WEBVTT - Some Time With... Dennis Rinsler Part 1! 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:20.599 Hey there, fanar Rito's. 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:24.959 Welcome to a brand new episode of How Rude taner Ritos. Today, 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:27.680 we have a writer and producer whose name you are 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:30.720 bound to recognize, whether it be from the many Full 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:34.159 House episodes he wrote and produced, or from other projects 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:37.280 he's done, like even Stevens and that's so raven. As 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:41.000 you remember, we had Dennis's longtime writing partner, Mark Warren 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:43.600 on the podcast a few months ago, so we can't 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:45.920 wait to talk to Dennis and hear all about his 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:49.839 experience on Full House and beyond. Let's get into it. 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:53.160 Please welcome Dennis Rinseler to the podcast. 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:57.440 Hey Guystennis, I'm getting my h camera on. 0:00:57.560 --> 0:00:58.320 Give me a second. 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:01.560 I recognize that voice, right. I wish somebody would drop 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:03.760 a hamburger. O. 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:05.279 My god, hy. 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:09.800 So good to see your face be. 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.920 Such a warm feeling of great memories. 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:17.319 Oh gosh, Yeah, it's been so much. 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:17.840 Fun doing this. 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:21.440 Huh, seeing your eternally youthful faces. 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:25.560 Really, you know, we we had Mark on the podcast 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:28.399 a few months ago. It was so great to see 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:32.440 him too. But he just has such wark talking about 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:35.720 the show and reliving these memories. It's Jody and I 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:36.640 are having so much fun. 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:38.520 Watching this has been great. 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:46.280 I mean we have talked to Frankie hairdressing, Adria Later, producers, writers, 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:50.560 and just everybody, and it's so much fun because one, 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:52.240 we haven't seen a lot of you guys in such 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:52.800 a long time. 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:56.000 And also, you know, we were kids. 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:57.200 And we you know, it's been fun to go back 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.320 and watch the show that we never watched. 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:01.760 I know, I know you were working, Yeah. 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:03.720 Exactly, we were too busy on TGI Friday. 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.360 I'm trying to think of the last time I actually 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:09.560 saw you. I came to a taping a Fuller House 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:14.200 with my son Greg, who was actually a background player 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:15.480 in one of the episodes. 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:18.240 Okay, yeah, it's drunk. 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.280 Oh, the frat party episode. 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:23.480 He was one of the frat boys. 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.000 He was a boy. Oh interesting, Okay. 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:31.560 And I brought my grandchildren, Noah and Zoe, So it 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:36.120 was such a mind blowing multi generational. 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:41.000 Yeah, bringing our kids to set and getting pictures with 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:45.000 our kids and us like sitting on the couch in 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.560 the set im that I look at those pictures and 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.600 I'm just like, what a what a thing that you 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:51.480 never thought would happen. 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:56.200 The Weirdest week was one of the coolest weeks actually 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.080 was when Jody and I, our daughters, were. 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:01.680 Background players on a couple of episodes. 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.720 Actually, so Jenny and I became like the stage moms 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:06.760 who were like, how do you get a work permit? 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:08.519 What do we like? We didn't know what to do 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:10.360 the things that our moms did for us. 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.200 Yea, on Fuller House, it was. 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:15.600 It was a very full circle moment for us. 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.720 So, yeah, it's so great. Oh but it's so great 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:19.240 to see you. 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:21.800 Oh, great to see you guys. You look great. 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:22.639 Thank you. 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:24.959 Let's go back, I mean and start like, at the 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:29.000 beginning of your career, how did you get into this 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.240 business as a writer? Did you want to be a writer? 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:33.600 Did you want to be an airline pilot? 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:35.000 And this was what was available? 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.160 I mean what yeah, they threw me out. 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.400 Yeah, oh I never I never thought about being a writer. 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:42.360 When I was a kid. 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.760 I was just a wild, crazy kid who just wanted 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:49.960 to run around, have fun, play. When people asked me 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:52.240 what do you want to be when you grow up? 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.720 I always said, I don't want to grow up. 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:55.640 I'm having too much fun. 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.360 No, no thoughts of that, you know, But I love 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.440 goofing around and I loved having a good time and 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:04.240 something with the name Dennis. 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.920 Everybody was like, are you Dennis? The menas so you. 