Speaker 1: We are back with part two of our interview with
Speaker 1: our dear friend and creator of Full House, Jeff Franklin.
Speaker 2: We are so grateful he made.
Speaker 1: The time to come on the pod and answer all
Speaker 1: of the burning questions we've had over the last six
Speaker 1: months or thirty six years. So let's get to it.
Speaker 1: Here is part two of our chat with Jeff Franklin.
Speaker 3: Just hearing the story of how full House came to be.
Speaker 3: It's kind of by accident, kind of by sheer willpower,
Speaker 3: just kind of by you know, demanding what you want
Speaker 3: and not giving up, and then kind of by like
Speaker 3: weird things falling apart and falling together. Like you know,
Speaker 3: the success did not come easy to Full House. It
Speaker 3: was we worked for it.
Speaker 4: No, we were we were almost canceled. We were uh yeah,
Speaker 4: we were definitely on the bubble and could have gone
Speaker 4: either way. Yeah, it's just a series of miracles. Really,
Speaker 4: I mean weird think about I mean, we're on a
Speaker 4: such a short little list of shows that have you know,
Speaker 4: we're still you know, we're still going almost forty years later.
Speaker 3: Yeah, i mean wild you can.
Speaker 4: Count those shows on you know, on one hand. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's amazing. It's so miraculous what happened? And you know
Speaker 4: the other shows on that on those lists, you get it.
Speaker 4: They're like okay, yeah, Seinfeld Friends and you know, like
Speaker 4: these are like monsters, right you see come to full
Speaker 4: House and and everybody's like, oh god, that's on that list.
Speaker 3: You know, You're like, I know, no, we are.
Speaker 2: It's the fan base, the fans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have such a great loyal fan base. And
Speaker 3: it was it was made of like so many generations
Speaker 3: of people that it has just sort of been passed
Speaker 3: down like some family recipe, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: Like if you watched it with your parents, now their
Speaker 3: grandparents and the grandparents watch it with the grandkids, and.
Speaker 4: You know, and it's really cool now because it's so
Speaker 4: you know, there's you see people on yeah. I mean
Speaker 4: there's no cell phones, there's you know, it's such a
Speaker 4: different world back then.
Speaker 3: There's a landline. I mean I watched the episode yesterday,
Speaker 3: or I watched the episode yesterday that we're gonna be
Speaker 3: reviewing later, and I was like, oh my god, a landline,
Speaker 3: like you answered it and you didn't even know who
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 2: Surprise, no caller, ID Like none.
Speaker 3: Of that shocking?
Speaker 4: Was it? The little lips lips phone DJ.
Speaker 3: Yes, DJ's phone.
Speaker 2: That was a cool phone.
Speaker 3: And the blue and the blue one in the in
Speaker 3: the kitchen.
Speaker 2: In the kitchen, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Because everyone needs a blue phone that matches their plaid Curtainsy,
Speaker 3: that's true, it did match. I mean so did the
Speaker 3: red lips phone. I mean, if you're going to have
Speaker 3: a phone, it has to match the decord.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Of course, whose idea was that?
Speaker 3: We actually do have quite a few questions about things
Speaker 3: like that, the things that we've been watching the episodes
Speaker 3: and gone, where did we got to ask Jeff? Where
Speaker 3: did that come from?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well I probably don't know, but.
Speaker 1: Well, whose idea was having a nautical theme throughout the
Speaker 1: living room with the mariner and all of the decor?
Speaker 1: You know, what was that you or was that a
Speaker 1: set deck?
Speaker 4: I mean it was you know, conversations about you know,
Speaker 4: this is you know, we're in San Francisco and it's
Speaker 4: you know, it's uh, it's on the coast, and you know,
Speaker 4: maybe be fun to you know, to tie into that.
Speaker 4: But that was probably.
Speaker 3: Basically if you could turn Fisherman's Wharf into a house, right,
Speaker 3: that got it? Okay? That was the directions get and
Speaker 3: also just put in like I know, in the living
Speaker 3: room there's like a framed picture of like forty nine
Speaker 3: Ers football people on it was like Joe Montana or
Speaker 3: I don't know, I'm completely making up random was, but
Speaker 3: it was like that. And then like in the there
Speaker 3: was always like a San Francisco banner. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: in case anyone forgets we're in San Francisco.
Speaker 4: Anything with the right right.
Speaker 3: Seapappy was actually down on Peer seventeen for quite a while,
Speaker 3: but they just dragged it up the hill and uh
Speaker 3: and brought it home with the turtle on the skateboard.
Speaker 4: That was Bubba that was in there.
Speaker 3: The sea Pappy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Jody has the head. She stole it from
Speaker 1: the set on the last day.
