WEBVTT - Some Time With... Jeff Franklin (Part 2) 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:20.239 We are back with part two of our interview with 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:23.600 our dear friend and creator of Full House, Jeff Franklin. 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:25.320 We are so grateful he made. 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:27.320 The time to come on the pod and answer all 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:29.680 of the burning questions we've had over the last six 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:33.239 months or thirty six years. So let's get to it. 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:35.960 Here is part two of our chat with Jeff Franklin. 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:38.400 Just hearing the story of how full House came to be. 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:43.520 It's kind of by accident, kind of by sheer willpower, 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:47.680 just kind of by you know, demanding what you want 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:50.440 and not giving up, and then kind of by like 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:53.680 weird things falling apart and falling together. Like you know, 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.680 the success did not come easy to Full House. It 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:58.600 was we worked for it. 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:03.760 No, we were we were almost canceled. We were uh yeah, 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:06.920 we were definitely on the bubble and could have gone 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:11.880 either way. Yeah, it's just a series of miracles. Really, 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.080 I mean weird think about I mean, we're on a 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:18.720 such a short little list of shows that have you know, 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:22.880 we're still you know, we're still going almost forty years later. 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:25.760 Yeah, i mean wild you can. 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:28.760 Count those shows on you know, on one hand. Yeah, 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:33.360 it's amazing. It's so miraculous what happened? And you know 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.160 the other shows on that on those lists, you get it. 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:40.560 They're like okay, yeah, Seinfeld Friends and you know, like 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:44.640 these are like monsters, right you see come to full 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:48.400 House and and everybody's like, oh god, that's on that list. 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.600 You know, You're like, I know, no, we are. 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:53.880 It's the fan base, the fans. 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:57.720 Yeah, we have such a great loyal fan base. And 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.160 it was it was made of like so many generations 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.840 of people that it has just sort of been passed 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.240 down like some family recipe, you know what I mean, 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.160 Like if you watched it with your parents, now their 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:10.880 grandparents and the grandparents watch it with the grandkids, and. 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:14.280 You know, and it's really cool now because it's so 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.560 you know, there's you see people on yeah. I mean 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:22.200 there's no cell phones, there's you know, it's such a 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:23.399 different world back then. 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:27.360 There's a landline. I mean I watched the episode yesterday, 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:30.440 or I watched the episode yesterday that we're gonna be 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:34.400 reviewing later, and I was like, oh my god, a landline, 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:37.480 like you answered it and you didn't even know who 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:38.040 it was. 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:40.799 Surprise, no caller, ID Like none. 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:41.560 Of that shocking? 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.560 Was it? The little lips lips phone DJ. 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:47.079 Yes, DJ's phone. 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:48.399 That was a cool phone. 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.000 And the blue and the blue one in the in 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:51.840 the kitchen. 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:53.480 In the kitchen, Yeah. 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:57.440 Because everyone needs a blue phone that matches their plaid Curtainsy, 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:01.600 that's true, it did match. I mean so did the 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:03.720 red lips phone. I mean, if you're going to have 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:05.400 a phone, it has to match the decord. 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.640 Yeah. Of course, whose idea was that? 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.160 We actually do have quite a few questions about things 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.400 like that, the things that we've been watching the episodes 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.119 and gone, where did we got to ask Jeff? Where 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:16.760 did that come from? 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:17.320 Yeah? 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:23.200 Yeah, well I probably don't know, but. 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:25.960 Well, whose idea was having a nautical theme throughout the 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:30.079 living room with the mariner and all of the decor? 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:33.520 You know, what was that you or was that a 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:34.040 set deck? 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:39.880 I mean it was you know, conversations about you know, 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.320 this is you know, we're in San Francisco and it's 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:48.280 you know, it's uh, it's on the coast, and you know, 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.240 maybe be fun to you know, to tie into that. 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:53.600 But that was probably. 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:57.440 Basically if you could turn Fisherman's Wharf into a house, right, 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:02.720 that got it? Okay? That was the directions get and 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.800 also just put in like I know, in the living 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.600 room there's like a framed picture of like forty nine 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.200 Ers football people on it was like Joe Montana or 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:15.360 I don't know, I'm completely making up random was, but 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.080 it was like that. And then like in the there 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.200 was always like a San Francisco banner. I was like, yeah, 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.599 in case anyone forgets we're in San Francisco. 