Season 8 Highlights

• Orlando Jones becomes a regular cast member.
• Family Matters does their first "movie", the 3-part episode, "Paris Vacation".
• Jaleel White now regular plays all his characters (Steve, Stefan, Myrtle, Bruce Lee Urkel).
• Shawn Harrison is no longer on the series.
• Reginald VelJohnson helps in directing the last two episodes of the season.

Season 8 Episodes

170. "Paris Vacation" (Part 1)
     Steve does it yet again. He creates the UrkPad which allows him, the Winslows, and Stefan to travel to Paris. All goes well when Stefan learns he likes being a model and can actually speak French. Eddie unfortunately has to work during vacation for causing an accident at a restuarant. And Steve makes a new friend in Nicole. Or does he?

171. "Paris Vacation" (Part 2)
     Turns out Nicole is a spy that is trying to get her hands on how the UrkPad works for her sinister cousin. Urkel is kidnapped and must either make them an UrkPad or die.

172. "Paris Vacation" (Part 3)
     In the final part of the Paris trilogy, Carl comes to the rescue and saves Steve and the Winslows head back home... all except for Stefan.

173. "Movin' On"
     Steve gets to go to a prestigious college, but has to leave all of his friends behind. Meanwhile, in an "it could've been an attempt to make a spin-off" sort of way, Myra talks Laura into staying with her in her new apartment. It doesn't last.

174. "3J In The House"
     3J secretly hides at the Winslow house so that he doesn't have to go to the orphanage. Carl and Harriette decide to make him their foster child.

175. "Getting Buff"
     Greta has got a new and great paying job. It's just that she is a nude model. Eddie is not too pleased until he finds out from Laura she had to get the job because her father cut her off financially for continuing to see him.

176. "Stevil"
     In another classic Family Matters Halloween show, Steve tries to be a ventriliquist with a lookalike dummy. But the dummy ain't no dummy! Stevil (Name comes from Steve and Evil) wreaks havoc on the Winslow household and stalks Steve for his soul.

177. "Karate Kids"
     An evil gang is kicking 3J and Richie off of their own playground. Not if Park Ranger Urkel has anything to say about it. With the transformation chamber, he makes Bruce Lee Urkel, Bruce Lee Richie, and Bruce Lee 3J. This is the only Family Matters episode that I have seen that was rated TV-PG.

178. "Home Again"
     Steve gets tickets to the New Edition concert for the Winslows, but Laura is sad that Stefan cannot make it and is about to give up on him. But thanks to Steve, he makes it to the concert from France, and only buys an one-way ticket.

179. "Nightmare At Urkel Oaks"
     Eddie finds out Myrtle is loaded and has a weird dream he is paid an indicent proposal to marry her. But Myrtle will not stand for it and it's an all out brawl on the food table back in Bilouxi.

180. "Chick-A-Boom"
     Carl throws a fancy party to kiss up to the Commissioner, but Myra mistakenly filled all the chickens with Steve's firework powder and, well, you know what happends. All wackiness ensues!!!!

181. "The Jury"
     Steve and Carl are called in on jury duty, and Steve proves without a shadow of a doubt that the accussed is innocent while everyone else thinks he is guilty.

182. "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear"
     Laura finally gives Curtis the old heave-ho now that Stefan is back to stay. Meanwhile, Carl and Steve get lost in the woods looking for a Christmas tree.

183. "Revenge Of The Nerd"
     Larua is really excited about joining a college sorority, until she finds out that they are having a geek party and are about to crown Urkel king geek. But Urkel gives some lip-lock going and proves nerds aren't all that bad.

184. "Love Triangles"
     Waldo is gone so Laura suggests Maxine starts dating again, which she does. However, she starts dating Curtis, Laura's ex. Expect a big pie fight to come out of this one.

185. "Father Time"
     Carl and Steve fiddle with time travel and Carl makes himself a rich man for the future, just with no kids, no life, no Steve. Well, one out of three ain't bad.

186. "Beauty And The Beast"
     Who will be crowned queen of the beauty pageant? Laura? Maxine? Myra? Greta? MYRTLE??? Emmanuel Lewis guest stars in this crazy episode where Myrtle Urkel will stop at nothing to win the beauty contest Harriette is running.

187. "Le Jour d'Amour"
     Three Family Matters shorts hosted by Steve Urkel. First, 3J and Richie compete for a girl. Then Eddie runs into an ex-girlfriend while with Greta. Finally, Carl is cussed out for getting the exact same gifts for Harriette he got last year.

188. "What Do You Know?"
     First Laura, then Carl, and now Eddie will see what it is like to be Urkel, when he uses his transformation chamber to become smart for a brain teasing game show. But Steve gives him some competition by being on the same show.

189. "Odd Man In"
     Harriette fills a spot at Carl's poker table while Steve does work for Eddie at a ballpark. You know what I'm gonna say next? All wackiness ensues with a capital WACK!

190. "Flirting With Disaster"
     Eddie is most definitely flirting with disaster when he tries to date a woman much older than him. Meanwhile, Steve is causing Carl's homeowner insurance to skyrocket.

191. "Pound Foolish"
     Donna Summer returns as a plumper Aunt Oona, but his weight compression chamber might help her out just a little bit, or should I say little butt, little stomach, little everything else.

192. "The Brother Who Came To Dinner"
     How many freakin' people are going to come to dinner? First the mama that came, then the Urkel that came, and now Carl's wayward brother is coming home, but not to atay. He is running from the law. Ted Lange plays Carl's brother.

193. "A Pirate's Life For Me"
     Carl and Steve go time traveling again, this time to a pirate ship in the 1800s. But when they get in trouble, it's Laura, Myra, and Maxine to the rescue? Now that's interesting, but it makes out for a lot of fun on the final ABC episode of Family Matters.