Speaker 3: What was that the original? That the original Sea Pappy
Speaker 3: was wooden and a thing. This one is styrofoam. But
Speaker 3: I will take what I can get.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was it was a recreation, not the original.
Speaker 1: Did you take anything from the set as a souvenir,
Speaker 1: either in full House or.
Speaker 2: Fuller House or you're just like, I gotta know stuff
Speaker 2: he really did.
Speaker 3: That's the running consensus is that Stamos stole all of it.
Speaker 1: Without telling anyone until we find out later on Instagram.
Speaker 4: I don't know, he just showed up with the truck
Speaker 4: in the middle of the night or something.
Speaker 3: I don't know, right, Well, look, that can be done
Speaker 3: to I'm just saying we could also show up with
Speaker 3: the truck in the middle of the night. You're taking
Speaker 3: the couch, don't worry about it.
Speaker 4: He's got the couch. He's got it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we should.
Speaker 4: It should.
Speaker 3: Each one of us gets the couch for like two
Speaker 3: weeks of the year, you know, we spread it out
Speaker 3: through about all of the cast, and we get to
Speaker 3: lounge on the couch. They give cup Yeah, exactly, good
Speaker 3: timeshare comes and yeah, right, timeshare the couch and the
Speaker 3: front doors too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, reinstalled the front doors.
Speaker 1: Speaking of decor, I've noticed out season one that there's
Speaker 1: a lot of parrots in that, Like there's a parrot
Speaker 1: in the alcove, and then when Joey moves to the basement,
Speaker 1: there's parrots. But there's pictures of parrots in Joey's room
Speaker 1: in the downstairs in the basement.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that was I think I think it
Speaker 4: was Lynn Griffin.
Speaker 3: I want to remember Lynn.
Speaker 4: Yes, Yeah, anyway, it was that was not my that's
Speaker 4: not my.
Speaker 2: Thing you're doing okay, okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't worry about were the Golden Retriever puppy
Speaker 3: posters that were up in DJ's room. Where those a
Speaker 3: nod to your future plans of getting a dog in.
Speaker 4: The Yes, well yeah, I'm a dog lover. Yes, that
Speaker 4: al cop to for sure. Okay, yeah, it was always
Speaker 4: my plan to freaking dog in in that house. It
Speaker 4: was much to start off with it.
Speaker 3: But right you're like, okay, I've got a picture a
Speaker 3: six month old and a puppy.
Speaker 1: Did you have goldens before full House or duringm Like?
Speaker 2: When did you have your first golden?
Speaker 4: My first golden was? I used to work at a
Speaker 4: Texico station when I was a kid, and somebody left
Speaker 4: a golden in the bathroom. Oh no, obviously abandoned it
Speaker 4: and have no collar, no nothing, just so I took
Speaker 4: it home and that was my dog. That's well, I
Speaker 4: named him. I gave him my nickname back then. So
Speaker 4: his name was Hefe.
Speaker 2: Oh I love that Jeff and Hefe. I never knew that.
Speaker 2: That's so cool.
Speaker 4: My Mexican boss at McDonald's three years earlier, when I
Speaker 4: worked at McDonald's. He he called me Hefe and all
Speaker 4: my friends worked there too, and it just sort of stuck.
Speaker 2: Okay, Chief there you go. Yeah, yeah, that's an honor.
Speaker 3: That's so great.
Speaker 1: I love that you worked at McDonald's and now you're
Speaker 1: you're sitting on top of your hill.
Speaker 3: A trajectory you have talking about, like sneaking into the
Speaker 3: Forum to watch Laker games and then you know, and
Speaker 3: then being an adult and finally being able to buy
Speaker 3: floor seats. Yeah, you know, not floor seats, but good seats.
Speaker 4: That was one of the coolest, like ten seconds of
Speaker 4: my life. When we won our first award on Fuller House.
Speaker 4: We were like teen Choice Award for Best compty and
Speaker 4: they had it at the Forum. That's right then, you know,
Speaker 4: that was my backyard. I grew up in Englewood and
Speaker 4: I was at the Forum, you know, five times a week. Wow,
Speaker 4: every basketball game, game, every concert. It was you know,
Speaker 4: just stroll right in and to be back there on
Speaker 4: that stage in that building too, you know, to watch
Speaker 4: with all of you, to watch the show was that
Speaker 4: was like.
Speaker 3: The screening stadium full of young people, like so excited.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I get choked when I think about that, just
Speaker 4: like what a what a lucky life?
Speaker 2: Did you keep the orange the what is it that
Speaker 2: orange trophy?
Speaker 3: The blimp?
Speaker 1: The blimp, Yeah, the orange Nickelodeon blimp. Oh, he's getting up,
Speaker 1: Jeff's getting up.
Speaker 3: I think that's what I feel. That feels like you
Speaker 3: feel like this is.
