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Morrison’s work has much to say about the Black experience, but her stories are just as much about love, friendship, grief and loss - she merely tells them without centering whiteness. “So it seems to me that my world did not shrink because I was a Black female writer. “I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a Black person and as a female person are greater than those of people who are neither,” Morrison said in the interview. The first one is back in Cousin Urkel.In a 1987 interview with the New York Times, author Toni Morrison recalled how people would ask whether she considers herself a “Black writer” or a “writer,” with the implication that she was “bigger” or “better” than the former.

This is the 2nd episode prank war between Eddie and Laura.

This continued in her first return appearance in Le Jour d'amour when she flirted with Eddie while he was dating Greta. In Higher Anxiety, she was the first girlfriend who two-timed Eddie by cheating on him with Joey Newman and showed no remorse for it.

This episode retconned Eddie and Oneisha's relationship.

This is one of the few times Jaleel White actually sings in his Steve Urkel/Princess Sonia voice.

The ex-girlfriends who appeared at the party who were named are Oneisha, Heather, Helen, Brandy, Sue and Tiffany.

Rugg Williams earlier played Laura's study date named Mark in The Urkel Who Came to Dinner.

Marlon Young as Willie Tannen (credited as Marlon 'Chopper' Young).

Shana Mangatal as Brandy (credited as Shana Montgomery).

Valerie Mae Miller as Helen (uncredited).

Kellie Shanygne Williams as Laura Winslow.

Jo Marie Payton-Noble as Harriette Winslow (non-appearance).

Eddie reluctantly but wisely chose Greta and surrendered his black book to the blender. She gives him a choice: surrender his black book so they can shred it in pieces or keep it which will likely end their relationship and take his chances with one of them whom will leave him dealing with Myrtle alone.

This convinces Geiss to listen to his son and allows Carl to gain the position.ĭuring the end credits, Greta confronts Eddie for keeping a black book containing his ex-girlfriends' names and phone numbers on it and brings a blender filled with water to the kitchen table. He could never be the kind of cop that his father and even Carl is.

Cliff also admits he was much happier working in the precinct's evidence storage locker and did his job very well. He mentions that Carl's insight and experience makes him more qualified for the job as captain. In Commissioner Geiss' office, Cliff admonishes his father and makes him see how wrong he was in passing Carl over for him. Seeing the pained look on Urkel's face, Eddie and Laura apologizes for their behavior. Steve admonishes the two for being selfish and points out (while breaking down in tears) how his own family never loved him at all. Infuriated, Urkel and Greta sets them straight by making Eddie and Laura realize that their immature tricks are just that. Carl proves to the commissioner his worth when he is able to diffuse a potentially deadly gang fight.Īn angry Laura decides to get even by tricking Urkel into inviting Eddie's ex-girlfriends to a surprise birthday party. Meanwhile, Carl is upset that Commissioner Geiss passed him over for a promotion to captain, choosing his son, Cliff, instead (despite the fact Carl is more qualified). Eddie invites Laura's ex, Rick, over on a night she wants to spend with Stefan but the suave Urkel easily gets rid of his tormentor.

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Meanwhile, Commissioner Geiss learns a lesson that sometimes it's better if the more experienced cop like Carl is promoted to captain over an inexperienced cop like his son.Įddie and Laura play a series of 'get even' tricks on each other. He admitted he was always jealous of them because his parents never loved him and that the Winslows were like his own family. Finally, Steve sets both Eddie and Laura straight (in tears) on how fortunate they were to have each other. When he and Greta arrived on his birthday party to see his ex-girlfriends, they are incensed by the whole thing. When Eddie takes his pranks on Laura too far by inviting her ex-boyfriend over to the house, whenever Stefan was around, she decides to fight fire with fire by conning Steve into helping her get even with her dim-witted brother by using his black book which contains phone numbers of Eddie's previous girlfriends and invites them over on his birthday.