And can I just say, for the record, that I don't even think that that "production" qualified as a play. Also, PLEASE someone explain to me how exactly Stephanie landed the role of choreographer? And HOW in God's name did all these students as well as Stephanie get out of class at 10 in the morning every day just to rehearse marching around in a circle?

And how much did it suck that Joey and Jesse couldn't even pay attention to the number of kids that they were auditioning? I mean, they could remember to audition the mute Asian girl but totally MISSED the flamboyant child with the mullet that stole Macauley Culkin's face? How could they not see him? Maybe he was hiding in the closet. Har. Anyway, in my personal opinion, the kid that deserved to be Yankee Doodle was Aaron (Erin?) Bailey. That kid was so f*cking hysterical on Full House. I positively loved his quip at Uncle Jesse:

"You still don't have a job!" "Thanks, Uncle Doofus!"

He was one of the few likeable child actors on the show. I couldn't stand Teddy, Derek, Lisa, or any of Michelle's other friends. Denise was okay.

Also, I have heard from a couple different sources that Bob Saget absolutely could not STAND Jodie Sweetin on the set of Full House because she was apparantly the biggest brat when she was young. Anyone ever hear this before? Has there ever been an E True Hollywood Story on Full House?

*gag* *shudder* How rude!

I'm in the minority, but I liked Derek. He was not nearly as bratty as Michelle nor Aaron. Iiiiii am Yankee Doodle Daaaandy... indeed. I can only take Denise in small doses.

Yesterday, I saw the episode about Charlie, the obnoxious kid in Stephanie's class who was abused by his father. Steph had a ton of awesome one-liners in the first few minutes of the episode. Overall, it was very formulaic, but duh.

Wow, I hadn't heard that one before! Interesting!

For some reason, in the deep, dark recesses of my memory, it seems like I have a recollection of seeing, in passing, some tell-all show on Full House. Now, whether it was True Hollywood Story or not, I couldn't tell you. I'd sure like to see it, though.

Now, I'm just tuning in for the last 5 minuites of the episode that's on ABC family right now, but is the whole family actually trying to convince Joey to STAY? Scary. And was that episode a whole clip show of JOEY? How absoultely terrifying and dreadful! Why would they do that to people?

*snerk*

Derrick annoyed the crap outta me. Even when I was younger, I found him annoying.

The only Joey moment I liked was the "they're doing their taxes" line, too.

I'm taking a scriptwriting course, and we had to write an original script for a sitcom. My group chose "Full House". The main plot is centered around Joey (gak), which surprisingly had its benefits - I made every character subliminally hate him.

BWAH!

amani, I'm a Derek fan...but it's a small club. The kid just cracks me up. I'm a big Aaron fan, too. Lisa and Denise were just annoying.

When Stephanie was younger, she had an Asian friend named Harry who was pretty cool.

So, since Alanis and Dave have basically played the "could be/might not be" card about "You Oughtta Know" for years, did Aunt Becky just out them by saying the song was about Dave, for sure?

Yeah, I know. In the words of my college English teacher (not professor, we didn't have those), I'm "killing a dead horse" again.

I saw Alanis on Howard Stern's show on E! tonight. They brought it up, of course. Alanis said she was 19 when she dated Dave NotCool-yay. She didn't say how old he was, but Gary cracked, "And he was what, like 48?" She was very cool about answering most of the related questions, although I didn't watch long enough to see if they asked her about "You Oughta Know". But they did have a pretty good laugh over her and Dave. Including Alanis.

I've developed this theory that everyone in your workplace can correspond to a Full House character.

Michelle - The adorable co-worker that gets away with murder.

Stephanie - The co-worker who still has a bad case of "middle child" syndrome.

DJ - The responsible if sometimes annoying co-worker.

Kimmy - The obnoxious, semi-oblivious co-worker whom no one really likes, but who always has a wisecrack, even for the boss.

Joey - The co-worker who compulsively does imitations, regardless of whether or not anyone really finds him amusing.

