A long-running dramedy centering on the Winslow family, a middle-class African American family living in Chicago, and their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel. A spin-off of Perfect Strangers.
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- Seasons
- 9
- Episodes aired
- 215
- Latest aired
- S09E22
- Total runtime
- 3d 9h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 September 1989 – April 1990 22 episodes
- Season 2 September 1990 – April 1991 25 episodes
- Season 3 September 1991 – May 1992 25 episodes
- Season 4 September 1992 – May 1993 24 episodes
- Season 5 September 1993 – May 1994 24 episodes
- Season 6 September 1994 – May 1995 25 episodes
- Season 7 September 1995 – May 1996 24 episodes
- Season 8 September 1996 – May 1997 24 episodes
- Season 9 September 1997 – July 1998 22 episodes
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S03E01 Boom!
September 20 · 24min find the promo
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Urkel rescues an orangutan from laboratory experiments. Carl steps on a treadmill booby trapped with a bomb.
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S03E02 Brain over Brawn
September 27 · 24min find the promo
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Urkel's future hangs in the balance during a rope-climbing contest pitting brains against brawn to win Laura's affections.
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S03E03 The Show Must Go On
October 4 · 24min find the promo
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In the school play, Romeo Steve looks forward to kissing Juliet Laura when the original Romeo lands in the hospital with appendicitis.
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S03E04 Words Hurt
October 11 · 24min find the promo
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Sleepwalking Urkel undergoes hypnosis to uncover the cause of his anger: he thinks Carl hates his nerdy guts.
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S03E05 Daddy's Little Girl
October 18 · 24min find the promo
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Laura's behavior suddenly changes when she meets Carl's younger new partner and surf's up for Steve.
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S03E06 Citizen's Court
October 25 · 24min find the promo
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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.
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S03E07 Robo-Nerd
November 1 · 24min find the promo
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Steve creates the Urkelbot, a mechanical Urkel that is all too much like its creator.
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S03E08 Making the Team
November 8 · 24min find the promo
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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.
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S03E09 Born to be Mild
November 15 · 24min find the promo
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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.
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S03E10 The Love God
November 22 · 24min find the promo
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Steve thwarts Eddie's potential romance, while Carl is undercover in drag.
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S03E11 Old and Alone
November 29 · 24min find the promo
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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.
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S03E12 A Pair of Ladies
December 6 · 24min find the promo
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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.
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S03E13 Choir Trouble
December 20 · 24min find the promo
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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.
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S03E14 A Test of Friendship
January 10 · 24min find the promo
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The Winslows are ripped off when Carl dozes off; Urkel takes the heat after helping Eddie cheat on a chemistry test.
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S03E15 Jailhouse Blues
January 17 · 24min find the promo
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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.
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S03E16 Brown Bombshell
January 31 · 24min find the promo
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Mother Winslow regales Eddie's classmates with tales of her late fighter-pilot husband and of World War II's Tuskegee Airmen.
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S03E17 Food, Lies and Videotape
February 7 · 24min find the promo
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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.
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S03E18 My Broken-Hearted Valentine
February 14 · 24min find the promo
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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.
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S03E19 Woman of the People
February 21 · 24min find the promo
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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.
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S03E20 Love and Kisses
February 28 · 24min find the promo
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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.
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S03E21 Stop, in the Name of Love
March 13 · 24min find the promo
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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.
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S03E22 The Urkel Who Came to Dinner
April 3 · 24min find the promo
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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.
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S03E23 Robo-Nerd II
April 24 · 24min find the promo
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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.
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S03E24 Dudes
May 1 · 24min find the promo
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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.
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S03E25 Farewell, My Laura
May 8 · 24min find the promo
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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.