Speaker 1: So depending on when we record a lot of these
Speaker 1: and we don't know exactly when they air, but so
Speaker 1: depending on when this airs. This last weekend, I was
Speaker 1: in Nashville for a convention and it was a great time.
Speaker 2: People there are so amazing.
Speaker 1: The food is incredible, people are unbelievably friendly, but the
Speaker 1: amount of people that came up to me talking to
Speaker 1: me about how.
Speaker 2: Excited they are for the live show amazing.
Speaker 1: Every other person was like, I've already got my tickets
Speaker 1: to the live show. I cannot wait. I'm bringing this person,
Speaker 1: I'm bringing that person, I'm bringing my family. I'm so
Speaker 1: excited to do the live shows because we get a
Speaker 1: taste of how awesome our fans are when we do
Speaker 1: the conventions, and I think when we do the live
Speaker 1: shows and it's kind of boy meets world centric and
Speaker 1: pod meets world centric, people are going to We're just.
Speaker 2: Going to be meeting the coolest people all the way around.
Speaker 2: I really can't wait to start this thing.
Speaker 3: It's going to be so much fun. I know. I'm
Speaker 3: looking I'm really looking forward to Nashville in particular because
Speaker 3: one because you told us about how great everyone was,
Speaker 3: but also didn't you have some incredible food I found.
Speaker 2: I ate at the scene.
Speaker 1: But so the hotel they put us in was and
Speaker 1: this is not an exaggeration, thirty steps from one of
Speaker 1: the best barbecue places in Nashville. I think it's called Milton's,
Speaker 1: I believe is what it was, called Miller's.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get, you know, hate for that, but oh man,
Speaker 1: I went three times. When I was there, it was
Speaker 1: just the pull pork and the brisket.
Speaker 3: And I've never been.
Speaker 1: Oh here we are time, I know, I know, but
Speaker 1: it was no But now I have a question because
Speaker 1: we keep getting that. I have my Finsta account, which
Speaker 1: everybody helped me, so I'm looking at all the comments.
Speaker 1: When we announce live shows, we have more coming up
Speaker 1: from all over the country. Right Like, we've only announced
Speaker 1: certain ones, but there's others coming from other places.
Speaker 3: Yes, we have other dates that will be announced soon.
Speaker 3: I don't know exactly when they will be announced. There
Speaker 3: are still some details that need to be worked out
Speaker 3: with them. But we've only announced what six seven dates,
Speaker 3: but I think we're total. The goal is that we're
Speaker 3: going to try to do about fifteen this year, so
Speaker 3: we're only maybe maximum halfway there with our announcements. There
Speaker 3: will be more.
Speaker 1: Because I feel bad every time I look at the
Speaker 1: comments and like come here, come here, come here, and
Speaker 1: I want to shout like I think we are going
Speaker 1: to those places.
Speaker 2: Yes, we can actually say that.
Speaker 3: I mean, yes, certainly, these are let's say the places
Speaker 3: that we have announced. Okay, July twentieth, we're in Minneapolis.
Speaker 3: July twenty first, we're in Milwaukee. July twenty second, we're
Speaker 3: in Royal Oak, Michigan. And then August fourth, we're in Nashville.
Speaker 3: August fifth, we're in Saint Louis, August sixth, we're in
Speaker 3: Kansas City. And September seventeenth, we are in Orlando.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what we know of so far.
Speaker 3: That's what has been announced.
Speaker 4: It's been announced. We know of more.
Speaker 2: We know that we've announced so far.
Speaker 3: Like I'll give you a little tease, we're coming to Philly.
Speaker 4: Oh are we allowed to tease that?
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm gonna say it right now.
Speaker 2: Of course, of.
Speaker 3: Course we're coming to you guys. Meets the World is
Speaker 3: from We're from Philly.
Speaker 2: That's not an awesome show.
Speaker 3: That's going to be an amazing show. And September is
Speaker 3: the official thirtieth anniversary. So although we will also be
Speaker 3: in Orlando in September, I'm considering when we are in
Speaker 3: Philly in September. I haven't announced the it yet.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: It is the real true thirty thirty anniversary celebration for
Speaker 3: us for that.
Speaker 2: So I didn't know if you were actually going to
Speaker 2: say that.
Speaker 3: I'm surprise. I'm not sure if I was supposed to,
Speaker 3: but I have. And also we have the one and
Speaker 3: only Tony Quinn is joining us in Kansas City. I'm
Speaker 3: very excited about that. If you are anywhere near Kansas City,
Speaker 3: please come out and see us. That should be a.
Speaker 1: Great So excited too. Tony and I've been talking about it.
Speaker 1: We cannot wait. We're already thinking about fun stuff to
Speaker 1: do for the show, like.
Speaker 3: If of course, of course, you guys are a real
Speaker 3: joy together, so I can't I just can't wait to
Speaker 3: be in the presence of the two of you again.
Speaker 3: So anyway, Uh, that's it.
Speaker 2: Welcome to party, that's it.
Speaker 1: I'm very excited to beat all our fans because the
Speaker 1: fans are awesome.
Speaker 2: That's what I was saying.
Speaker 3: Welcome to Pod Meets World. I'm Daniel Fischel, I'm right
Speaker 3: or Strong, and I'm Wilfordell. It would be difficult to
Speaker 3: talk about the landscape of nineties family sitcoms without thinking
Speaker 3: of our guest this week. She played the iconic Kimmy
Speaker 3: Gibbler for one hundred and ninety two episodes of full House.
Speaker 4: That's a lot.
Speaker 3: Then she came back for the reboot of Fuller House,
Speaker 3: clocking in seventy five more half hours. As Kimmy. She
Speaker 3: played this role that really set the standard for the
Speaker 3: nerdy best friend, a trope you still see on TV
Speaker 3: decades later. And before Kimmy, she played Carrie Brady on
Speaker 3: Days of Our Lives, starting as a six year old
Speaker 3: for almost one hundred episodes over four years of the
Speaker 3: soap opera. It's crazy, and people think we grew up
Speaker 3: on TV. I mean she's like, I mean, truly grew
Speaker 3: up on TV. But it was in nineteen eighty seven,
Speaker 3: when Fullhouse debuted and eventually became the flagship show of
Speaker 3: TGIF on ABC, that she became an unforgettable part of
Speaker 3: our generation's popular culture, even saying the series final line.
Speaker 3: This week, we are thrilled to welcome Andrea Barber to
Speaker 3: Pod meets World. Welcome my friends. Hi, Hey, how are you.
Speaker 5: I'm great. I'm so happy to see your faces.
Speaker 3: So nice to see your face. I was just saying
Speaker 3: in your intro that you have, first of all, you
Speaker 3: did one hundred episodes of a soap opera starting when
Speaker 3: you were six years old, then rolling into like you
Speaker 3: have really truly grown up on television.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know more about my career than I do.
Speaker 5: I don't remember. I did one hundred episodes of Days
Speaker 5: of Our Lives. That's a lot, ye, so many.
Speaker 4: That's like two weeks of work.
Speaker 5: That is two weeks of work. So yeah, that's like
Speaker 5: boot camp for actors.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: So the mid to late eighties when you're on Days
Speaker 4: of Our Lives.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was, well, yeah, I was six years old.
Speaker 5: Let's see, so that was nineteen eighty two if I'm
Speaker 5: doing the math correctly, early eighties.
Speaker 2: Okay, wow wow maybe yeah, my gosh.
Speaker 5: I'm so glad I was six years old because I
Speaker 5: would have been a nervous wreck had I started acting
Speaker 5: on a soap opera as an adult, because it's terrifying.
Speaker 5: You have to memorize what sixty pages of dialogue every
Speaker 5: single day. Let's do like your fourteen hour day, like
Speaker 5: there's just no time to have a life.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it literally is boot camp for actors.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: So before you started on that, like what got you
Speaker 3: interested in acting? Were your parents in the industry? Tell
Speaker 3: us about your origin story?
Speaker 5: Ooh, my origin story? Okay, Well, I don't have any recollection.
