Wow that really sucks for the cast and crew. Eight years of doing a show, you should get to put together something better than that crappy-ass episode for your finale. I think I hate that one more than the Disney World episode because I cannot stand TV-amnesia (you know, when a character gets hit on the head or something and only forgets things that will cause humorous/dramatic situations.) And I can't stand Michelle. So putting the two together is not good.

Today is the episode where Kimmie gets drunk at the frat party. I'll be watching. Its comedy gold.

Irregardless said:



So true, So very true.

Kimmy, my mom was killed by a drunk driver!!

If Kimmy really was her best friend, wouldn't she have already known that?

Screamie you would think she would know about how DJ's Mom died... but, then again this is 'Full House' where a lot is contradictory.

Indeed!

"The guys who brought the beer were kicked out."

The hell? Weren't they at a FRAT party?? What world do these people live in?

They also played the episode where Stephanie and her girly friend (whose name escapes me at the moment) get a ride home from some high school boys who drive on the wrong side of the road. Who in their right minds will actually do that?? And why did it sound like the two boys took acting lessons from Keanu Reeves?

Man, that's insulting to Keanu. Those guys were horrible.

I especially loved Jodie Sweetin's dubbed in dialogue.
"Jason, slow down!" in a completely calm voice. Hee.

Kelzen wrote:

That episode was classic! I saw some of that ep a few nights ago, and had forgotten about Gia's belly shirt and big rack in that one scene. It seemed like FH was indeed getting a little racy around that time (for them).

Another episode where I wish Michelle and Joey would kill each other - the Superbowl one.

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The Super Bowl one: Didn't they end up going to a biker bar instead? IIRC, they broke the TV at the bar and brought everyone back to the Tanner's to watch the game. DJ was pissed because her college interview was that day (at the house).

Here's another I Love Aaron Moment that I caught yesterday, in the episode when Michelle's class is having a Valentine's Day party and everyone pairs off, that redheaded girl Lisa is telling everyone who they are going to that dance with. She tells Aaron is going to be going with some girl named Sophia, who is sitting at the same table as the rest of them. Aaron and Sophia exchange disgusted looks and Aaron says so perfectly, "Don't wear anything trampy!" The disgust in the voice and the delivery is hilarious!

And really...why did DJ have a college interview at her house? This show makes no sense.

In the Superbowl/science club one, Aaron's got a great moment. The kids are off to a museum or planetarium or something and they're talking about the telescope there. Aaron goes "If it's anything like my dad's telescope, all you can see is a bunch of stewardesses sitting around a pool."

Yep...Aaron is pretty much what saves this episode from being one of the most ridiculous made. First of all, Joey doing a college tour?? I work in college administration and let me tell ya, his Bullwinkle/Popeye humor, to put mildly, wouldn't go over very well. Could you imagine?? Secondly, DJ has this interview on a Sunday? Weird. And then it ends with Michelle turning the tables on Joey and lecturing him. Grrrrr. If I were Joey (did I just say THAT?!?) I would think my lesson would be "You are never too young to realize that s*** happens Michelle, and plans change".

Ok, so about the episode when Stephanie goes cruising around in a car with boys that drive recklessly. Overall, an interesting episode, Tanners behave badly. Good stuff. Dad never finds out, my favorite FH plotline because no plinkyplunky music of life and Danny's stupid talk.

That being said, DJ gives Steph advice (there is plinkyplunky music of life) and talks about her and Kimmy hitchhiking up to Berkeley... EXCUSE ME..? Why did we never see this very interesting episode, writers? The dangers, the "My So Called Life" of hitchhiking with strangers, staying out all night, partying like rockstars at 13? Why did we instead get some stupid plot about Michelle fixing up her teacher with Danny, or Joey not thinking no one takes him seriously.. helllooo? Clearly, the writers know of scandalous Tanner behavior if DJ said it.. why not SHOW it?

GRRR!

I'm totally on board with your thinking YourDensity, but something tells me the writers would make the hitchhiking storyline as hum-drum and lame as they made that frat party DJ/Kimmy attended. They would probably get picked up by someone who knows Danny, returned home, (cue music) taught the life lesson of the century, and have the show end with DJ saying she would never do that again because she loves her "full house" so much....

On the other hand, I think they handled DJ accidentally sleeping over at Steve's house rather well...minus the stalking aspect. I can't imagine how my parents would have reacted to me falling asleep at a boyfriend's otherwise empty apartment!

Is it wrong that I think Kimmie's boyfriend Duane gives nuanced performances (for this show, anyway?) I mean, he really put a lot into those "whatever"s.

I wanted to slap Michelle last night when she told Danny she wanted a "Belgian waffle, *something*, and a piece of sourdough toast, lightly buttered" for breakfast when they were running late. HATE! I'd have sent her without breakfast for that stunt.

