But how many two-year-olds are imbued with the spiritus sinister? :)

You gotta admit, it WAS pretty awesome how they came together to tell Michelle where she can shove her friendship in that episode where Teddy comes back from Texas and Michelle tries to make them bribe her into being the best friend of just ONE of them...

Too bad they copped out in the end. I cracked up when she had to present that "my best friend" tracing and she had to trace Comet.

And even he was getting tired of her.

Well, we always knew Comet was the smartest Tanner.
But didn't they make that episode into a lesson on why we all should love Michelle, too? Maybe my memories of that episode have been tainted with cynicism; I haven't seen it in ages. I just remember the Snickles. Were those a real candy at some point, or were they just smushing together Skittles and Snickers?

hey guys! I am a HUGE FH fan!! I just adore Jessie and Becky so much!!! One of my all time fav TV couples!!

Did anyone else watch the high school dance team championships on ESPN last weekend and say aloud during the hip-hop division, "I would pay good money for someone to bust out with 'Motown Philly'"?

Just me? Okay. But seriously, that would have been awesome.

Haha! I didn't say that, but I did watch the dance team championships, and yes, that would've been hilarious.

I know I'm late on the topic, but here is a link to Jodie Sweetin's interview with ABC. I just figured that not everyone has watched it yet that might want to.

Poor poor Jodie Sweetin. I'm glad that she's getting her life back together. Even with the problems that she is going through, she still looks good. Too bad we will never say that to thosee Olsen Twins.

The telethon episode was on Nick-at-Nite this evening. It featured a second best (nothing will ever top Motown Philly) dance performance by Jodie Sweetin that I'd completely forgotten about - score! Also, I was really impressed with Candace during that grocery store song she did with one of the Olsens. At one point Candace walks around the cart (in which Olsen is sitting) while she singing, and Olsen keeps staring off in the direction where Candace used to be standing (where, no doubt, her handler was holding a treat just out of camera range). Without missing a beat or drawing focus, Candace reaches up and tugs on Olsen's elbow to get her attention and bring her focus back into the scene. It was a tiny thing, but I thought it was a really professional move for such a young actress.

One of my personal faves was on at 12 today: Jesse tries to be smart to go to Becky's party.

Nevermind the fact that JOEY coached Jesse in intelligence (and didn't even get invited to the party), Jesse was pretty great. I loved his "Monet...Samm-ey" joke. And I love when he tried to discuss cinema with the, um, coat checker.

I do have reservations about a man who can talk for hours about Elizabethan poetry giving a great lecture in the Romantics since they aren't related, but he was a genius who knew EVERYTHING, so I guess it's okay.

I was always impressed by the professionalism of the older girls in the show. They both seemed really adept at handling the Olsens. I wonder if they gave Lori and John a few pointers when the bruddahs joined the cast...

I don't know why, but I just became really curious what the bruddahs look like now. They'd be about thirteen, wouldn't they? *shot in the dark guess* Holy hell, they're sixteen?! God, I'm old.

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Wow. One looks like a smarmy little brat, the other one looks cute. (As in "Aw, lookit the little guy.", not "Plastics.")

As someone commented many pages back, it's hilarious how the bruddhas have turned out as it was prophesized long ago in a Full House episode. Jesse and Rebecca fantasized that Nicky would become a "punk" while Alex would become a "wuss." Now look at them.

I wonder if those two will ever work in Hollywood again. Or if they even want to, as it says on IMDB "They are trying to lead normal lives." Right, I'm sure they're just getting mobbed every time they walk out the door.

The boys could double for the Sprouse twins on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody.

*snort* I remember that scene. Alex was full-on nerd, wasn't he? Pocket protector and all.

Well, I know if I saw them on the street, it would be less "Holy crap, the bruddahs!" and more "..gods, lookit that smarmy little brat."

I don't know about the other one not being a wuss. They both look like spoiled, whiny posers to me. It's just my opinion though :D


Yes, the episode with Jesse and Rebecca going to that fancy, pretentious, boring party was pretty funny. I find especially interesting how much of an a-hole that professor was; like talking about how Jesse had "transposed the titles of War and Peace and Crime and Punishment" (when he meant to say that he had transposed portions of the titles, that retard lol), pointing out Jesse's mistake and trying to intentionally embarass him.

My favorite part was how absurdly pretentious the party was. Joey's stupid coaching was actually pretty close to the mark.

Then again, that was a fairly wild party by Full House standards. Remember the frat party D.J. and Kimmy went to where Kimmy was kicked out for getting drunk?

I just watched an episode where Jesse brushed off the family (including Michelle, gasp!) to write a song. In the end, he learned how wrong he was to slight the mighty Michelle and turned out a "hit" that would not have been a hit on any planet, in any genre. Why is the original "music" on this show so painfully bad? Couldn't they at least attempt to make it sound cool? Oh what am I saying... what show am I watching again?