Speaker 5: I don't have any recollection of being like, oh, I
Speaker 5: want to be an actor because I started acting at
Speaker 5: age five, right, you know, I was into like Plato
Speaker 5: and you know, sidewalk chalk at that age. But my
Speaker 5: parents were very into community theater, so that was like
Speaker 5: the thing we did the Barber family, and I have
Speaker 5: two older brothers. They were forced into it as well,
Speaker 5: so the whole family we did like a Christmas Carol
Speaker 5: at the local theater and it was a family hobby.
Speaker 5: So we were doing one of these community theater productions.
Speaker 5: It might have been The King and I I don't remember. Anyways,
Speaker 5: it was during like there was an actor's striker. There
Speaker 5: was something going on, and there were there were agents
Speaker 5: out looking for fresh talent, and so my agent was
Speaker 5: in the audience looking for fresh blood. I don't know,
Speaker 5: and she approached my parents and were like, hey, are
Speaker 5: you interested in putting your kids into the business, And
Speaker 5: my parents, not knowing a thing about the industry, We're like, sure,
Speaker 5: we'll give it, We'll give it a shot. Why not.
Speaker 5: So my brothers and I went into Judy Savage was
Speaker 5: my agent, and Judy's taught me how to slate. And
Speaker 5: I was again five years old, so I didn't know
Speaker 5: what I was doing, and so she taught me. You know,
Speaker 5: you say, hi, my name is Andrea Barber and I'm
Speaker 5: from the Savage Agency. And so I got up there
Speaker 5: and I was all confident, you know, my five year
Speaker 5: old self with my pigtails, and I was like, Hi,
Speaker 5: I'm Andrea Barber and I'm from the Average Agency. And
Speaker 5: I got I still got I still got it. She
Speaker 5: still signed me, and I.
Speaker 3: Really, Now, did she sign your brothers too?
Speaker 2: She did.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she represented all three of us for a very
Speaker 5: long time. And then so my brothers did a lot
Speaker 5: of commercials. You know, back in the day that commercials
Speaker 5: were very, very popular and a good source of income
Speaker 5: for child actors. Yes, so they did that. They did
Speaker 5: appearances on General Hospital, you know, a couple of things
Speaker 5: like that. And then when my brothers got to high school.
Speaker 5: They were like, this sucks, Like, yeah, I don't want
Speaker 5: to dated doing auditions. You know, It's just it's not
Speaker 5: a very rewarding career unless you're lucky like I was.
Speaker 5: And so they were like, we want to play volleyball
Speaker 5: and we want to play water polo in high school.
Speaker 5: We don't want to do this acting thing anymore. So
Speaker 5: they left and they stopped acting and did did varsity
Speaker 5: sports in high school. And I was, you know, I
Speaker 5: was still having a lot of success and enjoying it,
Speaker 5: so I stuck with it.
Speaker 3: So you had signed with the Savage Agency at five,
Speaker 3: and then you started you started the soap opera at six,
Speaker 3: so you couldn't have possibly had that many auditions before
Speaker 3: you booked that gig.
Speaker 5: I don't I don't remember. I don't.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 5: My very first job before Days of Our Lives was
Speaker 5: a commercial for for what is it parque margarine or
Speaker 5: whatever that was. It tastes like butter. So that was
Speaker 5: very first job at age five, and I don't even
Speaker 5: remember what I did between that and Days of Our Lives. Yeah,
Speaker 5: maybe I didn't have many auditions. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean you said job, Yeah, you just kept working
Speaker 3: I mean you would also end up on a bunch
Speaker 3: of shows that will make Will very jealous. Fantasy Island
Speaker 3: Saying Elsewhere and the eighties Twilight Zone. Yeah great, I
Speaker 3: mean those must have been like incredible learning experiences, unlike
Speaker 3: my Barbie commercials.
Speaker 1: Well, no, the classic shows were incredible, and we can
Speaker 1: go through fantasy on all that stuff.
Speaker 2: But I've held in a little.
Speaker 1: Secret that eighties Days of Our Lives when we're talking
Speaker 1: Bow and Hope, I was totally.
Speaker 5: Ooh and Hope Classic. Still they're probably still on Days
Speaker 5: of Our Lives.
Speaker 1: I think they're probably still there now. But that's really
Speaker 1: when it started. In the eighties was like what's going
Speaker 1: out with Bow and Hope? So you were there for
Speaker 1: like the Heyday. Sorry, I'm now listening with Days of.
Speaker 6: Our Lives one with the guy with the eye patch too, Yes,
Speaker 6: patch going to my grandmother's house and that would always
Speaker 6: be on a pirate on TV.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Peter Recle was a big actor back in the day.
Speaker 5: On The Loved Peter Recle. They were such nice, they
Speaker 5: were so kind to me, and I was a flower
Speaker 5: girl in Bowe Hope's wedding, like the dad you were
Speaker 5: at wedding.
Speaker 1: In Will's mind, and then the fantasy island for the honeymoon.
Speaker 2: Forget it. I can't even I can't do this anymore
Speaker 2: TV wise. That's awesome.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm glad you're impressed, because I don't think so.
Speaker 5: At least I've impressed you will.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. Oh my god.
Speaker 3: You also had a guest starring role on Growing Pains
Speaker 3: with yet another Cameron sibling.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I did. I was the character Ben. I
Speaker 5: was his like sort of girlfriend sort of for one episode.
Speaker 5: That's it. And we didn't even tape with an audience.
Speaker 5: It was such a weird week. I think they were
Speaker 5: behind or they were I don't know. There was some
Speaker 5: sort of and so they're like, I just cancel the audience.
Speaker 5: We're just gonna tape this as it is. So I
Speaker 5: never got the studio audience experience on Growing Pains, but
Speaker 5: it was still great. I mean, I knew Kirk and
Speaker 5: so I knew a bunch of people on the show already,
Speaker 5: So it was very comfortable and so was full house.
Speaker 3: Then your first live studio audience experience.
Speaker 5: Yes, for sure. Every Friday night it was. It was trippy.
Speaker 5: It was I mean, you guys know, it was so fun.
Speaker 5: Those were the days. That's how I spent my Friday nights.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, so much fun. How do you remember
Speaker 3: the feeling of it being incredibly different than doing the soap?
Speaker 3: Like do you remember being like, oh, all the work
Speaker 3: I had previously done on the soap is totally different
Speaker 3: than this new thing I'm doing with a live studio
Speaker 3: audience at a sitcom.
Speaker 5: I don't remember it being that different, Like, the live
Speaker 5: studio audience is such a it's such a joyful energy
Speaker 5: surge that I wasn't like, oh wow, this is a
Speaker 5: totally foreign world to me. It just I mean, acting
Speaker 5: is acting, and it's like you read a script, you
Speaker 5: memorize the lines, and you you know, you spit it out.
Speaker 5: So it didn't feel too different. But I knew it
Speaker 5: was something special, you know, because of the because of
Speaker 5: the relationship I have with the cast and the way
Speaker 5: that we all gelled and had that chemistry right from
Speaker 5: day one. It felt definitely special, and the live studio
Speaker 5: audience was just the icing on the cake.
Speaker 3: Do you remember your audition for Kimmy Gibbler?
Speaker 5: I don't I feel so bad? I get that question
Speaker 5: a lot and I mean I was ten when I
Speaker 5: auditioned for Full House. I auditioned for the role of DJ. First,
Speaker 5: didn't get that, but they called me back because they're like, oh,
Speaker 5: we want to have you know, a neighbor girl, you know,
Speaker 5: DJ's best friend. Can you read for the role of
Speaker 5: Kimmy Gibbler? And I was like, okay. So, you know,
Speaker 5: when you're a kid actor auditions, you just you don't
Speaker 5: think about it. You just knew it. It's just such
Speaker 5: a routine. Rote I was like, all right, here's another one.
Speaker 5: You don't know, Oh, I'm auditioning for this hit TV
Speaker 5: show is going to change my life and go for
Speaker 5: the next you know, thirty five years. You don't think that. Fine, No,
Speaker 5: So for me, it was just another audition. I was like,
Speaker 5: all right, let's just do it. And it obviously it
Speaker 5: was great, but I don't remember it specifically. No.
