  

Episode 29 - Season 2, Episode 7: Dog Day Halloween

Carl must save Steve and Laura, who have been taken hostage during a Halloween robbery.

  

Episode 30 - Season 2, Episode 8: Cousin Urkel

When Steve goes out of town, his look-alike, sound-alike, act-alike cousin Myrtle, the belle of Biloxi, arrives and falls madly in love with Eddie.

  

Episode 31 - Season 2, Episode 9: Dedicated to the One I Love

Harriette becomes jealous when a pretty neighbor becomes attracted to Carl. Steve Urkel, meanwhile, gets a girlfriend--and it's not his beloved Laura.

  

Episode 32 - Season 2, Episode 10: The Science Project

Laura's happiness at getting Steve to be her partner for a science project turns to terror when she has a nightmare about him building an atomic bomb.

  

Episode 33 - Season 2, Episode 11: Requiem for an Urkel

Steve amazes everyone when he challenges the school bully to a fight after he learns that Laura's honor has been insulted.

  

Episode 34 - Season 2, Episode 12: Fast Eddie Winslow

When Eddie loses $250 to a hardened pool hustler, he's rescued by Steve, who challenges the hustler to a game.

  

Episode 35 - Season 2, Episode 13: Have Yourself a Merry Winslow Christmas

Christmas is never more wondrous for the Winslows than when they see that Steve's belief in Santa Claus may not be misplaced.

  

Episode 36 - Season 2, Episode 14: Ice Station Winslow

Carl's decision to take his reluctant son ice fishing almost ends in tragedy when the ice on the frozen lake gives way.

  

Episode 37 - Season 2, Episode 15: Son

Harriette acts as peacemaker when a fierce argument between Carl and Eddie threatens to tear the family apart.

  

Episode 38 - Season 2, Episode 16: Do the Right Thing

A guilty conscience plagues Carl when he finds a diamond bracelet; Steve faces his own conscience when he has a chance to ruin Laura's latest boyfriend, the new basketball player at school.

  

Episode 39 - Season 2, Episode 17: High Hopes

Steve finds an unorthodox way of curing Carl of his fear of heights. Rachel and Harriette argue over just who won a car on a radio contest.

  

Episode 40 - Season 2, Episode 18: Life of the Party

Aunt Rachel rescues Steve when his punch is spiked at a party.

  

Episode 41 - Season 2, Episode 19: Busted

Eddie dents the family car and tries to get the money to secretly repair it by going gambling with Steve. The boys are arrested and bailed out by Carl, who is feeling sheepish because he accidentally threw away a relative's ashes.

  

Episode 42 - Season 2, Episode 20: Fight the Good Fight

Laura starts a campaign to have a black history course taught at her school.

  

Episode 43 - Season 2, Episode 21: Taking Credit

Steve and Carl both learn a lesson about when to take credit for their achievement.

  

Episode 44 - Season 2, Episode 22: Finding the Words

Harriette and Rachel's father--whom they had believed was killed in the Korean War--comes to the Winslow home and wants to make amends for abandoning his daughters.

  

Episode 45 - Season 2, Episode 23: Skip to My Lieu

Steve Urkel gives Laura Winslow a bracelet, and Lieutenant Murtagh goes on a date with Rachel. Both are bluntly spurned, leaving Urkel consoling Lieutenant Murtagh.

  

Episode 46 - Season 2, Episode 24: The Good, the Bad, and the Urkel

Carl dreams that he is facing "Two-Gun Urkel," the most annoying gunslinger in the West.

  

Episode 47 - Season 2, Episode 25: I Should Have Done Something

Carl Winslow experiences guilt over a hostage who was shot a year ago while he was on duty as a police officer. Steve Urkel bribes Laura Winslow to go out on a date with him.

  

Episode 48 - Season 3, Episode 1: Boom!

Steve Urkel steals an orangutan from a lab, hiding him at the Winslows' house. Lieutenant Murtagh forces Carl to use a state-of-the-art treadmill to get in shape not realizing that one of his enemies has wired it with a bomb. Carl is forced to keep exercising or be blown up.

  

Episode 49 - Season 3, Episode 2: Brain Over Brawn

Carl finally proves his prowess as a handyman by fixing his roof, but while gloating, he falls off of the roof. Steve challenges a "suitor" of Laura's to a rope climb: The loser must stay away from Laura forever.

  

Episode 50 - Season 3, Episode 3: The Show Must Go On

Laura is cast as Juliet in the school play. When the leading man gets sick, Steve plays Romeo and Laura must kiss him. Lieutenant Murtagh forces Carl to do his personal errands for Carl's annual performance review.

  

Episode 51 - Season 3, Episode 4: Words Hurt

When Steve's sleepwalking disturbs Carl, the Winslows hire a hypnotherapist to cure him. Under hypnosis, Steve reveals that he thinks Carl hates him. Carl insists he doesn't, and Steve hooks him to a polygraph to verify that he's sincere.

  

Episode 52 - Season 3, Episode 5: Daddy's Little Girl

Carl gets a new rookie partner, Mike, who idolizes him. When Laura meets Mike, she develops an attraction to him and makes a fool of herself. And Carl unknowingly helps embarrass her.

  

Episode 53 - Season 3, Episode 6: Citizen's Court

Steve purchases an expensive beetle, but when it escapes in the Winslow house, Carl smashes it, not knowing it's Steve's pet. The two go on television to settle the case on "Citizen's Court."

  

Episode 54 - Season 3, Episode 7: Robo-Nerd

Steve builds a robot that looks and talks--and chases after Laura--just like him.

  

Episode 55 - Season 3, Episode 8: Making the Team

When Laura is disliked as the new girl on the cheerleading squad, she asks Steve for help on how to cope with being unpopular. Steve then leads the basketball team to victory with Laura cheering him on.

  

Episode 56 - Season 3, Episode 9: Born to Be Mild

When a local gang intimidates the customers at Rachel's diner and beats up Eddie, Carl and Steve team up. Steve goes undercover to join the gang.

