The central conflict of the film places Payne in charge of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) at Madison Preparatory School. Here, the film flips the script on the "Bad News Bears" genre. Usually, a ragtag group of misfits is saved by a sensitive, understanding coach. Payne is the opposite: he is a terrorizer.
In the pantheon of iconic 1990s television characters, few left as lasting an impression with as little screen time as Major Benson Winifred Payne. Appearing in only a handful of episodes during the final seasons of Family Matters , Major Payne—no relation to the 1995 film character of a similar name—served as the formidable, no-nonsense military academy commandant who took the perpetually scheming Steve Urkel under his wing. Portrayed with granite-jawed intensity by actor (and later by Ken Force in a single episode), Major Payne represents the clash between rigid military order and the chaotic, invention-fueled energy of Urkel.
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