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Speaker 1 (00:18):
What was your Turkey Day? It was great. It was
the first holiday in the new house, okay, and I
hosted was this? Did you have everybody at your house? Oh? Yeah,
I had all of the barbers, all of the barbers
and and extras.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
How many total barbers were there?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Only sixteen, so you know it was it was definitely manageable.
But no, it was great because you know, my mom
used to host Thanksgiving at her house every year, but
then she got sick and went downhill, and you know,
started hosting probably five or six years ago, and then
she passed away. So we've just sort of been like,
the whole family's been kind of lost. We're like, where
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are we go? I want to host? Do you want
to host? I don't know my house. My previous house
was too small to host sixteen people. So now I
had the space. And literally, like when I first toured
this house, when I first saw it when it was
on the market, I saw this the dining room table
with the extent and the leaves in it, and it's huge,
and I'm just like, I'm going to host Thanksgiving. I'm
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going to be the matriarch. Now. I love that that's
carrying on my mom's tradition and hosting Thanksgiving for the
whole family. So it finally came true and it has
field so much like inner grief inside of me to
be able to do that. And at the end of
the day, my goal was telling me, he's like, your
mom would have been really really proud because it was
a great day and I loved it, even all the chaos,
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the last minute guests that are showing up. You know,
people are bringing things they should in and other people
were getting other things. I loved it, like I loved
every single second of it. So it was one of
the best Thanksgivings in a really long time. Really, I'm
glad you enjoyed that. And of course I brined the
turkey as every year I take bucket. Yeah, yes, the
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bird and a bucket, Bird and a bucket. That's how
it goes. That's that's become a tradition too for me.
And what I hear a lot of fans too, They
will go to my old vlog watch the video of
me teaching you how to brian your turkey. If which is,
if you haven't seen me.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Elbow deep in the crevasse of a turkey, let me
tell you it lives on the internet and you want
to see it.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It's it's must see titty, it must see YouTube.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
There's yeah, bazillion, nine bazillion hours of things you can
watch on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Give yourself twenty minutes and watch it. It's ridiculous. Yeah, no,
that was. That was really fun. Yeah, ours was. I
didn't have the kids this year.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
They were their dad's, so it was rather it was
a smaller Thanksgiving, but it was nice. It's funny that
you say, you know, you took over for Thanksgiving because
my mom, my mom does Thanksgiving and my mom loves Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
That's janus so her thing and she.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Loves it and she and she loves to freak out
about it and you know what I mean, Like it's a.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
It's a whole thing.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
And I just we were standing in the kitchen. Well,
for the first time, I carved the turkey. This year,
I carved it up because my dad's back was killing him,
so I was like, I'll do it. And I was like,
oh my god, I'm carving the first time, like ever.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
It's scary. It's scary.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
The first time it was right, and we just had
like a little turkey breast. We didn't do the whole
the full bird because we had no smaller group.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
But we did that.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
And then as I was looking at the ridiculous amount
of food that we had prepared, I just turned to
my friend Celia and I said, you guys are going
to be so bummed when I take over Thanksgiving and
we're at a restaurant.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Nothing wrong with that, yeah, exactly no. But it was just.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Funny because yeah, my mom, like, you know, we I
don't know who is showing up at our house next year.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I'm just gonna send your overflow over to us.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
You know, We've always got food for like thirty people.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
It's true. Yeah, the door is always open at Jodie
Sweeton's house for anybody. Yeah, yeah, just send people to
my mom's. Sure, great show up totally. There will definitely
be food, right. Oh, I love it. But yeah, it was.
It was. It was a nice Uh, it was a
nice little trip. I missed you weekly. It was was
in Canada, Land, Canada, Canada. Yeah, well, working and definitely
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missed you. And you know we me and Cannas had
a great time doing it, but you were absolutely missed
those two episodes. But I'm glad you're back. You know
that the team is back together. The team is back together,
and so we're back together for the final episode of
season three, which I'm so glad. I mean, we had
to do this together. Yeah, I'm so glad you're back
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for This episode is so epic. It is there's there's.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So much happening in this it's so off the rails,
so wild and off the rails, and it's basically just
a talent show and I love it and it's it's fantastic.
It's like, yeah, it's like a six grade talent show,
but like an actual sitcom.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
It's great. It's so funny. I can see why this
is a favorite, a fan favorite by so many people.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Dancing like a weird muppet with curly hair and blue
sticks for legs.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yes, your legendary dance, my unicycling like the brother clapping
that really tied the room together. But that's why the episode,
That's why the episode. Yeah, because Darren Barber was in
the audience clappy like a like a robot. It was.
It's it's great and I can't wait. I can't wait
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here are you ready? I'm ready. Let's get to it.
Let's do it. Welcome back to How Rude Tannerito's I'm
Andrew Barber. Yeah, I'm Jody Sweeten, and today we are
discussing season three, episode twenty four, the very last episode
of season three, called Our Very First Telethon. It originally
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aired on May fourth, nineteen ninety and it goes a
little something like this. I just quickly though, Yeah, when
you say our very first telethon, it implies that there
are more to come, right, Why was there not? And
there are another telethons?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
So I feel like we were sold something that didn't
happen a little bit with the title.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
But that's it's fine. It's neither here nor there. But yeah, no,
that's fine.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I mean if I feel like Fuller House would have
put on a of a talent show telethon.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
So missed opportunity. Yes, that could have been our second telethon, right,
and we should have had one every season in my opinion,
I don't know why we didn't. I mean, come on, Jeff,
what were you thinking? But this one was just chalk
full of goodness. So Danny falls asleep while hosting a
twenty four hour telethon to benefit a children's charity, and
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then the girls steal the show. Love it the original
Netpo Babies. It was directed by Billy Faustaffee Coffee Coffee,
and it was written by Lenny Rips, Sherry Sharfer and
Julie Strassman. We have some great guest stars this week,
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none other than Mike Love who was returning as himself
Mike Love. So great to have them back. Richard Paul
returns as mister Strowbridge. And last, but certainly not least,
we have Adrian Harris as one of the Raiderettes dancers
tells you how long ago this was. The Raiders were
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in La r Right, they were the Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
They were the La Raiders before they were the Oakland Raiders,
before they were the.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Las Vegas Raiders. Right, it went went oak to La,
back to Oakland and now no, they come back to La.
