The Best Episodes of Family Matters Season 3

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

Director: Rich Correll

Writer: David W. Duclon

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Rich Correll

Writer: N/A

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

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

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

Director: John Tracy

Writer: N/A

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

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

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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Writer: N/A

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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