Blake played Nathaniel on the Christian radio drama Adventures in Odyssey for a while, along with Travis Tedford, who played Spanky. Their voices have changed,so they have moved on.

In watching episodes from season one, I realized something: I almost like Cool-yay in some of them. He wasn't as cartoony, he didn't do that CUT. IT. OUT. thing every five seconds, there was no Mr. Woodchuck, and the cartoon voices didn't happen all the time.

Joey was still the stupidest and most useless character on the show, no doubt. But he wasn't painfully annoying and mind-numblingly juvenile the way he was written in later seasons. In fact, in the episode where Danny makes them do a day of male bonding by going fishing, and Jesse's kinda-girlfriend Roxanna shows up and Danny bonds with the captain of the fishing boat, Joey was, like, the VOICE OF REASON in the episode. Imagine if they had kept writing him like that instead of turning him into a bumbling nitwit who was virtually unable to wipe his own ass.

Is anyone planning on buying the DVDs? I'm torn. On one hand, they're very cheap and would provide inoffensive background noise when I'm doing other things around the house. On the other hand, Full House seems to be a show that will be on forever. I'm sure there will be a TVLand Jr. in the next ten years or so that will air 80s-90s sitcoms around the clock, so I don't see any real reason to own the episodes. On the third hand, season one Michelle couldn't talk and Uncle Jesse was a slutty bachelor, so a few good things would be on the set.

And then there's Jesse's Season 1 mullet so that's got to go in the con column...

I'm gonna pass on the DVD's. I'll watch FH whenever Tivo tapes one for me but I can't see myself paying money and pulling it off a shelf to watch it. There aren't any episodes that I'm dying to see again.

Full House used to be one of my absolute favorite shows. Now, I can barely remember any of the episodes... and I can't even stand to watch the reruns. But one episode has sort of been stuck in my head after all these years. Actually it isn't even the entire episode, it's just something that Becky said. I believe DJ and her best friend (Kimmy?) skipped school to go to a concert. Or maybe I'm confusing it with another episode... but in the episode I'm thinking of, DJ and Kimmy dress up like hoochies, and wear a TON of makeup, and then get into trouble because of it. At the end of the episode, Becky has a bit of heart to heart with DJ, and tells her the the best trick to wearing makeup is to make it look as if you aren't actually wearing any at all. I took that advice to heart for some bizarre reason. And to this day, whenever I get the urge to go all out with the makeup, Becky's words surface in my mind, and I just can't do it. I swear ... I am almost always reminded of Becky's advice when I'm putting makeup on. I can't for the life of me figure out why it has had such a lasting impact.

Full House will always be one of my guiltiest pleasures on TV. I am also torn on buying the season one DVD's. I want to see them for the unaired pilot with a different Danny Tanner and also the trivia tracks (aka "Pop Up Video" for DVD). However, god knows how many times I've seen each episode and season one is not one of my faves either.

You're kidding! They had another Danny Tanner and went with Bob Saget? How bad must the first guy have been? Any idea who it was?

John Posey played Danny Tanner in the original unaired pilot.

Hee! I never liked Bob Saget as Danny; he always had a distinctly creepy aura about him. My sister was taping Gilmore Girls on ABCFam a while ago, and she inadvertently caught the end of a Full House episode. It was only the last minute of the episode, and Danny says to Stephanie after one of the oh-so-dramatic problems always plaguing the Tanner house: "Honey, there is nothing you could ever do to make me stop hugging and kissing you." Now, the line was meant to express Danny's unconditional love for his daughter, but that line was maybe the most unintentionally creepy thing ever said on the show. It skeeves me out just thinking about it.



I always remember that too. It's probably the most meaningful lesson Full House has ever taught me; I think that should have at least earned some heartwarming musical accompaniment.

I wonder how they manage to get so many versions of the heartwarming music of life. I've not heard two that sound the same. Do they have some guy whose painful job it is to compose it?

I absolutely love Season 1 Stephanie. Comparing her to Michelle five years later... there's no comparison! By the time the series finished, Stephanie was just another clone of DJ at 13.

I kept waiting for "A Very Special Full House" episode dealing with that issue. But, I realized he was too young for that. Bummer. That would have been cool.

