I had a feeling it was going to be terrible, and seeing it in writing makes me feel bad for her. Sad that the most talented one is left doing...this.

Everytime I'm unfortunate enough to see an episode of Full House, it's that episode where Joey lost to Steve Oedekerk on "Star Search".

Dave Coulier isn't fit to even share the stage with Steve. At least the scatalogical humor of Ace Ventura or the stupidity of Kung Pow is at least palatable. The entire run of "America's Funniest people" is an exercise in tedium. When they ran out of people making stupid faces, they smoked some pot and came up with the Jackalope. Wheee! Groundbreaking television.
I would think that Joey would have darker material considering being locked in a house with Bob Saget and John Stamos would lead to repressed homicidal rage. I know I would go shithouse and start drinking heavily and listening to speed metal after hearing Uncle Jesse's wussy shit music week after week.
Personally I would have walked around the living room with a pair of leather pants on with a fifth of Jack yelling "Breakin' the law, breakin' the law! Goddamit, DJ, shouldn't you be out getting a butterfly tattoo on your lower back and picking out stripper shoes yet? You kids are too goddamn clean-cut!! Here, take a sip."
I always prayed Uncle Jesse would crash that fucking motorcycle.
"This week, on a special Full House, Uncle Jesse becomes road pizza. Stephanie starts using black tar heroin and Danny learns he has a taste for older married women. Also, drifters all around San Francisco are disappearing and DJ has a secret!!!"
That look on his face is the look of a man so emasculated he hasn't had a sexual thought in years, if such a thing could exist in the squeaky clean Full House universe.
I would rather be smothered in cheap hair gel on the Golden Gate bridge than put up with a preening fuck like Jesse.
This super-squeaky clean asexual family fare is forever a pox on American television.

i just saw "The Devil Made Me Do It" where they bring out that tired old "Good Angel Bad Angel" trope using Michelle

it's weird to remember that at this point, in 1992, Full House was in the Top Ten ratings wise and millions of kids were fans of the Olsens - why Michelle was being promoted so heavilly - Fonzie etc all over again

... marry me, Longueuil ?

I sometimes wonder if it aired nowadays, would it have the same long run it did in the early 80s/90s? Very few shows have a shelf-life that long.

It's one of the few things that make me believe that Satan exists. In my mind it went thusly so:
Some guy hammered out a script, showed it to the powers that be, whom instantly got diabetes from handling it. That guy returned to his basement,and with four containers of chalk, goat's blood, and a case of Steak'Umms, he chanted "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight! Schlemiel! Schlimazel!Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!" he summoned a demon from the Pits of Hell. Not Newark, though, the other Hell. The demon smiled as he thought of a mountain of Olsen twin videos, the future maelstrom of suck that was TGIF, and Bob Saget making falsetto wisecracks at people getting kicked in the nuts.
I could be way off, though.

I was with you all the way until you mentioned TGIF. I'm sure it's my childhood bias shining through, but TGIF is part of some of my fondest memories. And I find that many of the hits that the Friday night block created still hold up extremely well today. Maybe not Full House, but quite a few of the others.

Back then, family comedies were all the rage. Now, it seems like all the shows revolve around sex. It may not be the central theme, but it's not only for soaps and movies anymore. The times, they are a changin'...

Hell, look at Everybody Loves Ramen. -- Er. Raymond.

I'm shocked that lasted so long.



Bwah! Damn near made me choke when I read that.

I remember a -lot- of TGIF shows. I always made a point of staying up late to watch them. Full House wasn't on TGIF for long, though, was it? My memory's going in my old age.

I think that Full House maybe split its run between Friday and Tuesday. I might be off, but I know that it always makes me laugh when people in their late teens and early 20s associate Full House mainly with TGIF when they would more clearly remember the Tuesday airings (I'm in that bracket, so I can speak with authority...kind of. I remember Fridays, don't get me wrong, but Tuesday is what is most clear).

I can't imagine the show would have been greenlighted today, at least not on network television. The main thing, I think, is that this show probably wouldn't have done as well as it did without the Cosby Show coming before it. Now, you could argue, "Well, some show has to start a trend, so Full House could have done it in 2006," but I don't think so, because none of the actors were well enough known to really start a trend. Cosby had a rep before his sitcom, so he was able to help really launch the mauldin sitcom deal. Granted, he wasn't the first, but he was incredibly successful. And even a show like Diff'rent Strokes was able to succeed because it had a hook: a short, cute kid. No real hook with Full House.

Eh, maybe I'm rambling.

It moved to Tuesdays starting with season 5. I don't know why I still have such a clear memory of John Stamos and one of the Olsen twerps mentioning the move in a commercial before the start of the fall 1991 TV season. Get them out of my head!

I don't know if would be greenlighted today since I don't quite understand most of the decisions on new shows that seem to come out. However, I do know that this show is appealing to some (I don't want to speak for all obvsioulsy) kids even today.

