Family Matters Cast Reunion

was one of the most popular and longest-running sitcoms of its time in 1989. Family Matters introduced audiences to a working-class African-American

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from Chicago in a nerdy neighbor with the catchphrase that took the world by storm 28 years later DW's

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. I haven't seen these guys, but seeing them now as they are is wonderful, it's touching, it makes me cry for us to all be together again, that's what you know, I think. It's God's plan and I believe he kept us alive for a reason. I'm excited to see you all together, of course, I love you all, we love each other too.

The next show is modern style, I mean, you've been eating Donuts or Kyle. Take some of those we've always had them, oh little jelly, forgive me honey, this is a

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matter and you're in the line of fire. The story of family affairs began in the late 1980s with another ABC comedy, Perfect Strangers. Balki, the apartment is a disaster. I think we should get a maid, of course, and I don't think getting a young woman to milk a goat is going to solve it. Oh Perfect Strangers was a comedy set in Chicago starring Mark Linn-Baker as this good ol' Midwesterner. boy who ends up taking in his cousin played by Bronson Pinchot, who is from the Mediterranean, this strange couple of cousins ​​are forced to live together and great shenanigans ensue, Perfect Strangers was produced by television heavyweights Bob Boyett and Tom Miller in the 1980s Boyet and Miller were behind a string of hits including Happy Days, Mork & Mindy and early Tom Hanks, their close friends.

Kevin is me. I was so rude that I didn't introduce ourselves. This is my sister Hildegarde and this is my sister Buffy. Family Matters came about because ABC wanted a show. about a black family and Bob Boyett and Tom Miller turned to Michael Warren and me and said, hey, let's do a black family. William Billy and Michael Warren were experienced riders with a long list of credits, including Welcome Back, Kotter Laverne and Shirley, and the happy days they had. we wrote together for over a decade and worked as perfect strangers from the beginning. ABC was interested in the black family so Michael went and created the family and that's how it was born, we just started thinking about characters and then they emerged on paper one of the characters already existed in bartokomous perfect strangers she is Harriette Winslow delighted to get to know you, how do you do it?

Harriette runs the elevator here. Oh Jack, the ups and downs of her. Harriette Winslow, the sincere elevator operator played by a 39-year-old man. Joe Murray Peyton, you know, this week will start with the first year I made perfect strangers. When I got it, they hired me for half the season, but then the character became very, very popular and of the twenty, I think there were 26. I liked the first episodes 22 or 23 and then, at the end of the first season , Tom and Bob called me into a meeting and I said: We're going to change your character. We chose Joe Murray because we decided to make a short film. spin-off of perfect strangers and she was already a regular on perfect strangers, so that's how Joe Murray came to be part of the mix and it started from there when I cried like a baby when I got you a husband, kids, sister and mother. in-laws and all that kind of stuff I said well, okay, the role of Harriet's husband, Carl Winslow, went to Reginald Veljohnson, the 37-year-old actor was coming off his breakout performance as Sergeant Al Powell in the 1988 classic Hard to Die kill, well, I had made a movie and the producers had seen the movie and they asked me to come and audition, so I was the person who met Joe and he was, he was, he was there the whole time, I just felt it when we met we proposed to create. the show was mainly with Reginald Veljohnson in mind, he had just died hard and stood out in that movie.

Reggie Bell Johnson was truly the centerpiece of what became such sweet family affairs. Oh, is that in your mouth, no, no, it's not sugar, it's um cocaine Family Matters is just an all-American show about a working class family and all their unique dynamics, just one, okay, it's the sitcom mom par excellence, she is a working mother who takes care of her children and the house and also keeps her husband Karl in line from time to time Carl Winslow he is the king of the

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le. I mean, after all, he's a police officer and this is a guy who wants to make sure everyone knows who's in charge.

He's a protective guy. Carl. Winslow was first introduced as Harriet's husband in an episode of Perfect Strangers Leaving Joe for the First Time. He knew we would be together for a long time. It was something very special about her that made me realize that this will happen in I. I won't be home for dinner they put me working undercover oh my word when you work undercover don't worry don't worry I'll be fine and I'll be home before You realize I mean, until later in the episode we did it in perfect strangers it was not the pilot of the show we did an episode, I guess more like a demonstration for the network to say look, here's Reggie, Harriet Rick Winslow looks juicy, so Reggie Joe Murray, perfect strangers, what do you think and then based on that?

