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Reginald VelJohnson, Jaimee Foxworth, Telma Hopkins, Rosetta LeNoire, Bryton James, Darius McCrary, Jo Marie Payton, Jaleel White, and Kellie Shanygne Williams in Family Matters (1989)

Jaleel White: Steve Urkel • Stefan Urquelle • Myrtle Urkel • ...

Family Matters

Jaleel White credited as playing...

Steve Urkel • Stefan Urquelle • Myrtle Urkel • Bruce Lee Urkel • O.G.D.

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  • [repeated line]
  • Steve Urkel: Did I do that?
  • Steve Urkel: Laura, this is a... a really special moment and... well, I think we should celebrate it by... getting married.
  • Laura: No.
  • Steve Urkel: Engaged?
  • Laura: No.
  • Steve Urkel: Going steady?
  • Laura: No.
  • Steve Urkel: A date?
  • Laura: No.
  • Steve Urkel: A kiss?
  • Laura: No.
  • Steve Urkel: A handshake?
  • Laura: No.
  • Steve Urkel: I'll see ya tomorrow?
  • Laura: Yeah.
  • Steve Urkel: I'll take it.
  • Steve Urkel: Loving you is like trying to touch a star. You know you'll never reach it, but you have to keep trying.
  • Steve Urkel: The woman's been flirting with me.
  • Waldo: She has?
  • Steve Urkel: Oh yeah, just last week, she actually telephoned me in the middle of the night.
  • Eddie: Steve, your house was on fire!
  • Laura: How long have we known each other?
  • Steve Urkel: Nine years, three months, two weeks, four days, six hours, eight minutes, and fourteen seconds... fifteen seconds... sixteen seconds.
  • Carl: Go home, Steve.
  • Steve Urkel: But Carl...
  • Carl: Go home, Steve!
  • Steve Urkel: Now, Big Guy...
  • Carl: Go home! Go home! Go home!
  • Steve Urkel: I don't have to take this! I'm going home!
  • Steve Urkel: My uncle, Elijah Urkel, has been struck by lightning four times. At a party, once, he clamped cables to his earlobes and jump-started a Volkswagen. Then there's in the summer, when we use him as a human bug zapper. He's usually knee deep in dead mosquitoes. And then there was the time we went camping and we were in dyer need of a generator and we just plugged the toaster into Uncle Elijah and the Pop Tarts were flying.
  • [Notices no one is there anymore]
  • Steve Urkel: Well, I thought it was a good story.
  • Judge Vance: All right, young man, call your first witness.
  • Steve Urkel: Your Honor, I would like to call Waldo Faldo!
  • Waldo: Okay, but I'm not home.
  • Laura: Touching.
  • Steve Urkel: Sorry.
  • Steve Urkel: Have you ever had a date?
  • Waldo: I got close once. I almost went to the movies with Vicky Vanderfanny.
  • Steve Urkel: You mean Hickey Vicky?
  • Waldo: Yeah, but I was so nervous when I asked her out that before she could answer, I barfed all over her shoes.
  • [on the afternoon of the Prom]
  • Laura: Girl, have you ever seen the hair salon so crowded?
  • Maxine Johnson: It happens every year the day of the prom. Did you see them work on Dora Fenswick?
  • Laura: She didn't need a hairstylist, she needs a fairy godmother!
  • Laura: [Curtis is about to break bad news to Laura] Curtis!
  • Curtis: Hi Laura!
  • Laura: What's wrong?
  • Curtis: I don't know how to tell you this, but I have to tell you straight out. I won't be able to take you to the prom.
  • Laura: Curtis, I got my hair done, my nails. I bought a new dress and you say you can't take me?
  • Curtis: That's Right
  • Laura: Let me tell you something. It better be a dead relative in your excuse.
  • Curtis: My grandmother died!
  • Laura: [gasps] I'm sorry, I'm so sorry please forgive me.
  • Curtis: My whole family is flying out to Washington for the funeral
  • Laura: Can you wait a day, of course you can't
  • Curtis: I know you're disappointed. I'm sorry, call you next week?
  • Laura: Poor Curtis
  • Maxine Johnson: Yeah and poor you, you gonna miss your prom.
  • Laura: Maybe not, there has to be some guy who doesn't have a date.
  • Laura: [as Steve walks he sobs and cries on Laura's shoulder] What's the matter baby, did you eat some bad cheese again? Whoo!
  • Steve Urkel: [sobbing] No, it's Myra, her cold got worse. Her temperature shot up and she tossed more cookies than the Keebler elf. I rushed her to the emergency room and the doctor said she has walking pneumonia.
  • Maxine Johnson: Will she be okay?
  • Steve Urkel: [sobbing] In about a week or so, but she gonna have to miss the prom.
  • [crying]
  • Maxine Johnson: [Maxine starts to laugh while talking to Steve] Ooh, hoo hoo. This is amazing! You know uh, Laura doesn't have a date for the prom either. This means you guys have to go together.
  • [laughs]
  • Maxine Johnson: Bye!
  • [Maxine laughs hysterically after she leaves the house]
  • Steve Urkel: Care to mop my brow?
  • Laura: Forget it.
  • Steve Urkel: No sweat, my pet?
  • Laura: In your dreams.
  • Steve Urkel: Hey, this is my dream!
  • Laura: Well, then not even in your dreams.
  • Steve Urkel: I can't believe this! I'm being rejected in my own fantasy.
  • Boyd Higgins: Name's Boyd Higgins, but ym friends call me Buck!
  • Eddie: Name's Eddie Winslow, but my friends call me... Eddie.
  • Rodney Beckett: I'm Rodney, but my friends call me Rod-meister.
  • Steve Urkel: And I'm Steve Urkel! And I don't get many calls!
  • Laura: Look, I owe you an apology. The only reason I asked you to be my partner was because I was worried about my grade. When I said my feelings for you might change, I was lying. And I'm sorry.
  • Steve Urkel: So, you used me! You trifled with my emotions! I offered you my heart and you stomped that sucker flat!
  • Laura: Yes.
  • Steve Urkel: No biggie!
  • Steve Urkel: I have a spectacular evening planned!
  • Laura: We're not going anywhere until the ground rules are straight. First of all, this is not a real date. It's a "non-date". Second, no one must ever know about this "non-date". Third, if you touch me at any time, the "non-date" is over.
  • Steve Urkel: Well, what if you trip or something?
  • Laura: Just let me fall! The rest of the rules are covered in this contract.
  • Steve Urkel: [reading] "No mouth breathing, no snorting, no drooling". Who does these things? They're disgusting. Where do I sign?
  • [Waldo is being cross-examined in court]
  • Steve Urkel: State your name.
  • Waldo: Illinois.
  • Steve Urkel: No... state your name... not name your state.
  • Waldo: Oh, Waldo Faldo... from Illinois.
  • Steve Urkel: A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
  • Laura: Yeah, but what are you gonna do?
  • Steve Urkel: WHOA, MAMA!
  • Steve Urkel: Danger's my middle name! Well, actually it's Quincy, but you guys get the picture.
  • Steve Urkel: I... I'm being born! My head pops out! I can see my dad! Whoa, I'm being pushed back in!

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