Family Matters

1989 • ABC
4.7
787 reviews
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Season 4 episodes (24)

1 Surely You Joust
9/18/92
When Carl becomes angry with his obnoxious neighbor Steve, they arrange to fight it out--on national television.
2 Hot Wheels
9/25/92
Carl buys Eddie a used police car so they can refurbish it together. Steve glues himself to Laura just as she is supposed to go out on a much anticipated date.
3 Dance To The Music
10/2/92
Laura is impressed when Steve arranges a great date for her--with another guy. Carl is jealous when Harriette takes piano lessons from a handsome young man.
4 Driving Carl Crazy
10/9/92
When Laura says she will go steady with the next boy to ask her out who has his own car, Steve acquires a car and persuades Carl to teach him to drive--seriously aggravating Carl's problem with anger management.
5 Rumor Has It
10/16/92
Ted spreads the rumor that he had sex with Laura, and Steve decides to reveal the rumor as false--at any cost.
6 No. One With A Bullet
10/23/92
Steve is hospitalized for an appendectomy, and Carl is happy to be rid of him. But when Carl is shot, he must share a hospital room with Steve.
7 Whose Kid Is It, Anyway?
10/30/92
Eddie promises to take Richie trick-or-treating, but he leaves Richie with Waldo, who loses the boy.
8 An Officer And A Waldo
11/6/92
Eddie insults Waldo, who then joins the army. Eddie and Steve go to rescue him and are mistaken for army recruits--possibly the worst recruits ever.
9 Just One Date
11/13/92
When Laura refuses, for the thousandth time, to go out on a date with Steve, he climbs onto the Winslows' roof and vows to stay up there until Laura agrees to go out with him.
10 The Oddest Couple
11/20/92
After Eddie gets in a huge fight with Carl, he moves out and shares an apartment with Steve.
11 It's A Mad, Mad, Mad House
11/26/92
The Winslow household suffers when Harriette, upset with her family's lack of cooperation, refuses to cook and clean. When Eddie's teacher arrives to see Eddie's home life, she gets a horrible impression.
12 It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Urkel
12/11/92
Laura's guardian angel arrives and shows her a world where Steve's and Laura's roles are reversed--Steve is sauve, while Laura is socially inept.
13 Muskrat Love
1/8/93
The "Sadie Hawkins Day" dance becomes interesting when Eddie refuses Melissa's offer to take him and then regrets it, while Laura's best friend goes with the guy Laura wanted to ask.
14 The Way The Ball Bounces
1/22/93
Both Eddie and Laura want to go to college. Laura works day and night studying for a big entrance exam, and Eddie decides to go to an easy college that wants him to play basketball for them.
15 A Thought In The Dark
1/29/93
Laura and Ted arrange a blind date for Steve with Ted's cousin Myra.
16 Tender Kisses
2/5/93
When Eddie can't get tickets to the big Tracie Spencer (HERSELF) concert, he sneaks into Tracie's hotel room to meet her.
17 Heart Strings
2/12/93
Valentine's Day brings romance into the Winslows' home as Laura agrees to be Steve's valentine and Gwendolyn tries to convince Richie to be her valentine.
18 Higher Anxiety
2/19/93
Carl becomes distressed when Mother Winslow goes camping with her boyfriend. Eddie's near-death exprience, shared with Steve and Waldo, helps him realize that breaking up with his girlfriend isn't so bad.
19 Mama's Wedding
2/26/93
Carl gives Mother Winslow and Fletcher a huge wedding, which gets even bigger when more than one hundred of Eddie's friends arrive by mistake.
20 Pulling Teeth
3/5/93
When Laura's best friend, Maxine, ends her relationship with her boyfriend, Laura, Steve, Eddie and Waldo all help get Maxine and Waldo together for a date.
21 Walk On The Wild Side
3/26/93
When Laura sneaks into a male strip club, Steve learns that Harriette is going as well, and he tries to warn Laura.
22 Hot Stuff
4/30/93
Laura successfully gets Steve romantically interested in Myra, who is infatuated with him. Eddie buys a new car stereo system and realizes that he got a good price because the equipment is stolen.
23 Stormy Weather
5/7/93
Laura attends the Junior Prom with Jimmy, who forbids her to speak to her intellectual friend, Steve. When Steve arrives at the prom with a gorgeous girl, Myra, all the students are shocked!
24 Buds 'N' Buns
5/14/93
Carl takes an extra job at a hot dog restaurant, working with his son, Eddie, but Eddie gets promoted and becomes his dad's boss. When Steve stops annoying Laura, she misses his friendship.

About this show

What matters most? Family, of course! Over its nine hit seasons, Family Matters brings us a hilarious slice of middle-class Americana — along with one of TV's wackiest characters, nerdy genius Steve Urkel. The extended Winslow family redefines the word "togetherness" as their home splits at the seams with chaos, confusion and laughter.

Ratings and reviews

4.7
787 reviews
Bailey Spencer
July 7, 2015
I have to be honest... FULL HOUSE IS LIKE 10 TIMES BETTER! I mean, I love the show, but it's always the same thing. Steve breaks something or tries to win Laura's love, Carl eats junk food, and Laura tries to push Steve away... All while Eddie brags about his good looks and charm. But I do love Harriette's sassy attitude and Mother Winslow's stories about how she was such a "Party animal" back in her day.
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Princess Magical
August 8, 2020
It's so amazing and beautiful how Steve knew all along that he & Laura belonged together from kindergarten. He told Laura in season 2 he would wait forever for her. It took Laura 15 years to finally realize Steve is the one for her after getting the double proposal & no man would ever love & adore Laura more than Steve, more than life itself. You clearly see it after watching the series that Steve's heart always belonged to Laura & they end up getting married even though it's not shown onscreen.
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Brittany Schettino
November 5, 2017
I loooovee looove love this show I grew up with this show!!!! I remember sitting in my family room watching it everyday. Its really such a crying shame that they can't and don't have shows like this anymore nowadays... It covered every important issue that everyone sweeps under the rug. Subjects that are so taboo today when really something should be done about these subjects. Amazing actors and actresses funny af has u peeing yourself because that's how funny they are.
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