  

Episode 57 - Season 3, Episode 10: The Love God

Eddie arranges for Vonda, a girl with a reputation for granting sexual favors, to be tutored by Steve. But instead of bestowing her affection upon Eddie, Vonda wants to thank Steve. Carl dresses up as a woman for a police undercover operation.

  

Episode 58 - Season 3, Episode 11: Old and Alone

On Laura's fifteenth birthday, Steve chases a boy she likes away from her by claiming she has a highly infectious disease. Laura doesn't want Steve around her, but she changes her mind after she dreams that she's ninety years old and all alone.

  

Episode 59 - Season 3, Episode 12: A Pair of Ladies

Steve loses the money he saved to buy an accordion when Carl's boss beats him at poker. But then Carl feels bad and personally refunds the money, and Steve uses it to play poker again--this time beating Lieutenant Murtagh.

  

Episode 60 - Season 3, Episode 13: Choir Trouble

Steve comes to church with the Winslows and decides to join the choir. When Rachel, the new choir director, discovers he's tone deaf, she won't allow him to participate. Then she alienates the choir members until everyone quits.

  

Episode 61 - Season 3, Episode 14: A Test of Friendship

Carl sleeps on the couch while his house is being robbed! Eddie convinces Steve to help him cheat on a chemistry test, but when Steve is caught, Eddie refuses to admit that he was the one cheating.

  

Episode 62 - Season 3, Episode 15: Jailhouse Blues

Eddie and Steve land in jail when Eddie's smooth-talking cousin Clarence steals a Ferrari.

  

Episode 63 - Season 3, Episode 16: Brown Bombshell

Carl struggles to deal with Steve's pen pal, a woman who has just been released from prison. She is in love with Steve, but Steve had sent her a photo of Carl. Mother Winslow tries to relate family history to her uninterested grandchildren.

  

Episode 64 - Season 3, Episode 17: Food Lies and Videotape

Steve takes a cooking class.

  

Episode 65 - Season 3, Episode 18: My Broken-Hearted Valentine

Steve asks Laura to be his valentine, but she declines, favoring instead the offer of Daniel Wallace. Maxine warns Laura that Daniel will try to seduce her but Laura doesn't believe her until it's too late.

  

Episode 66 - Season 3, Episode 19: Woman of the People

When Laura runs against a friend for student council president, the girl tries to blackmail Laura by threatening to publish a photo of Steve and Laura in an apparent embrace! Carl becomes jealous when the neighbors ask Harriette to run a neighborhood watch program.

  

Episode 67 - Season 3, Episode 20: Love and Kisses

Desperate for Laura's attention, Steve promises to introduce her to soul singer Johnny Gill in exchange for a kiss. After 20 years of marriage, Carl and Harriette finally have a honeymoon, but with some unexpected problems.

  

Episode 68 - Season 3, Episode 21: Stop in the Name of Love

Harriette and Carl agree that Mother Winslow's vision is too bad for her to keep driving, but neither wants to tell her. Laura tries to help Waldo gain some confidence, but Waldo thinks she's in love with him.

  

Episode 69 - Season 3, Episode 22: The Urkel Who Came to Dinner

When his parents go on a vacation without him, Harriette invites Steve to stay with the Winslows.

  

Episode 70 - Season 3, Episode 23: Robo-Nerd II

Steve's robot look-alike "Urkelbot" returns to fight crime. The Winslow women try a new line of hair products and go bald.

  

Episode 71 - Season 3, Episode 24: Dudes

Eddie, Waldo and Steve are contestants on a television dating show where Steve professes his eternal love for Laura, embarrassing her. Carl lies, claiming he does not want a birthday party this year.

  

Episode 72 - Season 3, Episode 25: Farewell My Laura

Rachel and Laura read a story that Steve wrote. In the story, Steve is a 1940s detective whom Laura hires to protect Rachel, but when Rachel is killed, Steve must investigate all the suspects and deduce her murderer's identity.

  

Episode 73 - Season 4, Episode 1: Surely You Joust

When Carl becomes angry with his obnoxious neighbor Steve, they arrange to fight it out-on national television.

  

Episode 74 - Season 4, Episode 2: Hot Wheels

Carl buys Eddie a used police car so they can refurbish it together. Steve glues himself to Laura just as she is supposed to go out on a much anticipated date.

  

Episode 75 - Season 4, Episode 3: Dance to the Music

Laura is impressed when Steve arranges a great date for her--with another guy. Carl is jealous when Harriette takes piano lessons from a handsome young man.

  

Episode 76 - Season 4, Episode 4: Driving Carl Crazy

When Laura says she will go steady with the next boy to ask her out who has his own car, Steve acquires a car and persuades Carl to teach him to drive--seriously aggravating Carl's problem with anger management.

  

Episode 77 - Season 4, Episode 5: Rumor Has It

Ted spreads the rumor that he had sex with Laura, and Steve decides to reveal the rumor as false--at any cost.

  

Episode 78 - Season 4, Episode 6: No. One with a Bullet

Steve is hospitalized for an appendectomy, and Carl is happy to be rid of him. But when Carl is shot, he must share a hospital room with Steve.

  

Episode 79 - Season 4, Episode 7: Whose Kid Is It Anyway?

Eddie promises to take Richie trick-or-treating, but he leaves Richie with Waldo, who loses the boy.

  

Episode 80 - Season 4, Episode 8: An Officer and a Waldo

Eddie insults Waldo, who then joins the army. Eddie and Steve go to rescue him and are mistaken for army recruits--possibly the worst recruits ever.

  

Episode 81 - Season 4, Episode 9: Just One Date

When Laura refuses, for the thousandth time, to go out on a date with Steve, he climbs onto the Winslow's roof and vows to stay up there until Laura agrees to go out with him.

  

Episode 82 - Season 4, Episode 10: The Oddest Couple

After Eddie gets in a huge fight with Carl, he moves out and shares an apartment with Steve.