The I will never stop hugging and kissing line came when Steph drove car into kitchen.

Whoa, I never knew there was an original Danny Tanner. That's crazy. I am no Bob Saget fan, so I wonder how that would have been.

Edited to add:
Sayruh, that was the 1st day of the school year, I think junior high, maybe high school. DJ and Kimmy wanted to look sexy now they were older. Another time, they skipped school to get a singer's autograph, and Joey caught them.

Thanks for the link, Mennym. Nice looking guy. Pity he didn't keep the role. Bob Saget was the main reason I was turned off this show (of course, there were more - I'm looking at you Michelle), I just couldn't stand looking at him, such a bad actor (IMO, of course).

Probably, but I had the same thought when that episode was on recently. Ew.


BWAH! Although it's TalkingMichelle that killed the show for me, Saget was so fucking creepy.


That is possibly the most disturbing thing I've ever heard.

ITA. Baby Michelle was adorable, and the guys were a little more edgy and realistic than later in the show...when the cheese factor rose to such a level that we were all drowning in Velveeta.

I don't think Bob Saget is that creepy, but that could be because the first guy I ever kissed looks a heck of a lot like him. My guy was a sweetheart, though, not one of those "I'm going to corrupt children" guys.

Bwah! I have to see that! I didn't know there was another Danny either. Does anyone know why John Posey was fired? I don't remember him. How bad was he? I'm sure he would've looked much better in the show than Bob Saget.

The John Posey pilot episode of FH turns up on eBay every now and then, but it always winds up going for an insane amount of money.

I'm definitely buying the DVDs. For some reason I can watch the early seasons of FH over and over and over again(and I DO), and I never get tired of them. I can say the freakin' lines with the characters and I still don't get tired.

Talking Michelle didn't bug me -- it was SuperCatchphraseMichelle 2.0 that pissed me off, personally. When she was first learning to talk it was sweet(like when Uncle Jesse tried to make her sing I Got You, Babe), but when her lines began to consist of NOTHING but "You Got It, Dude!" and "Hi People! Got any owse cweem?" I wanted to strangle her with the mic cord on the My First Sony she toddled around with.

I'll forever maintain that Full House went in the crapper when Jesse's last name changed from Cochran to Katsopolis. Eschewing continuity for national pride was a nice idea but it set the ball rolling for the show to become too sappy and civic-minded.

I realise that this is biologically possible, but...

Jesse is Greek, while Rebecca is brunette. How come they managed to produce blonde twins? I know that it is possible through recessive genes and all that, but wouldn't the genes for dark hair/eyes/skin prevail?

Same goes for the girls. They couldn't have found three less greek looking girls to play DJ, Stephanie and Michelle. Their mother was greek yet they didn't have a trace of it in their look. All I can say is that the Cochran/Katsopolis genes can't have been too strong because neither of them passed any Greek onto their offspring.

Maybe TPTB thought that "ethnic"-looking kids wouldn't get the same kinds of ratings that blonde-haired, blue-eyed kids would get.

My guess is that making Jesse (and Pam) Greek was added later. They had already cast the girls roles while the maternal name was still Cochran. However, Nicky and Alex being so fair-skinned is just odd. I'd agree that was for ratings/marketing.

True. Who would believe that Nicky and Alex are Jesse and Becky's kids? *rolls eyes*

You know, I have read all the comments about there being another Danny Tanner and then all the snarks on Bob Saget. For a minute I was all "Yeah! Sing it TWOPers!" But then....I watched a few episodes....and please don't take away my snark card, ummmmm......errrrrr.........I kinda like Bob Saget as Danny. (Ducks from things thrown at her from cyberspace) I couldn't imagine the show with someone else. What can I say, his dork charm wins me over...

Me too. He was always one of the least annoying parts of the show to me (see: Tanner, Michelle and Gladstone, Joey). Yeah the cleaning stuff was often overdone and the special dad talks were way too sugary sweet but I still liked him. I maintain that if it were the Danny, DJ, Stephanie, Becky, Kimmy Show I would've liked it much better.

The most annoying part of the show will always be Talking Michelle.