Jesse - The co-worker who is as dumb as rocks but gets by on "coolness."

Danny - The anal retentive co-worker whose desk is immaculate.

Becky - The co-worker that seems too together and classy to really belong.

According to the IMDB, Alanis just turned 30 and Dave will be 45 in September. 15 years isn't an un-heard-of age span, but I still raise an eyebrow at anyone who would date Cool-Yay. Sicko.

What about Teddy? I love the episode where Michelle runs away to Teddy's house. Jesse and Danny find where she is, go to Teddy's house, and then threaten to leave her there. I love that part. Anyhoo, I'm glad that Tahj has faded into oblivion (along with his "Sister, Sister" sisters.)

I remember seeing some sort of E! True Hollywood story about Full House, but it wasn't scandalous at all. Basically it talked about the death of Bob Saget's sister, Dave Coulier's sister and I think a relative of John Stamos within a 2 month span and how bereft everyone on the set was. It talked about how Bob Saget had a very hard time at the time and tried to be tough and pull through and how Lori Loughlin was sort of a rock for the guys.

It also mentioned briefly that Candance Cameron had weight fluctuations when she was little (I mean, she was growing, so duh) and the directors gently suggested to her mother that she be careful about her health. She started eating more healthy. She never was pressured to be skinny, just to be healthy. I think Full House was very good about showing normal body types. Although Becky certainly lost the twin baby weight quickly, no?

It was really meh. The cast seemed to get along really well. Everyone had fun. No real egos or dama. The whole Jody Sweetin thing is new to me. But if she was a child on set she might have had some obnoxious moments. She seems to be very grounded now. None of them ended up on the smoking gun so...

This Jodie Sweetin is a brat stuff is news to me. I always heard she is smart as a whip and actually skipped a grade in her early years. Maybe that's where the rumor got started since smart people can be perceived as brats.

Yes, she talks about it often. She struggled with her weight for years and was a real inspiration to young girls who also struggled. She talks about the craft service table and how Jodie Sweetin, who was a stringbean, would eat all the m&m's she could and how she(Candace) would be snacking on a carrot looking longingly at the doughnuts. She does have a terrific attitude about her weight, and I think she looks amazing. She's not skinny, but shes fit and trim and always pretty much was so on the show. She had a few akward years(around the time that Steve came into the picture, it was at its worst when they went to Disney), but by the time the show was ending, she had really grown into her skin and it showed. Can you tell I'm a huge CC fan?

Sometimes I am curious about what they are doing if they made a reuinion. I hope they do. I always found Joey kinda funny, I guess I liked him better than most of yall. Of course, a site without pity can hate people with passion.

I watched the episode today when Joey gets DJ the stolen car, and he gets all upset at the family because he thinks they laugh at him, not with him. I love that part so much, I just stopped watching it and let myself believe that they really do laugh at him, and hate him too.

I remember watching this show and how my brother and I would always yell "cue the music!" about 2-3 minutes before the end. You know, the time when the "important talk" would happen and everything would be made better. We did that for Family Matters too.

If ABC had been smart, they would have had a show called Michelle and Urkel, as that's what the two shows basically revolved around toward the end.

Who's the Boss? marathons are scheduled for all next week on Nick at Nite . I wonder if Full House is being replaced. I guess it doesn't matter what gets pulled since you can see all three current shows (FH, Cosby, Roseanne) on multiple channels every day.

I have always referred to such music as "the plinky plunky music of life" it seems to run rampant in family-friendly sitcoms. Full House had it every freakin' episode though. And the lessons were so silly, though sometimes they did harder hitting episodes.. such as teenage drinking, anorexia, and child abuse. I liked it when Full House did heavy hitting episodes. As opposed to the "I don't feel like you laugh with me" or "Am I REALLLY too clean?" episodes.

Hee! Or most often, it was "Michelle learns to be a big girl for the 10,000th time." That really irritated the crap outta me, yet I can't seem to look away ;)

ETA: Speaking of Michelle, here's a hilarious article on the allure of the Olsen twins.

