A lot of people say that there is nothing but bad stuff on television today. I saw a rerun of Family Matters tonight and it is one of my favorite episodes of Family Matters, along with the one where Steve stays up all night in a landfill on Christmas Eve looking for Laura’s doll that she has had since she was a little girl that accidently got thrown away. On this episode tonight, Steve Erkel is tortured by a young man and his friends. He doesn’t see the young man for a while and finds out that he has leukemia. He then gets a blood marrow drive going, a donor is found for the young man, and that the end of the show the young man asks Erkel why he did it after how he treated him. Erkel told him it was about more than pranks, it was about saving his life. At the end of the show, the young man takes Erkel to the table he eats at and is going to buy him lunch.

On the show, Steve Erkel is often annoying and clumsy. He breaks things at the Winslow’s house on a regular basis and says his famous line “Did I do that?” No matter how irritating he can be, he is always there for his peers and the Winslow family.  He drove Laura cross country when she missed the bus to her cheerleading competition. He saved Carl’s life by giving him CPR when he became unconscious. He loaned Eddie money. Despite his annoyance, he had a good heart. We all could learn a lot from him and the way he treated people. If there were more people like him on this earth, the world would be a better place.