Speaker 2: He's going to show evidence. Yes, there it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have mine to This is the Kid's Choice Award.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 4: I'm in my office. I can drag the Teen Choice Award.
Speaker 3: Oh that's right. We have to wait, yeah, yeah, drag
Speaker 3: that over.
Speaker 2: Let's get the get there choice. Let's just bring the
Speaker 2: whole cabinet over.
Speaker 3: I mean, don't yeah, don't knock anything over, hurt yourself.
Speaker 3: But but this is something the fans want to know.
Speaker 1: The fans will want to know, they'll want to see it,
Speaker 1: and I know the People's Choice Award. Jeff generously, there's
Speaker 1: the team.
Speaker 3: There you go. That's great.
Speaker 2: Wait, I didn't get one of those. That's we didn't.
Speaker 3: We we didn't because they were that you can, but
Speaker 3: you got to buy them.
Speaker 2: You have to buy each.
Speaker 3: Ye, there's like one given to each. Yes, there you go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got a team. We've got a blimp, a
Speaker 3: surfboard and uh. And then the People's Choice People's Choice.
Speaker 1: Which is which stuff so generously bought for one for me,
Speaker 1: one for you, one for Candice.
Speaker 2: Yes, so yeah, that's still displayed in my oh yeah cabinet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the People Choice People's Choice Awards, so that we
Speaker 3: could each have one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was.
Speaker 3: That's something that most people probably don't know is you
Speaker 3: don't get that if you want, like for a large
Speaker 3: cast or something, you get one award. And if you
Speaker 3: if you win an award, even if you win, you
Speaker 3: want more than one. You've got to buy it to
Speaker 3: pay for it.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're not.
Speaker 4: Cheap, they're hurting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know was the the one thing that
Speaker 3: we've asked Dave about to was the mannequin. How did
Speaker 3: you What were your feelings on the mannequin? Was this
Speaker 3: a nightmare for you?
Speaker 4: You know it was obviously it was stupid.
Speaker 2: Oh, we loved it. We look forward to it every week.
Speaker 4: It was ridiculous. But you know, I hate to say
Speaker 4: no when you know, an actor comes to me and says,
Speaker 4: I've got you.
Speaker 3: Know, got a great idea, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Please let me do this. You know, it was like well, okay,
Speaker 4: it's just easier to say yes, you know if if
Speaker 4: it makes some It didn't make any sense.
Speaker 3: But it was like harmless, right, there was there was
Speaker 3: one episode that the mannequin had outfit changes.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, costume changes in the middle.
Speaker 3: Like but amazing costume changes where everyone went to one
Speaker 3: room and like not that much time had passed and
Speaker 3: then everyone's back like in like walks from the kitchen
Speaker 3: to the living room and the mannequin's changed its close
Speaker 3: and I'm like freaking anybody else out that the mannequin's joy.
Speaker 4: Was Joey had changed clothes to I assume.
Speaker 3: Yes, Joey had changed but it was it was you know,
Speaker 3: there were there were times that the mannequin was wearing
Speaker 3: a thing and I'm everything so great.
Speaker 4: It was amazing, got two of everything, but it went
Speaker 4: in a different size the man right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was well priorities. You know, he's living in
Speaker 3: an alcove, but he's his mannequin has a fatastic everything.
Speaker 1: Else, right, yes, So whose idea was Jesse's Elvis obsession?
Speaker 1: Was that? Because I know you're a fan of Elvis
Speaker 1: and John is a fan of Elvis, So whose.
Speaker 4: Ideas a fan but he's not like me. I'm I'm
Speaker 4: a craze fa I was. Elvis was my first hero
Speaker 4: when I was five four or five years old. You know,
Speaker 4: it's been a life obsession and uh yeah it was.
Speaker 4: This whole show was like it was It's so bizarre
Speaker 4: how the actors fit what was on the page so perfectly,
Speaker 4: you know, Like I mean, John, you know, he's got
Speaker 4: the look. I mean, he's you know, he's right, what
Speaker 4: better guy, you know to have an Elvis thing? And uh,
Speaker 4: you know, and Bob, you know, like it was on
Speaker 4: the page, he's a hugger, he's the emotional guy. He's neurotic.
Speaker 4: He's there like yeah, don Posey, you know, bless his heart.
Speaker 4: But you know it was not you know, he was
Speaker 4: playing that part, but that was Bob.
Speaker 3: Yes, Bob was a neurotic, hugging, emotional fool.