Ew! Who eats waffles and toast in the same meal? Again, this show makes no sense! Why did I waste years of my life watching it?

(Well, besides the fact that John Stamos is totally hot.)

When did DJ "officailly" become Deej ? For 1st few years, she was almost always called DJ and Deej was a nickname. For last season or so, she was almost always called Deej, like that was her real name.

I guess they didn't want to waste time calling DJ by a two-syllable name when they could use a one-syllable nickname and save up all those extra syllables to say more good things about Michelle.

I totally agree. I had a friend in high school who's entire vocabulary consisted of dude, nah, no, and yeah and you could have a very deep conversation with him using just those four words. Duane took that to an even higher level with the "whatever"s.

And I'm completely serious about this.

If ABC Family doesn't stop running that stupid Michelle Amnesia episode, I'm going to throw something at the TV. STOP IT ALREADY!!!

I loved Dwayne! He was the only one who realized how lame the Tanners were. And one time, he completely broke character and started spewing this long, beautiful soliloquy, but I can't remember what it was. Anybody know?

I remember that. Duane quotes poetry and DJ says it was beautiful. Duane bashifully says "Whatever." He was only in 3-4 episodes, but I can't remember all the circumstances.

He started reciting the "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" sonnet.

It was on series finale. Steph was doing Romet and Juliet, and Kimmy said Duane was a Shakespeare freak. DJ said "Duane ?" Duane did the poem. DJ said something about it being sentimental. Duane said whatever, still deep in thought.

And yes, he did put a lot into the whatevers.
They started over tonight. Nick at Nite shows Full House finale, but skip a lot of other finales for special occasions.

After catching the pilot on both ABC Family and Nick at Nite, I just wanted to add my two cents in about the Michelle's big diaper change fiasco being cut from ABC Fam...we were discussing the possible whys the last time season one went into rotation.

I noticed that they cut almost all of Granny Tanny's leaving in the first scene of the pilot when they aired the ep on Nick at Nite. On ABC Fam, they left the entire first scene in, as well as played the extended theme, so I'm thinking they might have edited it not only because of the BBB shots, but because of time restraints as well? The pilot might have originally run a little long, because it's not like Nick at Nite to cut footage for no reason. And dammit, Granny Tanny didnt' say or do anything remotely offensive!

Also, FH recycled jokes earlier than I thought -- when Steph is crawling across the curtain rod to try to get to the other side of the bedroom, and Danny, Joey and Jesse walk in, Danny says "Stephanie, what are you doing?!" and she's all "Oh, just hanging around..." fast-forward to, what was it? Season 3 or 4 -- when Steph crashes Joey's car into the kitchen and she hides out at Becky's house. She hides in the closet when Jesse comes over, he opens the closet door, she's in one of Becky's coats, hanging from the hook in the door. Jesse's all "Steph, what are you doing?" and Steph is all "Oh, just hanging around..."

One of the very early eps. was on tonight (Michelle says "dada" at the end), and as someone who lives in the Bay Area, I have got to vent about this. Danny and DJ said they went horseback riding, to the circus, and Marine World all in one day. I call bullshit, because you could spend the entire day driving somewhere to actually go horseback riding, and then to Vallejo to go to Marine World, let alone fitting in the circus, and then back home.

Wandered into this thread during a sleepless night.
I'm very glad to see that there are other people who found the whole three old guys/three little girls arrangement a little odd...or not so much that, but the whole Joey never fucking leaving, or Jesse getting married and fathering twins and never fucking leaving...etc.
I'm also laughing my ass off at how mean you all are to these poor child actors. Not that it's undeserved, though aside from the twins and the Tanners themselves, I didn't mind any of the kids that much. I thought Kathryn Zaremba was actually good (but I'm biased, as she was a Broadway Kid...though I remember her having pretty decent pipes), but she wasn't around much.
I'd successfully repressed all of those songs until tonight. Especially the Olsen's grating monotone, um, "Yankee Doodle Dandy." WTF? How could they have considered giving the kid that part, nepotism or no? Her voice was so flat it made my teeth itch, and you could barely hear her (which was a good thing, I guess).

And yet ultimately, the part went to Derek, the sensitive/therapy-going/has got to be gay 7 year old ever.

That kid rivaled Who's the Boss boy for the title of gayest child actor ever.

I was thrilled when Michelle had to suck it up and accept that she wasn't Yankee Doodle. Of course, that only lasted for about three seconds. And how pathetic that Danny was all appalled that they dared cast the most talented (if you want to call it that, which I doubt) kid over their godawful relative. And...it's a school play. For fuck's sake. The big deal would be..?

