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Continuing SEASON 3:
"Woman of the People" (19)
https://ok.ru/video/2011237845547
Steven Chesne & Gary Boren score.
Estelle is 81 years old.
RATING: *** ***.5
"Love and Kisses"
https://ok.ru/video/2011236731435
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RATING: *** *** *
Steve: "Oh, pah-leeze. Why, if you take away his fancy cloths, his perfect hair, and that velvet voice and what have you got?"
Laura: "The sexiest bald-headed mute in America."
Harriette: "CARL WINSLOW ... there's a goat eating your shorts."
"Stop, in the Name of Love"
https://ok.ru/video/2011236272683
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RATING: *** *** *
Laura: "You have the perfect face for your head."
Steve: "Allow me to quote the twenty-fifth letter of the alphabet ... Y???!!!""
Waldo: "I was upset; we drove all the way across town to see The Prince of Tides and there wasn't one bit of surfing."
"The Urkel Who Came to Dinner"
https://ok.ru/video/2011236141611
Plot Hole: What was the silver lining on Murtaugh's fish?
Continuity Error: Urkel was vacuuming the couch when the doorbell range. He laid the hose down over the couch in the left corner (our view) and answered the door. The scene cuts and they are now talking at the couch, but the vacuum hose is gone.
RATING: *** *** *
Laura: "Two weeks without Steve Urkel? Wow -- maybe dreams really do come true."
Steve: "For some unknown reason my father is fascinated by animals that eat their own young."
"Robo-Nerd"
https://ok.ru/video/2011235945003 (load is mis-titled "Dudes")
Filming Mistake: Because of the camera angle not being changed, you can see the actress who plays Laura, down on her haunches, just holding the box on the porch, waiting for the time she's supposed to get up and bring it in.
First episode score by Gary Boren.
Boren worked on a few sitcoms, but after "Step by Step" ended, his scoring career puttered out and he's done a few shorts on/off for years now, with the last one being in 2020. His credits: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0096354/fullcredits
RATING: *** ***
Eddie: "Yo, Waldo -- how do I look?"
Waldo: "With your eyes."
Carl: "Hey -- nobody kisses butt like you, sir."
Murtaugh: "Thank you, Winslow."
Laura: "I could sell sun tan lotion to Michael Jackson."
Laura: "Gee, Steve, if I cared, I'd be honored."
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Finishing SEASON 3:
"Dudes" (24)
https://ok.ru/video/251174324750 (regular old broadcast picture quality)
Steven Chesne & Gary Boren score.
RATING: *** *** *
Steve: "Care to rock my world, baby?"
"Farewell, My Laura"
https://ok.ru/video/2011235879467
This kind of one-off episode was entertaining and was fun to watch.
This episode is score heavy.
Gary Boren scores.
RATING: *** *** **
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SEASON 4:
Waldo has been added to the opening credits, already telling you in advance he's now a main cast member.
"Surely You Joust"
https://ok.ru/video/2011211762219
Laura changed outfits three times in about three minutes.
Continuity Error: Last season Carl was 38 years old, now he's 42 years old.
Gary Boren scores. In a couple of cues, Boren tries to implement some of Bill Conti's "American Gladiators" sound.
RATING: *** ***
"Dance to the Music" (2)
https://ok.ru/video/2011211369003
An extra half star just for that touching ending.
Steven Chesne & Gary Boren score.
RATING: *** *** *.5
(NtM: 11:28/gif)
Steve: "Yesterday she said 'Drop dead, nerd boy'..." walks in a cocky manner, "I'm wearing you down, baby!"
"Wow, you're like some kind of ... nerd saint."
"Driving Carl Crazy"
https://ok.ru/video/2011211172395
Once again conspicuously missing from the episode and the clown car scene for the end credits, is Judy.
Steve has an uncle named Cecil who lives so close by, Steve can walk over to get a used car from him. Cecil is not seen.
Steven Chesne & Gary Boren score.
RATING: *** *** *
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Continuing SEASON 4:
"Rumor Has It" (4)
https://ok.ru/video/2011210910251
Another episode where Eddie demonstrates that he's a good brother sometimes.
Noticeably missing from the episode: Judy. I guess there are no lessons here she needs to learn! I guess nothing ever happens at her school we ever need to see. I guess she has no friends that come over or she hangs out with.
This episode introduces a new character named Weasel (who is also called Alex in the episode). I guess they wanted to do more with him, but he only made thirteen appearance through season four and five. Totally forgettable and kind of redundant, considering they have Waldo.
