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Why does nobody tell you that Family Matters had a whole other kid who vanished into thin air
I was up way too late on a Tuesday scrolling wikis and found out Family Matters just erased a daughter named Judy after season 4. She was the youngest Winslow kid and one day she's eating breakfast, and the next she's gone with zero explanation, no funeral, no boarding school episode, nothing. I sat there at 1am in my kitchen in Akron with cold pizza going, wait, was there a fourth kid this whole time? I watched this show in reruns for like a decade and my brain just accepted the family as it was, never once asked where she went. Turns out the show runners cut her because they thought she didn't add anything and they wanted more room for Steve Urkel, which is wild because that trade gave us the greatest nerd in TV history. My wife thinks I'm nuts for being this bothered by a character who got maybe 12 lines total across 4 seasons. Is there a support group for people who realized their comfort show quietly deleted a human being, or am I just going to be mad about Judy forever?
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alice9281h ago
Man, I feel this in my soul, I had the exact same 1am freakout when I found out about Judy and my brain just refused to believe it. You are not nuts, that's a real loss and I'm mad with you forever.
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