Speaker 4: See de Galorea. And you know, and then Joey that
Speaker 4: character you know, to have a stand up that does
Speaker 4: you know all those impressions were in in that guy's
Speaker 4: act in the script. I mean I didn't didn't know
Speaker 4: any of that, you know, I mean it was just
Speaker 4: you know, talk about you know, a manchild, the boy
Speaker 4: won't grow up Peter, Right, that's Dave.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The fact that we found him and we you know,
Speaker 4: it was just it's incredible. It just was an exceptional
Speaker 4: you know, I've cast a lot of shows, and it's
Speaker 4: casting is the most important part. And it just doesn't happen.
Speaker 4: You know, somebody doesn't walk in the you know, you
Speaker 4: you end up rewriting the part for the actor that
Speaker 4: you wind up with, typically, right, and that didn't have
Speaker 4: to happen on the show.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I always wondered that because like how much of
Speaker 3: who we were informed, who the characters were, or was
Speaker 3: it that it just so happened that, like you wrote
Speaker 3: these characters and then sort of manifested these people that
Speaker 3: really brought that to the table, right.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, once I found you, I rewrote that
Speaker 4: character a little bit to kind of a what I
Speaker 4: what I saw on that you know, in that episode.
Speaker 4: But you know, but when you guys were kids, I
Speaker 4: don't know if you remember this, you know, I hope
Speaker 4: I wasn't creepy about it, but you know I tried
Speaker 4: to spend as much time as I could with you know,
Speaker 4: with all of you because and yeah, because I wanted
Speaker 4: to get to know who you were and capture your
Speaker 4: voice and what are you guys interested in? And what
Speaker 4: do you care about? And how do you know what
Speaker 4: do you not care about? And you know, I really
Speaker 4: that was important to me that I you know, that
Speaker 4: I write you guys authentically because it had been it
Speaker 4: had been a while since I've been a kid and
Speaker 4: hang out with kids, So that part of it was
Speaker 4: a joy. Really amazing kids amazing.
Speaker 3: We had so much fun on that set with everybody,
Speaker 3: like just you know, it was just such a fun
Speaker 3: family environment. I mean I was I posted a picture
Speaker 3: recently of a bicycle. You gave me my first bike
Speaker 3: on uh on Full House on the set, and like
Speaker 3: I remember, I can vividly remember we had our Christmas
Speaker 3: party on set and you'd given me that, and I
Speaker 3: remember riding my little bike like just in loops around
Speaker 3: like backstage by the dressing rooms, do the thing over
Speaker 3: the you know, the cable bumps and like, but like
Speaker 3: I vividly remembered that was like where I was riding
Speaker 3: my bike around was set.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it really was. You know, it was
Speaker 4: so unusual and I had never been on a set
Speaker 4: like that. There were always you know, actors that didn't
Speaker 4: get along and a lot of tension for whatever reason.
Speaker 4: And with the actors it was always, you know, there
Speaker 4: was a little bit of you know, the writers versus
Speaker 4: the actors kind of mentality, which is really stupid, right,
Speaker 4: you know. And Mike was always you know, we've got
Speaker 4: kids on this show. Let's make the set a warm,
Speaker 4: wonderful place. But it's easy to say that, you know,
Speaker 4: but it but it actually, you know, happened, you know,
Speaker 4: for whatever reason. The the you know, Adria, the people
Speaker 4: we hired, the people that were there, you know, the way,
Speaker 4: the moms we had, you know, everybody was just really wonderful.
Speaker 4: It was just once in a lifetime, you know experience.
Speaker 4: We tried to recreate it on four House. We got
Speaker 4: close in some ways, you know, but you can't just
Speaker 4: make that happen really special that it just occurred.
Speaker 1: Well, we always felt very protected and well cared for
Speaker 1: and loved, yeah, which I didn't realize.
Speaker 2: How rare that was at the time. And now we
Speaker 2: hear stories from our contemporaries.
Speaker 1: That, oh, not all showrunners are that loving and kind
Speaker 1: and really genuinely cared about his child actors. So I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a very belated thank you to you. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I had no idea just how special and rare.
Speaker 3: But truly, like the from the top down, our set
Speaker 3: was always warm and supportive and friendly and kind and
Speaker 3: genuine and like yeah, like again, hearing from so many
Speaker 3: other people who grew up in this business, you know,
Speaker 3: I sometimes go, wow, maybe I have a very different experience,
Speaker 3: Like I didn't have any of these negative experiences with
Speaker 3: you know, anyone on set, or like I was like,
Speaker 3: this is great. You know, it was like like, you know,
Speaker 3: a fairy tale almost because now I realized that yet
Speaker 3: is really really rare.
Speaker 4: We were also lucky.
Speaker 2: So whose idea was Fuller House?
Speaker 1: Because John's going around telling everybody that it was his idea.
Speaker 1: So I want you to set the record straight of
Speaker 1: who came up with the idea and got Fourhouse rolling.
