History Headscratchers / FamilyMatters

** sitcom or not just HOW did the Winslows afford to constantly rebuild the house after Urkel would wreck huge portions of it every other week? It got to the point where he couldn't even come in and say 'hidey ho Winslows' without wrecking something.
** A later season episode shows that Carl has made very frequent, very large claims on his homeowner's insurance policy and now has to go in and defend himself against the company dropping him from their coverage.

* Why wasn't the Vice-Principal reprimended for the way he treated Steve?! True, Steve could be downright rude, but that does not give him the right to call Steve a 'Nerd' to his face or try to bribe him to not go to the prom! Not even Ms. Stuben did that to him, and he seemed to annoy her the most. Why didn't Steve or anyone else report him?

** Steve mentioned meeting her in kindergarten and she got him to eat his Play-Doh or something and probably never got over his childhood crush. As he's an ExtravertedNerd, his love was equal parts a matter of his own personal deifying of the object of his love as it was appreciating her for her actual qualities.

* "A Pirate's Life for Me" has the characters [[TimeTravelEpisode time traveling to the 1700's]]. They fight pirates, Steve accidentally kills a seagull and drops his time travel device into the ocean, and at the end, the captain goes overboard. How did none of these actions cause a [[ButterflyOfDoom Butterfly Effect]], especially after the previous TimeTravelEpisode made a big deal out of altering time?

* In the episode “Bugged”, Nick says that he can’t fire Harriette, since he’s being transferred to another department. Actually, he COULD still get her fired (or, at least, reprimanded) by filing a complaint to either her new boss or to HR. Also, wasn’t Mr. Waxman actually her boss? And why was there no awkwardness when Nick moved next door to the Winslows?

* The Disney World episodes: how did Stefan manage to organize an elaborate proposal with fireworks, cast members, musicians, a horse-drawn carriage and an enormous crowd of people, ''within a day or two?!''

** It's safe to assume that "Stephen" refers to Stefan in this case. This appears to be a rumor at most, but legitimate or not, it's probably best not to ponder on it too much given the circumstances we have now (Michelle Thomas sadly passed mere months after the show ended, so a storyline like this never would've been possible even if they did reach a tenth season).

** You are incorrect. Another season would have seen Steve and LAURA get married, as they ended the series engaged. Even if Myra had been the one to win Steve's heart, her actress dying of cancer would have put the kibosh on that.

** Well to be fair, Urkel was just an annoying kid that didn't know any better and the Winslows are nice enough not to take serious action besides kicking him out of the house. By the time he got old enough that his actions would be considered creepy and harassment, he was already a friend of the family and Laura didn't mind him as much. It woulda been a totally different story had Urkel appeared when he was older and started his clingy behavior to Laura acting like she did in season 1.

* I read somewhere online that if the series had continued, Stephen and Myra would have hooked up and got married. Is this true? Those two don't seem to have anything in common. I can't imagine Stephen wanting to be with a woman with a child-like personality, or Myra wanting to date him.

* I read somewhere online if the series had continued, Stephen and Myra would have hooked up and got married. Is this true? Those two don't seem to have anything in common. I can't imagine Stephen wanting to be with a woman with a child-like personality, or Myra wanting to date him. Myra was basically a female version of Steve.

* I read somewhere online years ago that if the series had continued, Stephen and Myra would have hooked up and got married. Is this true? Those two don't seem to have anything in common. I can't imagine Stephen being with a woman with a child-like personality. She seems more compatible to Steve.

** Stefan, at least the original, is just Steve under the influence of his "cool genes". As seen in season 6 two-parter "To Be or Not To Be", while fixing the transformation chamber, Stefan laments that "I may be cooler now, but I'm not as smart as I used to be", referring to Steve as himself. The whole lesson of the episode was Steve (as Stefan) realizing that he should be proud of who he is (Steve) and he shouldn't have to change himself to be like other people, thanks to the Carl Urkel mishap. The Steve/Stefan situation starts to get murky when Urkel clones himself in later seasons and turned the clone into a permanent Stefan, who is technically not the same Stefan that the real Steve turned into. Nevertheless, you can assume that the Steve clone and his Stefan counterpart share the same memories and experiences just like the original, though if the Steve clone is supposed to be a perfect copy, Stefan would have recognized his cousin OGD. The permanent Stefan also seemed less intelligent than the original Stefan, who retained Urkel's intelligence albeit to a slower degree, having trouble deciphering Laura's biology book when he was posing as Steve.