minor muppetz
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Why do I ask these kinds of things without thinking to research them on my own... I just watched the full first season opening on YouTube, and that shot isn't there. In fact I knew that the original opening was shortened significantly. I wonder if that whole first verse that's edited in syndication was there for all eight seasons (I did a YouTube search for the season two opening but couldn't find it), as I don't remember it too well and I started watching around season 5 or 6.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.
It's also interesting that in syndication, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen are credited in the first season opening. I had been wondering that as I saw that in the opening credits and noticed them being listed in the end credits as well (and in the end credits Ashley is listed as "Ashley Fuller Olsen").
When I first saw the episode "Happy Birthday, Babies", I didn't know that all those flashbacks were clips from previous episodes (I had just started watching the show shortly before seeing that episode). While I would watch syndicated reruns shortly after I started watching the show, I don't recall seeing any of the episodes that the episode took clips from until three or four years later. The first such episode I saw was the one where Michelle has her first punishment. Interestingly, in the birthday episode that followed a clip where Michelle got her first bed and jumped on it when the adults were out of the room (only to be caught by Jesse), and I had assumed her punishment was for jumping on the bed. I thought when Danny asked her if she knew why she was punished I thought her "no swimming in the kitchen" response was a silly guess, as opposed to that being the actual reason she was punished.