  

Episode 83 - Season 4, Episode 11: It's a Mad Mad Mad House

The Winslow household suffers when Harriette, upset with her family's lack of cooperation, refuses to cook and clean. When Eddie's teacher arrives to see Eddie's home life, she gets a horrible impression.

  

Episode 84 - Season 4, Episode 12: It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Urkel

Laura's guardian angel arrives and shows her a world where Steve's and Laura's roles are reversed--Steve is suave, while Laura is socially inept.

  

Episode 85 - Season 4, Episode 13: Muskrat Love

The "Sadie Hawkins Day" dance becomes interesting when Eddie refuses Melissa's offer to take him and then regrets it, while Laura's best friend goes with the guy Laura wanted to ask.

  

Episode 86 - Season 4, Episode 14: The Way the Ball Bounces

Both Eddie and Laura want to go to college. Laura works day and night studying for a big entrance exam, and Eddie decides to go to an easy college that wants him to play basketball for them.

  

Episode 87 - Season 4, Episode 15: A Thought in the Dark

Laura and Ted arrange a blind date for Steve with Ted's cousin Myra.

  

Episode 88 - Season 4, Episode 16: Tender Kisses

When Eddie can't get tickets to the big Tracie Spencer (Herself) concert, he sneaks into Tracie's hotel room to meet her.

  

Episode 89 - Season 4, Episode 17: Heart Strings

Valentine's Day brings romance into the Winslow's home as Laura agrees to be Steve's valentine and Gwendolyn tries to convince Richie to be her valentine.

  

Episode 90 - Season 4, Episode 18: Higher Anxiety

Carl becomes distressed when Mother Winslow goes camping with her boyfriend. Eddie's near-death experience, shared with Steve and Waldo, helps him realize that breaking up with his girlfriend isn't so bad.

  

Episode 91 - Season 4, Episode 19: Mama's Wedding

Carl gives Mother Winslow and Fletcher a huge wedding which gets even bigger when more than one hundred of Eddie's friends arrive by mistake.

  

Episode 92 - Season 4, Episode 20: Pulling Teeth

When Laura's best friend, Maxine, ends her relationship with her boyfriend, Laura, Steve, Eddie and Waldo all help get Maxine and Waldo together for a date.

  

Episode 93 - Season 4, Episode 21: Walk on the Wild Side

When Laura sneaks into a male strip club, Steve learns that Harriette is going as well, and he tries to warn Laura.

  

Episode 94 - Season 4, Episode 22: Hot Stuff

Laura successfully gets Steve romantically interested in Myra, who is infatuated with him. Eddie buys a new car stereo system and realizes that he got a good price because the equipment is stolen.

  

Episode 95 - Season 4, Episode 23: Stormy Weather

Laura attends the Junior Prom with Jimmy, who forbids her to speak to her intellectual friend, Steve. When Steve arrives at the prom with a gorgeous girl, Myra, all the students are shocked!

  

Episode 96 - Season 4, Episode 24: Buds 'N' Buns

Carl takes an extra job at a hot dog restaurant, working with his son, Eddie, but Eddie gets promoted and becomes his dad's boss. When Steve stops annoying Laura, she misses his friendship.

  

Episode 97 - Season 5, Episode 1: Hell Toupee

Carl buys a toupee after enduring one too many jokes from Harriette. Steve tries to end the interminable bickering between Laura and his new girlfriend, Myra.

  

Episode 98 - Season 5, Episode 2: It Didn't Happen One Night

Steve offers to drive Laura to a cheer leading championship after she misses the bus but Steve's car breaks down and Laura and Steve must share a motel room for the night. After Harriette says she wishes Carl would be more romantic, he uses his police bullhorn to declare his undying love to her ... and the entire neighborhood.

  

Episode 99 - Season 5, Episode 3: Saved By the Urkel

After Steve saves Carl's life, Carl and and his family feel obligated to be nice to him.

  

Episode 100 - Season 5, Episode 4: A Matter of Principle

When Harriette's boss asks her to discharge part of her staff, Carl encourages her to refuse, but Harriette's boss discharges her instead. Myra transfers to Steve's school to be closer to him ... but becomes frustrated because he is not physically passionate.

  

Episode 101 - Season 5, Episode 5: Money out the Window

Eddie bets on football games, then steals a stamp from his father's collection to pay his bookie. Laura works two jobs to buy a car.

  

Episode 102 - Season 5, Episode 6: Best Friends

Eddie hires his good friend Waldo to work at Mighty Weenie and then considers discharging Waldo because he's horrible at the job. Laura is embarrassed by her mother.

  

Episode 103 - Season 5, Episode 7: Grandmama

Eddie agrees to be Steve's partner in a basketball tournament but then finds a better partner. Steve partners with an old lady, Grandmama.

  

Episode 104 - Season 5, Episode 8: Dr. Urkel And Mr. Cool

When Laura tells Steve to be less annoying, he creates a potion that transforms him into a suave, charming man. But his new attitude soon causes more problems than it solves.

  

Episode 105 - Season 5, Episode 9: Car Wars

Laura encounters sexism while shopping for a used car but she uses the salesman's sexist attitudes against him to negotiate a good price for a car.

  

Episode 106 - Season 5, Episode 10: All the Wrong Moves

To teach Carl a lesson, Harriette makes him pay her for her housework. Steve and Laura both have overly aggressive dates at the same drive-in movie.

  

Episode 107 - Season 5, Episode 11: Christmas Is Where the Heart Is

Carl learns the true meaning of Christmas aboard a train stranded in a snowstorm as Steve attempts to cheer the miserable passengers.

  

Episode 108 - Season 5, Episode 12: Scenes from a Mall

The shopping mall is the meeting place for a battle between the sexes as the Winslow children and their friends converge.

  

Episode 109 - Season 5, Episode 13: Rock Enroll

After performing with his friend, the famous singer Shanice, at a benefit concert, Eddie announces his plans to pursue a singing career rather than go to college.

