Family Matters Cast Reunion

[Music] it was one of the most popular and longest-running sitcoms of its time in 1989 Family Matters introduced audiences to a working-class african-american family from Chicago in a nerdy neighbor with the catchphrase who took the world by storm 28 years later DW is bringing the cast of Family Matters back together for an unforgettable reunion haven't seen these guys but to see them now the way they are is wonderful it's like it's heartwarming it makes me cry for us to be all together again it's it you know I believe is God's plan and I believe he kept us alive for a reason I'm excited to see everybody together of course I love them all of us we love me too the following program modern style I mean you've been eating Donuts or Kyle did you have some of those ones we've always have them get oh you little jelly excuse me baby this is a family matter and you're in the line of fire the story of family matters began back in the late 80s with another ABC sitcom perfect strangers Balki the apartment is a mess I think we should get a maid of course and I hardly think getting a young woman to milk a goat is going to solve Oh perfect strangers was a sitcom set in Chicago it starred Mark linn-baker as this good Midwest boy who ends up taking in his cousin played by Bronson Pinchot who's from the Mediterranean these odd couple cousins are forced to live together and high jinks ensue [Applause] perfect strangers was produced by TV heavyweights Bob Boyett and Tom Miller in the 80s Boyet and Miller were behind a string of hits including happy days Mork & Mindy and the early Tom Hanks succumbed bosom buddies Kevin's me I have been so rude I haven't introduced us this is my sister Hildegarde and this is my sister Buffy Family Matters came about because ABC wanted a show about a black family and Bob Boyett and Tom Miller turned to Michael Warren and myself and said hey let's do a black family William Billy and Michael Warren were seasoned riders with a long list of credits including Welcome Back Kotter Laverne and Shirley and happy days they had written together for over a decade and worked on perfect strangers from the very beginning ABC was interested in the black family so Michael I went off and created the family and that's that was how it came to be born we just started thinking of characters and and then they emerged on paper one of the characters already existed on perfect strangers bartokomous this is Harriette Winslow nice to meet you how do you do Harriette runs the elevator here Oh Jack its ups and downs Harriette Winslow the straight-shooting elevator operator played by 39 year old Joe Murray Peyton you know this week is going to start with the first year that I did perfect strangers when I got it I was contracted for half of the season but then the character became very very popular and out of the twenty I think it was 26 first episodes I did like 22 or 23 of them and all and then at the end of the first season Tom and Bob called me to a meeting I said we're going to spin your character off we cast Joe Murray because we decided to do short spinoff on perfect strangers and she was already regular in perfect strangers so that's how Joe Murray came to be part of the mix and it just went from there when I cried like a baby when I get you a husband and kids and sister and a mother-in-law and all that kind of thing I said well okay the role of Harriet's husband Carl Winslow went to Reginald veljohnson the 37 year old actor was coming off his breakout performance as sergeant al Powell in the 1988 classic die hard well I had done a movie and the producers had seen the film that asked me to come in and audition so and I was the person I met Joe and it was it was it was it was there all along it was just I just felt it when we set out to create the show it was primarily with Reginald veljohnson in mind he had just done die hard and was a standout in that movie Reggie Bell Johnson was really the [Music] the centerpiece of what became family matters so sweet Oh is that on your mouth no no it's not sugar it's um cocaine Family Matters is just an all-american show about a working-class family and all of their unique dynamics just one all right - okay - is your quintessential sitcom mom she's a hard-working mother taking care of her kids and the house and also keeping her husband Karl in line from time to time carl winslow he is the king of the castle I mean he is a police officer after all and this is a guy who wants to make sure everyone knows who is in charge he's a protective guy Carl Winslow was first introduced as Harriet's husband in an episode of perfect strangers leaving Joe for the first time I knew that we would be together for a very long time it was just something very special about her that made me realize that this is gonna be in I won't be home for dinner they got me working undercover oh my word when you work undercover don't worry don't worry I'll be all right and I'll be home before you know it I mean see you later the episode we did on perfect strangers was not the pilot for the show we did an episode I guess more as a demo to the network to say look here's Reggie look juicy Harriet Rick Winslow so Reggie Joe Murray perfect strangers what do you think and then based on that we sold a an actual pilot turned out that hideous character turned out to be the most wonderful character that we ever done [Music] Harry to put it all these fresh flowers now Mama's gonna