I thought it was no. It started in Oakland, went
to La and then went back back to and then
to Las Vegas. Got it. They are currently still dancing,
So no, it was still my god, they didn't give
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him a break, No girl, Adrian Harris and all of
the rest of him are still doing their kicks and stuff.
It's like groundhog Day. But we would begin with the teaser.
In the living room, Danny is hard at work when
Michelle trots into the room unsuspectingly. She puts her hand
around Danny's eyes and asks guess who. Danny smiles, uh,
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is it big Bird, and Michelle grins at her trickery.
No silly. Danny gives up and asks, well, who is it?
Michelle uncovers her his eyes and proudly reveals Michelle Elizabeth Tanner.
Danny gives her his daughter a kiss and then asks her,
what do you do it up in the middle of
the night. Michelle tells him that the sun woke her up,
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and Danny's puzzled. He checks his clock and gasps seven
point thirty. I forgot to go to sleep. Danny tells
Michelle that he was too busy checking the schedule for
his big telethon. But it's a good thing he did,
because in hour seventeen he booked back to back tap dancers.
That's tune out City, truly, triguel. I can only do
so much tap. Yeah, you don't want to lose the audience. No, no,
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no no, So Michelle cuts Danny off, telling him you
talk too much, and then she walks away, which is
just hilarious because if you know Bob and that was
never you loved him but never a truer statement, never
a truer statement. He was always talking and oh I
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loved it. So Danny calls after Michelle and says it's
very important to be a good listener. But Michelle looks
at him unconvinced. Maybe next time, And that's the teaser,
another rare user that connects to the main storyline.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, exactly, I'm a fan of this. And again, Michelle's
just wandering around the house.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
She's just she's you know, supervision. Eh, it's whatever option.
And I'm also impressed that Danny is putting on an
entire telethon by himself. Basically, why doesn't he have like
a producer or a team of producers. How that doesn't
make for good television? Exactly. Yeah. Uh So, next we
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are at the set for We Love Our Children ninety telethon.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Oh oh boy, we love our children, we do we.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
A plethora of people are setting up for the telethon
that Danny is hosting, and as they're doing their jobs,
Danny runs out from behind the stage dressed in his suit.
He is in a panic yelly places everybody two minutes
to showtime, and he's a stage manager. Yeah, he's everything.
He's everything, this telethon.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Booker beset deck yep, yep, he does it all technical.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
He runs over to Jesse, who's standing on stage with
his band. Danny asks if they should be going over
their music and Jesse tells him to relax. He's got this. Considering,
Danny has them playing Feelings once every hour. Then Danny
makes his way over to Joey, who's carrying boxes of donuts.
Danny asks what's in them, and Joey states the obvious donuts.
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Danny is ecstatic. Great donuts go on the donut table,
and Joey sarcastically responds, it's a good thing. I ran
into you, and then he tells Danny to relax. Next,
Danny makes a beeline to Becky, nervously asking what are
you supposed to be doing? She, on the other hand,
is cool, calm and collected. She responds waiting for the
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show to start, and Danny heaves a big sigh of relief.
You're doing a great job. He scurries off, and Becky
yells out relax. Danny ignores her as he runs over
to greet his phone volunteers. We see some familiar faces
getting ready to answer phones. Kimmy, DJ, Steph, and Michelle
are all there. When Danny asks if everyone is ready,
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they all yell in unison relax. Then the phone rings.
Danny over enthusiastically shouts, all right, our first call, and
he takes another large swig of coffee. DJ answers the phone,
we love our children telethon ninety. May I take your pledge?
She pauses and then grins, Oh hi, Kimmy, and Kimmy
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waves from the other end of the row. DJ hands
the phone to her dad, saying it's for him, and
Danny reluctantly holds the phone up to his ear. Kimmy
excitedly tells him, mister t I brought my unicycle.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And here we go, here we go and now and
then the rest of the episode, I was like, I
don't care what happened.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Oh look what I brought. It's here, my original unicycle
nineteen ninety. Oh I found it. Wow, get it in
the frame. But yeah, this, I mean, I think they
had to greek out the the swind right. Yeah, no,
this is the original one. It's it's flat and dusty,
and I cannot ride anymore. But yeah, that was it
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very fun.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
You knew I was going to ask that question because
I was like, I feel like we need to see
a demo.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
No, no, you get on that. I'll try it a
pogo stick, and then we can share the ambulance and
go together. We'll share the coope broken bones. It's not
covered by insurance, you know, so, oh my goodness. No
the unicycle, I've got a story about that. I'll save
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it for a little bit later. Can't wait. So she's ready,
She says, if you need me, I'm ready to ride.
And Danny sarcastically says, that's very sweet of you to offer.
In gosh, darn Kimmy, if the show wasn't supposed to
be entertaining, you'd be right, you'd be right in there. Sheycle,
I know, like that is a prelus talent right there,
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you know, like Danny should have been a core strength.
It takes I know, right, he showed noppreciation for that, none.
So just then mister Strobridge enters the room, making his
way up to Danny. He reminds him, I gave you
twenty four hours of airtime on my station because I
have total confidence in you, and then he threatens, now,
don't screw this up.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I mean, he's got no one else to blame. He's
been putting the whole thing on by himself with a
small bulletin board. So right, we've got in the dighties
were just a wild time, so easy.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Danny assures him there is no need to worry. Everything's
under control, and mister Strobridge smugly responds, then, how come
you're not wearing any shoes. Danny nervously explains that he
just wanted to impress him with his brand new designer socks,
and then he runs away, frantically calling out for wardrobe.