Speaker 3: We had Jody on the show recently and.
Speaker 5: I listened to that episode. It was so good. Yeah, unfriendly,
Speaker 5: she's so shy, she's very she's very introverted and a lot.
Speaker 2: Not a fan.
Speaker 6: It's so interesting though, between with her and you that
Speaker 6: you guys and I guess the Olsen's in a way
Speaker 6: like you guys were a cast of people who just
Speaker 6: were already acting by the time you like became conscious, right,
Speaker 6: do you know what I mean? Like, because she started
Speaker 6: on the show when she was five or six, and
Speaker 6: she also doesn't really remember life without acting. That's a
Speaker 6: that's a really interesting environment.
Speaker 1: Candis was the same way, it wasn't she a Candas
Speaker 1: started really young as well, like really young.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we all started very young and had several years
Speaker 5: under our belts before full House.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 5: And so you guys started a little older you were.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we were all eleventh.
Speaker 3: Plus started ten eleven, twelve.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, so you remember life before right, yes, yeah,
Speaker 5: exactly you started act? Okay, Yeah, I don't have that.
Speaker 5: I don't remember anything before life.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: It is really interesting because yeah, you're right, right, or
Speaker 3: I hadn't put that together that like that entire cast
Speaker 3: was made of people who were pros by the time
Speaker 3: they started.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, because you guys started at such a younger age. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's so interesting.
Speaker 6: And you guys are still very close, right, I mean
Speaker 6: that's what Joe. Yeah, yeah, it's I think there's like
Speaker 6: even more of an intense family vibe you know, like
Speaker 6: protecting each other as children essentially, you know, like in
Speaker 6: a way that Yeah.
Speaker 4: We were much more.
Speaker 6: I think we were more of a teen show, you
Speaker 6: know what I mean, Like you guys were more of
Speaker 6: a family kids show, or you were kids on a
Speaker 6: family show, whereas we were like a teenager show.
Speaker 3: In you know, he started as kids and then they
Speaker 3: very quickly were like, now you're a teen show, and
Speaker 3: so we became teens very quickly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And they separated the family life from kind of
Speaker 1: the school life a lot more on our show than
Speaker 1: Full House, where it's really was the family vibe, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we I mean by what the six or seventh year,
Speaker 1: Betsy and Rustie were barely on the show, So it
Speaker 1: was that we really, yeah, moved from that kind of dynamic.
Speaker 3: Andrea, were you a were you a quirky kid? Did
Speaker 3: the character of Kimmy Gibbler speak to you? Did you,
Speaker 3: like just did it come very naturally? Did you love it?
Speaker 5: It came very naturally. I did love it. I'm nothing
Speaker 5: like Kimmy Gibler. It never have been. It's so far
Speaker 5: out like I was a shy I've always been an
Speaker 5: awkward person, Like I've made a whole career out of
Speaker 5: being awkward. But I've always been awkward, but I'm very
Speaker 5: introverted and shy, whereas Kimmy was just like like and
Speaker 5: she's just like lets it all out, you know. March
Speaker 5: is to the beat of her own drum, doesn't care,
Speaker 5: says what's on her mind, tats everyone around her. And
Speaker 5: I don't think I'm that way. I'm just much more shy,
Speaker 5: kind of like hide in the background. Let me disappear
Speaker 5: in the background and be a wallflower. But I always
Speaker 5: felt awkward. And maybe that's different because Kimmy Gibler never
Speaker 5: felt awkward. She just felt like herself and she owned
Speaker 5: it and loved it and was proud of it. She
Speaker 5: didn't feel different, she felt great about herself. And it
Speaker 5: was I think about that now as an adult and
Speaker 5: I'm like, what a great role model Kimmy Gibler was,
Speaker 5: you know. And I hear that from fans now, how
Speaker 5: they're like, oh my gosh, we related to Kimmy Gibler
Speaker 5: as like the offbeat one, you know, the different one.
Speaker 5: And that's that's a thing with Rkle Kimmi Gibbler, there's
Speaker 5: you always have that character on these sitcoms, and so
Speaker 5: I think it spoke to a lot of kids that
Speaker 5: felt unpopular or like they didn't fit in, and so
Speaker 5: I'm really proud of it. Now. I welcome the offbeat
Speaker 5: part of my personality, you know, I just I welcome
Speaker 5: all of that. I think there's a lot of strength
Speaker 5: in being yourself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's a strange kind of because there's always
Speaker 1: comparisons with Boym's World and Full House kind of you know,
Speaker 1: that's in the same kind of zeitgeist. And there's something
Speaker 1: so interesting about how Full House seemed to kind of
Speaker 1: lean into exactly what you're talking about, the being yourself
Speaker 1: and the kind of this leaning into the strange for
Speaker 1: lack of a better word, where it seemed like boy
Speaker 1: Mee's World tried that and then would quickly move away.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Tapango was was very strange and then they moved away
Speaker 1: from that. Mincus was just completely taken off the show.
Speaker 1: So there's something we kind of got to the norm,
Speaker 1: if that makes sense, and we we tried the strange,
Speaker 1: and then I'm just curious as to why the kind
Speaker 1: of dichotomy between the two shows, because people think they're
Speaker 1: so similar and yet it seems like everything that Full
Speaker 1: House leaned into, Boyman's World leaned away from. And I
Speaker 1: don't know why that would happen from two different shows.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's just because as you were saying that, I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: Topango was was the weird, offbeat, quirky one, and then
Speaker 1: till she wasn't and then Minkus was the off quirky
Speaker 1: wine until he was just gone.
Speaker 2: Isn't strange, But isn't.
Speaker 6: Full House like essentially a show of about people from
Speaker 6: people being together like cramped and misfits, like all different
Speaker 6: types of people living in a house or living in
Speaker 6: a one together, whereas Boy Meets World's literally in the
Speaker 6: title is about like one boy sort of experiencing the world,
Speaker 6: like you know, it's less of a it's we we
Speaker 6: softened a lot of our edges, you know, like we
Speaker 6: were a show about Yeah, I don't know, Yeah, it's
Speaker 6: it's a good point.
Speaker 4: I wonder what that It's just.
Speaker 2: So strange, like, yeah, because we leaned away from it
Speaker 2: very quickly.
Speaker 5: I think the similarities are though, in that Boy Meets
Speaker 5: World and Full House are about essentially chosen family. You know,
Speaker 5: it's not a traditional at least for full house. It's
Speaker 5: not the traditional mom, dad and two kids. It's like
Speaker 5: you you love who you choose to be in your life.
Speaker 5: And that's kind of the same with Boy Meets World.
Speaker 5: It's like it's formed a family. You were teenagers, you
Speaker 5: were friends, but you were still essentially like a family.
Speaker 2: Right that makes sense. Yeah, do you guys.
Speaker 3: Remember the moment where you realized like, oh, this is
Speaker 3: a special show or have you did you guys know
Speaker 3: it from the beginning. Do you remember there being a
Speaker 3: moment where you were like, oh my gosh, we're a hit.
Speaker 5: Well, it probably hit each of us at different times.
Speaker 5: And as you know, there was no social media, so
Speaker 5: there was just Nielsen ratings and that was our only
Speaker 5: gauge of how well the show was doing. And that
Speaker 5: just seemed like such foreign numbers to me. So, okay,
Speaker 5: you know how many millions of people watched the House
Speaker 5: this Friday night? And I'm like that that meant number
Speaker 5: made no sense to me as a teenager. I was
Speaker 5: just like, Okay, that's impressed. That's good. But it didn't
Speaker 5: really it didn't sink in for me until the show
Speaker 5: went to Disney World during I don't even know what
Speaker 5: season that season six or seven, we went to Disney
Speaker 5: World and so we had like security and we had
Speaker 5: part portions of the park blocked off for us to
Speaker 5: do filming, and we just attracted so many crowds and
Speaker 5: suddenly we have security guards escorting us through the park
Speaker 5: and people following us. And then the story that I
Speaker 5: know Jodie Sweeten probably told on this podcast because she's
Speaker 5: told it before about fans following us into the bathroom
Speaker 5: and passing paper under the stall, like can I get
Speaker 5: your autograph? Yes, I was there for that like that
Speaker 5: that I was there, and so that's where I was like,
Speaker 5: holy crap, Yeah, this show is huge. That's when we
Speaker 5: really That's when I personally really felt the reach of
Speaker 5: the show and just how popular, Like I felt like
Speaker 5: a celebrity, yeah for the first time, whereas before I
Speaker 5: was like, Oh, I'm just a kid actor. I'm a
Speaker 5: child actor and I'm having fun on the show. Yeah,
Speaker 5: And then Disney World, I was like whoa, Like we.
