Family Matters

Bowl Me Over - S1-E21

Corrected entry: When the family arrives home from the bowling alley, it is dark and pouring rain. After the kids go to bed, Carl and Harriet go to the kitchen and talk. If you look out the windows, it's daylight.

Correction: It's not daylight. There is low lighting to convey street lights at night. The same lighting can be seen later on in better view when the Winslows open the backdoor as they return from their second bowling outing.

Correction: I just watched this scene, and at no point are there flies on the camera, much less for 6 to 8 seconds, as there are multiple shot changes in this sequence, with only one of those shots lasting longer than 6 seconds.

Phaneron

Two-Income Family - S1-E2

Corrected entry: When Eddie comes down the stairs to ask his father again about wanting new shoes, his father says no. Eddie goes back up the stairs. Next scene, Carl walks to the kitchen, and Eddie is sitting at the counter.

Correction: There are 2 stairs that lead upstairs and downstairs. One in the kitchen and one in the living room.

Correction: I just watched this episode and Eddie's hood was not up before he fell.

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Corrected entry: In one episode Steve is trying to glue something to the back of Laura's earring. He drops some glue on her shoulder by mistake. When he goes to wipe it off his hand gets stuck he was using "super glue". If you look closely you can see it's just a bottle of kids school glue.

logan crews

Correction: It was special glue he made. He didn't make the bottle, he just used an old one.

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Corrected entry: Where did Richie's mother Rachel go? After Richie gets older, Rachel slowly disappears from the show with no explanation. Richie still lives with Carl and Harriet and never once mentions his mother.

Correction: Not true. There is one episode, a Christmas episode I believe, when Richie says he misses his mother and by the end of the episode, she turns up for a visit.

Carl Missouri

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Corrected entry: In the episode where Eddie drives his car through the front door, and ends up in the living room, how is this possible? If you look, the front of the house, there are 10 steps to reach the front door.

logan crews

Correction: He could have easily driven up those ten steps.

Ice Station Winslow - S2-E14

Revealing mistake: Carl, Eddie, and Steve are out ice fishing. At one point Carl falls through the "ice" and you can clearly see that the "ice" is made of some sort of styrofoam. It looks like the stuff used for packaging. The snow looks just as fake.

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Carl: Go home! Go home! Go home!
Steve: I don't have to take this. I'm going home.

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Trivia: When this show first went into syndication, a market in New England declined to pick it up, thinking it wouldn't be popular with their demographics. They ended up providing the show for free with the agreement that the market would end up paying for the broadcasting rights if the show reached a certain ratings threshold.

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Question: In the mistakes section it mentions that Richie's mother, Rachel, and the Winslow's younger daughter, Judy, disappeared without a trace. Was there ever any explanation?

Answer: It is said that as Steve Urkel became a more popular character on the show, Judy became less important to the storylines, plus either her or her parents were demanding more money, causing her to be removed from the show entirely.

Answer: No. Call it "Chuck Cunningham Syndrome". A character is written off the show without any explanation at all.

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Answer: She disappeared because Judy and Steve's actors, Jaimee Foxworth and Jaleel White, didn't get along with each other.

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