Full House

[Ilikemuppets]

Thankfully, some shows--if they leave stuff out--recap what happens so one can catch up.

I don't get what you mean?

 

[wwfpooh]

Some shows show replays of missed situations. Like if one episode of Full House were to reference a previous one, sometimes a flashback to that previous one would occur.

 

[Ilikemuppets]

I'm not too fond of flash back sequences. But something they edited out of one episode of full house drives me crazy. Does anybody remember on the episode where Michelle buys a donkey that when Dannie too it want outside to quite it down and when the neighbors started complaining, that the one lady who was yelling threatened to start shooting. Does anybody rememebr the seen where you actuakly hear bullets being show into the air? They do so well of editing that part out in syndication. You even know they did By Becky's comment about the Neighbors being armed and cranky.

 

[wwfpooh]

I'm not too fond of flash back sequences. But something they edited out of one episode of full house drives me crazy. Does anybody remember on the episode where Michelle buys a donkey that when Dannie too it want outside to quite it down and when the neighbors started complaining, that the one lady who was yelling threatened to start shooting. Does anybody rememebr the seen where you actuakly hear bullets being show into the air? They do so well of editing that part out in syndication. You even know they did By Becky's comment about the Neighbors being armed and cranky.

Perhaps they thought it inappropriate to have guns on a family show?

 

[Ilikemuppets]

Perhaps they thought it inappropriate to have guns on a family show?

It was just for comical purposes. The audience laugh at it and it wasn't serious.

 

[wwfpooh]

It was just for comical purposes. The audience laugh at it and it wasn't serious.

I was just giving a possible reason for the scene being cut.

 

[minor muppetz]

I first saw Full House in 1991, and I am surprised that so many people seem to hate or dislike the show. The first episode I remember is the one where Jesse and Becky learn that Becky is going to have twins. I remember the scene with Jesse imagining Danny and Joey with evil twins, and thought that scene was freaky... But it didn't turn me off of the show (and I would not see that particular episode again for about 12 years). I started watching "America's Funniest Home Videos" and "America's Funniest People" shortly after I started watching this show, and thought it was cool that two of the cast members were on this show. It also made me like Jesse the least, because he didn't host either of those shows. I liked America's Funniest People better, it's a shame that show ended early while America's Funniest Home Videos is still on the air. I've watched AFHV less after Bob Saget left.

I first heard of the "Full House hatred" after the show ended. I don't understand why so many people dislike the show. Even when the reason is explained.

Currently the show is on both ABC Family and Nick at Nite (has the show ever left the N@N line-up since the channel started airing the show in the early 2000s?), and I've been revisiting the show quite a bit lately. ABC Family seems to add commercial breaks in spots where the episodes originally didn't, as sometimes a scene quickly fades to black right after a character says something or as the audience is laughing, rather awkward. And ABC Family puts credits over the last scene, looking weird to see credits before the "Executive Producer" credit shows. I find it ironic that ABC Family does this, as Fox Family was the first cable channel I remember seeing do the split-screen credits where you couldn't see the closing (Nick at Nite also did split screen credits at the time, but you could still see the action in the closings).

It's interesting how most of the cold opens are cut (at least on ABC Family), but there is one that's not cut, in the episode "Silence is Not Golden". Of course that is a little bit important to the subplot of Michelle telling jokes she heard on a joke hotline, though I wonder how important it is to see the scene with Michelle and Denise discussing the hotline. Without it, we'd see them telling jokes throughout the show, Denise accidently saying she learned those jokes from Funny Buddy and Michelle quickly making them go outside (the others clueless), and then Danny getting a phone bill from the hotline and finding out. In fact when I first saw that episode I don't recall seeing the cold open.

Something else about that hotline that's confusing: The announcer in the commercial advertising the hotline says that kids would get a daily joke from "your funny buddy", and when Danny finds out he refers to him as "your funny buddy", but two times Denise refers to "Funny Buddy" as if that's the name of the joke teller. So I wonder if "Funny Buddy" is an entertainer or if "funny buddy" is the job description for those who tell the jokes.

