 Welcome back to come again TV the only place on YouTube. We're all geek culture collides. I'm Shannon and it's been a while geeks I've been busy with school. I return to school as some of you may know I'm currently working on my master's degree. So that takes up a lot of my time. I'm also substitute teaching now So that takes up even more time. So with that being said, let's get into it today on the show and For the next couple weeks, I've got some pop reviews coming your way and This will culminate in a final pop that I just received today I'm thinking I'll do one pop a week for the Starting this week for five weeks. Then in the final video, we'll put all these pops together and see how they look together The pop we're gonna look at today Is Carl Winslow This is the pop television 100 celebrating every story from Warner Brothers. This is pop number 1377 So the next this review plus the next four will revolve around family matters I'll be reviewing Carl today Next week, I'll be reviewing Eddie Winslow then Laura Winslow Stefan Urkel and Steve Urkel now something I found interesting I came across this pop at target last week and I've I've long been a family matters fan I watch it with my kids every Friday on HBO Max. I guess is now max and We've started our own TGIF We started this like two maybe three years ago I think it was two years ago where we find the old TGIF shows and we spent two hours just watching them We'll order dinner and we'll watch our own personal TGIF lineup This usually starts with family matters on HBO Max Goes into sister sister on Hulu Sabrina the Teenage Witch on Hulu and then ending with Boy Meets World on Disney Plus And my kids love family matters just as much as I do For the longest time, I could not find family matters anywhere on cable TV I know they aired it early in the mornings on BET. I rarely got up that early occasionally I would catch it a few years back My brother-in-law had downloaded some old TGIF episodes the actual full television block and burned them on to DVDs for me These were like the Christmas episodes the Halloween episodes stuff like that, which I really loved I I wish TV would go back to airing family-friendly sitcoms like this That actually had holiday episodes like Halloween Christmas Thanksgiving stuff like that. We don't get that anymore We usually either have children's sitcoms or adult sitcoms But never family sitcoms like what family matters was and that's a real disappointment Will Friedel talked about this a couple weeks ago on the pod meets world podcast And I it's just it's something I wish television would return to I know we're all about streaming nowadays but if brought a network actually aired a programming block of Family-friendly television like the old TGIF not what TGIF has turned into over the years or that they've tried to do with it But the old TGIF with family-friendly sitcoms, you know, perfect strangers full house Family matters boy meets world Sabrina list goes on and on I think they would receive ratings equal to if not Superceding those that they got in the 90s at the height of its popularity, but that's me without further ado Let's go ahead and get into this review. So as I said, this is Funko Pop television Warner Brothers Celebrating every story 100 number 1377 Carl Winslow Carl Winslow final figure and this It's I'm not sure how this matches up to Sergeant Al Powell, which was also Performed by Reginald Val Johnson who played Carl Winslow He had his own pop in the die-hard series a few years back. In fact, let me go ahead and Bring it up and see How it looks compared to All right, so we'll go to Google pal Funko Pop This is one that has always eluded me It's one of the only pops from the Die hard line that has eluded me. So it does look like they changed Reginald Val Johnson's head from The Al Powell pop to this one It looks completely different actually in the Al Powell pop. He's holding a bunch of Twinkies and stuff And he's got his coat on and everything They may have reused the bottom portion. I'm not sure maybe just the mold and resculpted the Torso and arms Because the bottom does look very similar But I don't know I I'm unable I've been unable to find the Al Powell I don't have him just yet and forgive me guys. I did wake up this morning with Stuff he knows severely congested Due to the weather changing back and forth between hot and cold. I'm in central Illinois The other day of 70 degrees today. It's like 44 degrees And I guess it's like 53 right now, but yeah The weather change has done nothing for my for my allergies and my congestion and everything So just gonna have to deal with it But let's take a look at the box. You got the Warner Brothers 100 years Type Logo and stuff here You got Funko pop television Here's a side Carl Winslow 1377 Here's the other side This is usually how I display my Funko pops This side out which at the end of this I may just take you on a tour of my collection We'll see maybe I'll save that for another day But here's the back As you can see you got family matters logo there. You got Carl Winslow Eddie Winslow Laura Winslow and Steve Urkel Now They do actually have Steve Urkel listed as 1380 however That's I think they double numbered Because briefly we'll bring in Stefan Urkel Which is 1380 and they have Stefan Urkel listed as Steve Urkel But he's not Steve Urkel. He's Stefan In fact in the later seasons he became his own separate person We'll talk more about that when we get to Stefan and Steve So anyway, let's go ahead and open the box and take a look at that at this pop final Okay, so as