expect fresh flowers in here every day I am not paying for fresh flowers in this house every day my backyard oh you're paying for is manure in 1989 ABC ordered a pilot episode of Family Matters the perfect stranger spin-off starred Joe Murray Payton and Reginald veljohnson as Harriet and Carl Winslow hard-working parents with three children and odds and a grandmother all living under one roof 13-year old Kelly Williams was cast as the middle daughter Laura Laura is okay she's smart as she's beautiful she is a straight-a student and a cheerleader it's like what more could you want from a daughter I'm in big trouble I make it a B I got a B once I frankly I think this was the best audition I had ever done in my entire life like he was just so bright everything was so natural no hiccups and also I mean I didn't know I was gonna get the part but I did really well in that audition I'm sorry the role of Laura's older brother Eddie went to Darius McCreary the 13 year old actor was coming off a small role in the 1988 drama Mississippi Burning it ain't come up folks you should be talked into we should we be talking to start with the Sheriff's Office why aren't you afraid how community the Winslow son Eddie could not be further from Laura he is not a straight-a student but he is into girls and cars and pulling high jinks that you know any boy his age might try to pull off now if you want those hot tops you're gonna have to use your own money use my own money for shoes I just remember being like really nervous but it was a great audition and I think it was wasn't even a callback really but I didn't think that I got it so that's why they didn't call back but they wanted you because they told me you're just a Mississippi Burning yes yes we got this kid he's the big shots said he's incredible they are the better he told me they already knew yeah I saw I didn't I didn't think that I got it so when I left I said my mom how'd it go I said it was a great audition but I don't think they know I'm Rachel said I could take care of a little Richie I wanna hold him you can hold him when you get older when I get all he won't be a baby anymore the youngest Winslow Judy was played by seven-year-old Valerie Jones she's really cute adorable has a really great relationship with Laura it's just a little bit of the comic relief here and they're girls who's watching my baby she is comedy veteran Telma Hopkins was cast as Harriet's widowed younger sister aunt Rachel nobody helped me the 40-year old actress had appeared in more than 30 episodes of bosom buddies are you two girls big really big and nearly 70 episodes of the long-running hit give me a break miss Harper didn't you want to discuss the plans for additional pews I'm on pews Nell's on bells aunt Rachel is Harriet's younger sister and she starts off the show as a fiction writer and she has her own son that also lives at the family Richie when am I gonna see the next chapter of here nom I know what happens so I know I had worked with Bob wait before doing Bosom Buddies that was my first show with them and so when they got ready they had already gotten Joe and what's her name again they had already gotten them and they called me in for meeting and told me about the show they said they hadn't even pitched it I guess at that point but they were they had me in mind for this role and like I said that's we say I was like anything you do I'm there you know we ever gonna eat five digesters about the shutdown rounding out the cast was rosette alone or as a stealth carl's street-smart mother I'll go apologize to Harriet and to show Allison Sarah I'll try a choke down a piece of that meet the 78 year old actress had starred in the historic all-black version of Macbeth directed by Orson Welles but was probably most recognizable from her 16 episodes of Gimme a Break you've got a lot of growing up to do and when you do you'll realize that your mama is a woman just like you grandma Estelle mother Winslow as she was also known short woman but very strong and big in her presence and her stature she was she was this rock-solid foundation of the family and she was a pretty cool hip ground while too don't forget she was reading Rolling Stone and that in the opening theme song she had had a tough time on Gimme a Break and so she wasn't sure that she wanted to do anymore television because she was getting up an age and so my boy it called me he said when I called her and she said no he said well you call her I said sure and I called her and I said rosette I know that you thought you wanted to retire I said but if ever you were to take a job people that are going to take care of you this is the job and she called me back she took it Oh your father at dinner your grandma's gonna fight for your right to party she was our foundation she was she was the anchor and theatrical royalty every series has a set leader to be a director can be a star but it's an emotional foundation that an actor brings to a set and Rosetta had that full of so much I love you too grandma who she was made everybody wanted to be want to be better it made everybody wanted to be more professional so Rosetta was really the emotional foundation of the show the pilot scored high with test audiences and ABC ordered a 22-episode first season with one minor change the role of Judy was recast and went to nine-year-old Jamie Foxx Worth that's the other half of what we're supposed to be stuffing Jamie Foxx Worth was brought in in a