Family Matters

1Boom!

24 minSep 20, 1991

Urkel rescues an orangutan from laboratory experiments. Carl steps on a treadmill booby trapped with a bomb.

2Brain over Brawn

24 minSep 27, 1991

Urkel's future hangs in the balance during a rope-climbing contest pitting brains against brawn to win Laura's affections.

3The Show Must Go On

24 minOct 4, 1991

In the school play, Romeo Steve looks forward to kissing Juliet Laura when the original Romeo lands in the hospital with appendicitis.

4Words Hurt

24 minOct 11, 1991

Sleepwalking Urkel undergoes hypnosis to uncover the cause of his anger: he thinks Carl hates his nerdy guts.

5Daddy's Little Girl

24 minOct 18, 1991

Laura's behavior suddenly changes when she meets Carl's younger new partner and surf's up for Steve.

6Citizen's Court

24 minOct 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.

7Robo-Nerd

24 minNov 1, 1991

Steve creates the Urkelbot, a mechanical Urkel that is all too much like its creator.

8Making the Team

24 minNov 8, 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.

9Born to be Mild

24 minNov 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.

10The Love God

24 minNov 22, 1991

Steve thwarts Eddie's potential romance, while Carl is undercover in drag.

11Old and Alone

24 minNov 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.

12A Pair of Ladies

24 minDec 6, 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.

13Choir Trouble

24 minDec 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.

14A Test of Friendship

24 minJan 10, 1992

The Winslows are ripped off when Carl dozes off; Urkel takes the heat after helping Eddie cheat on a chemistry test.

15Jailhouse Blues

24 minJan 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.

16Brown Bombshell

24 minJan 31, 1992

Mother Winslow regales Eddie's classmates with tales of her late fighter-pilot husband and of World War II's Tuskegee Airmen.

17Food, Lies and Videotape

24 minFeb 7, 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.

18My Broken-Hearted Valentine

24 minFeb 14, 1992

Urkel again tries to intervene in Laura's budding romance with Daniel Wallace, whom Steve has learned is nothing but trouble. Laura believes Urkel is meddling in her love life and tells him to go away.

19Woman of the People

24 minFeb 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.

20Love and Kisses

24 minFeb 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.

21Stop, in the Name of Love

24 minMar 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.

22The Urkel Who Came to Dinner

24 minApr 3, 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.

23Robo-Nerd II

24 minApr 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.

24Dudes

24 minMay 1, 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.

25Farewell, My Laura

24 minMay 8, 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.