usual this pop does come in a clamshell it is the part with the latches Pull out Carl And we'll move this aside So Carl was always my favorite character on family matters My wife and I when we rewatched it a few years back We realized that we were all at the time we were only a Couple years younger than Carl and Harriet in the first season of the show and That made us feel old then and now we're as old as Carl and Harriet Couple seasons into the show so I don't know. I It's it's really making me feel old My wife too, but not as much as me. I remember growing up watching this She watched a few episodes, but nothing she was never really Big into it like I was So Carl Winslow was played by Reginald Vell Johnson who for comic book fans might recognize from The comic book series and the news Amazon series invincible The high school Reginald Vell Johnson high school is where Mark Grayson attends and That was named after this actor The principal was actually based on the likeness of Reginald Vell Johnson and then in the Amazon series they actually got Reginald Vell Johnson to voice the principal so That is a cool nod I've always liked Reginald Vell Johnson. In fact, I've always had this thing where His characters from Ghostbusters crocodile dandy diehard and family matters were all the same person just at different points in his life And To me that makes sense, you know, I know that's not actually what what happened or the character But that's what I like to think So anyway, nice pop. He can turn his head all the way around though. It is pretty tight And he's just in his classic police pose, you know, his hands holding his belt Got his gun there No radio or anything Now you guys tie and his clip his badge Let me check real quick I want to say Those are his Lieutenant stripes. I'm not fully Knowledgeable about stripes. So let me check that real quick Okay, so these are his sergeant stripes It would appear that this would be like the first couple season first second season Because I think later on third season he came no He became lieutenant in this season that We are currently watching which is About midway through the series He later becomes captain But this appears to be Karl Winslow from earlier in the series as noted by the full head of hair with just the widow's peak and Then he's not quite as overweight here For those of you who don't know Family Matters was a spin-off of another another TGIF show Perfect Strangers it was meant to be Harriet's spin-off it was going to be Joe Murray Paton's series as the character Harriet and her husband Karl they both Were in Perfect Strangers. I Want to say they lived in Larry and Balkie's apartment building Harriet was also the elevator operator at the Chicago newspaper that they worked at until her position became obsolete Eddie had been born already in the series in Perfect Strangers. I'm not sure about Laura though But then whenever they got their own series Family Matters They had lived in their house since Eddie was little And I want to say Laura was born in the house or born while they were living in the house same with Judy But I'll have to double-check that and there's really no mention of Harriet's time working at the Chronicle But this is a nice homage to The earlier years of the series Family Matters as well as Perfect Strangers Being that he's got a sergeant stripes and there's really no Nothing to indicate that he's a Chicago police officer This could actually double as Sergeant Al Powell If they want if Funko wanted to re-release this Sometime Maybe put like some dirt or dust or whatever on him to indicate the end of the movie They most certainly could re-release him as Sergeant Al Powell Very nice pop. I really like it As soon as I saw this in the collection at Target, I knew I had to get him a long time Family Matters fan I grew up watching the show. It's It's comfort food for me it was it's sad that Joe Murray Peyton ended up leaving the show because Of contract disputes and everything and what because of the direction the show went Basically focusing around Steve Urkel who didn't even show up in the series until later in the first series season It was about halfway through the first season. He was supposed to be a one-off character Fans went crazy for him That's how it is I do wish Funko would have added Harriet Grandma Winslow or Estelle. I mean and Rachel Into the collection too as of now. Oh, we've got our Carl, Eddie, Laura Steve and Stefan It'd be nice to have the whole family there As well as Lil Richie, I'm not sure about 3j though he showed up and I want to say the last season Maybe the last two seasons. I could be wrong. I haven't gotten to that point on the rewatch it But I really like the detail of this figure You know love displaying him with the other Characters from Family Matters, so I hope you guys enjoyed this video If you're at Target or Walmart or wherever else that sells Funko pops and happen to come across one of the Family Matters pops I Highly suggest Picking him up Carl's head. I forgot to mention It is not hollow like a lot of pops were early on It is pretty solid So, I mean It's probably the heaviest part of him And he he stands well without a base So anyway, tell me what your favorite episode of Family Matter was in the comments below I've been Shannon this Has been Comic NTV Take care Geeks If you enjoyed that video make sure you check out one of these two playlists for more videos Just like the one you just watched. I've been Shannon This has been Comic NTV the only place on YouTube where all geek culture collides. Take care Geeks