The BEST episodes written by Gary Menteer
#1 - South of the Border
Family Matters - Season 7 - Episode 13
Waldo visits the tiny island nation of Porto Santo and accidentally gets arrested for theft. When Carl, Steve and Eddie find out, they fly there and try to get him released. The police chief, Jaime Gutierrez Garcia , who is also the mayor and the governor, offers to release Waldo if Carl pays a huge fine. Carl doesn't have enough money, so he, Eddie and Steve secretly help Waldo escape that night. But Garcia catches them and threatens to jail all four. Luckily, he also explains that Porto Santo dollars are worth a lot less than American dollars and the fine is actually pretty small. Waldo, Carl, Eddie and Steve return home. Meanwhile, Laura is reluctant to go on a date with a boy she has never met whom Harriette recommends. She would rather date the polite pizza delivery boy, David Phillips, who comes to the house on the night of the date. Then Laura finds out that David is the one her mother likes. Harriette wanted Laura to decide for herself whether she likes David, which Laura appre
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Malcolm & Eddie - Season 3 - Episode 7
Malcolm & Eddie's business is booming at the club, so they decide to expand the club to increase business even further. However the building owner jas just recently rented out the empty space next door, and now the new tenant, who is opening a dance studio, will have to move in order for the guys to expand the club.
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Malcolm & Eddie - Season 4 - Episode 2
The duo agrees to listen to a realty sales pitch in order to get a free seven-day cruise.
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#4 - Pulling Teeth
Family Matters - Season 4 - Episode 20
Waldo dates Laura's friend; Richie tries to get rid of a baby tooth.
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#6 - My New Friend's Wedding
Malcolm & Eddie - Season 3 - Episode 1
In a flash-back, after being jilted by Mira, Malcolm & Eddie meet each other for the first time at Eddie's wedding. Malcolm consoles a jilted Eddie after his bride-to-be left him standing at the altar, by relating his own disastrous trip to the altar.
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Malcolm & Eddie - Season 3 - Episode 19
A contractor (Coolio) consults Malcolm and Eddie about building a club in Chicago.
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#8 - Heart Strings
Family Matters - Season 4 - Episode 17
Laura becomes Steve's valentine; Steve arranges a date for Richie with Gwendolyn.
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#9 - Pop Goes the Question
Family Matters - Season 9 - Episode 20
Armed with flowers and diamond rings, Urkel and Stephan each pop "the big question" to an unsuspecting Laura. Aware that Stephan is Carl's personal favorite and seems to be the logical choice, Laura is torn between the two men. While Urkel decides that stepping aside and moving all the way to Russia is the gentlemanly thing to do, Laura struggles with her dilemma -- choose the man she wants to marry or risk losing him forever.
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#10 - Dance to the Music
Family Matters - Season 4 - Episode 2
Home-coming Queen Laura gets the royal treatment from Urkel, who gets popular jock Ted to ask her to the dance; Carl meets Harriette's new piano teacher..
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#11 - My Broken-Hearted Valentine
Family Matters - Season 3 - Episode 18
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.
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#12 - Scenes from a Mall
Family Matters - Season 5 - Episode 12
Urkel tells Myra that he needs some space and ends up breaking her heart, while Maxine is ready to break Waldo's neck for acting like a jealous fool.
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#13 - Tips for a Better Life
Family Matters - Season 7 - Episode 16
Carl issues an ultimatum concerning Eddie's recent drinking habits; meanwhile at the local cafe, female fans become intoxicated by the jazz styling of the ultra cool Stefan Urquette. Eddie, now a member of a fraternity at college but living at home, starts drinking alcohol excessively. Carl demands that if Eddie comes home drunk again, he must move out. After the next incident, Carl tells Eddie to move in with Waldo. But Waldo surprisingly refuses, saying that Eddie becomes obnoxious when he is drunk. Eddie realizes that his father is right; he shouldn't drink alcohol until he is old enough to be responsible. Carl lets him live at home. To earn money to pay for damaging the Winslow house with one of his inventions, Steve plays jazz piano in a local club - after transforming into the suave Stefan Urquelle. The highlight of his show is when Laura sings a love song with his accompaniment, followed by a passionate kiss.
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#14 - Making the Team
Family Matters - Season 3 - Episode 8
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.
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#15 - Rachel's Place
Family Matters - Season 2 - Episode 1
Feeling like a freeloader, Rachel decides to look for a career beyond writing and opens up a diner after Steve accidentally burns down Leroy's.
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#16 - Random Acts of Science
Family Matters - Season 7 - Episode 15
Teamwork and the transformation chamber give Carl and Urkel an advantage in fighting off gang members looking to ransack the police warehouse. After Steve causes havoc with yet another of his inventions, Carl forces him to bring all of his scientific equipment to a police warehouse that night. While they're there, three hoodlums break in, tie Carl and Steve up and start robbing the place. Steve convinces them to let him demonstrate his transformation machine before they steal it, and he transforms Carl and himself into karate experts. A huge fight ensues, and Carl and Steve defeat the criminals. Carl gratefully allows Steve to move his equipment back to the house. Meanwhile, knowing that Harriette will object, Laura gets a nose ring without telling her. Harriette furiously tells her it's not the ring she minds but the fact that Laura did not ask permission. Laura reveals that it's a fake ring and says that she is now asking permission for a real one since it's okay with Harriette. Harr
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#17 - It Didn't Happen One Night
Family Matters - Season 5 - Episode 2
Laura oversleeps and misses her bus to Cincinnati for a cheerleading competition and Steve offers to take her in his Isetta. Laura is not pleasant company and Steve confronts her about it.
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#18 - Ice Station Winslow
Family Matters - Season 2 - Episode 14
When Carl, Eddie and Steve go ice fishing at Lake Wannamuck, Carl has a potentially critical accident; and at home, Judy dislikes the fuss made over Richie.
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#19 - Robo-Nerd II
Family Matters - Season 3 - Episode 23
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.
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#20 - Love Triangles
Family Matters - Season 8 - Episode 15
Best friends Laura and Maxine are attracted to the same guy.
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#21 - The Gun
Family Matters - Season 6 - Episode 15
Gritty episode in the style of NYPD Blue, where Laura is robbed by female gang members and considers purchasing a gun to ward off future trouble.
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#22 - Farewell, My Laura
Family Matters - Season 3 - Episode 25
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.
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#23 - Father Time
Family Matters - Season 8 - Episode 16
Urkel invents a time machine, and he and Carl travel back to the 70s, where Carl takes advantage and changes the future to become a billionaire.
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#24 - Stop, in the Name of Love
Family Matters - Season 3 - Episode 21
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.
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#25 - Robo-Nerd
Family Matters - Season 3 - Episode 7
Steve creates the Urkelbot, a mechanical Urkel that is all too much like its creator.
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#26 - Aunt Oona
Family Matters - Season 5 - Episode 23
Urkel's accident-prone Aunt Oona visits shy, dowdy woman who get a confidence-building makeover from Harriette and then takes her new-found confidence to a karaoke bar, where chaos erupts when she holds a singing contest.
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#27 - Out with the Old
Family Matters - Season 9 - Episode 1
Steve undergoes an image makeover in order to take part in a kissing auction hosted by Laura's sorority; Carl feels threatened by Hariette's promotion and raise and decides to moonlight as a parking attendant.
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#28 - Karate Kids
Family Matters - Season 8 - Episode 8
As a playground supervisor, Steve has a tough time controlling the bullies.
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