Ten years ago, Netflix brought the Tanner family back to America’s television screens with the Full House spin off, Fuller House – and the story of the beloved sitcom series is more intriguing than you might think.
In the original US series, art imitated life, and vice versa, in many ways.
For one, the late one Bob Saget left a CBS morning show to play Danny Tanner, a talk show host. Saget also had three daughters in real life, just like the show.
Scott Weinger he played Steve Full Housebut he also voiced Aladdin in the classic Disney animated film, and the show paid homage to that role with a dream sequence in which DJ imagines Steve as Aladdin in Walt Disney World. Candace Cameron Bure (who was DJing) even brought Weinger to his dance in real life, just like the show!
Keep scrolling for 25 things you didn’t know Full House from the last issue of Us Weeklynow on newsstands:
You got it, friend! America fell in love with the Tanner family in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and fans celebrated when news broke that the cast would be reuniting for Netflix’s Fuller House — see photos from then and now!
1. Saget was always the first choice for Danny Tanner, but he was stuck in a contract at CBS. The morning programso John Posey filmed the pilot instead. Saget was fired from that gig for being “too nervous” for morning TV and replaced by Posey Full House. (Ironic, considering Danny is Wake up, San Franciscothe cohost!)
2. While the Tanners’ home address in the show is 1882 Gerrard Street, the exterior of the house is actually at 1709 Broderick Street in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights neighborhood, which has become a popular tourist attraction.
3. Jodie Sweetin (Stephanie) and John Stamos (Jesse) were the only actors who didn’t have to audition Full Housethe former landing the role of Stephanie after landing a guest spot Valerie.
4. Mary-Kate i Ashley Olsen were credited as one person (Mary-Kate Ashley Olsen) until the eighth and final season, presumably to maintain the appearance that only a child played Michelle Tanner.
5. Only three actors appeared in each of the show’s 192 episodes: Stamos, Sweetin and Dave Coulier (Joey). (Not Saget just for the original pilot!)
Jodie Sweetin, Bob Saget, Candace Cameron Bure
Courtesy Everett Collection6. Matchmaking castmate! Coulier introduced Cameron Bure to her now husband, Valery Bureat a hockey game in 1994.
7. Coulier married Jayne Modeanwho played grown-up Michelle in a dream sequence where the girls were all grown up in 1990, welcoming son Luc together before splitting up two years later.
8. Just as Joey moves into Danny’s house on the show, Coulier crashes on Saget’s couch while passing through Los Angeles in 1979.
9. Uncle Jesse’s name was changed twice! He was originally named Adam Cochran, but Stamos requested that the first name be changed. Then, after Season 1, he changed his last name to Kastopolis to honor his own Greek heritage, explaining the change in the show as Jesse’s new stage name.
John Stamos didn’t always want Full House to be his lasting legacy. The hit ABC series, which ran from 1987 to 1995, followed Danny Tanner (Bob Saget) as he tries to raise his three daughters: DJ (Candace Cameron Bure), Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin) and Michelle (Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen) after the death of his wife. (…)
10. Elvis Presley-Uncle Jesse’s lover shares a name with the singer’s dead twin, Jesse Garon.
11. Like Danny Tanner, Saget had three daughters in real life.
12. Stamos said he once fired the Olsen twins because they cried too much and he “couldn’t handle it.” The surrogate babies they hired were “terrible” and he was begging the Olsens back within days!
13. The Olsen twins’ younger sister Elizabeth Olsen (a future Hollywood star!) Appeared as “Girl with Flowers” in a 1995 episode.
14. In the show’s Walt Disney World episode, DJ imagines Steve as Aladdin, a nod to Weinger’s gig doing Disney’s voice-over in the animated film series.
15. Bure took Weigner to her prom in real life, as did DJ and Steve on the show.
16. The initials DJ stand for Donna Jo.
17. Aunt Becky would only be Uncle Jesse’s love interest for six episodes in Season 2, but Lori LoughlinStamos’ chemistry was so strong that they kept it up for the rest of the series.
Lori Loughlin, John Stamos
Warner Bros. Television/Courtesy Everett Collection18. Coulier once revealed that he, Saget and Stamos would get “in a lot of trouble” with the younger actors’ mothers for their adult antics because they didn’t realize the kids had monitors backstage watching them.
19. Eagle-eyed fans may notice that Michelle uses both hands to write and eat, as Mary-Kate is left-handed while Ashley is right-handed.
20. At six years old, Mary-Kate and Ashley began to look different enough to tell them apart. While the producers considered letting Ashley go and just having Mary-Kate play Michelle, Stamos fought for both to stay.
The cast of Full House became a tight-knit family after starring in the sitcom for eight seasons from 1987 to 1995. The series followed Danny Tanner (played by the late Bob Saget) and his three daughters: DJ (Candace Cameron Bure), Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin) and Michelle (Mary-Kate and Ashley Oledsen) in (…)
21. The eighth season episode “The Excellent Comet Adventure” is the only one that was actually filmed in San Francisco.
22. Sequel series Fuller House premiered on Netflix two decades later Full House he concluded. The spin-off, which brought back Bure and Sweetin in lead roles and recurring characters from Stamos, Saget, Coulier and Loughlin, ran for five seasons from 2016 to 2020.
23. “Cut! It! Out!” by Joey The catchphrase originated from Coulier’s previous Nickelodeon show from 1984, out of control.
24. Joey and Aunt Becky are the only two characters who do not celebrate a birthday for the entire duration of the show.
25. Saget has the first and last lines of the series.