This is really the only thing on in the mornings when I get up with my baby to start the day, and while I'm nursing him, I'll cop to watching it. They've just started replaying the first season, and I forgot how good Jodie Sweetin was that year. She was really talented. Who knows what happened to that talent in the later seasons, though, and we all know none of it rubbed off on the Olsens.

All this Bob Saget is creepy talk reminds me of something this friend of mine told me. He said that a friend of his was in LA, and she started talking to some guys at a bar. Well, it turns out that the guys were Saget's managers (or something; it's hard to believe that Saget would need to have more than one) and eventually Saget showed up at the bar and joined them. He ended up giving my friend's friend a ride home (I totally thought he was going to hit on her) and he talked her into coming to his show the following night. She said he was super-creepy, though, because he kept making jokes about his grandmother having AIDS or some shit. This skeeved her out so much so that she skipped his show the next night.

So we already knew that Saget in real life is a total perv, now we know he's also creepy. Great.

Oh yeah! I remember now... Thanks Halfpint Ingals.

I always thought it was good advice to subtly keep DJ from going for the Madonna look, however, when the show aired, pretty much every girl at my school ladled on the lipstick and eye shadow.

TV Guide Insider has a brief interview today with Dave Cool-yay in "celebration" of the release of Full House: Season One on DVD.

Full House Star's Freaky Memories

The first day of Jr. High episode was on today. When Kimmy took off her jacket to reveal her fake boobs, Steph had a cute little delayed reaction of surprise. The audience gasped and then Steph's eyes bugged out. Steph also has my favorite Full House line in this episode. When Danny tells DJ to go change, Steph says "I guess we aren't as old as we thought we were. Are we now?" and then marches out the front door.

From the TV Guide interview with CoolYay...
*squelch the dirty thoughts* *squelch the dirty thoughts* *squelch the dirty thoughts*

So I'm watching the casino/Todd Masters/Jesse proposes for the first time episode, and the whole Joey part of it really gets on my nerves (but really, when doesn't Joey get on my nerves?). If you recall, Joey is gambling, and he tells the girls to watch the machine for him, so of course the girls put some money in and win the jackpot. Then he doesn't end up winning the money because the girls are underage and all that. Upon finding out this news, Joey is all, Don't worry, of course I still love you both, blah blah. I don't care how much of a "loving" family you are, no one reacts like that to losing $100,000 because your nieces are idiots.

Of course, this episode was crap anyway, because when the old lady wins with 3 oranges, you can see that every single character on the wheels is an orange. Way to go, FH crew!

I was looking on Fan Fiction Dot Net looking for some new That 70s Show fan fic when I decided to stop by the Full House section. Here are some new stories for your viewing pleasure; AFAIK, they aren't anything like the ones I posted a few months back, although the first one might come close.

1) Welcome To The World, Michelle!

It’s Michelle’s turn to be born. What will her birth be like? Will she get stuck and have Pam do a C-Section or will she be just fine and just come right out? Find out. Sorry, bad summary. Please R&R. Thanks!

2) Stephanie 2

Stephanie is fourteen and is just now starting to go through puberty, and a group of MEAN GIRLS know her little secret and are threatening to spread it round the entire school...

3) Fallen Angel

The life of Pam Tanner up untill she dies in a terrible car accident. Ever wonder what happened before she died? before it was Jesse, Joey and Danny? Read to find out!

4) Piper Halliwell Tanner?

Piper Halliwell (from Charmed) is taken in as a foster child for Danny n Vicky...what can go wrong? Hmmmm lol. READ! A MUST READ! chappie 3 loaded.

5) Trip To Hogwarts

Basically Stephanie goes to Hogwarts for a school year. It's my first Full House story so prepare for the worst. Edited first chapter so Stephanie is now 11.

Check out more here, as I don't want to post every new one that catches my eye.

Regarding the previous discussion about whether or not Flaming Derek was really flaming, he appeared in an episode of General Hospital a few years ago, playing (surprise, surprise) a gay teen. I didn't realize it was him until I saw it on TV Tome or something- I posted the link in the Child Actors thread in TV Potluck.

This was on another board I frequent: Jodie Sweetin's wedding pictures. It's so weird, but she still looks the exactly the same.

Full House comes out on DVD a month before my birthday. I'm taking this as a sign.

