Family Matters

1989 • ABC
4.7
787 reviews
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Season 5 episodes (24)

1 Hell Toupee
9/24/93
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.
2 It Didn't Happen One Night
10/1/93
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.
3 Saved By The Urkel
10/8/93
After Steve saves Carl's life, Carl and and his family feel obligated to be nice to him.
4 A Matter Of Principle
10/15/93
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.
5 Money Out The Window
10/22/93
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.
6 Best Friends
10/29/93
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.
7 Grandmama
11/5/93
Eddie agrees to be Steve's partner in a basketball tournament but then finds a better partner. Steve partners with an old lady, Grandmama.
8 Dr. Urkel And Mr. Cool
11/12/93
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.
9 Car Wars
11/19/93
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.
10 All The Wrong Moves
11/26/93
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.
11 Christmas Is Where The Heart Is
12/10/93
Carl learns the true meaning of Christmas aboard a train stranded in a snowstorm as Steve attempts to cheer the miserable passengers.
12 Scenes From A Mall
12/17/93
The shopping mall is the meeting place for a battle between the sexes as the Winslow children and their friends converge.
13 Rock Enroll
1/7/94
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.
14 Like A Virgin
1/14/94
Eddie is humiliated when his friends learn that he is still a virgin.
15 Good Cop, Bad Cop
1/21/94
Eddie is harassed by police officers while driving through a white neighborhood.
16 Presumed Urkel
2/4/94
Laura defends classmate Steve in a student trial when he is accused of blowing up the science laboratory.
17 Father of the Bride
2/11/94
Carl (REGINALD VelJOHNSON) dreams that his daughter, Laura (KELLIE SHANYGNE WILLIAMS), marries Steve (JALEEL WHITE).
18 Psycho Twins
2/18/94
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.
19 That's What Friends Are For
3/4/94
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.
20 Opposites Attract
3/18/94
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.
21 A-Camping We Will Go
4/1/94
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.
22 Aunt Oona
5/6/94
Steve's dowdy Aunt Oona (DONNA SUMMER) visits and, with Harriette's help, becomes confident enough to win a singing competition.
23 Nunsense
5/6/94
Steve, Eddie and Waldo dress up as nuns and search for Myra in the convent to which she went after Steve ended their relationship.
24 Stefan Returns
5/20/94
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.

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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