"Family Matters" Farewell, My Laura (TV Episode 1992) Poster

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Farewell, My Laura (#3.25)
ComedyFan201026 June 2013
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The 3rd season finale is an absolutely superior episode that is a real masterpiece!

It follows the script of Urkel's short crime story in which he tries to figure out the murderer of Rachel. Set in the 40's the episode beautifully adapts a lot of film noir elements.

Urkel is being all Humphrey Bogart, Laura the sexy vamp lady, and the drum part whenever she walks is great comedy.

All the settings, like for example the bar and costumes were very well done to fit into the atmosphere. Every actor was absolutely great at it.

And I loved the scene of Urkel gathering the whole family in a room and whenever he accused someone of it, he ended up killed. Very good parody of old times detective stories, give one an Agatha Christie feeling
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VenVes6 December 2019
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Gotta love Steve's antics in this period piece. The musical cues and over-the-top cliches are just the icing on the cake.
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10/10
Befuddling Noir
hellraiser727 February 2020
This is my sixth favorite episode of the show. It's pretty much a parody on the noirs/whodunnit mysteries much like the films "Clue" and "Knives Out". I really love how the episode really parodies everything to a tee from the format to all the clichés.

Really like Steve in the hard-boiled detective role, it was just funny from the narration, dialog down to his name which is cool Johnny Danger which is a name he's true too in one sense and another. Even Laura is good as the femme fatale, it's funny whenever she walked there is always drumming, which is funny because whenever the femme fatales enter the picture there is always some romantic music playing.

There are just a lot of really good scenes, from the scene of the first death and then suddenly Richie the Paperboy coming from out of nowhere suddenly delivers tomorrow's or should I say today's paper, that just cracked me up it just goes to show the old saying "news travels fast".

But it of course come down to the final scene which is funny as it's your typical accusation in the murder mansion scene. That scene leads to my favorite dialog from Murtah and Johnny/Steve which clearly states the cliché; it's just so funny because it's true in the Whodunnit stories most of the time when someone is questioned they get bumped off, almost like the questioning is a kiss of death.

Like any good mystery, this episode is one worth uncovering.

Rating: 4 stars
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