Bowl Me Over is the twenty-first episode of the first season in this television sitcom on Family Matters, which was aired from ABC on April 6, 1990. It was directed by Richard Correll and written by Robert Blair.
Plot[]
After Laura beats Eddie in a video game, Carl decides to bowl for a Friday night. When Steve comes, it gets competitive and also when Harriette admits she let Carl win it turns into a bowling brawl: Carl, Eddie and surprisingly good Steve versus Laura, Rachel and Harriette. Soon, Estelle calls them out and reminds them it was God that called them to their senses with the blackout.
Synopsis[]
Cast[]
Main[]
- Reginald VelJohnson as Carl Winslow
- Jo Marie Payton as Harriette Winslow (credited as Jo Marie Payton-France)
- Rosetta LeNoire as Estelle Winslow
- Darius McCrary as Eddie Winslow
- Kellie Shanygne Williams as Laura Winslow
- Jaimee Foxworth as Judy Winslow
- Joseph and Julius Wright as Richie Crawford
- Telma Hopkins as Rachel Crawford
Guest[]
Recurring[]
Trivia[]
- Steve use the play bowling with the Winslow boys against the girls.
Goofs[]
- The family argues about whether Carl's final bowl was a strike or not. However, his left foot went over the foul line when he threw it, so it wouldn't have counted for anything regardless of how many pins he knocked over.
Quotes[]
- Carl: Now, what's the problem here?
- Laura: I don't have a problem. I just got the highest score ever at Space Invaders.
- Eddie: Oh, sure, rub it in.
- Carl: Well, I guess we know now who used to have the highest score.
- Eddie: I don't think girls should be allowed to play video games, period. They should stick to cheerleading, where they belong.
- Harriette: Eddie, that is the most chauvinistic thing I've ever heard you say.
- Carl: I'll straighten him out, honey. Come on, son, we need to have a little talk. [opening the door to the backyard] Step into my office, please.
- Eddie: What's wrong?
- Carl: Well, son, I don't think you're upset because you were beaten. I think you're upset because you were beaten by a girl.
- Eddie: Well, yeah!
- Carl: Son, this is the '90s, the age of the enlightened man. We're no longer threatened by women who are smarter or make more money or who beat us at sports.
- Eddie: We're not?
- Carl: No. Son, today's man is compassionate and sensitive, and only wants to live in peace and harmony with today's female. A real man is a man who is able to admit defeat.
- Carl: You know, bowling was a great idea. I can't think of a single reason not to do this every week.
- Urkel: Hi everybody!
- Carl: I just thought of a reason.
- Laura: Steve, what are you doing here?
- Urkel: I come here three or four times a week.
- Carl: Oh, sort of like a second home?
- Steve: Oh no, that would be your place.
- Laura: I hate bowling. It's a stupid sport! Throwing an ugly 10 pound ball at a bunch of ugly sticks, while you're wearing ugly shoes!
- Judy: It's an ugly sport.
- Eddie: It's a great sport! And do you know why? Because it's a man's sport! They make the ball heavy so women will know to leave it alone.
- Carl: I mean, it's a simple fact of nature. Men are better bowlers than women.
- Rachel: What kind of male chauvinist garbage is that?
- Carl: Now, Rachel, I'm not saying that men are better at everything. But, hey, we're talking bowling here. And bowling is primarily a man thing.
- Harriette: Okay. That did it. We're going bowling. Men against the women. Tonight. Right now. One game.
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