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.840 So at one point I said why not, you know, 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.800 and I became the class clown. I could still remember 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.400 second grade. I must have been like seven years old. 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:23.400 I had a substitute teacher, and the teacher saw me 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.000 talking with kids and not paying attention and pulled me 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:27.880 out in front of the class and put me up 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.359 in the corner and she said, you know, for a 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:35.159 little boy, you are very fresh. And I said, I'm 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:40.599 not fresh, I'm stale. I mean, we happened to be 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:45.480 working on opposites that. 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:45.480 Very timely material and. 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.080 This is actually something I learned, so you should be 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:48.560 proud of me. 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.559 Yeah, so it got big laughs. I said that was fun. 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:56.159 So after that I was on this desk, dancing, running around, 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:56.920 being an idiot. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:04:58.080 I loved it. 0:04:58.120 --> 0:04:59.880 I had a good time, and when I went to 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.400 I'm a Camp I channeled it and I would star 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.360 in the camp plays and things like that, and I 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.120 told my parents I know what I want to be 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:11.120 when I grow up. I want to be a Broadway actor. 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:15.799 And they said, no, you'll starve, You'll start my parents 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:19.159 were very poor and they were panicked, and they said, 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.800 be something safe, be a teacher, practical. 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:25.760 I said, well, you know what that's like, acting a 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:26.200 little bit. 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.200 I could get up in front of the class, I 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.120 could perform, I could teach. And I love kids, and 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.479 I love being a camp counselor. I always wanted to 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.159 be the fun counselor. And I said, all right, great, 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:39.599 I'll do it. Love it and went to college to 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:43.440 study be a teacher, where I met Mark Warren, who 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:45.000 was also studying to be a teacher. 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:46.960 We want to fourth grade teachers. 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:51.599 I got my undergrad degree in elementary with a focus 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:54.040 in elementary education, so I also was going to be 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:54.560 a teacher. 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.320 And when I met Mark and we started talking, we 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:02.799 realized we had the same sense of humor. We loved 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:06.039 dead old Hollywood movies. We had just watched The Night 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:09.400 Before Women's Prison with Idle Lapino, and we were making 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:12.039 jokes about it, and when we went into class, we 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.440 were laughing so hard that the teacher, you know, gave 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.279 us one of all right, mister Rinseler, mister Warren, tell 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:22.239 the class what's so funny, And we couldn't really explain 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.080 why we were laughing. So they threw us out and 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:31.200 we became great friends after that, and we became teachers. 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:31.800 And we taught in New York City. 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.560 I wanted to go to like the most challenging school 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.840 in New York, the poorest neighborhood. I wanted to, you know, 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.919 change the world. And they did send me to a 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.680 school that just opened. When a school just opens, who 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:47.039 do you send every school in the neighborhood sends the 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.040 twenty five worst kids. 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.120 Oh wow, So we go in there. The kids are. 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:55.000 Running wild, they're pulling the fire alarm every ten minutes, 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.039 they're letting wild dogs into the building. There was a 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:02.440 dead body in the school yard. We're calling the police 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:03.520 cause somebody plays pick. 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.000 I mean, that's one hell of a show and tell 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.200 show and don't tell really, you know, betting on your 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:12.080 level of involvement. 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:13.480 Right. 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:18.200 But so that was our thing until another teacher my neighbors, said, 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:21.760 why don't we write a script about teaching. I know, 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:24.600 I once took a filmmaking course. 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:26.920 I know how to you know, make movies. 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:29.800 So we went to his house every day after school 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.520 and told the stories that happened in our school, crazy 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.800 crazy stories, right, And they said ah, let's go to Hollywood. 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:37.480 What do we got to do? 