Family Matters

Carl buys a toupee after enduring one too many jokes from Harriette. Steve tries to end the interminable bickering between Laura and his new girlfriend, Myra.

Steve offers to drive Laura to a cheerleading championship after she misses the bus, but Steve's car breaks down and Laura and Steve must share a motel room for the night.

After Harriette says she wishes Carl would be more romantic, he uses his police bullhorn to declare his undying love to her ... and the entire neighborhood.

After Steve saves Carl's life, Carl and and his family feel obligated to be nice to him.

When Harriette's boss asks her to discharge part of her staff, Carl encourages her to refuse, but Harriette's boss discharges her instead.

Myra transfers to Steve's school to be closer to him ... but becomes frustrated because he is not physically passionate.

Eddie bets on football games, then steals a stamp from his father's collection to pay his bookie. Laura works two jobs to buy a car.

Eddie hires his good friend Waldo to work at Mighty Weenie and then considers discharging Waldo because he's horrible at the job. Laura is embarrassed by her mother.

Eddie agrees to be Steve's partner in a basketball tournament but then finds a better partner. Steve partners with an old lady, Grandmama.

When Laura tells Steve to be less annoying, he creates a potion that transforms him into a suave, charming man. But his new attitude soon causes more problems than it solves.

Laura encounters sexism while shopping for a used car, but she uses the salesman's sexist attitudes against him to negotiate a good price for a car.

To teach Carl a lesson, Harriette makes him pay her for her housework. Steve and Laura both have overly aggressive dates at the same drive-in movie.

Carl learns the true meaning of Christmas aboard a train stranded in a snowstorm as Steve attempts to cheer the miserable passengers.

The shopping mall is the meeting place for a battle between the sexes as the Winslow children and their friends converge.

After performing with his friend, the famous singer SHANICE, at a benefit concert, Eddie announces his plans to pursue a singing career rather than go to college.

Eddie is humiliated when his friends learn that he is still a virgin.

Eddie is harassed by police officers while driving through a white neighborhood.

Laura defends classmate Steve in a student trial when he is accused of blowing up the science laboratory.

Carl (REGINALD VelJOHNSON) dreams that his daughter, Laura (KELLIE SHANYGNE WILLIAMS), marries Steve (JALEEL WHITE).

When Carl, Steve and the boys visit a professional wrestler, Steve's new potion puts the wrestler and his partner to sleep--and Carl and Steve agree to take the sleeping wrestlers' places in the ring against THE BUSHWACKERS.

When Waldo is worried that college will end his friendship with Eddie and Carl is afraid to take the test to become a lieutenant, Eddie and Mother Winslow help them gain self-confidence.

Laura clashes with an overeager reporter at the school newspaper--but then realizes her attraction to him. Steve suffers from a severe attack of the hiccups after he is robbed in his own home.

Carl, Eddie and Waldo's camping trip is disrupted when Steve arrives. Steve becomes even more annoying when he warns them about dangers at their campsite--all of which prove to be true.

Steve's dowdy Aunt Oona (DONNA SUMMER) visits and, with Harriette's help, becomes confident enough to win a singing competition.

Steve, Eddie and Waldo dress up as nuns and search for Myra in the convent to which she went after Steve ended their relationship.

Laura encourages nerdy Steve to create a new, improved potion to transform himself into his suave alter ego again--this time without the obnoxious side effects.

Steve transforms back into Stefan to please Laura. When Carl has problems with his eyesight, Eddie convinces him to use Steve's transformation machine but something goes wrong.

Carl upsets his family when he must remain a nerd while the suave Stefan, formerly Steve Urkel, struggles to fix his transformation chamber.

Eddie goes to college and moves into an apartment with Waldo but, despite his newfound freedom, has trouble with the opposite sex.

Steve and Carl get locked in the school bomb shelter with the school custodian, Mr. Looney. Harriette becomes discouraged in her search for a job.

Eddie wants to join a college fraternity but his prospective fraternity brothers ask him to give up his friendship with the socially inept Steve.

