History Series / FullHouse

''Full House'' (1987-95) is a DomCom that aired on Creator/{{ABC}}, serving as the flagship of the network's Franchise/{{TGIF}} lineup in the early 1990s.

** DJ screams this in "Super Bowl Fun Day".

* BorrowedCatchphrase: In "Fraternity Reunion", at said reunion when a male waiter hits with Danny DisguisedInDrag, Danny says in his falsetto voice "How rude!" which was Stephanie's catchphrase for a long time.

** Thanks to the magic of {{Retcon}}, Jesse was made into a high school drop-out and the Aesop of the episode was the importance of staying in school and getting a high school education. The Problem? Jesse had his own radio show with Joey and owned his own Club. [[SarcasmMode See how important a high school education is kids?]]
** In one episode, Michelle gets into a fight at preschool with Aaron, who steals her cookie. Michelle asks Jesse what she should do about it and Jesse (busy with other tasks) just tells her that if someone does something to her, she should just do it right back. Michelle then steals Aaron's cookie and the two start pinching each other. When both kids are punished, Jesse initially overreacts (even pulling Michelle out of preschool), but later realizes Michelle's "do it right back to them" behavior was wrong. The episode tries to paint the lesson as "if you have a problem, just go to an adult"... but Michelle did go to an adult (Jesse) and that's how the whole mess blew out of control in the first place.
** In another episode, Danny dumps a woman he's been dating after seeing what a slob she is. When he tells Joey and Jesse about this, they gently, but firmly tell him that, every time he meets a woman he likes, he dumps her for some ridiculous reason because he still misses his late wife and doesn't want to let her go. They lecture him about how unhealthy this pattern is, etc, etc. This is all true. . . except Danny didn't break up with this woman for a dumb reason. He dumped her because her apartment looked like a trash heap, something that would bother anybody, especially a NeatFreak like Danny.

* CanadianEqualsHockeyFan: In one episode, Joey imitates a hockey fan and puts on a French-Canadian accent.

** Michelle: Michelle is just a catchphrase spewing machine, the following catchphrases she has had in the show include: "You got it, dude!" "Aw nuts" "You're in big trouble, mister!" "Oh Puh-leaze!"

** In the episode in which Stephanie wrecks a car into the house, nearly every character reacts with their catchphrase upon seeing the wreck. Stephanie: I'm gonna wreck it!

* GettingMyOwnRoomPlot: One episode has DJ wanting her own room after dealing with Stephanie's snooping one too many times. DJ ends up getting the approval of Danny and moves into Michelle's room, while Michelle moves in with Stephanie who was against the move since she was afraid she and DJ will drift apart.

** Joey also. Moreso in the first two seasons. Then in Season 8, Flounder Tarts anyone?

** Blake and Dylan Tuomy-Wilhoit starting in slSeason 7, after being cast as Nicky and Alex in Season 6.

* {{Rewrite}}: Jesse's last name.

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* DomCom

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Stephanie and Michelle come up with a hair-brained scheme in "Designing Mothers" to reconcile Danny and Vicky by lying that Michelle's head is stuck in the fence. It immediately becomes clear they DidntThinkThisThrough when Vicky does the responsible thing and called the fire department. Since DJ had no involvement up till this point, she wisely rejects their plea to help. Granted, [[PetTheDog she does try to stall the fire department till Danny shows up to no avail]].

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Danny Tanner (Creator/BobSaget) is a UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco TV sports anchor left to raise his three young daughters alone after his wife is killed by a drunk driver. He asks his brother-in-law Jesse Katsopolis (Creator/JohnStamos), a musician with a love of Music/{{Elvis|Presley}} and later Music/TheBeachBoys, and his best friend Joey Gladstone (Creator/DaveCoulier), a stand-up comic with no shortage of impersonations, to move in with him and share the duties of raising his daughters, fifth grader Donna Jo aka D.J. (Creator/CandaceCameronBure), kindergartener Stephanie (Creator/JodieSweetin), and baby Michelle (Creator/MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen). In season four, Jesse marries his girlfriend Rebecca (Creator/LoriLoughlin), who moves into the house, whereupon they have twin boys and both families end up living under the same roof.

* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: It's stated in-series that Danny and Pam married not long after their senior prom, and one early episode had a college-aged Danny show a picture of D.J at around elementary school age, so it's highly likely that Pam gave birth to her almost immediately after they married. Judging from Danny's 30th birthday in season one (while DJ was 10 or 11), he was at most 19 when she was born, meaning that both Mother and Father were very youthful.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: In the season 6 episode "Silence is not Golden"[[spoiler: When Stephanie admits to Uncle Jesse that her classmate Charles admitted to being abused by his father]]

** Candace Cameron (D.J.)'s big brother Creator/KirkCameron appeared in a season one episode as D.J.'s favorite cousin, who was [[LikeBrotherAndSister like a big brother]] to her.
** Also, in a season five episode, Michelle runs away to her friend Teddy's house and spends some time with his family. Teddy is portrayed in the series by Tahj Mowry, and Teddy's older sister is played--in a double-cast role--by Mowry's real-life older sisters Tia and Tamera Mowry.