Here's more of an incentive to buy the Season One DVD's on Tuesday (or maybe not): I saw an advertisement today in People magazine for the release of Full House Season One DVD's as well as other Warner Bros. series coming to DVD next week. In the ad, it says the Full House DVD comes with (in addition to the trivia track, creator commentary, and unaired pilot) a bonus disc with one episode of Growing Pains (yay!) and one episode of Step by Step.

That's considered an incentive? Yeccch.

Except for her new nose.

And the huge breasts, which I'm convinced are fake.

Random observation: Have you ever noticed that when any of the characters sit down to eat lunch, it's always just a sandwich on a blue plate? No chips, no salad, no dessert, nothing.

Yep....you know your own diet isn't going well when you are analyzing the meals on a early 90s B-List sitcom......

Well, for what it's worth, my own mother doesn't really believe in having dessert with lunch. More often than not, I just have a sandwich and then our biggest meal is dinner.
Good luck with your diet, MaggieMooster!

So I got the DVD the other day... it is so funny to see the unaired pilot. It stars some other guy playing Danny. The pilot is the same as the 1st episode so you can see the same exact show, one with Bob Saget as Danny Tanner, and one with the other guy, and compare. They even have the opening song with the other guy!! It was so weird to watch Full House without Saget. Bob Saget was a much better actor than the other guy in my opinion. I think buying the dvd is worth it just to see this pilot.

They sure are. Come on, when Full House ended Jodie was like 14. She should've had something similar in her anatomy back then.

Speaking of which, I just saw the one where D.J. and Steph are setting Danny up with Steph's dance teacher. Lunch (sandwiches of course) is on the table, then everyone leaves the two alone, D.J. lights the candles, hits the music, and leaves. I just realized it's almost exactly the same scenario as Michelle did with Danny and her teacher in a later season. Yep, very original.

At least with D.J. and Steph's scenario, it wasn't competely implausible, since the whole family was in on it and D.J. & Steph were old enough to know what was going on. But with Michelle? She was what, 5 or 6 when she did her little routine? And with no help? Please. Maybe I haven't known too many advanced kids in my life, but to me, it was a big stretch to think that she'd have the presence of mind to do that on her own.

Just eating a sandwich is unusual? You guys seriously eat dessert with lunch, like ice cream or jelly or something? Wow, I didn't know that. We aren't nearly as fun in Australia.

On topic: Michelle sucks.

That's why Americans are so obese, we have dessert with every meal.

I hate watching the FH repeats on ABC Family because they're such idiots with the editing. Not only do they change the commercial breaks (they've split scenes in half before, like the built in commercial breaks weren't good enough for them), but they find something wrong with the even the most trivial scenes. Like the way they butchered Stephanie's "Smoking in the Girls' Room" scene, so they would never actually show anyone holding a lit cigarette. Censorship has gotten so bad that apparently even family sitcoms from the early 90s are too inappropriate for audiences now.

The episode where their Greek cousins first visit is on now. When DJ walks around the table with her cousin-by-marriage Silvio, and Jesse did before with some other girl and Becky's jealous, and their other cousin Melena (who looks exactly like Michelle) is on. I had totally forgotten about this episode. And it's far superior to the post-Populi-death visit from Jesse's skanky twin.

Ironically I just brought this up to my friend one night when we were watching the show. She just looked at me funny and said I was thinking way too much about the show in terms of real life. I agree. Heh.

OT, but I really want to know...

babybluez, jelly is considered dessert? As in, peanut butter and jelly? Or do you use "jelly" differently than Americans, sort of like how "jumper" means something different in the US and UK?

Topic? Candace Cameron and Jodie Sweetin are beautiful, even if Candace is crazy and Jodie is surgically enhanced.

So does he look cute for his age now or is it one of those looked better as a pre-teen? I'm guessing he's quite cute b/c as we all know every gay teen is a strikingly handsome guy who is flawless in all aspects, b/c lord knows there are no non-attractive gay guys out there. Trust me on this.


I really want to see that unaired pilot but dont' want to succumb to buying this series on dvd. It's good for repeats in syndication, but in my tv-dvd collection i'm thinking no. Choices, choices. Damn.