second episode to play Judy for the rest of that character's run and she just fit the mold of this character really well Family Matters premiered in September 1989 as the lead-in to perfect strangers in the beginning ratings were good but not great it was a charming show it wasn't as funny as I think I would like it to be but it had a central charm to it which is often often the most important thing the show was still finding its way when creators William Bickley and Michael Warren sat down to write episode 12 Laura's first date in the script we wrote it was about Reggie veljohnson a father setting up his daughter for a date because he was afraid that she wouldn't get asked to a dance it's just you're it's your basic parent issue Maura is gonna get a date I'd guaranteed so we just sit down in the room Michael and I and try to think of okay what's the worst possible date that a father could end up getting for their daughter and we just designed a character that's rumored to have eaten a mouse that like cheese and asked for it when they came into a room we we were just trying to think of the character that the daughter would least like for her father to have set her up for a party turned out that that hideous character turned out to be the most wonderful character that we ever I was actually on my way out of the business I mean my mom has it to this day I signed on an index card it said I promise this is my last year and I'm not gonna waffle back and forth and I was actually on ice with my agent my Evan when your agent pushing on ice it means it they they're not sending you out anymore but my assistant and my agents assistant sent me out for this audition because I have braces on my teeth so I made the conscious decision I said going this room and never let him meet you little and so as I was walking to the room I remember I just started kind of walking like a geek and everything and I was just like when my dad said you picked me out with Laura wife I've wet my pants the old wife walked in the casting room with some sort of character that none of us had ever ever considered and brought something to what was supposed to be a one episode small role and we were blown away I've been crazy about her since the first green but she always thought I was some kind of a freak go figure tell people I'm like look I was just a twelve-year-old black-haired doing it ed Grimley impersonation oh forget the Pat Sajak like a suppose you could do better than that no way it seems to me that he would be a pretty decent guy I must say but what's so funny about that series is because I'm african-american at this time people are not thinking that my influences are white so what I was doing was coming off completely original and I think I booked the job within 24 hours I hope you don't mind if I stay a while my parents told me not to come home till 10:00 people were asking me about it you know but this try said we were good super Morgan we had all this spice before we need to get salt when he came in after that salt but now it's just there was a rock that nobody could just get enough of you know what I mean and every time we finished the show and we were here people screaming and clapping and everything we knew that that first step was not our last step and it was this no no no we were going to the moment murder Merkel I wanted my dressing room when I cry and and then the producers came to check on me and my dad told him that I would never do that character [Music] [Music] who are you and why are those flowers dripping on my floor Family Matters premiered on ABC in 1989 after a slow start the show took off when a bold new character was introduced midway through the first season we had no intention that the character was going to go more than the one episode in fact my partner Michael named the character after someone he knew the whole name he knew a person named Steve Urkel we don't usually do that if it's gonna be a regular character because sometimes people don't appreciate that the iconic Steve Urkel was played by Jaleel White this was the 13 year old actors second sitcom having already co-starred as comedian Flip Wilson son and the short-lived charleon Company sounded like a bear talking to a monster uncle is the neighbor next door who is so annoying you have to love him he is a quintessential nerd suspenders high pants white socks thick thick bifocals he's back I hear you can't get a date for the dance so the first episode Laura actually wanted this one kid to ask her out you can forget about mark he's not asked Jobeth him and I was just this thing getting it away and Carl took it upon himself because he thought Laura was having a hard time getting she was his date to the dance to ask me without ever ask hey you asked like my father or something you call something like that yeah and without ever having seen does your son Steve by any chance happen to have a date to the party tomorrow night so he hooked her up with the school learn on his own volition just trying to do the right thing and then I remember I came through the door and I just kind of did this thing you know in the doorway with those flowers and again it was a deliberate motion I got to did this thing when I introduced myself and Carl gives this look it's just like what the hell have I done and you know at that point I just became in the first episode something to hide you know in the house while we get Laura on the date with the real boy who you know she