Was i the only one that stopped watching Family Matters once it turned into the Steve Urkel show?

[BrothaZay]

Darius said something interesting on there. That it's fukked up the show doesn't get any credit for being one of the longest running black sitcoms and how it was "too white" to get any black awards and "too black" to get any white awards (emmys and shyt)

Only thing blacc about it was the cast

Show corny af

 

[Vandelay]

Funny thing is the cartoon shyt started pretty early. People usually only associate it with the later years but we had Urkel Bot in season 2. Homey made a jet pack and flew to Wisconsin (by mistake ) at the beginning of season 3. And they were still tryna be a legit show. So you would have Laura protesting for a black history class one week and then Urkelbot fighting crime or...dancing with Laurabot the next. And no one batted an eye.

Was Urkelbot season 2? shyt...maybe I'm thinking about some of the other shyt like Bruce Urkel...

That nikka had more variants than Kang the Conquerer.

 

[FTBS]

Was Urkelbot season 2? shyt...maybe I'm thinking about some of the other shyt like Bruce Urkel...

That nikka had more variants than Kang the Conquerer.

That started in season 6. Why do I know this? Its my kids favorite ep .

You had Elvis Urkel, clone Urkel, obviously Stefan, mini-Urkel...fukking Thug Urkel (police haraaaaaassment ). They just reached a point where they were just playing mad libs with the script .

Urkelbot was 2 or 3...cant remember off top. Steve was still short

 

[Vandelay]

That started in season 6. Why do I know this? Its my kids favorite ep .

You had Elvis Urkel, clone Urkel, obviously Stefan, mini-Urkel...fukking Thug Urkel (police haraaaaaassment ). They just reached a point where they were just playing mad libs with the script .

Urkelbot was 2 or 3...cant remember off top. Steve was still short

My ex had a kid and I introduced him to Family Matters. He liked it and binge watched it until season 5 or 6, and even his 9 year old self was like this shyt is getting too bizarre.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Yeah Urkel was the best and worst thing to happen to that show. He saved it but it went on a sloooow titanic like crash. I can’t even watch when they were kids anymore and I tend to watch more of the episodes with Myra the most.. she was so bad man, R.I.P. the Myrtle Urkel shyt was so stupid and unnecessary. You got Steve lusting over Laura, then you have his cousin lusting over Laura’s brother a lot of this stuff was fine watching as a kid but getting older and understanding things really brings how bad this show was in perspective.

The Greta vs. Myrtle shyt was ok for one episode but they dragged it trying to make it an ongoing thing.

Maxine changing from what she was to what she became while dating Waldo.. terrible.

Changing to light skinned Harriet and having the episode where Carl was like he bought the wedding ring for another woman before Harriet. Man darkskinned Harriet wouldn’t let that shyt make the show! I just know she wouldn’t! shyt was crazy!

The “transformation chamber” where you could easily see the clothes hanging up on hangers when they opened the door

Turning every cast member into Urkel for whatever reason at some point.

My favorite one… Steve turning down a girl who would get smashed by whoever she wanted to get it because he wanted Laura. Myra was trying to give it to him all series and he kept saying no. Craziness lol.

That show ain’t in my top 5 probably not even 15.

 

[23Barrettcity]

So I been binge watching that docu series Dark Side Of Comedy and I'm on the family matters episode.. in the interviews with certain cast members and producers they talked about how preposterous the writing was getting going into the latter seasons. With it all recolving around some over the top ridiculous shyt with Steve at the center...

That shyt went on for like 9 seasons


Got a better understanding of why Jamie foxxworth kinda lost her shyt growing up seeing how they fired her..



Dark side of comedy is a very compelling docu series


I didn't know


Side note:
The phil Hartman episode

That mf wife wanted to be famous so bad. During the intro on SNL when it shows Phil, it's her sitting across from him (because she begged them for that hoping it would put her on) and the reason her big ass earring is swinging so hard in the 2 second clip is because the bytch kept trying to turn around and face the camera when it was supposed to just be introducing HIM .. they had to trick her to get her to turn her big ass head around to get a quick shot without her face in it, which is why her earing swinging like that... very haunting

Where is the series to be streamed

 

[FTBS]

Where is the series to be streamed

Which one?

Dark side is on Hulu I believe. Urkel is on Max and I think Hulu too.

 

[Geek Nasty]

So I been binge watching that docu series Dark Side Of Comedy and I'm on the family matters episode.. in the interviews with certain cast members and producers they talked about how preposterous the writing was getting going into the latter seasons. With it all recolving around some over the top ridiculous shyt with Steve at the center...

That shyt went on for like 9 seasons


Got a better understanding of why Jamie foxxworth kinda lost her shyt growing up seeing how they fired her..



Dark side of comedy is a very compelling docu series


I didn't know


Side note:
The phil Hartman episode

That mf wife wanted to be famous so bad. During the intro on SNL when it shows Phil, it's her sitting across from him (because she begged them for that hoping it would put her on) and the reason her big ass earring is swinging so hard in the 2 second clip is because the bytch kept trying to turn around and face the camera when it was supposed to just be introducing HIM .. they had to trick her to get her to turn her big ass head around to get a quick shot without her face in it, which is why her earing swinging like that... very haunting

I always wanted the background story

 

[Geek Nasty]

Blossom >> *

I watched that trash for the pawg best friend. They even named her Six

 

[Stick Up Kid]

1989- to 1995.... every episode after was trash

 

[Elim Garak]

Family Matters is one of those shows that if you are not paying attention, you will accidently throw it in the classic show category.
But when you sit back and think about it, Family Matters was one of the worst black sitcoms of the 90s.

I really hate thecoli revisionist history trying to remove this show from classic status.

 

[Peter Popoff]

Bruh, Jaleel saved the perfect strangers spinoff from being canceled after 2 seasons.

None of them would be remembered if it wasn't for him. Plus he was trying to put them on and think outside the box.

The nıgga got all the members of new edition together on the show. You know how hard that is?

Even though he became a main character, they still have spotlight to the surrounding cast and made Carl Winslow very entertaining. Even gangsta Urkel placed spotlight on Orlando Brown. Richie was being given mad love. Eddie before the trannies was a ladies man. Laura before menopause was attractive. Na.

I wholeheartedly disagree. Anyone that does not like Urkel is a psychopath.

 

[Arcavian]

I really hate thecoli revisionist history trying to remove this show from classic status.

It isn't a classic, we settled for what we could get

 

[Elim Garak]

It isn't a classic, we settled for what we could get

It's a classic.

 

[Arcavian]

It's a classic.

Just old