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This episode is an honorable mention in my book, yeah it's one of those preachy episodes but I don't mind as it's funny but it's kind of serious at the same time as it deals with the issue of underage drinking and alcoholism's deadly consequences, which is still a relevant issue today as alcoholism has gotten much worse now in all ages.

The episode starts out as your typical party setting, and of course Willy and Waldo unfortunately rear their ugly heads. It's a little strange seeing Maxine being excited having party crashers in her party, I thought "wow, you're really desperate for excitement".

This is also one of the first episodes we see the character Waldo, I'll admit his character really had a strange start where he was kind of just a flunky for the so called cool guy; though despite this I honestly didn't think Waldo was a bad guy just someone playing for the wrong team, influenced by the wrong people. I'll admit I really dislike Willy; he's clearly crashed the party to make it his own self-indulgent fest. Smuggling alcohol, passing himself automatically as the cool guy to all the guys at the party which of course he creates this mob mentality as we most of the guys can't walk away. Word of advice, alcoholism underage, and peer pressure doesn't equal cool.

Steve of course comes to the rescue and this of course results in a music and dance sequence "The Urkel Dance" which was a big thing at the time much as "The Bart Man" was for "The Simpsons" though funny thing is "The Urkel Dance" actually turned out to be the most remembered while "The Bart Man" has become forgotten; which personally I'm fine with as I actually like "The Urkel Dance" more.

It's just a fun song and sequence, I sometimes wonder if anyone else that has had certain parties like at a dance at Comic Con ever played this song and did this dance. I also love the fact he's the one that has most to all of the girls in the party dancing with him, which is exactly what the guys should have been doing in the first place so kudos to Steve.

But of course afterwards things slowly but surely turn serious, as we see Willy retaliate toward Urkel as he states for humiliating him, I thought "you're doing a good job of that yourself"; Wily spikes Steve's punch and Steve gets unintentionally sloshed. It's kind of funny seeing Steve getting sloshed but at the same time I can't help but exercise concern. As Laura and we easily see Steve's electrodes are clearly not firing at the right circuits.

Some of what happens in the final minutes might seem a tad exaggerated, but then again people under the influence have done some crazy crap so it's not far off. We then see Laura's and even my own fear finally comes to pass as Steve's drunken state sends him over the edge literally. It then results in a suspenseful situation where Steve is hanging over an edge and Rachel comes to the rescue. I'll admit Rachel being able to tightrope walk kind of came out of the blue but hey it's a sitcom I'll roll with it. Will Rachel be able to save Steve on time you'll just have to wait and find out.

The life of the party is in the people not the booze and remember do the Urkel.

Rating: 3 and a half stars

My second choice for a heading was "Do the Urkel," but that would have been so obvious. The "Do the Urkel" dance is actually one of the best scenes of the entire series. Watch and see how Steve manages to get both Laura and Maxine into his "zone." The most notable thing is how Steve introduced this song and dance, and he suddenly became "cool." This episode was before Steve had the benefit of any elixir or transformation chamber. He proved that he could be himself, and also be cool. In the dance scene, Steve had two nice girls dancing with him! The episode, however, took a wrong turn when Steve got drunk and almost fell off the building. Rachel's tightrope walking wasn't quite believable. Also, Laura should have been the one to rescue Steve from the ledge. Even at this early stage, there were signs that she was starting to like Steve!