The Dragons are a street gang who are the antagonists of the episode "Born to Be Mild." In the beginning of the episode at Rachel's Place, they hang Steve Urkel by his suspenders on a coat rack, make fresh comments to Laura Winslow and Rachel Crawford and damage glassware.
Rachel orders the gang members to leave, but Chain, the gang's leader, has everyone pick tables, chairs and more malt glasses so they can cause major damage. Just then, Carl shows up and the gang decides to leave, but not before Carl demands Chain pay for the broken glasse.
That night, the Dragons returned to Rachel's Place to finish what they started,. The Winslow family arrives and sees the damage is far worse than Rachel had ever feared: tables and chairs lying everywhere, video games damaged, the glasses and china broken and The Dragons' logo spray painted on the wall. Carl reassures her that they will catch The Dragons, but warns they will be back on the streets as one or more people will lie that they were somewhere else when all this happened. Rachel asks him if The Dragons can do whatever they want and get away with it. Carl refuses to go that far, but Eddie staggers into Rachel's Place, badly beaten up.
As Harriette has an ice pack on Eddie, he explains that he was walking home from his date when The Dragons jumped out from behind a parked van, attacked him and beat him up. As Harriette takes him home and Rachel and Laura are resigned to cleaning up the mess that The Dragons made, Carl is outraged and wants to take matters into his own hands. Steve begs him to reconsider because he is a cop and that if he did that, he will be charged with police brutality by The Dragons and risk losing his badge.
Urkel manages to persuade Carl to handle things the right way by allowing him to pose as a bloodthirsty and prospect gangster who is seeking to get into The Dragons. Hewill be hooked to a wire and his conversation with Chain will be tape-recorded. Lieutenant Murtaugh tells them the plan, while Urkel is in The Dragons' hangout, he and Carl will be in a van listening to their conversation.
At first, things go off smoothly, but as Urkel continues to ask questions, one of the more talkative members lets slip that he and the other Dragons caused the vandalism and beat up Eddie. Chain tells the others to shut up and that he suspects Urkel was wired, forcing Carl and Lieutenant Murtaugh (who have been listening to the entire proceedings from their surveilance van) to run in to save Urkel's life. Even though they are handcuffed together thanks to Murtaugh's immaturity, they get the job done and arrest The Dragons.
Gang members[]
The only named gang members were the leader, Chain, (played by Juan Lamont Pope), and Osgood, (played by Jaime Cardriche)
Trivia[]
- Juan Lamont Pope, who played Chain, played three other different characters in the show, including an orderly at a hospital in "Number One With a Bullet," an army man in "An Officer and a Waldo,' and Curtis Williams, Laura's on-again and off-again boyfriend.