Even though I've written about TV for many years, I've never gone on a hunt to find the location for a particular TV show. Not that I wouldn't, I just haven't yet. These Family Matters fans in the clip below went to Chicago to try to find Steve Urkel's house. Though it's not exactly his house, it's the Winslow house (Urkel was the neighbor).
Is the Winslow place "one of the most recognizable sitcom facades" as the narrator says?
Update (6/11): After the jump, a clarification on this post.
[via BuzzFeed]
It looks like my post has generated an incredible number of comments, a lot more than I thought would ever happen on a light, fun post about a group of people trying to find the Family Matters house.
I probably shouldn't have said "obsessed" in the headline, but I didn't mean anything negative or nasty about it. I consider myself obsessed with television, and even said in the post that I would hunt for a TV location too at some point. Sorry that it came across as negative and/or dismissive. It wasn't intended that way. They're not obsessed with Family Matters, though I do have to point out that the narrator says in the video that Family Matters "was one of my favorite shows" and "recently I went to Chicago and there's one thing I had to see"). But they seem like great guys and I didn't mean anything bad.
As for the crediting and sourcing, this is how blogs work. I found that video at Buzzfeed.com and I credited them as the source and provided a link to their article. Let me repeat that: I credited Buzzfeed and linked to the article. I didn't research the people who actually made the video because their names and organization are actually in the video itself (the first words in the video are "Cinemassacre.com Presents"). All of the information is in the video, and if readers want to find out more they can just watch the video and go to Buzzfeed and find out about Angry Video Game Nerd and Cinemassacre.
Anyway, hope this clears things up.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
6-10-2009 @ 6:49PM
scott said...
The day of the Six Feet Under finale i surprised my wife by driving her by the Fisher house here in LA, I had read about it online earlier in the week and thought it would be fun. She thought it was. :)
Not obsessed, just a Sunday drive with a destination.
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6-10-2009 @ 7:13PM
Justin said...
You should also note that this video features James Rolfe AKA The Angry Video Game Nerd
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6-10-2009 @ 7:25PM
Clinton said...
I lived in Dallas for 8 years and when a visiting friend wanted to go outside the city to see the Southpark Ranch I was annoyed. But when it came insight and especially standing the beggining of the drive way to the house, I got sort of dizzy and felt like I had been kicked in the gut. It was the strangest experience but kinda cool for fiction and reality to semi-merge.
It was the same feeling when I accidently ran into a famous figure skater in Shreveport. The brain is trying to sort out what the hell is real. lol
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6-10-2009 @ 10:21PM
Donna said...
I used to watch MacGyver all the time, and most of the middle seasons were filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Well, in late fall 1990, my sister, my cousin, and I went to Vancouver, and I remember driving into a section of Stanley Park, looking out over the water and seeing the skyline of the city at just the perfect angle, and I shrieked:
"Hey, I saw this on MacGyver!" (I was standing in exactly the same spot where this particular scene had been shot, with the trees and the skyline and the water in just the same position.)
A really weird feeling. Not to mention strange looks from my sister and cousin!
6-10-2009 @ 7:29PM
SomeRandomGuy said...
"Obsessed fans try to find Urkel's house"
"These Family Matters fans in the clip below went to Chicago to try to find Steve Urkel's house."
*sigh*
They are no obsessed fans and they didn't go to Chicago to find the house.
James Rolfe creates video game reviews for his site (cinemassacre.com) as "The Angry Video Game Nerd", and has been doing so since 2006.
Last year he collaborated with another popular internet reviewer, Doug Walker, who does mostly film and television reviews as "The Nostalgia Critic".
Doug, along with others, run the site ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com, which features a couple dozen online reviewers and videomakers they've brought on board.
A few months ago just about everyone who's a part of the TGWTG site, along with James Rolfe, flew out to Chicago, where they filmed a huge "Nerd vs. Critic Brawl" video that featured all of the characters and people featured on ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com.
This Family Matters video was something they decided to do since they were in Chicago and had time to kill. It was NOT the reason they came to Chicago, nor are they obsessed fans.
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6-10-2009 @ 8:16PM
Brad said...
I would have to disagree with the narrator, the Winslow how is not the most recognizable. The sitcom house that I would say is the most recognizable is the "Full House" house.
Though all the houses around it looked pretty much like it, it's still easy to recognize, and still in my head even though I haven't seen the show in like a decade.
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6-10-2009 @ 8:22PM
tom said...
great job of just totally ignoring the fact you took this off the angry video game nerd's website. keep up the stellar work here at tvsquad, bob.
