#steve urkel

Jaleel White and Alfonso Ribeiro, 1993

I’m sorry, but I really hate season nine.

The show glosses over Laura being unfaithful to Stefan, and justifies it with “she’s trying to figure her feelings out”. A season ago, they acknowledged when she did this and had her break things off with Curtis. But apparently, for the sake of getting Laura and Steve together, it’s okay for her to kiss Steve multiple times and go out on a date with him, and pretend for the time being her relationship with Stefan doesn’t exist. In a show called FamilyMatters, cheating is glossed over and justified.

I’m so tired of this plot, I skip over it in episodes where it’s prominent and watch the subplot. Maybe Steve and Laura do deserve each other. They’re both jerks who were disrespectful to their current partners (Steve told Myra seasons ago she was only a placeholder until Laura became interested in him, and no matter how you spin it, that’s an absolute jerk move)?

The episode I’m watching is also the firsr where the new actress who plays the mother comes in. I can see why the old actress left.

“Surely You Joust” is one of those episodes where Steve is definitely the asshole. All the accidents were his fault, and he thinks he’s entitled to come into someone else’s home at his own pleasure because of his crush on Laura. I kind of feel bad for finding this show funny when I first saw it. Steve can be really unlikable. Most of his problems could be avoided if he knew what boundaries were and respected them.

Watching the episode of Family Matters where Steve breaks Carl’s ship model. I can see why some people criticized this show. Steve is always portrayed as in the right, even when he shouldn’t be. Yeah, it was an accident, but “sorry” only has meaning when you don’t repeat the behavior. Steve is continually careless, and never thinks about what he does.