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on’t you just love a good Black sitcom?
Even though the heyday is long gone, the Black sitcom era that spanned from the early 1970s and peaked sometime in the mid 2000s gave us some of the greatest television moments of all time, not to mention leaving us with classic quotables like
“What you talkin’ bout, Willis?” and “
Did I do that?” to
“Dy-No-Mite!” and simply
“Wazzup!”
However, not all things that appear loving on family-centered sitcoms were actually the case in real-life when the cameras cut. In all actuality, many of the co-stars on our favorite Black sitcoms couldn’t even stand each other.
Surprisingly, that was the case for
Family Matters star Jaleel White and his co-stars, particularly with the show’s resident TV mom, Jo Marie Payton.
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While appearing recently in Tampa,
Florida at the “90s Con” 2023 convention,
Family Matters stars Reginald VelJohnson (Carl Winslow), Kellie Shanygne Williams (Laura Winslow) and the aforementioned Payton who played Harriette Winslow for eight of the show’s nine seasons, each took a second to send well-wishes to the visibly absent standout star who played pop culture icon, Steve Urkel. “Love you Jaleel — you’re wonderful,” VelJohnson can be heard telling
People (seen above), also adding, “Sorry you’re not here. We miss you.” Williams kept it brief, stating to the camera, “I talk to him, so he knows I love his crazy butt.”
When it got time for Payton to talk, she sounded a bit more somber and, dare we say it, remorseful even. “You know what baby, I still love you,” she said directly into the camera in an effort to address Jaleel specifically, adding, “As we grow, we learn [and] we change, you know what I’m saying? We get a little more accepting of life and everything and all.”
The actress, who happens to be the reason
Family Matters even existed being that it was a spinoff for her character from
Perfect Strangers (1986 – 1993), concluded her message by stating, “I would like to say, if you were here [and] I could hug you I would, ’cause I don’t hold anything and don’t want you to hold anything either. I still love you. I still see you as that little boy that you were [at] 12 years old when you came to this show. I’m still the same Jo Marie.”
For reference, take a look below to hear how White himself described the situation back in May 2021 for our family over at TV One on his episode of
UNCENSORED.
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For the sake of a future reboot, or at the very least a more friendly reunion, we pray Jaleel White will get his Urkel on once again with his TV family right there beside him. Until then, let’s look back on a few other famous feuds in Black sitcom history just so you can see that it wasn’t just the
Family Matters crew who were feuding back in the day.
Not in the
least bit!
Keep scrolling for a look at a few now-infamous Black sitcom feuds that made us ask one simple question: can’t we all just get along?
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