Best. Article. Ever.


BWAH!

ETA: Another quote that makes me laugh every time I see it...

Thanks for linking that article, ChinkyGirl! It literally made me LOL. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks the Olsens look like primates.

Hee! Thanks for the link. I immediately emailed it to my brother (the one who still enjoys calling people "blasphemers" after seeing Kirk Cameron's site).


I never realised this before (and I own the calendar *blushing furiously*), but they do! And it's creepy. I'll never be able to look at a picture of them without noticing.

In two weeks, I might spend half a day in Calais. During that day I may very well get close to an Auchan. Now I'm a little scared.

OMG...just snorted soda through my nose. Owie.



Bwah! Love it!

Back to the topic of the actual show....I saw the one yesterday where Jesse misses his high school graduation because they get stuck on BART. The whole rescuing the dropout punk on the subway and then having the makeshift ceremony to make it all better was typically schlocky. But I loved the segments where Kimmy Gibbler was babysitting the twins back at the house. I laughed at loud at her calling them "sawed-off baloney eaters" and then a couple minutes later she looks at one of the twins and says, "Hey, Siegfried....where's Roy?" Teehee....

I positively hated this episode, minus Kimmy Gibbler. She was always my favorite character on the show, and my mother, who positively HATES Full House in general, loves Kimmy as well. Her screams at Nicky and Alex and general attitude towards babysitting (and the Tanners in general) is hysterical. But this episode is chock full of the reasons that my mother hates this show.

Anyway, I would be so incredibly embarassed to be on the subway with Danny during his who schpiel about Jesse graduating. Isn't it bad enough that these people are stuck on a subway, alone, at night, for a long period of time? Now they have to participate in some lame subway-graduation, hosted by Danny Tanner? Who does that?? And I'm sorry, but if I was a child and I suggested to my father that, in order to stop pollution and save the environment, we had to ride the subway to a graduation like that without any forethought, he would have told me to shut up and get in the car or at least shut off the goddamn lights when I'm at home if I want to conserve energy.

And what did the people at Jesse's graduation think? In the end, he's still a loser who "blew off" his own high school graduation (that he was supposed to speak at), at least to the people at the ceremony. So what has all this proved? Nothing. Oh, except that he convinced a high school dropout of two weeks to go back to school. He must be a real loser if can't even succeed at dropping out. Ten bucks says he lasts one more week before he's back riding the subway scrounging for spare change.

And, where the hell was DJ? I mean, I know they said she was "skiing" (in California?), but if it's such a big deal, then why would Danny let her go in the first place?

Actually, there are some really good places to ski in California. I'm a native and lots of my friends and their parents were big into skiing and went in-state.

I missed the part where they explained why DJ was gone -- must've stepped out of the room for a moment. I wonder if Candace Cameron was supposed to be in that episode and then was unable to be at shooting for some reason so they added a hastily-scribbled explanation to the script?

ITA about Gibbler. She always makes me giggle. Wonder what Andrea Barber is doing nowadays?

Glad to see you guys loved that article! It kept me entertained during a very boring morning at work, lol. But yes, I've always thought they looked like chimps...I'm sorry, but it's oh so true!


Amen, BWAH, hee!, and WORD. I'm the biggest environmentalist I know (and that's saying a lot), and I would never think about doing this in a million years. Like she just HAD to pick that one day to do this? Pest.

I hear she's a professional student. Last I heard, she was still in college working on her umpteenth degree.

By the way, I loved Kimmy too. She was the only character on the whole show that was actually FUNNY.

Wait, I'm confused. According to the IMDB, Kathryn Zaremba played a girl named Lisa. But I always thought it was *Terri* who had the bizarro red hair. But Terri was played by someone named Sara Moonves. So who the hell is this Lisa character?

And furthermore, please kill me now.

Lisa was the girl Derek did the duet with. Who is Terri? I don't remember her.

