Continuity mistake: Carl says that Laura was five years old when the movie "The Wiz" was released, which was in 1978. That would mean Laura was born in 1973 and is or will be 24 years old. She only finished high school in the previous season.
Family Matters (1989)
1 continuity mistake in season 8
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.
Carl: Go home! Go home! Go home!
Steve: I don't have to take this. I'm going home.
Trivia: The Family Matters set shared a basketball court with the set of E.R. Jaleel White revealed that he would play George Clooney one-on-one wearing suspenders while Clooney would be wearing scrubs.
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: No. Call it "Chuck Cunningham Syndrome". A character is written off the show without any explanation at all.
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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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.