In a ghost story that the Winslow family invents during a power outage on Halloween, Carl and Harriette play vampires living in a castle.

When he learns that his new boss (SHERMAN HEMSLEY) loves to play golf, Carl pretends to be interested in it as well. But the Captain cheats, and Steve insists that Carl confront him and demand that he play fairly.

Carl must teach Steve to swim, or Steve won't be able to graduate from high school. Rachel gets into a fight with Harriette when she tries to return a dress to the store where Harriette works in customer service.

Steve and Myra are almost killed on lovers' lane, but Steve asks Myra to wear his science club pin. Carl is convinced that Harriette thinks he's an inadequate lover.

When the pilot, a vindictive ex-convict, parachutes out of their plane, Carl and Steve are forced to fly an airplane together--and neither one knows how. Eddie experiences financial difficulties.

In this Christmas episode, Richie invites a homeless man who claims to be Santa Claus to dinner. Steve searches through tons of garbage to find a special present for Laura.

Eddie and Steve try to bake a cake for Waldo's class project after eating the one Waldo made. Carl realizes that his boss (SHERMAN HEMSLEY) is dating a stripper--and it's Carl's responsibility to tell him.

When the school bully is diagnosed with leukemia, Steve organizes a bone marrow drive.

Eddie neglects Carl, so Waldo tries to be a "son" to Carl. Steve transforms himself into a martial arts expert to defend Laura's honor.

After she is robbed, Laura considers getting a gun, but the Winslows organize a gun turn-in program instead.

Steve's friend Mr. Looney (TOM POSTON) is jilted on his wedding day when his fiancée leaves him for the church organist. Steve and Carl have to climb up the steeple of the church to save Mr. Looney from jumping.

Steve accidentally transforms himself into Elvis Presley. While they are counseling a young couple about marriage, Carl and Harriette get into an argument.

Carl hosts Richie's class trip to the precinct. Myra sees Steve and Laura together and becomes jealous, not knowing they are planning a surprise party for her.

Carl loses his self-confidence after he is tricked by a robber, while Steve stops the thief. But then Carl is assigned to protect Steve from the robber's brother.

Laura enjoys her independence when her parents allow her to fly to a cheerleading competition alone--but she must also decide what to do when a guy she likes visits her in her hotel room.

The Winslow family visits a psychiatrist for advice on how to live with Steve.

On a trip to Disney World, Steve transforms himself into his suave alter ego and proposes marriage to Laura, and Carl decides to quit his job and move the family to Florida.

On a trip to Disney World, Laura must decide whether to marry Steve's suave alter ego, Stefan, and Carl yearns for his job in Chicago.

A dance marathon pits Steve against Carl. Musical group ALL-4-ONE performs.

Steve's parents move to Russia and Steve moves in with Eddie and Waldo. But when he causes their ceiling to collapse, Steve becomes Carl's houseguest instead.

Steve tries to show Carl a new moneymaking use of his transformation machine but it malfunctions and shrinks them both to a few inches in height, stranding them on the kitchen counter.

Steve and Laura accidentally see each other naked--a traumatic experience for both. Carl's neighbor asks Carl to hold onto an expensive diamond bracelet. But Harriette finds it and thinks Carl bought it for her.

Steve guiltily fantasizes about a gorgeous bug collector. Carl plays poker with Harriette's obnoxious boss.

Steve substitute teaches his English class, but when things get out of control, Stefan saves the day.

When Eddie is forbidden to see his new girlfriend, he gets Steve to help arrange secret meetings for them. Mother Winslow is audited by the IRS.

While Steve is visiting relatives in Russia, his cousin Myrtle visits the Winslows.

To distract Laura from a flirtatious senior, Steve challenges him to a car race.

Waldo convinces Steve, Myra and Laura to appear on a talk show to discuss unfulfilling romances. But everyone is surprised when Myrtle comes on and talks about her unrequited love for Eddie. Meanwhile, Harriette tries to inspire passion in a reluctant Carl.