Speaker 3: Are We're a big deal, we are a famous crazy
Speaker 3: When did they?
Speaker 2: When did you leave TGIF? Because it started as a
Speaker 2: TGIF show, right.
Speaker 5: It did, and then it was the later season, So
Speaker 5: don't quote me on this. There's some fan out there
Speaker 5: that's going to leave a comment that tells you.
Speaker 2: The exact That's all right, Danielle, get them all anyway.
Speaker 5: So we're fine, Okay, good, we'll wait for that email.
Speaker 5: But I want to say it was seasons fix maybe.
Speaker 4: Seven, and then right when we started that would have
Speaker 4: been ninety three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like ninety three, because oh yeah, never full House
Speaker 3: and Boy Meets World we're ever on TGIF at the
Speaker 3: same time the same time.
Speaker 2: I don't think they were backrilege.
Speaker 6: I know, I remember feeling like Full House had graduated,
Speaker 6: it was a real show, and we were still stuck
Speaker 6: in the like minor leagues of TGIF.
Speaker 5: Oh, but we were so sad to leave TGIF because
Speaker 5: I think that was where that was where it worked,
Speaker 5: that was where the magic was. Everybody that was must
Speaker 5: see TV, appointment TV kids could watch these shows with
Speaker 5: their families and enjoy it and not feel like there's
Speaker 5: any you know, bad things happening on screen. So when
Speaker 5: we moved to Tuesday nights, we were all afraid. We're like,
Speaker 5: oh my gosh, what if our ratings tank because now
Speaker 5: we're in a totally different demographic. You know, it's not
Speaker 5: like Friday night movie night with parents. It's Tuesday nights
Speaker 5: and kids have school the next day, so we were
Speaker 5: really worried about a big ratings drop, and I don't
Speaker 5: I don't think the ratings dropped a whole lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my, So, not to put you on the spot,
Speaker 1: but TGIF has changed so much over the years. Do
Speaker 1: you remember the lineup when Full House aired? Do you
Speaker 1: remember the other shows that were on the TGF lineup?
Speaker 1: Was this like the Perfect Stranger days? What was on
Speaker 1: with you guys?
Speaker 5: I think we were just post Perfect Strangers, although there
Speaker 5: was overlap because Perfect Strangers filmed at the stage next
Speaker 5: to us, so I'm sure there was some overlap. But
Speaker 5: I thought it was Full House, Family Matters, step by step,
Speaker 5: and I guess it wasn't Boy Me, so it wasn't
Speaker 5: if we weren't on at the same time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, at night hanging with mister Cooper.
Speaker 5: Maybe I feel like that was before that was another
Speaker 5: Jeff Franklin show. But I feel like that was before full.
Speaker 3: It may have been Dinosaurs that was on TGIF with you.
Speaker 2: Maybe that could have been dinosaurs, You're right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, could have been dinosaurs.
Speaker 1: That would have round it out areas because the lineup
Speaker 1: has changed so many times, you wonder you know what
Speaker 1: it was at the time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, full House moved. I got a note from our producers.
Speaker 3: Full House moved to Tuesdays in nineteen ninety two, and
Speaker 3: we started in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, and we wrapped in ninety fought ninety five.
Speaker 1: Right, So I mean like Dinosaurs was on with Full
Speaker 1: House that we just got that note too, Okay, all right?
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 5: I love that you got like people in your ear
Speaker 5: tell you all the things we're wondering. That's fantastic.
Speaker 3: It's really it works really well. I expect them to
Speaker 3: follow me around through all my life and just the
Speaker 3: answers I want for things to just be there.
Speaker 5: I find the bread in the exactly.
Speaker 2: I'll talk about it, which is the thank you.
Speaker 3: Now, since you and Candace, you guys played best friends,
Speaker 3: and we're also I think the closest in age, what
Speaker 3: was your relationship like during the course of the show.
Speaker 5: I loved Candace. I still do. She's great. It's great
Speaker 5: having someone to go through milestones with.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The first kiss, which was on screen in front of
Speaker 5: a live studio audience and our parents like the very
Speaker 5: same episode so we were both we could you know,
Speaker 5: bond over how mortifying that was and just stuff, all
Speaker 5: the girls stuff, you know, you go through. It was
Speaker 5: great having a friend. I did always think that she
Speaker 5: was much cooler than I was. She was just a
Speaker 5: lot more mature, even though they were the same age,
Speaker 5: you know, like she bought her first car before me,
Speaker 5: and I felt like she was just cooler and right
Speaker 5: socializing more and I was just like, again, the shy
Speaker 5: little kid that didn't really go out and socialize or
Speaker 5: go to any it didn't go to a whole lot
Speaker 5: of these industry parties or anything like that. So I
Speaker 5: always was like, wow, Candas is like so cool. So
Speaker 5: at some point I actually became closer to Jodie Sweeten
Speaker 5: because I was like, oh, well, she's five years younger
Speaker 5: than I can totally relate to that, Like that's my
Speaker 5: that's my jam is hanging out with someone five years
Speaker 5: younger than I. So Jody and I became very very
Speaker 5: close as the seasons went on, and spent a lot
Speaker 5: of time together off the set as well, which is
Speaker 5: which is great. I love having those memories with her.
Speaker 3: Do you have a favorite episode and and is it?
Speaker 3: Is it your favorite because you actually love the episode,
Speaker 3: or is it because of the behind the scenes memories.
Speaker 5: Oh no, I absolutely have a favorite episode. It's the
Speaker 5: episode where DJ forgets Kimmy's sixteenth birthday party. Okay, so
Speaker 5: it was one of the rare episodes where me, like
Speaker 5: the sidekick, got an episode just focused on me, like
Speaker 5: I was the a storyline for once, and I was like, whoo,
Speaker 5: let's celebrate. But also I loved that episode because you
Speaker 5: finally got to see a different side of Kimmy Gibbler,
Speaker 5: who was always just like you know, the one liners,
Speaker 5: the joke, the butt of everyone's jokes. But in this
Speaker 5: particular episode, you got to see Kimmy get upset and
Speaker 5: mad at DJ and actually have like emotion because DJ
Speaker 5: had forgotten about Kimmy's birthday because she was too busy
Speaker 5: planning her six month anniversary with her boyfriend Steve, and
Speaker 5: so Kimmy was very hurt when she found out that.
Speaker 5: You know, they they threw this fake birthday party with
Speaker 5: toilet paper streamers and a hash brown cake. It was
Speaker 5: so thrown together, but Kimmy was so happy us to
Speaker 5: be recognized by the Tanners as somebody worth throwing a party.
Speaker 5: For and then it all came crashing down and Kimmy
Speaker 5: and DJ had this wonderful emotional moment out in the backyard.
Speaker 5: And I love that episode because I got to do
Speaker 5: something other than these zingers and these one liners. I
Speaker 5: got to like, actually do something different and show some emotion.
Speaker 5: So hands down, that's my favorite episode.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I didn't hear anything after hash brown Cake?
Speaker 2: Can we talk about that for a second.
Speaker 3: Is it literally the entire.
Speaker 2: Cake made of potatoes and hash browns. That's a great idea.
Speaker 5: And they had candles in there and like ketch up,
Speaker 5: like the ketchup frosting.
Speaker 6: It was just a cake cake, okay, yes?
Speaker 4: And then cake with whipped cream frosting.
Speaker 6: I'm okay with like picking cream cake, but regular birthday
Speaker 6: cake fry.
Speaker 2: I've been faking it for years. Rider. I'm not a
Speaker 2: fan of cake.