What, you don't think that a little more love could go a long way or whatever?

I think that's an okay episode, though it's certainly not my favorite.

Michelle actually had a right to be upset (it actually fit with a 4 year old mentality), but Jesse shouldn't have felt like he was doing something wrong, if that makes sense. The man has a life and a career to work for, you know. I'm really impressed at how lenient the Tanner Family Picnic or whatever rules are. Joey gets to participate despite having no relation to anyone. I guess pedo in the basement is as good as currency.

Another episode on today was the one where Joey has good luck and then it all runs out. That's kind of a charming one, if a little too sitcomy. Joey could be a cool character when given the chance. I don't see why he insists on bringing the bastard Woodchuck everywhere, though. And the episode has the great scene where Michelle calls Jesse "Uncle Hermes." Cameron and Loughlin play that scene so well, and there's a brilliant double take from Stamos. Classic.

The bruddahs are like real-life versions of Goofus and Gallant!

On another note, I'm jealous that you guys can watch the later episodes on TV. I don't have any of the right channels. To relive my Full House days I have only my Season 1 and 2 DVDs, and now that exams are over I plan on "treating" myself to Season 3. It'll be another long while before I can watch any of the later episodes! Granted, the later years sucked, but I'd kill to rewatch some of these ones, like the wuss and punk episode or the pretentious party one. Is that the one where Jesse is trying to practice being smart and holds his glasses in his teeth? Or am I confusing mental images?

..it really is scary how much I remember. As soon as you mentioned the glasses thing, consterno, I had the mental images from the party in my head.

I swear to god, my brain is just full of filing cabinets full to the brim of useless information.

I know, hey? It's the same with me. I had totally forgotten about the wuss and punk bruddahs, until someone mentioned the wuss bruddah decked out with a pocket calculator and I instantly recalled the visual of that. It's odd, cause now I can't remember things this well at all! For example, my friend was telling me about a spot we had visited when we went to Europe, describing the whole thing in vivid detail, and I still couldn't picture it. I guess it goes to show you that young brains really ARE receptive and fresh to information, including information imparted to them by way of a cheesy sitcom! When I have kids, I'll try to stuff 'em full of knowledge when they're in elementary, cause it seems to stick haha!

That was the episode where we learn that Poor Dead Pam was killed in a drunk driving accident, which was why DJ was freaking out so much. It was a pretty good ending...plus we got this line (paraphrasing):

Kimmy...I remember in my dream I was driving a porcelain bus.
....
DJ...Yeah, who do you think was holding your hair back while you were riding that porcelain bus?!

I totally didn't get that porcelain bus joke when I was little. I was like "..wow, that's a weird dream."

The best part of Jesse's "struggling genius" episode is where he does a long conga solo in the middle of the song and Joey goes in the booth and waves his hands around spastically. It's one of the many moments on the show when I'm genuinely mortified for Dave Coulier.

Ha! I love when Joey goes in the booth. That was just crazy. Hilarious stuff, though not as funny as the time Danny is singing "My Girl" and Joey stands up and starts bee bopping his way to the front of the Smash Club, completely serious. Perfect.

I had a dream that I was walking up some stairs and the bruddahs, the real ones as they are in the IMDb pictures, walked up and then fell off and died, basically. One of them took me down with them, but I only hit the ground hard and survived.

Hee. I had to stop and laugh at the mental image of the Olsens begging for dog biscuits.
I must be weird, because the only thing I did like on this show was when they sang that song "Forever". You know, "if every word I said would make you smile I talk forever." Fortunately, I've blocked out almost everything else.

Michelle stared off-stage any time she was supposed to actually do something other than talk to one of the other actors. The two most egregious examples of this were when she isn't picked for Kimmy Gibbler's Z-grade magic show in the bedroom (Michelle tosses down a bouqet, goes "aw NUTH!" and walks out of the room looking right off stage) and when she jumps on her big girl, pencil bed. The second one is actually one of her genuinely cute moments when Jesse (truth be told, he's a large part of it) opens the door suddenly and she immediately kneels down, goes, "Hewwo!" acting all innocent.

I'll throw this out: the only time Michelle was ever truly appealing or cute was when she interacted with Jesse.

Definitely word about the Jesse/Michelle thing. Going back to the pretentious party episode, I actually love when Jesse walks in and Michelle has just told everything she loves it and then she says, "I love you Uncle Jesse," and then follows him in his room with, "Uncle Jesse are you sad?" It's really sweet.

And, of course, their relationsihp led us to...Mee-shell's smiling...

Did the Olsens ever grow out of that habit on the show? I mean, Jodie Sweetin was awfully young when she started (maybe about 4 or 5), but I don't recall her ever having troubles focusing in the earlier years.

You know, they never really seemed to me to be actors like Jodie Sweetin (who I believe was five when the show started) was. They seemed more like living props. It also seemed like much more wasn't expected of them, actingwise.

