Family Matters is back in syndication on Nickelodeon and my kids love it. I however am having the same problem with it as I had in its first incarnation. While his antics are mildly amusing, I find him to be annoying and almost offensive. I have never understood why the eccentricities of one set of people are to be laughed at. This concept of the nerd has always befuddled me. Others will point out that his buffoonery belittles all of us as a people.
But when I realize that my children get a gut laugh at his tomfoolery, something that bubbles up from their toes and rolls around in their tummies and comes rushing out of their smiling faces, how could I continue to hold the show up to a microscope. Utilizing a willing suspension of disbelief and just viewing it on one level one can really laugh in spite of oneself. So now my household’s second generation Steve Ercolites have influenced the first generation doubters to, “relax…. its not that deep.” A little child shall lead them. Selah.
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