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Nerd of Mouth

The Steven Q Urkel Effect

Nerd of Mouth

The Last Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Leisure, Video Games

4.7649 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

A whole episode on Steve Urkel? Yes we did do that. What happens when a one off guest star becomes the focus of a show and family no longer matters? What other examples are there of one character unexpectedly taking over an show?And just how did an audience full of frat bros and the promise of a Sega Genesis facilitate the birth of Urkel in the first place? Want even more Nerd of Mouth? Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/nerdofmouth

Transcript

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0:00.0

Nerd of mouth

0:01.4

Did I do that?

0:19.9

Did I do my aunt? Oh no, we're starting. Did I do my hands?

0:23.0

Oh, no, we're starting.

0:24.2

Did I do it with blood on my hands?

0:27.0

When I killed that family, that's the first thing I said.

0:30.6

And I didn't have to go to jail because everybody clapped and laughed.

0:34.4

It's a rare condition in this day and age to go online and not feel some rage.

0:43.7

I, yeah, this, okay, so I, what are we talking about today, Holden?

0:48.2

Today we're talking about the Urkel effect.

0:50.3

This was actually spurned on by a, Ask Reddit post where they said like, hey,

0:57.2

have you guys ever like what other types of media where it happened where a character comes in

1:01.6

and just totally takes over a thing? And I'd always been fascinated by the Family Matters story.

1:09.0

Yes. Right. And this is a sequel of sorts in the sense that we talked about Urkel on the history of the nerd. We're going to get much deeper into Erkel today. Yes. Also, it's kind of a companion episode. It's sort of the opposite of the poochy episode. Scrappy Doe Effect episode where something comes in kind of after a thing as Jump the Shark.

1:29.1

We're also going to be talking about Fonzie today.

1:30.8

I think the difference is artificially trying to say something and something organically.

1:35.7

Kind of accidentally happening and just the fans glomming on to it.

1:39.6

By the way, just to start things off, this is from a different Reddit post.

1:43.7

Also from Reddit, though, I was having a discussion with some friends the other day,

1:47.5

and we all distinctly remember a show called The Steve Urkel Show.

1:50.9

Wow.

1:51.2

That we believed was a spinoff of the popular sitcom Family Matters.

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