Family Matters: The Mama Who Came to Dinner (Part 3)

Mother Winslow moves in with Carl, Harriette and clan.

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[VaultMasterDBT]

Notice how Family Matters, as a spin-off from Perfect Strangers, uses many of the producers, writers, story editors, consultants, and exact same music cues from Perfect Strangers in the pilot. By episode two, staff members that were exclusive to Family Matters had arrived, and original music cues for FM had completely taken over.

[jcris785]

@hurricaneellis Also, another BIG goof on behalf of the directors/production crew: the closing shot, which originated from this pilot episode. It is supposed to be at the end of the day, after they've had dinner. However, geographically, the skyline of Chicago is to the east, along Lake Michigan. This technically is a sunrise, not a sunset.

[puppies2kittens19889]

@Twilightbooks4eva a woman changing!

[FutureNewsAnchor]

@cami725 That's because they were in an apartment-style house in this episode. In Carl and Harriette's last appearance on Perfect Strangers, Harriette mentions that she and Carl had moved into Balki and Larry's apartment building just days earlier. I think this episode was filmed in a different studio because the permanent set for Family Matters had yet to be completed.

[chuckmanofgod]

One thing I read about Family Matters is Carl Winslow was the only character to appear in all 215 episodes of this show. I think Laura Winslow came in second place....missing just a couple episodes. Steve Urkel was pretty much in all the episodes after he first appeared, but he didn't appear until near the end of the first have (1989) of the first season.

[jb142653]

I miss this show-BEFORE Urkel ruined it.

[cami725]

wow tha house luk so different 4rom later episodes.

[hurricaneellis]

The clock said 1:13 in eddie's room, but they already had dinner. After dinner, eddie was going to his friend assuming it was in the late p.m. hours. Come, the directors must have been smoking dope when they edited this tape.