That's when Mark Sandrowski yells out to everyone that the
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telephone is starting. We've seen him. We've seen Marks as
the stage manager in the Wake Up San Francisco set.
So's he's now a recurru the actual stage manager, Yes, sir,
second ad yeah. So Mark points to the Jesse and
the Rippers to cue them, and they begin to play
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an upbeat tune before Jesse introduces that we Love our
Children telethon ninety to our viewers. He then introduced the
host of the show you know him from Wake Up
San Francisco. It's Danny Tanner. The camera pans to Danny,
who is not so gracefully hopping onto the stage trying
to put his shoes on at the same time. He
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regains his balance and pulls himself together to welcome the viewers.
He announces that their goal is to raise one million
dollars in the next twenty four hours to buy new
equipment for the Children's Health Center. And I did a
little I did a little research in math, and according
to the Consumer Price Index, one million dollars in nineteen
ninety is the equivalent of two and a half million
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dollars in twenty twenty four, making adjustments for inflation. Oh okay,
so that's a lot of money. So that is a
lot of money. That is a lot of money. It's
a little suspicious. Where is this money. I don't see
anyone from the Children's Health Center quote bull. They should
have had representatives there, you know, right, Yeah, what was Danny?
Danny really just needed the money to make all the
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repairs at the Tannerhouse break and he's doing public access,
so he's not getting paid a lot. So Danny makes
his way over to the phone bank volunteers and introduces Michelle,
who is going to tell everyone what number to call.
Michelle holds the microphone and grins, Hi, people, I got
a new dress. Stephanie decides to intercept the microphone. She
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calmly tells the viewers to make a pledge dial five
five five h E LP, and then her excitement bubbles
over and she goes rogue Hi to all my friends
at Fraser Street Elementary School, and she proceeds to list
each friend by name, including Walter and Harry. Yep, yeah
they were in there. But then Danny cuts her off,
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reminding her that it is only a twenty four hour
telethon Joe your Bangs. At the end of season three
The Spider, Wow, they were doing a lot. The amount
of AquaNet that I imagine you needed to.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Get that Candice and I it was yeah, the height
and the width, you know what I mean of The
hair was a lot.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
It is just a joy to see and make fun of.
I loved it.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Oh yeah, you know what, Hey, I your season one
hair was?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Was it season one or season two? Oh? Both? Probably
both in the way. Yeah yeah, yeah that wig was
a lot, the mullet wig. Yeah. Now it's your turn now,
we get to make that you can make fun of mine.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeahs at least like like a small little explosion of
hair on the front of my head.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Yeah. Yeah. So Danny suggests they bring out their first act.
He's one of the hottest comics in San Francisco, and
he's one of Danny's closest friends who happens to live
in his garage. It's Gloey Joe. It's Chloey just glow.
I like Glowy Jadstone. It's Chloe Chadstone. The audience lets
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out a huge round of applause. As Chloe walks out,
he tells them to cut it, ah, come on. He
starts his act by mimicking various band members and their instruments.
Everyone is getting a kick out of this, and then
he pivots to magic. Oh boy, oh boy, does he
pivot pivot. He introduces his lovely assistant, Rebecca Donaldson and
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the Cabinet of Mystery. Becky appears wearing a tiny and
sparkly red outfit. She looks incredible. She looks like she's
about to be in the Greatest Showman. She does. I
wonder how Laurie felt about wearing this out. Probably a
little more revealing than normal, And yeah, I know it was.
Sometimes it's hard to be so far out of your
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comfort zone. But she steps into the cabinet of mystery,
and Joey performs the Zigzag Lady illusion trick with her,
causing us to think that he cut her body into
three sections. The illusion is so realistic, Michelle's Michelle's jaw
drops when she sees Becky supposedly split into thirds.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
I mean, and if you fooled a toddler, it's that's
that's your gauge for realism.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
It was. It freaked me out, like it was. I
was like, whoa, it's very convincing. I had to look
up how they do this trick? Drop them then three
pieces right, simple, back together. No, but Laurie was a
champ for enduring being in that box or as long
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as she was like that was, don't tell me how
it's done. You don't run magic. I'm not telling. I'm
not telling. She was in the box in in thirds,
in three pieces for like four and a half minutes,
Like you, that's a long time to be separated into thirds.
It is, so then it's time for Joey to put
Becky back together again. But the mid section of the
cabinet won't move back into place. Becky laughs through gritted teeth.
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Get me out of here. Joey announces to the audience
that while he goes to get some help, they should
bring out the next act. Becky groans, I am the
next act. I'm singing a duet with Danny.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
No one else in San Francisco. Uh, with talent that
can do the show. Why is this the It's what
I'm watching. I was like, this is hilarious to me
because I was like, it really is like the family
decided to put on a talent show and then they
were like, hey, donate to this children's center.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
It's like they were putting it on in their backyard,
like the.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Well, actually what the studio is in the backyard because
the backyard can change shape.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
So yeah, they just talked right out the backyard and
it was there. They just put a curtain up. Yeah,
that's all you need. Banks. Joey uses this information to
introduce viewers to the song stylings of Danny Tanner and
the Rebecca Donaldson Trio. He bolts off stage, leaving Becky
to carry on with the next act. Danny Waltz is
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onto the floor to begin their duet. He's confused to
see Becky in the cabinet, but this doesn't stop him
from singing What I did for love, The show must
go on. He grabs the cabinet Becky is in and
spins it around while continuing to sing this was so ridiculous,
it was so great. It's this Bobky's long spidery legs
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in the air. Great physical comedy from Bob, but singing beautifully. Yeah,
I was great. Yeah. Oh, he's a great singer. And
so is LORII too. She's actually a really good singer.