I babysat a bunch of 7-10 year olds last week and a lot of them own the Full House DVDs and wanted to watch it on Nick. I don't know if that's their parents who enjoyed the show influencing what they watch, but they all seem to love it.

So although watching reruns now that I'm older doesn't give me the same joy as when I watched it originally on TV, I was impressed that it's still able to entertain after 10 years of syndication.

It was a good show in its time

It would have had a good chance of being greenlighted on a network like The Disney Channel or Nickelodeon. It seems like that's where many of the popular family/children shows today are.

The bar tv was tuned to Full House last night. Who did I see on that tv? That's right, Teri Hatcher. She had some big ol' Adam Carolla eyebrows going there, too. Saget towered over her and her outfit made me think some suburban family had a nice tablecloth missing.

I can't believe I remember that Full House aired on Tuesday nights after all this time. Amazing what sticks with you, isn't it?
I think it was bumped out of the 8pm TGIF timeslot pretty quickly, and Family Matters took its spot. I don't remember what show ultimately replaced it, though.

A bar that plays Full House on its TV? Man, if I drank, that's totally where I would go to get wasted.

Really?? Which episode? I can't find anything on imdb.

I just got weird motivation to look up Tahj Mowry. All I can say is [url=I just got weird motivation to look up Tahj Mowry. All I can say is What the hell happened to Teddy? Note the one where he's giving the finger at an AIDS carnival.]

Teri Hatcher wasn't in any episodes, I'm sure of it.

Maybe it was that lady who plays "Hope" on Days of our Lives. Black hair, cheekbones, I could be wrong. Could've been her. Before she joined the ranks of the undead.

Yea, that's Kristian Alfonso. I saw the episode the other night that featured her. She was Jesse's latest girl whom he lured into dinner by using Baby Michelle as bait.

Ah, yes. Kristian was so beautiful when she was a normal weight. Eyebrows and all.

"Those Better Not Be the Days" came on today, and it still angers me. I hate that they wanted us to feel that the girls were spoiled, ungrateful brats, when it was really the guys' lack of discipline that was the problem.

Don't want to share your picnic, Uncle Jesse? Tell Stephanie to leave you the hell alone.

Don't want to chauffer DJ and friend to the movies, Danny? Tell her hell no, it's the Gibblers' turn.

Don't want to play in the basement with Michelle, Joey? Never mind, Joey liked that shit.

I'm not saying the girls were angels, but they didn't start acting that way overnight.

There is so much lack of discipline on tv sitcom families. That's what makes it funny. But then there are times on the Simpsons where the parents want to discipline the kids and there are crazy hijinks that ensue.

It's interesting to see Tahj Mowry grown up now. It was good that Michelle had a black boy friend and a black girl friend. There was a lack of ethnic diversity on this show.

Michelle's a doodie head.

Just felt like saying it. Again. 'Cause it can't be said enough. Carry on.

Teddy is not giving the finger in that picture. He has 2 fingers extended.

My friend made fun of me for wanting to watch this show last night. We watched it anyway and he laughed harder than I did. Jerk.

I recently saw 2 eps. The first was when Jesse "loses his temper" when DJ and Kimmie record over the jungle he pulled an all-nighter to finish. He feels bad for yelling and buys her a DRUM SET to make up for it. WTF?

Then I saw the end of the "Becky and Jesse almost get married in Vegas" ep. When they make up, it seemed pretty natural and normal...until Michelle comes in, and Jesse announces that he knows the rest of the family is outside the door listening and had sent Michelle as a spy. Again, WTF?

Snerk! Jeebus cripes, that's funny.

I just watched the episode where some boys spilled beer on D.J. at a school dance, and stupid Jesse smelled it on her and freaked out and refused to listen to her when she tried to tell him what really happened. Like D.J. had such a reputation for being a drunkard, so of course she was lying. Fuck you, Jesse. Way to show your niece some respect and trust.

Well, right now, the ABC Family rerun is the one where Jesse pulls Michelle out of preschool when the teacher Ms. Petrie tries to put her in timeout (about time SOMEONE did). I'd say Jesse and good judgment skills are not very good friends.

Jesse was awesome, but he really had no idea how to deal with kids.

I didn't mind Michelle pinching Aaron back because the little asshole had a cookie, and he took Michelle's just to be a dick. Not that she didn't deserve it, but still...it was a horrible move.

Some of the worst parenting I saw was the ep. when Stephanie lost the spelling bee. The winner came to the house (to return something? I can't remember) and Stephanie challenged him to a rematch. Danny totally indulged her, even acting as judge and yelling "YES!" when Stephanie got a word right. That was shitty, IMO. I know Danny told Stephanie at the end - during the sad music, naturally - that the behavior was wrong, but he was being a complete idiot. I don't blame Stephanie too much. She was a kid, she was mad and embarassed for losing the real spelling bee, but Danny should have set a better example for her instead of allowing that dumb rematch. He was basically belittling the winner's accomplishment and doing so in front of Stephanie. Horse's ass!

