S3E9 | Born to Be Mild
Podcast Episode
Episode 141 | April 10, 2024
Host
Brian
About
Family Matters began as a traditional family sitcom built around the comforting Reginald VelJohnson, but then something improbable happened: Urkel Mania swept the nation! Brian watched perhaps all of Family Matters as a child and is prepared to explain this version of 1990s Chicago.
This week, Aunt Rachel’s restaurant gets ransacked by a local gang called The Dragons. Actual police officers decide the best course of action is to send Urkel in undercover while wearing a wire. Is Urkel tough enough to pull it off?
The Tubers discuss the details in the intro sequence, how creepy Urkel feels in retrospect, and what Family Matters cast members have been doing for the past couple decades.
Highlights
-The guys very belatedly try to make sense of the Urkel phenomenon
-Crocodile Dundee 4
-No wimps allowed
S4E21 | Walk on the Wild Side
Podcast Episode
Episode 142 | April 18, 2024
Host
Brian
About
Did we do that? If ‘that’ is ‘cover Family Matters,’ then the answer is ‘yes!’ The BTBs rejoin the Winslow family for another lively episode and a brief introduction to supporting character Waldo Geraldo Faldo.
One season later on Family Matters, Urkel is even more infatuated with Laura. Laura is busy trying to overcome her goody-two-shoes rep by hitting up Club Buff with her friends, but her night is thrown in jeopardy when it turns out the rest of the women in her family had the same idea. Urkel might just have to get naked to solve the problem.
Once they’ve talked about the many weird directions Family Matters went in, Spencer picks the next show he will host by putting on a leather jacket and knocking on a jukebox.
Highlights
-Officer Bob Throb
-BTB stripper themes (unrated edition)
-The second annual Boob Tube Boys Hall of Fame class!