A few other things about that hotline: 1.Pretty much all the jokes Michelle learns are rather simple jokes, the kinds I've heard quite a few times (though I saw the episode last week and couldn't remember one of the punchlines). When Danny calls the number to see what it is Michelle just happens to walk into the room telling the exact joke that Danny is hearing.... And when Danny beats her to the punchline of the joke ("How can you tell if an elephant's been in your refrigerator? By the footsteps in the butter"), Michelle initially wonders how he knew that... But that's an old joke, and she didn't seem to notice Danny talking on the phone. I say that hotline was a rip-off! 2. When Danny gets the bill and asks Joey if he called it, Joey accuses him of accusing him. I find it ironic how Joey thinks he's being accused of calling a pay number that is a joke hotline, since Joey is a comedian... Though neither of them knew what the number was for when Danny asked. That could have made for a good episode... Michelle calls a joke hotline, Danny thinks Joey called it because he needed material, and near the end he finds out the truth.

It's interesting how on the show Joey has done impressions of Kermit (twice), Gonzo, and The Swedish Chef, but never any of the characters he voiced on Muppet Babies (I wonder if that was off-limits).

Anybody know why Jesse cut his hair after the first season? Was it his choice or did the writers/producers decide he should have shorter hair? Just something I've wondered for quite awhile.

Finally (for now), was there an episode where DJ broke up with Steve? I don't remember seeing any such episode, and I first remember hearing about the break-up from somebody else. The final season had a few episodes involving an ex of DJ's who was rich, but don't remember seeing any episodes where they get together... Was there such an episode or was his first appearance their break-up episode? I remember missing that episode when it first aired and didn't know about the character, then I saw the TV listing description for the episode where Kimmy dated him, and with the description saying "Kimmy dates DJs ex-boyfriend", I thought the episode was about her dating Steve.

 

[minor muppetz]

Finally (for now), was there an episode where DJ broke up with Steve? I don't remember seeing any such episode, and I first remember hearing about the break-up from somebody else.

I was looking at an episode guide, and was surprised to see that the episode where they broke up was an episode where I remember the subplot (the cast decides to get revenge on Joey for pulling early april fools pranks on them) but I don't remember the main plot at all. I would have thought that I would remember seeing that plot.

 

[HeyButtahfly]

I remember the episode where DJ & Steve broke up. She slowly discovered that their lives were in two different places. DJ had gone rock-climbing with Kimmy and Nelson, I think, and she was so thrilled that she'd made it to the top of whatever hill they had climbed. When she took Steve back there, he didn't "get it" (he wasn't moved by the view at the top, I think) and that's when it hit her.

After Steve, there was Nelson for a few episodes (the "rich guy"), then Viper (from Jesse's band), then an episode where Viper and Nelson wanted her to choose between them.

 

[minor muppetz]

I've been watching the first season episodes lately, and is it just me or is the syndication version of the opening slightly different? In the shot of the cast running, it looks like Jesse has his shorter haircut from after season one, but the other scenes show him with his original longer hair. So it's not like they replaced the whole opening with a later-season opening.

Does anybody who went to Walt Disney World in 1993 or 1994 know if the park actually had that one attraction from "The House Meets the Mouse" where visitors rub a lamp until the Genie appears making them king or queen for the day? I remember when I went to Walt Disney World in 1995 I was expecting to see it and can't remember whether I saw it in the brochure (I think I might still have it somewhere, maybe I can check). I wonder if that attraction really was there or if it was created just for that episode.

And considering Michelle got three wishes for being the queen, I wonder what would have happened if she had wished for something impossible (well, she initially did wish for world peace, but she changed her mind after Kimmy declared it "BORING!"). And I wonder if the park had anybody to keep track of the wishes (she told the person working the attraction her first wish, and told Snow White her other wishes).