* ChickenpoxEpisode: In the season 1 episode "A Pox in Our House", Stephanie gets chickenpox, which eventually spreads to Jesse (who initially thought he had them as a child) and Joey (who claimed he was immune to chickenpox). This leaves the family in a bind as Michelle (who was a baby at the time) is too young to get them and having to choose between Danny (who has the chance to interview the Golden State Warriors) and DJ (who has a slumber party planned) to look after the family. In the end, it's DJ who agrees to look after them.

** Michelle's friend Denise from seasons 6-7 disappears without an explanation after the season seven finale.
** Mickey, who appears as Stephanie's friend when Stephanie enters middle school, disappears midway in season 7 without explanation or further mention, while Gia becomes Stephanie's pal.

** D.J.'s is treated like this in season 1's "Sisterly Love".

* HappierHomeMovie: In a season two episode, the family watches the video of the now-dead mom arriving home from the hospital with then-newborn baby Michelle.

* ImportantHaircut: Stephanie accidentally gives Jesse one in the season 2 premiere, ultimately forcing Jesse to lop the rest of his mullet off ([[spoiler:spoiled in syndication by using the standard Season 2 intro]]). This is also the episode where Jesse matured a bit and decides to become more responsible.

** Also, in season 2:

** Joey also. Moreso in the first 2 seasons. Then in season 8, Flounder Tarts anyone?

* MeaningfulRename: [[{{Rewrite}} Not that it was addressed in-series]], but Jesse's last name was Cochran in season 1. John Stamos asked for the character's last name to be changed in order to better reflect his own Greek heritage, so he became Jesse Katsopolis, and nods to his heritage were put in--including an ''in-series'' example of this trope, when Jesse admits that his birth first name was Hermes, the real-life name of Stamos' paternal grandfather. It should be noted that Katsopolis is not a Greek surname, the suffix -polis means "city", and as someone snarked on Website/TelevisionWithoutPity: "Why did Stamos [and also the actor who played the dad Papadopolis on ''Series/{{Webster}}''] not let the writing staff know that he didn't have municipal aspirations?".

* NewYearsKiss: Played with in the season 4 episode "Happy New Year's". Rusty, the son of Danny's girlfriend Cindy, threatens to kiss Stephanie when the New Year hits, and keeps taunting her about it throughout the episode. Stephanie gets back at him when she bites an onion right as the New Year comes and forcibly kisses Rusty.

** Averted with Stephanie's fifth grade class. There are two popular girls and they're both named Jennifer. Lampshaded in season 7's "Fast Friends" when Stephanie mentions how she ended up at different schools than each Jennifer.

** The Olsen girls were added to the credits in season two. They weren't in the season one credits until the show was syndicated.
** Blake and Dylan Tuomy-Wilhoit starting in season 7, after being cast as Nicky and Alex in season 6.

** Michelle's friend Denise makes a single one-off appearance in the penultimate season 5 episode, "Girls Will Be Boys". In the second episode of season 6, "The Long Goodbye" (where she becomes a recurring character), she's introduced as the new girl in school, seemingly for for the first time.

** Steph and Jesse's "No, he doesn't!" / "Yes, he does!" thing in season 1. The last episode they do this is "Cutting it Close", where Jesse says she's getting too old for the crying routine.

* ShoePhone: As illustrated in the episode "The Apartment", Kimmy's personal phone is one of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZfbN02_9Jw/ Sports Illustrated Sneaker Phone]], an actual working corded phone built into a sneaker, which was given away as a promotional item with subscriptions to their magazine for a time in the early 90s. HilarityEnsues when she fumbles her way for her phone, which is next to one of her real shoes, after Danny wakes her up with his call, with her grabbing her shoe by mistake initially.

** In season four, Michelle is shown to own stuffed animals of [[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures Buster and Babs Bunny]].
** In the season 4 episode "Terror in Tanner Town", Danny has his family aligned in height order to meet his new girlfriend and her son. Jesse comments "What is this, a Creator/JulieAndrews movie?'", prompting everyone to sing a couple of bars from [[Film/TheSoundOfMusic Do Re Mi]].

** Joey' and his old ex-girlfriend Patty Fogerty in season 2's "Blast from the Past". She asks if they can do it, as "''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'' was the most romantic cartoon ever made".