wants to go why don't you go in the kitchen there and wash off the roots mr. Winslow and I think our chemistry started immediately what if I don't anyway there was a frat there that night and you know everybody was in social media back then sometimes they used to have the Corral people to come watch tapings of television shows that weren't hit Jim so I don't know what was in it for this particular frat but it was like all white guys from some college in here in the southern Southland and they started chanting the character's name in between the scenes that I wasn't in what's your name sugar after that we came past got a call from the producers and they said they were bringing me back and over the weekend they made a deal with my agent for the rest of the season and that's [Music] purple took off like a racket in pop culture he was actually probably like the first nerd sheep there's nothing sheikah bout him but there was so much merchandise built around how popular his character became in the 90s you pretty much couldn't go anywhere without running into Steve Urkel in one form or another they sold her clothes at the grocery store they sold berkel talking dolls at the toy store so basically you could not get away from Steve Urkel even if you didn't watch family matters in the 90s you knew who Steve Urkel was Burkle catchphrase that you can't forget did I do that I don't even do it justice it was so annoying but did I do that was huge everyone to this day was saying [Music] did I do that just became this thing that became synonymous with me doing something completely obvious and in saying it afterwards I remember the commercial I've fallen I can't get up I'm fallen and I can't get up yeah we stole that and listened back then you didn't really know what was going to be a catchphrase that was gonna stick nowadays things are so contrived it's like oh we've got our catchphrase and they'll just drilling in your head whether audiences like it or not I'm wearing you down baby just like sometimes a delivery can mean more than what was actually safe so for a lot of things like did I do that it was just the delivery world axis I cling to my box it makes my DNA reconfigure in parallel dynamic structures in a super bizarro twist Steve created this transformation type machine that allowed him to become other people so throughout the seasons we thought him to become Bruce Lee's Elvis sorry I got mad I guess I was old sugar and a bunch of other famous people oddly it was always sort of a bit of a side gag but once again I think it stretched Jahlil white to become all these different characters as far as the characters were concerned it got to a point where he just got preposterous it just got to the point where it was just like yeah you're gonna play Albert Einstein you're gonna clean grease loosely it was just one one after the next and Myrtle was an interesting journey for me because as an actor though I always believe that if I believe it they'll believe so I had to be and I was you know I sometimes I am I even take offense a little bit but I got a chill I get it when certain people always you know they go to the place of oh they always have to put a black man in a dress or whatever what it was like nah not that there are certain performances you know that are just you know this classic performance that you get a darn good job and so I I I committed to it Eddie that name rolls off my tongue like honey at that age I was concerned that my friends at school were gonna make fun of me because again I'm that athlete first and but once I commit to something I'm not gonna I'm in I'm locked in box but he did it he did it so well and he had me going like this cuz one character is a love of my daughter yeah I was going back and forth but when you sat down at the table he was so convincing because one episode I was painting his nails and he was saying like Harriet my have you ever thought that what maybe idiot well maybe you're not is tape and like I say it just get me like this like this these different characters is Myrtle Urkel I'm gonna take that boy like grant took Richmond Myrtle I went to my dressing room when I cry and and then the producers came to check on me and my dad told him that I would never do that character again cuz I just wanted to get through the episode cuz I was too worried and I knew I had done it so well I was like damn they definitely gonna make fun of me at school for this I mean my mind I'm like I'm full I'm like I'd gone what are you doing I'm the old dream come true da night we're now go home ten ironically when I did go to school after the first time I did it no one made fun of me everybody just thought he was absolutely hysterical so sometimes it's kind of interesting how we you know we heat these societal concerns on other people that are not even experiencing that at all everybody at school just thought it was a great performance what's going on in here unfortunately not much so I had too much pride at that point at that age to go back then and say hey I want to play it again continue chasing after you would be humiliating and unworthy other ladies and so it took about two to three years in between and I was just kind of boards random on a lunch and I went into the writers room and I said if you guys want to do Myrtle again like I'll do it and I remember they just cheer who's a good shot in the arm at that at that age I was starting to get a good idea for what we're gonna be good sweet