We Watched Every Single Family Matters Halloween Episode 

"Here's your problem. Someone set this Urkel doll to Stevil."

What makes the transformation of "Family Matters" even weirder is that it started out as a spinoff of "Perfect Strangers," via the character of Harriet. Imagine if another supporting sitcom character got their own show and then some random minor character took over and changed the whole genre. It's like if Frasier Crane had an annoying neighbor who turned out to be a wizard and all of a sudden "Frasier" turned a full-blown fantasy show.

I was a very NERVOUS child, and easily scared... and I remember Stevil being legitimately terrifying to me when I saw the episode. Steve's warning at the beginning of the episode was for me and I DIDN'TLISTEN.

Family matters made jumping the shark It’s official sport.

We are all talking about Jaleel White, but let’s not forget the awesomeness that was Reginald VelJohnson, either.

It's kinda funny that by the end of its run, Familly Matters's Halloween specials were somehow less bonkers than regular episodes

Jaleel White is very underrated. He was the number 1 nerd and cool guy of the 90s at the same time.(Urkel and Sonic) But when he's Stephan he's not just rehashing Sonic.

Let's all just take a moment to appreciate that amazing makeup job Allison's wearing.

Vampire Urkel was wearing a glove when he held the garlic cheese. He’s outsmarted us all.

The trajectory of Family Matter will always be the wildest shit to me, imagine if you tuned in to current It's Always Sunny & Maureen Ponderosa was travelling to a parallel universe.

As a child, my absolute favorite thing about any holiday in the 90s was all the holiday special episodes of my favorite family sitcoms/kid's shows. So much cozy nostalgia for me!

Only by analyzing this show can we ensure that the plague known as Urkel Mania never again haunts our doorsteps. Thank you for your research.

My dark theory why the Winslows put up with Urkel is because Urkel saw them kill Judy, and he used that to get what he wanted from them.

48:29 Funny note about this scene-- there was an episode in season 7 (when the show was on ABC) that ended with Steve being unable to sleep. So he turned on the TV to "see what's on CBS," and he immediately fell asleep. Stevil II was from the season that aired on CBS, so clearly the network was firing back with this joke.

Fun fact: Jaleel White had a fun little cameo in the finale of season 2 of The Afterparty, and since Ben Schwartz was a main in season 1, the show had two Sonics!

Imagine if Steevil showed up on Baywatch Nights with a Holbie puppet saying "WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME DADDY!" in Baby Sinclair's voice

Homer's time travelling toaster caused Judy to be erased from the timeline Homer meant for Urkel to be erased but things did not go to plan.

Imagine the brainstorming that went into creating the character of Steve-il: "How about 'Count Urkula'?" "No." "Urklestein's Monster?" "No." "Urklezilla!" "Definitely not." ... "Predaturkle?" ... "I got it! Steve-ill!! Get it?? Like 'evil', only it's 'STEVE-il'!! Get it? Huh? Get it?" "glaarghlleblurrhghgllll...."

As a baby boomer who came of age in the 1970s/early 80s, I never understood the appeal of Family Matters to the GenX crowd. It seem like mindless silly sop to me. Then I realized FM followed the same trajectory that Happy Days - one of my favorite shows growing up - did. Initially a family show about growing up, a minor support character breaks out to become the star and the show becomes funky. In Happy Days case, a car mechanic greaser suddenly develops super powers when he snaps his fingers and the show goes from teen dates and proms to jumping over sharks (literally) and encountering aliens and ghosts and other weirdness. The kicker was when Fonzie fought the devil's nephew over Chachi's soul, which I remember thinking this show has gotten so bad it's hilariously good. So I guess when Urkel is shrunk or go back in time or whatever, the GenX crowd had a similar take. Also, interesting, both shows had a family member that got wiped from existence - the Cunningham's eldest son Chuck and the Winslows youngest daughter Julie. Both disappeared with no explanation.

I'm really happy you ranked Stevil at the top. It's the standout Family Matters episode and, in my opinion, the best Halloween special in TV sitcom history. You can’t get any better than Stevil!

Steve Urkel always walks funny because he's been carrying the Family Matters show.

Key and Peel did a great horror themed sketch about Family Matters worth watching.

"Family Matters" is one of my all time favorite 90's sitcoms! Jaleel White's performance as Steve Urkel is absolutely iconic, Just as the character of Steve Urkel is positively legendary he wasn't just a tv nerd, Urkel was the greatest and most memorable tv nerd that ever lived!