* TwinTest: PlayedForLaughs when Jesse's Greek relatives visit. This is an interesting case that [[MakingUseOfTheTwin Makes Use Of The Twin]] in real life to play a character that is ''not'' the twin of the character they are identical to, but is just a [[UncannyFamilyResemblance nearly identical cousin.]] Joey dresses youngest child Michelle, played by either Creator/MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen, and Jesse's cousin, played by the ''other'' Olsen twin, alike and then challenges Danny, Michelle's father, to guess who's who. The jig is up in two seconds though:

** In one episode DJ says her name is "Janet Abdul" after seeing posters of Janet Jackson and Paula Abdul. Then Stephanie says "And I'm Barbie Dollenbear" after seeing a Barbie doll and Mr. Bear.

-> "''Whatever happened to predictability?\\

"Kid, don't sell your dreams so soon!"''"
-->- The opening lyrics to "'''Everywhere You Look'''", the iconic theme tune sung by Jesse Frederick.

* FaceOfTheBand: InUniverse.
** "Jesse and the Rippers" has Jesse.
** After Jesse gets fired, [[Series/TheBradyBunch Barry Williams]] takes up this role with "Barry and the Rippers".
** Jesse tries again with "Hot Daddy and the Monkey Puppets", with himself as the "Hot Daddy".

* CastShowOff: Dave Coulier is a talented voice impressionist, John Stamos has a career as a musician

* StuntCasting: With the Beach Boys as well as other sitcom stars like Kirk Cameron, Jaleel White, and Tahj Mowry.

---> '''Danny''': (serving champagne and hors d'oeuvres to guests) "Groom was late, we lost the hall."

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Jesse's arc of being a struggling musician shows how difficult it is to become a successful musician. Even though he has genuine talent on both the guitar and singing, his band isn't considered distinct enough or good enough to get signed. Once he gets married and has kids, his band becomes more or less a hobby and his career is concentrated in other areas of the music industry like being a radio DJ and owning his own club. Come Season 8, the members of the Rippers dump him for good.
** Jesse and Rebecca's wedding is held up when Jesse gets himself arrested that morning and Rebecca is forced to drive to the outskirts of San Francisco to retrieve him. After many more mishaps, the wedding is finally held... and the reception ends up being held at the house, because that's what happens when you miss the time frame that you chose for your reception venue.

** Kimmy's [[FatalFlaw indifference to her education]] eventually causes her to be rejected by every university in California. Stanford even sends her rejection letter with $40 (after [[ComicallySmallBribe she bribed them with a $20]]) and a note saying "[[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain Let's pretend this never happened]]". She actually does regret this, both for being a failure and because it means she will be separated from D.J., who, despite also being rejected from Stanford, at least gets accepted into Berkley.
** In the episode "We Got the Beat", Stephanie, Gia, and Kimmy form a girls' band for the talent competition, but they spend more time on their appearances than practice for the song of choice after signing up, culminating in them bombing their performance when it's their turn. As with most other performance-oriented group endeavors, playing in a band takes a lot of practice before members can memorize the routines well enough to pull off a well-coordinated result, natural talent notwithstanding.
** The chronologically final example is PlayedForLaughs. After a series of bad candidates that Kimmy has presented for D.J. to take as her prom date, D.J. is understandably weary when Kimmy claims she has found one last guy to become D.J.'s date on the prom night. [[TemptingFate It's a good thing Kimmy's prom date of choice this time meets D.J.'s approval.]]
--->'''Kimmy''': Bad news, Deej. Duane's cousin can't make it.\\
'''D.J.''': I'm not going to the prom?\\
'''Kimmy''': Don't worry, Deej, I've scrounged up another guy for you.\\
'''D.J.''': I'm afraid to ask.\\
'''[[BackForTheFinale Steve]]''': (walking into the house) Come on, Deej, let's go. [[BigEater I don't wanna miss the buffet!]]
** Jesse and Joey quit their advertising jobs and DJ convinces them to become freelance advertisers. They're unable to get a business loan because the fact they live rent-free with Danny means they have no collateral or credit. While Danny generously foots the bill, they're only able to get a few gigs and by this point, they're starting to find some modest success in their true passions (music and comedy) so it just makes more sense for them to just focus on that instead.

* OverprotectiveDad: Danny, Jesse, and Joey are protective of the girls, particularly when it comes to dating. In addition, Jesse can display this trope when he gets protective of his nieces due to them potentially dating guys who are similar to himself at that age. See DJ and her rock musician boyfriend, Viper (however, Danny and Jesse ultimately come to accept Viper upon getting to know him).

* MakingUseOfTheTwin: Though the Olsen twins alternated playing Michelle for most of the series, they appeared on screen together several times, most notably in the GrandFinale.

* HasTwoMommies: The girls essentially had three fathers. There was no sign of an influential female presence until Becky married Jesse and became a [[ParentalSubstitute mother figure to the girls]].

** Early in the episode "Under the Influence", Danny and Joey talk about the frat parties they had back in their college days and the lies they told the high school girls attending said parties to impress them. When Stephanie scrutinize them for lying to underage girls, Danny tries to justify himself before remembering that D.J., a high school student herself, is about to attend a college frat party and proceeding to go to talk to her.