Remember, it got dunked in the bay? So they got him a new car? Which he named Winston?
I hate that I remember this stuff.


That is surprising now that I think about it! You'd think that that would be considered GOLD by those writers!

Hee! I know! I'm just as surprised as you that they never thought to grab this storyline. Imagine the possibilities. Long, overdone, heart-to-heart father-daughter chats accompanied by Twinkly Music of Womanhood.

At least we never had to hear Danny say words like "menstruation" or "bra." I don't know why, but the thought of that gives me chills.

Didn't Blossom do the bra-buying thing, and wasn't it a huge deal for them?

They did, and I'm vaguely sure that Blossom's first episode was about her being on the rag. Nick Russo was a much more understanding father than Danny Tanner.

Not to mention - a hell of a lot hotter! I always had a crush on the Blossom dad (is that wrong?)

I hope not, since I had a crush on her stepmother...

I don't remember if it was the first ep or not, but there was a memorably mockable episode involving Blossom's first period (at age fourteen. And the dad was all, "So soon?" and, well, oy.)

Michelle in Comedy College? Ugh, HATE!

Stephanie and DJ "in love" with what seems to be a gay, flash-in the pan teeny bopper idol? DOUBLE HATE!

I think this episode is my least favorite of all time. Fortunately one of the episodes I like the best was on before it....Jesse playing with the senior citizens in the airport lounge. Go little Glo Worm!

Was that the one where Stephanie turns 10 and that guy comes and sings the song to her that he had written for his girlfriend but he changed the name to "Stephanie?"

The one that I hate is where Kimmy is having her 14th birthday party at the hotel and DJ wants to lose weight so that she can look good in her bathing suit. What I hate about it is that she gives the adults so many clues that she doesn't feel good about herself ( putting pictures on the refrigerator, asking about dieting and excersise) and instead of asking her why she wants to lose weight, they encourage her. You know that that makes her believe that everybody thinks that she's fat. Not a good episode, and not a good message to send to teenage girls. "If you're making yourself sick to look good the only person who will notice and care is your younger sister."

Unless you live in Glen Oak, where the CamPound appears to have only one bathroom, upstairs, for the whole friggin' 7th Heaven clan. Regarding Full House, I also assumed there was at least a half-bath downstairs.

Perhaps Joey had a bathroom installed when he moved down into the basement?
I do hope so. It's a long way to run in the middle of the night.

BTW, I hated that episode with a passion, the one where he moved. I always thought the Joey-episodes were lame. Remember the one where he was all whiney and "You are not laughing with me, you are laughing AT me"? Way to go, Joey. Make your little nieces feel guilty about laughing at you after you've been talking to them in a Bullwinkle-way with your hands like antlers for years. And then he started wearing suits and making people call him Joseph. Lame.

Plus the fact that all it takes is a 30 second chat from Danny & Joey to completely alter her understanding on weight, body image & the media. That's all it takes! C'mon, anorexics, listen to Danny & Joey!

There was a bathroom off the den. It was at least half a bath.

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0863/

Y'all? There was a Full House board game. Where the hell was I in 1992? (It's at the bottom, but check out the 90210 game on the way down.)

Oh. My. God. Joey Joke cards. Full-chambered Russian Roulette indeed.

Thanks for the link, McKay!

I have the Full House board game! Hah!

Sorry, gloating over. The Joey Joke cards are indeed awful; I got the game when I was about seven, and they were lame even then. (And I completely remember the "What's black and white and red all over? A blushing zebra." joke that's on the website. Hi-larious.) The game itself was all right, nothing too exciting. It certainly beat out the Sweet Valley board game, but that's another topic entirely.

Hee, I have it too. My sister and I used to play it, and I can remember even then thinking the "Joey Joke" cards were lame. I was eight, y'all. Eight.

Finola Hughes? Hee. Her stupid daughter Kennedy sucked the life out of that show. But anyway.

I was watching an episode with Rusty the other day and decided they should have kept him around longer. I know the writers wanted to keep Danny single (why he never married boring-ass Vickie), but he could have dated Rusty's mom for a bit. The Rusty/Stephanie relationship was kinda fun.