Steve refuses to go outside after being struck by lightening three times. Laura and Myra compete for the same sales job at a department store.

Steve is put in charge of building the school's homecoming parade float. With some difficulty, he gets volunteers to build a beautiful float. Unfortunately, while transporting it to the school, Steve crashes the float and destroys it. Mother Winslow sustains a series of minor injuries in her strenuous hobbies, including karate and square dancing.

Carl agrees to let Steve decorate the Winslow household for the Christmas season, and Harriette feels sad because Laura and Eddie seem to be too busy to participate in family Christmas activities.

Steve really wants to go on a class bicycle trip with Myra, but he doesn't know how to ride a bicycle. When Carl refuses to teach Steve how to ride a bicycle, Steve tries to teach himself. Meanwhile, Laura and her best friend, Maxine, quarrel over whether Max should go to college or cosmetology school, and Carl becomes enamored of his new car.

Carl, Eddie and Steve try to rescue Waldo when he gets arrested on a tiny island nation, and Laura is reluctant to date a boy whom Harriette recommends--until she discovers he is a boy she has wanted to date.

Steve becomes extremely nervous and destroys Carl's garage after mistaking Laura's diet pills for vitamins and ingesting them.

Steve and Carl are defenseless when they get robbed--until they step into Steve's transformation machine and become karate experts. Laura gets a nose ring.

Carl gets upset when Eddie starts drinking excessively. Steve transforms into Stefan and plays at a jazz club.

Eddie reluctantly enrolls in ballet lessons to improve his basketball skills. When he and his girlfriend, Greta, perform a ballet with the class, Myrtle Urkel arrives and takes Greta's place. Harriette becomes depressed when Laura's boyfriend thinks that she is Laura's grandmother. She begins dressing like Tina Turner but finally becomes comfortable with her age.

Steve becomes a mentor for a tough but charming inner-city 9-year-old, 3J, and discovers that, although smart, 3J is illiterate. At first, 3J rejects Steve's help. But Steve excites him about the worlds one can find in books, and 3J decides to learn to read.

When Steve casts a spell on Laura with a magical love potion, his lifelong quest for her may finally have a happy ending. Harriette and Carl's plans for a romantic second honeymoon are thwarted.

Waldo enrolls in tap-dancing class to improve his agility. Carl must tell Laura some bad news about her college aspirations.

Eddie and Waldo go to a bar where they think famous basketball players congregate, but they are astounded by the expensive bill. Myra makes an organic facial treatment for Laura--with Steve's superglue.

When Laura and Steve both end up without dates for the senior prom, they decide to go with each other. Steve tries very hard to make it a special night for Laura, and the evening ends with a romantic kiss. The Winslows' unpleasant neighbor wants them to tear down Carl's fence so he can build a barbecue. When Harriette and Carl object, it results in a nasty confrontation.

Carl lands the lead role in a movie while moonlighting as a security guard. Steve helps Richie create an artificial tornado for a science project.

Steve invents a cloning machine and replicates himself. The clone causes havoc around the Winslow house until Steve explains what's going on.

Steve invents a device that transports himself, his clone and the Winslows to Paris, where romance blossoms for Laura, and Steve is held captive by a beautiful scientist.

Steve invents a device that transports himself, his clone and the Winslows to Paris, where romance blossoms for Laura, and Steve is held captive by a beautiful scientist.

In Paris, Steve must escape from kidnappers who want his latest invention. He and Carl lead his pursuers on a wild chase that ends with Steve hanging from the Eiffel Tower.

On his first day of college, Steve finds something he's never experienced before: popularity!

The Winslows realize their true feelings for 3J when he runs away from his group home.

Steve finds himself in an uncomfortable position when Eddie's longtime girlfriend models nude for Steve's sculpting class. Harriette tries to convince Carl not to be petty with their nasty neighbor Nick Neidermeyer--but revenge proves too tempting.

Steve's ventriloquist dummy comes to life on Halloween, wreaking havoc in the Winslow household.