We sold a real pilot and it turned out that horrible character turned out to be the most wonderful character we've ever done. Harry to put all these fresh flowers on it. Now mom will expect fresh flowers here every day. I'm not paying for fresh flowers on this. house every day my backyard oh what you're paying for is manure in 1989 ABC ordered a pilot episode of Family Matters the perfect stranger spinoff starring Joe Murray Payton and Reginald Veljohnson as Harriet and Carl Winslow working parents with three children and odds and a grandmother, all living under the same roof, Kelly Williams, 13, was cast as the middle daughter Laura Laura is fine, she's smart and beautiful, she's an excellent student and a cheerleader, it's like, what more could you ask for? of a daughter? "I'm in big trouble.

I did it with a B. I got a B once. Frankly, I think this was the best audition I've ever done in my entire life. He was so brilliant, everything was so natural, seamless, and I also want to say that I did it." I didn't know he was going to get the role, but I did very well in that audition. Sorry, the role of Laura's older brother Eddie went to Darius McCreary, the 13-year-old actor was coming off a small role in the 1988 drama Mississippi Burning It Ain. I can't think of people they should convince us, we should talk to the Sheriff's Office to start, why aren't they afraid of how the community?

Winslow's son, Eddie, couldn't be further from Laura. He's not an excellent student, but yes. I get into girls and cars and get up to mischief that you know any boy his age could try to do now. If you want those sexy t-shirts, you'll have to use your own money. Using my own money for shoes. I just remember being very nervous. but it was a great audition and I guess it wasn't even a callback really, but I didn't think I got it, that's why they didn't call back, but they wanted you because they told me you were just a Mississippi Burning yeah, we got this one kid, he's the big shot, he said it's amazing, they're better, he told me they already knew, yeah, I saw it, I didn't do it, I didn't think I got it, so when I left I told my mom how . "It was, I said it was a great audition, but I don't think they know I'm Rachel, he said I could take care of a little Richie, I want to hug him, you can hug him when you're older, when he has everything, he won." Won't be a baby anymore, the youngest Winslow Judy was played by seven year old Valerie Jones, she's really cute, adorable, has a great relationship with Laura, she's just a little bit of comic relief here and they're girls who are taking care of my baby. she's comedy veteran Telma Hopkins was cast as Harriet's widowed younger sister, Aunt Rachel, no one helped me.

The 40-year-old actress had appeared in more than 30 episodes of bosom buddies are you two girls big, very big and almost 70 episodes of the long-running series. "Give me a break, Miss Harper, didn't you want to talk about the plans for additional pews? I'm in the pews. Nell is in the bells. Aunt Rachel is Harriet's younger sister and she starts the show as a fiction writer and has her own son." She also lives in the Richie family, when will I see the next episode from here? Nom. I know what's up, so I know I had worked with Bob.

Wait before I did Bosom Buddies, that was my first show with them, so by the time they got ready, they had already done it. I got Joe and what's his name, they had already gotten them and they called me for a meeting and told me about the program. They said they hadn't even proposed it, I guess at the time, but they had me in mind for this role. and like I said, that's what we say, I was like whatever you do, I'm there, you know, sometime we'll eat five digesters about the closing that completes the cast, it was rosette alone or like Carl's street smart mother stealthy I'll go apologize.

Harriet and to show Allison Sarah, I'll try to swallow a piece of that encounter. The 78-year-old actress had starred in the historic all-black version of Macbeth directed by Orson Welles, but she was probably most recognizable for her 16 episodes of Gimme a. Break, you have a lot of growing to do and when you do you will realize that your mother is a woman like you, grandmother, Estelle, mother Winslow, since she was also known as a short woman but very strong and big in her presence and in her. Because of his stature, he was the rock-solid foundation of the family and he was pretty hot ground, plus, don't forget that he was reading Rolling Stone and that in the opening song he'd had a tough time on Gimme a Break and then She wasn't sure she wanted to do more television because she was growing up and then my boy called me she said when I called her and she said no she said well you call her I said sure and I called her and I said rosette, I know you thought you wanted to retire I said, but if you ever took a job people will take care of you, this is the job and she called me and took it.