Steven Chesne & Gary Boren score.
RATING: *** *** **
Steve: "We'll turn down the lights an engage in a little ... lip wrestling."
Carl: After learning Eddie played hokey twice to watch cheerleaders, "What you did, son, is a very serious offense. And did you take pictures?"
"The nerd by hit me."
Steve slaps him over the head again with a rolled up poster.
Steve: "Correction: I hit you twice."
"I don't believe this."
Steve: "Oh? Then maybe you'll believe this one," slaps him over the head again.
"Number One with a Bullet" (4.5)
https://ok.ru/video/2011210779179
This is the final appearance of Carl's boss, Lieutenant Murtaugh (played by Barry Jenner). No explanation is given.
Steven Chesne & Gary Boren score. This episode features a score cue for the end credits, with more episode running all the way to the end.
Special note to the score cue starting at about 13:19 in, which is a fun playful cue I can imagine an old guy walking around and getting mixed up in annoying things to. More at about 21:33 in.
Carl gets shot in the line of duty.
Steve goes to the hospital and his parents quickly attend a Parents Without Children meeting.
Continuity Error: Steve says Laura is leaning on his appendix, but she is leaning on the right side, whereas earlier he was holding the left side in pain when he collapsed.
RATING: *** *** *.5
Steve: "Jumping Jehoshaphats, woman, I've asked you out over nine hundred times and you have said 'No' every single time."
Laura: "Well, it's important to be consistent."
(TRIVIA: If, like me, you got curious as to what that even means, there is no clear-cut answer, but there are theories: https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/In-a-Word/2020/0903/Who-is-Jehoshaphat-and-why-is-he-jumping )"
Carl: "NO MORE MUSICAL TRIBUTES TO MY BUTT!!!"
"Whose Kid Is It Anyway?" (6)
https://ok.ru/video/2011210648107
This season moves from Halloween to Christmas really fast. In just a few short episodes it'll be Christmas.
Just so everyone is clear: Steve has been getting creepy the last few episodes. He knows Laura's measurements and uses them as his locker combination. And he has a motion detector in the bedroom of Carl and Harriette.
The actress who plays Judy seems to be really uncomfortable in his brief scene in this episode. I think she did not want to wear that outfit.
RATING: *** ***.5
(Note to Me: 0:56/gif, 16:48/gif)
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Continuing SEASON 4:
"An Officer and a Waldo" (7)
https://ok.ru/video/2011210582571
Special note to the light militaristic score cues at about 8:44/10:34/22:05 in, which kind of reminds me of the work on TV series "Major Dad" (I did three or four suites for that show, covering both composer).
Urkel's clumsy stupidity reaches a new height when he almost accidentally kills over a dozen people, including himself, Eddie and Waldo. And then he does it again, much later on.
RATING: *** *** *
Steve: "You heard her, you're witnesses -- she used the phrase 'human being'!"
Harriette: "Carl, fixing things is a talent. A talent you don't have."
"Just One Date" (8)
https://ok.ru/video/2011210517035
Urkel keeps track of how many times he has asked Laura out, and says this is the one thousandth time.
Just remember, when you think it's kind of creepy that little girl is so taken by Richie at his age, based upon what we've learned about Steve and Laura over the four years, Steve was taken by Laura at a younger age than that! We've never really scene his mom and dad, maybe they are in the freezer. The Winslow's "just missed them" a few episodes ago at the hospital.
I guess Gwendolyn was being considered as a new character, but she did three episodes and that was that. It's a shame, because adding her to the show would have given chances to do things with Richie and maybe even include Judy -- two characters who really don't do much on this show. She was played by actress Naya Rivera, who tragically died young. She went boating with her young boy near her home, something happened and they ended up in the water; she got him into the boat, she called for help, then drowned. Her body was found seven years later. She was 33. Her son was 4 when he watched his mother die.
I have no idea what the Chinese guy was so pissed off when Carl told him "Up on the roof". So I thought maybe that was some kind of insult, but found nothing. I thought "Roof" might have a different connotation in Mandarin, but still no luck. I came up empty handed. But I did find this bit of weirdness: in ancient China, sleeping on somebody's roof was a way of submitting to them, confessing, and submitting to their judgment. Also, it could mean other things like "it was a way of asking for help or protection. And in still other cases, it was a way of showing loyalty or devotion". So by Steve being on the roof, he was showing his loyalty and devotion towards Laura, which I'm not sure was intentional by the writers.
This is the second -- maybe third - episode where Steven has fallen off the Winslow residence roof.
