Family Matters

Steve Urkel burns down the local hamburger place while playing chef. Rachel buys the burned out restaurant with Mother Winslow's help.

Steve Urkel overhears a conversation in which Rachel confesses her interest in Steve. Urkel assumes he is the object of her affection.

Laura is assigned Steve Urkel as a husband in a school project. Harriette feels taken for granted when Carl cancels a romantic dinner with her to go to a hockey game.

Carl and his new captain Charlie Carnelli compete fiercely for the annual police dance contest.

Eddie flunks his drivers test but still takes his girlfriend for a drive. Arriving home, he crashes the car into the front door and lets Steve Urkel take the blame.

Steve's uncertainty about choosing a career leads Carl to the realization that he should no longer pressure his own son to become a cop.

When Laura and Steve venture to the bank to deposit their paychecks on Halloween, they end up hostages in a robbery.

Steve Urkel's female cousin, Myrtle, looks and sounds just like him! Myrtle develops a crush on Eddie and Laura decides to play a practical joke on him by telling a smitten Myrtle how to get his attention.

Harriette becomes jealous when the pretty new neighbor is attracted to Carl. Laura gets jealous after she plays matchmaker for Steve Urkel. When Steve is available again, Laura discovers she is no longer interested.

Laura asks Steve to be her partner in class only because he's the best student and he can help her get a better grade. Feeling guilty, she confesses to Steve that she was using him. Steve forgives her and shows off their science project.

Laura wants to ask a boy to the school dance, but he turns her down after being bullied by Willie, who wants to ask Laura to the dance. Steve Urkel is the unlikely hero when he stands up to the bully.

When Eddie loses $250 to a hardened pool hustler, he's rescued by Steve, who challenges the hustler to a game.

Carl buys the last Freddy Teddy doll for Richie only to have it ripped apart by angry shoppers. Steve is banished from the Winslow home and is all alone on Christmas Eve.

Carl's decision to take his reluctant son ice fishing almost ends in tragedy when the ice on the frozen lake gives way.

Harriette acts as peacemaker when a fierce argument between Carl and Eddie threatens to tear the family apart.

Steve questions tutoring a basketball player that Laura likes.

Steve finds an unorthodox way of curing Carl of his fear of heights. Rachel and Harriette argue over just who won a car on a radio contest.

Steve Urkel gets drunk and falls off the roof at Maxine's party when the uninvited Willie adds liquor to Steve's punch.

Steve and Eddie gamble to fund Eddie's car repairs.

Laura starts a campaign to have a black history course taught at her school.

Steve and Carl both learn a lesson about when to take credit for their achievement.

Harriette's and Rachel's father, whom they had believed was killed in the Korean War, comes to the Winslow home and wants to make amends for abandoning his daughters.

Steve Urkel gives Laura Winslow a bracelet, and Lieutenant Murtagh goes on a date with Rachel. Both are bluntly spurned, leaving Urkel consoling Lieutenant Murtagh.

Carl dreams that he is facing "Two-Gun Urkel," the most annoying gunslinger in the West.

Carl Winslow experiences guilt over a hostage who was shot a year ago while he was on duty as a police officer. Steve Urkel bribes Laura Winslow to go out on a date with him.