Obviously, I'm the old lady of the group, 'cause pre-school didn't exist (at least not that I know of) at the time I would've been of age to attend-just kindergarten.

Family channel had a Full House marathon yesterday (Sunday). I'm afraid I watched most of it-I really need to get a life......A good "please let me smack Michelle" eppy was the family reunion picnic one, when Michelle gave Jesse all kinds of grief because he wanted to stay home and get his song written. Aww, and poor Steph-I saw (for the first time) the one where she was bummed about being the middle kid, as DJ and of course, Michelle were getting all the attention. Last week they ran "The Letter" episode, which I've got to say, is one episode that I think is genuinely funny.

Yeah, "The Letter" episode is also my favorite. And the paper-boy was funny in the way that he was supposed to be SO cool, and he really...wasn't.

That and the one with "The Dad song" are my favorites, and Michelle isn't the center of anyone of them and therefore doesn't seem so annoying.

True. When my brother was in kindergarten, some kid kept kicking him on the playground. My dad told my brother to tell the kid "If you try that again, I'll knock all your teeth out." My mom got mad, because she's more of a "use your words, not your fists" type person. Anyways, the threat worked. The kid never touched my brother again. Nowdays, you'd get sued over using a threat like that.

I watched the marathon and loved the episode where Stephanie drove the car into the kitchen. Only because she runs away to Becky's house. That is a nice house - big, two story. Why on god's green earth she willingly gave that up to move into Danny's tiny attic is beyond me. After seeing Jesse get practically suicidal over being away from his family for one night, girlfriend should have filed for divorce and gotten the hell out of there.

So Michelle could have her way again, as usual!



LOL!

Oh my gosh, I so wanted to smack Danny when he was videotaping Michelle and ignoring Steph when she wanted to hula-hoop for him. It was such blatant favoritism.

Last night we watched the one with Leo Bond, "Leo, Bond Leo.. No that's not right!" trying to buy the house from them. They were all so excited to move out and have more space, their own rooms, HOT TUBS, but Michelle had to have her way. I know it's been discussed (a lot) in this thread, but I HATED this episode. Ugh ugh ugh!

Ugh, Michelle and her annoying gang of rugrat thugs messing up the house so it would look as though the foundation was messed up. So stupid. And of course Saint Michelle Who is the Queen of All Things shows the family the error of their ways and that they should all remain in the same house together for the rest of their freakin' lives. God forbid Jesse and Rebecca should get their own place to raise their family. God forbid Joey should get his own place and have a fighting chance of getting laid. Nope, they're all going to live together. Thanks, Saint Michelle!

I really hated Michelle in that episode when Becky and Jesse do their "taxes." She was so mad that she didn't get to spend time with Uncle Jesse anymore that she had Joey bring Jesse all her messages. First of all, way to show the kid that Not Everything's About Her. Not. Second of all, give Jesse and Becky some alone time, they're newlyweds and they just moved into this runt of an attic so MEchelle won't be saaaaaaaaad. Third of all, get a life!

Ugh. Gag me with something shiny.

I love all the Michelle snark! Was there ever a more annoying child in a TV series than her? Nah, don't think so. Of course, if we want to be fair (do we?) the kid's every wish was granted and everyone was always bowing and scraping and running to do her bidding, so it's no wonder she turned out to be such an infuriating brat.

For what it's worth, I recall Jesse and Rebecca gently, but quite firmly telling Michelle that they wanted to be alone, only to have her try to play dumb and act like she didn't know what they meant. And they were genuinely annoyed when Joey brought Michelle back (despite knowing full well what was going on up there).

The point being, it wasn't all happy, happy, joy, joy.

At that point, I would have been far more pissed off at Joey. Michelle's an annoying little brat, but so are most little kids, and it stands to reason that she wouldn't realize that it's not all about her. Why Joey didn't simply explain that the grownups need their private time is beyond me.

It bugged the hell out of me that the adults didn't explain things to Michelle. Instead, they just tiptoed around her and humored her. Like when she gave her fish a bath and it drowned. They never actually told her how it died and why you don't give fish a bath. Come on. The kid was old enough to understand, so why didn't they tell her? Instead, they bought her dozens of more fish to kill.

And we never saw those fish again, did we? So I'm assuming that Michelle laid waste to every last one.

It's fun to think of ways Michelle killed the rest of the fish. Shower, hot-tubbing, bicycle ride, all-you-can-eat sushi bar...

Big WORD to that, Phenobarbara When I was the same age as Michelle in that episode, I caught a baby toad in our yard and put it in an empty bubble solution bottle that hadn't been cleaned out. It soon died and when I showed it to my mom, she bitched me out for it - no sugar-coating, whatsoever. Yeah, I cried the entire day and prayed my heart out for the little guy, but I learned a great lesson that I wouldn't have learned if my mom told me "the toadie is SLEEPING!" or dumped it out without telling me the truth.