Speaker 4: My recollection slightly the John's, but but you know, it
Speaker 4: came out of a lunch that we had. I mean
Speaker 4: I fantasized, you know, from the day Full House ended,
Speaker 4: you know, how can we do this again someday? You know,
Speaker 4: And I had already kind of worked on an idea
Speaker 4: for Fuehouse, but we were having we were having lunch.
Speaker 4: You know and kind of lamenting. This was at a
Speaker 4: point in two thousand and seven when family sitcoms were
Speaker 4: kind of off the air and that there was a
Speaker 4: time where they just didn't exist, and Full House was
Speaker 4: on nickod Night and doing incredible numbers, like eating most
Speaker 4: shows at prime time save that network ratings are through
Speaker 4: the roof, and you know, we're like, well then, you know,
Speaker 4: there's obviously an audience it's still hungry for that kind
Speaker 4: of show. And we started to kick around ideas and
Speaker 4: I said, well, you know, or we could just bring
Speaker 4: back Full House, you know, just threw it out there.
Speaker 4: And he goes, yeah, why don't we just do that?
Speaker 4: And that was so I'm like, okay, you know, hey, John,
Speaker 4: does that mean you might you know, be Uncle Jesse again,
Speaker 4: like because that's kind of a big part of Full House, right,
Speaker 4: you know, and for years, you know, he had just
Speaker 4: been kicking and clawing and you know, fighting being Uncle
Speaker 4: Jesse during the show and after.
Speaker 3: The I mean, Bob did we all kind of have
Speaker 3: those And it's it's common when you get kind of
Speaker 3: stuck in that you're like, oh my god, I just
Speaker 3: I can't do anything else.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think he you know, he felt that
Speaker 4: it limited his opportunities after the show ended for a
Speaker 4: while and and he, you know, he just he just
Speaker 4: looked at me, took a beat, and he went, yeah,
Speaker 4: I could do that. Like I was in a booth,
Speaker 4: so I didn't fall out my chair. But it was
Speaker 4: a moment that I, you know, dreamed of that I
Speaker 4: you know, that suddenly came true. Like how am I awake?
Speaker 4: Am I? You know? What is this? And he had
Speaker 4: just you know, he just found you know, he stopped
Speaker 4: fighting it. You know, he had he had given into it.
Speaker 4: And then I said, well, you know, it's like I
Speaker 4: wanted to kiss the guy, but he was kind of
Speaker 4: across the table. But you know, like and we you know,
Speaker 4: I said, okay, well I've been thinking about the show
Speaker 4: and blah blah blah blah blah blah, and you know,
Speaker 4: I had most of it, and you know, but but
Speaker 4: and he started throw ideas and you know, so it
Speaker 4: it came out of that lunch. So you know, I
Speaker 4: think he gets a shared credit on the fact that
Speaker 4: Fourhouse would not have happened if not for that lunch.
Speaker 1: And you said, that was in two thousand and seven,
Speaker 1: and we didn't start pitching Fuller until what fourteen years.
Speaker 4: So we went into Warner Brothers pitched them the show
Speaker 4: pretty much show, and they said and they didn't get it,
Speaker 4: you know, they Warner Brothers never really got the power
Speaker 4: of what they had. Like I always say, if if Disney,
Speaker 4: if Full House had been on Disney, there'd be like
Speaker 4: full House Land, you know Disney.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, we'd have our own the amusement
Speaker 3: park in San Francisco.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it flowed up into little red convertibles and drive through,
Speaker 4: you know into Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh man, there's a roller coaster going.
Speaker 4: On, toring up.
Speaker 3: You got it, dude, this is such a great idea.
Speaker 2: I want this amusement park. Let's make it happen.
Speaker 4: But one was never really you know, put much. It
Speaker 4: was you know, belatedly they put the DVD out and
Speaker 4: you know, that was about it. So we went in
Speaker 4: there and they said, okay, well let us make some
Speaker 4: calls and see if there's any interest. And I guess
Speaker 4: they soft pitched it to a couple of places and
Speaker 4: didn't get any love back. And we never got up
Speaker 4: to bat. They's like, I don't think there's any market
Speaker 4: out there. And it was like over before it even
Speaker 4: had a chance, you know, you know, but it was
Speaker 4: before you know, reboot Fever and all the rest of that.
Speaker 4: But then, you know, I mean, you guys are well
Speaker 4: aware of the challenges. Even I tried it again, you know,
Speaker 4: I'm like, Okay, I'm going to try this one last time.
Speaker 4: You know. We got as far as a round of
Speaker 4: pitches and still couldn't sell it, you know, to TV, yes,
Speaker 4: you know that one own.
Speaker 2: You know, the ABC, I mean, Nickelodeon.
