Michelle was a “tyrant,” Jesse was a bad boyfriend and Joey got a raw deal.
Those are just some of the “unpopular” fan opinions Andrea Barber and Jodie Sweetin addressed on the latest episode of their Full House rewatch podcast, How Rude, Tanneritos!. And they agree!
“A lot of the unpopular opinions are popular with us,” Sweetin, 43, said. “They’re things we’ve laughed about and poked fun at in over this show.”
For one, Barber and Sweetin co-signed one fan’s take describing the youngest Tanner sibling, Michelle (played by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen) as increasingly annoying and borderline spoiled as the series went on.
“That’s just factual,” Barber agreed. “She’s a product of Danny Tanner [Bob Saget] and his favoritism. So, I don’t know if I blame Michelle.”
The hosts cited one episode in which Michelle got to be “princess for a day,” and another in which she coopted big sister Stephanie’s cherished Mr. Bear.
Yet more evidence of Michelle’s iron-fisted control over the other characters’ lives came in another fan’s “unpopular opinion” that Jesse (John Stamos) and Becky (Lori Loughlin) shouldn’t have continued to live in the Tanner clan’s attic after they got married, as Michelle demanded.
“She controlled the whole house by that point,” Barber, 48, joked. “Can you imagine Becky being like, ‘What do you mean we’re gonna live in this house?’ ”
Barber did concede that having Jesse and Becky live in the family’s attic was a way for the show’s writers to avoid having to continuously make excuses for the characters still being around the Tanner home. “But, yeah, it is very unrealistic to let a 4-year-old dictate where you live,” she added.
Another fan opinion echoed the duo’s running joke on the podcast that Jesse was a terrible boyfriend.
“Been saying it for years!” Sweetin noted.
“He was a terrible boyfriend a lot of the time,” Barber agreed. “I would tell my daughter, ‘Don’t put up with this.’ ”
Sweetin added that the character’s behavior on the show displayed “a pattern of overreacting and being sort of overly aggressive.”
“So any young female listeners listening to this, you know, these are red flags,” Barber said. “Like, study Full House, study Jesse, and these are what not to look for in a future spouse.”
However, Sweetin and Barber did not agree that Loughlin’s character would have been better off with Saget’s Danny.
“They were good friends, good co-hosts. That’s a solid relationship,” Barber insisted.
“I think Becky would have had a healthier relationship with Danny,” she clarified, “but I didn’t see the romantic chemistry there. Like, they were just solid friends and coworkers, and that’s it.”
Similarly, Sweetin and Barber weren’t quite on board with the idea that fan-favorite character Gia (Marla Sokoloff) should have been introduced earlier in the series. Sokoloff first appeared as Stephanie’s bad-girl bestie in the show’s seventh season, and while the Tanneritos hosts said they would have definitely liked to see more of the character, they felt it made sense for Gia to enter Stephanie’s life when she was older.
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“She was the bad influence, and I think that starts around middle school,” Barber said. “She was introduced at the perfect time. Because middle school is where you’re pushing boundaries.”
“That was sort of the purpose of Gia,” Sweetin agreed.
Another fan wrote in to say they wished Dave Coulier’s character had gotten to have an actual romantic relationship on Full House, leading the hosts to express a potentially unpopular opinion of their own.
The series, Barber said, never quite knew what to do with Joey. “Like, he’s either performing on a stage doing stand up and trying to make it big, or he’s striking out with women.”
“Joey was kind of like Kimmy in that way,” Sweetin said. “He was there just to for the joke or for the silly thing.”
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