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O_Town_Rulez
02/06/24 4:38:33 PM
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Adult Urkel and Adult Laura and their kids.

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SauI_Goodman
02/06/24 4:42:25 PM
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No stop ruining the classics.

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Returning_CEmen
02/06/24 4:42:45 PM
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Yes

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misterbum
02/06/24 4:45:17 PM
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I would not do that

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sabin017
02/06/24 4:48:26 PM
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https://youtu.be/0gpED0Z57RU

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radical_rhino
02/06/24 4:49:27 PM
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Yeah, Id love a sequel show focused on Eddie following in his fathers footsteps and joining the police force while starting a family.

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creativerealms
02/06/24 4:51:27 PM
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So the Urkel show? No thanks.

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boxoto
02/06/24 4:53:13 PM
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if it focused on Steve and Laura? no.

if it focused on Eddie? then maybe.

I'd rather they had a more relatable family, like when the show first came out rather than all of the zany stuff it developed into.

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Ushiromiya
02/06/24 4:54:36 PM
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SauI_Goodman posted...
No


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PiOverlord
02/06/24 4:54:39 PM
#10:


Urkel is the only reason anyone remembers that show. It would have been among the many forgotten family sitcoms. An Eddie-centric show would get super old real fast.

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PurpleOutsider
02/06/24 4:56:38 PM
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https://youtu.be/riFiJWBcwJI?si=2k14NJxHX2n1nXCP

The SNL gritty reboot, maybe.

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02/06/24 5:01:20 PM
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Bigpapaplut
02/06/24 5:02:12 PM
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No but I'd watch the original again.

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bigtiggie23
02/06/24 5:10:38 PM
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I watched an episode of Family Matters this morning. Don't really need a reboot though.

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AgentCoulson
02/06/24 5:15:55 PM
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Only if the first episode inexplicably brings Judy back and never explains where she's been all this time.

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ManFromUncle
02/06/24 5:17:42 PM
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boxoto posted...
if it focused on Steve and Laura? no.

if it focused on Eddie? then maybe.

I'd rather they had a more relatable family, like when the show first came out rather than all of the zany stuff it developed into.


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ClayGuida
02/06/24 5:18:00 PM
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Sure, why not.

Though honestly, wouldn't that just be Young Sheldon?

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LSGW_Zephyra
02/06/24 5:18:16 PM
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No but if it were a Captain Planet reboot, I would watch it a heartbeat

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GeminiDeus
02/06/24 5:23:03 PM
#18:


Jaleel White just can't do a good Urkel anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZAC39maTR8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_J1vG-ut3U

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DrizztLink
02/06/24 6:14:59 PM
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creativerealms posted...
So the Urkel show? No thanks.
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TheSuperSilver
02/06/24 6:18:21 PM
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Nope.

Leave Family Matters alone.

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boomgetchopped3
02/06/24 6:18:59 PM
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I always thought it was family manners lmao

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creativerealms
02/06/24 6:32:26 PM
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TheSuperSilver posted...
Nope.

Leave Family Matters alone.
It was a mid tier show, not some untouchable masterpiece.

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TheSuperSilver
02/06/24 6:37:33 PM
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creativerealms posted...
It was a mid tier show, not some untouchable masterpiece.
Speak for yourself. Family Matters addressed a lot of issues that sitcoms of its day wouldn't touch. Even with its flaws, it was one of the quintessential 90s sitcoms.

And besides, everyone knows that reboots are almost always worse than the original series.

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DrizztLink
02/06/24 6:39:37 PM
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TheSuperSilver posted...
Family Matters addressed a lot of issues that sitcoms of its day wouldn't touch. Even with its flaws, it was one of the quintessential 90s sitcoms.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OnceOriginalNowCommon

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GeminiDeus
02/06/24 6:41:38 PM
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DrizztLink posted...
Hey, yo, you can't post that link here! Are you trying to deprive people of eating and sleeping?

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Justin2Krelian
02/06/24 6:43:20 PM
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LSGW_Zephyra posted...
No but if it were a Captain Planet reboot, I would watch it a heartbeat

How has this not been done. It has environmentalism, 90s nostalgia, and a superhero.

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Robot2600
02/06/24 7:00:07 PM
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no im done watching tv shows in general

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LSGW_Zephyra
02/06/24 7:45:39 PM
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Justin2Krelian posted...
How has this not been done. It has environmentalism, 90s nostalgia, and a superhero.

I keep wondering that too. It seems prime for a reboot.

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DrizztLink
02/06/24 7:57:51 PM
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Justin2Krelian posted...
How has this not been done. It has environmentalism, 90s nostalgia, and a superhero.
They tried but Don Cheadle kept turning people into fuckin' trees.

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Justin2Krelian
02/06/24 8:43:52 PM
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That's a bit too much of a generalization. Also, you realize there's a Duke Nukem in Captain Planet...

Anyway, I do think the idea of people finding it silly may be the one road block (case in point the post above mine, that vid might have hurt the odds), though I still think the reasons I mentioned to do it outweigh it.

