The Best Episodes of Family Matters Season 3

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.3/10(169 votes)

   #1 - Boom!

   S3:E19/20/1991

   Urkel rescues an orangutan from laboratory experiments. Carl steps on a treadmill booby trapped with a bomb.

   Director:Rich Correll

   Writer:David W. Duclon

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   Director:Rich Correll

   Writer:David W. Duclon
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   7.1/10(166 votes)

   #2 - Brain over Brawn

   S3:E29/27/1991

   Urkel's future hangs in the balance during a rope-climbing contest pitting brains against brawn to win Laura's affections.

   Director:Rich Correll

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.0/10(158 votes)

   #3 - The Show Must Go On

   S3:E310/4/1991

   In the school play, Romeo Steve looks forward to kissing Juliet Laura when the original Romeo lands in the hospital with appendicitis.

   Director:John Tracy

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.1/10(163 votes)

   #4 - Words Hurt

   S3:E410/11/1991

   Sleepwalking Urkel undergoes hypnosis to uncover the cause of his anger: he thinks Carl hates his nerdy guts.

   Director:John Tracy

   Writer:David W. Duclon

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   Director:John Tracy

   Writer:David W. Duclon
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   6.8/10(152 votes)

   #5 - Daddy's Little Girl

   S3:E510/18/1991

   Laura's behavior suddenly changes when she meets Carl's younger new partner and surf's up for Steve.

   Director:Rich Correll

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.0/10(156 votes)

   #6 - Citizen's Court

   S3:E610/25/1991

   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.

   Director:John Tracy

   Writer:Unknown

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7. 

   7.1/10(159 votes)

   #7 - Robo-Nerd

   S3:E711/1/1991

   Steve creates the Urkelbot, a mechanical Urkel that is all too much like its creator.

   Director:Rich Correll

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.2/10(153 votes)

   #8 - Making the Team

   S3:E811/8/1991

   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.

   Director:Rich Correll

   Writer:David W. Duclon

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   Writer:David W. Duclon
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   7.9/10(203 votes)

   #9 - Born to be Mild

   S3:E911/15/1991

   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.

   Director:John Tracy

   Writer:Unknown

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    7.2/10(163 votes)

    #10 - The Love God

    S3:E1011/22/1991

    Steve thwarts Eddie's potential romance, while Carl is undercover in drag.

    Director:John Tracy

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    7.2/10(149 votes)

    #11 - Old and Alone

    S3:E1111/29/1991

    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.

    Director:Rich Correll

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.9/10(150 votes)

    #12 - A Pair of Ladies

    S3:E1212/6/1991

    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.

    Director:John Tracy

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13. 

    6.6/10(157 votes)

    #13 - Choir Trouble

    S3:E1312/20/1991

    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.

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    6.7/10(150 votes)

    #14 - A Test of Friendship

    S3:E141/10/1992

    The Winslows are ripped off when Carl dozes off; Urkel takes the heat after helping Eddie cheat on a chemistry test.

    Director:Rich Correll

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    6.9/10(160 votes)

    #15 - Jailhouse Blues

    S3:E151/17/1992

    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.

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    7.2/10(150 votes)

    #16 - Brown Bombshell

    S3:E161/31/1992

    Mother Winslow regales Eddie's classmates with tales of her late fighter-pilot husband and of World War II's Tuskegee Airmen.

    Director:John Tracy

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    7.1/10(157 votes)

    #17 - Food, Lies and Videotape

    S3:E172/7/1992

    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.

    Director:John Tracy

    Writer:Unknown

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18. 

    7.2/10(159 votes)

    #18 - My Broken-Hearted Valentine

    S3:E182/14/1992

    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.

    Director:Rich Correll

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.2/10(156 votes)

    #19 - Woman of the People

    S3:E192/21/1992

    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.

    Director:David W. Duclon

    Writer:Rich Correll

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    6.8/10(150 votes)

    #20 - Love and Kisses

    S3:E202/28/1992

    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.

    Director:John Tracy

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    7.5/10(142 votes)

    #21 - Stop, in the Name of Love

    S3:E213/13/1992

    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.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:David W. Duclon

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22. 

    7.1/10(146 votes)

    #22 - The Urkel Who Came to Dinner

    S3:E224/3/1992

    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.

    Director:John Tracy

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.5/10(147 votes)

    #23 - Robo-Nerd II

    S3:E234/24/1992

    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.

    Director:Rich Correll

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24. 

    7.4/10(149 votes)

    #24 - Dudes

    S3:E245/1/1992

    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.

    Director:Rich Correll

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.6/10(162 votes)

    #25 - Farewell, My Laura

    S3:E255/8/1992

    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.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:David W. Duclon

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