sweet episodes and I just felt like we needed a shot and that's how Myrtle came back but make sure to save room for dessert what's for dessert [Music] we loved you so much you know and I remember coming through the set one day he was crying I know he missed his mother but we were all there for him so you have always been special to me and you have turned out so beautiful [Music] [Music] Family Matters premiered in 1989 and by season two was a huge hit for ABC hi welcome to TGIF for six straight years the show kicked off the network's famed TGIF lineup I wasn't sure that Family Matters would be successful until the character of Steve Urkel started rolling in the second season the show also added a new actor to the cast four year old Brighton James stepped into the role of Aunt Rachel's young son Richie who'd been previously played by a baby so as sitcoms or want to do baby Richie was aged up in season two babies are not really that interesting to watch on TV so in season two Richie became a four year old played by Brighton James and he was just kind of a cute mischievous little kid and he really idolized Steve Urkel which i think is something that Steve Urkel had never experienced up to that point so they also had kind of a cute little relationship I'm asking for a fake Eddie really have you been a good boy this year I had a pig in August family matters family matters was my very first audition for a television show and I was as three years old I had only done a couple commercials here and there my parents knew nothing about the industry so we were very new the Brighton is one of those rare finds it's a kid that's born with this sort of supernatural talent the addition lasted about ten minutes and by the time I got home I had a callback and then Here I am you know I love this room it reminds me so much of ugh kitchen Watto this is a kitchen season two was also the introduction of the dim-witted Waldo Geraldo Faldo played by 16 year-old Sean Harrison he is originally a sidekick to the neighborhood bully hey what you gonna do Willie I'm a trash whose life why you gonna do that Willie cuz it's Tuesday again but he evolves into the best friend of Eddie and he is dumb as rocks like that's really his character tonight's just one big crazy mix-up you telling me I'm here for gym class I remember Sean when Sean came to us yes and I remember meeting his mother yes and his mother was so wonderful she was always baking us peach cobblers and pies different things and we loved her to death but shortly after that Sean lost his mother and I always said that she brought us broth Sean to the set for us to raise and we fell in love with him like he was like he was one of our own and although we knew that he didn't have a brother or sister so we we embraced him you know we loved you so much you know and I remember coming through the set one day he was crying and I know he missed he was in the kitchen by herself and I was coming through and I said Sean what's the matter he was crying I know he missed his mother but we were all there for him so you have always been special to me but I feel like your mother brought you to us but to help raise you and raise you the right way and you've turned out so beautiful thank you Joe you know and I appreciate the fact that I had an additional support system for me at the time because the show the show was in production there was no break for me between my mom passing and having to come and stick with the schedule that they already had lined up but everybody cast crew everyone was very very very supportive very understanding of the very trying and difficult time that I was going through so I appreciate all the love and support that you guys all extended to me during those years [Music] and that's real stuff they didn't know real like that's real mama love but I hit that door and to this day I've never seen such complete shock and awe and screaming from people in an audience [Music] [Music] 18-200 15 episodes and this there's certain episodes that really just stand out for me I I enjoy well my favorite episode was the quilt Laura you didn't sell your grandmother's quilt that coat has been in our family for 200 years that quilt is priceless where-where-where Laura finds this this quilting sells the quilt with my grandmother that my mother made and that was that's my favorite of all I think now is a good time to tell everybody the story of the quilt yeah tell us quick before Laura sells it again somebody in the cast may be more than one person mentioned the idea of of the quilt and what the meaning of a quilt had in a black family this quilt was started by your great-great-great great-grandmother Amy Rose and the quilt had such a resonance to us and to and to everyone involved in the show that we knew we wanted to do it in a record of our family in one place it was to be passed down from generation to generation it was just a sweet sweet story because it really did give a history each piece of cloth has a special meaning this was a piece of your great aunt's wedding dress right mom that's right and tell why this piece of cloth basically was so precious I think I know the perfect place to keep this quilt where's that in Laura's room what do you think we are you mean you trust me with the club now more than ever I never let it out of my sight I promise until the day I give it to my daughter it's just a great episode something I loved about our show there was always a message and there