  

Episode 110 - Season 5, Episode 14: Like a Virgin

Eddie is humiliated when his friends learn that he is still a virgin.

  

Episode 111 - Season 5, Episode 15: Good Cop Bad Cop

Eddie is harassed by police officers while driving through a white neighborhood.

  

Episode 112 - Season 5, Episode 16: Presumed Urkel

Laura defends classmate Steve in a student trial when he is accused of blowing up the science laboratory.

  

Episode 113 - Season 5, Episode 17: Father of the Bride

Carl (Reginald VelJohnson) dreams that his daughter, Laura (Kellie Shanygne Williams), marries Steve (Jaleel White).

  

Episode 114 - Season 5, Episode 18: Psycho Twins

When Carl, Steve and the boys visit a professional wrestler, Steve's new potion puts the wrestler and his partner to sleep--and Carl and Steve agree to take the sleeping wrestlers' places in the ring against The Bushwackers.

  

Episode 115 - Season 5, Episode 19: That's What Friends Are For

When Waldo is worried that college will end his friendship with Eddie and Carl is afraid to take the test to become a lieutenant, Eddie and Mother Winslow help them gain self-confidence.

  

Episode 116 - Season 5, Episode 20: Opposites Attract

Laura clashes with an overeager reporter at the school newspaper--but then realizes her attraction to him. Steve suffers from a severe attack of the hiccups after he is robbed in his own home.

  

Episode 117 - Season 5, Episode 21: A-Camping We Will Go

Carl, Eddie and Waldo's camping trip is disrupted when Steve arrives. Steve becomes even more annoying when he warns them about dangers at their campsite--all of which prove to be true.

  

Episode 118 - Season 5, Episode 22: Aunt Oona

Steve's dowdy Aunt Oona (DONNA SUMMER) visits and with Harriette's help becomes confident enough to win a singing competition.

  

Episode 119 - Season 5, Episode 23: Nunsense

Steve, Eddie and Waldo dress up as nuns and search for Myra in the convent to which she went after Steve ended their relationship.

  

Episode 120 - Season 5, Episode 24: Stefan Returns

Laura encourages nerdy Steve to create a new, improved potion to transform himself into his suave alter ego again--this time without the obnoxious side effects.

  

Episode 121 - Season 6, Episode 1: To Be or Not to Be Pt. 1

Steve transforms back into Stefan to please Laura. When Carl has problems with his eyesight, Eddie convinces him to use Steve's transformation machine but something goes wrong.

  

Episode 122 - Season 6, Episode 2: To Be or Not to Be Pt. 2

Carl upsets his family when he must remain a nerd while the suave Stefan, formerly Steve Urkel, struggles to fix his transformation chamber.

  

Episode 123 - Season 6, Episode 3: Till Death Do Us Apartment

Eddie goes to college and moves into an apartment with Waldo but, despite his new found freedom, has trouble with the opposite sex.

  

Episode 124 - Season 6, Episode 4: The Looney Bin

Steve and Carl get locked in the school bomb shelter with the school custodian, Mr. Looney. Harriette becomes discouraged in her search for a job.

  

Episode 125 - Season 6, Episode 5: Beta Chi Guy

Eddie wants to join a college fraternity but his prospective fraternity brothers ask him to give up his friendship with the socially inept Steve.

  

Episode 126 - Season 6, Episode 6: Dark and Stormy Night

In a ghost story that the Winslow family invents during a power outage on Halloween, Carl and Harriette play vampires living in a castle.

  

Episode 127 - Season 6, Episode 7: Par for the Course

When he learns that his new boss (Sherman Hemsley) loves to play golf, Carl pretends to be interested in it as well. But the Captain cheats, and Steve insists that Carl confront him and demand that he play fairly.

  

Episode 128 - Season 6, Episode 8: Sink or Swim

Carl must teach Steve to swim, or Steve won't be able to graduate from high school. Rachel gets into a fight with Harriette when she tries to return a dress to the store where Harriette works in customer service.

  

Episode 129 - Season 6, Episode 9: Paradise Bluff

Steve and Myra are almost killed on lovers' lane, but Steve asks Myra to wear his science club pin. Carl is convinced that Harriette thinks he's an inadequate lover.

  

Episode 130 - Season 6, Episode 10: Flying Blind

When the pilot, a vindictive ex-convict, parachutes out of their plane, Carl and Steve are forced to fly an airplane together—and neither one knows how. Eddie experiences financial difficulties.

  

Episode 131 - Season 6, Episode 11: Miracle on Elm Street

In this Christmas episode, Richie invites a homeless man who claims to be Santa Claus to dinner. Steve searches through tons of garbage to find a special present for Laura.

  

Episode 132 - Season 6, Episode 12: Midterm Crisis

Eddie and Steve try to bake a cake for Waldo's class project after eating the one Waldo made. Carl realizes that his boss (Sherman Hemsley) is dating a stripper - and it's Carl's responsibility to tell him.

  

Episode 133 - Season 6, Episode 13: An Unlikely Match

When the school bully is diagnosed with leukemia, Steve organizes a bone marrow drive.

  

Episode 134 - Season 6, Episode 14: The Substitute Son

Eddie neglects Carl, so Waldo tries to be a "son" to Carl. Steve transforms himself into a martial arts expert to defend Laura's honor.

  

Episode 135 - Season 6, Episode 15: The Gun

After she is robbed, Laura considers getting a gun, but the Winslows organize a gun turn-in program instead.

  

Episode 136 - Season 6, Episode 16: Wedding Bell Blues

Steve's friend Mr. Looney (Tom Poston) is jilted on his wedding day when his fiancée leaves him for the church organist. Steve and Carl have to climb up the steeple of the church to save Mr. Looney from jumping.

  

Episode 137 - Season 6, Episode 17: Ain't Nothin' but an Urkel

Steve accidentally transforms himself into Elvis Presley. While they are counseling a young couple about marriage, Carl and Harriette get into an argument.

