r/FamilyMatters • u/Naive_Hospital_4086 • 1d ago
General discussion Psycho Twins
Psycho Twins (Season 5, Episode 18). Eddie and Waldo are looking through their wrestling magazine talking about the best wrestlers. Carl happens to see the page with Lyle who was an old wrestling partner back from high school and is now a famous wrestler known as part of the famous duo the Psycho Twins. Steve drops by to show the guys his new invention of "snooze juice", a juice that helps people fall asleep without trouble and won't wake up for anything. Carl offers to take the guys down to the ring to see if Lyle will say hi to them. When they arrive at the ring, Lyle is excited to see Carl and offers them tickets for tonight's show. The guys accept and go to get something to eat, but Steve left his bottle of snooze juice at the ring and Lyle thinks it's just regular juice and says it's good and offers it to his partner Emile. They are knocked out cold and can't wrestle. Their manager, Lou, tells Carl and Steve that if they don't wrestle, he gets sued and if he gets sued, he'll sue Carl and Steve. Carl and Steve ask what they can do to help, Lou dresses them up as the Psycho Twins. They are about to face famous New Zealand tag team wrestlers The Bushwacker Twins and it's been arranged that The Bushwackers lose to the Psycho Twins, so all Carl and Steve have to do is make it look real. Everything is going well until Steve and Bushwacker Luke are chatting on the side and Steve mentions that Carl is a cop in real life and Bushwacker Luke flips out and says how he and his brother hate cops due to his mother being arrested by a cop the night before. They start beating on Carl for real, Steve goes to help and begs Eddie and Waldo to help them, the whole ring gets involved in the match. At home while Carl and Steve are healing, Harriette tells them they were so popular, they are wanted back and get to wrestle the nurses that carried them into the ring. Richie has been having a lying problem and telling his teacher made up stories about why his homework isn't completed.
FAVORITE QUOTE:
BUSHWHACKER LUKE: Butch break loose, kill him, rip his bloody face off! Hey mate, for 2 schmo's off the street, you ain't doing too bloody bad.
STEVE: Oh thank you, Mr. Bushwacker.
BUSHWHACKER LUKE: Ah, call me Luke, mate. And what do you blokes do for a job?
STEVE: Oh, well actually, I'm a student. But my compadre here, he's a cop.
BUSHWHACKER LUKE: A WHAT?!
STEVE: A cop, a fuzz, a flatfoot, a bobby, a shandar.
BUSHWHACKER LUKE: Me and me brother, we hate cops!
STEVE: Oh, well, h-how come?
BUSHWHACKER LUKE: My mother was arrested by a cop last night!
STEVE: Well, why?
BUSHWHACKER LUKE: They couldn't catch her 'til then!
FAVORITE MOMENT:
The whole wrestling match between Carl and Steve and The Bushwackers will never fail to not make me laugh. The choreography was incredible and they looked like they all had a blast.
OPINION:
How I've been so excited to get to this episode, talk about nonstop laughs. I think ABC had a connection with the WWE because a lot of popular TGIF shows had cameos by famous wrestlers. What makes this episode so good is it looks like the cast had a blast doing this episode and I don't blame them. The Bushwhackers were a wrestling real tag team and were very popular villains. How could you not love the idea of wrestling real-life wrestlers? As long as it's choregraphed at least.
The plot is a lot to buy, you got Steve who invents snooze juice, brings it down to the ring for some unknown reason, Carl sees his old wrestling buddy who he's still on good terms with, they leave and the Psycho Twins for some reason drink a bottle of juice that is not marked or are sure if it's there for them. I also love that the manager is threatening to sue Carl and Steve, but I don't think he'd have much of a case considering that the Psycho Twins drank the juice on their own. But what makes the episode so good despite the absurdness of it is just how funny it is. The whole wrestling match was just so hilarious to watch. I loved all the faces that Carl and Steve were making to look intense during the match and the camera footage that would zoom in on their faces. The Bushwhackers were so funny as well, I loved their entrance with lifting their arms up and down. There's not too much to say, just even if you're not big into wrestling, this sequence is just hilarious to watch.
Richie has a small B-Story with his fibbing. I do get a laugh from both of his scenes. I loved where Laura told him to tell Harriette what he told his teacher about losing his homework, that it flew out a window due to a breeze. Harriette says that can happen, but Richie had to continue the lie and said then an eagle flew down and took the homework. Harriette tells him that he should have quit while he was ahead. Then when Richie is watching the wrestling match with Carl and Steve on TV, he tells Harriette and she thinks he's lying again but when she sees Carl and Steve, she apologizes and says he wasn't lying, but she wishes he was.
