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[Odoul]

For a supposed genius he did a ton of crap-the-bed stupid shit.

He was capable of making life like artificial intelligence, time machines, clones, replicators and all types of things that could have helped make him the dictator of a large portion of the world. Or at least obscenely wealthy.

But this idiot never thought to monetize any of his inventions. Why? He was a masochist, and subconsciously enjoyed failure. Every single one of his inventions ended up screwing him over.

His robot tries to kill and replace him.
He's always blowing something up. He should've been killed many times over from one of his blunders.
There's always some unintended fatal flaw with his inventions.

More proof he enjoyed punishment?

He kept going after this smartmouthed, stuckup, permanent stinkfaced broad right here.

She's rejected him hundreds of times.
She insults him to his face. And not friendly jabbing either, she cuts into his soul.
She's not even a good person. This guy dropped everything to drive her to her cheerleading bullshit and she wouldn't take the floor so he could get the bed!

He found his balls for a minute and laid some truth on her like

"Nah this isn't how this shit is gonna be"

But he was back to his bitch ways by the next episode.

But his biggest failure?

All Myra EVER did was try to throw ass in Urkel's direction.

Idiot wouldn't go for it. Acted like she was Kryptonite, too in love with fishface, bougie mean ass girl next door.
Broke the poor girl down and sent her to a convent.

He was also just a asocial pest in general.

-Couldn't tell when he was pissing Carl off.
-Eddie actually acts like a friend to him, and what does Urkel do? Outright snitch on him when HE was being teased for being a virgin!

No wonder his parents kept mentally abusing him!

Going on weeks long vacations without bringing him or letting him no in advance.
Locking the doors to the house when they know he's still outside.

Bitchmade sucker for love.

 

[polyh3dron]

Myra was gorgeous.

RIP

 

[Salvor.Hardin]

I think you kind of missed the point of the entire show.

 

[Conciliator]

Those shoes are fucking bangin.

 

[lil smoke]

Yeah this is the stuff we all knew when we were... what 12?

 

[ProfessorLobo]

Myra was gorgeous.

RIP

Who died?

EDIT: oh, cancer. That sucks.

 

[strafer]

Urkel grew up to be a badass.

 

[diffusionx]

I don't know what was more implausible, Urkel inventing the Urquel machine and the robot and all that... or a teenage boy passing up a hot chick with big tits in order to keep getting rejected by a far less attractive woman over and over.

 

[DrFunk]

Myra > Laura

 

[bort]

He ended up getting engaged to Laura

 

[entremet]

#teammyra.

What an idiot.

 

[Odoul]

Urkel grew up to be a badass.

He grew up to be Sonic.

Spoiler

So you're absolutely right!

 

[Sapiens]

Family Matters was a documentary?

 

[Übermatik]

 

[DominoKid]

eddie winslow took the real life L though. married superhead. cmon bruh

 

[Dark Octave]

Yeah his love for Laura over Myra raged me every time.

 

[Kabuki Waq]

He saved Eddie from gangsters by going undercover. A true hero

 

[Duane Cunningham]

He ended up getting engaged to Laura

Seriously? Is that how it ended?

If so, he led a pretty shitty life considering what a bitch she always was to him. She probably softened up some if she married him, at least for a while, but even if she was only half as mean to him in adulthood as when they were kids... yeesh.

 

[entremet]

Yeah his love for Laura over Myra raged me every time.

Foreover Friendzoned.

 

[Mesoian]

We're talking about the show were Steve made a robot version of himself and CLONED himself SEVERAL TIMES.

You are over analyzing this show. Family Matters dipped in and out of saturday morning cartoon status multiple times.

 

[GungHo]

I liked him in the Cee-Lo video.

 

[Trojita]

Rest in peace Myra.

The people on the show didn't even know she had cancer.

 

[fudgey_lumpkins]

We're talking about the show were Steve made a robot version of himself and CLONED himself SEVERAL TIMES.

You are over analyzing this show. Family Matters dipped in and out of saturday morning cartoon status multiple times.

Naw, broken down to its simplest form, Steve was a dumbass for going after Laura when Myra was right there. You can watch one episode and conclude that.

 

[wenis]

Myra was gorgeous.

RIP

TIL: Myra died...

damn.

