- Harriette is tired of being treated as a servant and goes on strike. Meanwhile, to get out of trouble at school, Eddie lies and says his family is dysfunctional, causing a teacher to investigate his home during the strike.
- After Eddie causes a classroom prank that could get him thrown off the basketball team, he gives a sob story to his teacher, claiming he has a bad home life. The teacher pours her sorrows out on Urkel and suggests that she pay this family a visit, unaware it is the Winslows. What she sees is a highly chaotic household, particularly since Harriette (in the subplot) had gone on strike! However, Eddie has a lot of explaining to do when the truth comes out.—Brian Rathjen <briguy_52732@yahoo.com>
- Practical jokester, Eddie gets caught misbehaving in class for what apparently isn't the first time nor the last time. This time, he puts a picture of a bikini-clad girl on a pull-down chart, which his math teacher, Miss Vivian Connors, fails to notice initially, but Steve does and tells her. However it wasn't until after the bell rings and the students are leaving, that his friend, Waldo opens his mouth, reminding him not to forget about retrieving his poster on the chart that he's in trouble with her for misbehaving again. Eddie's basketball coach had previously threatened to suspend him for the rest of basketball team's season by benching him, should his teachers report him to both his coach and Principal Shimata about him causing trouble in all of his classes by pulling practical jokes on them for the final time. So, to keep his spot on the team, he gives a sob story to Miss Connors he's got problems at home with his family. This upsets Miss Connors, whom (after he leaves the room) pours out her sorrows to Urkel. Steve unaware that the family she's talking about are the Winslows or that Eddie had shared anything, suggests paying this family a visit.
Meanwhile at the Winslow Home, Mother Winslow had previously warned the rest of the family against taking Harriette for granted by refusing to help out around the house, because she had threatened to go "On Strike" if they refuse to heed her warning. The only one who did help out (or tried to) help her out was Richie by attempting to made a chocolate cake dinner and tried to clean up the mess himself. When Carl, Judy, Laura and Eddie all had refused to heed Estelle's warning by continuing to take advantage of Harriette refusing to help her out clean the house and leaving it in the current state it's in. The end results were clear to the family:- Harriette had indeed gone through with her threat to go on strike against her family and the house remains a trashy mess due to their neglect.
- The rest of the family are forced to fend for themselves after they refused stop taking Harriette for granted. Now, they wished they listened to Mother Winslow from the beginning, because she was right in warning them not to take her for granted.
Five Days Later, Harriette's reading a book in a dirty house when Laura comes in with her grandmother, Estelle's dress and complained about the mess. Harriette orders her to clean it up herself because she's still on strike and continues reading. She cleans up some of the mess off the couch and informs her that she has to help Mother Winslow get ready for the annual Charity Bachelor's Auction at the Senior Citizens Home. Harriette asks her if she remembers last year, when her grandmother bought a date with the retired underwear model. Laura informs her that she does and mentions to her that Estelle immediately demanded her money back when she quickly learned that he used to model ladies underwear, instead of men's underwear. Harriette laughs as Laura leave to help Mother Winslow get ready.
Then, Carl comes down the stairs in his robe and becomes a chauvinist by telling her he doesn't have anything to wear. He adamantly tells her that if she wants to continue playing the strike game with the kids, that's fine with him. However, she crossed the line with the Big Kahuna and he wants some attention from her. He continues demanding her to clean up the mess and his old clothes(ripped jeans and bandana) because he needs them for his undercover drug bust for tonight. Harriette refuses and tells her sexist husband off that she will never wash his clothes as long as she's on strike. She mentions that if Carl needs them for tonight, he'll have to wash his clothes himself and leaves him in the living room.
Later on, Miss Connors decides to take Urkel's advice that she needs to pay this family a visit, unaware it's the Winslow family, and from her limited observations (by entering the home herself and hiding behind a chair), things are exactly as Eddie described:- The entire house is a complete mess with 3-4 feet of trash in it, due to Harriette's strike against her family for taking her for granted and kept true to her threat.
- Richie and Judy are making ice cream sundaes for dinner while they are dressed in dirty clothes. Both were getting tired of eating candy bars and had to do something about it.
- Laura and Estelle talking about her buying more men when she arrives at the senior citizens home for the annual bachelor's charity auction.
- Carl actually is yelling at Harriette because she didn't have his old clothes ready to go on an undercover drug stakeout/bust. She convinces him that he still looks nice in what he has, but he continues refusing to listen to her. Carl adamantly states he likes to wear old clothing with his ripped jeans "when I buy drugs!".
After observing the latter, Miss Connors is immediately disgusted and horrified by what she saw by all of it. She tries to bolt for the door and leave the house. She has intentions of reporting the Winslows to both the police and Child Services. However, Carl catches her and asks what she's doing here. She informs them that she is Eddie's math teacher and confront the Winslows about their influence on him. Harriette states that they are a loving family, but Miss Connors wasn't convinced and cites their home as a mad house. She tells them that she's onyl relieved that he's just pulling harmless pranks. Just then, Eddie comes over and his teacher gives him a hug. Then Urkel shows up and confesses to the whole thing, angering his friend. The end result leaves him to do plenty of explaining to do to an extemely embarassed, Carl and an irate, but traumatized, Miss Connors. Eddie has plans to beat up Steve for exposing him to his family and his teacher, but Urkel quickly bails out before he even had the chance. Out of loyalty to her family, Harriette offers to explain to Miss Connors about what is going in the house, while Carl hauls him to the kitchen for an explaination.
In the kitchen, Carl informs Eddie that he's very upset with him since he pulled, a harmless, stupid, but rude prank and reminds him that he must take his consequences like a man. He tells him that even though he has five senses, look and appears normal by walking erect, but he often act like a complete BONEHEAD. Especially when he's always told people around him that he was one of best students around aside Laura and Judy. He also mentions that his mother is currently in the living room trying to explain to an irate and traumatized, Miss Connors, about his behavior and the house. Eddie finally confesses to Carl that his coach has threatened to suspend him for the rest of the basketball season by benching him if he gets one more bad report from his teachers misbehaving in his classes. However, his father is less convinced and more importantly tells him off that it was plain wrong of him to lie to his teacher that he had a dysfunctional family structure just to make her feel sorry for him. Carl reveals that while he's walking on his beat as a cop, he frequently responds to domestic violence calls to people who truly comes from a dysfunctional family structure where the end results are often very tragic. He reminds Eddie that's the reason why he puts his family on top of the his list was because he knows they deserved to be on top and he's very proud of them. The families who live in abusive situations are not something that he can make jokes out of since they are real people in those situations. Eddie realises how wrong he was in his prank in class, lying to his math teacher and decides to face the consequences like a man. Harriette comes in soon after and she informs him that Miss Connors has understood why Carl was dressed up as a thug and the house was under three feet of trash. However, she was still bewildered about the fact that Estelle buys men at the senior citizens home.
In the end, everyone promises to pitch in and help Harriette around the house, after being threatened by Carl because he was partly responsible for not pitching in. She calls off the strike and tells everyone to clean up. Carl convinces her to just takes everyone out to dinner and he'll stay behind to clean the mess up himself. But not before letting in a cleaning crew to clean up the messy house with him. After Harriette and the others leave, Carl lets the crew in... that's right, another cleaning crew.
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