Family Matters: How Urkel Stole 9 Seasons
Family Matters was supposed to be a family sitcom about Carl and Harriette Winslow. Instead, a one-episode neighbor named Steve Urkel got so much laughter from the studio audience that producers rewrote the show around him, turning a supporting spinoff of Perfect Strangers into a nine-season, 215-episode hit that outlived its own network. Jaleel White…