 

[Doctor West]

I watched the first season last month and was shocked to see how much better it was before Urkel joined the cast. After that it was a one-note joke that was beat to death.

Also, Telma Hopkins is hot as fuck staring after the second season. Damn!

 

[jwk94]

Nobody even bothers to mention Stephon? The hell is wrong with yall?

 

[The Blue Jihad]

The only respectable human being on that show is named Carl Winslow.

Then again, he was partly responsible for raising a completely terrible family, so maybe he's just as much of a shithead.

Then again, he did have amazing aim in Die Hard, so he's pretty bad-ass.

Still hoping the kid he shot before Die Hard was Urkel trying to break into his house.

 

[kaioshade]

The only respectable human being on that show is named Carl Winslow.

Then again, he was partly responsible for raising a completely terrible family, so maybe he's just as much of a shithead.

Then again, he did have amazing aim in Die Hard, so he's pretty bad-ass.

Still hoping the kid he shot before Die Hard was Urkel trying to break into his house.

Nah, Waldo. For as much as an idiot he was, dude was pure goodness.

 

[KittenMaster]

I haven't seen the show in like three decades but I thought the point was to make light of the problem a girl might have had where a nerdy kid was constantly chasing her (was this even a thing IRL?). I guess whenever Steve Urkel became the show's center piece he became more of the underdog instead.

 

[Cipherr]

Countdown until the idea barren network jerks remake this show.....

 

[See You Next Wednesday]

I haven't seen the show in like three decades but I thought the point was to make light of the problem a girl might have had where a nerdy kid was constantly chasing her (was this even a thing IRL?). I guess whenever Steve Urkel became the show's center piece he became more of the underdog instead.

Him becoming the star made Rachel so jealousy that she quit the show.
Myra having cancer.
Judy being tricked into doing a porn video.

For a family friendly oriented show, this is depressing!

 

[RotBot]

Seriously? Is that how it ended?

If so, he led a pretty shitty life considering what a bitch she always was to him. She probably softened up some if she married him, at least for a while, but even if she was only half as mean to him in adulthood as when they were kids... yeesh.

Well, it actually ended with him becoming an astronaut and then getting stranded in space as a cliffhanger. Not kidding.

Edit: According to Wikipedia, he was rescued later in the last episode. Maybe I just turned off the TV in disgust halfway through back in 1998.

 

[Wthermans]

Steve Urkel is every friendzoned nerd's dream. If it happens in a sitcom, it'll never happen in real life.

 

[jaxword]

For a supposed genius he did a ton of crap-the-bed stupid shit.

Hmm, people who consider themselves smarter than others but do incredibly stupid things. And are also really awkward around women and get friendzoned a lot.

That feels really familiar for some reason. Where else do a large amount of people who think they're so smart go around demonstrating that they're not?

 

[sans_pants]

Countdown until the idea barren network jerks remake this show.....

can't really be done. urkel was a lightning in a bottle character.


i mean they could try, but it would fail.


and laura only hooked up with steve after she spent like an entire season almost marrying stephon before he left to be a model in europe

 

[LuCkymoON]

This show was so awesome, I miss black sitcoms

 

[Odoul]

Hmm, people who consider themselves smarter than others but do incredibly stupid things. And are also really awkward around women and get friendzoned a lot.

That feels really familiar for some reason. Where else do a large amount of people who think they're so smart go around demonstrating that they're not?

MENSA?

 

[UberTag]

The problem with Urkel is that Family Matters only lasted 9 seasons.

Milhouse needed 22 seasons of The Simpsons to finally get over Lisa being a bitch to him and to make a play for another girl.

Now, all of a sudden, Lisa's crushing on him and actually respects the little guy and he's no longer a spineless lapdog getting pummeled by Nelson for her.

Urkel just needed more time. Or to at least hang on to that Sonic voice acting gig so he could keep paying the bills.

 

[ffdgh]

Myra had cancer/died?

I didn't know that.

 

[Sadsic]

This show was so awesome, I miss black sitcoms

why they gotta be black

 

[Jado]

Him becoming the star made Rachel so jealousy that she quit the show.
Myra having cancer.
Judy being tricked into doing a porn video.

For a family friendly oriented show, this is depressing!

You forgot the biggest one: Harriette, the original character that made this spin-off show possible, quit (was fired?) after trying and failing to steer the show away from cartoon antics to actual family-related matters.