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:25.360 Anything with the right right. 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.600 Seapappy was actually down on Peer seventeen for quite a while, 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.240 but they just dragged it up the hill and uh 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.640 and brought it home with the turtle on the skateboard. 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:40.920 That was Bubba that was in there. 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:42.560 The sea Pappy. 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:47.880 Yeah, yeah, Jody has the head. She stole it from 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:48.960 the set on the last day. 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:52.080 What was that the original? That the original Sea Pappy 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:54.839 was wooden and a thing. This one is styrofoam. But 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:55.880 I will take what I can get. 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:59.920 Yeah, that was it was a recreation, not the original. 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.320 Did you take anything from the set as a souvenir, 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:05.360 either in full House or. 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.279 Fuller House or you're just like, I gotta know stuff 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:09.760 he really did. 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:14.719 That's the running consensus is that Stamos stole all of it. 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.680 Without telling anyone until we find out later on Instagram. 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:21.039 I don't know, he just showed up with the truck 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:22.400 in the middle of the night or something. 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.000 I don't know, right, Well, look, that can be done 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:26.919 to I'm just saying we could also show up with 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:29.599 the truck in the middle of the night. You're taking 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:30.920 the couch, don't worry about it. 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:34.520 He's got the couch. He's got it. 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:36.400 Yeah, I think we should. 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:37.239 It should. 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.520 Each one of us gets the couch for like two 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.000 weeks of the year, you know, we spread it out 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.480 through about all of the cast, and we get to 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:48.800 lounge on the couch. They give cup Yeah, exactly, good 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:53.039 timeshare comes and yeah, right, timeshare the couch and the 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:53.840 front doors too. 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:56.200 Yeah, reinstalled the front doors. 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:01.160 Speaking of decor, I've noticed out season one that there's 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.960 a lot of parrots in that, Like there's a parrot 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.880 in the alcove, and then when Joey moves to the basement, 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:12.040 there's parrots. But there's pictures of parrots in Joey's room 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.080 in the downstairs in the basement. 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.040 Yeah, I think that was I think I think it 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:17.960 was Lynn Griffin. 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:19.679 I want to remember Lynn. 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:23.680 Yes, Yeah, anyway, it was that was not my that's 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:24.040 not my. 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.080 Thing you're doing okay, okay. 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.600 Yeah, I didn't worry about were the Golden Retriever puppy 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.640 posters that were up in DJ's room. Where those a 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.839 nod to your future plans of getting a dog in. 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:38.480 The Yes, well yeah, I'm a dog lover. Yes, that 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.800 al cop to for sure. Okay, yeah, it was always 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.880 my plan to freaking dog in in that house. It 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:48.120 was much to start off with it. 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.839 But right you're like, okay, I've got a picture a 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.160 six month old and a puppy. 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:57.200 Did you have goldens before full House or duringm Like? 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:58.600 When did you have your first golden? 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.800 My first golden was? I used to work at a 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:05.000 Texico station when I was a kid, and somebody left 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:10.560 a golden in the bathroom. Oh no, obviously abandoned it 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:15.520 and have no collar, no nothing, just so I took 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:19.960 it home and that was my dog. That's well, I 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:23.040 named him. I gave him my nickname back then. So 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:24.280 his name was Hefe. 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:31.600 Oh I love that Jeff and Hefe. I never knew that. 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:32.400 That's so cool. 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:37.240 My Mexican boss at McDonald's three years earlier, when I 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.920 worked at McDonald's. He he called me Hefe and all 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.560 my friends worked there too, and it just sort of stuck. 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:47.320 Okay, Chief there you go. Yeah, yeah, that's an honor. 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:48.920 That's so great. 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.080 I love that you worked at McDonald's and now you're 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:52.720 you're sitting on top of your hill. 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:57.320 A trajectory you have talking about, like sneaking into the 0:07:57.360 --> 0:07:59.720 Forum to watch Laker games and then you know, and 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:01.920 then being an adult and finally being able to buy 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:08.000 floor seats. Yeah, you know, not floor seats, but good seats. 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:12.360 That was one of the coolest, like ten seconds of 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:17.440 my life. When we won our first award on Fuller House. 