My favorite part of that episode is where Jesse and Tommy Page compare recent concerts in Seattle. Jesse played in a small club at "the university" but Tommy Page? He allegedly played the Kingdome. Whenever I see this one, I add "You wish" under my breath when he makes the claim.

Yeah, I watch too bleebleeblahblahboo.

Tommy Page. Good lord, that episode was one giant blob of sucktitude. That dude's "acting" was excruciatingly horrible.

Oh, go hee yourself! I think she's pretty. Teeth aside.

I had the Baby-Sitter's Club board game. I didn't think board games could get lamer than that. I was wrong.

So I'm flipping through channels last night and I happen to come across the show "America's most talented Kids" on the PAX channel. What was formerly hosted by Mario Lopez and his booming career, is now being hosted by none other than David Coultier (is that the right spelling?). I almost peed myself, I couldn't stop laughing. [sarcasm] While I did watch this show while it was on, I was glad to see that it has helped boost all the stars' careers [/sarcasm]

Oh, God. I wouldn't have even remembered that game unless I saw that picture of Jesse and was reminded. And the guy on the website has a point - why did Becky have to share her card with the twins? I know she came on later than everyone else, but they could have stuck the twins on a card with Comet or something. No respect for Becky, man.

And why does everyone else have a taken-at-the-last-minute, hurry-up-and-get-to-the-factory, crap ass Polaroid picture for their card, but Jesse gets a Glamour Shot?

'Cause John Stamos is hot.

Wow. There is a statement that has been missing from my vernacular. I don't find many reasons to say that anymore since I turned 33......

The episode where Michelle doesn't get to be Yankee Doodle is on right now. What would you do if you walked into the bathroom and you saw Danny Tanner in the bathtub with your 2 year old twin boys, naked?

Yeah.

For some reason, this leads me to wonder if Michelle would have been a less bratty child if Pam was alive. I have a feeling she was probably the parent that wouldn't take the kids' bratty antics. It's so obvious from watching the show that Danny was the permissive parent.

Totally. I don't think she would've been nearly as bad. She would've gotten away with some stuff but not nearly the degree that she did.

I think DJ would've had better self-esteem and Stephanie wouldn't be as sarcastic as well.

As liberal as I am, I just realized that Full House is probably the best argument I've seen for the traditional two parent family. An extremly unfunny comedian and an Elvis-obsessed Mullethead is NOT a suitable replacement for a mom.

I always thought that Danny should have remarried.

Inform my significant other that we were moving out. NOW.


I also wondered if Danny wouldn't have been so permissive if he didn't feel sorry for the girls' having no mother. Either way, what a weiner.

Hee. That stupid Christmas ep where they're stuck in an airport on Christmas is on, and I just realized that when Michelle starts to cry and Jesse offers to sing her favorite "lullaby" ("The Girl From Ipanema?" The fuck?), the dubbed "crying baby" track really sounds like it's whining "NO!" as soon as he says that. It's the first time I've laughed at this stupid episode.

To be fair to Danny, he was wearing bathing shorts.

I absolutely detest the episode when Jesse and Joey are starting the radio show gig. "Bullwinkle-brain"?! "Dippety-doohead"?! Gee, that would wound anyone, wouldn't it? And of course, two grown-up adults debase themselves and act like 2 year olds just so that they can show that special moral complete with the special moral music.

So much so that they'd have to do a perfectly hysterical Tazmanian Devil impression and spit more scathing insults out. Fuck off and die, Joey.

Earlier today they ran that episode where Joey plays hockey and Michelle whines that he scares her, so he agrees to play nicely and sucks. I swear, I would've just said, "Look, this is how you play hockey, and if you haven't yet figured out that I'm only mean on the ice and not the rest of the time, you should be riding the short bus to school."

I hate the hockey episode too, McKay. It just goes to show how Joey (and the rest of the adults) were willing to bend over backwards to do whatever the girls wanted. One of the things that annoys me about the show is how it shows the world completely revolving around the kids- the adults do not make a damn decision without Michelle's approval (I know, I know, it's a "family" show, it's supposed to be that way).