  

Episode 138 - Season 6, Episode 18: My Uncle The Hero

Carl hosts Richie's class trip to the precinct. Myra sees Steve and Laura together and becomes jealous, not knowing they are planning a surprise party for her.

  

Episode 139 - Season 6, Episode 19: My Bodyguard

Carl loses his self-confidence after he is tricked by a robber, while Steve stops the thief. But then Carl is assigned to protect Steve from the robber's brother.

  

Episode 140 - Season 6, Episode 20: Cheers Looking At You Kid

Laura enjoys her independence when her parents allow her to fly to a cheer leading competition alone - but she must also decide what to do when a guy she likes visits her in her hotel room.

  

Episode 141 - Season 6, Episode 21: What's Up Doc?

The Winslow family visits a psychiatrist for advice on how to live with Steve.

  

Episode 142 - Season 6, Episode 22: We're Going To Disney World Pt. 1

On a trip to Disney World, Steve transforms himself into his suave alter ego and proposes marriage to Laura, and Carl decides to quit his job and move the family to Florida.

  

Episode 143 - Season 6, Episode 23: We're Going To Disney World Pt. 2

On a trip to Disney World, Laura must decide whether to marry Steve's suave alter ego, Stefan, and Carl yearns for his job in Chicago.

  

Episode 144 - Season 6, Episode 24: They Shoot Urkels Don't They?

A dance marathon pits Steve against Carl. Musical group All-4-One performs.

  

Episode 145 - Season 6, Episode 25: Home Sweet Home

Steve's parents move to Russia and Steve moves in with Eddie and Waldo. But when he causes their ceiling to collapse, Steve becomes Carl's house guest instead.

  

Episode 146 - Season 7, Episode 1: Little Big Guy

Steve tries to show Carl a new moneymaking use of his transformation machine but it malfunctions and shrinks them both to a few inches in height stranding them on the kitchen counter.

  

Episode 147 - Season 7, Episode 2: The Naked and the Nerdy

Steve and Laura accidentally see each other naked--a traumatic experience for both. Carl's neighbor asks Carl to hold onto an expensive diamond bracelet. But Harriette finds it and thinks Carl bought it for her.

  

Episode 148 - Season 7, Episode 3: Bugged

Steve guiltily fantasizes about a gorgeous bug collector. Carl plays poker with Harriette's obnoxious boss.

  

Episode 149 - Season 7, Episode 4: Teacher's Pet

Steve substitute teaches his English class, but when things get out of control Stefan saves the day.

  

Episode 150 - Season 7, Episode 5: Walking My Baby Back Home

When Eddie is forbidden to see his new girlfriend, he gets Steve to help arrange secret meetings for them. Mother Winslow is audited by the IRS.

  

Episode 151 - Season 7, Episode 6: She's Back

While Steve is visiting relatives in Russia, his cousin Myrtle visits the Winslows.

  

Episode 152 - Season 7, Episode 7: Hot Rods to Heck

To distract Laura from a flirtatious senior, Steve challenges him to a car race.

  

Episode 153 - Season 7, Episode 8: Talk's Cheap

Waldo convinces Steve, Myra and Laura to appear on a talk show to discuss unfulfilling romances. But everyone is surprised when Myrtle comes on and talks about her unrequited love for Eddie. Meanwhile, Harriette tries to inspire passion in a reluctant Carl.

  

Episode 154 - Season 7, Episode 9: Struck by Lightning

Steve refuses to go outside after being struck by lightening three times. Laura and Myra compete for the same sales job at a department store.

  

Episode 155 - Season 7, Episode 10: Best Years of Our Lives

Steve is put in charge of building the school's homecoming parade float. With some difficulty, he gets volunteers to build a beautiful float. Unfortunately, while transporting it to the school, Steve crashes the float and destroys it. Mother Winslow sustains a series of minor injuries in her strenuous hobbies, including karate and square dancing.

  

Episode 156 - Season 7, Episode 11: Fa La La La Laagghh!

Carl agrees to let Steve decorate the Winslow household for the Christmas season, and Harriette feels sad because Laura and Eddie seem to be too busy to participate in family Christmas activities.

  

Episode 157 - Season 7, Episode 12: Friendship Cycles

Steve really wants to go on a class bicycle trip with Myra, but he doesn't know how to ride a bicycle. When Carl refuses to teach Steve how to ride a bicycle, Steve tries to teach himself. Meanwhile, Laura and her best friend, Maxine, quarrel over whether Max should go to college or cosmetology school, and Carl becomes enamored of his new car.

  

Episode 158 - Season 7, Episode 13: South of the Border

Carl, Eddie and Steve try to rescue Waldo when he gets arrested on a tiny island nation, and Laura is reluctant to date a boy whom Harriette recommends--until she discovers he is a boy she has wanted to date.

  

Episode 159 - Season 7, Episode 14: Life in the Fast Lane

Steve becomes extremely nervous and destroys Carl's garage after mistaking Laura's diet pills for vitamins and ingesting them.

  

Episode 160 - Season 7, Episode 15: Random Acts of Science

Steve and Carl are defenseless when they get robbed--until they step into Steve's transformation machine and become karate experts. Laura gets a nose ring.

  

Episode 161 - Season 7, Episode 16: Tips for a Better Life

Carl gets upset when Eddie starts drinking excessively. Steve transforms into Stefan and plays at a jazz club.

  

Episode 162 - Season 7, Episode 17: Swine Lake

Eddie reluctantly enrolls in ballet lessons to improve his basketball skills. When he and his girlfriend, Greta, perform a ballet with the class Myrtle Urkel arrives and takes Greta's place. Harriette becomes depressed when Laura's boyfriend thinks that she is Laura's grandmother. She begins dressing like Tina Turner but finally becomes comfortable with her age.

