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Jaleel White Tried 'A Million Darn Catchphrases' Before Striking Gold with Steve Urkel’s Iconic 'Did I Do That?'

Jaleel White revealed some of the lines that didn't hit with the 'Family Matters' audience before he struck gold with "Did I Do That?"

Fishel took the opportunity to ask her fellow former child star how he came up with the distinctive, whiny cadence with which he delivered his character’s oft-repeated line. White also recalled the show’s writers incorporating “I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up” into scripts as a potential catchphrase for the accident-prone Urkel. There were no people who hated us or disliked us and thought our show was terrible,” he told the Pod Meets World hosts.

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