Plus, Jodie Sweetin probably had some form of training before the show began. The twins were babies when FH came on and didn't have that chance.

The episode with the wet shoe incident is on now. I'd forgotten how nauseating it is.
*Michelle gets out of bed because she doesn't feel like going to sleep*
"Guys, I think something's really bothering Michelle. Is something wrong, Princess?"
"I wanna play!"
Luckily Jesse brought the snark:
"Oh, yeah, deeply troubled child." And insisted that they set limits and discipline her. "We treat her like she's queen of the three-year-olds!"
"Well, she is!" Gag me.

Going back to DJ...I do think CC was the most talented actress of the 3 kids. Yes, Stephanie got some great lines and she was the cutest, but CC was a really natural actor. Whenever she would cry, I would tear up. It was so natural; she would get that lip/chin quiver and then the tears would come. She was pretty much wasted in the later seasons, but I thought she was awesome.

I remember seeing her Moment of Truth movie with Fred Savage (which scarred me for a long time. How bizzarre was it watching little Kevin Arnold seduce, beat, then kill DJ Tanner?). She was so good in that movie as an insecure girl who would do anything to please her boyfriend and ended up paying with her life. I wish CC was still acting now.

If anything, I think the Olsens likely had more training than Sweetin did at the same age, having grown up in the business. Her imdb bio shows a couple of TV guest appearances and commercials before Full House started when she was five, while the MK&A empire had already spawned it's first few videos at that point, in addition to the five years on FH. The crapshoot was natural talent and charisma, in which five-year-old Jodie beats five-year-old Mary Kate & Ashley combined.

I'm in a senior health class now, and my teacher hinted that we were going to watch that sometime during the course. I'm so excited - Fred Savage + Candace Cameron + drama = awesome.

Crap! I hope I didn't spoil it for you.

No, my teacher inadvertently spoiled it for us anyway. Damnit.

I finally got to start watching my S2 DVDs (that I got for Christmas!) and was surprised by how non-annoying Joey was, for the most part. While he may have had his typical Joey moments, he was far more tolerable of a character back in those days.

Also on the Joey topic, I hated the episode where the family secretly makes the garage into his bedroom. He acted like such a spoiled brat before he found out. It's pretty creepy that he lived in the alcove for so long - I hope we weren't expected to believe he got dressed there, too.

HappilyEvrAftr, I'm so jealous you might get to watch a movie like that in class. We never watched anything that good in my health classes!

Never thought about where Joey got dressed. The guys were always up at insanely early time of the morning, always dressed and lively before the girls got up, so I'd imagine that if he did dress in the alcove, no one saw him.

But yeah, he was very tolerable early on because, as he stated once, he just wanted to fit in the family. And some of his jokes, at points, were endearing for what they were. And they were actually jokes sometimes, not just voices. Plus, he had storylines of his own. I always enjoyed the Star Search and Wayne Newton episodes, and the Frankie and Annette episode is always fun for pure cheese. The writers took time to try to write for him, and the character was fine. When they decided to make him talk about food a lot, do mind-numbingly annoying voices, and act like a complete idiot, all was lost.

I watched the episode where Joey and Danny try to get their Fratenerity Seal back. Great episode:

"Daddy's a girl!"
"No...he's a woman."

Was there ever an indication of a bathroom on the first floor? Or in the basement? Or even in the attic after they renovated it? Or was it really a 4(then five, then six)-bedroom, 1-bath house?

I'm pretty sure Danny's bedroom had a private bathroom. Joey had his own bathroom when they renovated the basement, and Jesse and Becky had a bathroom in their attic apartment. But those last two were after renovating things. At the start of the show, it seems the only bathrooms were Danny's and the girls' bathroom in the hall, so it was a 4-bedroom, 2-bathroom house.

I'm sure there had to have been a bathroom connected to the master bedroom (Danny's room) but probably didn't show it due to the lack of number of wacky hijinks that could happen.

And I just scared myself because I actually gave this some thought.

I just did too, RandomWatcher. You're not alone.

God. Six people, two bathrooms? And considering one of those bathrooms was private? Eegh.

Also: That's a big damn house.

Which makes it very strange to me that they didn't have at least a half bath on the first floor. Of course, they only had two rooms on the first floor, and that didn't strike me as odd until just this minute.

There was the bathroom upstairs, and I was thinking that maybe Danny had one. He had a fireplace, for God's sake. Joey had one put in when he moved to the basement. Then they had one upstairs because they had a toilet flush at least once.

But that would mean that for a period, we only knew of one, MAYBE two bathrooms while six people lived there (five and a half really since Michelle didn't need a toilet, and thus she's irrelevant).

Michelle is always irrelevant.

yes, the show was always a bit cheesy, but as she got older the shows became less tolerable because the olsen twins could not act...still can't either.