So why would Stacie Q (she's so rad!) do an autograph signing on a weekday anyway? She seems to be someone who's primary fan base is preteens and teenagers, and even if she appealed to adults also, wouldn't she still get a lot more draw having an autograph signing on a weekend?

Though FH is not what I would by any means consider to be rooted in real-life, a lot of artists do signings/personal appearances on weekdays as opposed to weekends, basing those appearances around the release of a new album/single(to draw publicity and increase sales for the project), or it's something that is devised as a publicity stint while the artist is on tour to increase overall interest in the projects they're currently promoting as well as to possibly increase interest in whatever concerts they're performing in the area.

Topic: Damn it, where is my OAT BOATS episode?! I LOVE THAT EPISODE.

Stephanie JUDITH!
Donna Jo MARGARET!
Part-stealer!
Jealous!

::running around the kitchen::

Heh. I just saw the Stacey Q one, too. Michelle was almost tolerable.

I'm watching an epsiode right now, and all I have to say is: GEEKBURGER!

Is Stacey Q a real singer? (I use the term "singer" loosely, but I mean in real life -not just Full House land.)

If she is, damn! She's all kinds of fug.

I just found an old tape where DJ wants a horse. I find it funny how Kimmy will spend $50 on a very fug western outfit, but then leave DJ in the cold. If you buy an outfit that looks like you're going to hang out in a horse barn, then why buy it knowing that the decision will make you give up the horse? It makes no sense.

Here's the answer to the Stacey Q question. I wonder where she is now...

According to IMDB, Stacey Q is still active in the recording industry, although if you look in the trivia/bio section, some of her work is not appropriate for the Full House target audience. To answer the question in Screamie's link, "We Connect" is the only other song I could name, and that's only because I have both of her Facts of Life appearances on tape.

Topic: Speaking of the horse episode...What's up with these girls stealing and/or hiding animals in the house? First DJ with the horse, then Michelle with that small dog from Comet's party ("You can be my dog; I'll name you peanut" because stealing is cute when Michelle does it), then whoever it was that took the rabbit or whatever it was back from camp that time.

Don't forget Michelle using the money from her lemonade stand to buy a burro!

Wow--I must've totally missed that; can you explain that episode?

This was in the last or second-to-last season. Michelle, being her usual obnoxious and spoiled rotten self, starts a lemonade stand and bilks the good people of San Francisco out of hundreds of dollars by claiming she has no change to give the customers. She wants to go spend the money on candy but somehow ends up buying a donkey instead. IIRC none of the guys can take her to the candy store so she gets Kimmy to take her, instead, and that's how she pulls off making the switcheroo from candy to a burro.

Anyway, she brings the thing home, hilarity ensues (ha.) and they end up donating it to a children's zoo. Michelle actually gets some come-uppance for once, as she initially thinks they will sell the donkey to the zoo and she can get her money back and put it in her bank account. But then Danny tells her she won't be getting any money for it and to consider it a donation. Bwah.

Don't forget in that donkey episode, we have Jesse singing the Three's Company song to him.

Come and knock on our door
we've been waiting for....YOU..
where the something and the thing and the thing...
Three's Company too.


And Jesse kept singing it wrong until the family corrected him in the very end.

For some reason, that amused me verily.

Hee. That's mildly satisfying. But at the same time...she was what, eight? Shouldn't she have gotten punished? Just a little bit?
Oh, right, I forgot, Danny doesn't believe in disciplining his little pwincess. I think their vision of heinously spoiled adult Michelle was probably close to how she turned out.

Heh. Me, too. I like how he kept filling in the phrase with different things such as, "where the something and the thing and other words I don't know..."

Sadly, I didn't even know that phrase until that episode of FH aired.

I think losing a significant amount of money (hundreds, maybe?) would be punishment enough for me, but I wouldn't have gotten out of it without a lecture.

Actually, now that I think about it, my parents probably would have made me earn back all the money I conned out of the neighbors by doing extra chores around my house (and theirs!) until I had the money to reimburse them for what I owed. My parents were nothing like Danny Tanner, thank heavens.

Speaking of not-appropriate-animals-to-be-inside-your-home, remember when somehow a black pot-bellied pig named Scruffy ended up in the Tanner household?

Call me crazy, but wasn't there an elephant on the show @ some point??

Yeah, the Tanners rented an elephant to celebrate Michelle's third birthday party. Jesse and Stephanie almost didn't make it because they got locked in a garage.


On the subject of animals, they also had a ferret loose in the house one time, and a turtle, and a parrot, and the ones mentioned on the last page. That's all I can think of, were there any more?

I recall the episode when Danny's sister visits, and b/c she works @ the zoo she brings along her chimp- who I think got particularly attached to Uncle Jesse.