Speaker 4: You know, to all the you know, the logical suspects
Speaker 4: that would want that show, and nobody bought it, you know,
Speaker 4: I mean, Bob Weett was trying to sell one hundred
Speaker 4: episodes you know, at once, which was didn't help us.
Speaker 4: But you know, still they could have said no, but we'll,
Speaker 4: you know, do a pilot script or we'll do it
Speaker 4: they will read or something. We got nothing, and then,
Speaker 4: you know, and then Netflix came came out of nowhere,
Speaker 4: and again just another miraculous thing that happened. You know,
Speaker 4: then we got to go back and do it again.
Speaker 4: For a while.
Speaker 2: That was so special.
Speaker 1: It was even even better the second time around, just
Speaker 1: because of the gratefulness in the perspective that we had
Speaker 1: as adults. Finally we were like, oh my gosh, this
Speaker 1: is so cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they say you can ever come home again, but
Speaker 2: we did, and it.
Speaker 4: Was it was a lot of fun, and you know,
Speaker 4: I think the fans, a lot of the fans really
Speaker 4: enjoy it, and you know, we just yeah.
Speaker 3: They loved it.
Speaker 4: We didn't, you know, shouldn't catch fire quite the same
Speaker 4: way as Full House did, but you know, but I
Speaker 4: was really proud of the of the show and you know,
Speaker 4: and it was just so much fun to do it again.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, and I also think sort of the landscape of
Speaker 3: television changed though in that time, Like having that sort
Speaker 3: of success of a show anymore is it's almost you know,
Speaker 3: unless it's a Game of Thrones or something like that.
Speaker 3: Like it there's really popular niches of television and stuff,
Speaker 3: and I think like sort of the streaming kind of
Speaker 3: did that. But I know, like fans were so thrilled
Speaker 3: with what we did with Full House. They loved the
Speaker 3: fact that we kind of were self referential and like
Speaker 3: you know, wink wink, nod no occasionally, like we get
Speaker 3: who we are and what we do, and we just
Speaker 3: leaned into it. And I you know, talking about John
Speaker 3: kind of leaning into it too. I feel like we
Speaker 3: all fought that same sort of battle where it was like, ah,
Speaker 3: I'm not you know, I'm not this person, I'm this
Speaker 3: or I'm that, you know, And it felt like when
Speaker 3: full Fuller came back, we all just kind of went like,
Speaker 3: it's just some fun, like you know what this is
Speaker 3: actually kind of great, Like let's let's just run with it.
Speaker 3: And we did. And like once we did that, it
Speaker 3: was like we found what it was. We discovered what
Speaker 3: the audience fell in love with.
Speaker 4: You know, yeah it was I mean the first episode,
Speaker 4: I just you know, loaded it up with you know,
Speaker 4: nostalgia and self referential jokes. The big biggest line catchphrases
Speaker 4: ever written, been involved in whatever was in that show.
Speaker 3: When we did our when we did our our look
Speaker 3: to camera the first.
Speaker 4: Episode, we said was oh yeah, Michelle's in New York,
Speaker 4: you know, in the fashion business or whatever the line was.
Speaker 4: And then and then that look into.
Speaker 3: Camera and wasn't didn't We decided we did it as
Speaker 3: like an old because we were doing it like the
Speaker 3: original and were like, oh, let's kind of let's do it,
Speaker 3: and we and I think we all were like, oh, well,
Speaker 3: they won't use that.
Speaker 4: It was the first time, and we had to do
Speaker 4: it again because I didn't want to cut away. I
Speaker 4: didn't I didn't want to do any camera cuts. So
Speaker 4: we had to do it a couple of times. It
Speaker 4: wouldn't be so long, but that was you know, I'd
Speaker 4: never gotten like a two minute rolling laugh. That's that
Speaker 4: was great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then I remember that.
Speaker 4: Everybody wanted to cut it, cut it out. Bob wanted
Speaker 4: to cut it really.
Speaker 2: Like the network.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not sag it, okay, but I quit.
Speaker 2: No, I know, it was a great choice to leave
Speaker 2: it in.
Speaker 3: I mean it was that if we don't say something,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, it was like like, we know,
Speaker 3: you know, let's just have that.
Speaker 4: All the way we know, and it was and then
Speaker 4: the look just said, oh, come on, you know, guys,
Speaker 4: not that serious complain an hour? You know.
Speaker 1: Well, and especially because we every interview, every single interview,
Speaker 1: they would bring up, why aren't.
Speaker 2: The Olsens coming back? And we're like, they don't want to.
Speaker 2: It's a simple that's all. I haven't they have.