Steve takes a job as a playground supervisor and is threatened by some tough bullies, but Steve transforms himself, 3J and Harriette's young nephew Richie into martial arts experts. Carl's obnoxious neighbor Nick Neidermeyer fakes an injury and threatens to sue Carl--until Eddie helps prove that Nick is lying.

To mend his long-distance relationship with Laura, Stefan visits from Paris and performs in a concert with the popular singing group NEW EDITION. Because Carl and Harriette must stay at home to take care of 3J and Richie, the youngsters arrange for New Edition to serenade Carl and Harriette.

Eddie dreams that he is married to Steve's Southern-belle cousin. JALEEL WHITE and REGINALD VelJOHNSON play dual roles.

Carl hosts a dinner party for his superiors. Since he cannot afford to pay a caterer, Carl hires Myra to cook. Unfortunately, Myra mistakes Steve's powdered explosive for pepper, and the guests must flee from exploding chicken dinners.

Steve must prove a defendant innocent when he and Carl serve on a jury together.

While searching for the perfect Christmas tree, Carl and Steve get stranded in a remote forest.

Laura is excited about joining a sorority until she learns Steve has been named the star of its annual geek party.

When Laura encourages her good friend Maxine to date more, Maxine dates Curtis. Despite the fact that she is now dating Stefan, Laura is jealous.

When Steve transports Carl back in time, Carl learns a valuable lesson about priorities.

Harriette serves as the chairperson for a beauty pageant and convinces Laura, Maxine, Myra and Greta to participate. Steve's aggressive Southern cousin, Myrtle, also travels to town to enter the competition.

Steve narrates three tales of love, including Carl's attempts to "recycle" Harriette's Valentine's Day card.

Eddie is chosen as a contestant on a television game show and given the chance to win a car, but he realizes that he is not smart enough to answer the difficult questions. Desperate, Eddie uses the transformation machine, becoming a Steve clone to gain Steve's intelligence. When Steve finds out, he competes against Eddie on the show.

Carl needs one more person for his poker-playing group. Harriette joins--and beats everyone. Meanwhile, in order to be a judge at a bikini contest, Eddie convinces Steve to temporarily replace him in his job as a peanut vendor at a football stadium. However, Steve causes so many mishaps that he is terminated--along with Eddie.

Because of Steve's frequent calamities, insurance adjuster Mr. Tolbert threatens to raise Carl's homeowner's insurance. Steve offers to move in next to Mr. Tolbert to solve the problem. However, Mr. Tolbert decides not to raise Carl's rates if Steve will stay where he is.

Steve's Aunt Oona (DONNA SUMMER) is very fat, but when she sings in the church choir, the Reverend asks her on a date. Oona convinces Steve to put her in his compression chamber to make her thin; however, the machine malfunctions and makes her even fatter.

Carl's fugitive brother visits unexpectedly, and Carl's boss wants Carl to arrest his brother.

Steve uses his time-travel machine to transport himself and Carl back to a pirate ship in the year 1704. The pirates declare Carl their new captain, angering the former captain. Laura, Myra and Maxine follow Carl and Steve back in time to take them home.

When Laura asks Eddie and Stefan to participate in her sorority's kissing auction for charity, Steve feels rejected. He deliberately changes his persona, wearing clothes that are less weird and lowering the nasal pitch of his voice. At the auction, Laura bids for Steve out of pity--and he kisses her.

Meanwhile, Harriette is promoted to the position of buyer at the store. She receives a better salary than Carl, which causes tension. When Carl takes a temporary job at night as a parking attendant, an unhealthy competition ensues between the two.

After Carl forgets Steve's birthday, Carl promises to be available for Steve on the weekend. However, Commissioner Geiss, Carl's boss at the police station, invites Carl to go hunting with him. In order to ingratiate himself with Commissioner Geiss, Carl cancels his plans with Steve. But to Carl's chagrin, Steve comes along on the hunting trip and expresses his dismay at the slaughter of innocent fowl.

Laura borrows Harriette's diamond earrings without asking--then loses one while dancing.

