Thursday, March 14, 2024

Daytime Heroes: Bruce Lee Urkel strikes again! (Family Matters, 1996)

 This was actually the middle part of the "Bruce Lee Urkel" trilogy from Family Matters.

In season 7, Carl (Reginald VelJohnson) steps into Steve Urkel's transformation chamber after the police warehouse is robbed. Mix in some Hope & Crosby (a quick pattycake sequence), some Three Stooges, and, well, you get the idea....


Having revisited all three Bruce Lee Urkel appearances, it's clear that Jaleel White (Urkel) was his generation's Wally Cox. A terrific comic actor whose slight build hid a muscular physique. The other parallel between the two generations of actors? Cox, of course, was the voice of Underdog. White was the original voice of Sonic the Hedgehog.

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