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.480 So they said, well, the next vacation, we'll go out 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:43.680 to Hollywood. We'll rent an El Dorado Cadillac convertible, we'll 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:47.680 get sunglasses, we'll drive around with a stack of scripts 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:51.120 and we'll knock on doors. And we tried it, you know, 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:54.040 and soon the vacation was over, Mark and I had 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.280 to get back to work. The guy said, I'll stay, 0:07:56.320 --> 0:08:00.880 I'll finish up. So he said, it looks like it's 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.280 not going to happen. We went back to teaching. I 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:07.680 was so said, I even sent my name and birthday 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:11.600 to an astrologer who wrote back and said, your life 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.320 is about to change. You are going to get money 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.400 in the middle of the summer. You're going to become 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:20.240 a writer. I was like, that's ridiculous. And that summer 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.120 we get a phone call from the guy who was 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:26.000 still in California trying to sell the script. He says, 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.920 I sold the script. We're getting money in the middle 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:30.960 of the summer. You got to come out here and 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:35.559 be a writer. So we were like, let's do it. 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.920 This astrologer's number, please give it to us. On the side, 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:40.600 I'd like to know. 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.280 Yeah. He sent me an actual tape, like a cassette 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:48.120 tape to play you are going to make money. I 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:49.800 was like, real, you know. 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:54.440 But it worked and we came out and unfortunately the 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:59.040 script we wrote, even though we sold it and got money, 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:03.599 somebody ripped it off. He made a movie called Teachers 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:08.920 with Nick Nolty. But we couldn't complain because we did 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.959 get paid. The guy who paid us was angry because 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:12.680 he was right. 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.240 Because he didn't Yeah yeah, oh wow. 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:19.079 And then we said we got an agent who said, 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:20.720 you know what, forget movies. 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:22.120 Those scripts sit on shelves. 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.920 Whoever come out to Hollywood and I'll get you a 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:26.760 job writing for TV. 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:29.680 So we packed up, we quit teaching. 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.439 We took our wives and our we had each had 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.640 one son at the time. We moved out to Hollywood 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:37.280 and I went up to see the agent and he's 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.480 leaving the business. He goes, oh, I quit this business 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:41.520 is horrible at stuff. 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.280 Oh sorry. We said, hey, our wives. 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:48.120 Are in Beverly Hills now for homes, and what are 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:52.880 we going to tell it? There's no job and there wasn't. 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:55.120 So every day we just went up to that same 0:09:55.200 --> 0:10:00.520 agency CIA and said, you promise us a job, please please, Yeah, 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:13.800 And finally we ended up writing for some puppet named Madam. 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:16.320 Okay, I have a love hate relationship with Madam. 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.600 When I was little, I was terrified of her. 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.719 That face, the face it. 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.720 Also it looked like the Wicked Queen from Snow White 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:27.280 for me, and that was just that was just a 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.760 no go. But then as I got older and went 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:35.400 and rewatched Madam on it was on solid gold. Right 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.199 now I have a whole new appreciation and she's hilarious 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:45.000 and it's a total like, you know, I had no 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:46.400 idea you wrote for Madam. 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:49.360 Well, now that you got older, and if you have 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:53.640 a look at her again, a face is basically male genitalia. 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:58.199 That's what, yes, exactly it is. It's these yeah yeah, 0:10:58.400 --> 0:10:59.839 the nose, the whole. 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:00.840 Thing, double things. 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:01.160 Yeah. 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:03.280 Show. 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.760 She had a sitcom and in the sitcom, she had 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:10.800 a talk show. Was one of the scenes that she 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.040 would do it, and we got all the Hollywood stars 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:17.160 would come Debbie Reynolds, the people would come in. And 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.720 when we learned how to write on that show amazing. 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.320 Back when puppets were just getting shows left and right, 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:30.880 you got al you know, you got madam, there's. 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:32.880 No there's no puppets hr puffing stuff. 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:34.120 I mean it was you know. 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:39.640 What was puffing stuff exactly exactly if you've ever watched 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:40.120 that show. 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:44.600 Weirdly found it and loved it. Yeah, I was like, 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:46.200 what is happening? 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:51.040 It's great people were puffing stuff and watching that show exactly. 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:56.079 So that seems like it's quite a quite a journey. 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.280 And like, you know, Mark told us a little bit 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:01.199 about it too, so it's it's cool hearing like both sides. 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.040 Of it, and how the same story wherever we go. 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.839 Well, but yeah, but like it, you know, hearing it 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.640 that you guys both just sort of met and trusted 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.560 each other and and you know, and it worked, and 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:13.800 it worked for a very long time. 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:15.959 We still make each other laugh. I had lunch with 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:20.600 him yesterday. We still worked at the same stuff. It's great, 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:24.000 and you know, we've been friends. If we're friends first 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:27.520 and then you work together, you never have a real argument. 