Speaker 3: I don't like crown cake. That sounds that sounds really good,
Speaker 3: thank you calling.
Speaker 5: The party was thrown together in five minutes, and they
Speaker 5: didn't have cake mix. They had hash browns, so they
Speaker 5: made a cake out of hash browns and put candles
Speaker 5: in it. This was really smart's very on brand for
Speaker 5: Kimmy Gibbler to have.
Speaker 4: But this is what we're focusing on.
Speaker 3: I know, a full house influencing lives this many years later,
Speaker 3: we're about to change everything over here over a hash
Speaker 3: brown cake. Speaking of storylines, some pretty crazy storylines. There
Speaker 3: was once a storyline where Kimmy was promoting a chintail,
Speaker 3: a ponytail but for your chin do you have? Like,
Speaker 3: is there a craziest storyline Kimmy had?
Speaker 5: Well, this wasn't fuller house, not full house it was
Speaker 5: and I had to get extensions because my hair wasn't
Speaker 5: even long enough. But it was Yeah, you make it.
Speaker 5: It's like a beer wow. It's like a very founding
Speaker 5: fathers as a situation, and make a chintail wow, and
Speaker 5: then you could like I would like my nose like
Speaker 5: I was crying and so I was like shabb my
Speaker 5: eyes with a chintail.
Speaker 3: Years ago, I'm like, so, what was the craziest Kimmy
Speaker 3: Gibbler's storyline you remember?
Speaker 5: Oh? Man, Well, there was there's many. I have to
Speaker 5: pick one. Let's see. There's there was the episode where
Speaker 5: Kimmy was giving herself a perm like I do it
Speaker 5: yourself perm and hair dye job in DJ's room and
Speaker 5: so of course it turned out heinous, and so I
Speaker 5: ended up with like Ronald McDonald's hair. It was bright
Speaker 5: red and frizzy all over all over, and Kimmy loved it.
Speaker 5: She was like, this is fantastic, you know. She thought
Speaker 5: it was great. And I looked like Ronald McDonald with red,
Speaker 5: frizzy hair. And then I had I got like a rash.
Speaker 5: I just this is what you remember. I remember getting
Speaker 5: a rash from this horrible wig and I had to
Speaker 5: wear for all these scenes. So that was crazy. Gosh,
Speaker 5: what us was crazy? Like everything. We had a donkey
Speaker 5: on the show. We have so many weird animals on
Speaker 5: the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you do one hundred and ninety episodes, you
Speaker 1: start getting into the wheel where it's like, because we've
Speaker 1: heard you beat us, we're at like one sixty five
Speaker 1: and people are like, we can't wait till the second
Speaker 1: episode with the baron. We're like, wait, what, there's right too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when you're getting too one hundred ninety episodes, they at
Speaker 1: that point it's like, we have.
Speaker 4: A chimps Do we have a chimpanzee on our show?
Speaker 3: Or we have Yeah?
Speaker 2: I did. I worked with several monkeys on the show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, any on our show. Yeah, you friend stole that
Speaker 5: from our shows.
Speaker 1: Yes, we had the same monkey we had Marcel on
Speaker 1: our show one of the times.
Speaker 3: Because the other monkey we had was not Marcel. I
Speaker 3: just worked with the trainer.
Speaker 4: I worked with the training monkeys going around, And I
Speaker 4: mean that's a thing, you know.
Speaker 5: It's they're high in demand apparently, but it is.
Speaker 1: You always everybody does the food fight. Everybody had, you know,
Speaker 1: you do at least one food fight. You have the
Speaker 1: different animals on the show. It's like you start their
Speaker 1: state for being on a show like that.
Speaker 4: Still a thing? Or is that very ninety sixty.
Speaker 1: No, I think that's moved to like Disney Disney Channel,
Speaker 1: Nickelodeon kind of thing. Is that vibe? I don't think
Speaker 1: on network TV you're there because there's no young shows
Speaker 1: on network TV anymore. The family sitcom doesn't exist in
Speaker 1: this horrible world we live in right now?
Speaker 2: Is the problem? Because it should?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well there the show that I'm on now or
Speaker 5: I will be hopefully when the writer strike ends. Is
Speaker 5: that girl Leyley on Nickelodeon, And it's the same. It's
Speaker 5: a sitcom, family sitcom and they have the family pet
Speaker 5: is a pig like this giant bore. So yeah, I
Speaker 5: think it's the tradition lives on. It does find the.
Speaker 2: Run is doing a family sitcom? I mean doing a
Speaker 2: family sitcom is it's just fun? It's like, yeah, we
Speaker 2: need more of them?
Speaker 5: Are I need more of them? I agree?
Speaker 1: I have a question for you, take because you've done
Speaker 1: so much, and again I'm a television aholic, taking full
Speaker 1: House out of the scenario, what's the favorite show you've
Speaker 1: ever done?
Speaker 5: Come on, that's terrible.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 5: My mom and mom taking full fuller House. That's cheating,
Speaker 5: that's cheating. It might have to be growing pains just
Speaker 5: because I was such like I was such a fifteen
Speaker 5: year old girl and I had such a crush on
Speaker 5: Jeremy Miller. You know, I got to kiss him in
Speaker 5: the episode, and suddenly I was in love. You know.
Speaker 5: I was like, oh my god, we're soulmates, which we weren't,
Speaker 5: but I.
Speaker 3: I wanted that.
Speaker 5: Rob there. Robin Thick was at our tape when we
Speaker 5: were taping, because he was Allan's are you still Alan's son?
Speaker 5: And I was like, I was head over heels for
Speaker 5: I was just boy crazy. So I was just like, wow,
Speaker 5: Jeremy Miller and Robin Thick here like this is just
Speaker 5: the best thing in the universe for a fifteen year
Speaker 5: old girl.
Speaker 2: Was that your first on screen kiss? When you when
Speaker 2: you kiss Jeremy?
Speaker 5: No, my first on spring kiss was on Full House
Speaker 5: when I was thirteen, a boy that I was not
Speaker 5: excited to kiss at all. I was very excited to
Speaker 5: kiss Jeremy Miller, but not Bitterman was the character's name
Speaker 5: on the Full House. And you know, I'm sure he's
Speaker 5: a lovely person now. At the time, I like, you know,
Speaker 5: I just wasn't. I was thirteen. I wasn't yet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have children now, nineteen and sixteen, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Oh you've done your research. I'm so impressed. Yes,
Speaker 5: I have a nineteen year old and a sixteen year
Speaker 5: old boy and a girl, and so I'm on edge
Speaker 5: all the time. Right, Yes?
Speaker 3: Have they seen all the episodes of full House and
Speaker 3: Fuller House? Do they not care?
Speaker 5: They don't, Like, there's no one that is less of
Speaker 5: a fan of my work than my children love it.
Speaker 5: They are just and they go through stages according to
Speaker 5: their development. Like in elementary school, they were just still
Speaker 5: trying to like figure it out and then when they
Speaker 5: hit middle school, they hated it, Like they didn't want
Speaker 5: to go anywhere with me. They didn't want to be
Speaker 5: seen with me. Like we went into a Starbucks once
Speaker 5: and I got recognized by all of their classmates that
Speaker 5: were in there getdy frappuccinos, and they were like, Mom,
Speaker 5: we have to leave right now. They're recognized.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: They were so mortified in middle school. But then they
Speaker 5: got to high school and it's like, oh, it's cool.
Speaker 5: Suddenly they have clout.
Speaker 4: Like status bump. They'll take what they can do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and so they now like, you know, now they
Speaker 5: think it's cool. And then once they got to high
Speaker 5: school too, they started coming to the Fuller House tapings,
Speaker 5: and so they finally got it. Like before it was
Speaker 5: just this ethereal thing that mom went off to do
Speaker 5: right and embarrass herself, you know, especially as a teenager
Speaker 5: I looked. So they were always like, Mom, why did
Speaker 5: you wear that?
Speaker 2: Mom?