Speaker 3: Yeah they have autonic It's okay, but yeah, I was
Speaker 3: I think I did that one time we were at
Speaker 3: a press tour and somebody asked that, and it was
Speaker 3: at the end of like an eleven hour day, and
Speaker 3: I was just like, I don't know, you guys just
Speaker 3: keep asking like why get kindly frustrated from it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my standard line I always use was, you know,
Speaker 4: there's every time you have a have a family reunion,
Speaker 4: you know, there's always that that one guy who doesn't
Speaker 4: show up. You know, It's just it's always true.
Speaker 3: It's true, true, And I absolutely under understand, like it's
Speaker 3: you know, I I know for me, like my formative
Speaker 3: years of like five to thirteen, that was all of
Speaker 3: my child memories, but like before eight, before they were
Speaker 3: you know, for me, it was like that wasn't as
Speaker 3: big and important of a pivotal thing in my life.
Speaker 3: So I there's a little bit of a distance from it,
Speaker 3: I think. And they're incredibly successful fashion designers.
Speaker 4: They were amazing, they've.
Speaker 3: Done and have a baby now again we've are generationally
Speaker 3: has a baby of full house families so sweet.
Speaker 1: So would you ever do a fullest house? That's another
Speaker 1: question we get a lot.
Speaker 2: Would you would you do it? And do you think
Speaker 2: it would ever happen? Like what's the possibility?
Speaker 4: You know? I would. I would, of course I would, you.
Speaker 2: Know, yeah, I think we I think we all would.
Speaker 4: It still needs a little time in between.
Speaker 1: But sure, well even as a tribute to Bob, we
Speaker 1: could do a tribute to Bob and Danny, Danny Tanner
Speaker 1: and Bob. Bob would even joke about he would want
Speaker 1: his earn on the mantle in the living room set.
Speaker 2: So I think we have to manifest.
Speaker 3: Be fine, right, yeah, he'd approve. But I think that
Speaker 3: whatever it is, we go back to sort of the
Speaker 3: idea of like three comics in a household, but like
Speaker 3: more of a reality thing. And it's just all of
Speaker 3: us living at your house as a retirement home and
Speaker 3: and that, and that's what it is, fullest house and
Speaker 3: there's seventeen Golden Retrievers everywhere, and it's yeah, like we're
Speaker 3: just all old and senile. It'll be great.
Speaker 4: Well I love it because, yeah, because I could pay
Speaker 4: all my mortgages out of that production.
Speaker 3: So see solutions, Jeff. That's all I'm saying. This is great.
Speaker 3: People would are you kidding? People would watch this? We're
Speaker 3: going to get requests.
Speaker 4: You guys all just move in and live together and
Speaker 4: you know, by yourself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that would like great, fine, for sure, it would.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, show with it so funny, just be
Speaker 3: Dave making fart noises all the time.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of deodorizers in the house. Oh man,
Speaker 1: oh Jeff, this has been so great.
Speaker 2: This has been such a fun hour to.
Speaker 1: Chat with you and catch up and tell these stories
Speaker 1: that we've enjoyed listening to for years and now we
Speaker 1: get to share them with our listeners. It's just it
Speaker 1: gives me all the warm fundays.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't believe you and you guys have a
Speaker 4: podcast and Dave has a podcast and every rewatching every episode,
Speaker 4: and you know, I actually wish you guys had but
Speaker 4: sort of spread them out a little longer, you know,
Speaker 4: like you guys are like competing right in a way.
Speaker 3: Oh no, No, his is more. Dave's just like so
Speaker 3: visual and so like his is more like his recaps
Speaker 3: are a little like shorter, I think, and he does
Speaker 3: more stuff that's like he like he always describes it
Speaker 3: as like Peebe's playhouse sort of. He's got puppets and
Speaker 3: shows and clips and things and interviews and all of that.
Speaker 3: And we're a little we do a little more like
Speaker 3: kind of guest and the recap and and the sci
Speaker 3: fi you know, mystery science theater commentary.
Speaker 4: Of what the hell was going on in a keeps
Speaker 4: the show going.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we love it. We have such a loyal, great,
Speaker 3: amazing fan base, and I think they're actually excited that
Speaker 3: there's two ways for them to to get And it's
Speaker 3: also Dave has such a he was talking about it too,
Speaker 3: like such a different perspective as an adult on the show.
Speaker 3: Versus are going up as kids and kind of interviewing
Speaker 3: people and rediscovering things about like our childhood or what
Speaker 3: the experience was like, you know, or for everybody else.
Speaker 3: Been kind of fun to do.
Speaker 1: And we're Jodie and I are separately, but we're going
Speaker 1: on Dave's podcast as guests coming up later this wenth.
Speaker 1: So I can't wait to see the set and sit
Speaker 1: in the chair that you sat in a wonderful interviews.
Speaker 3: Jeff, We're so glad you came on. Are you Are
Speaker 3: you still working on your book or have you?