So they're singing their duet well. Danny dances with the
cabinet like it's a slow dance. Finally, Joey breaks out
onto the floor again, and this time he's burying some
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heavy machinery to fix this wonky cabinet. While he's at work,
Becky is utterly humiliated, and she is relaying this through
the lyrics of the song. Luckily, Joey manages to push
the midsection back into place he fixed it. He waves
his hands in front of the cabinet for special effect
and opens the door to reveal Becky all in one piece.
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She and Danny belt out the last part of their
duet and the crowd cheers. It was perfectly timed, of course,
of course, of course, so next it's time for a montage.
We see the montage. It's not really an iconic full
House episode unless there's a montage. It's true. We see cowboys,
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we see a mime, and oh, let's should know there
are other people here. That's they're sorry, I've just a few,
just a few, like three. Danny is continuing to drink
coffee at a very alarming rate, and the donation board
total is rising quickly as the raider At cheerleaders are performing,
and these numbers are astounding. They're going there.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
It's like one hundred and fifty thousand dollars jump at
a time. The money is just pouring in.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I don't know who's I don't know who's donating, but
the somebody, I mean, the residents of San Francisco have
a lot of dispoil on income. Well they do. It's
you know, you're you're you're near a Palo Alto big
tech boom. You know it's still happening exactly. So the
cheerleaders finish their routine and Danny, who is quite exhausted
at this point, thanks them and admits he misses football season.
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Then he motions to Becky, asking to see the tote board.
Jesse chimes in, telling Danny that Becky went home to
get some sleep, and that's when Danny starts to bad.
He closes his eyes as he says sleep in a
dreamy voice. Jesse immediately takes action and hits a symbol
to wake Danny back up. Danny springs to life, shouting, Hey,
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I'm back, and we've only got four hours in fact,
to hit the sack. I mean, hit that million dollar mark.
This is so relateable. Well, when you're so deliriously tired
right like, words are so hard at the Glowy Jadstone Exactly,
I've been up for twenty four hours preparing for this podcast.
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Well you've been riding that unicycle all over just so yeah,
make sure you still had it. So that's when Stephanie, Michelle,
and DJ walk out onto stage to greet Danny. Danny
greets him right back high wonderful family, and Michelle says, hi,
Daddy as she walks towards him. Danny's got a great idea.
He pulls a chair up and suggests to Michelle that
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they sit and rest for a while.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
He takes a fascinating telephone. The chill vision makes me
just want to throw money at it, riveting TV right.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
He takes a seat in this comfy chair and plops
Michelle in his lab. He asks her what did you
do last night? And Michelle tells him she went to sleep,
and Danny says, oh, aren't you lucky. He starts to
imagine what sleep would feel like right about now, and
eventually he closes his eyes and dozes off. Michelle pats
him and tries to wake him up, but it doesn't work.
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Jesse loudly speaks into his mic in a mocking tone
Earth to Danny. Michelle shushes Jesse, telling him daddy is sleeping.
Jesse realizes this, but reminds her your daddy has to
put on a show for the people, and then Michelle
insists I'll do it. She takes the microphone out of
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her dad's hand and steps onto the stage and begins
to sing incy wincy Spider. Michelle's kind of she just
really she's they've trained this kid to just do whatever
she wants. I mean, she's taking control of the telethon.
I mean somebody had to and so well, let's get
the therapist, the family therapy. Yes. After her incredible performance,
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she takes a big bow and the audience applauds for her,
but mister Strobridge is not as impressed. He asks Jesse
why a three year old is hosting his telethon, and
Jesse explains her daddy is sleeping. Then Michelle performs an
encore of incy Wincy Spider as Danny stays fast asleep
right next to her. What could possibly go wrong? A
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few minutes later, Jesse's holding Michelle as they do at
a bluesy Ren edition of Itsy Bitsy Spider, and to
end the song, they saying oh yeah in Unison and
the crowd goes wild, do they? That might be pity clappy.
That's my brother Darren, just wired to do. Yeah. Yeah,
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he's like I signed a consent for him exactly. I
have to im legally obligated to clap. Jesse asks Joey
what's next, and Joey lets out a nervous laugh, not Danny,
and he tries to move the sleeping Danny off stage.
Jesse realizes there's a gap in the entertainment right now, so,
he urgently tells viewers, I know there's a lot of
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great acts in town this week, the Bolshoi Ballet, the
Beach Boys, chimps on Ice. He continues, If if you
are watching, I'm not going to beg but please, please
please come down and help us out. Then he turns
his attention back to Michelle and asks if she wants
to sing the alphabet. He runs her over to center
stage and plops her down with a microphone. Michelle does
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as she's told, singing the alphabet for all of the
lucky viewers out there.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Oh this is he thought tap dancing back to back
was bad, right? You know, how about back to back
a toddler song? I'd take back to back river dance
at this point, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Just anything like polka, you know, anything that's different than
Michelle's singing, which is very cute. But hey, you know
we're trying to raise money here at this time. Mister
Strowbridge can't believe that there's a toddler singing the alphabet
on air. Joey pat me both sister. Joey pats him
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on the back with reassurance, don't worry besides that m
n n op part, she's pretty good. Michelle finishes her
alphabet song and takes another big bow. The crowd gives
her a rowdy round of applause. Mister Strobridge tells Jesse
and Joey congratulations. You guys are now the hosts and
their first job is to wipe Danny's chin. Joey asks
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Jesse what should we do, and Jesse shrugs, I don't know,
but I ain't wiping his chin. The girls come running
up to their uncles. Stephanie excitedly suggests, I can do
my dance to love Shack. What do you guys think?