Speaker 5: Why did you say that? But as an adult, it
Speaker 5: was great to bring them onto the Fuller House set
Speaker 5: so they could actually see how the sausage is made,
Speaker 5: and suddenly they were like, this is so cool. And
Speaker 5: they made friends with the kids on the show and
Speaker 5: they want to to come every Friday night to the
Speaker 5: tapings and hang out, and so suddenly it was cool
Speaker 5: again for Mom to be on TV. So I don't
Speaker 5: think they watched the show. They've seen some episodes, and
Speaker 5: I think they binged a few seasons of Fuller House,
Speaker 5: but they really have zero interest in what I do. Yeah,
Speaker 5: those kids, they don't really care about their parents' career. No,
Speaker 5: and this is no different.
Speaker 1: You are also in a unique position where full House
Speaker 1: for so long and then Fuller House comes back, like
Speaker 1: Boy Meets World and Girl Meets World, And we've often
Speaker 1: talked about on this podcast just how the vibe between
Speaker 1: the two shows was essentially different on the set. Did
Speaker 1: you experience any of that? Was it kind of this
Speaker 1: did you guys fall right back into it? Was it
Speaker 1: the same kind of vibe and Bullerhouse or was it different?
Speaker 5: It was very similar. It was because we were walking
Speaker 5: onto the same stage, like Stage twenty four at Warner Brothers.
Speaker 5: We were walking on the same stage, the same set.
Speaker 5: I mean, it was such a time warp. And then
Speaker 5: the same dressing rooms. Although candas Jody and I had
Speaker 5: graduated to the adult dressing rooms, we had bigger dressing
Speaker 5: rooms now. But other than that, it was the same,
Speaker 5: the same crafty room, the same hair and makeup room.
Speaker 5: So and we really tried to bring that whole spirit,
Speaker 5: you know of like it's a family show. Let's bring
Speaker 5: the kids into the fold. The kids are well cared
Speaker 5: for and taken care of. So it felt really similar.
Speaker 5: It's just candas Jody and I were the adults now
Speaker 5: and trying to pass on those same values that we
Speaker 5: learned from John, Bob and Dave and Laurie. Just creating
Speaker 5: that great family feel like everybody's comfortable, the kids come first.
Speaker 5: It's always about the kids, it's not about the shot.
Speaker 5: And so yeah, we tried to replicate that. So it
Speaker 5: felt really similar to me. But I enjoyed it so
Speaker 5: much more on Fuller House because of the the gratitude,
Speaker 5: Like I had so much more perspective and gratitude that
Speaker 5: second time around that I was like, Wow, this is
Speaker 5: this is so special and never thought we would get
Speaker 5: to do it again, and the fact that we got
Speaker 5: to do it for five seasons was awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great. Yeah, what a special experience, you know,
Speaker 3: Like really great was when they brought the idea of
Speaker 3: Fuller House back to you. Were you immediately on board
Speaker 3: or were you thinking like, hmm, I'm not sure how
Speaker 3: I'm gonna play Kimmy as a rational grown adult, Like,
Speaker 3: did you have any reservations about going back to Kimmy
Speaker 3: Gibbler when Fuller House was first brought up.
Speaker 5: Oddly enough, no, I didn't even hesitate when Jeff Franklin
Speaker 5: called and he was like, Hey, we're thinking of doing
Speaker 5: a reboot. Are you willing to reprise the role of
Speaker 5: Kimmy Gibler. I didn't even hesitate, like I answered on
Speaker 5: the spot. I was like yes. It wasn't even like
Speaker 5: let me think about it, let me talk to my family. No,
Speaker 5: I was like, yes, let's do it, Which is weird
Speaker 5: because I had quit acting, like I had stopped acting
Speaker 5: after Full House. Fullhouse ended in ninety five. I was
Speaker 5: in my first year in college and I was just
Speaker 5: kind of done. I was like, all right, I've been
Speaker 5: doing this a long time. I'm ready to just explore
Speaker 5: different parts of myself and my interests. So I stopped
Speaker 5: acting for almost twenty years and was just a normal
Speaker 5: person with a normal family, and so I hadn't ever
Speaker 5: planned to go back into the business until Jeff Franklin
Speaker 5: called and was like, let's do a reboot, And I
Speaker 5: was surprised at the speed in which I said yes,
Speaker 5: mostly because of the people, because I'm like, I would
Speaker 5: just love to work with the people that I love
Speaker 5: so much again, and I trusted Jeff to keep the
Speaker 5: legacy of the show positive and uplifting and not like
Speaker 5: wreck the legacy. You know, I think he really captured
Speaker 5: the spirit a full House in Fuller House. And it
Speaker 5: also just on a personal note, like Fuller House came
Speaker 5: into my life at such a perfect time because I
Speaker 5: was I had just signed my divorce papers. I was
Speaker 5: really depressed. I was like lost. I was like, well
Speaker 5: I couldn't I'm like, what am I going to do
Speaker 5: with my I've been a mom for so long. I
Speaker 5: don't know who I am. I don't know what I'm
Speaker 5: gonna do with my life. And then like literally four
Speaker 5: days after I signed my divorce papers, Jeff Franklin called
Speaker 5: and I'm like, this is a sign, Like, this is
Speaker 5: a sign that this is where I'm meant to be.
Speaker 5: And it came into my life at such a perfect
Speaker 5: time for me personally.
Speaker 3: Wow, Yeah, what I love those things. I love those
Speaker 3: things when you're exactly what you said where you're just like,
Speaker 3: I'm literally looking out going, what is it? What's next? Life?
Speaker 3: What do you want from me? And then the phone rings.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's literally what happened.
Speaker 5: It's literally what happened. No, you're just like, well, it's kismet.
Speaker 5: It's meant to be. There's somebody up there looking out
Speaker 5: for me, and I am eternally grateful for that.
Speaker 3: So you you mentioned that you're on Vack Girl Lele,
Speaker 3: which I know a lot of people who work on
Speaker 3: that show, a lot of crew who work on other
Speaker 3: shows that I direct on. Yeah, everyone says the greatest
Speaker 3: things about that set and what I want, What a
Speaker 3: wonderful place it is to work. How does it feel
Speaker 3: to be back now on yet another family sitcom? And
Speaker 3: how does it feel to work with a different set
Speaker 3: of kids than the kids you worked with on Fuller House.
Speaker 5: I love it? Like that's if I could just do
Speaker 5: sitcoms for the rest of my life, Like I don't
Speaker 5: need to grow as an actor, Like I am so
Speaker 5: happy in my wheelhouse and it's fun. It's a family
Speaker 5: friendly schedule. Like it's it's fun and I'm good. I
Speaker 5: feel really confident because I'm good at it and I
Speaker 5: just love it. It's a happy environment. We got so
Speaker 5: lucky that it's it's again like a family feeling on
Speaker 5: the set, and it's hard. I hear all these horror
Speaker 5: stories about bad sets and you know, angry directors and
Speaker 5: you know, mistreatment, and I'm like, I've been so lucky.
Speaker 5: I haven't experienced that. So yeah, I love being on
Speaker 5: this show. I'm the principle. I played Principal Willingham, so
Speaker 5: I'm like the weird principle that's always trying to like
Speaker 5: discipline kids but also fit in right and be the
Speaker 5: cool principle but constantly failing at that. So it's great
Speaker 5: and the kids are great. The kids were a little
Speaker 5: greener coming into coming into this show, so they were
Speaker 5: looking to me. They were like, oh, you know, you're
Speaker 5: the veteran, like we're gonna tell us what to do, yeah,
Speaker 5: which I felt a lot of pressure. I was like, oh, dang,
Speaker 5: don't look at me like I don't want to be
Speaker 5: the example. And of course, the very first scene of
Speaker 5: the pilot that we taped, you know, I had the
Speaker 5: first line and I completely botched it and forgot it,
Speaker 5: and everyone was like the kids. Lay Le, the star
Speaker 5: of the show, is like, I'm so glad you messed
Speaker 5: up because I've been so worried about messing up. So
Speaker 5: now that you've messed up, I feel much better about it.
Speaker 3: And then you were like, I did that on purpose.
Speaker 2: That was a choice.