Speaker 4: I got I got depressed. I didn't get depressed, but
Speaker 4: I got like intimidated a little bit. When I read
Speaker 4: John's book. I'm like, I got to go back and
Speaker 4: make this better. He set the all so high. I thought,
Speaker 4: he just it was an amazing read.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and yours will be to yours will be too. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I can't wait to read it. I love it And
Speaker 1: anytime you need more. You know you've been interviewing us
Speaker 1: sporadically throughout the years, Yeah, to get like you.
Speaker 4: Know, Andrea. One one question I forgot to ask when
Speaker 4: you do your annual Kimmy Gibbler Halloween costume contest?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you followed that on Instagram. Well, I haven't.
Speaker 1: I didn't do it this this last year. I don't
Speaker 1: think I did the I think I sort of stopped
Speaker 1: at the ten year mark because I don't know why.
Speaker 1: But the prize was always an autographed Full House script
Speaker 1: or Fuller House if it was in the Fuller House days,
Speaker 1: and then that was the main prize.
Speaker 2: And then sometimes I would throw in like.
Speaker 1: A rap gift, like a T shirt or just some
Speaker 1: sort of paraphernalia from from Full House. If I had
Speaker 1: extra rap gifts lying around, I would just throw them,
Speaker 1: throw them in the package and send it to the winner.
Speaker 1: So yeah, no, it was. It was very special. People
Speaker 1: love they love it. They love having a piece of
Speaker 1: history and actually script with my scribblings in there and
Speaker 1: my highlighting my lines.
Speaker 3: Yeah, your boobs, the boob drawings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dave would draw boobs on the back, not my
Speaker 1: script because I was a child all the time, but
Speaker 1: I had his own script. Well, then then we would
Speaker 1: do it, you and I and I would yeah, would
Speaker 1: start writing.
Speaker 3: You know, Jeff, know about the script that you donated
Speaker 3: that then someone said that they had or was that Dave?
Speaker 1: No, No, I don't that was me. I don't think
Speaker 1: Jeff has heard this story that a local a local
Speaker 1: elementary school was asking for donations that they could put
Speaker 1: up for auction and all the proceeds would go to
Speaker 1: a charity for needy children. And so I said, yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: I've got a million of these old full house scripts
Speaker 1: hanging around. So I just dropped one off at the
Speaker 1: front desk one day and left. And then I got
Speaker 1: a call from the secretary later that night and she
Speaker 1: was like, there are some drawings on.
Speaker 2: The back of the script that you might want to
Speaker 2: know about. It was definitely a Dave drawing.
Speaker 1: So I thought, we can't give this to children, needy children.
Speaker 1: So I had to quickly course correct and deliver a
Speaker 1: different script. There were a lot of meetings, mom meetings.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now, I just can't say it enough. Jeff, you created
Speaker 3: something that changed not only the lives of the people
Speaker 3: that were in it, but the lives of the people
Speaker 3: that watched it and the lives of the people that
Speaker 3: we were all connected to. And that's it's a hell
Speaker 3: of an impact. I'm so proud that we all did
Speaker 3: this together as like this little family that we're still
Speaker 3: a part of it.
Speaker 4: It's really a beautiful thing, you know. That's that's I
Speaker 4: love that it's continued, you know, all these years, whether
Speaker 4: we're making a show or not. You know, that's that's
Speaker 4: equally special. And love you guys, and.
Speaker 3: Love you too, John.
Speaker 1: I love you so much, Jeff, and thank you for
Speaker 1: sharing your stories with us.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Hope we get to see.
Speaker 1: You in person soon and pay play with your goldens
Speaker 1: Uddy and Lola.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, that will wrap up our interview with
Speaker 3: Jeff Franklin. We hope you all liked what he had
Speaker 3: to say, and we cannot wait for you to hear
Speaker 3: who we have for you next week with an entirely
Speaker 3: new guest, which means entirely new stories and entirely new laughs.
Speaker 3: So continue I almost just read, so continue with regular outro.
Speaker 2: Instagram Jody, It's okay. We're still waking up. We're still
Speaker 2: wanting up.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, okay, wait, this.
Speaker 2: Is a full house episode.
Speaker 1: Do you remember when when DJ tells Stephanie in the
Speaker 1: Oat Boat commercial, don't read the stage direction stage.
Speaker 3: Direction, and I yeah, and I read to what you
Speaker 3: just did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you're living Oh my sorry, okay.
Speaker 3: Please continue. No, that's okay, that's I think this should
Speaker 3: all be in it. Okay. Now, if you want to
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Speaker 3: remember you guys, Here we go, There we go. The
Speaker 3: house is small, but the world is wait.
Speaker 2: Almost my god, I was so you were confident, went into.
Speaker 3: This small but the house is full. There we go.
Speaker 2: You got it, You got it.