Family Matters Never Did a Gay Episode
Added 2021-05-14 06:50:54 +0000 UTC“Dr. Urkel and Mr. Cool” (November 12, 1993)
Yep, we finally figured out a way to talk about Family Matters. When Laura asks Steve why he is the way his is, he says he’s born this way — but then he uses science to become someone else. The metaphors are easy to make, even if the writers probably didn’t have anything gay in mind when they made this episode. Prepare for an overview of all the Family Matters lore you forgot you knew.
Watch how Perfect Strangers previewed Family Matters back in the day. Also? Urkel-os! Also? Do the Urkel!
Watch Veronica Mars’ AWOL mom in the opening credits to TGIF’s Free Spirit. Also check her out as Prank, the proto-Harley Quinn to Mark Hamill’s Trickster on the 90s Flash series.
Read the L.A. Times piece comparing Urkel to The Fonz.
Why did Jo Marie Payton leave Family Matters midway through the last season?
Watch Drew’s video compilation of every LGBT joke ever on the history of The Simpsons.
Buy Glen’s movie, Being Frank.
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This episode’s outro track is “A Full Rotation” by Repetition, which is not on any of the streaming services so may just listen on YouTube?
Comments
Coincidentally, and this was in the early 2000s, the only time in my life that I've been in elevators that had elevator operators was in Chicago.
Robyn Pavlakovich
2021-05-18 00:53:31 +0000 UTC<i>Family Matters: Did I Reboot That?</i>
Seth Aaron Hershman has they she pronouns
2021-05-16 01:04:22 +0000 UTCIt looks like The Urkel Dance came only three months after Do the Bartman. I'd bet good money they were very much so trying to ride Bartman's wave.
Drew Mackie
2021-05-15 20:29:17 +0000 UTCRe: naming characters after real people, I read once that TV icon Michael Landon chose his stage name out of a phone book... Which means there was another Michael Landon in LA the whole time. I wonder what his life was like.
Claire Marinello
2021-05-15 17:39:57 +0000 UTCWas the Urkel cashing in on the Bartman? Or vice versa?
Ryan Cores
2021-05-14 18:45:55 +0000 UTCAlso yes thank you! It ALWAYS annoyed me that there wasn’t a ninja turtle named after Artemisia Gentileschi
Lobo
2021-05-14 16:26:56 +0000 UTCBra Arthur dancing with Urkel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNVxJPzECI8
Lobo
2021-05-14 14:40:13 +0000 UTC