Oh, your father at dinner. your grandmother is going to fight for your right to party she was our base she was she was the host and theatrical royalty every series has a leader to be a director he may be a star but it is an emotional base that an actor brings to a set and Rosetta had that filled with a lot I love you too grandma, who was the one that made everyone want to be, want to be better, made everyone want to be more professional, so Rosetta was really the emotional foundation of the show, the pilot got a High score with test and ABC audiences. ordered a 22-episode first season with one minor change, Judy's role was recast and passed to nine-year-old Jamie Foxx Worth, which is the other half of what we're supposed to fill out.

Jamie Foxx Worth came on in a second episode to play Judy for the rest of that character's run and she just fit the mold of this character so well. Family Matters premiered in September 1989 as an introduction to perfect strangers. At first the ratings were good, but not great, it was a charming show. It wasn't as funny as I think I'd like, but it had a core charm that's often the most important thing the show was still finding when creators William Bickley and Michael Warren sat down to write the episode. 12 Laura's first date in the script we wrote was about Reggie Veljohnson, a father who sets up a date with her daughter because she was afraid she wouldn't be asked to a dance, it's just that you are your basic problem as a father. .

Maura is going to get a date that she had guaranteed, so we sat in the room, Michael and I, and tried to think of what is the worst possible date that a father could end up getting for his daughter and we just designed a character that would be rumors that he has eaten. a mouse who likes cheese and asked for it when they entered a room we were just trying to think of the character that the daughter would least like so that her father would have prepared a party for her it turned out that horrible character turned out to be the most wonderful character we have ever met.

She was actually going out of business. I mean, my mom has it to this day. I signed a card that said: I promise that this is my last year and I will not hesitate. Back and forth and I was actually on the ice with my agent, my Evan, when your agent pushes the ice, it means they're not sending you anymore, but my assistant and my agents' assistant sent me to this audition because I have braces. . my teeth, so I made the conscious decision, I said go to this room and never let me meet you, little one, and as I walked towards the room, I remember I started walking like a geek and everything and I was like when my dad.

You said you cast me with Laura's wife, I wet my pants, the old lady came into the casting room with some kind of character that none of us had ever considered and brought something to what was supposed to be a small part of a episode and We were impressed. I've been crazy about her since the first green, but she always thought I was some kind of weirdo. Tell people I'm like. Look, I was just a kidtwelve year old black hair who did it. Grimley's impersonation, oh forget Pat Sajak, like you suppose you could do better than that.

There's no way I think he'd be a pretty decent guy, I must say, but what's funny about that show is that I'm African-American in this. At the time people don't think my influences are white, so what I was doing seemed completely original and I think I booked the job within 24 hours. I hope you don't mind if I stay a while, my parents told me not to come home. Until 10:00 people were asking me about it you know, but this attempt said we were good, super Morgan, we had all this spice before we needed to get salt when he came in after that salt, but now there was only one rock that nobody could.

I just get tired of you know what I mean and every time we finished the program and we were here people shouting and applauding and we all knew that that first step was not our last step and it was this no no no we were not going to the moment of assassinating Merkel I wanted my dressing room when I cried and then the producers came to check on me and my dad told him I would never do that character, who are you and why are those flowers dripping on my floor? Family Matters premiered on ABC in 1989 after a slow start, the show took off when a bold new character was introduced midway through.

In the first season we had no intention that the character would appear in more than one episode; in fact, my partner Michael named the character after someone he knew, full name, who knew a person named Steve Urkel, we usually don't do that if he's going to be a regular character because sometimes people don't appreciate that the iconic Steve Urkel was played by Jaleel White. This was the second comedy for the 13-year-old actor who had already co-starred as comedian Flip Wilson's son and the short-lived Charleon Company sounded like a bear talking to a monster uncle is the next-door neighbor who's so annoying you have to love him is quintessential nerd suspenders high pants thick white socks thick bifocals is back I heard you can't get a date to the dance so the In the first episode, Laura really wanted this boy to ask her out, you can forget about Mark, he she didn't invite Jobeth and I was just trying to get away and Carl took care of that because he thought Laura was having a hard time getting her to be his. going out to the dance to ask me without even asking hey, you asked like my dad or something, yeah, and without having seen it, your son Steve by any chance has a date for the party tomorrow night, so he hooked her up? he came to school, he learned of his own volition, he just tried to do the right thing and then I remember walking in the door and doing something like that, you know, in the entryway with those flowers and again it was a deliberate move that I made. .