All three guys on the show were pretty spineless and had a hard time being honest at anything. They were lucky DJ and Steph turned out okay, but I would have predicted Michelle being in Juvi Hall by 13 years old.

Also HATED! that Lou Bond moving episode, I think it's the worst one in the whole series. I remember being 17 when it originally aired and bitching with my friends about it the next day. It's shittiness is so powerful that I'm still bitching about it more than 10 years later. Why, oh why do I torture myself with this show?! *beats head against desk*

Don't worry, Shell76, I also still torture myself with this show only to bitch about it soon thereafter even if nobody will listen to me....but Michelle is the DEMON, you know, the DEMON!

Michelle-Demon Child, along with Damien. I bet they're cousins somehow.



Hee, hee!

They can't be kin; Damien was awesome/smart/evil and actually contributed to the movies he was in, whereas Michelle was just a bungling minion with malicious intent and a major detractor (I'd say the major detractor) of FH from the third season onwards. You have a basically valid point though; she sucked.

So Dave Coulier is going to be on Skating with Celebrities. This is so awesome, because it really proves how low he has sunk. Seeing him figure skate is not something that I want to do.

Would anyone like to guess with whom he's been paired? Nancy Kerrigan.

Variety Article of "Skating With the Stars"

One thing though, I'm a little confused because the article (which was written in early September) reported that production was starting later that same month, and that it was to be televised sometime this fall. Well, I know that technically until the winter solstice occurs on December 20/21 it's still fall, but c'mon, it hasn't even been promoted yet, and we all know how much Fox likes to whore out its own shows. I hope they didn't decide not to air it, because I was going to watch it just to see Coulier.....skate..... Yea.

According to a post in the Skating with Celebrities thread (in the Competitive Reality section), the Fox website has it listed as Winter 2006. Pretty vague.

OK, I don't understand why Michelle had an invisible friend. The kid was so spoiled and indulged, she couldn't possibly have had any insecurities. I thought insecurity, lack of love, etc. were the reasons for that type of behavior? Though it was mentioned DJ had an invisible duck-is that as bad or worse? LOL! At least she (Michelle) didn't have a whole slew of them. Hee.

I had an invisible friend because I thought invisible friends were cool. I named him Mr. Invisible (creative, I was), but I was in 5th grade so I doubt how cool I actually was. Maybe Michelle thought she was cool, too (I don't remember this episode off-hand though, so maybe there is a real reason).

Maybe Michelle wanted even more love. We all know she's a leech. She wanted to suck the Tanners dry.

I knew kids with perfectly good family lives who had invisible friends. Mine were two yo-yos who were actually dogs. Which...okay, not technically the same thing, but close.
Anyway, I kind of doubt that any of the kids at school liked Michelle. Who would want to be her friend? Even her "friends" didn't seem to like her too much, except for Teddy and Denise. And even they eventually got tired of her shit.

Now I feel deprived, since I never had an invisible friend!

Oh well, what was one more person in that house anyway? That had so many living there already. Hee, hee!

Hey, the invisible friend had more presence than the Olsens and more personality than the bruddahs...

Why was I not surprised that Danny was taping their flight inside the plane to wherever they were going? (Christmas at the airport ep.) I'd never seen the 1st half of that Christmas show before, so that was new stuff for me.

I don't like the other Christmas show, the one with DJ bent out of shape about Steve going to Daytona Beach U. Hated DJ's fugly red dress she wore-looked like a Grandma dress, IMO.

I know OF that episode, but I can't remember any specificities from the episode itself...I probably haven't seen that episode in over 5 years, if I even have seen it. And I knew it was going to be on, but I ended up missing it, aahh; just my luck.




I think it was more the fact that she was "chubbier" at that time, for lack of better terminology, and that's why that dress didn't look to good on her. I'm sure Becky could've pulled that dress of, she's so damn thin (not anorexic, plain old thin) lol.

Aunt Becky was hot. Which...is kind of disturbing to think about, but really, she was. Still is, I'm told, though I never watched that show she was on recently.

Becky was hot until she started dyeing her hair that unflattering shade of red and wearing those fugly long maternity-type dresses. I did watch Summerland for a while *hangs head in shame* but I didn't think she was quite as hot on that show. She's definitely aged, yo.

I got season 2 on DVD. I liked a lot of those episodes.

I bought it yesterday at Best Buy, but haven't gotten the chance to view it yet. I do love the second season, but I was suprememely disappointed when I read the back of the package, and under the special/extra features section there was no mention of any cast interviews. I really do hope that in the next season relaease they at least attempt to acquire cast interviews.

Am I one of the few who never liked Becky either? I mean out of the rest of the characters she's pretty high up there, but she's not that great to me either.

If I have to pick a favorite I'd say Kimmy, although Comet was cool too. Slim pickens indeed.