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Bleuets
02/06/24 8:44:29 PM
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No but I love the original
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WilliamPorygon
02/09/24 10:57:25 PM
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A show with adult Urkel would just be Black Big Bang Theory

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boxoto
02/09/24 11:07:09 PM
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a more dramatic reboot, like Bel-Air (I really liked the first season, but haven't seen the second), could work, IMO.

a nerdy black kid in Chicago, whose parents seem to neglect him, that befriends his next door neighbors, could be interesting, if handled correctly.

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Justin2Krelian
02/10/24 2:59:03 PM
#38:


boxoto posted...
a more dramatic reboot, like Bel-Air (I really liked the first season, but haven't seen the second), could work, IMO.

a nerdy black kid in Chicago, whose parents seem to neglect him, that befriends his next door neighbors, could be interesting, if handled correctly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riFiJWBcwJI&ab_channel=SaturdayNightLive


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Solar_Crimson
02/10/24 3:16:34 PM
#39:


O_Town_Rulez posted...
Adult Urkel and Adult Laura and their kids.
That's a sequel, not a reboot.

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mercurydude
02/10/24 3:24:38 PM
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It was a product of its time. They wouldn't be able to recapture what made it work.

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ExtremeLuchador
02/10/24 3:31:02 PM
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The funny thing was Steve Urkel was supposed to be in only one episode. He was named after a random dude a writer on the show knew. So I bet the real-life Steve Urkel took a lot of crap for years.

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VampireCoyote
02/10/24 3:31:23 PM
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No.

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boxoto
02/10/24 3:39:38 PM
#43:


Justin2Krelian posted...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riFiJWBcwJI&ab_channel=SaturdayNightLive
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UnsteadyOwl
02/10/24 4:11:38 PM
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boxoto posted...
a more dramatic reboot, like Bel-Air (I really liked the first season, but haven't seen the second), could work, IMO.

a nerdy black kid in Chicago, whose parents seem to neglect him, that befriends his next door neighbors, could be interesting, if handled correctly.
This but as the show goes on they should add in things like robots and time travel like the original Family Matters.

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KCJ5062
02/10/24 6:46:10 PM
#45:


PiOverlord posted...
Urkel is the only reason anyone remembers that show. It would have been among the many forgotten family sitcoms. An Eddie-centric show would get super old real fast.

If it weren't for Urkel, the show probably wouldn't have made it past season 2.

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PiOverlord
02/10/24 11:04:44 PM
#46:


KCJ5062 posted...
If it weren't for Urkel, the show probably wouldn't have made it past season 2.
Maybe, it's hard to say. I feel like shows like pre-Urkel Family Matters survived for long times just by being comfort shows that were cheap to make.

Even if it had just as many seasons, though, it would have had zero cultural relevancy and no longevity. I'm sure Urkel got all the major actors more pay than they would have gotten as well with how popular the show was.

It was great to have a nerdy character be the main character as well. Usually, they are strictly punchlines and are mostly background characters. Urkel gave us a great taste of the zany that it otherwise would not have. Do you think Myra would ever have been a character on a non-Urkel FM?

No offense to Eddie, but his show would just have me longing for the off-the-walls Family Matter. There are just too many sitcoms based around Eddie's for me to feel that interested.

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ExtremeLuchador
02/11/24 8:20:54 AM
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PiOverlord posted...
Maybe, it's hard to say. I feel like shows like pre-Urkel Family Matters survived for long times just by being comfort shows that were cheap to make.

Even if it had just as many seasons, though, it would have had zero cultural relevancy and no longevity. I'm sure Urkel got all the major actors more pay than they would have gotten as well with how popular the show was.

It was great to have a nerdy character be the main character as well. Usually, they are strictly punchlines and are mostly background characters. Urkel gave us a great taste of the zany that it otherwise would not have. Do you think Myra would ever have been a character on a non-Urkel FM?

No offense to Eddie, but his show would just have me longing for the off-the-walls Family Matter. There are just too many sitcoms based around Eddie's for me to feel that interested.
Sitcoms got cancelled frequently in the 1980s. Like that Lucille Ball sitcom that didn't even finish it's first season. They still had to pay Gale Gordon per his deal for several episodes that didn't even air.

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PeteyParker
02/11/24 8:24:55 AM
#48:


UnsteadyOwl posted...
This but as the show goes on they should add in things like robots and time travel like the original Family Matters.

And then the final episode reveals there is no house next door. It had burned down years ago and the family moved away and everything occurred in Steve's head due to his extreme loneliness.

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Purple_Cheetah
02/11/24 8:27:47 AM
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UnsteadyOwl
02/11/24 9:27:04 AM
#50:


PeteyParker posted...
And then the final episode reveals there is no house next door. It had burned down years ago and the family moved away and everything occurred in Steve's head due to his extreme loneliness.
I like it, but maybe not wait until the end. It could be a thing where Steve has constructed a fantasy for himself where he goes on wacky adventures and does the Urkel dance and stuff to deal with how hard his real life is.

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