Steve's Southern belle cousin, Myrtle Urkel, desperately wants Eddie to escort her to her debutante ball. After Myrtle jumps in front of an oncoming car, risking her life to save his, Eddie reluctantly agrees to accompany her to the dance.

Meanwhile, when Laura and Carl argue about Laura's choice of clothing, Laura learns that she must act like an adult in order to be treated like one.

In an effort to change her reputation as an overly responsible person, Laura goes wild at a fraternity party and gets very drunk. When Steve drives her home that night, she kisses him. To her amazement, she likes the kiss--but later she pretends not to remember it.

Carl secretly plans a special wedding anniversary event for Harriette, while Harriette plans a surprise anniversary event for Carl, scheduled for the same night.

As Steve plans a surprise 21st birthday party for Eddie, Laura schemes to get revenge on Eddie for embarrassing her. She provides the unwitting Steve with Eddie's private list of his former girlfriends, and Steve innocently invites them all to the party.

Carl's boss, Commissioner Geiss, promotes his own son instead of the more qualified Carl.

When one of Steve's laboratory experiments goes awry, he gains the ability to read people's minds. Initially, he is thrilled, but he soon becomes overwhelmed by everyone's thoughts.

A reluctant Carl is persuaded to volunteer as a troop leader for the club that Richie and 3J want to join.

Last year on Halloween, Steve created a small, evil ventriloquist's dummy in his image that came to life and wreaked havoc. Now, the dummy, dubbed Stevil, returns with a nightmarish sidekick named Carlsbad, who looks like a little version of Carl.

Together, they cause chaos in the Winslow household. They attempt to take over the souls of Steve and Carl and form an entertainment act bound for the stages of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Distraught because Laura has been aloof lately, Stefan confides his relationship woes to Steve--and learns that Laura might be interested in dating Steve instead! Skeptical, Stefan challenges Steve to switch identities with him for one night.

For a school project, Eddie films a documentary about the police, following Carl on his patrol.

Harriette expects her new boss at the store to be tough. However, he is worse than she imagined, verbally abusing the entire staff. When Harriette defends her coworkers, she almost gets terminated from her job.

Meanwhile, Steve wins a candy bar promotional competition, which gives him the opportunity to win a million dollars in a basketball-shooting contest.

Right before Steve goes out of town for the weekend, his cousin, O.G.D. (Original Gangsta Dawg) (also played by JALEEL WHITE) arrives. O.G.D. is the complete opposite of Steve, with a bad reputation and a worse attitude. He proves to be a poor influence on 3J and bothers Laura by flirting aggressively. With his complete disregard for the police and all authority figures, O.G.D. clashes with Carl.

Myra gets Steve a job in the local mall working in the gift-wrapping department, while Carl and Laura portray Santa Claus and Santa's helper.

Meanwhile, Richie's excitement over the impending holiday visit of his mother is squelched when her flight is canceled due to a blizzard. But Eddie secretly drives all the way to Detroit to get Rachel so Richie can be with his mother on Christmas morning.

Steve convinces Mr. Tanaka (PAT MORITA), the owner of a Japanese restaurant, to teach him how to cook Japanese food.

Feathers fly when Carl cares for his boss' beloved, but stubborn, parrot.

Eddie tells Carl that he wants to quit school and become a policeman. Carl explains that police work is extremely stressful and dangerous; it's not an easy career choice. But when Eddie insists that he is making an informed decision, Carl proudly salutes him in front of his colleagues.

Steve finally prepares to end his relationship with Myra. She threatens to sue Steve for alienation of affection and introduces her lawyer, JOHNNIE COCHRAN.

Spurned by Steve, Myra devises an elaborate scheme to sabotage the relationship between Steve and Laura. But her plan fails, and Laura ends up kissing Steve.

During Eddie's police training, Carl warns his son that using good judgment is as important as knowing how to shoot a gun. However, impressed by his own shooting ability, Eddie fails to heed Carl's advice--until Carl teaches him a valuable lesson.