No one can answer quickly enough before she says great,
I'll get the tape ready, got ready? Always be ready, Yeah,
(28:35):
with a tape on hands, I'll always be ready with
a routine. You never know when it might come in
handy yep, be prepared, yep. So Jesse turns to DJ
and proposes an idea, why don't you sing that song
you do with Michelle. She tries to protest, but Jesse
says thank you to close the deal. Meanwhile, Michelle is
(28:56):
on stage telling the audience all of the different sounds
that barnyard animals bake. Jesse quickly takes the microphone from
her and introduces the next performer. She's performing Love Shack Baby.
It's Stephanie Tanner. Oh boy, here comes a little muppet legs. Ye,
(29:18):
so ridiculous. Oh it's it is classic. It's so classic.
The sweater, the hair, tell me everything. I loved your
sweater you had. This was a quick change for you,
although maybe you wasn't. Yeah, was it, well, you went
to bed? I'm assuming no, that's not what you were
wearing in the first scene. No, that's true.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
That wasn't what I was wearing. Yeah, because I think
we went home. We went home to sleep, because Michelle
says we went to sleep. Oh yeahh this is this
was next day's outfit. And she she came ready to go,
so ready, little you know, the little things attached to
the sweater three D friends that she was even wearing
jazz shoes.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
She was like, I know that you might need this.
You are so prepared. What okay? Were you excited to
do this dance? Super excited?
Speaker 2 (30:04):
But I was probably nervous because I always got nervous
doing solos because I was like, oh no, I like
I have to remember it all like in my own head.
But I was very excited to do it, and I
watching my face. All I can think of is that
I'm trying not to do the thing that I always
did when I danced, where I would like curl my
tongue out the side of my mouth.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
In concentration so I can see I start to like
and then I start smiling, and I'm like, oh, yeah,
I was. It was such a conscious effort for me
to not do that. Oh no way, I didn't even notice.
I thought you were.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Whenever I would dance to it in competitions, my mom
would be like, she's gonna bite her tongue off, She's
going to bite her tongue off, like because I would
just it was my concentration thing.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah, oh interesting, Well hey it worked. Whatever you were writing,
it works. It was. It's super fun, fantastic love. I
love this dance. Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
And of course, if you've watched Fuller House, you know
that that Jimmy Gibbler played by the wonderful Adam Hagenboo
recreates it in the Nearly Wet Game episode, which was yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
That's the one you directed. Oh boy, was it even
better than I could have imagined. So, yeah, it was.
It was.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
It's pretty iconic. I mean, it is the thing that
you see on in all the memes and all it's everywhere.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Oh it's hysterical. It's hysterical. And watching Adam Hagenboo where
that they recreated that sweater with the friends, Oh my god,
Adam was like he's like a like big buff dude,
and it was like, oh, so ridiculous. Yeah it was.
It was great. I'm so glad they brought it back.
(31:46):
I was like, I'm sad that you weren't doing this
dance in that outfit too, But you know, that's the look.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Look never say never, you know what I mean. So
who knows, let's go reshoot that right now. That Yeah,
but no, it was really fun. I love this dance
and I had no idea that that thirty some odd
years later, I'd still be be known for it.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Oh yeah, yeah, no, it was. It was fantastic. I
don't know if you had a choreographer or if you
came up with these moves. Oh no, I didn't come
up with it. No, I had a choreographer. Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Love that you think that, But no, I had a choreographer.
It was probably Dennis Caspery, my my dance teacher at
the time from Studio cuh.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Okay, it was great. Yeah, thank you for those moves,
very sure moves. You were just you were great.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I mean little as usual, I would get a little
ahead of myself. I would be like a little too fast. Yeah,
always the no I talked too fast.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
I just go too fast. Just got to slow down.
Your excitement is a little too much. Slowdown.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I'd get too excited. But yeah, that was That was
a really fun. Yeah, iconic moment in the show.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Well, I loved it. The fanneritos love it and thank you.
You're so in your element here. So you were born
to dance, Gill and just loved it. Yeah, just thrilled.
It was so perfect. So Stephanie does her infamous dance.
The entire audience is clapping along, and so were the cheerleaders,
who are now working the phone bank. Right. Stephanie ends
(33:21):
her performance with a bang and the crowd goes wild.
She shouts thank you, thank you, and now here she
is direct from my room, my sister and yours. Everyone
give it up for DJ Tanner. The curtain opens to
reveal DJ pushing Michelle in a shopping cart. She begins
to sing Lollipop and Gummy Bears as Michelle bops along
(33:42):
to the beat. I remember Kennis hated this. I can
feel I can feel her embarrassment through the screen I
was watching this. She did not want to sing this.
It was so embarrassed. And it's like, yeah, we were
always being asked to do things that weren't necessarily in
our wheelhouse. Like it's like here, you know, Joe strum
a guitar or whatever, and you just do it. But
(34:04):
sometimes you just didn't. Really. Chemas did not love singing.
That was not her, not her thing. So this day
she did this day.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
She hates singing, Yeah, does not love it, but yeah
she lollipops and gummy bears.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
But she did it. You know, she was a good sport.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
I mean, DJ had to wrangle that chopping cart from outside,
drag it in, you know, and be like Michelle.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Get in, we're doing a number. She had to go
buy some and props, but she had well, she also
had a tape queued up. And I love that we
recreated a little bit of that in Fuller season five. Right,
she at least sung a little bit of it, Yes,
and found one of the lollipops or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
(34:47):
when we were in the attic. Yeah yeah, right in
the attic. It was great. So DJ shows off a
couple dance moves, Michelle tries to copy her. As the
song comes to an end, DJ hands a giant lollipop
to Michelle to tie the whole song together, and they
take a bow for their adoring fans. Later on, this
audience for this telethon, we're like, what did we sign
(35:08):
up for? Who are these people? We thought we were
signing up to watch actual talent, right, and then yeah,
just came moving us one row back. It's weird. Yeah.
