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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!

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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  1. Background image for Boom!
    7.3/10(163 votes)

    #1 - Boom!

    S3:E1

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

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  2. Background image for Brain over Brawn
    7.1/10(160 votes)

    #2 - Brain over Brawn

    S3:E2

    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:Unknown
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  3. Background image for The Show Must Go On
    7.0/10(152 votes)

    #3 - The Show Must Go On

    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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  4. Background image for Words Hurt
    7.1/10(158 votes)

    #4 - Words Hurt

    S3:E4

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

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  5. Background image for Daddy's Little Girl
    6.8/10(147 votes)

    #5 - Daddy's Little Girl

    S3:E5

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

    Director:Rich Correll
    Writer:Unknown
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  6. Background image for Citizen's Court
    7.0/10(151 votes)

    #6 - Citizen's Court

    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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  8. Background image for Robo-Nerd
    7.1/10(153 votes)

    #7 - Robo-Nerd

    S3:E7

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

    Director:Rich Correll
    Writer:Unknown
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  9. Background image for Making the Team
    7.1/10(148 votes)

    #8 - Making the Team

    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.

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  10. Background image for Born to be Mild
    7.9/10(198 votes)

    #9 - Born to be Mild

    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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  11. Background image for The Love God
    7.2/10(159 votes)

    #10 - The Love God

    S3:E10

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

    Director:John Tracy
    Writer:Unknown
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  12. Background image for Old and Alone
    7.1/10(144 votes)

    #11 - Old and Alone

    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:Rich Correll
    Writer:Unknown
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  13. Background image for A Pair of Ladies
    6.8/10(146 votes)

    #12 - A Pair of Ladies

    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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  14. Background image for Choir Trouble
    6.6/10(153 votes)

    #13 - Choir Trouble

    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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  15. Background image for A Test of Friendship
    6.7/10(146 votes)

    #14 - A Test of Friendship

    S3:E14

    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:Unknown
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  16. Background image for Jailhouse Blues
    6.9/10(155 votes)

    #15 - Jailhouse Blues

    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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  17. Background image for Brown Bombshell
    7.2/10(145 votes)

    #16 - Brown Bombshell

    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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  18. Background image for Food, Lies and Videotape
    7.1/10(154 votes)

    #17 - Food, Lies and Videotape

    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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  19. Background image for My Broken-Hearted Valentine
    7.2/10(155 votes)

    #18 - My Broken-Hearted Valentine

    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:Rich Correll
    Writer:Unknown
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  20. Background image for Woman of the People
    7.2/10(153 votes)

    #19 - Woman of the People

    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.

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  21. Background image for Love and Kisses
    6.7/10(147 votes)

    #20 - Love and Kisses

    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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  22. Background image for Stop, in the Name of Love
    7.2/10(139 votes)

    #21 - Stop, in the Name of Love

    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
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  23. Background image for The Urkel Who Came to Dinner
    7.1/10(143 votes)

    #22 - The Urkel Who Came to Dinner

    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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  24. Background image for Robo-Nerd II
    7.2/10(143 votes)

    #23 - Robo-Nerd II

    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:Rich Correll
    Writer:Unknown
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  25. Background image for Dudes
    7.3/10(144 votes)

    #24 - Dudes

    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:Rich Correll
    Writer:Unknown
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  26. Background image for Farewell, My Laura
    7.5/10(156 votes)

    #25 - Farewell, My Laura

    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
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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 163 votes. Directed by Rich Correll and written by David W. Duclon, it aired on 9/20/1991. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Brain over Brawn".