Least? Michelle - who else? Then obviously Joey and Danny rank pretty high too. I also hated Steve, like get checked for a tapeworm already, that "joke" was tired before it began. DJ grated when she got older too. And of course the bruddahs.

ETA: EVERYone on this show became a caricature after awhile, I mean, Jesse and his hair, Joey and the "comedy", Michelle's bratiness, Kimmy's smelly feet and bizarreness, etc. Seems like that happens with almost every show and it sucks.

I thought Becky's hair was okay when it was red. I maybe wouldn't have chosen the exact shade of red that she did, but I liked her hair long and red a lot more than when it was short and blonde. I don't think that suited her at all.

Kimmy was definitely the best character. She always spoke her mind, and you have to respect that.

I just hated it when they in the later seasons made Kimmy some kind of a cartoon, with her stinky feet and stuff. I liked it better when she was just a bratty (in a good way) friend.

I agree. All of the characters were basically okay in the beginning, but once writers/producers/whoever found that audiences responded to a particular feature of a character's personality, they latched on to it and did it to death. That happens in a lot of shows, though. Like making Mark too stupid to know his own name on Roseanne, or turning Debra into a huge bitch on Raymond, or having Michelle be the kid who could do no wrong on FH. Too bad, because Kimmy Was Awesome. I loved how she called Danny "Mr. T" just because he so clearly hated it.

I think Becky went grey early. I mean in the first couple of seasons that she was on the show her hair was gorgeous! It was a natural light honey brown. My hair is sort of like that. It's like light brown hair thats almost blonde but it's still brunette you know? It was amazing hair. Nobody in their right mind would dye it that hideous fake red or that ugly matte dark brown unless you were going gray. Her natural hair color is hard to recreate.

CrazyCamper, I think you're on to something. I have hair similar to Becky's and it's now a freaky shade of red in an effort to cover up allll those grey hairs. And I'm only thirty, dammit.

Holy crap, I'm Becky! Where's John Stamos for me to sleep with? But I'm putting my foot down -- no living in the attic.

Back to the invisible friends topic, I hate the misconception that kids who have them are lonely/insecure. I had invisible friends when I was little, but I had a lot of real friends also and two big sisters.... so I really don't think it has anything to do with that.

I have hair like Becky's, and I've resigned myself to going gray before I hit thirty. It runs in my family.
DJ's thirteenth birthday episode was on today, which is the one where we actually get to see the infamous Cathy Santoni. And man was it weird when I recognized the actress! (I forget her name, but she played ZZ on Salute Your Shorts.)
The one where Michelle loses the class bird was also on. I remembered him as being, like, a parakeet or something, but he looked like a decent-sized bird, which is just a stupid idea for a class pet. Birds are great, but they tend to be unpredictable when under stress, and I imagine a bunch of little kids crowding around the cage and poking at it = stress. Also, why the hell would he be flighted? Makes no SENSE.
Michelle did have an almost-cute moment, though, when she was tossing bread slices all around their yard to try and bring the bird back. Not bad reasoning for a three-year-old.

For all her flaws, I never thought Michelle was stupid. Honestly, if she hadn't been so spoiled and coddled, she probably would have turned out okay.

Oh, I thought she was kind of stupid. The way she pronounced words and stupid things she did, like buying a DONKEY for crying out loud.

This shocked me, so I of course had to look it up, and I don't think they were played by the same person. Megan Berwick played Z.Z., and someone named Anne Marie McEvoy played Santoni. Apparently this McEvoy kid was in Children of the Corn, too, and you just know that's something you want to put on your resume.

And how she was sure that Steve was in love with her, simply because he gave her a cookie on Valentine's Day. She was stupid.

I checked Megan Berwick's imdb and it also lists her as "Cathy Santony" in the episode "Thirteen Candles." Also, it looked a lot like her. But McEvoy was listed for more than one episode...ooo. Mystery!

Ann Marie McEvoy was listed on IMDB as playing Kathy Santoni in Thirteen Candles, as well. What's even weirder is that she's listed as playing Kathy Santoni in at least 3 different episodes, yet I don't remember seeing Kathi Santoni more than once, and that was in Thirteen Candles.

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Kathy Santoni was in the episode where Kimmi and DJ start junior high, she comes up to them in a sports bra and they don't recognize her b/c of the boobs.

She was also in the episode where they all accuse DJ of drinking beer at some dance. They ask who Kathy Santoni went with and she says: "Him...him...and him."

When I think of full house, I think of the fight between Joey and Uncle Jesse.
"Dippitty doo head" "Bullwinkle Brain." Haha. It's stupid but funny to me.

The episode with baby Tony was on last week. God, Michelle is so insufferable in that one. But Jesse and Becky were worse. Bribing a kid to grow up? I'm the first to admit that bribery can work, but making Stephanie give up Mr. Bear to bribe her with was awful. And, well, I just don't see why the bribe was necessary. Tony was there for one night. Presumably she'd go back to her usual ways after he left.