So later on, Joey takes the stage to sing Janie's
Got a Gun as the Rippers are playing behind him.
I feel like that's a song you probably wouldn't sing
on a family set calm these days. But uh, but
(35:32):
his impression of Steven Tyler's lips, it's just a little
too much so excited to be old yep. So Jesse's like,
we got to cut this performance short, so he begs
Becky to please do something before Joey starts impersonating Tina Turner.
So Becky gives him some great news. She has a
(35:53):
woman on the phone who's willing to pledge two hundred
dollars if Kimmy Gibler will ride her unicycle. Jess sarcastically pouts, gosh,
that's a generous offer. Unfortunately Kimmy Gibbler is not here.
We hear the sound of Kimmy in the distance yelling
yes again. She appears on stage, riding the unicycle with ease,
(36:14):
and she shouts out, thanks for calling mom savor. Dang boys,
Now this was a skill I actually had, Like, yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Tell us episode tell I mean, I think we've sort
of lightly discussed it before, But how did you come
to actually learn to ride a unicycle? And was this
something specifically asked for in this episode or were you
just riding your unicycle around a lot one day and
they were like, hey, we should put that in the show.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Well, the reason why I learned to write a unicycle
is really just because Sherry Barber thought this would be
just a fun summer activity and there were classes available
at the local park down the street from our house.
So icycle classes, Yeah, yeah, you have to bring your
own unicycle or did they have them there? Wow?
Speaker 2 (37:02):
So you had to make an investment of buying a
unicycle before you even know if you can ride the
damn thing.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Yeah, it was. It was like a big commitment. Yeah,
Sherry Barber had a lot of faith in me that
I would have the balance to this on this uticycle,
the last thing you do. Yeah, I did it for
like eight weeks with my friends. I had some friends
along with me, and we learned how to ride, to
how to balance on it. That's yeah. So when this
(37:28):
episode came up, you know, Jeff was brainstorming trying to
figure out what talents to give each cast member, right,
and so he came up to me and he said,
do you have any like special skills? And I like
thought for a moment. I took a beat, and I
was like, well, not really, but I can ride a unicycle.
And Jeff's eyes just lit up, and I was like,
(37:48):
that's perfect.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Yes, do It is absolutely perfect for Kimmy Gibler. It's
so on brand for full House, Sharry Barber.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
For Kimmy Gibbler, for Full House, Like it just really
hits so many things right in the right spot. Yes,
So I was I was a little nervous to write
it because you did, Amitt.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
I was watching you go in a circle, and I'm like,
I would have just completely fallen over, completely fallen over
by then.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Well, the trick is it's actually not difficult to ride
a unicycle once you're on the unicycle. It's the starting.
It's the mount that's difficult if you don't have anything
to hang on to. So I couldn't quite get the mount,
you know. I tried to oist myself up, but I
would just keep right forward. So that's why you see
me start the routine at the other side of the
(38:39):
phone bank right, because you had to be on the
bad got it. I started already on it, so all
I had to do was just was just writing mounted,
which made it much much easier. But yeah, it was
just like okay, you stop on one of those things,
you just go stop and go flying off of it
forward and hope somebody catches you. You know, they're like
(39:00):
a soft landing path. You just aim for it or what.
That's one way you can just sort of like stop,
you can stop cycling with your feet and then just
pitch forward and hope you catch yourself. Or there's a way.
There's a way.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
In the first place, you thought was like, you want
to you know what, I've got two wheels, you know,
it would be better one, Like why why not? I
need both my hands free so I can go to
the grocery.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Store on my unicycle. It's great for multitasking, you know. True,
it's not as many repairs. It's only one wheel. One. Yeah,
it's one wheel. It's really it's the bargain bicycle. Really,
but really the way you're supposed to the way you're
supposed to dismount. And I think I probably just ran
right into a crew member who like, cry me, but
you're supposed to, like you're supposed to stop the wheel
(39:52):
and then kind of just step off of it backwards
gracefully using those core muscles. Easier said than done. Yeah, exactly.
So I'm sure Keith Richmond or maybe Mark Sandrowski call right.
I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Gracefully getting off a unicycle. I feel like that's a sentence,
it doesn't exist.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Yeah, so that's the story of the unicycle. It was
such a funny moment. The music that was playing the
saber Dance in Yeah, I love it. And so of
course this is the moment that Danny finally awakens from
(40:31):
his long slumber, and he is very startled. He yells
for Kimmy to stop, but she doesn't. He stands up
and tries to catch her, but she's too fast. Finally,
she cycles off the stage to victory, leaving Danny in
the dust. So I love it, fantastic. So now Danny's
standing on the stage breathless. I close my eyes for
(40:53):
two seconds and it's the Kimmy Gibbler telethon, and Joey
corrects him, you've been out for four hours. Danny check
his watch with horror. Four hours. Why didn't somebody wake me?
Now he's going into full panic mode, yelling I'm ruined.
The telethon is ruined, My life is over. Becky sprints
up to him and reminds him they're still on air.
(41:13):
She hands him on a microphone and he quickly pulls
himself together. That concludes the dramatic portion of our show.
Such a great turn by Bob. Yeah, perfect.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Bob was always great at being like completely panico. Everything's
on fire, Hey.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Hi, you know, like just yeah, yep, that is Bob
to a t. So Jesse joins the group, telling Danny
there's nothing to worry about. He and Joey took over
his hosts and everything went okay. Danny's glad to hear it.
He thanks both of them, and he and Becky get
back to their regularly scheduled programming. Becky suggests they take
a look at the new total. The board shows a
(41:48):
whopping nine hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Whoo. Danny is ecstatic,
but he reminds viewers that they still have to hit
that million dollar mark by the end of the show.
