The BEST episodes of Family Matters season 3
Every episode of Family Matters season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Family Matters season 3!
The Winslows, a middle-class Black family living in Chicago, deal with various misadventures — many of which are caused by their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel.
#1 - Born to Be Mild
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1991
A street gang causes trouble for the Winslows, and things become personal when they vandalize Rachel's Place and attack Eddie. Carl wants to take matters into his own hands, but Urkel decides to infiltrate the gang and tricking them into confessing.
#2 - My Broken-Hearted Valentine
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/14/1992
Lonely and depressed after breaking up with Ted, Laura grants Urkel a few bittersweet hours of bliss as her valentine; Gwendolyn charms Richie with "yucky goo-goo stuff"; and Harriette and Carl search for admirable qualities in each other.
#3 - A Pair of Ladies
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1991
Rachel reluctantly hires a loudmouthed, pushy Harriette to help at the restaurant; and Urkel bets the ranch on Carl's cutthroat poker game at home with the guys.
#4 - Citizens' Court
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1991
Urkel is so bugged when Carl squashes his pet beetle that he takes him to court - TV's Citizen's Court - to settle the matter.
#5 - Words Hurt
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1991
Sleepwalking Urkel undergoes hypnosis to uncover the cause of his anger: he thinks Carl hates his nerdy guts.
#6 - The Love God
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1991
Steve thwarts Eddie's potential romance, while Carl is undercover in drag.
#7 - Boom!
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1991
Urkel rescues an orangutan from laboratory experiments. Carl steps on a treadmill booby trapped with a bomb.
#8 - Food, Lies and Videotape
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/7/1992
Urkel enrolls in a home economics class with Laura, thinking it'll be a piece of cake, but he soon learns he less than an A-student.
#9 - Woman of the People
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/21/1992
When squeaky-clean Laura enters the race for student-council president, snooty rival Cassie Lynn vows to gather dirt on her. Meanwhile, neighbors elect Harriet Neighborhood Watch leader and Carl is down in the dumps about it.
#10 - Making the Team
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1991
When Laura gets snubbed by fellow cheerleaders, she seeks advice from Urkel, who tries out for the basketball team and ends up as equipment manager.
#11 - Jailhouse Blues
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/17/1992
Visiting cousin Clarence is a slick dude ready for some action in the Winslow 'hood and a bad influence on a vulnerable Eddie, who winds up being arrested together with Steve.
#12 - Love and Kisses
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/28/1992
Hoping to win Laura, Urkel strikes a deal with R&B singer Johnny Gill: his treasured baseball card in exchange for serenading her; Carl and Harriette discover that their honeymoon love nest is of the outdoor type.
#13 - A Test of Friendship
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/10/1992
The Winslows are ripped off when Carl dozes off; Urkel takes the heat after helping Eddie cheat on a chemistry test.
#14 - Choir Trouble
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/20/1991
Steve joins the Winslows at church with faith that he'll get into the choir, but he's kicked out by new choir director Rachel, whose position has gone to her head.
#15 - Old and Alone
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1991
Laura may be sorry for banishing Urkel from her life: in her dreams, she's a 90-year-old spinster whose only visitor is a now-married Urkel.
#16 - Robo-Nerd II
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/24/1992
It's hasta la vista to the criminal element and hello Urkelbot after Urkel revives his robot for law-enforcement use in solving a rash of convenience store robberies on Carl's beat; meanwhile new shampoo changes the women.
#17 - Farewell, My Laura
Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/8/1992
Urkel plays bumbling, hard-boiled gumshoe Johnny Danger in a 1940s film noir spoof with Laura as a sultry client who needs protection for her aunt Rachel singer and supper-club owner marked for murder.
#18 - Daddy's Little Girl
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1991
Laura's behavior suddenly changes when she meets Carl's younger new partner and surf's up for Steve.
#19 - Brain Over Brawn
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1991
Urkel's future hangs in the balance during a rope-climbing contest pitting brains against brawn to win Laura's affections.
#20 - The Show Must Go On
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1991
In the school play, Romeo Steve looks forward to kissing Juliet Laura when the original Romeo lands in the hospital with appendicitis.
#21 - Stop, in the Name of Love
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/13/1992
Laura's encouraging words cast a love spell on Waldo; Carl and Lt. Murtagh trade insults in a food fight over Mother Winslow's bad driving.
#22 - Brown Bombshell
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/31/1992
Mother Winslow regales Eddie's classmates with tales of her late fighter-pilot husband and of World War II's Tuskegee Airmen.
#23 - Dudes
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/1/1992
Laura sees red when Urkel, Eddie and Waldo appear on Dudes, a TV dating show that Laura claims is sexist; Carl's birthday gets little attention from his family.
#24 - Robo-Nerd
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1991
Steve creates the Urkelbot, a mechanical Urkel that is all too much like its creator.
#25 - The Urkel Who Came to Dinner
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/3/1992
Urkel's stay at the Winslows brings chaos when he swallows a fish that Carl was "fish-sitting," urges Richie to fight a preschool bully and drives away Laura's study mate.