Speaker 5: That was a choice, that was deliberate. Yeah. So the
Speaker 5: kids are the kids are great. It's so, it's so fun.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 5: It is interesting being an adult on a sitcom when
Speaker 5: I grew up as a kid on a sitcom, because
Speaker 5: I'm always like, those phones away, Like why do you
Speaker 5: have your phone on set? You know, don't eat on set,
Speaker 5: Like there's rules that like we yeah, we we didn't
Speaker 5: have I didn't have a cell phone back in the
Speaker 5: eighties and nineties. But still, you know, you show me work,
Speaker 5: you pay attention, You don't play with the props, you
Speaker 5: don't eat on set, like these are basic rules. And
Speaker 5: so when I see these things happening, I'm kind of
Speaker 5: like the mom in me comes out, Ye, put your
Speaker 5: phone away. You don't need that right now.
Speaker 3: It's really funny, you know. When I interviewed to direct
Speaker 3: over on Raven's Home, that was one of the things
Speaker 3: Raven and I immediately bonded over was like, yeah, it
Speaker 3: was like we nine eighties and nineties kid acting. You
Speaker 3: were expected to be an adult professional even though you
Speaker 3: were a kid, and all of those things like we
Speaker 3: would we would have been called out and stopped immediately
Speaker 3: if we were messing around with the props or if
Speaker 3: we had been whatever the equivalent of cell phones were.
Speaker 3: I mean there were times when we would giggle and
Speaker 3: be talking while the direct while something was going on,
Speaker 3: and the directors would say quiet, we're working, and and
Speaker 3: they were right like we were being unprofessional. And it's
Speaker 3: just funny because the there's been a lot of changes
Speaker 3: over the years, and most of them have been for
Speaker 3: the better. That make that make the environment better for kids,
Speaker 3: but also in a lot of ways, some of the
Speaker 3: very like learning of the true like one oh one
Speaker 3: sitcom acting has been lost in some of the permissiveness
Speaker 3: and ease that we have on sets. Now.
Speaker 1: You remember getting yelled at and being told that we
Speaker 1: could no longer eat during the table read vaguely, yeah
Speaker 1: we were because Ben would always you remember, he'd walk
Speaker 1: in and he'd always make his bage bagel bagel with
Speaker 1: locks and creations locks cream cheese, the papers and the capers,
Speaker 1: like it was a whole process and we'd all be
Speaker 1: making our stuff and then we'd mess up a line
Speaker 1: or have food in our mouth, and by like the
Speaker 1: fourth time, Michael was like, all right, that's it.
Speaker 2: Food is done before the table reads.
Speaker 3: If you want to eat, get here early and exactly.
Speaker 1: Yep, and you are not eating during the table So
Speaker 1: we all got a talking to you where it's like no, no, no,
Speaker 1: this is this is work time now.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it was we all heard that stuff. It's incredible.
Speaker 5: I agree with that. I and gum too. I was
Speaker 5: always so don't chew gum when you're doing a table
Speaker 5: read or hurt even rehearsal. But it was our moms, Like,
Speaker 5: I don't know if your parents were like, it was
Speaker 5: our moms that were like, don't do you know, don't
Speaker 5: do that. They the moms were very involved with the
Speaker 5: discipline of us as child actors. They were like, yeah,
Speaker 5: you gotta know your lines. We're going to rehearse your
Speaker 5: lines with you. Don't chew gum.
Speaker 3: Like my Thom was very hands on, and I think
Speaker 3: that's probably because you guys were all more pros by
Speaker 3: the time you started our parents were all very hands off.
Speaker 3: Oh really, our parents were very much like we rarely
Speaker 3: even saw them. They were there and we knew they
Speaker 3: were there, but they were mostly sitting in the in
Speaker 3: the studio audience. They never interjected or tried to like
Speaker 3: they were if they had notes or anything they shared
Speaker 3: with us, it was on our private time in the
Speaker 3: car or in our houses. I mean there was ne
Speaker 3: they were not physical, like we didn't feel them on
Speaker 3: the second.
Speaker 6: Again, we were older, ye, just the difference between five
Speaker 6: and eleven is you're.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, I mean Lily's parents were always there.
Speaker 2: I think Lindsay's parents were always there.
Speaker 1: So when when we did have the younger actors and
Speaker 1: I think Lee was Lee's.
Speaker 4: Mom wouldn't have been on set.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 6: Everyone was there, but they but like as far as
Speaker 6: like pay attention to the director or like, there was
Speaker 6: none of that. They were like literally like around the
Speaker 6: back or whatever. They were there, but they weren't like
Speaker 6: hanging out and helping discipline it.
Speaker 3: We got all those lessons from our directors, like our
Speaker 3: directors and and Bill and you know, they were all
Speaker 3: very much like this is how you be a professional,
Speaker 3: and this is how it's going to work, and we
Speaker 3: soaked it up and did not want to disappoint. So yeah, it's.
Speaker 5: Probably better that way, because I think kids are more
Speaker 5: apt to listen to a director than their mom, their parent.
Speaker 3: Actually, it is true looking back now, all this many
Speaker 3: years later, how do you overall reflect on your time
Speaker 3: on Full House?
Speaker 5: I have nothing but positive things to say. And I know,
Speaker 5: you know, child actors get a bad rap, and there's
Speaker 5: there's a lot of actors now who played the offbeat
Speaker 5: character or the wacky character that really want to distance
Speaker 5: themselves from that character and don't ever want like to
Speaker 5: be referred to it or do the catchphrase or anything
Speaker 5: like that. And I've never felt that, like I've always
Speaker 5: embraced this, you know, as embarrassing as it was to
Speaker 5: play Kimmy Gibbler as a teenager when I already felt
Speaker 5: so awkward in my body, I've I've have nothing but
Speaker 5: positive memories and gratefulness for it. So I'm all about, Hey,
Speaker 5: you want a catchphrase, you want O lot Tanrito's, I'll
Speaker 5: give you an I don't shy away from it at all.
Speaker 5: It was a different childhood. It was. It's all I know,
Speaker 5: It's all I know. I don't know what my life
Speaker 5: life would have been like without being on TV, but
Speaker 5: I felt very enriched as well, Like I still went
Speaker 5: to my high school proms, I still had friends outside
Speaker 5: of Hollywood, and I think that balance helped me feel
Speaker 5: great about the whole thing. Like I don't feel like
Speaker 5: I missed out on childhood. It was just enhanced like
Speaker 5: it on TV. And I also had this non Hollywood
Speaker 5: life at my regular public high school with my regular
Speaker 5: public school friends.
Speaker 3: Where did you grow up? Again? What city did you
Speaker 3: guys live in?
Speaker 5: Orange County is where I grew up?
Speaker 3: Same me too, because I was going to see yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I was Also when we started Boy Meets World, I
Speaker 3: was living well. Actually, when we started Boy Meets World,
Speaker 3: I had just moved, but I originally grew up I
Speaker 3: was auditioning from Orange County, and then by the time
Speaker 3: Boy Meets World started, we had moved to Calabasas And
Speaker 3: I also had a very similar experience. Went back to
Speaker 3: my regular high school and went to all my school dances,
Speaker 3: Like really got to experience the best of both worlds.
Speaker 3: As far as I'm can.
Speaker 5: It makes a difference. I think that makes a huge
Speaker 5: difference in just keeping you grounded and then your whole
Speaker 5: life isn't in Hollywood. You have you know, you have,
Speaker 5: you have perspective, you know. Yeah, I went home. I
Speaker 5: still had to do my chores, you know. I still
Speaker 5: had to do my homework and my my Spanish lessons.
Speaker 5: I do my oral Spanish exams at school, which was terrifying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just pro at least you got to say
Speaker 3: ol taneritos, so you were already ahead in Spanish.
Speaker 5: Seriously, I could have got an extra credit for that, right.
Speaker 4: Reading Spanish to the world.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. Well, Andrea, thank you so much for
Speaker 3: being here with us today and spending time with us
Speaker 3: talking about these you were. You were the og t
Speaker 3: g I f We now know you paved the way.
Speaker 3: You paved the way.
Speaker 5: Did we paved the way? And then you guys took
Speaker 5: it and made it even better.
Speaker 1: I still think it over the fact that you were
Speaker 1: at Bow and Hope's wedding.