I did this when I showed up and Carl gave me this look, it's like what the hell have I done and you know, at that moment I became in the first episode something to hide, you know, in the house while we get the date with Laura. With the real guy you know he wants to go to, why don't you go to the kitchen and wash your roots? Winslow and I think our chemistry started right away, what if I don't? Anyway, there was a fraternity there that night and you know, everyone was on social media back then, sometimes they used to invite the Corral people over to watch recordings of TV shows that He Didn't Hit Jim, so I don't know What had I gained from this for this particular fraternity, but it was like all the white kids at some college here in the Southland started chanting the character's name between scenes that I wasn't in.

What is your name darling? After that, we passed, we got a call from the producers and they said they were bringing me back and over the weekend they made a deal with my agent for the rest of the season and that's purple took off like a scandal in pop . culture, actually he was probably like the first nerdy sheep, there's nothing sheikah about him, but there was so much merchandise created around how popular his character became in the '90s that you practically couldn't go anywhere without running into Steve Urkel in one way or another. they sold his clothes in the supermarket they sold talking Berkel dolls in the toy store, so basically you couldn't get away from Steve Urkel, even if you didn't watch Family Affairs in the '90s, you knew who Steve Urkel was.

Burkle's slogan that "you can." I can't forget if I did that. I don't even do it justice. It was very annoying, but did I do it? I said it later I remember the commercial I fell I can't get up I fell and I can't get up Yeah we stole it and we listened to it back then you didn't really know what a catchphrase was going to be nowadays things are so artificial that it's like oh we have our catchphrase and they'll just drill your head in whether the audience likes it or not. I'm wearing you down baby, like sometimes a birth can mean more than it was actually sure, so for a lot of things, like what I did, it was just the axis of the delivery world that I hold on to my box, makes my DNA reconfigured into parallel dynamic structures in a super strange twist.

Steve created this transformation type machine that allowed him to turn into other people, so over the seasons we thought he would become Bruce Lee's Elvis. I'm sorry, I got angry. I guess he was old and a lot of other famous people. Funnily enough, it was always kind of a side joke, but again I think it spread. Jahlil White to become all these different characters as far as characters go, it got to a point where he became absurd, it got to the point where it was like, you're going to play Albert Einstein, you're going to clean up the grease. .

Generally speaking, it was just one after the other and Myrtle was an interesting journey for me because as an actor I always believe that if I believe it, they will believe it, so I had to be and I was, you know, sometimes I am. I was a little offended, but he gave me the chills. I get it when certain people you always know go to the place of oh they always have to put a black man in a dress or whatever, no it's not like there are certain performances. You know, that's just, you know this classic gig where you get a really good job, so I committed to that, Eddie, that name rolls off my tongue like honey.

At that age, I was worried that my friends at school would make fun of me because Again, I'm that athlete first and, but once I commit to something that I'm not going to be in, I'm locked in a box, but he He did it, he did it very well and he kept me going because a character is a love of my daughter, yes, he was coming and going, but when you sat down at the table he was very convincing because in one episode I was painting his nails and he was like Harriet, did you ever think maybe you idiot, well maybe you?

It's not a film and, as I say, it just makes me like this, these different characters are Myrtle Urkel. I'm going to take that kid like Grant took Richmond Myrtle. I went to my dressing room when I cried and then the producers came. He checked me out and my dad told him that he would never do that character again because he just wanted to finish the episode because he was too worried and I knew that he had done so well that I thought, damn, they're definitely going to make fun of me. At school by this I mean my mind I'm like I'm full I'm like I'm gone What are you doing?

