And while he is occasionally annoying, people love Steve for never changing. He struggles for a while in the series, frequently wavering between whether he wants to be himself or Stefan. But in the end his choice to be Scruff unapologetically himself gets Steve exactly what he wanted. Full House – In the 1991 episode, “Stephanie Gets Framed”, Steve is called in to help Stephanie Tanner deal with her anxieties after she has to get glasses.
If the show continued in its final season, it would’ve been revealed that Myra had continued to be obsessed with Steve and makes attempts to stop his and Laura’s wedding, despite Stefan stopping her. White landed an audition to play Rudy, the youngest Huxtable kid, and he seemingly nailed it. “We were all packed up and ready to go to New York and my agent had told my parents that they needed to start looking for places to live out there,” White told Vanity Fair. He attended one more audition — a “formality” for NBC brass — where he ran into a little girl who was also auditioning for Rudy.
The Winslows’ youngest child totally disappeared.
He also jams with Uncle Jesse and gives Michelle a penny for her piggy bank, telling her that “with prevailing interest rates, that penny will be worth three cents by the turn of the century”. Incidentally, Family Matters did not air on the night of the episode’s original airdate . It is implied that he found himself in San Francisco in the Full House universe before paying a visit to the Lambert household from Step by Step. The Urkel Dance was a novelty dance that originated in the season two episode, “Life of the Party”. It was based around the character of Steve Urkel and essentially incorporated movements that made the dancer’s posture more like his. From the Urkel character’s debut through the rest of the series’ run, he is central to many of its running gags, primarily property damage and/or personal injury as a result of his inventions going awry or his outright clumsiness.
Brawner reported that McCrary’s excessive drinking and drug use made him violent, and that he not only struck her, but held his daughter over a pot of boiling water while screaming about how he wished she’d never been born. Another time, Brawner says, McCrary flew into a rage and threw picture frames around the house, just barely missing hitting anyone. “Things were definitely strained in the early going. There’s no sense in hiding that,” he told Vanity Fair.”There was a division between myself and the rest of the cast, but over nine years and 215 episodes, obviously relationships get better.” “It was Bill Bickley and Michael Warren that called myself, Telma Hopkins , and Reginald VelJohnson , together and told us that ABC liked the Urkel character so much they’re going to make all of the shows about him,” Jo Marie Payton told TV Series Finale. While the non-Urkel cast members went along with the plan (and Payton says they’re “still laughing to the bank with the residuals” because Urkel “made the show go” for so long), the shift on Family Matters caused some tension.
“Who she was made everybody want to be better. It made everybody want to be more professional. So Rosetta was really the emotional foundation of the show.” After “Family Matters” came to a close, Thomas, who had undergone surgery to remove the tumor, landed a role on “The Young and the Restless” as an aspiring singer, but soon afterward had to undergo a second surgery for another cancerous mass. According to an article from Jet magazine at the time, she took a medical leave from the show in October 1998. Foxworth went on to address the work she’d done after “Family Matters” — namely, acting in adult films. “Sure, I did adult films, but the only people that are going to be shocked about it are kids,” she said. These days, Foxworth is focusing on other things, including her podcast with her two sisters, “The S.H.E. Show.”
He Shrinks Carl and Himself
Stefan Urquelle was Steve’s suave and charming alter-ego, who was everything Laura desired in a boyfriend. First appearing in season five’s “Dr. Urkel and Mr. Cool,” Steve developed this personality as a way to get Laura to love him, but changed back at the end of the episode due to his self-centered personality. Steve soon improved his alter-ego’s personality, and originally intended to become Stefan permanently, but found himself juggling between accepting his true self or receiving his long desired love from Laura. Though he learned to accept himself, he would still occasionally and temporarily turn into Stefan when needed. In the season seven episode “Send In the Clone,” Steve created an identical clone of himself, whom he had enter into the transformation chamber to become a permanent Stefan.
White reprises his “Do the Urkel” dance in the scene where Al gives the boy that dumped her his comeuppance. White also makes a brief two-second cameo as Steve in the 1997 episode “A Star Is Born”, snapping a clapperboard on the set of the movie that Al was cast in over her two sisters. Steve improves the formula in the season five episode “Stefan Returns” to reduce its negative effects on his personality, and invents a “transformation chamber” allowing him to become Stefan at will. He would change into Stefan several times – even while dating Myra – but some circumstance would force Steve to turn into his normal self again.
Before playing Waldo, Harrison previously appeared in Season 1’s “The Party” as a guest at the titular party Eddie was trying to stop, credited as “Guy in Towel”. Eddie, like his father and sister, is often constantly irritated, annoyed and harassed by their neighbor, Steve Urkel. In the seventh season finale “Send in the Clones”, Steve created a cloning machine. He came to believe it did not work though it did create another Steve. To clear up the situation, Laura proposed that one of the Steves be turned into the suave Stefan. The couple welcomed their daughter, Nakano, in February 2021, and this new addition has only strengthened their bond.
Who died in family matters?
In the show’s fourth season, the Winslow’s youngest daughter Judy is seen walking upstairs … but never comes down. Family Matters all began with its matriarch, Harriette, whose character originated in the third season of Perfect Strangers as the elevator operator at the Chicago Chronicle, the fictional newspaper where that series’ main characters—Larry and Balki—worked. In the end, Family Matters emerged the victor, running a full season longer than Perfect Strangers. Laura also did agree to date Steve on several occasions, but those early dates were out of pity and wound up being unmitigated disasters. In one episode, Steve’s clumsiness, weird food likes (e.g., frog’s legs and cheese) and just him being himself annoyed Laura. Another time, when Steve vowed to stay on top of her house until Laura agreed to go out on a date him, Laura finally gave in, only for the overjoyed nerd to slip from a snow-covered roof, fall to the ground, and have his date in a hospital room.
In junior high and high school, Laura was a straight-A student; her goal was to enroll in the Harvard Law School. She was accepted to Harvard, but her family could not afford for her to attend there. She attended Illinois Occidental University , a fictional school, and she maintained straight-As there. Jo Marie Payton, who played Harriette Winslow, admitted that she felt the Urkel character had hogged much of the show’s attention and disrupted the close family relationship she had formed with the rest of the cast. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Payton recalled an instance where White insisted upon inserting something that would have violated Broadcast Standards and Practices, to the point where he and Payton nearly came to physical blows with each other. White is one of the few living members of the cast with whom Payton no longer speaks regularly.
