urkel is easily the best part of family matters. we’re not even through the first season, but until he shows up it’s a pretty by-the-numbers family sitcom. nothing really stands out. and then suddenly this amazing, charismatic, and physical comic actor shows up.
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Jaleel White has this absolutely fearless level of commitment that you rarely see in child actors or even young heartthrob actors Like I really think Urkel, who on paper is just a stock clown character, stood out not just because of his race but his age
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Like Jaleel White self-deprecatingly says "All I was doing was an impression of Martin Short from SNL but because I was Black people saw it as a new thing" But it's not just that, it's that Martin Short was in his 40s and Jaleel White was fucking 13
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Yeah, it took a few seasons after that for the character to get obnoxious, but before then he was just another "lovable wacky neighbor".
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He wasn't even on the show originally, he was written as a one-off guest star They instantly upgraded him to a recurring character because during the filming of that episode the audience brought down the house when he appeared and started chanting for an encore from him
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