  

Episode 163 - Season 7, Episode 18: My Big Brother

Steve becomes a mentor for a tough but charming inner-city 9-year-old, 3J, and discovers that, although smart, 3J is illiterate. At first, 3J rejects Steve's help. But Steve excites him about the worlds one can find in books, and 3J decides to learn to read.

  

Episode 164 - Season 7, Episode 19: Eau de Love

When Steve casts a spell on Laura with a magical love potion, his lifelong quest for her may finally have a happy ending. Harriette and Carl's plans for a romantic second honeymoon are thwarted.

  

Episode 165 - Season 7, Episode 20: Twinkle Toes Faldo

Waldo enrolls in tap-dancing class to improve his agility. Carl must tell Laura some bad news about her college aspirations.

  

Episode 166 - Season 7, Episode 21: Scammed

Eddie and Waldo go to a bar where they think famous basketball players congregate, but they are astounded by the expensive bill. Myra makes an organic facial treatment for Laura--with Steve's superglue.

  

Episode 167 - Season 7, Episode 22: Dream Date

When Laura and Steve both end up without dates for the senior prom, they decide to go with each other. Steve tries very hard to make it a special night for Laura, and the evening ends with a romantic kiss. The Winslows' unpleasant neighbor wants them to tear down Carl's fence so he can build a barbecue. When Harriette and Carl object, it results in a nasty confrontation.

  

Episode 168 - Season 7, Episode 23: A Ham Is Born

Carl lands the lead role in a movie while moonlighting as a security guard. Steve helps Richie create an artificial tornado for a science project.

  

Episode 169 - Season 7, Episode 24: Send in the Clone

Steve invents a cloning machine and replicates himself. The clone causes havoc around the Winslow house until Steve explains what's going on.

  

Episode 170 - Season 8, Episode 1: Paris Vacation, Pt. 1

Steve invents a device that transports himself, his clone and the Winslows to Paris, where romance blossoms for Laura, and Steve is held captive by a beautiful scientist.

  

Episode 171 - Season 8, Episode 2: Paris Vacation, Pt. 2

Steve invents a device that transports himself, his clone and the Winslows to Paris, where romance blossoms for Laura, and Steve is held captive by a beautiful scientist.

  

Episode 172 - Season 8, Episode 3: Paris Vacation, Pt. 3

In Paris, Steve must escape from kidnappers who want his latest invention. He and Carl lead his pursuers on a wild chase that ends with Steve hanging from the Eiffel Tower.

  

Episode 173 - Season 8, Episode 4: Movin' On

On his first day of college, Steve finds something he's never experienced before: popularity!

  

Episode 174 - Season 8, Episode 5: 3J in the House

The Winslows realize their true feelings for 3J when he runs away from his group home.

  

Episode 175 - Season 8, Episode 6: Getting Buff

Steve finds himself in an uncomfortable position when Eddie's longtime girlfriend models nude for Steve's sculpting class. Harriette tries to convince Carl not to be petty with their nasty neighbor Nick Neidermeyer--but revenge proves too tempting.

  

Episode 176 - Season 8, Episode 7: Stevil

Steve's ventriloquist dummy comes to life on Halloween, wreaking havoc in the Winslow household.

  

Episode 177 - Season 8, Episode 8: Karate Kids

Steve takes a job as a playground supervisor and is threatened by some tough bullies, but Steve transforms himself, 3J and Harriette's young nephew Richie into martial arts experts. Carl's obnoxious neighbor Nick Neidermeyer fakes an injury and threatens to sue Carl--until Eddie helps prove that Nick is lying.

  

Episode 178 - Season 8, Episode 9: Home Again

To mend his long-distance relationship with Laura, Stefan visits from Paris and performs in a concert with the popular singing group New Edition. Because Carl and Harriette must stay at home to take care of 3J and Richie the youngsters arrange for New Edition to serenade Carl and Harriette.

  

Episode 179 - Season 8, Episode 10: Nightmare at Urkel Oaks

Eddie dreams that he is married to Steve's Southern-belle cousin. Jaleel White and Reginald VelJohnson play dual roles.

  

Episode 180 - Season 8, Episode 11: Chick-a-Boom

Carl hosts a dinner party for his superiors. Since he cannot afford to pay a caterer, Carl hires Myra to cook. Unfortunately, Myra mistakes Steve's powdered explosive for pepper, and the guests must flee from exploding chicken dinners.

  

Episode 181 - Season 8, Episode 12: The Jury

Steve must prove a defendant innocent when he and Carl serve on a jury together.

  

Episode 182 - Season 8, Episode 13: It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

While searching for the perfect Christmas tree, Carl and Steve get stranded in a remote forest.

  

Episode 183 - Season 8, Episode 14: Revenge of the Nerd

Laura is excited about joining a sorority until she learns Steve has been named the star of its annual geek party.

  

Episode 184 - Season 8, Episode 15: Love Triangles

When Laura encourages her good friend Maxine to date more, Maxine dates Curtis. Despite the fact that she is now dating Stefan, Laura is jealous.

  

Episode 185 - Season 8, Episode 16: Father Time

When Steve transports Carl back in time, Carl learns a valuable lesson about priorities.

  

Episode 186 - Season 8, Episode 17: Beauty and the Beast

Harriette serves as the chairperson for a beauty pageant and convinces Laura, Maxine, Myra and Greta to participate. Steve's aggressive Southern cousin, Myrtle, also travels to town to enter the competition.

  

Episode 187 - Season 8, Episode 18: Le Jour D'Amour

Steve narrates three tales of love, including Carl's attempts to "recycle" Harriette's Valentine's Day card.

  

Episode 188 - Season 8, Episode 19: What Do You Know?

Eddie is chosen as a contestant on a television game show and given the chance to win a car, but he realizes that he is not smart enough to answer the difficult questions. Desperate, Eddie uses the transformation machine becoming a Steve clone to gain Steve's intelligence. When Steve finds out, he competes against Eddie on the show.

