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 Posted:   Sep 28, 2024 - 7:47 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

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."

 
 Posted:   Oct 5, 2024 - 7:33 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

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: *** *** **

 
 Posted:   Oct 12, 2024 - 8:02 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

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: *** *** *

 
 Posted:   Oct 19, 2024 - 7:32 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

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)

 
 Posted:   Oct 26, 2024 - 7:48 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

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)

 
 Posted:   Nov 2, 2024 - 7:35 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

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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