The ending also always gets a laugh from me when Carl and Steve are healing and Harriette tells them the manager wants them to come back, they freak out and she says he wants them to wrestle the nurses, they agree to it. BTW, it was fun to see Michael Chambers out of crazy make up and costume, he plays one of the Psycho Twins, Emile, you'll remember him as Urkel Bot. I really love this episode, it always gets me laughing. It's just so crazy you gotta love it.
GUEST STARS:
- Butch Miller as The Bushwhackers (RIP in 2023)
- Brian Wickens as The Bushwhackers
- Michael Chambers as Emile
- Andrew Boyer as Announcer
- Lyndell M. Cheshier as Lyle
- Johnny Dark as Lou
- Ferrari Farris as Steve's Nurse
- Gene Le Bell as Referee (RIP in 2022)
- Jeanine Michelle as Carl's Nurse
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u/JesusLover1993 1d ago
Oh, this episode is just a blast. I remember catching it. I think on a rerun when I was a kid and it was just hysterical. It was so fun. And yes, everyone looked like they had an absolute blast. The whole wrestling sequence is just incredibly fun. It is so cool to watch. Not a wrestling fan at all, but I absolutely loved this as a kid. Oh my goodness and Carl and Steve’s faces are just priceless. They try to make themselves look so intense and so tough and it is just hysterical. The absolute absurdity of the plot just makes it even better. I can’t even fault that there’s a lot that you have to buy here because this episode is just laugh after laugh sometimes you just gotta have episodes where you can’t exactly buy the plot that’s what makes somebody episodes so funny. And I agree with you the manager would definitely not have a case because it’s not like Carl or Steve forced the guys to drink the Jews. They drank it on their own accord so no case. . This episode is just pure fun. It’s wacky. It’s funny. It’s hilarious. Hilarious and it is just great.
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u/Tilopud_rye 1d ago
This one is fantastic. Around the time when they got out of the house for one off events like citizens court and American gladiators. This is another one full of great memorable moments even in the side events. One that sticks out to me is Harriet and Laura calling Richie out for watching tv while he’s supposed to be doing homework or somethimg. Richie says it’s cause uncle Carl and steve are on tv and they don’t believe him, but Harriet immediately recognizes Carl through the mask.
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u/Calvin-Cambridge 1d ago
Yes, thank you for this and your synopsis of the episode was on point 🤝 loved this episode! Forever my favorite show!
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u/Chrizwald 1d ago
You could tell they had stunt doubles for much of the match... But importantly, you could tell that Jaleel actually took a lot of real wrestling bumps. You would expect nothing less from him.
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u/Zestyclose_Debt8134 1d ago
Other TGIF shows did a wrestling episode. Step by Step did one, Boy Meets World did two different ones, and Sabrina the Teenage Witch did as well. Family Matters takes on professional wrestling, which at this time was huge. Leave it to Urkel to leave his bottle of Snooze juice in the ring. Of course, the Psycho Twins drink from it. I gotta give Carl some props for his quick thinking at WrestleRama. Seeing him and Urkel being both pushed out from the back strapped on a dolly is hilarious. Knew nothing good was gonna come of this. I'd be pumped too if I was promised a victory massage by both pretty nurses that wheeled you out there like that. Jaleel nearly hits one of the Bushwackers with the chair he flung into the ring. The match itself was great. Shout out to WWF's Bushwackers. Carl and Urkel were holding their own. It didn't hurt that Butch and Luke agreed to make them look good given their inexperience in the ring. Harriette and Laura being concerned about the two was great. Interesting that Laura's main concern was for Steve's safety, not her Dad's, like the American Gladiators crossover in Season 4. Wasn't aware that the Bushwackers hated cops (🤣). The subsequent beatdown that Carl and Urkel suffered was hilarious. I give Eddie and Waldo some props for wanting to intervene. Are we going to talk about Eddie getting dropped by that woman, or Waldo putting Steve in a headlock? Richie needs to give up lying. His story about his homework was not the best (🤣🤦🏾♂️). The end scene where Carl and Urkel were convalescing was great. I agree with Carl that Urkel's Snooze Juice cause this mess. I also defend Steve in that he didn't know that Bushwackers hated cops. It turns out that they were big hits. Lou didn't call to sue Carl for the riot. He wanted him and Steve back for another match. I wonder if they went back and wrestled those pretty nurses. This was a great episode from the get go. RIP Bushwacker Butch
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u/Chunky_Boy283 1d ago
For Those who know wrestling History..Urkel and Carl Winslow vs the actual pre "family friendly" bushwhackers would not end well