 

[Odoul]

The problem with Urkel is that Family Matters only lasted 9 seasons.

Milhouse needed 22 seasons of The Simpsons to finally get over Lisa being a bitch to him and to make a play for another girl.

Now, all of a sudden, Lisa's crushing on him and actually respects the little guy and he's no longer a spineless lapdog getting pummeled by Nelson for her.

Urkel just needed more time. Or to at least hang on to that Sonic voice acting gig so he could keep paying the bills.

I haven't watched the Simpson in a long but, that's really a thing, and not a throwaway from the future episode?

 

[sans_pants]

You forgot the biggest one: Harriette, the original character that made this spin-off show possible, quit (was fired?) after trying and failing to steer the show away from cartoon antics to actual family-related matters.

the first season without urkels antics is BORING

 

[Angelus Errare]

eddie winslow took the real life L though. married superhead. cmon bruh

Yeah that's an L he can never change.

 

[Jado]

the first season without urkels antics is BORING

Obviously, but there was a very nice middle ground between those episodes and the batshit insane ones in the later seasons. Harriette's beef was with the really crazy stuff.

Examples:

Urkel and Carl going into a machine that turned them into Bruce Lees to fight off a gang vs. Urkel wearing a wire to incriminate the gang that trashed Rachel's restaurant and jumped Eddie.

Urkel fights the school bully to a boxing, gets stomped but wins on principle (other kids in the school follow Steve's example and stand up to him) vs. every episode where Steve overcomes obstacles with sci-fi/magic/robots/cloning/etc.

 

[gurudyne]

Countdown until the idea barren network jerks remake this show.....

I want a gritty reboot where Carl Winslow is Sgt. Powell from Die Hard in WPP. He has to maintain his cover as family man 'Carl Winslow' (not hard since he had a relatively easy-going stint as a cop in LA ever since the kid shooting incident) while his wife and children slowly learn to cope with a fake life (much harder--Laura becomes an irate psychopath and Eddie falls in with a bad crowd/gang analogue the results of which wind their little sister Judy in a coma.) At the same time, he takes on a fake sister, Rachel, who is actually a Fed plant that keeps eyes on the quiet but potentially worrying neighbor, Urkel, that can build some scary things. She gets killed off in the second season finale when the terrorist group Powell is hiding from finds out where he is due to Judy's coma drawing their attention somehow. (To be true to its roots, Urkel occasionally uses some cartoony technology to resurrect Rachel for the cheesy Christmas episodes, but it never sticks and no one acknowledges it after the fact.)

 

[Mr. Blonde]

yeah, if they hadnt changed it bc of urkel it wouldve been gone after 2 or 3 seasons tops

 

[Half and half]

Damn, op was harsh!

 

[UberTag]

I haven't watched the Simpson in a long but, that's really a thing, and not a throwaway from the future episode?

Nope, that's really a thing.

Homer Scissorhands

What Animated Women Want

Neither of these episodes end with a "reset button - everything goes back to the way it was at the beginning" ending ala Principal Tamzarian or almost every one of Bart's assorted girlfriend episodes. Milhouse is even getting dances from her in non-focus episodes like Moonshine River - and not solely out of pity.

In short, yeah it's really turning into a thing. For now.
Barney being sober was a thing too for a while.

 

[sans_pants]

I want a gritty reboot where Carl Winslow is Sgt. Powell from Die Hard in WPP. He has to maintain his cover as family man 'Carl Winslow' (not hard since he had a relatively easy-going stint as a cop in LA ever since the kid shooting incident) while his wife and children slowly learn to cope with a fake life (much harder--Laura becomes an irate psychopath and Eddie falls in with a bad crowd/gang analogue the results of which wind their little sister Judy in a coma.) At the same time, he takes on a fake sister, Rachel, who is actually a Fed plant that keeps eyes on the quiet but potentially worrying neighbor, Urkel, that can build some scary things. She gets killed off in the second season finale when the terrorist group Powell is hiding from finds out where he is due to Judy's coma drawing their attention somehow. (To be true to its roots, Urkel occasionally uses some cartoony technology to resurrect Rachel for the cheesy Christmas episodes, but it never sticks and no one acknowledges it after the fact.)

would watch