The instant Phelous said "I'm Urkel" my brain went to that MST3K skit. That show is responsible for like 80% of my sense of humor.

Stevil sticking his hand into Carl's back and using him as a ventriloquist doll, is the best Mortal Kombat fatality that's never been used.

You know, "Standard family sitcom except the dad and his friend are time-travelers" sounds like a solid premise for a show.

Allison's Jaleel White is basically a Fran Drescher impression.

Jaleel White is such an absolutely slept on actor. I’m glad he got into voice acting but yeah, being Urkel burnt people out on him which is a bummer because he’s got this GREAT physicality and comedic timing and ability to make himself into so many disparate characters. He could’ve absolutely dominated as a character actor.

Wow, I totally blanked out on how hyped up the live studio audience on Family Matters used to get!

I never watched Family Matters, but holy shit I might have to give it a watch because I never knew it was insane like this.

The ProZD clip was hilariously unexpected!

OH MY GOD, someone ELSE grew up with Urkel's plaintive wail of "SOMEBODY CALL 911!!" ricocheting around their brains for 30 years! Or at least noticed how weird it was upon rewatch. I saw it when I was 7 and visiting my grandparents...yeah, not a fun day. And makes where the show went EVEN MORE surreal. Watching this show as it came out was GENUINELY bizarre.

[Pull a gun] *SOMEBODY CALL THE 911!*

I like to think Urkel is a descendant of Old Man I can see Beauty's stepbrothers asking old man "Did you let my sister stay at a spooky castle with a demonic beast?" OLD MAN: *DID I DO THAT!*

TGIF also had the Sabrina the Teenage Witch time travel crossover, and the slasher episode of Boy Meets World.

A+ to you guys for referencing that MST3K skit!

So I just realized that thanks to the Steve Urkle jetpack crossover saga, time travel machines, transformation chambers and clones are also canon for Full House and Step by Step.

I eagerly await the day where Jaleel White gets the leading role in an Oscar Bait movie, and his career gets a giant resurgence.

The ‘wong kid’ plot was reused in 2011 in Tim Allen’s Last Man standing sitcom. Like not just the ‘took home a kid in the wrong costume’ subplot, but literally an Asian child, complete with the ‘Wong kid’ joke.

Did you guys notice how in almost every episode they pick on Ol carl about his weight. Maaan shiiiid he just trying his best

never have I needed something so badly without knowing it until now

Now I want to see that one Key & Peele sketch again.

Maybe the reason Urkel was not affected by the garlic cheese and the sunlight was that he is a dhampir? Urkel, the Daywalker! :P

I was more of a Fresh Prince guy, so I've barely seen any Family Matters. The one and only episode I've ever seen in its entirety is Stevil. Incredible. :-D

Guys, thank you! Allison you've entertained me for five years (and informed me) with your wonderful videos but tonight of all nights I needed this as my asshole brother's family descends on us. Bless You. I really needed a laugh and I hope you guys are well.☺

The Stevil episodes terrified me when I was a little boy, and especially since I watched Night of the Living Dummy.

To this day the Stevil episodes are still my favorite out of the entire series, and not *just* because I imagine they traumatized every kid who owned one of those talking Urkel dolls around that time.

Family matters is the only show that will deal with stuff like racial profiling or teenage drinking and then also introduced the machine that can turn you into Bruce Lee and cloning.

I hate Family Matters with a passion, chiefly because of Urkel (and related characters like Myrtle, Stefan, Stevil, etc.) but also because of the long-running storyline with Laura. Thank you for doing what I never *would*.

Figured this would be helpful: 0:00 Intro 2:28 Dog Day Halloween 11:39 Whose Kid Is It Anyway? 20:42 Best Friends 26:04 Dark and Stormy Night 33:38 Stevil 44:09 Stevil 2 53:00 Ranking the Episodes

Dark And Stormy Night is the most underrated episode.

They just announced a new animated Urkel Christmas movies so I hope that we can see more of the Urkel holiday review train this year

This is exactly how people get trapped forever inside television programs

Vampire-Carl looks uncannily like Little Richard circa his Baywatch episode.

Seems lazy to just have the evil Carl puppet named Carlsbad, why can't it be Carvil (Unless Carlsbad meant to be a joke about a town in California).

Thank you for taking one for the team for us. Your sacrifice will be duly noted.

I am guessing that turning Harriet into a Jack-in-the-box is a reference to the famous _Twilight Zone_ episode called "It's a Good Life" about a little boy with mental powers.