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:21.520 We were like teen Choice Award for Best compty and 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.560 they had it at the Forum. That's right then, you know, 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:26.600 that was my backyard. I grew up in Englewood and 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:30.000 I was at the Forum, you know, five times a week. Wow, 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:34.960 every basketball game, game, every concert. It was you know, 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:40.160 just stroll right in and to be back there on 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:44.760 that stage in that building too, you know, to watch 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.680 with all of you, to watch the show was that 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:49.160 was like. 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:54.880 The screening stadium full of young people, like so excited. 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:57.520 Yeah, I get choked when I think about that, just 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.760 like what a what a lucky life? 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.199 Did you keep the orange the what is it that 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:05.000 orange trophy? 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:06.640 The blimp? 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:10.400 The blimp, Yeah, the orange Nickelodeon blimp. Oh, he's getting up, 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:11.560 Jeff's getting up. 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:13.240 I think that's what I feel. That feels like you 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:14.080 feel like this is. 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.880 He's going to show evidence. Yes, there it is. 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:20.000 Yeah, I have mine to This is the Kid's Choice Award. 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:21.400 I love it. 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.240 I'm in my office. I can drag the Teen Choice Award. 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.320 Oh that's right. We have to wait, yeah, yeah, drag 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:27.720 that over. 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:31.520 Let's get the get there choice. Let's just bring the 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:32.840 whole cabinet over. 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.120 I mean, don't yeah, don't knock anything over, hurt yourself. 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:40.679 But but this is something the fans want to know. 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.719 The fans will want to know, they'll want to see it, 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.200 and I know the People's Choice Award. Jeff generously, there's 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:50.920 the team. 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:52.040 There you go. That's great. 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.520 Wait, I didn't get one of those. That's we didn't. 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:56.760 We we didn't because they were that you can, but 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:57.600 you got to buy them. 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:58.959 You have to buy each. 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:02.679 Ye, there's like one given to each. Yes, there you go. 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:04.960 Yeah, that's so cool. 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:07.440 Yeah, we've got a team. We've got a blimp, a 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:11.480 surfboard and uh. And then the People's Choice People's Choice. 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.680 Which is which stuff so generously bought for one for me, 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:16.240 one for you, one for Candice. 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.520 Yes, so yeah, that's still displayed in my oh yeah cabinet. 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:24.080 Yeah, the People Choice People's Choice Awards, so that we 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:25.599 could each have one. 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:27.120 Yeah, that was. 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:29.880 That's something that most people probably don't know is you 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.800 don't get that if you want, like for a large 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.640 cast or something, you get one award. And if you 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.640 if you win an award, even if you win, you 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:42.280 want more than one. You've got to buy it to 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:42.760 pay for it. 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:43.079 There. 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:44.000 Yeah, and they're not. 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.480 Cheap, they're hurting. 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.640 Yeah, well, you know was the the one thing that 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.480 we've asked Dave about to was the mannequin. How did 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.360 you What were your feelings on the mannequin? Was this 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:57.360 a nightmare for you? 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.840 You know it was obviously it was stupid. 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.720 Oh, we loved it. We look forward to it every week. 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:08.720 It was ridiculous. But you know, I hate to say 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:13.240 no when you know, an actor comes to me and says, 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:14.800 I've got you. 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.680 Know, got a great idea, Yeah. 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:21.640 Please let me do this. You know, it was like well, okay, 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.240 it's just easier to say yes, you know if if 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.880 it makes some It didn't make any sense. 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:31.480 But it was like harmless, right, there was there was 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.800 one episode that the mannequin had outfit changes. 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.800 Oh yeah, costume changes in the middle. 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:40.160 Like but amazing costume changes where everyone went to one 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:43.040 room and like not that much time had passed and 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.720 then everyone's back like in like walks from the kitchen 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:47.560 to the living room and the mannequin's changed its close 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:51.760 and I'm like freaking anybody else out that the mannequin's joy. 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.760 Was Joey had changed clothes to I assume. 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.760 Yes, Joey had changed but it was it was you know, 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.320 there were there were times that the mannequin was wearing 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.920 a thing and I'm everything so great. 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.439 It was amazing, got two of everything, but it went 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.800 in a different size the man right. 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:12.679 Yeah, it was well priorities. You know, he's living in 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:16.800 an alcove, but he's his mannequin has a fatastic everything. 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:22.160 Else, right, yes, So whose idea was Jesse's Elvis obsession? 