RATING: *** *** **
Laura: "Our relationship doesn't need a mile stone, it needs a tomb stone."
Laura: "I'm close to feeling sorry for you, Steve -- don't blow it."
Steve: "But??? Praise God, there's a 'but'!"
"The Oddest Couple" (9)
https://ok.ru/video/2011210320427
Steve's quest to accidentally kill other people, continues.
Steve wonders who would be visiting them at the apartment. Oh, I don't know ... how about the police? The bomb squad? A local F.B.I. agent? A local A.T.F. agent? That wasn't a wayward moth that exploded just outside their apartment. It's almost a matter for Johnny Dollar.
Judy's birthday is next week (in-universe) (age unspecified). Who cares when she's about to vanish from the show.
Oh, how nice of Eddie -- he blew over three hundred dollars of Urkel's money for a few hours in an apartment. He's such a pal.
Steve's parents charge him rent, and his curfew is he's not allowed in the house until midnight.
Gary Boren scores.
RATING: *** ***.5
(NtM: 11:13/gif)
"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Urkel" (10)
https://ok.ru/video/2011210123819
Special note to the whole episode score, with arrangements of Christmas classics, music that makes you think of Christmas, and that good emotional cue and the payoff to when Laura gets into the Urkelmobile.
Steven Chesne & Gary Boren score.
RATING: *** *** **.5
Guardian Angel: "We're watching ABC -- the Angel Broadcasting Channel."
(I wonder if this line was deleted or dubbed over for re-runs on CBS)
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Continuing SEASON 4:
"Muskrat Love" (4.11)
https://ok.ru/video/2011210058283
Steven Chesne & Gary Boren score.
A LONT-TIME first: This episode not only NOT Urkel centric, he's barely in it. Thank goodness.
Ted Curren is apparently going to be a re-occurring character. I completely forgot about him.
I thought we'd see Melissa again for sure, but this is her only appearance. And I get the distinct impression the actress who plays her, finds the actor who plays Eddie, to be really attractive.
It's been two months, in-universe, since the episode "Rumor Has It". That's seven episodes ago, meaning all of the events occur in mere days of each other in the episodes. Man, that house is a rockin'! In fact, it's warped the time space continuum, since between that episode and this one, it went from Halloween to passed Christmas. Somewhere over three months has been crammed down into two! I guess it's possible this episode was aired out-of-order, but if it wasn't, I know it's decades after-the-fact, but this episode needs to be moved earlier into the season for continuity's sake (this episode should take place during the winter time and no one is even dressed for it).
Continuity: Why isn't Steve begging Laura to be her date to the dance? It's totally uncharacteristic.
RATING: *** *** *
Eddie: "Let me tell you something, Weasel, if all you look for is the float with Miss America on it, the whole parade is going to pass you by."
"Hot Wheels" (12)
https://ok.ru/video/2011211696683
Urkel puts his name on his underpants.
This episode has scenes all the way through the end credits and no end credits theme.
Gary Boren scores.
RATING: *** *** *
"The Way the Ball Bounces" (13)
https://ok.ru/video/2011209992747
Another episode which is thankfully not Urkel centric.
Eddie's recently sudden and inexplicable basketball skills are now drawing the attention of recruiters.
This episode has no end credits theme music and instead has more episode all the way threw.
Continuity Error: Twice before in the series Steve had to use a ladder to get up to Laura's bedroom window door, but here he climbs a tree and uses a large tree branch which is now there (sudden large tress are sudden. They pop up over night, don't you know).
Gary Boren scores.
RATING: *** *** *
"A Thought in the Dark" (14)
https://ok.ru/video/2011205863979
I thought this episode might go somewhere, but it just fell apart into endless Urkel annoyances and it's safe to say I don't think it's likely I'll ever watch it again.
The writer's are really struggling for some reason to utilize Judy. Here they find the lamest, flimsiest thing to actually give her something to do in an episode (which I don't think has happened in nearly four seasons now!). And it's over as quickly as it begins.
Sadly, it was this pathetic episode that introduced a new character, a love interest for Steve named Myra Monkhouse. She'll be on the show all the way to the final episode.
Steven Chesne & Gary Boren score.
RATING: *** **.5
(NtM: 6:46/gif)
Steve: "Read a book."
Maya: "Iii'mmm going to kill Steve. Yep -- he's needs to be killed."
Myra: "I know size isn't important, but I bet his brain is huge."