This reminds me of the episode where the girls had been to summer camp and then Danny, Jesse and Joey were upset when they came home because the girls missed the camp and wanted to go back. How childish and whiney can you get? "Boo-hoo, my kids had a good time at summer camp"... Seriously, get over it!

Steph was pretty cool in this ep though, with all her bracelets from "Sean, Greg..." etc. "Good thing I played hard to get" she concluded. LOL

But it's not even the kids, just the youngest kid. Seriously, fuck the other girls. Stephanie didn't want to go on the stupid holiday trip, if you recall, but you know that if Michelle had been able to talk and had said a word, it would've been off.


Yeah, seriously. Aren't kids SUPPOSED to like camp? Isn't that why you send them? Cripes, I loved camp and didn't want to leave, either, and I don't think my parents were threatened by that. And did Michelle get in any sort of trouble for kidnapping the camp rabbit?

I laughed way too hard at that sentence. BWAH! It cannot be said enough: Joey was really, really creepy, in a PaSimp kind of way. Jesse was at least their uncle, and had kids of his own, eventually.

I watched the episode where DJ goes to the drive-in with the singer from that band the other day. If those bozos are allowing her to date (I would have thought she'd be locked up until she's 18), they had no reason to spaz about a drive-in, the guy could have tried to get some just about anywhere.

But this is Full House! Didn't you know that girls who kiss boys are dirty? To be a good girl, one must move into a family friend's home, kick their child out of their room, live in the alcove and basement, do insane woodchuck impressions, and generally make their lives increasingly uncomfortable until you are so pathetic that you grow a mullet, and your friend can't even make you move out, you are so sad. God I hate this show.

This is so the name of my next album.

Yet Jesse still seemed to like Michelle better than his own kids. If it had been Stephanie or DJ he favored I would've understood, since those twins are kinda dorky, but Michelle?

I would have said until she's 30, but ok. When she was 18 they would have let her out of the house to live in the basement or alcove at a friend's house. Of course Danny would still pop by every now and then and stand on a chair and look in a window to see if DJ was - *gasp!!!!* - falling asleep while watching a movie with a boy.

ETA:



You know, I used to think so too, but after having seen SamVid on 7th Heaven I realize that Nicky and Alex were actually geniuses.

Doesn't Joey then carry Michelle on his shoulders around the ice (or is it, in Michelle-speak, "ous" as in "ous cream?") at the end? I secretly always hope he'll fall and drop her.

*twitch*
The episode where Michelle "breaks" the dinosaur model at the museum was on today. God. I despise how that girl got away with everything.. just.. ugawet. It's too much hate invested in a fictional character.

If you think of him as 'Blackie' instead of 'Uncle Jesse', it helps...

*twitch*
Seriously, if I'd done that, I can't BEGIN to comprehend the trouble I'd be in. Of course, from the time I was a lot younger than Michelle, I knew how to properly behave in a museum. I sure as hell knew enough to not try and touch anything! Besides, our natural history museum was always a great treat for me. I'm planning on going tomorrow, actually.

Did Michelle even get in trouble for that? Or was it all blamed on Jesse for letting the kids run wild?

I believe that Jesse and Danny blamed themselves for trying to outdo each other. They practically forced her into knocking that dinosaur over. Riiiight. God, Michelle sucks.

Danny sucks. Michelle wouldn't have sucked so bad if Danny hadn't been such a shitty parent.
It's not like she, you know, broke something in the gift shop. SHE BROKE A FUCKING DINOSAUR SKELETON.

I remember when I was around Michelle's age going to a museum, and there were museum guards all over the place making sure none of us touched anything. If I'd broken a dinosaur skeleton, my parents would have had to pay for repairing it, and would have grounded me until I was 30.

Gah! Hate! It's the Christmas episode where Jesse and Michelle get trapped in the toy store. They show up on Christmas Eve after the store's closed, without a receipt, and get all upset that the store owner won't let them make an exchange! Hate!

Don't forget "special guest star" Mickey Rooney as the bitter, solitary old dude who just needs 5 minutes w/the Tanners before he's crying over his lost family.