Today is my birthday. And that means.. Mary Kate and Ashley turn 18 today ! It is the day people have been waiting for ! I wonder what they will do.

Edited to add: Happy Birthday Olsen Twins. Go buy some cigarattes or whatever crazy stuff yall will do.

Happy Birthday! (And I'm so sorry that you share the day with the two most popular monkeys in show business.) :(

Do you really? I think I may have some idea.

Daughter of Les Moonves, President of Warner Brothers. I wonder how she got that job?

Terri appeared on the show for several season along with Derek and Aaron and Michelle's other creepy little friends. She played Abe Lincoln in that "school play" episode. I was positive she was the one with the bright red hair, but now I'm not so sure. I can't find a picture of this girl anywhere.

Lisa didn't come in until the last season, according to the IMDB, and had brown hair at one point, but that could just be the picture. They were both small and annoying. I guess they just kind of blended together in my head. (I think. Must lie down now.)

Thanks Rain. . And actually, Healing fish, about what they do, I don't really care. *LOL*.

Well we won't be watching too much FH this week with the Who's the Boss marathon. The Danny-Vicki romance is really heating up. I understand why they broke up, but he should have married in series finale.

He should have married Joey in the series finale. That way the entire concept of the show (three adult males, living together in a house in San Francisco) would have been a little more realistic.

Now that would have been fun! I just read on TVGuide Online that Dave Coulier will be in the next season of The Surreal Life airing on VH1. What a chump.

I thought Steph was funny when she became older and starting cracking on people, especially Kimmy.

I hate most reality programming, but I just might have to tune in to that one!

Remember awhile ago when we were discussing catchphrases? One that we neglected to mention was Steph's "well pin a rose on your/my nose!" It always bugged me because it made absolutely no sense, lol.

Oh man, Coulier on The Surreal Life? I have to watch for humiliation purposes. Mine and his.

Dave Cool-yay should be entertaining on The Surreal Life. I wonder if he will do any more or new lame impressions.

Will he be in all episodes or just one. I wonder if it'll ever be on Dutch tv.
Speaking of tv, I visited the MK&A site a few days ago, and it had some A&E banner ad about some MK&A bio show. The A&E site refuses to show me anything useful, so I can't tell you if it's been on already. Has anyone seen it?


It makes me think of a Dutch nursery rhyme about pinning a rose on your hat when you're angry because it'll make things all good by tomorrow. Or something.

I'm guessing he'll be in all of the episodes. The Surreal Life is basically a reality show with a bunch of D-list celebrities living together, which is why they immediately turned to Cool-Yay to join in on the fun ;)

Yeah, I saw it last night. Bob Saget, Dave Cool-yay and Jodie Sweetin were some of the commentators. I nearly spit out my drink when Mary-Kate said something like, "We were ugly babies, we looked like monkeys," and Ashley: "Or chimps." I was all, "You mean you don't NOW?!" But I gotta give them props for being so self-aware without being totally full of themselves.

Jodie Sweetin looked pretty, but like someone said a few pages back, she must have had some work done on her face, because someone who had ugly teeth and a weird nose as a teenager can't look so perfect at age 22 without some help. Dave Cool-yay and the Olsens' dad could be brothers, because not only do they look alike, but they're both equally skeevy.

So their dad doesn't just look creepy, he behaves creepily as well?

I always thought they looked like those troll dolls that were popular about 10 years ago, but I just looked at some old pictures, and they really do look like bald monkeys. And I still think they're kind of cute.

I figured their dad had to be a troll, considering the way they turned out. I just hope their mother is nasty as well.

It's funny you say that because when I was like thriteen, I was reading either YM, Seventeen, or Teen and thay had a picture of two troll dolls with MK&A's faces photoshopped on them. Whenever I think about them, I always think of that picture.

That is pretty cool at least they admit it. I wonder how they feel watching the 1st few episodes.
It is now the Steve years. I liked when Steph and Michelle flew to New Zealand in that 1st episode. I always thought Steve was pretty cool.