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.439 You only have creative arguments because we love each other. 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:33.400 So we never really had an argument in thirty years. 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:36.880 We thirty five years we worked together, just arguing over 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.040 you know, what's funny here or something? Right? 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.679 Yeah, yeah, oh, that's so what a what a great friendship. 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:44.960 That makes me feel so good inside that you just 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:45.920 had lunch with him too. 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.240 Yeah, every week we said we get together every week. 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.920 That's we go on vacation together. We still hang out. 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.640 I love it. I love stories. 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:56.760 Oh, I mean there's. 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:57.920 So many we say anything else. 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:02.120 I just want to tell Andrea what a good sport 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.000 and a troop of you were for putting up with 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.760 all those Kimmy gibblers stinky feet jokes. 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:09.839 Thank you. 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:10.520 Yes, as a. 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:15.800 Young teenager, a young person growing up, every little imperfection 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.359 is magnified, so you really didn't need that. 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:25.720 Upbringing. But you took it like such a pro. Really 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:27.079 respected you for that. 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:30.080 Oh that's so nice of you to say that, thank you. Yeah, no, 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.720 it was the stinky feet jokes have followed me throughout 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.240 my entire life. You know, even to this day, people 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:37.880 ask about my stinky feet. 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:41.320 But you know, you could start selling your shoes on 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:43.920 eBay and I bet people would buy them. 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:46.280 This could be a whole other career for me. 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:46.720 Really. 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.320 Let me tell you, market people, do you say thank you? 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.400 What do you say when they say I? 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:54.120 You know, one time I did get a little sassy, 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.360 and I was like, well you want to find out, I'll. 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:57.640 Take the shoes off right here. 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.040 But mostly I just like, I'm just like, no, no, 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:01.400 my feet don't stink. 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:02.440 I'm too polite to. 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.199 Say anything like no, no, no, I don't know. I 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.400 my feet aren't real. I don't have feet, and they're 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:09.760 not real. 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.439 They're not they're not really. Those weren't really my feet. 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.520 But Kimmy was such a fun character, Y like, she 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:17.160 was such a great character to play. 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.440 Was how about the outfits we picked out for you? 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:23.840 I didn't love the outfits. It's your fault, your fault. Yes, 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:27.000 I try not to harbor too much resentment. 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.000 No I didn't. Yeah, the wardrobe was tough, was tough, 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:31.200 you know what. 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.640 I feel like they would show us choices. We have 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:35.560 this one of this one, we go, oh, that second 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:36.200 one is worse. 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:37.600 We got to use that Oh. 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:41.160 Gosh, yes, you see, you see, But that's okay. 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:41.640 Character. 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:45.400 It was the character, and I feel like in Fuller House, 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.120 Kimmy Gibler got so much redemption. You know, she was 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:52.280 finally like her wardrobe was finally stylish and yeah, she 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:54.400 finally came into her own. 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:58.080 Well, when you guys are in charge, you make different decisions. 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.280 Yeah, it's weird how the adult on the show. It 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.160 makes a big difference in your wardrobe. 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:08.120 Yeah, ask you doing the show. Did you have any 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.800 revelations like now that you're on the other side, Oh, 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.840 that's why you do this, So that's why they made 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:18.720 those decisions. Did anything hit you like now I see 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:20.080 it from the other side. 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:25.160 I mean, a great question for me the week I directed. 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:28.400 Was I mean, and I cud you know, I kind 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.920 of knew some of the questions that that side of 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:32.920 the camera has to ask, but but it was a 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:36.760 very different experience when you're like, oh, yeah, like I'm 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.280 in charge here and everything all the pieces have to 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.040 fit and I actually am in charge of some decisions 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:44.040 and I have to make a choice. 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.280 Yeah, you're making a decision for week. Yeah. 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.160 Yeah, A lot of the ever rote an episode. 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:53.760 It's been a week in the writer's room, which was amazing, 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:57.000 Like there is just oh boy, lots of jokes, lots 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:59.400 of talk, lots of wasted time, lots of snacks, like 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.320 there's lot going on in that room that the fuel. 