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Stevil is the seventh episode of the eighth season in this television sitcom on Family Matters, which was aired from ABC on October 25, 1996. It was directed by Richard Correll and written both by Gregory Thomas Garcia and Fred Rubin.

Plot[]

In this Halloween episode, Steve Urkel's ventriloquist dummy turns evil and wreaks havoc in the Winslow home, however, at the end, it was all a nightmare.

A sequel was made for this episode titled, "Stevil II: This Time, He's Not Alone" in the next season (Season 9).

Synopsis[]

It’s Halloween at the Winslow household of 1996, and Steve shows the Whole family His lookalike Ventriloquist Dummy who resembles to him And it freaked them Out and Steve does the Dummy voice for imitation but they didn’t think it was Funny and Thunder and Lighting for a Storm Steve calls himself The world’s worst Ventriloquist and Eddie agreed to him. But he wishes that he make him talk and then Eddie Leaves out of the Room and Steve turn out the Lamp goes to sleep on his Bed.

and Then a Lighting struck the Dummy and it moves like a a plywood Brain and Then Steve wakes up and closes the window and he sees the dummy moves his Head like he was seeing hallucinations and then his eyes were open and he goes back to sleep and he sees the dummy vanishes off the chair and It pops up on Eddie’s bed and He said Hi And Steve was totally in Shock.

And He races downstairs to the Living revealing to Carl Harriette and Estelle That the dummy came to life and they didn’t Believe him. As soon as they Exit out the Living room that He was seeing things and then it talks to him again and you guys at the camera and he was Following him up the Steps and he Scared him and he runs up to the Bedroom trying to look himself so that he

wouldn’t get it in then He climbed up the Bedroom window but Steve that he was safe and he showed his Dance steps and He replied that got we wished for like he wanted him to talk, but he didn’t talk in front of the Winslow’s because he didn’t like the Winslow’s but the dummy was evil but he was nothing like Steve, and then he named himself Stevil.

and the next call tells Richie and 3J to go out trick-or-treating before it gets raining again, but then he tells them to not eat their candy until he looks at it like a confiscation and Steve told Carl that they can relax because he locked his dummy in the trunk then he told him that Stevil is Satin’s sock Puppet like he still seen things, but it happened though and there’s no way that Stevil couldn’t Breakout of the Trunk but he did, and his eyes started glowing like the devil but then Eddie was taking a break up, giving out candy to the trick-or-treaters and started reading his magazine and then Stevil Climbs down for The Chimney he heard a Voice but it was Trap thinking it’s Santa Claus he approached to it and Stevil Stuffed him in the Chimney he was the first victim that got terrorized by the dummy.

and Richie and 3J were the Next Victims and they were on their Bicycles trying to Outrun Stevil and he was Driving Steve’s Isetta. And then Steve rushes in the Bedroom and he discovered that He escaped out the Trunk then Stevil comes behind the bedroom door, but it’s the Winslow’s he’s after and he has been a very busy dummy and then he was told to look on that flip on bed of Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan, trying to dump the hoop with the faces of Richie and 3J that guy sucked in there turns out that he’s a diabolical demented dummy first he stuffed Eddie in the chimney, and he suck Richie and 3J in the bedroom wall. And Steve runs into a door wall and hit his Nose.

And he said to the audience, what a goof Steve comes downstairs to the Kitchen about where the Whole family is Stevil told Steve to turn the Crank where Harriette is and it’s like a Jack-in-the-Box thing, and he told Steve to give her a baseball bat that she will whack the dummy and Laura is in pieces inside of the kitchen cupboards. He was so tired at the dummy that he was about to get rid of them, and he’s frozen in the refrigerator in the fridge started shaking any bus himself out of there and he went through a hole and he goes into the living room.

and then he asked Carl did the dummy got out of the wall while he was looking at his catalog and he told Carl what was happening about what the dummy did to Harriette 3J and Richie and Eddie and Laura.

And carl taunting Steve telling him that his dummy did come to life, like he wants to do with the whole thing with this Whole family but it turns out that Stevo becomes Carl’s personal puppet like the dummy and Carl was the last victim but he knew that he would never come if they were out of the way like they wanna go on the road together like he will do the talking and Steve will be the dummy, but they both started a fight with each other, and Steve throws him into a few pieces like he was all tired out.

He said it’s over the demon is dead, but not quite his body parts, starting to move back together in pieces and Steve was surprise and then he said OK now it’s personal and then he turns his head and Steve strangling him. But it turns out he was having a nightmare as soon as he woke up, Eddie started hitting him with a pillow like he was dreaming like how did the dummy come to life but really wasn’t happening and Eddie thinks he needs therapy, but then he started waving that electric mixer at Steve but then he was having double nightmares but he won’t have a dream about the dummy again and then him and Eddie exit to get rid of the dummy the bedroom door at while Stevil it’s still sitting on the chair.

In the Closing Credits, they show behind the scenes of how they made the dummy talk and Richard Carroll is the one that was doing the talking of the dummy who directs the show and it was a blue screen that was doing the dummy talking.




Cast and Characters[]

Main[]

Supporting Cast[]

Guest[]

  • Richard Correll as Stevil
  • Reve Brander as Alien
  • Genevieve Geoghan as Princess
  • Josh Ryan Evans as Stevil Double

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • This episode was known to be one of the darkest episodes of Family Matters.
  • Due to the puppeteer work, this episode took longer to shoot than any other during the shows run. Typical shooting days usually had more than one episode on the schedule. This episode required an entire shooting day, with extensive post-production work that would follow.
  • This is the first episode with the Bickley-Warren Productions static logo and Miller-Boyett Productions (with the M/B symbol) at the end of the episode. Bickley-Warren and Miller-Boyett's respective animated logos were in use for the rest of the series' run ("Family Matters" sister show, "Step by Step", used those mentioned logos for the rest of it's run as well).

Quotes[]

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