Mister Strobridge whisper yells from the side of the stage.
Guess who's here. He runs up to his hosts, unable
to contain his excitement. One of the beach boys, Mike Love,
(42:11):
and he's right over there, but where he's pointing there
is no sign of Mike Love, and mister Strobridge begins
to panic.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
I've lost a whole beach boy, just losing half a
beach boy. That would be the old show. I'd be
really problematic. Well that would be the first trick with Joey. Yeah,
that'd be the cabinet of mystery, right, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
So. Just then, Mike Love appears at the other end
of the stage, telling the worriled man that he's over here.
The crowd goes wild at the sight of him, and
Jesse casually shakes his hand, calling him doctor Love. Then
he asks Mike what he's doing down here. Mike Love recalls, well,
I heard you begging for help, and I think it's
a great cause and one to one, I think we
(42:54):
can work it out. That was a great Mike Love impressions.
But it's true, like he doesn't he doesn't move his
mouth when he talks. No, he doesn't. He's a triloquist,
but he hasn't. Yeah, definitely, right, he definitely like that.
There's a lot of that. Yeah, it's interesting. Yeah, and
you could always tell the guest stars who aren't they
(43:17):
didn't grow up as actors because but it just kind
of how he talks sort of. Yeah, that's true. Yeah,
that's just how he talks. But I'm like project, we're
on a multiicam books. Some singers are like this. If
they're not singing, it ain't it ain't happening. Yeah, yeah,
but no, Yeah, if we had a beach boy, we
had one beach boy and one yeah beach boy. He
(43:39):
was smooth and cool and elected. Do you think his
real name is? Mike Love? Is it. Do we know this? Oh? Oh,
somebody out there knows it, but I don't know it.
It sounds like a stage name. I bet there's another
name in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go with that.
But we'll look it up later, or maybe if one
of fan Rito's for sure knows there's right, right, exact
(44:02):
boy fans out there that can tell us. So Danny
is ecstatic. He says, you know what, Mike, you would
really put us over the top if you'd sing a song,
and Mike admits I'd love to sing be True to
your school if we could get those cheerleaders out here.
So creepy Jesse Gibbs, I'm like, what is wrong now? Yeah,
(44:24):
this is how every episode of Dateline starts. Like America's
just like, uh whatever, cheerleaders? Yeah, and also amazing that
uh Mike.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
Well, Mike Love was probably like, Hey, I've been in
these people's living room before, and they've been with me
on stage. I should go down and support their telethon,
you know.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
But what men of the fact that we've met before? Yeah,
oh yeah, you're right. They don't mention the season two opener,
what you what dirt does Jesse have on Mike Love
because he keeps showing up for this ridiculous family. I
mean doctor Dare and doctor Love. That's all I'm saying.
M hm. And we have a producer's note that yes,
that is in fact his real name name. Okay Love, Okay,
(45:05):
my my apologies. I resind my my judgment. It's a
fantastic name, you know it is. It's a great Yeah. Yeah,
I'm naming my next child Mike Love. For sure. I
think you should. But one word, my clove milove. Yeah,
(45:27):
all together, Well, you actually gotta be carefuy you say that.
You really got to emphasize the I Mike, Mike Love,
Mike Love. Wait, what am I missing? What am I missing? Sweeten?
What you're saying? Make love over and all? Well, that's
where do babies come from? That's a whole other that's
(45:50):
that's a recap for another time. Right, that's for Howard. Right.
So Danny hands and Mike to Mike Love and Rush
is off stage. Mike tells Jesse, I'm gonna sing the song.
You're the drummer, and he gives Jesse an idea of
what they're gonna do, and Jesse takes his spot behind
the drums. They begin to sing be True to your School,
(46:13):
and it's off to a great start. It's time for
Jesse's drum solo, and of course he overdoes it. Mike
has to throw a towel at him to stop, and
he jokes with the crowd. Ever since Ringos started touring,
we've had problems like this with drummers. Leave it to
Jesse to pull focus from right right always, yeah, exactly,
(46:34):
So Mike instructs Jesse to come up and play guitar instead,
and then the song turns into this giant production, right,
I mean, as it does, it wouldn't be full house.
They din't have money for a lot of other performers,
but they did have a lot of money for confetti cannons.
Oh yes, did they ever? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (46:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (46:55):
The cheerleaders gather on the stage. They're dancing along to
the beat while Mike and Jesse are goof off and
just having the best time ever performing together. Danny announces
we're almost at the end of the show. Let's check
the tote. The board updates to show a grand total
of one million, four thousand and eight hundred dollars. Way.
(47:16):
Danny jumps for joy, shouting we did it, and everyone
around him cheers at this huge accomplishment. Balloons fall from
the ceiling as the musical performance continues, and Danny thanks
the viewers, We love our children, We love you, thanks
a million. Everyone's dancing and laughing and singing along to
the Beach Boys song as the credits be in to roll.
(47:39):
And that is our telethon.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
Episode, our very first and our very last telethon.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
Oh what fun. Do you remember how fun those balloons were?
Like that was kind of a novelty back then to
drop that many balloons. I know, it's kind of standard now,
you know.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
Oh yeah, that was that was like the big thing, like, okay,
we dropping the balloons on this one. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it was super fun.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
Oh, I just remember we were kicking those things around and.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
It was definitely this telethon episode is just top to bottom,
has so many iconic moments in it. But yeah, also
the I never really thought about the fact that, yeah,
Mike Love would have be like these people.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
Again you guys or against hedn't you drum with me
last time on stage? Yeah, like so strange. Well, you know,
it's very full house to not to just pay attention
to continuity like that. So it didn't matter.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
No, And I do think you know, Danny says, we
love our children. I think that this million dollars is
going to the Tanner family. I think it's the we
love our children because there's three children there. Yeah, we
love our children. Yeah, it doesn't the girls. Yeah, you
know it's expensive, yes, yes, I don't.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
I don't know how they afford that house. You know,
Jesse and Joey are trying to make it work with
the donating his time. You know. It's yeah, this is
definitely going to future repairs at the Tanner House.