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6-10-2009 @ 8:22PM
Avi the TV GEek said...
Everything SomeRandomGuy said is correct. If you've never seen "Angry Video Game Nerd" or "The Nostalgia Critic", please take some time to do so. They are very funny and are some of the best original Internet work I've seen.
Reviewing games from TV shows:
DuckTales -- good game
http://www.screwattack.com/AVGN/extras/DuckTalesVGV
TMNT for NES -- bad game
http://www.screwattack.com/AVGN/2006/TMNT
Nostalgia Critic remembers:
Full House: http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/7511-fullhouse
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/4762-adventures-of-sonic-the-hedgehog
Nicktoons: http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/3480-nicktoons
Nickelodeon Sitcoms: http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/3605-nickcoms
SNICK: http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/3784-snick
Double Dare: http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/692-double-dare
Captain Planet: http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/609-captain-planet
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6-10-2009 @ 8:39PM
Bob Sassone said...
No, actually, I didn't get it from Angry Video Game Nerd, whatever that is. I got it from the BuzzFeed.com site.
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6-10-2009 @ 9:44PM
Jordan said...
"whatever that is"?
Dude, as a internet blogger youd think youd have a bit more respect for other internet entertainers.
James Rofle aka The Angry Video Game Nerd aka Board James, creator of the "Thats Bullshit" series that was once featured on CNN, and is a featured movie reviewer on Spike.com, and probably the most popular video series on MTVs GameTrailers.com
To be a blogger about tv youd think you would be more interested in exteremly popular net video series and not so dismissive.
6-12-2009 @ 9:24AM
someotherrandomguy said...
So, Mr. Sassone you got it from Buzzfeed? That means you linked it from Lindsey Weber's post where there is a link to James' Cinemassacre page that is in a huge front right under it where she 'kinda' credits the video.
Look, I am not saying you should be crucified for this video. But, his name was right under it and you refer to him as the "narrator" when his name and face are in the credits of the very video you linked here. Not all that hard to figure out.
I am sure he will like the hits though. ^_^
6-10-2009 @ 10:16PM
Bob Sassone said...
Guys, I didn't say "whatever that is" because I was dismissive of the Angry Video Game Nerd site. I said that because I wanted to stress that I didn't go to that site and not give credit to it, like some of you were implying. I'm sure it's a great site.
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6-10-2009 @ 10:54PM
Robert said...
I think we need a 'Bob Sassone free' feed on here.
6-10-2009 @ 11:10PM
SomeRandomGuy said...
Then before you copy/paste yet another video, maybe check your sources and your facts.
6-11-2009 @ 1:08AM
Paul said...
Seemed dismissive to me.
6-11-2009 @ 11:09AM
Zippy said...
"whatever that is" surely means no disrespect...I mean, it's not like you were pretending this was content, or had any way to look UP "whatever that is" that people were talking about. Way easier to just say "hey, I just copied it and posted it, I couldn't possibly be expected to care what it is" and we can all go "oh, in that case feel free to be an ignorant, judgmental blowhard."
Not like the source of content is relevant or anything. I wouldn't worry about it.
6-11-2009 @ 12:38AM
Jeremy Horsley said...
Yeah, yeah! Let's crucify this guy for not knowing the AVGN or TGWTG.com!
Sometimes I'm sort of embarrassed to be a fan of the two, not because of the "nerdy" content or anything, just because the fans can be so fucking ridiculous sometimes.
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6-11-2009 @ 2:33AM
SomeRandomGuy said...
You don't mind false information? The description of them being obsessed in the title and insinuating with his wording that they went to Chicago to see the house is untrue. That was my point. It's one thing if he said, "look at this video of guys going to the Family Matters house." He didn't however. I'm sorry if pointing out a glaring error touches a nerve with you.
If Bob wants to randomly post videos everyday that he finds neat or lulz, he should at least check his facts and sources first. Otherwise, I'll continue to take his contributions as seriously as my little brother's Myspace blog.
6-11-2009 @ 10:55AM
Jordan said...
its not a question of him not knowing, its when finding out being so flippant about it. If I am going to read his information and respect his opinion, he should respect the opinion of his readers, and if his readers are telling him "hey thats that really funny guy at this site" he shouldnt be dismissive, in a perfect world hed take the time to see what we are talking about and offer his opinion. If he doesnt like it thats fine but dont be so boastful of his igonorance.
6-11-2009 @ 12:56AM
Becoming,Pt2 said...
AVGN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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