"Stephanie's Wild Ride" is an episode in the eighth season of Full House.
Stephanie and Gia meet two older boys at the mall and go joyriding with them, at which point DJ warns Stephanie not to do it again out of fear that she could be involved in a car accident and get seriously injured. Meanwhile, the adults become addicted to Michelle's video game.
Tropes seen in this episode include:
- Here We Go Again!: The B-plot of this episode begins with Michelle playing a video game, before the adults start taking over the game-playing for much of the episode. It ends with Michelle playing the selfsame game again after getting the adults to stop.
- Noodle Incident:
- The two boys Stephanie and Gia meet at the mall turn out to be students at Bayview High School, where DJ and Kimmy attend, and they drilled a hole in the girls' locker room. They claim Kimmy was the reason they plugged it up, although Kimmy lets them know the hole also let the girls see one of the two has acne on their butt.
- After Danny tells Stephanie and DJ about Gia's accident, DJ tells Stephanie about the time she and Kimmy hitchhiked to Berkeley on Halloween when they were 13. DJ has done plenty of stupid things at Stephanie's age, and learned after a while they learn that a little voice inside of them tells them something is dangerous and they shouldn't do it at all. Stephanie decides while confessing to joyriding to Danny, she decides to soften him up with DJ and Kimmy's hitchhiking story.
- Very Special Episode: DJ warns Stephanie not to go joyriding again out of fear that she will get seriously injured. Gia and the two older boys they meet face this very outcome with the car being totaled. They were only lucky, however, they at least wore their seatbelts, so only suffered relatively minor injuries.