Speaker 5: That's all iower, girl, I have. I can dig up
Speaker 5: some pictures and send them to you. Guys.
Speaker 3: Please please send those to us. Actually we will. We
Speaker 3: will use them on our Instagram and and will will
Speaker 3: also frame one in his house.
Speaker 1: If that's that's not too weird, that's not at all.
Speaker 1: I want an original invitation. You are invited to bow
Speaker 1: in Hope's wedding on days of our life.
Speaker 2: That's like it is.
Speaker 1: It's like you know, having patches Patch, come on, crazy,
Speaker 1: good old Patch.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Andrea, We uh we hope to talk
Speaker 3: to you again soon. Maybe we'll have you back for
Speaker 3: another t G. Maybe we'll do a g G.
Speaker 1: I we should watch a full house and you should
Speaker 1: watch a World.
Speaker 3: Let's do it the great idea. Let's do.
Speaker 4: You and Jody watch a Boy Meets World. Yes, let's you.
Speaker 1: Will watch a full house and we'll do what we'll
Speaker 1: do the old. We're going to call it t G.
Speaker 1: I f old switchero gg.
Speaker 5: I am so there. I am so there. You guys
Speaker 5: have to pick the Boy Meets World episode and Jody
Speaker 5: and I will pick the full House episode.
Speaker 3: Okay, so perfect? Perfect, Oh my gosh, I'm so excited
Speaker 3: for this. We've been talking ever since we started the podcast,
Speaker 3: We've been talking about what else should we we should
Speaker 3: do a rewatch of this, we should have this is
Speaker 3: the old. This is the first time it's really like
Speaker 3: made sense. Yes, perfect, Okay, great, a teg. I have Switcheroo.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. I love you, thanks, thanks for
Speaker 3: being here, and love.
Speaker 5: You guys so much. I hope to see you at
Speaker 5: nineties Con. This is Sampa. Yeah doing Yeah, I'll be
Speaker 5: there too, so yay amazing.
Speaker 3: We will get to squeeze each other. Then yes, wait,
Speaker 3: thank you bye. Oh my gosh, so much fun. I
Speaker 3: love a switcheroo idea. Which episode are we going to pick?
Speaker 1: Can I? I? Well, here's the thing before we get there.
Speaker 1: Either's something I didn't want to confess to her.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, please confess please.
Speaker 2: I have never seen a TG. Never seen a full
Speaker 2: House or a Fuller House.
Speaker 4: Either of either. Not a single episode me either.
Speaker 1: Not one episode of full House or Full of House
Speaker 1: have I ever seen in my life.
Speaker 6: I've never I've seen clips, like I've definitely know like
Speaker 6: what it looks like, and I definitely know that I
Speaker 6: know the fact that like whenever it went to one
Speaker 6: of the Olsens, it was a single camera like on
Speaker 6: because they had to isolate them on their own, Like
Speaker 6: I remember hearing that and then seeing that on the show.
Speaker 4: But I've never watched an episode, although.
Speaker 3: Through I've only seen.
Speaker 6: There you go and my best friend Sean Fox, who
Speaker 6: I have talked about on the show, was in The
Speaker 6: Three Ninjas. He one of his first jobs was a
Speaker 6: guest star on Full House. He played like JODI's first boyfriend.
Speaker 6: But never seen it.
Speaker 3: My first speaking role on a TV show that wasn't
Speaker 3: a commercial was and I've only seen those two episodes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've never seen idea we have friends.
Speaker 4: That are over there. I've also never seen a step
Speaker 4: by Step. I have no idea what step by Step
Speaker 4: is about.
Speaker 2: It's about idea, what it's about, is it?
Speaker 4: No, it's like a family. It's like a combined family situation.
Speaker 3: It's like a modern modern Brady Bunch.
Speaker 4: But then what is full House? Isn't full House the
Speaker 4: same thing?
Speaker 2: No, full House? They're all, aren't They all blood relatives?
Speaker 3: In full House they're like, but I don't think they're
Speaker 3: real related by blood. I think they're just friends.
Speaker 2: That they're actually there's just living on your couch for
Speaker 2: eight years.
Speaker 4: Got the amount of fans who are listening right now.
Speaker 3: Nowhere not we don't know? Okay, okay, they have Uncle Jesse.
Speaker 3: He's related by blood. This is from our producers. And
Speaker 3: then Joey is their dad's friend.
Speaker 1: Because your dad who's Joey.
Speaker 3: Yes, Bob Saggot. So his wife died I think, and
Speaker 3: he has kids, the three kids, the mom died.
Speaker 2: Nothing.
Speaker 6: We should just watch it. That's the way this has
Speaker 6: to work. And we should do a step by steps
Speaker 6: with you, and we should do a.
Speaker 1: Is what we'll call them from now on. I love it.
Speaker 1: Oh right, Danielle, you asked a very important question. What
Speaker 1: episode would we give them? Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, which episode will we pick?
Speaker 6: Honestly, it depends if they've ever seen an episode of
Speaker 6: if they've seen an episode of Points World.
Speaker 4: We just pick.
Speaker 6: Like a fun one like the I was gonna say
Speaker 6: we give everybody the Scream episode. But then if it's
Speaker 6: just yeah, I mean, I mean alternative friends, Like, what's.
Speaker 3: We should do?
Speaker 1: You know? Be mean as we go, We're going to
Speaker 1: give you. The best episode we've ever done was the
Speaker 1: Honeymoon episode.
Speaker 7: Theym you guys and we you you know, like it's
Speaker 7: the best episode.
Speaker 2: Like, what is episode we've.
Speaker 4: Watch so far? Can we all agree? Is there a
Speaker 4: bad episode? Kid Gloves?
Speaker 3: I didn't like kid Gloves.
Speaker 7: I didn't like kid Gloves either, Will kid really did
Speaker 7: not like three of us were like, yeah, kid Gloves
Speaker 7: is the one where he gives the gloves and then
Speaker 7: nobody even acknowledges Corey's birthday.
Speaker 2: No one evens isn't that what the pool?
Speaker 4: Yes, just to get a graduate.
Speaker 2: So yeah, kid Gloves is up there. But yeah no
Speaker 2: there's somebody. Okay, but it's a good question. You have
Speaker 2: to think about which one we would actually.
Speaker 3: You know, when we've only seen two episodes that this point.
Speaker 3: Really so it's a little like, well maybe maybe season three.
Speaker 3: We'll pick an episode from season three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, Now the question is do we should we
Speaker 1: match their seasons?
Speaker 6: Meaning I think we just we have we say we
Speaker 6: stipulate that it has to be from like midway through
Speaker 6: the show.
Speaker 4: It can't be like.
Speaker 6: The beginning, Okay, in the middle somewhere.
Speaker 3: Season three is good and the season something from our
Speaker 3: season three where we're like definitely hit our stride. We're
Speaker 3: we're like established, we know what we are, and same
Speaker 3: for them, and we.
Speaker 4: Are super exciting.
Speaker 5: Three.
Speaker 2: I'm super excited for this.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm really excited to be cool. Thank you all
Speaker 3: for joining us for this episode of Pod Meets World.
Speaker 3: As always, you can follow us on Instagram, Pod Meets
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Speaker 3: I was expecting somebody else to say something.
Speaker 1: You can send doing this for ninety episodes now, Danielle
Speaker 1: carry you can send.
Speaker 3: Us your emails. Bond Meets World's show at gmail dot com.
Speaker 4: Take over this part now and we have merch.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 4: Just what writer did merch. Thank you all for listening.
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Speaker 4: That's it what we already said that part, didn't we?
Speaker 3: And then and then and then what happens at the end?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 4: Danielle, send us out.
Speaker 3: We love you all, pod dismissed. Pod Meets World is
Speaker 3: an iHeart podcast produced and hosted by Danielle Fischel, Wilfredell
Speaker 3: and Writer Strong. Executive producers Jensen Karp and Amy Sugarman.
Speaker 3: Executive in charge of production, Danielle Romo, producer and editor,
Speaker 3: Tara sudbachsch producer, Jackie Rodriguez, engineer and Boy Meets World
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