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Continuing SEASON 4:
"Tender Kisses" (15)
https://ok.ru/video/251184089614 (regular old broadcast picture quality)
Tracie Spencer was and still is a real life singer: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1748789/fullcredits
Noticeably absent from this episode: Judy. And, come to think of it, been a few episodes since we've seen Rachel. Her son is in the show way more than she is now.
This episode has the actor playing Carl, reading out who produced and distributed the show at the end.
RATING: *** ***
"Heart Strings" (16)
https://ok.ru/video/2011205995051
That box was missing a peanut log.
Second (of three) appearance of Gwendolyn
Gary Boren scores.
RATING: *** *** *.5
(NtM: 9:00/gif)
"It's a Mad, Mad, Madhouse" (17)
https://ok.ru/video/2011210189355
Gary Boren scores.
Actress Debra Jo Rupp guest stars as a one-time scene teacher named Miss Connors. If you don't know the name, you probably recall her as the mom on "That 70's Show" (Kitty Forman) and appearances on the spin-off show "That 90's Show" (cancelled a few short months ago). I liked her appearance, it's a shame she wasn't in more episodes.
Continuity Error: Steve can barely handle a bowling ball, dropping it straight to the floor while holding it, yet in season one or season two its shown he's an expert bowler and has zero trouble handling bowling balls.
Continuity Error?: Richie says he can't read. Wasn't he reading a book -- albeit slowly -- a season or two ago?
Continuity Error: Eddie is worried about getting kicked off the basketball team, but in season one it was shown he had no interest and wasn't really that much of player. Episode: "Basketball Blues". Just a few short episodes ago in "Muskrat Love" he couldn't hit a baseball on a target a few feet away, yet now he can get a bigger ball into a hoop.
Continuity Error: Harriette complains about the job and work, but she had the exact opposite comments in season one when she landed her new job and had to push herself to get the job. I highlighted that episode and the stand out scene.
RATING: *** *** **
(NtM: 8:11/gif)
Harriette: "Edward, I have been home less than five minutes -- can I at least have time to breath?"
Eddie: "Sure, bu-but can you breath while you're making dinner?"
Carl: "You see, when I lie, I lie UP."
"Higher Anxiety" (18)
https://ok.ru/video/2011206191659
Foreshadowing? Judy is pushed off the couch, in her only scene in the episode.
This episode also has scenes through the entire end credits, with no theme song. At this point, I think it would be easier to just note when the regular losing credits are used.
RATING: *** ***.5
(NtM: 11:30/gif)
Harriette: "Carl, could I offer you some constructive criticism?"
Carl: "Sure."
Harriette: "You're a jackass."
Steve: "Ed-O, you look sadder than my parents on the day I was born."
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Continuing SEASON 4:
"Mama's Wedding" (19)
https://ok.ru/video/2011206060587
This is the third and final appearance of Gwendolyn, she has no lines and is simply sitting at the wedding, where she blows Richie a kiss. I was actually enjoying her smiling cheerfulness -- shame she wasn't kept. I wonder what the story behind her not being brought back is...
Steven Chesne & Gary Boren score.
This is the final episode with the Winslow family daughter Judy (Jaimee Foxworth). She has one line of dialogue and her final scene is standing in a blue bridesmaid dress next to Laura at the wedding. Seth MacFarlane would go on in an episode of "Family Guy" to make fun of an un-named series where one the kids disappears from the cast of a show by going upstairs and never coming back down; this is presumably, I think, a knock at the disappearance of Judy.
Things were not going well on the show. While searching for answers as to why she left, I found a documentary series called "The Dark Side of Comedy", which had an episode dedicated to various TV series, including this one:
https://ok.ru/video/7070200498735
In it, she talks about how when the originally intended one-off character Urkel became popular and made a series regular, it not only overshadowed her, but White was rude and would lose patience with her, at one point a during a simple scene where she couldn't get her lines out, yelling at her from off stage, "Why can't you just act!?". Her mother also talks about how she got paid far lesser than the rest of the cast (Really? Baby Richie before the re-cast got paid more?). They go on to say she was promised six or more storylines around her each season, but it never happened. Her mother asked about it and one the producer's, she alleges, replied, "When pigs fly.". Then the parking spot for Jamiee (of course used by her mother) was taken away without notice and given to White (Urkel). The cast, the producers, all knew she had been essentially fired, but no one told her or her mother and they only found out after filming had started for the new season. White goes on to claim there was unspecified behavior from her and her mother that caused the firing. White seems uncaring and unapologetic even decades after. The executive who fired her, is dead. The cast, especially the actress who played Harriette, stood up for her. If the show gets rebooted and she is brought back with some kind of explanation, she'll have ultimate vindication.
