- The episode that ensured "Family Matters'" success. It all began with Laura bemoaning her inability to get a date with cute classmate Mark for the school dance. Eddie and Carl make well-meaning attempts to set Laura up with someone. It is Carl who - in a decision he'd live to regret - sets his daughter up with Steven Q. Urkel. The quintessential nerd drives everyone batty just being himself. Even though Laura eventually gets over her shyness and asks Mark out, Urkel decides to stay until 10 p.m. - the earliest his folks want him home - and makes himself at home!—Brian Rathjen <briguy_52732@yahoo.com>
- Rachel is using Eddie as a model for a dress that she's making for Harriette to wear. He complains about the whole thing but she convinces him to wait it out because she has to get more pins. Eddie attempts to get the dress off him before someone sees him and gets the wrong idea about him being a transsexual. Later on, Carl walks in with Laura and Judy and he gets the wrong idea, while his sisters laugh at him.
The episode that ensured "Family Matters'" success. Harriette is adamantly refusing Laura to go to the dance until she learns some responsibilites in the way she treats her sister. Carl convinces her to let her go just for one night, but she refuses. She thinks if Laura starts dating at 13, she and the boy will get serious and it'll be a mess. She reluctantly agrees when Carl convinces her that he'll keep tabs on her.
At Leroy's a popular teen hangout, Laura is bemoaning her inability to get a date with cute classmate Mark for the school dance. However, her friend, Penny tells her that he's already going with another girl and the only one available is Steven Q. Urkel. Laura refuses the nerd and keeps looking towards Mark.
At the home, no one has called, despite Carl's optimism and Harriette's pessimistic and refusal in letting her daughter go to the dance proved true. That is until, he convinces Rachel to make the dress for Laura. Eddie and Carl make well-meaning attempts to set Laura up with someone. It is Carl who sets his daughter up with Steven Q. Urkel, as a favor to Dr.Urkel, a decision he'll live to regret. Laura eventually gets over her shyness and asks Mark out, per Eddie's reccomendation to put herself on the market. He encourages her if no one wants to go to the dance with her, they're not worth it.
On the night of the dance, Harriette is impresseed by Rachel's dress she made for Laura and is reminded about the time when she made it when they were kids. Her mistake in pulling on a loose thread, causes Rachel and her to frantically fix the dress, while Laura runs upstairs to change into a different dress. Carl opens the door to and allows Urkel in with his flowes from the cemetery. The quintessential nerd drives everyone batty just being himself. Eddie shows up with Tyrone, before Mark shows up and Laura reveals that he's her date to the dance. Soon after, she's humiliated by Eddie and Carl for what they've done.
She runs out of the house crying as Harriette talks to her. Laura thinks she's ugly, but her mother reminds her that she's not. Laura revealed that Mark and his girlfriend broke up and would've gone with anyone else had she not asked him. Harriette tells her that boys are shy like her and are scared of rejection. She could remember how many times Carl had to get over his fear to ask her out. Laura and Mark leave for the dance, after Rachel has fixed the dress. Urkel decides to stay until 10 p.m. - the earliest his folks want him home - and makes himself at home! Then he asks if anyone's got any cheese, which horrifies everyone.
After the dance, Laura told them how her date went and for three hours they didn't dance until Mark asked her to. Carl apologizes for what happened and was a fool for making her look like a charity case.
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