was always something good there was like a nugget at the end but the quilt was my favorite we did this episode called baker's dozen the restaurant wants to buy your tarts the restaurant wants to buy my Cubs who had to make all these pledges all these pies right targets they would talk to incorrect to be tarts right talks about Monday and I just remember and I was new to the show at that point I was just like man they get to throw pies at each other I'm like I want to be in this scene like how can I get in this thing so I remember going up to David Duke line I have to run through and I said David please just whatever you do I just be in the scene I don't care what I have to do hey your prayers Winslow and he and gehrman's here just looked each other like yeah and what happened was they would send you a script at night with a courier so the script came and I'm like excited I'm going through the script to see if they put me in the fire fire I want to get my swing on I wanna throw father Darius and Kelly I got a good on baby we got to do this and these suckers made me come in at the end of the scene and get back just say hidey-hole Winslow [Music] through all their pies at me listen I don't know what they would I don't know if they would take it something out on me oh but I did it I didn't complain even when I saw it but then pies came so hard and rough with me and if you even go back and you look you see me stumbling and staggering my favorite episode is a la love fun ones one my favorite one was a Halloween episode when I got a lot yeah don't ask me Waldo man you really messed up this time this is the dumbest thing you've ever done hey you love a small kid with me and you calling me dumb you guys are talking about these these real moments you know that you have between each other and I was I was all of for probably and you know learning who you guys are on you guys becoming my family that young age and then the same that he and I Darius and I did at the end when he got emotional and cried thinking about losing me you know see I don't just like you I love you little guy [Music] and I know we will I mean I know what we were doing it was all pretend but I was the first time I got to see from this new person in my life this real emotion and I knew it was real I knew how much you cared about me because they all did that he was one of the ones that really I'm evil make me cry may cut that out man that was my little duel first it was like a first acting moment too because I even I mean my parents helped me prepare for it was you know this is this is the situation you're gonna act like you're scared in this and disappointed it in so did you get much candy at Waldo are you kidding he threw eggs at houses and then rang the doorbell [Applause] and so it's you know these guys are just pretending and doing real kind of heavy stuff like that so it was my first go-around and to feel that with him [Music] Steve Steve who my favorite episode it would have to be Stefan or kills for its first episode and the only reason why is because it came such a shock to me that people wanted we're so interested in seeing me as me no no no no no there is no Steve here I'm Stefan and sweet that and I remember telling you our producer David rhew client is supporting and he was like people need to see you this way hmm that to me started I feel like puberty started for be a bad night you are worth another trip and because basically what that character was is you know I was over complimenting every Winslow family bheegi bheegi big guy of course I just love to compliment this guy you know cuz he do this little giggle and shimmy hey are you losing weight sideways uh-oh where'd you go there's a healer remember you what you easy but but I yeah I love that episode because when I hit the door and to this day I've never seen such complete shock and awe and screaming from people in an audience please party on party on and if it wasn't for my discipline that never break character when you got him going I really would have just stopped and been like really peace baby I would have just stopped the scene he's been i but you don't ever break magic when it's happening and instead you did this pill you develop these to milk something we have some serious honey's in here oh this party is the bomb so it was just kinda like already got y'all on the hook like this how could you I just made it up that episode to me just meant a lot to me because I just I felt like that was it some kind of bridge net for me becoming a [Music] [Applause] I mean when I say I want to take that show I one take that show it was like every sing I nailed it to the best of my ability [Music] I did all my Christmas shopping in one day and you fit every gift in that little bag family matters premiered in 1989 and ran for an incredible 215 episodes but midway through the ninth season the hit series lost its very first cast member when Joe Murray Payton decided to leave the show how did that guy like me ever end up with the genius like you I don't know I guess I wasn't paying attention including her time on perfect strangers Peyton had played Harriette Winslow for more than a decade when it was time to go I had I had already put in ten and a half years I had done this character and the way I explained is that when you're a baker you don't know his mom bake cakes or cookies you want to bake pies I'm gonna befriend you I wanted to do something else so when it was time for me to go