  

Episode 189 - Season 8, Episode 20: Odd Man In

Carl needs one more person for his poker-playing group. Harriette joins--and beats everyone. Meanwhile, in order to be a judge at a bikini contest, Eddie convinces Steve to temporarily replace him in his job as a peanut vendor at a football stadium. However, Steve causes so many mishaps that he is terminated--along with Eddie.

  

Episode 190 - Season 8, Episode 21: Flirting with Disaster

Because of Steve's frequent calamities, insurance adjuster Mr. Tolbert threatens to raise Carl's homeowner's insurance. Steve offers to move in next to Mr. Tolbert to solve the problem. However, Mr. Tolbert decides not to raise Carl's rates if Steve will stay where he is.

  

Episode 191 - Season 8, Episode 22: Pound Foolish

Steve's Aunt Oona (Donna Summer) is very fat, but when she sings in the church choir, the Reverend asks her on a date. Oona convinces Steve to put her in his compression chamber to make her thin; however, the machine malfunctions and makes her even fatter.

  

Episode 192 - Season 8, Episode 23: The Brother Who Came to Dinner

Carl's fugitive brother visits unexpectedly, and Carl's boss wants Carl to arrest his brother.

  

Episode 193 - Season 8, Episode 24: A Pirate's Life for Me

Steve uses his time-travel machine to transport himself and Carl back to a pirate ship in the year 1704. The pirates declare Carl their new captain, angering the former captain. Laura, Myra and Maxine follow Carl and Steve back in time to take them home.

  

Episode 194 - Season 9, Episode 1: Out With the Old

When Laura asks Eddie and Stefan to participate in her sorority's kissing auction for charity, Steve feels rejected. He deliberately changes his persona, wearing clothes that are less weird and lowering the nasal pitch of his voice. At the auction, Laura bids for Steve out of pity--and he kisses her. Meanwhile, Harriette is promoted to the position of buyer at the store. She receives a better salary than Carl, which causes tension. When Carl takes a temporary job at night as a parking attendant, an unhealthy competition ensues between the two.

  

Episode 195 - Season 9, Episode 2: They Shoot Ducks, Don't They?

After Carl forgets Steve's birthday, Carl promises to be available for Steve on the weekend. However, Commissioner Geiss, Carl's boss at the police station, invites Carl to go hunting with him. In order to ingratiate himself with Commissioner Geiss, Carl cancels his plans with Steve. But to Carl's chagrin, Steve comes along on the hunting trip and expresses his dismay at the slaughter of innocent fowl. Laura borrows Harriette's diamond earrings without asking--then loses one while dancing.

  

Episode 196 - Season 9, Episode 3: Dumb Belle of the Ball

Steve's Southern belle cousin, Myrtle Urkel, desperately wants Eddie to escort her to her debutante ball. After Myrtle jumps in front of an oncoming car, risking her life to save his Eddie reluctantly agrees to accompany her to the dance. Meanwhile, when Laura and Carl argue about Laura's choice of clothing, Laura learns that she must act like an adult in order to be treated like one.

  

Episode 197 - Season 9, Episode 4: Drinking and Jiving

In an effort to change her reputation as an overly responsible person, Laura goes wild at a fraternity party and gets very drunk. When Steve drives her home that night, she kisses him. To her amazement, she likes the kiss--but later she pretends not to remember it. Carl secretly plans a special wedding anniversary event for Harriette, while Harriette plans a surprise anniversary event for Carl scheduled for the same night.

  

Episode 198 - Season 9, Episode 5: Who's Afraid of the Big Black Book?

As Steve plans a surprise 21st birthday party for Eddie, Laura schemes to get revenge on Eddie for embarrassing her. She provides the unwitting Steve with Eddie's private list of his former girlfriends, and Steve innocently invites them all to the party. Carl's boss, Commissioner Geiss promotes his own son instead of the more qualified Carl.

  

Episode 199 - Season 9, Episode 6: A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read

When one of Steve's laboratory experiments goes awry, he gains the ability to read people's minds. Initially, he is thrilled but he soon becomes overwhelmed by everyone's thoughts. A reluctant Carl is persuaded to volunteer as a troop leader for the club that Richie and 3J want to join.

  

Episode 200 - Season 9, Episode 7: Stevil II: This Time He's Not Alone

Last year on Halloween, Steve created a small, evil ventriloquist's dummy in his image that came to life and wreaked havoc. Now, the dummy, dubbed Stevil, returns with a nightmarish sidekick named Carlsbad, who looks like a little version of Carl. Together, they cause chaos in the Winslow household. They attempt to take over the souls of Steve and Carl and form an entertainment act bound for the stages of Las Vegas, Nevada.

  

Episode 201 - Season 9, Episode 8: Trading Places

Distraught because Laura has been aloof lately, Stefan confides his relationship woes to Steve--and learns that Laura might be interested in dating Steve instead! Skeptical, Stefan challenges Steve to switch identities with him for one night. For a school project, Eddie films a documentary about the police, following Carl on his patrol.

  

Episode 202 - Season 9, Episode 9: A Pain in Harassment

Harriette expects her new boss at the store to be tough. However, he is worse than she imagined, verbally abusing the entire staff. When Harriette defends her coworkers, she almost gets terminated from her job. Meanwhile, Steve wins a candy bar promotional competition, which gives him the opportunity to win a million dollars in a basketball-shooting contest.

  

Episode 203 - Season 9, Episode 10: Original Gangsta Dawg

Right before Steve goes out of town for the weekend, his cousin O.G.D. (Original Gangsta Dawg) (also played by Jaleel White) arrives. O.G.D. is the complete opposite of Steve, with a bad reputation and a worse attitude. He proves to be a poor influence on 3J and bothers Laura by flirting aggressively. With his complete disregard for the police and all authority figures, O.G.D. clashes with Carl.

