JamesG
02-14-2009, 11:00 AM
Family Matters Starring The Bushwakers
Cousin Luke! Cousin Butch! Cosuin Urkel?!
One of the most popular sitcoms of the 90s was a snazzy little series called Family Matters. The character of Harriette Winslow originally appeared on Perfect Strangers as the elevator operator of Larry and Balki's at the Chicago Chronicle, which in those days...and probably now, was enough for ABC Network to greenlight a spin-off for Harriette and her family (sadly, the Love-matic Grandpa Simpson was not available).
Think about that for a moment, will you? Someone, someone in a position of power to make such decisions regarding what we, the American viewing public, got to watch on television decided that there was just too much story potential on PERFECT STRANGERS to all be crammed into 30 minutes.
So yeah, Family Matters premiered in 1989 as a show about a middle-class African American family living in the suburbs of Chicago. Seen early on as somewhat of a Cosby Show ripoff, the show plodded along in the ratings, until the arrival of character that would dominate the rest of the series until its cancellation in 1998.
If you did not live through the madness that was Urkel-mania, then you have no idea what it was like.
Jaleel White as the Super Annoying Nerd Steven Q. Urkel was perhaps the most famous television icon of the decade. He had his own t-shirts, a cereal (it's true, kiddies, though it doesn't beat Blade's lesbian cereal), a coloring book (I still have this somewhere), a pull-string talking doll and his own “Do the Urkel Dance“ single that was performed by Jaleel and BEA ARTHUR at the American Comedy Awards.
But I digress.
As with most long-running sitcoms, there is at least one wrestling-related episode and Family Matters is no exception. This has been a long-requested induction, one RD was obviously too much of a fraidy cat to review (and honestly, who could blame him), but I will dive headfirst into the putridness.
That's how much I love you kids...
(at this point the rest of the article show screenshots from the episode with commentary. See the full article at http://www.wrestlecrap.com/newinduction4.html)
Cousin Luke! Cousin Butch! Cosuin Urkel?!
One of the most popular sitcoms of the 90s was a snazzy little series called Family Matters. The character of Harriette Winslow originally appeared on Perfect Strangers as the elevator operator of Larry and Balki's at the Chicago Chronicle, which in those days...and probably now, was enough for ABC Network to greenlight a spin-off for Harriette and her family (sadly, the Love-matic Grandpa Simpson was not available).
Think about that for a moment, will you? Someone, someone in a position of power to make such decisions regarding what we, the American viewing public, got to watch on television decided that there was just too much story potential on PERFECT STRANGERS to all be crammed into 30 minutes.
So yeah, Family Matters premiered in 1989 as a show about a middle-class African American family living in the suburbs of Chicago. Seen early on as somewhat of a Cosby Show ripoff, the show plodded along in the ratings, until the arrival of character that would dominate the rest of the series until its cancellation in 1998.
If you did not live through the madness that was Urkel-mania, then you have no idea what it was like.
Jaleel White as the Super Annoying Nerd Steven Q. Urkel was perhaps the most famous television icon of the decade. He had his own t-shirts, a cereal (it's true, kiddies, though it doesn't beat Blade's lesbian cereal), a coloring book (I still have this somewhere), a pull-string talking doll and his own “Do the Urkel Dance“ single that was performed by Jaleel and BEA ARTHUR at the American Comedy Awards.
But I digress.
As with most long-running sitcoms, there is at least one wrestling-related episode and Family Matters is no exception. This has been a long-requested induction, one RD was obviously too much of a fraidy cat to review (and honestly, who could blame him), but I will dive headfirst into the putridness.
That's how much I love you kids...
(at this point the rest of the article show screenshots from the episode with commentary. See the full article at http://www.wrestlecrap.com/newinduction4.html)