Ranking Every Season Of Family Matters

Ranking Every Season Of Family Matters

Family Matters is most remembered for Steve Urkel. We’re ranking all nine seasons of the hit TGIF series.

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Family Matters (1989-1998) originally aired for eight seasons as part of ABC’s TGIF and moved to CBS for its ninth and final season. The series is most remembered for accidental main character Steve Urkel (Jaleel White), who added a scientific, fantastical touch to the Full House counterpart.

Steve began as the well-meaning but slightly irritating member of the Winslow family. Portrayed by an African American cast, the Winslows and Steve grew a lot over the near-decade they were on the air. The sitcom is still on Hulu, so check it out and enjoy this ranking of every season.

9 Season 4

This season is defined in history by one thing: the disappearance of Judy Winslow. Rumor has it, the youngest Winslow kid was gradually pushed out as Steve Urkel got more screen time. Eddie and Laura started to get older and receive more mature storylines, but Judy began to do and say less and less. She is in the intro credits for all of the fourth season but does not appear in every episode.

There is an urban legend that Judy goes up the stairs at the end of the season and never comes back. That’s not true. Mother Winslow, Judy’s grandmother, gets married in the family’s backyard a few episodes before the season finale. The last of Judy is seen when she turns to recess down the aisle at the wedding. Though her image is displayed in the rest of the season’s opening credits, there are no more scenes with her.

8 Season 9

Like season four, season nine is marked by an odd event. JoMarie Payton, who played Harriette Winslow, departed midway through the show’s final season and was replaced by Judyann Elder. Elder appeared as Harriette in eight of the last nine episodes. Most hardcore fans know that Payton was going through a divorce at the time and was unhappy on the series. Otherwise, the ninth season does well tying up some loose ends. Harriette receives a big promotion at work in the season opener, giving Carl another chance to act kind of sexist and get upset that his wife makes more money than him. Fans still manage to cheer when Carl finally becomes Captain Winslow. Eddie takes after his dad and commits to attend the Police Academy. Harriette and Carl decide to officially adopt 3J. Most importantly, Laura realizes that her feelings for Steve overcome her feelings for Stefan. Steve and Laura get engaged, but the series ended before they could get married.

7 Season 3

The third season is not the most memorable. Steve goes deeper into his scientific interests by building and programming a robot. Laura gets more into dating. Rachel’s Place is ravaged by gang members. After tuning his grandmother out for too long, Eddie learns an important lesson when Mother Winslow guest-lectures his high school history class on her late husband’s role as a fighter pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II. The season finale also has a historical theme, sending everyone back to the 1940s where they act out Steve’s detective story.

6 Season 6

In a two-part season opener, Steve contemplates becoming Stefan permanently to please Laura Winslow. Thankfully, he sticks with Steve for most of the season. College guys Waldo and Eddie move into an apartment together, and Laura faces threats of gun violence at her school. This season does pretty well to balance the serious and the silly, and it is most known for its TGIF rite of passage–the Disney World episodes. Steve somehow swings a ticket for everyone in the family when he goes to Orlando for a science convention. It looks like it is going to be a blast at the Wilderness Lodge, but Laura sabotages the transformation chamber, suggesting the possibility of a permanent Stefan. The alter-ego proposes to Laura with an over-the-top Cinderella treatment, but then he goes back to being Steve.

5 Season 5

The fifth season offers some interesting developments. Even though Steve is being hotly pursued by Myra Monkhouse, he still has feelings for Laura. He would do anything for her–including driving her hours away to a cheerleading competition and sleeping on a cot in their hotel room. Steve saves Carl’s life, an event which is too quickly ignored for the rest of the series. Eddie begins to show poor judgment in decision-making, another frustration that remains throughout the later seasons. Most notably, this season introduces the transformation chamber, Steve’s vehicle for transforming himself into new identities like Stefan Urquelle. That initial transformation episode is appropriately titled “Dr. Urkel and Mr. Cool.”

4 Season 7

Season seven of Family Matters is jam-packed. Steve, Laura, Myra, and Maxine are in their senior year of high school. Laura and Steve see each other naked and wind up going to prom together, Myrtle Urkel torments Eddie Winslow, Steve mentors young 3J, and Steve clones himself. By putting Steve #2 in the now-familiar transformation chamber, Stefan Urkel becomes a permanent creation.

3 Season 8

The eighth season opens with a three-part cinematic (but lackluster) tour of artificial Paris. Steve’s latest invention is the Urk-Pad, which can transport anyone to any location in the world. Stefan is still Mr. Cool, but he struggles to establish an identity for himself since he was essentially born yesterday. The season stays pretty interesting as Steve invents a time travel device and shows Carl what the good life would have been like.

Laura, Greta Myra, Maxine, and Myrtle compete in the Miss Downtown Chicago beauty pageant (Emmanuel Lewis of Webster fame co-hosts it with Carl). Also of significance is Harriette and Carl’s decision to become 3J’s new foster parents. Some fans criticize the series for getting rid of one Winslow child and taking in another.

2 Season 1

The first season of Family Matters is the sweetest. All the kids are so young and adorable, and Little Richie is just a baby. He and his Aunt Rachel are just getting settled at the Winslow home after Rachel’s husband has passed away. In that respect, the show is set up as a bit of an inverse to Full House, where Danny’s best friend and brother-in-law each move into his house to help him after his wife dies. The Winslow house is also home to Carl’s mother Estelle, lovingly addressed as “Mother Winslow.” Steve does not appear until the fourth episode of Family Matters, “Rachel’s First Date.”

1 Season 2

If a season can get any better than Family Matters’ first, it’s the second. The young characters continue their development with Steve spending more and more time at the Winslows’. The season opener marks the beginning of Rachel’s Place, Aunt Rachel’s fun diner project that is forgotten a couple of seasons later. More importantly, this season includes an episode on discrimination (number 20) called “Fight the Good Fight.” Laura and Steve are enthusiastic about including more Black history in their school’s curriculum, to continue beyond just Black History Month. White students then leave a nasty note and a racial slur on Laura’s locker. This story sets a precedent for a couple of additional episodes on racism. All in all, the second season is the best one.

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