Claims of racism, child molestation, issues on set, and so forth are found in this documentary.
I can't begin to guess what happened behind the scenes, as this was not only her final episode (not counting credit-only episodes), but the last acting project she ever did. In 2000/2001/2002 she was in some X-rated pornos as "Crave". And she looks very sexy in them (yes, I did look up some images; it was time well spent).
RATING: *** ***.5
Steve: "You know, son, if screwing up ever became an Olympic event, you'd win the gold."
"Pulling Teeth" (20)
https://ok.ru/video/2011206257195
This is odd and contradictory behavior from Steve, to spread gossip about others.
Also, thankfully, this is another episode that is not Urkel centric.
We hear the voice of one of his parents (his mom) -- a first.
Waldo says he has four brothers and three sisters. None of which ever mentioned before or ever seen.
Steven Chesne & Gary Boren score.
"Super Space Donkies" could be a Pixar movie.
RATING: *** *** *
Waldo: "Roger and Maxine are incommunicado."
Waldo: "Wow. Is that in Mexico?"
Carl: "You better get back out here when I think of a snappy comeback!"
Maxine: "Waldo said he was dying to see Malcolm Ten."
Maxine: "Any pets?"
Waldo: "A dog, a cat, and something that lives behind the refrigerator. We don't know what it is, but we call it Bob."
"Walk on the Wild Side" (21)
https://ok.ru/video/2011209402923
This was a pretty good episode. Been a while since we had one this good.
So, how old is Laura anyway? Based on what we already knw, at this point in the series she should be 16 and-a-half to 17, so it's really not that bad she wanted to go to Club Buff.
I think this episode was aired out-of-order, as Waldo is going girl hunting with Eddie, yet in the prior episode he is dating Maxine and they did not break up.
Harriette having to trick their children into doing their chores, and named ... "Judy". Who is no longer on the show. And Payton knew that. I think it was a deliberate shot across the producer's bow by her. I bet they probably asked her to do the scene again and remove Judy's name, but refused.
RATING: *** *** **
Steve: "Laura ... legs ... bazooooommmsss!!!""
Carl: "I don't know what I did, but I'm sure glad I did it."
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Finishing SEASON 4:
"Hot Stuff" (22)
https://ok.ru/video/2011195705899
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RATING: *** *** *
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Laura: ""1:00
Laura: "Well, Steve, you're a man. Kind of."
Carl: "You know, son, that's the thing about hot property: You never think about the victim until you become one."
"Stormy Weather" (4.23)
https://ok.ru/video/2011195509291
One of Waldo's sisters is named Quesadilla (because she was born in Taco Bell). And we get to see her. This is the first time we've seen any member of Waldo's family. We also se a cousin (un-named) She is played by Tracy Lanier. Who? Well, good question. Not only is this her only episode, but this is her only acting credit. She's vanished off the face of the Earth best I can tell.
Gary Boren scores.
RATING: *** *** *
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Harriette: "This is a quality dress. You can't put price on quality."
Carl: "Well the store did."
Waldo.: "Well, smack me hard and call me stupid."
Laura: "Look, Steve Urkel may be annoying, but he's always treated me with respect, and that's why he has a date tonight. And as of right now, you don't."
"Buds 'n' Buns" (24)
https://ok.ru/video/2011195378219
Final episode to have Jaimee Foxworth credited, after this, she's even gone from the credits.
So that's where Rachel has been the last few episodes: upstairs.
Plot Hole: Why would Harriette says she knew there would be trouble when Eddie was promoted? It was a surprise sudden promotion with no advance notice; she didn't know about it and have time to think about how it would affect Eddie and Carl.
Gary Boren scores.
RATING: *** *** *
(NtM: 21:29/gif)
Carl: "Inside these walls, I am the head weenie."
Myra: "I love Steve Urkel. He's the hot fudge on my Sundae."
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SEASON 5:
The opening credits have been changed slightly. The quick pull back to the scat singing, have been eliminated. And the closing shot of the family together, that included Judy, has been replaced with an entirely new and entirely different scene that not only looks staged but the cast appears uncomfortable and faking it. And, for some reason, everyone is there (sans Urkel, of course, who is not a family member) except Rachel. Her son is there, but she is not.
Judy was not the only victim of the new season. Rachel is not even in season five, but her son Richie is.
"Hell Toupee" (1)
https://ok.ru/video/2011147733547
It's been obvious that White has been getting older, but with his first appearance in this new season, it's even more obvious now that he's an adult playing a nerd.