Speaker 2 (49:08):
Well, I mean they had to rebuild after you know,
uh what with a cement truck and a and an
other car, and they've lost several cars and motorcycles in
their adventures. Yeah, and that's an ensurable family in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
Absolutely, and that's there's more to come. You know, the
cement truck is going to smell that late. Danny's gotta
you know, he's got to build up his nest egg
again to pay for all of these future episodes. And
we've got the expanding backyard. Yeah, it's a lot. It's
a lot, so I get it. But a million is
that we love our children, and boy do we we
(49:46):
love our children and we love this episode. It was
so great. I it was kind of like a like
a sort of a modern day Ed Sullivan variety show.
But right, it was like the TMU version of it.
So yeah, oh yeah, the Wish version of it. Yeah,
it was. It was.
Speaker 2 (50:01):
I mean, look telethon. We're big back in the day,
the Jerry Lewis telethon.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
Yeah. Oh yes, kids today are like who and the
and the tell of what? You know?
Speaker 2 (50:09):
It doesn't they're like a telephone like you would call
and what. That's so strange. Yeah, but yeah, telethons were big,
and so this was. This was very on on trend
for the time.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
It really was. It. It turned out spectacular, classic full
house episode, classic full.
Speaker 2 (50:28):
House episode that really is just more ridiculous and more
perfect as time goes on.
Speaker 1 (50:35):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (50:36):
And it's a great season three ending. We go out
with balloons, you know, cheerleaders, Mike love it's a big thing.
Speaker 1 (50:46):
Yeah, it's a it's a perfectly and a great unic
cycle too. Yeah yeah, what more could you want? Honestly,
it was a spectacular ending to season three to wrap
up such a great season. Did you have any everywhere.
There were a lot of everywhere you looks that everywhere
you looks were everywhere you looked in this episode, many
of which we've already mentioned. Honestly, I don't, I don't know.
(51:09):
I don't. I didn't. I was so I was so
busy being entertained. I didn't. I wasn't looking anywhere else.
What did you? What did you? Where did you look? Well?
There's Mark Sandrowski, which we already state, and my brother,
which I don't know if people knew that before listening
to this that my brother was in many shots of me,
almost had more airtime than I did. Yeah, he's one
of the audience members clapping. Yes, he's a he's a
(51:32):
very pale dude in a white shirt in the front
row clapping, clapping like a robot. It's hysterical. And then
sitting next to us at the phone banks in one
of the very first scenes. Yes, Desirae di Gregory. Yes,
not to be confused with Debbie Gregory, but Desiree Greggory,
who was She was one of our phone pages, wasn't
(51:53):
she and I stand in. Yeah, she had a lot
of different roles. She really connected with us kids because
she also worked at Disney at one point, so we
had that like Disneyland connection. Yeah, and you and I
had passes so we would go and I think she
joined us. Yeah, she did a couple of times. Yeah,
So I was like, oh, that's it. I was so
excited to see I did. I did notice that, you're
I can't believe I forgot that was the everywhere Well,
(52:15):
it was quick. It was just that one first scene
and then the cheerleaders moved in to be the phone
bank volunteers. So yeah, it was so great, so great,
but awesome episode A plus no notes from me. Yeah,
I love it. Just leaned into the fun and silliness
of it. And the nepotism of this family is unmatched, truly.
(52:35):
It's it's impressive. But I love this episode.
Speaker 2 (52:40):
So glad we wrapped up season three with this and
on to season four, episode one and you know what's
coming up?
Speaker 1 (52:49):
What? What? I don't I don't know. I haven't looked yet.
Greek Week. Oh oh, not to be confused with fraternity reunion.
This is this is for Reek. Well, I mean that
is also Greek Life fraternity up, but it is episode
It's is this the labor he dies? No? Wait, maybe
(53:12):
PAPOOLI dies later. Is this the one where Candice or
DJ Mary's the Greek cousin because the table and could
be I don't know what it is. Oh, I'm excited
to find it, but I think it. I think it is.
It's when they come. So that's just know that that's
ahead in our future. Everybody, Okay, it's a it's definitely
a Cauzopolis focus episode. I cannot wait.
Speaker 2 (53:34):
Indeed, I'm sure Mike Love is thrown in there somewhere. Well,
this was such a fun episode. You guys, thank you
so much for listening, and uh, make sure that you're
following us on Instagram at how Read podcast or sending
us emails how Read podcast at gmail dot com, and
that you're liking and subscribing to the podcast wherever you're
listening to it. And uh, we thank you so much
(53:55):
Santa Ritos for listening to another fun recap episode. I
can't believe already gotten through three full seasons.
Speaker 1 (54:03):
My mind is blown. Wow, it's going by fast, it
it really is.
Speaker 2 (54:07):
It's you know what, it's going by as fast as
you want? A unicycle Bay Bay sabre dancing g boy.
Oh man, well, I almost forgot the whole thing. I
was like, just a few weeks, did you forget your
you did? Okay, okay, okay, here we go and start again.
(54:28):
Leave you would see if you know, the world is small.
Speaker 1 (54:33):
But the house is full of telethons. No, no, it works.
Not my best though, not my best work. Well that's okay,
my my warm up episode. It's your warm up episode. Yeah,
you've been gone for The house is full of unicycles, house.
There you go, balloons, but the house is full of balloons,
(54:55):
the house, the house is full of minds. There we go.
There's of all of the above. D I choose D
all of the above. Yeah, all right, thank you guys.
We'll see you next time. Bye.