SNL Parodies Bel-Air Trailer With Gritty Urkel Reboot Sketch
Long-running comedy sketch series, SNL, has parodied the upcoming Fresh Prince of Bel-Air re-imagining, Bel-Air, with a gritty version of Jaleel White’s Steve Urkel character. Known throughout the 1990s as the world’s most annoying next door neighbor on the Warner Bros. sitcom, Family Matters, Urkel came to define the entire series, largely due to his ridiculously high trousers, oversized glasses and nasally twang. Though Family Matters came to an end in 1998, the Urkel character lives on, instantly recognizable among fans of '90s era television.
In addition to his very specific physical appearance, Urkel also left his mark on American sitcom television with his catch phrases, the likes of which elicited peels of canned laughter within any given episode. Phrases such as “Did I do that?” “Got any cheese?” and “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” persisted throughout the program’s nine-season run, creating a divide between those who saw the character as a hilarious, light-hearted creation and those who simply couldn’t stand him. Family Matters certainly wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea, and when compared to the popularity of fellow '90s sitcom, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, there’s no question that it fell far behind in terms of reaching an iconic status in later years. Nonetheless, Urkel’s own bizarre legacy persists, though it’s safe to say that the demand to see more of the character in any sort of updated manner is hardly overwhelming.
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As a new era of The Fresh Prince prepares to launch with the grittier and dramatic Bel-Air, the cast of SNL decided that it was time to not only poke fun at the upcoming series, but to imagine how absurd it would be to see a
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