I'm the old dream come true the night we now go home ten, ironically when I went to school after the first time I did it, no one made fun of me, everyone just thought I was absolutely hysterical, so to Sometimes it's interesting how we know we pass on these social concerns to other people who aren't even experiencing that at all. The school just thought it was a great performance. What's going on here unfortunately isn't much, so I had too much pride in that moment at that age to go back and say, "Hey, I want to play it again." Continuing to pursue you would be humiliating and unworthy. other ladies, so it took me about two or three years in between and I was kind of on a random board at a lunch and I walked into the writers' room and said if you guys want to do Myrtle again, I'll do it and Remember I just They applaud who's a good arm shot, at that age I was starting to get a good idea of ​​what we're going to be good, sweet, sweet episodes and I felt like we needed a chance and that's how Myrtle came back. but make sure you leave room for dessert, what's for dessert?

We love you very much, you know? I remember walking by the set one day and I was crying. I know he missed his mom, but we were all there for him, so you've always been special. You and I have turned out so beautiful. Family Matters premiered in 1989 and was a huge hit for ABC in its second season. Hello, welcome to TGIF for six consecutive years. The show kicked off the network's famous TGIF programming. Unsure if Family Matters would be successful until Steve Urkel's character began filming in season two, the show also added a new actor to the cast, four-year-old Brighton James taking on the role of the aunt's young son.

Rachel, Richie, who had previously been played by a baby on sitcoms. or I want to make baby Richie was older in the second season, babies are not that interesting to watch on television, so in the second season Richie became a four year old boy played by Brighton James and he was just a cute little boy and naughty and really idolized Steve Urkel, which I think is something Steve Urkel had never experienced up until that point, so they had a cute little relationship too. I'm asking for a fake Eddie, have you really been a good boy this year?

I Had a Pig in August Family Matters Family Matters was my first audition for a TV show and I was three years old. I had only done a couple of commercials here and there. My parents didn't know anything about the industry, so we were very new. Brighton is one of those rare ones. He finds out that he is a boy who was born with this kind of supernatural talent, the addition lasted about ten minutes and when I got home I got a call and then Here I am, you know I love this room, it reminds me a lot of the Watto kitchen this. it's a kitchen, the second season was also the introduction of dimwit Waldo Geraldo Faldo, played by 16-year-old Sean Harrison, originally a sidekick to the neighborhood bully, hey, what are you going to do Willie?

I'm a trash whose life why are you going to do that Willie because it's Tuesday again, but he becomes Eddie's best friend and he's as dumb as a rock, that's really the character of him. Tonight it's just one big crazy mixup. You tell me I'm here for gym class. I remember Sean when Sean. came to us, yes, and I remember meeting his mother, yes, and his mother was so wonderful that she was always baking us peach cobblers and pies of different things and we loved her to death, but soon after Sean lost his mother and I always said she brought us.

Broth Sean to the set for us to raise him and we fell in love with him like he was one of our own and even though we knew he didn't have a brother or sister, we hugged him, you know we love you. You know, I remember walking by the set one day and he was crying and I know I missed him. He was alone in the kitchen and I was walking by and I said Sean, what's wrong? He was crying. I know I missed his mother, but. We were all there for him so you've always been special to me but I feel like your mother brought you to us but to help raise you and raise you the right way and you've turned out so beautiful thank you Joe you know that and I.

I appreciate the fact that I had an extra support system for me at the time because the show was in production, there was no break for me between my mom passing and having to come and stick to the schedule they already had scheduled, but everyone The cast team, everyone was very supportive of me, very understanding of the very difficult and difficult time that I was going through, so I appreciate all the love and support that all of you gave me during those years and those are real things that I don't they knew. That's true mom love, but I knocked on that door and to this day I have never seen so much shock, amazement and screams from people in an audience of 18 to 200 15 episodes and there are certain episodes that really stand out for me.

I enjoy them. well my favorite episode was the quilt Laura, you didn't sell your grandmother's quilt that coat has been in our family for 200 years that quilt is priceless where-where-where Laura finds this this quilter sells the quilt with my grandmother who made my mother and that was my favorite of all. I think now is a good time to tell everyone the story of the quilt. Yes, tell us quickly before Laura sells it again. Someone in the cast may be more than one person mentioned the quilt idea. What meaning did a quilt have in a black family?

