Family Matters Appreciation Thread

Mally_G wrote: »

Judy Winslow went by the name Krave or Crave in the porn game. I know of a couple videos out there with her and Lex Steele.....look it up.

Urkel isn't ? , there was a picture that came out in the early 00's of a dude that looked like him but it was some "stylist" kat who favors him. Urkel lives in the DC area and is married (I believe to a white chick). ? must have Wizards season tickets because everytime I go, I see him there.

Could you talk about when the show started to focus on Urkel?
You know the whole thing was our show had been picked up for the back 9 [episodes] and we had done 12, and we were told by our executive producers. If I remember correctly, it was Bill Bickley and Michael Warren that called myself, Telma Hopkins, and Reginald VelJohnson, together and told us that ABC liked the Urkel character so much they’re going to make all of the shows about him. That was in the first season. I was there for eight and a half years!

We said, okay. Well, what are we going to say? We were all happy to be working, and he made the show go, and we’re all still happy about it right now. We’re still laughing to the bank with the residuals. So it may have caused a little conflict, just because… it was a real shocker to all of us, you know what I mean? Because he was this little character and we had just gotten to know each other and I didn’t know Mr. VelJohnson or Telma prior to that, I didn’t know any of them prior to that. So we all had gotten together, we had done 12 shows, and we were a little family, so we had learned to know and like each other and communicate, and relate and energize with each other.

And then Jaleel came in and it was fun to have him there and all, but of course it did the same thing Happy Days did [with the Fonz character]. You know what I tell people? He “jumped” out of Family Matters, but I “jumped” out of Perfect Strangers, you know? It was just a different kind of “jump.” But I understood some of what he was going through because I felt a little something when I was told that I was getting a [spin-off] show. I got a little bite, you know, from some of the people from Perfect Strangers. Well, one in particular, you know, I got a little bite and it was mean and nasty, and I was the only African American on that show so I was feeling like the lone ranger for a minute. So when Jaleel’s character “jumped” out I understood that. You know?