I don't remember that at all. No one in real life would buy a drum set as a sign of apology. Maybe bake cookies and say sorry, but that's it. DJ doesn't even play the drums.



I vaguely remember this ep. Kind of makes me think of Roseanne. The parents are perfect, but they disciplined their kids well. Full House parenting, the guys seem really good, but have poor discipline skills.

Oh, but that was part of the *hilarity* of the episode. ::rolls eyes at FH::

See, i never understood why people considered this show such great family fare. The kids were spoiled brats -- if I had ever talked back to my parents the way they spoke to theirs, I would have have been in a shitload of trouble. These kids were never truly disciplined, and whenever someone tried, the episode ended with an apology TO THE KIDS, if not a present. Everything they did was "cute." Like the recording over the demo thing cited above. Or when DJ yelled at Danny and said she hated him because he embarassed her by acting like a father, and he apologized. Gah!

Wasn't that what she was doing when she got annoyed with her guitar and turned it over and started pounding on it??

Did she? I don't even remember. Maybe someone could confirm it?

Well, I think that was kind of tongue-in-cheek, so there's not much to confirm, but yeah, DJ did get frustrated with her guitar, flip it over, and start pounding on it in some kind of rhythm. Fun stuff. Kind of.

Speaking of the spelling bee episode, it reminds me of one of me and my brothers favorite lines: " I hate this stupid language!!"

She was pissed because she couldn't get the hang of it and during "Venus", she flipped it over and began beating on it, screeching "She's got it, yeah baby, she's got it!" out of sheer frustration. By the way, Uncle Jesse refused to let her quit lessons at first.

Anyway, I was joking about that being how we would know she played the drums. It went over, I guess, like most of my attempts at humor.

The 2 part Jesse-Becky wedding episode was on today, and I realized something. During the actual wedding, Jesse wrote his vows as the "Forever" song (which we will go on to hear 100 million times from this until the shows end...but I digress) anyways, Becky sings rather sweetly w/ Jess in this song. Just curious as to how she only a few years later became comepletly tone deaf, & Jess, Danny & Joey would'nt let her in their "group" (which in it of it's self was quite ridiculous.)

Discuss.

Wasn't their first dance was "Jailhouse Rock"-- sung tenderly to begin with, of course? Like Elvis never had any love songs. SO stupid. I am appalled at my childhood TV choices.

Furthermore, what was Becky doing singing a duet with Danny in the telethon episode in season 3? Granted, I didn't think she had a good voice then, either, but for all intents and purposes it was supposed to be a "good" performance to everyone else. Ah well.

Yep, that was just another one of those gigantic plotholes that came about when the writers stopped writing good, character-driven stories and decided to bow down to write about Michelle. Once Michelle's head was pasted on the whiteboard in the writers' room, they didn't care about anything else. Such a shame.

I love that song..and not because of the show (ok maybe a little) but more so because it was a Beach Boy song

I watched the one with Steve Urekl. So Steph wants to be alone. So Steve, a guy a few years older, and just met, takes the girls out, closes the door so he is alone in her bedroom and sits beside her on her bed. That would make me very uncomfortable.

I'd be uncomfortable with Steve Urkel period.

The Uncle Jesse goes to high school/Michelle learns to tie her shoes episode was on today. One thing I never really noticed/thought about until now: why does Michelle have about thirty pairs of shoes?! She's got a big pile outside the door and when Uncle Jesse asks if she's throwing out all of her shoes she replies, "only the ones with laces." I had two or three pairs of shoes at that age for varying weather, because I'd outgrow them within a year. How much disposable income did the Tanners have?

In the Steve Urkel episode, Jessie had graduated. He had 2 best men for his wedding, and said he did believe in tradition. He said he did not wear the hat thing at his graduation. I guess he meant k-5 or junior high.

He also managed to go to his high school reunion despite never having received a diploma. Interesting...

Didn't remember that, but that also makes me feel uncomfortable.

The ep where Mr. Bond, Lou Bond, wants to buy the house is on ABC Family now. Also known as, reason #7,824 why Michelle needs to be destroyed. Why oh why do they give her so much power? The man is willing to give them twice the property's worth and Danny turns it down, why? Because his 8-year-old daughter doesn't want to leave. Well, screw her, she'll get over it. I don't know why they let Michelle have a say in anything. She's a child.

The part of that one that bugs the shit out of me (besides the audience applause when Michelle merely recites the shoe tying jingle correctly) is where Jesse is in the class and demonstrates the "dance" he does while playing the keyboard. All it is is Jesse spastically kicking his leg up to the side. In what world would that be considered "cool"?

The Lou Bond episode was ridiculous, and amazingly, Step by Step managed to top it when they did the same thing a few years later and an even younger child convinced the family not to move. Who, in their right mind, thought it'd be okay to rehash Michelle storylines?

And Danny couldn't even get a kitten in the cookie jar check because of Michelle!

Corbinxxa84, that's so true. I always wondered that too. I love Jesse, but the man was a far bigger dork than he'd ever admit.