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The Best Episodes of Family Matters Season 3

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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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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Family Matters Season 3 Episode 9 - Born to be Mild
    8.0/10(195 votes)

    S3:E9

    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.

    Director:John Tracy
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Family Matters Season 3 Episode 25 - Farewell, My Laura
    7.6/10(155 votes)

    S3:E25

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:David W. Duclon

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  3. Family Matters Season 3 Episode 1 - Boom!
    7.3/10(165 votes)

    S3:E1

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

    Director:Richard Correll
    Writer:David W. Duclon

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  4. Family Matters Season 3 Episode 23 - Robo-Nerd II
    7.3/10(143 votes)

    S3:E23

    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.

    Director:Richard Correll
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Family Matters Season 3 Episode 24 - Dudes
    7.3/10(144 votes)

    S3:E24

    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.

    Director:Richard Correll
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Family Matters Season 3 Episode 8 - Making the Team
    7.2/10(148 votes)

    S3:E8

    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.

    Director:Richard Correll
    Writer:David W. Duclon

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  7. Family Matters Season 3 Episode 10 - The Love God
    7.2/10(159 votes)

    S3:E10

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

    Director:John Tracy
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Family Matters Season 3 Episode 11 - Old and Alone
    7.2/10(145 votes)

    S3:E11

    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.

    Director:Richard Correll
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Family Matters Season 3 Episode 16 - Brown Bombshell
    7.2/10(146 votes)

    S3:E16

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

    Director:John Tracy
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Family Matters Season 3 Episode 18 - My Broken-Hearted Valentine
    7.2/10(156 votes)

    S3:E18

    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.

    Director:Richard Correll
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Family Matters Season 3 Episode 19 - Woman of the People
    7.2/10(148 votes)

    S3:E19

    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.

    Director:David W. Duclon
    Writer:Richard Correll

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  12. Family Matters Season 3 Episode 21 - Stop, in the Name of Love
    7.2/10(139 votes)

    S3:E21

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:David W. Duclon

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  13. Family Matters Season 3 Episode 22 - The Urkel Who Came to Dinner
    7.2/10(141 votes)

    S3:E22

    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.

    Director:John Tracy
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Family Matters Season 3 Episode 2 - Brain over Brawn
    7.1/10(156 votes)

    S3:E2

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

    Director:Richard Correll
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Family Matters Season 3 Episode 4 - Words Hurt
    7.1/10(160 votes)

    S3:E4

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

    Director:John Tracy
    Writer:David W. Duclon

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  16. Family Matters Season 3 Episode 7 - Robo-Nerd
    7.1/10(154 votes)

    S3:E7

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

    Director:Richard Correll
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Family Matters Season 3 Episode 17 - Food, Lies and Videotape
    7.1/10(154 votes)

    S3:E17

    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.

    Director:John Tracy
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Family Matters Season 3 Episode 3 - The Show Must Go On
    7.0/10(152 votes)

    S3:E3

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

    Director:John Tracy
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Family Matters Season 3 Episode 6 - Citizen's Court
    7.0/10(152 votes)

    S3:E6

    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.

    Director:John Tracy
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Family Matters Season 3 Episode 12 - A Pair of Ladies
    6.9/10(147 votes)

    S3:E12

    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.

    Director:John Tracy
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Family Matters Season 3 Episode 15 - Jailhouse Blues
    6.9/10(158 votes)

    S3:E15

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Family Matters Season 3 Episode 5 - Daddy's Little Girl
    6.8/10(149 votes)

    S3:E5

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

    Director:Richard Correll
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Family Matters Season 3 Episode 20 - Love and Kisses
    6.8/10(145 votes)

    S3:E20

    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.

    Director:John Tracy
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Family Matters Season 3 Episode 14 - A Test of Friendship
    6.7/10(147 votes)

    S3:E14

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

    Director:Richard Correll
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Family Matters Season 3 Episode 13 - Choir Trouble
    6.5/10(154 votes)

    S3:E13

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Born to be Mild" is the best rated episode of "Family Matters" season 3. It scored 8/10 based on 195 votes. Directed by John Tracy and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/15/1991. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Farewell, My Laura".