When Steve and Laura finally go on their first official date together, Myra interrupts it--dressed exactly like Laura.

Carl gets into trouble when Harriette finds out that the engagement ring he gave her was originally intended for someone else.

The Winslow's foster child, 3J, yearns to know his biological parents. 3J's mother is an unmarried waitress recovering from drug addiction, but she doesn't want 3J to reunite with her yet. Rather than upset 3J, Carl promises to search for his mother when 3J is older. After bringing the unknowing 3J to the diner where his mother works so she can see him, Carl informs the elated boy that the Winslows will adopt him.

Meanwhile, Myrtle Urkel returns to town after learning how much Eddie loves Greta, and Laura suggests that the feuding girls compete in a boxing match to determine who should date Eddie.

Laura refuses to attend a polka festival with Steve, but when she sees how important it is to him, she dons a silly dress and accompanies him. At the dance, she meets a man whom Steve saved from choking, a woman whose baby Steve helped deliver and the director of a series of inner-city clinics that Steve founded. Laura is amazed. While Laura dances and--to her surprise--enjoys herself, Steve tells her that he loves her, and Laura says that she loves him.

Eddie gets his own apartment; however, Carl becomes a frequent visitor, disrupting Eddie's romantic evenings with Greta.

Aspiring cosmetologist Maxine accidentally turns Laura's hair green.

Laura is suspicious of Maxine's wealthy new boyfriend, D'Andre Moore. After D'Andre asks Maxine to deliver an unmarked package for him, police cadet Eddie and his supervisor arrest D'Andre for dealing drugs, and Maxine apologizes to Laura.

Steve accidentally goes to Washington, DC, on a train with Carl. En route he must share Carl's puny cabin for the entire trip from Chicago.

Determined to force Eddie to love her, Myrtle goes shopping with Laura and Maxine. But Eddie fends off her aggressive advances.

Carl tells Harriette that his masseuse is fat and ugly. But the sexy masseuse comes to the house to return Carl's credit card, and Harriette berates Carl for lying. Chastened, Carl hires a fat, ugly massage therapist.

Laura's ex-boyfriend, Stefan, reminds her that she promised to consider his marriage proposal someday. He gives her a beautiful diamond ring and asks her again. When Stefan leaves the room, Steve enters with 144 red roses and also proposes to Laura.

When Laura remains undecided the next day, Steve packs his suitcases and prepares to travel to Russia to live with his parents. He claims that his love for her is so great that he will allow her to be with Stefan if she wants. But she tells Steve that she loves him and wants to marry him.

Eddie graduates from the police academy but is assigned to parking enforcement. Harriette spoke to the wife of Eddie's supervisor and arranged for Eddie to have a safe job. But when Eddie is shot at by a robber while writing parking tickets and heroically arrests the criminal, Harriette realizes that no police job is without danger and she should allow Eddie to do what he was trained to do.

Meanwhile, as Steve and Laura prepare for their wedding, Steve is suddenly summoned for a mission aboard a U.S. space shuttle. However, his gravity machine unexpectedly causes a satellite to crash into the shuttle, injuring the astronauts and forcing Steve to walk in space to remove the satellite. As the terrified Laura and her family watch the television news, Steve drifts away, but he rewires the satellite to carry him back to the shuttle.

Eddie graduates from the police academy but is assigned to parking enforcement. Harriette spoke to the wife of Eddie's supervisor and arranged for Eddie to have a safe job. But when Eddie is shot at by a robber while writing parking tickets and heroically arrests the criminal, Harriette realizes that no police job is without danger and she should allow Eddie to do what he was trained to do.

Meanwhile, as Steve and Laura prepare for their wedding, Steve is suddenly summoned for a mission aboard a U.S. space shuttle. However, his gravity machine unexpectedly causes a satellite to crash into the shuttle, injuring the astronauts and forcing Steve to walk in space to remove the satellite. As the terrified Laura and her family watch the television news, Steve drifts away, but he rewires the satellite to carry him back to the shuttle.