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:06.240 Yeah right, but no, it was fantastic. I I really 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.880 think what I realized that week in the writer's room 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:12.000 on Fuller House was there should really be a liaison 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:14.800 between the stage and the writer's room, because I was 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:16.440 kind of both that week. I was the actor on 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.920 the stage and I was the writer in the writer's room. 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:21.080 But I was able to explain to the writers why 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.680 a scene wasn't working, or why this joke wasn't hitting, 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:26.560 or why this this actor wouldn't be able to make 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.400 it work or whatever, and they were like, oh, okay, yeah, 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:31.800 well let's just change that. We'll just change that scene. 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.120 We'll make that. It's an easy change to make. And 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:35.480 then when I was on the stage, I'd be like, 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.760 the writers really want this, you know, they really want 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:39.120 this thing to work, and so. 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.360 We gotta we got to figure out different blocking or whatever. 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:43.640 So I was like, yeah, this is this is helpful 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:45.800 to have somebody talking, which I guess that was mostly 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:49.040 you and Mark and Jeff too when Jeff was on 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:49.360 the show. 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:51.440 You guys really related. 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:54.600 Second hand, like all that from the stage is, but 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.720 you're right person in both places well, and. 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:02.280 Not only that, I find anyone working on the other 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.280 side of the camera who has also been an actor 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.280 or ever at least had some. 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:08.400 Sort of experience on that. 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:13.320 It's a really great bridge because you both you understand 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.159 what the actor is feeling and how to talk to 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:18.679 them and like what they and then you know, the 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.920 writers or the director or whatever. It's like you know, 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:24.840 how what to push on, what to sort of let 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:28.119 them have, you know, and uh, yeah, it's just but 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:31.040 it is the liaison between sort of that again, that 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.760 bridge in the middle. I don't think people really get 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:38.400 how siloed. Yeah, your stage and the writer's room are. 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:41.400 They are across the law in different spots. 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:45.320 We don't really, yeah, we don't really. We never really 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:47.440 interacted that much with the writers. You know, they would 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:49.879 come for run throughs and watch us at run throughs, 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:51.920 but other than that, there wasn't Yeah, there wasn't a 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:52.800 whole lot of interaction. 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:58.640 It is the nerve center, the brain. Yeah, the show. 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:02.440 And uh, I got to tell you guys, when we 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:06.119 came on the show the second season, it was not 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:10.920 a happy place because we came in and all we're 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:15.280 hearing is all the reviews are terrible. They're trashing us, 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:18.800 and the audience is not even hasn't even found us. 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:24.320 We have there's no ratings and uh, you know, I 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.520 think this is just a kid show. Then we go 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:31.200 down to the stage and we find out John Stamos 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:32.160 doesn't like the show. 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:34.000 He doesn't want to be in. 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:37.760 Every scene is being stolen by some young kids. 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:43.480 Bob Saggant, Oh yeah. 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.520 They hated each other, well, not hated each other, but 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:46.800 they drove each other nuts. 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:50.160 And Saggot hates his character. I'm a nerd. 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:56.040 I'm a clean freak wife, right, Dave Coolier, he just 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:57.080 wanted to come to work and. 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.480 Just the guy who's like, what this man, what do 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:03.160 you want me to do? 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:08.439 But the thing was, even though we thought, oh, I 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:10.920 guess we're just doing a kid show. It's a rip 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:13.800 off of three men and a baby and all that. 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:18.840 But when we saw you guys, we were saying, this 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:20.080 is this is comedy gold. 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:24.160 I mean comedy gold is when you know, you give 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:27.919 actors a joke, and it's usually if you write a 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.960 good joke, it's joke proof. Just read it and we'll laugh. 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:34.840 But you guys were making the straight lines funny. 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:36.480 How rude? 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:40.199 You could put that in a script, Stephanie, go up 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:44.520 to your room, how rude? No, And you did it. 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:47.879 It was so powerful and funny. We're still doing it today. 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:49.720 It was still using it today. 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:50.439 Yeah. 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:54.640