The new "hip" scoring with quasi hip hop sounds, is really annoying. I hope it goes away quickly. It's also infect the end credits music!
RATING: *** *** *
Carl: "Harriette, are you saying I'm loosing my hair?"
Harriette: "Oh, it's not lost, its on the bottom of the sink."
Harriette: "Honey, relax -- your hair line is not receding. It's gone."
Steve: "The little vixon is stuck on my like bicycle pants on Delta Burke."
(I did look and she was never on the show)
Richie "How'd he grow hair that fast?"
Estelle: "Because he ate all his vegetables."
Out-of-context quote...
Steve: "Well, it is enormous."
(How about we call it the Urkel-nator.)
"It Didn't Happen One Night"
https://ok.ru/video/2011147405867
This episode actually takes place outside of the house and out of the city.
I like the way Steve stood up for himself after all Laura did to him. It was like a sudden moment where he finally grew up more into a man from a turbonerd teen.
I don't know how this family affords to exist, considering all the major home repairs alone (how do they keep home owner's insurance?). The kitchen windows alone get broken two or three times a season.
The street they live on: Pineheart Avenue.
RATING: *** *** **
Harriette: "Carl Winslows gotta go to bed now."
Steve: "Sometimes you just gotta polka."
"Saved by the Urkel"
https://ok.ru/video/2011147340331
This episode is something of a mixed bag. While the lead up to the electrocution was phony and cheap, the life saving was good an a number of scenes in the episodes are good. Believe it or not, this episode actually is held together by Urkel!
In-universe, Laura should be somewhere in 17 years old, maybe even just 18. The actress who played her really grew up to become a beautiful woman, and it's really noticeable in this episode. Also really noticeable, White is way too old for the nerdy look and execution.
Continuity Error: Carl is going on about the mess about the garage shelves collapsing and how he built them over fifteen years ago with his own two hands, but we know from a prior season this is the second time Urkel has been involved in taking them down.
Plot Hole: Urkel says he needs to make Carl's heart beat, but while he is saying that, you can see Carl breathing like crazy.
Gary Boren and Steven Chesne score (credited in that order). I think the hip music was Boren, and the dramatic cue for the electrocution, was Chesne.
RATING: *** *** **
Carl: "I'm sorry, Steve."
Steve: "There -- was that really so bad?"
Carl: "Yeah, it really was."
Laura: "I'll just go take off these cloths."
Steve: Excited, "Need some help?"
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Continuing SEASON 5:
"A Matter of Principle"
https://ok.ru/video/2011147274795
Harriette gets fired from where she works, the place she was working at on "Perfect Strangers". She says she has been there for twenty-three years. For a show that was created to be around her and her family, she's the secondary plot, a plot which barely gets any screen time.
RATING: *** *** *
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"Money Out the Window" (5)
https://ok.ru/video/2011147209259
Carl telling Eddie he's had trouble with gambling before is a perfect way to sum up this episode: We've seen this before!
Continuity Error/Plot Hole: How can a family that is always on a tight budget and having to pay for damages Urkel related, afford to buy a collectable stamp and help Laura pay for a car, when atop all that just the prior episode Harriette lost her job?
RATING: *** *** *
"Best Friends"
https://ok.ru/video/2011147078187
This episode is not only not Urkel centric, but he's barely in it.
This episode re-enforces something I said in an earlier season: if there was ever a revival of the series, Waldo should be making a living as a chef. Here we see he excels at it. PLUS, if there ever was a revival, imagine an episode where he and Gordon Ramsay meet.
"You f*****g doughnut!"
"That is inappropriate food-handling procedure. And you shouldn't do that to doughnuts. They're for eating."
Continuity Error: Waldo says there are nine people eating at the Faldo dinner table. So in a prior season he said he has four brothers and three sisters, so with him that's eight. Then two parents would make ten. There has been no indication thus far he's in a single-parent household.
Continuity Error: Steve works at Mighty Weenie, yet we know from prior season's he's worked at Rachel's Place. I know Rachel has been quite absent in season four and isn't even in this season (as previously stated), but that doesn't mean he gets fired or the place disappears (Laura works there, too, after all). While I'm at it -- who is running Rachel's restaurant?
Steven Chesne and Gary Broren score (credited in that order).
(Note to Me: 8:40/gif -- "I am not amused")
RATING: *** *** *.5
Eddie: "Dad, I need some advice."
Carl: "Here's some: Never go jogging in new underwear."
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