I did like my mother said when it's time to go home just take your toys and go home [Music] instead of writing the character off creators Bickley and Warren decided to recast the role which went to 50 year old Judy an elder what are we talking about here Oh telling us Steve about how I was going steady with George when I met you [Music] Wow it was hard for me too after nine years to doing something with one person there's like getting divorced and then marrying somebody else and it was weird I mean honestly I mean I can just say like Reggie you said I mean no disrespect to Judith who came in to player but I felt like my mom was was gone he'll always be beautiful to me it was it was hard and I'm glad that she's here today in the end Paden only missed out on 15 episodes because after nine wildly successful seasons Family Matters finally said goodbye in 1998 with a two-part series finale it's a long-standing uncle tradition to wait three months before consummating the marriage but Steve okay okay okay you talked me out I mean really honestly the last episode was was really emotional I think for all of us I remember the last episode very vividly what I remember most about the show is a one-take the show I mean when I say I won take that show I won take that show it was like every scene I nailed it to the best of my ability the international space program is chosen you to be the first student space in the two-part finale berkel gets a call from NASA and they're telling him he is the first student to be invited to space due to the gravity invention that he made what's the matter Houston well the AGF 5000 has thrown a satellite off-course where's it headed right at you while in space circles gravity machine causes a satellite to go out of its orbit and actually shoots into the spaceship that Merkel and his fellow astronauts are on and it's looking a little scary it's like a little bit of Paolo 13 happening in this episode you're gonna have to stabilize the ship the other crewmembers get knocked out when trying to correct the ship so it's up to earth all to save the day congratulations Steve course correction completed satellites antenna punch of the hole I figure we can break it off and Pat you from the inside the crew needs to dislodge the satellite from the spaceship but because they've all been knocked out and injured basically there's no one left to do it but our goal you're going to have to send out the nerd so he straps on his suit and goes outside to try to fix it ooh Steve he manages to free it but in our coal fashion he forgets to attach his tether and he is floating off into space with this satellite things look hopeless but you can never count Oracle out so he ends up Jerry rigging this satellite to gets thrusters working he basically thrusts himself back to the spaceship just in time before his oxygen runs out he is welcomed home as a hero and everyone is so happy to see him including his future father-in-law who hates circle he always had I have told everybody at work about my future son-in-law welcome home son thanks but having him back and faith and sound he's very very happy and it's a big moment like in a welcome home case on one condition well what's that he'll never go into outer space again only when we kissed loudly only when we keys and then I just remember at the end of the show it was like Kelly seriously they were about to go go out for outros and say bye to the audience and it was like that's when I broke that's when I that's when the tears started like I already knew that I would missing you guys I knew that it would that my life would be different I spent probably 42 weeks a year at Thomas house during the weekend she's like my other brother Joe Murray you don't know that these people are a family and to not have that that same amount of time and energy with them was it was difficult for a long time nearly 20 years after their emotional final episode Family Matters remains the third longest-running African American sitcom ever made and for fans hoping for a reboot the cast is ready and willing and most definitely able Janelle and I were talking just a while ago and they say you know we can do this and I said if they drop the strip at our feet when we walked out of here we better come back here tomorrow and the next day we got a show shot yeah we have a lawsuit like it's gonna do it together it's back to normal I look back on it I can almost look back on it as a third party now like when I see myself on PG and centric and all these different outlets and now Hulu you know um I look at the screen and I'm like wow man where's that guy like I I know that guy but that guy lives inside of me almost like in the sunken place like he really does I think there's just something really magical about this cast and the real feelings that are here it wasn't just for the screen it was that kind of show family really good matter I will never have another experience like this ever again I know it these kids were little kids when I came on the show and we watched him grow up too weak to be excellent adults and I'm gonna miss him because I miss them today and Family Matters will always be very special to me in my heart [Music]

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Views: 5,230,085

Rating: 4.8213782 out of 5

Keywords: Tv, sitcom, urkel, family matters, Steve urkel, 1990s

Id: UF7HFMLPo_I

Length: 53min 37sec (3217 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 28 2017