This quilt was started by her great-great-grandmother Amy Rose and the quilt had so much resonance for us and everyone involved in the program that we knew we wanted it. making it into a record of our family in one place was going to be passed down from generation to generation it was just a sweet sweet story because it really gave a story each piece of cloth has a special meaning this wasa piece of your great aunt's wedding dress, right, mom, that's right, and tell me why this piece of fabric was basically so precious. I think I know the perfect place to store this quilt.

Where is that? In Laura's room. What do you think we are? Do you mean you trust me with the club now? more than ever I never lost sight of it I promise until the day I give it to my daughter it's just a great episode something that I loved about our show there was always a message and there was always something good there was like a nugget at the end but the quilt was my favorite we did this episode called the baker's dozen the restaurant wants to buy your pies the restaurant wants to buy my Puppies who had to make all these promises all these pies objective correct they would talk wrong to be pies correct talk about Monday and I just remember it and I was new to the program at the time.

I was like, man, they throw pies at each other. I want to be in this scene, how do I get into this thing? I remember walking up to David Duke's line, I have to run, and I said, David, please, whatever you do, I'll just be in the scene, I don't care what I have to do, hey, your prayers. Winslow, he and Gehrman are here just looked at each other. others like yes and what happened was that they sent you a script at night with a messenger, so the script arrived and I'm excited to be reviewing the script to see if they put me on the fire I want to do my swing I want to throw Father Darius and Kelly I have a good relationship baby we have to do this and these fools made me go in at the end of the scene and come back just say "winslow hide and seek" through all their pies with me listen I don't know what they would do I don't know if they would take it out on me Oh, but I did, I didn't complain even when I saw it. but then the pies became so hard and hard on me and if you go back and look, you'll see me stumbling and staggering.

My favorite episode is one of fun loving. My favorite was a Halloween episode when I got a lot of it, yeah, no. Don't ask me Waldo man you really blew it this time this is the dumbest thing you've ever done in your life hey you love a little boy with me and you call me dumb you guys talking about these real moments you know you have between each one. another one and I was probably and you know, learning who you are, you guys became my family at that age and then the same thing he and I, Darius and I did at the end when he got emotional and cried thinking about losing me, you know, look , not only do I like you, I love you little one and I know we will, I mean I know what we were doing, it was all fake, but it was the first time I got to see this new person in my life this real emotion and I knew that it was real i knew how much you cared about me because everyone did that he was one of the ones i'm really evil make me cry can cut that man that was my little grieving first It was like a first acting moment too because even i want to say my parents They helped me prepare.

You know, this is the situation. You are going to act like you are scared and disappointed. So, did you get a lot of candy? "Waldo, are you kidding me?" he threw eggs at houses and then rang the doorbell, so you know these guys are just pretending and doing really heavy stuff like that, so it was my first time and I felt that with him, Steve Steve . Who is my favorite episode? It would have to be Stefan or Kills for its first episode and the only reason is because it was a shock to me that people wanted it.

We are very interested in looking like me. No no no no. No, Steve, I'm Stefan here, and that's sweet, and I remember telling you that our producer David, our client, is supporting you and said that people need to see you this way. Hmm, that started it for me. I feel like puberty has started. Because it was a bad night. It's worth another trip and because basically what that character was is you know, he was praising every big guy in the Winslow family, bheegi bheegi, of course, I love praising this guy, you know, because he laughs and he moves Hey, are you losing weight on the side? -oh, where did you go?

There's a healer, remember what you're easy, but yeah, I love that episode because when I hit the door and to this day I've never seen so much shock and awe and screams from people in an audience. please party and party and if it wasn't for my discipline that never breaks character when you get it going I would have really stopped and it would have been really peace baby I would have just stopped the scene he's been in but you don't . You ever broke the magic when it was happening and instead you took this pill, you developed them to milk something, we got some honeys in here, oh, this party is the bomb, so it was like you already had them all hooked this way, how could you?

I just made up that episode to me meant a lot to me because I felt like it was kind of a bridge network to becoming a I mean, when I say I want to take that show, you take that show. It was like every song, I did the best I could, I did all my Christmas shopping in one day and you fit every gift in that little bag. Family Matters premiered in 1989 and ran for an incredible 215 episodes, but halfway through the ninth season, the hit series lost its first cast member when Joe Murray Payton decided to leave the show.

