(audience laughs) - i just feel like i was so lucky to grow up in a time with urkel. - a peck near the lip area would speed me on my way. (audience laughs) - so would a left hook. (audience laughs) - ooh, i love it when she gets physical. - winslows are a loving african american family that live in the chicago area. father, carl winslow, was a cop. - family matters was my very first job. i was one of three black writers in a big room of maybe 10, 12 writers. - in 1994, family matters had an episode called good cop, bad cop. eddie winslow, the teenage son, comes back from a really upsetting encounter with a police officer. - i was driving along minded my own business when the cops pulled me over! - i remember the scene, and it was very difficult to do. - then he made me get outta the car and lie face down! then he cuffed me! - that s unusual procedure unless you provoked it. - the idea that the black father would tell his black son, you must ve provoked the cop if you were treate
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- yeah. - government is not the solution to our problem. government is the problem. - america was changing. you re in the middle of reaganomics and trickle down economies. - the social policies of that era were really splintering black families and the black community in this country. - in the early 1980s, the landscape of primetime television was dominated by these hour-long dramas. some of them were very gritty. - one of the things people were all saying was the comedy on television was dead. ( the bill cosby show theme song) - but then there s this juggernaut of a show in the form of a black family comedy, and it completely reinvigorates the sitcom genre. - i am your father. i brought you in this world and i ll take you out. (audience laughs) (soft upbeat music) - the cosby show absolutely created a phenomenon of must-see tv. - the cosby show is consider the pinnacle black sitcom. gives you a black family that s not just incredibly tight knit. - listen. let s put on some music
- family matters every week literally just made you crack up and laugh. - no, i got it. - no, no, i got it. - no, no! - don t, don t, don t, steve! (glass shatters) - did i do that? (audience laughs) - i just feel like i was so lucky to grow up in a time with urkel. - a peck near the lip area would speed me on my way. (audience laughs) - so would a left hook. (audience laughs) - ooh, i love it when she gets physical. - winslows are a loving african american family that live in the chicago area. father, carl winslow, was a cop. - family matters was my very first job. i was one of three black writers in a big room of maybe 10, 12 writers. - in 1994, family matters had an episode called good cop, bad cop. eddie winslow, the teenage son, comes back from a really upsetting encounter with a police officer. - i was driving along minded my own business when the cops pulled me over! - i remember the scene, and it was very difficult to do.