  

Episode 204 - Season 9, Episode 11: Deck the Malls

Myra gets Steve a job in the local mall working in the gift-wrapping department, while Carl and Laura portray Santa Claus and Santa's helper. Meanwhile, Richie's excitement over the impending holiday visit of his mother is squelched when her flight is canceled due to a blizzard. But Eddie secretly drives all the way to Detroit to get Rachel so Richie can be with his mother on Christmas morning.

  

Episode 205 - Season 9, Episode 12: Grill of My Dreams

Steve convinces Mr. Tanaka (Pat Morita), the owner of a Japanese restaurant, to teach him how to cook Japanese food. Feathers fly when Carl cares for his boss' beloved but stubborn parrot.

  

Episode 206 - Season 9, Episode 13: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

Eddie tells Carl that he wants to quit school and become a policeman. Carl explains that police work is extremely stressful and dangerous; it's not an easy career choice. But when Eddie insists that he is making an informed decision, Carl proudly salutes him in front of his colleagues. Steve finally prepares to end his relationship with Myra. She threatens to sue Steve for alienation of affection and introduces her lawyer, Johnnie Cochran.

  

Episode 207 - Season 9, Episode 14: Crazy for You

Spurned by Steve, Myra devises an elaborate scheme to sabotage the relationship between Steve and Laura. But her plan fails, and Laura ends up kissing Steve. During Eddie's police training, Carl warns his son that using good judgment is as important as knowing how to shoot a gun. However, impressed by his own shooting ability, Eddie fails to heed Carl's advice--until Carl teaches him a valuable lesson.

  

Episode 208 - Season 9, Episode 15: Crazier for You

When Steve and Laura finally go on their first official date together, Myra interrupts it--dressed exactly like Laura. Carl gets into trouble when Harriette finds out that the engagement ring he gave her was originally intended for someone else.

  

Episode 209 - Season 9, Episode 16: Whose Man Is It Anyway?

The Winslow's foster child, 3J, yearns to know his biological parents. 3J's mother is an unmarried waitress recovering from drug addiction, but she doesn't want 3J to reunite with her yet. Rather than upset 3J, Carl promises to search for his mother when 3J is older. After bringing the unknowing 3J to the diner where his mother works so she can see him, Carl informs the elated boy that the Winslows will adopt him. Meanwhile, Myrtle Urkel returns to town after learning how much Eddie loves Greta, and Laura suggests that the feuding girls compete in a boxing match to determine who should date Eddie.

  

Episode 210 - Season 9, Episode 17: Polkapalooza

Laura refuses to attend a polka festival with Steve, but when she sees how important it is to him, she dons a silly dress and accompanies him. At the dance, she meets a man whom Steve saved from choking, a woman whose baby Steve helped deliver and the director of a series of inner-city clinics that Steve founded. Laura is amazed. While Laura dances and--to her surprise--enjoys herself, Steve tells her that he loves her, and Laura says that she loves him. Eddie gets his own apartment; however, Carl becomes a frequent visitor, disrupting Eddie's romantic evenings with Greta. Aspiring cosmetologist Maxine accidentally turns Laura's hair green.

  

Episode 211 - Season 9, Episode 18: Throw Steve from the Train

Laura is suspicious of Maxine's wealthy new boyfriend, D'Andre Moore. After D'Andre asks Maxine to deliver an unmarked package for him, police cadet Eddie and his supervisor arrest D'Andre for dealing drugs, and Maxine apologizes to Laura. Steve accidentally goes to Washington, DC, on a train with Carl. En route he must share Carl's puny cabin for the entire trip from Chicago.

  

Episode 212 - Season 9, Episode 19: Don't Make Me Over

Determined to force Eddie to love her, Myrtle goes shopping with Laura and Maxine. But Eddie fends off her aggressive advances. Carl tells Harriette that his masseuse is fat and ugly. But the sexy masseuse comes to the house to return Carl's credit card, and Harriette berates Carl for lying. Chastened Carl hires a fat, ugly massage therapist.

  

Episode 213 - Season 9, Episode 20: Pop Goes the Question

Laura's ex-boyfriend, Stefan, reminds her that she promised to consider his marriage proposal someday. He gives her a beautiful diamond ring and asks her again. When Stefan leaves the room, Steve enters with 144 red roses and also proposes to Laura. When Laura remains undecided the next day, Steve packs his suitcases and prepares to travel to Russia to live with his parents. He claims that his love for her is so great that he will allow her to be with Stefan if she wants. But she tells Steve that she loves him and wants to marry him.

  

Episode 214 - Season 9, Episode 21: Lost in Space, Pt. 1

Eddie graduates from the police academy but is assigned to parking enforcement. Harriette spoke to the wife of Eddie's supervisor and arranged for Eddie to have a safe job. But when Eddie is shot at by a robber while writing parking tickets and heroically arrests the criminal, Harriette realizes that no police job is without danger and she should allow Eddie to do what he was trained to do. Meanwhile, as Steve and Laura prepare for their wedding, Steve is suddenly summoned for a mission aboard a U.S. space shuttle. However, his gravity machine unexpectedly causes a satellite to crash into the shuttle, injuring the astronauts and forcing Steve to walk in space to remove the satellite. As the terrified Laura and her family watch the television news, Steve drifts away, but he rewires the satellite to carry him back to the shuttle.

  

Episode 215 - Season 9, Episode 22: Lost in Space, Pt. 2

Eddie graduates from the police academy but is assigned to parking enforcement. Harriette spoke to the wife of Eddie's supervisor and arranged for Eddie to have a safe job. But when Eddie is shot at by a robber while writing parking tickets and heroically arrests the criminal, Harriette realizes that no police job is without danger and she should allow Eddie to do what he was trained to do. Meanwhile, as Steve and Laura prepare for their wedding, Steve is suddenly summoned for a mission aboard a U.S. space shuttle. However, his gravity machine unexpectedly causes a satellite to crash into the shuttle, injuring the astronauts and forcing Steve to walk in space to remove the satellite. As the terrified Laura and her family watch the television news, Steve drifts away, but he rewires the satellite to carry him back to the shuttle.

  



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