Key and Peele Urkel sketch: Family Matters, Reginald VelJohnson parody gets weird (VIDEO).

Key & Peele Reveals Just How Powerful and Unsettling Steve Urkel Really Was

Key & Peele Reveals Just How Powerful and Unsettling Steve Urkel Really Was

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Oct. 9 2014 12:13 PM

Key & Peele Reveals Just How Powerful and Unsettling Steve Urkel Really Was

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One of the most outlandish sitcoms in TV history has to have been Family Matters, the show which included such plot contrivances as: “Steve Urkel uses his transformation chamber to turn himself into his suave alter ego Stefan Urquelle,” “Urkel uses his transformation chamber to turn himself into Bruce Lee,” and “Urkel uses his transformation chamber to turn himself into Elvis.”

Key & Peele tap into the utter absurdity of it all in a great sketch from next week’s episode, featuring an understandably irate Reginald VelJohnson (Jordan Peele); a cocaine-addicted corporate honcho (Keegan-Michael Key) all-too-eager to bow down to the demands of Jaleel White, aka Urkel; and of course, Urkel himself (Tyler James Williams, from Everybody Hates Chris). The scene unravels wonderfully into Twilight Zone-like chaos.

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Aisha Harris is a Slate culture writer and host of the Slate podcast Represent.