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:24.280 Was that? Because I know you're a fan of Elvis 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.440 and John is a fan of Elvis, So whose. 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:29.920 Ideas a fan but he's not like me. I'm I'm 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:34.800 a craze fa I was. Elvis was my first hero 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:38.200 when I was five four or five years old. You know, 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:44.640 it's been a life obsession and uh yeah it was. 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.559 This whole show was like it was It's so bizarre 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:52.719 how the actors fit what was on the page so perfectly, 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.040 you know, Like I mean, John, you know, he's got 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:59.200 the look. I mean, he's you know, he's right, what 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:03.840 better guy, you know to have an Elvis thing? And uh, 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:07.920 you know, and Bob, you know, like it was on 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:11.960 the page, he's a hugger, he's the emotional guy. He's neurotic. 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:18.160 He's there like yeah, don Posey, you know, bless his heart. 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:20.880 But you know it was not you know, he was 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.439 playing that part, but that was Bob. 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:27.520 Yes, Bob was a neurotic, hugging, emotional fool. 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:33.560 See de Galorea. And you know, and then Joey that 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:37.120 character you know, to have a stand up that does 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.680 you know all those impressions were in in that guy's 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.400 act in the script. I mean I didn't didn't know 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:45.520 any of that, you know, I mean it was just 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:50.240 you know, talk about you know, a manchild, the boy 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:53.400 won't grow up Peter, Right, that's Dave. 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:54.439 Yeah. 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:56.920 The fact that we found him and we you know, 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:01.599 it was just it's incredible. It just was an exceptional 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:04.600 you know, I've cast a lot of shows, and it's 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.920 casting is the most important part. And it just doesn't happen. 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.680 You know, somebody doesn't walk in the you know, you 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:14.320 you end up rewriting the part for the actor that 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:18.280 you wind up with, typically, right, and that didn't have 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:19.520 to happen on the show. 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.600 Yeah. I always wondered that because like how much of 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:27.400 who we were informed, who the characters were, or was 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.840 it that it just so happened that, like you wrote 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:32.560 these characters and then sort of manifested these people that 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:36.400 really brought that to the table, right. 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.000 Well, you know, once I found you, I rewrote that 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.240 character a little bit to kind of a what I 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.000 what I saw on that you know, in that episode. 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:49.600 But you know, but when you guys were kids, I 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.760 don't know if you remember this, you know, I hope 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:55.280 I wasn't creepy about it, but you know I tried 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:58.880 to spend as much time as I could with you know, 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:02.720 with all of you because and yeah, because I wanted 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:05.440 to get to know who you were and capture your 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.280 voice and what are you guys interested in? And what 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.200 do you care about? And how do you know what 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.960 do you not care about? And you know, I really 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:15.760 that was important to me that I you know, that 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:19.480 I write you guys authentically because it had been it 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:21.280 had been a while since I've been a kid and 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:25.360 hang out with kids, So that part of it was 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:29.520 a joy. Really amazing kids amazing. 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.480 We had so much fun on that set with everybody, 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:34.640 like just you know, it was just such a fun 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.600 family environment. I mean I was I posted a picture 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:41.040 recently of a bicycle. You gave me my first bike 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:45.000 on uh on Full House on the set, and like 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:48.600 I remember, I can vividly remember we had our Christmas 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:50.600 party on set and you'd given me that, and I 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:54.520 remember riding my little bike like just in loops around 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:57.240 like backstage by the dressing rooms, do the thing over 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:00.200 the you know, the cable bumps and like, but like 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.040 I vividly remembered that was like where I was riding 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:04.360 my bike around was set. 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.680 Yeah, I mean it really was. You know, it was 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.680 so unusual and I had never been on a set 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.600 like that. There were always you know, actors that didn't 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.800 get along and a lot of tension for whatever reason. 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.480 And with the actors it was always, you know, there 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:22.960 was a little bit of you know, the writers versus 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:26.800 the actors kind of mentality, which is really stupid, right, 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.560 you know. And Mike was always you know, we've got 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.040 kids on this show. Let's make the set a warm, 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:35.560 wonderful place. But it's easy to say that, you know, 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:39.480 but it but it actually, you know, happened, you know, 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:43.240 for whatever reason. The the you know, Adria, the people 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.840 we hired, the people that were there, you know, the way, 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:51.520 the moms we had, you know, everybody was just really wonderful. 