You made me chuckle every time with the "somebody call 911" bit.

I dont think I've seen Family Matters since before I was a teenager. I witnessed Stephon, I witnessed several iterations of Robo-Steve, I saw the death of TGIF...

Alf needed to appear on Family Matters

If you go by _X-Files_ logic, then Sir Steven could be a different type of vampire from the Winslows, one who doesn't share their weaknesses for garlic and sunlight. But then that's just me overthinking it.

Oh, Passions. My Aunt was on that Show.

Wow, didn't expect this to drop at the same time as AVGN came out with one about the same thing. Great minds think alike! :D

Oh i wish Phelous and Allison had little dolls of themselves for a reveal at the end.

So this is how Allison and Phelous celebrate their first Halloween as a married couple? By watching every FAMILY MATTERS Spooky episode? Sweet!

They should have made another Stevil sequel where Carlsbad assembles his own twisted parody of the Winslow family: Maximum Carlnage.

Man I forgot how batshit crazy Family Matters got

The Stefan Urquelle shit was really some of the absolute wildest shark jumping in sitcom history

I've heard Urkel referenced but somehow I never knew the name of the show he was from until now. Anyway, incredible video. Gotta love it when sitcoms get ridiculous.

Lighting in that room is amazing.

It is obvious, Urkel was just a half vampire ala Blade. He was a daywalker.

Watching all of Family Matters for the first time in the matter of a couple months feels jarring.

In the vampire story, Urkel should have been revealed to be a werewolf imo

I couldn’t believe how much I still remembered about this show until I watched this video

Imagine if the first Steevil episode had the distorted version of the theme this video had at the start for the Halloween special it would have really amped up the fear factor

Now this is an episode right up my alley.

I can't believe they never made Stevil 3: The Bride of Stevil

Agent Cooper accidentally erased the wrong Judy from the timeline lol

I never watched Family Matters growing up because I had a boy who would relentlessly pursue me so I couldn't stand Steve but now I see I missed out. Great video and props for the MST3k clip-the only thing I really know about Urkel.

I can't believe Lt Murtagh was also Admiral Ross in Deep Space Nine!

Some shows jumped the shark. This one jumped it so many times, it might as well have jumped the Pacific Ocean.

absolutely loved this show when i was little, then somepoint later i'd watch sonic and hear him all over again. chili dogs.

I love you guys, y’all R my favorite RU-vidrs EVERRRRR lol

I just keep thinking when it comes to Lincoln the Bank Robber, that the robber dressed up like that because no police officer would be willing to come close to re-enacting his assassination.

I remember watching these as a kid back then

They named the Carl puppet "Carlsbad?" when "Barl" was RIGHT THERE?!? Or they could've smashed "Evil" and "Carl" into "Earl" and have a HILARIOUS running gag about everyone mispronouncing it! "It's 'Ee'arl' NOT 'Errl""!!" *cue sitcom laugh*

Roseanne also had some wonderful Halloween episodes. Great video! Happy Halloween

Welp, you guys certainly DID do that.

Holy Crap! Almost an hour! Havent even watched yet, but thumbs up as always and I cant wait to watch it. As soon as my shift is over. And I take a bath and make some popcorn. I have faith (of the HeArT...) this is gonna be good

I miss shows having holiday episodes, especially Halloween ones. The last one I can remember having them was Grimm and they even stopped during the show's run. Of course, I do only stream now so.. maybe I was the problem all along. ?;- )

Oh I misread the title. I thought you guys watched the whole series. Never seen the show but I did see the crossover episode of fullhouse

I had no idea there even were multiple Family Matters Halloween episodes so this is going to be a fun watching(/learning experience?)

This was great would love to see more episodes like this!

i might be hearing wrong but did they say soulbiz rather then showbiz, cos that would make the vegas comment make more sense to me

When talking about Eddie's Don King costume, while you two made valid points about his friend Rodney dressing like him in an old episode, I'm surprised you did not mention the fact that he had two attractive ladies dressed as boxers and maybe the writers decided to do that for some reason? That's how I took it.

I was literally just thinking about what a good idea this type of video would be about Home Improvement, you read my mind!

1:42 Can't say I remember that but I admit I admire Harriet's moxie. They are having guests for dinner and no old timey pirate shenanigans are going to get in the way.

Urkel vampire can survive all that because he is an energy vampire like Colin Robinson

Carl Winslow should of dressed up as Al Powell for Halloween.

Remember when Urkel’s jetpack malfunctioned and he landed on Full House?