7.3/10147 votes#1 - Boom!
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1991
Urkel rescues an orangutan from laboratory experiments. Carl steps on a treadmill booby trapped with a bomb.
Director: Rich Correll
Writer: David W. Duclon
7.0/10147 votes#2 - Brain over Brawn
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1991
Urkel's future hangs in the balance during a rope-climbing contest pitting brains against brawn to win Laura's affections.
Director: Rich Correll
Writer: N/A
6.9/10143 votes#3 - The Show Must Go On
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1991
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: N/A
7.1/10148 votes#4 - Words Hurt
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1991
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
7.0/10137 votes#5 - Daddy's Little Girl
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1991
Laura's behavior suddenly changes when she meets Carl's younger new partner and surf's up for Steve.
Director: Rich Correll
Writer: N/A
6.9/10141 votes#6 - Citizen's Court
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1991
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.
Director: John Tracy
Writer: N/A
7.0/10143 votes#7 - Robo-Nerd
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1991
Steve creates the Urkelbot, a mechanical Urkel that is all too much like its creator.
Director: Rich Correll
Writer: N/A
7.1/10140 votes#8 - Making the Team
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1991
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.
Director: Rich Correll
Writer: David W. Duclon
7.9/10186 votes#9 - Born to be Mild
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1991
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.
Director: John Tracy
Writer: N/A
7.1/10148 votes#10 - The Love God
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1991
Steve thwarts Eddie's potential romance, while Carl is undercover in drag.
Director: John Tracy
Writer: N/A
7.4/10136 votes#11 - Old and Alone
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1991
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.
Director: Rich Correll
Writer: N/A
6.8/10138 votes#12 - A Pair of Ladies
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1991
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.
Director: John Tracy
Writer: N/A
6.5/10145 votes#13 - Choir Trouble
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/20/1991
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.9/10137 votes#14 - A Test of Friendship
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/10/1992
The Winslows are ripped off when Carl dozes off; Urkel takes the heat after helping Eddie cheat on a chemistry test.
Director: Rich Correll
Writer: N/A
6.9/10145 votes#15 - Jailhouse Blues
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/17/1992
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10137 votes#16 - Brown Bombshell
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/31/1992
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: N/A
7.0/10145 votes#17 - Food, Lies and Videotape
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/7/1992
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.
Director: John Tracy
Writer: N/A
7.1/10146 votes#18 - My Broken-Hearted Valentine
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/14/1992
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.
Director: Rich Correll
Writer: N/A
7.1/10144 votes#19 - Woman of the People
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/21/1992
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.
Director: David W. Duclon
Writer: Rich Correll
6.7/10137 votes#20 - Love and Kisses
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/28/1992
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.
Director: John Tracy
Writer: N/A
7.5/10131 votes#21 - Stop, in the Name of Love
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/13/1992
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: David W. Duclon
7.3/10134 votes#22 - The Urkel Who Came to Dinner
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 4/3/1992
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.
Director: John Tracy
Writer: N/A
7.4/10133 votes#23 - Robo-Nerd II
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 4/24/1992
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.
Director: Rich Correll
Writer: N/A
7.3/10134 votes#24 - Dudes
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/1/1992
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.
Director: Rich Correll
Writer: N/A
7.5/10144 votes#25 - Farewell, My Laura
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 5/8/1992
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: David W. Duclon
The Best Episodes of Family Matters Season 3
Every episode of Family Matters Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Family Matters Season 3!
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...
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Boom!" is the best rated episode of "Family Matters" season 3. It scored 7.3/10 based on 147 votes. Directed by Rich Correll and written by David W. Duclon, it aired on 9/20/1991. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Brain over Brawn".