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:55.560 It was just once in a lifetime, you know experience. 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.200 We tried to recreate it on four House. We got 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.840 close in some ways, you know, but you can't just 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:07.280 make that happen really special that it just occurred. 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:11.120 Well, we always felt very protected and well cared for 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:13.840 and loved, yeah, which I didn't realize. 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:15.520 How rare that was at the time. And now we 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.160 hear stories from our contemporaries. 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:21.400 That, oh, not all showrunners are that loving and kind 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:26.000 and really genuinely cared about his child actors. So I mean, 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:29.200 this is a very belated thank you to you. But yeah, 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.120 I had no idea just how special and rare. 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.160 But truly, like the from the top down, our set 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:39.360 was always warm and supportive and friendly and kind and 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:44.240 genuine and like yeah, like again, hearing from so many 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:46.600 other people who grew up in this business, you know, 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:51.520 I sometimes go, wow, maybe I have a very different experience, 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:54.760 Like I didn't have any of these negative experiences with 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:57.760 you know, anyone on set, or like I was like, 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:01.679 this is great. You know, it was like like, you know, 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.520 a fairy tale almost because now I realized that yet 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:05.960 is really really rare. 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:08.159 We were also lucky. 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:11.560 So whose idea was Fuller House? 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:15.160 Because John's going around telling everybody that it was his idea. 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.439 So I want you to set the record straight of 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.760 who came up with the idea and got Fourhouse rolling. 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:28.760 My recollection slightly the John's, but but you know, it 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:33.080 came out of a lunch that we had. I mean 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:36.680 I fantasized, you know, from the day Full House ended, 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.639 you know, how can we do this again someday? You know, 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:43.879 And I had already kind of worked on an idea 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:47.399 for Fuehouse, but we were having we were having lunch. 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:51.040 You know and kind of lamenting. This was at a 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:55.240 point in two thousand and seven when family sitcoms were 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:58.160 kind of off the air and that there was a 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:02.080 time where they just didn't exist, and Full House was 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:07.040 on nickod Night and doing incredible numbers, like eating most 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:11.880 shows at prime time save that network ratings are through 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:16.080 the roof, and you know, we're like, well then, you know, 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:18.840 there's obviously an audience it's still hungry for that kind 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.719 of show. And we started to kick around ideas and 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:24.160 I said, well, you know, or we could just bring 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:27.600 back Full House, you know, just threw it out there. 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.120 And he goes, yeah, why don't we just do that? 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:37.520 And that was so I'm like, okay, you know, hey, John, 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:41.800 does that mean you might you know, be Uncle Jesse again, 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:45.760 like because that's kind of a big part of Full House, right, 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:49.359 you know, and for years, you know, he had just 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:54.520 been kicking and clawing and you know, fighting being Uncle 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:57.560 Jesse during the show and after. 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:01.399 The I mean, Bob did we all kind of have 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:03.920 those And it's it's common when you get kind of 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:05.439 stuck in that you're like, oh my god, I just 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:06.320 I can't do anything else. 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:08.000 I mean, I think he you know, he felt that 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:12.159 it limited his opportunities after the show ended for a 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:16.520 while and and he, you know, he just he just 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:19.360 looked at me, took a beat, and he went, yeah, 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:22.280 I could do that. Like I was in a booth, 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:27.119 so I didn't fall out my chair. But it was 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:31.840 a moment that I, you know, dreamed of that I 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:35.679 you know, that suddenly came true. Like how am I awake? 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:39.800 Am I? You know? What is this? And he had 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:42.800 just you know, he just found you know, he stopped 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:45.560 fighting it. You know, he had he had given into it. 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:49.000 And then I said, well, you know, it's like I 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:51.800 wanted to kiss the guy, but he was kind of 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:55.040 across the table. But you know, like and we you know, 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:57.040 I said, okay, well I've been thinking about the show 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:59.199 and blah blah blah blah blah blah, and you know, 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:02.879 I had most of it, and you know, but but 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:06.080 and he started throw ideas and you know, so it 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:08.480 it came out of that lunch. So you know, I 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:11.960