How did that guy like me end up with a genius like you? I don't know, I guess he wasn't paying attention, including his time with perfect strangers. Peyton had played Harriette Winslow for more than a decade when it was time for her to leave. She had already dedicated ten and a half years. I had played this character and the way I explained to him is that when you are a baker you don't know your mom bake cakes or cookies you want to bake cakes I'm going to be friends with you I wanted to do something else so when it was time to leave I did what he said my mom when it's time to go home just grab your toys and go home instead of writing off the character, creators Bickley and Warren decided to recast the role that went to 50 year old Judy, what are we talking about here ?

Oh, telling Steve how he was dating George when I met you. Wow. It was also difficult for me, after nine years, to do something with a person, it's like getting divorced and then marrying someone else, and it was strange, honestly, I can say like Reggie, you said, I don't mean any disrespect to Judith, who came a player but I felt like my mom was gone he will always be beautiful to me it was difficult and I'm glad she's here today in the end Paden only missed 15 episodes because after nine wildly successful seasons Family Affairs I finally said goodbye in 1998 with a two-part series finale, it's a long-standing uncle tradition to wait three months before consummating the marriage, but Steve, okay, okay, you convinced me.

I mean, honestly, the last episode was very emotional, I think. All of us remember the last episode very vividly what I remember most about the show is a single shot of the show. I mean, when I say I won that show, I won that show, it was like every scene I did it the best way. of my ability the international space program is chosen to be the first space student in the two-part finale berkel receives a call from nasa and is told that he is the first student invited to space due to the invention of gravity he did what happens to Houston: AGF 5000 has knocked a satellite off course toward you, while in space circles the gravity machine knocks a satellite out of its orbit and actually shoots toward the spacecraft it's on.

Merkel and her fellow astronauts are on and it looks a little scary, it's like there's a bit of Paolo 13 going on in this episode, you'll have to stabilize the ship, the other crew members are knocked unconscious trying to fix the ship, so it's up to the earth to save the day, congratulations Steve, course correction, satellites completed, antenna, hole drilling. I guess we can break it and pet you from the inside, the crew needs to clear the satellite from the spaceship, but because everyone has been knocked out and injured, there is basically no one. It remains to be done, but our goal is you're going to have to send the nerd to put on the suit and go out and try to fix it ooh Steve, he manages to free it but, in our charcoal way, he forgets to hold his leash. and he's floating in space with this satellite, things seem hopeless, but you can never rule out Oracle, so it ends with Jerry manipulating this satellite to get the thrusters to work, he basically pushes himself back into the spaceship just in time before his oxygen runs out.

Welcomed home like a hero and everyone is very happy to see him, including his future father-in-law, who hates the circle he always had. I've told everyone at work about my future son-in-law. Welcome home son, thank you, but having him back and Faith and Sound, he's very, very happy and it's a great moment like in a case of welcome home with one condition, well what is he will never go again to outer space only when we kiss hard only when you key us and then I only remember it at the end? of the show it was like Kelly, seriously, they were about to go out for the outros and say goodbye to the audience and that's when I broke down, that's when the tears started like I already knew I'd miss them.

I knew my life would be different. I spent probably 42 weeks a year at Thomas' house on the weekends. She's like my other brother, Joe Murray. You don't know that these people are a family and not having the same amount of time and energy with them was difficult for a long time, almost 20 years after their emotional final episode. Family Matters is still the third longest running African American comedy ever made and for fans hoping for a reboot, the cast is ready and willing and definitely Janelle and I were talking a little while ago and they said you know we can do this and I was like If they drop the strip at our feet when we leave here, we'd better come back here tomorrow and we'll have a show the next day. shot, yes, we have a lawsuit, we are going to do it together, it is back to normal.

I look back, I can almost remember it as a third party now, like when I watch myself on PG and centric and all these different media and now Hulu. You know, I look at the screen and I'm like, wow man, where's that guy? I know that guy, but that guy lives inside me almost like in the sunken place, like he really does. I think there's something really magical about this cast. and the real feelings here weren't just for the screen, it was that kind of really good family show. I will never have another experience like this again.

I know, these kids were little kids when I came on the show and we watched them grow up too weak to be great adults and I'm going to miss them because I miss them today and Family Matters will always be very special to me in my heart.