Episode 1: Boom!
1991-09-2024 min
Urkel rescues an orangutan from laboratory experiments. Carl steps on a treadmill booby trapped with a bomb.
Season guide
Family Matters Season 3 — Episodes and Where to Watch
25 episodes · first aired 1991-09-20
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Episode guide
Episode 2: Brain over Brawn
1991-09-2724 min
Urkel's future hangs in the balance during a rope-climbing contest pitting brains against brawn to win Laura's affections.
Episode 3: The Show Must Go On
1991-10-0424 min
In the school play, Romeo Steve looks forward to kissing Juliet Laura when the original Romeo lands in the hospital with appendicitis.
Episode 4: Words Hurt
1991-10-1124 min
Sleepwalking Urkel undergoes hypnosis to uncover the cause of his anger: he thinks Carl hates his nerdy guts.
Episode 5: Daddy's Little Girl
1991-10-1824 min
Laura's behavior suddenly changes when she meets Carl's younger new partner and surf's up for Steve.
Episode 6: Citizen's Court
1991-10-2524 min
Urkel is so bugged when Carl squashes his pet beetle that he takes him to court - TV's Citizen's Court - to settle the matter.
Episode 7: Robo-Nerd
1991-11-0124 min
Steve creates the Urkelbot, a mechanical Urkel that is all too much like its creator.
Episode 8: Making the Team
1991-11-0824 min
When Laura gets snubbed by fellow cheerleaders, she seeks advice from Urkel, who tries out for the basketball team and ends up as equipment manager.
Episode 9: Born to be Mild
1991-11-1524 min
A street gang causes trouble for the Winslows, and things become personal when they vandalize Rachel's Place and attack Eddie. Carl wants to take matters into his own hands, but Urkel decides to infiltrate the gang and tricking them into confessing.
Episode 10: The Love God
1991-11-2224 min
Steve thwarts Eddie's potential romance, while Carl is undercover in drag.
Episode 11: Old and Alone
1991-11-2924 min
Laura may be sorry for banishing Urkel from her life: in her dreams, she's a 90-year-old spinster whose only visitor is a now-married Urkel.
Episode 12: A Pair of Ladies
1991-12-0624 min
Rachel reluctantly hires a loudmouthed, pushy Harriette to help at the restaurant; and Urkel bets the ranch on Carl's cutthroat poker game at home with the guys.
Episode 13: Choir Trouble
1991-12-2024 min
Steve joins the Winslows at church with faith that he'll get into the choir, but he's kicked out by new choir director Rachel, whose position has gone to her head.
Episode 14: A Test of Friendship
1992-01-1024 min
The Winslows are ripped off when Carl dozes off; Urkel takes the heat after helping Eddie cheat on a chemistry test.
Episode 15: Jailhouse Blues
1992-01-1724 min
Visiting cousin Clarence is a slick dude ready for some action in the Winslow 'hood and a bad influence on a vulnerable Eddie, who winds up being arrested together with Steve.
Episode 16: Brown Bombshell
1992-01-3124 min
Mother Winslow regales Eddie's classmates with tales of her late fighter-pilot husband and of World War II's Tuskegee Airmen.
Episode 17: Food, Lies and Videotape
1992-02-0724 min
Urkel enrolls in a home economics class with Laura, thinking it'll be a piece of cake, but he soon learns he less than an A-student.
Episode 18: My Broken-Hearted Valentine
1992-02-1424 min
Urkel again tries to intervene in Laura's budding romance with Daniel Wallace, whom Steve has learned is nothing but trouble. Laura believes Urkel is meddling in her love life and tells him to go away.
Episode 19: Woman of the People
1992-02-2124 min
When squeaky-clean Laura enters the race for student-council president, snooty rival Cassie Lynn vows to gather dirt on her. Meanwhile, neighbors elect Harriet Neighborhood Watch leader and Carl is down in the dumps about it.
Episode 20: Love and Kisses
1992-02-2824 min
Hoping to win Laura, Urkel strikes a deal with R&B singer Johnny Gill: his treasured baseball card in exchange for serenading her; Carl and Harriette discover that their honeymoon love nest is of the outdoor type.
Episode 21: Stop, in the Name of Love
1992-03-1324 min
Laura's encouraging words cast a love spell on Waldo; Carl and Lt. Murtagh trade insults in a food fight over Mother Winslow's bad driving.
Episode 22: The Urkel Who Came to Dinner
1992-04-0324 min
Urkel's stay at the Winslows brings chaos when he swallows a fish that Carl was "fish-sitting," urges Richie to fight a preschool bully and drives away Laura's study mate.
Episode 23: Robo-Nerd II
1992-04-2424 min
It's hasta la vista to the criminal element and hello Urkelbot after Urkel revives his robot for law-enforcement use in solving a rash of convenience store robberies on Carl's beat; meanwhile new shampoo changes the women.
Episode 24: Dudes
1992-05-0124 min
Laura sees red when Urkel, Eddie and Waldo appear on Dudes, a TV dating show that Laura claims is sexist; Carl's birthday gets little attention from his family.
Episode 25: Farewell, My Laura
1992-05-0824 min
Urkel plays bumbling, hard-boiled gumshoe Johnny Danger in a 1940s film noir spoof with Laura as a sultry client who needs protection for her aunt Rachel singer and supper-club owner marked for murder.
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