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The Worst Episodes of Family Matters

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 - 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 - 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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    #3 - 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.

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    Director:Rich Correll
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    #4 - 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.

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    Director:John Tracy
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    #5 - Robo-Nerd

    S3:E7

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

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    Director:Rich Correll
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    #6 - 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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    #7 - 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.

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    Director:John Tracy
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    #8 - The Love God

    S3:E10

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

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    Director:John Tracy
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    #9 - 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.

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    Director:Rich Correll
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    #10 - 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.

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    Director:John Tracy
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    #11 - 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.

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    #12 - 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.

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    Director:Rich Correll
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    #13 - 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.

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    #14 - 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.

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    Director:John Tracy
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    #15 - 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.

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    Director:John Tracy
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    #16 - 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.

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    Director:Rich Correll
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    #17 - 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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    #18 - 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.

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    Director:John Tracy
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    #19 - 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.

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    #20 - 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.

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    Director:John Tracy
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    #21 - 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.

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    Director:Rich Correll
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    #22 - 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.

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    Director:Rich Correll
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    #23 - 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.

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    #24 - 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.

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    Director:Rich Correll
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    #25 - 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.

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    Director:John Tracy
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Worst Episodes Summary

"Boom!" is the worst rated episode of "Family Matters". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Rich Correll and written by David W. Duclon, it aired on 9/20/1991. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Words Hurt".