| Family Matters: The friends I never had! |
| Well oh well, This is Sam. As you may have noticed, I havent written an article for a while now. There are two reasons for this. 1) I've been lazy 2) Im starting to get a real life. Sorry kids its true. But today is different. Its 4 o' clock on saturday, I havent gone outside today. And I don't plan on it anytime soon. So going over some old Tv shows in my head and I recall the ever so popular mid 90's 'Family Tv' trend Oh yes full house, boy meets world step by step, the list is endless. Most of the shows are auctly pretty different, but they all have one thing in common: The annoying friend that everyone always wants to leave In real life I never had a friend like this, I mean sure my family makes fun of my friends "Joey, Did you clog our toilet again?" my dad will say. But you never hear "GO HOME!" The show that sticks out most in my mind is Family matters. |
| Full of characters you love to hate, and hate to love. Family matters had it all. The nerd, spaz and plain old smary pants Steve Urkel was a god. The star of the show... And he wasnt even in the family. I gota start this shit off right, busting out the Urkel oh sweet sweet Urkel, I wish I could be you. Then my life would be so great. I could go to my neighbors houses and talk to them and break things and be annoying as hell and i would still be loved. The beauty of Urkel was he wasn't anyone's friend on family matters. He was just there at the house getting told to leave, and never leaving. He loved all of the Winslow's, and they all hated him. |
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| With all the hustle and madness of the show, Family matters needed a dummy character. This is why we have the loveable Waldo. When things got complicated we could rest and relax when Waldo said "I duno" or "beats me" As I remember Waldo was more of a 'bad influence' kinda guy in the eyes of Carl and Harriet, It makes me wonder.... Did waldo ever use drugs??? Lets take a look at it, the guy was always hungry and he always owed someone money..oh my god.. Waldo was a common junkie. |
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| Good thing waldo never got to urkel. Urkel was one of those "Im way to cool to do drugs" type of kids, and bless his heart for it. I think one of the greatest things about Urkel was the whole early 90's 'urkel merchendise craze' toys action figures talking dolls you name it even... Urkel O's. Thats right the kid had his own cerial. Not that many people can say they have their own cerial. except for Donkey kong, and C3P0. but thats for a later time. |
| The following images are all Urkel products, click the image to make them bigger...blah blah blah you get the point. to the right you can see mmmm Urkel O's. In conclusion, If you have a boaring family sitcom the only way to fix it is to stick some crazy ass friends into it. And if those friends become more popualr to the viewers then the auctual family, Cash in and make all kinds of merchandise and hope that people are too dumb to know they shouldn't buy usless crap even if Urkel's face is on it. -Sam |
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