Family Matters (TV Series)

My Big Brother (1996)

Orlando Brown: 3J

Quotes 

• 3J : [Steve gives 3J a basketball card to prove he can read]  Easy, Michael Jordan, number 23, on the Bulls, average points, 37.

  Steve Urkel : [turns the card over]  Okay, now read the company that makes the card.

  3J : Up... up... up...

  Steve Urkel : Up-per-deck.

  3J : [pause, defeatedly]  I can't read.

  Steve Urkel : I know, you memorized those stats. 3J, how did you get to the 4th grade without being able to read?

  3J : It's called faking it.

  Steve Urkel : Well how did you know what the menu says at Mickey D's? Or the instructions for a video game? How did you even know what a street sign meant?

  3J : I ask somebody. I get by.

  Steve Urkel : 3J, a kid as smart as you shouldn't *have* to settle for just getting by.

• Steve Urkel : I'm 3J's new Big Brother.

  3J : We don't get to pick.

  Carl Winslow : Neither did I.