May 2, 2025 • 28 mins
We are back with long-time Full House writer and producer, Dennis Rinsler! Now, Dennis has stories that even the biggest Fanneritos may not know... Like, what episode was so hard to write that they almost gave up on it entirely?! Or, what was it like to experience the very last curtain call on set?!
These are the stories we live for when reunited with fellow cast and crew members, and it's all right here on How Rude, Tanneritos! Follow us on Instagram @howrudepodcast & TikTok @howrudetanneritos
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey there, faner Ritos, Welcome to part two of our
interview with Dennis Rinzler. We had so much fun catching
up with Dennis and learning all about his time in
the industry as a writer and producer, so we can't
wait for you to hear the rest of our conversation
in part two. Let's get into it. There's the common
saying in Hollywood, you know, never work with actors, or
never work with kids or animals.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
No, I think that actually is the saying never work
with actors. I think that's what I just don't.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Never work with child actors or animals. But you and
Mark were drawn towards working with child with child actors,
and you just gave us the nicest compliment a few
minutes ago about how you know we were great on
set and nail and the jokes. So it sounds like
you preferred working with child actors, maybe more than adult actors.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
The kids were great, and they're also open to a
little collaboration. You could say to a young person, let's
try this, maybe this will be funny.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Sometimes you say that to an experienced actor and they say,
I don't tell me how to what's funny. I'll tell
you but you know that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
We always found the children to be more open to
try different things and this ego.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
The egos.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Yet it's a great point.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
You didn't have that on.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Fullows you already well you were brought up in a
in a nurturing environment of creativity. So when you directed Andrea,
did you give people suggestions to try things a different way?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah? That was Jody directed.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
I directed. I'll be honest, I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I didn't have to, Like, I implicitly trusted that everyone
would bring it to life exactly how I sort of
envisioned it in my head. And I think also directing
people that you know or that you know you've been like,
it gives you sort of that confidence where you're like,
I don't even have to I know, I'm not gonna
(02:15):
have to give notes on the scene because they're gonna
nail it. And absolutely, but yeah, it was you know,
it was very It was interesting being on the other
side because I felt like immediately when I went behind
the director podium, everyone became their characters.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
And then as soon as I was like.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
In the scene, then everyone I was like, oh, you know,
just everyone's name, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
It was it was weird, but yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Your acting background.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
You know, the best directors you know, you work with
Rich Correll, Yes, and.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
He was on you know, Leaf at the Beaver.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, so he knows exactly how you're thinking and how
you're feeling, and he's sure the same way, like these
are just actors. These are not you know, I mean,
these are characters. They're not just people act as they could.
And it's a great way to see it. The acting
background really helps.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I always felt bad for the guest directors on Fuller
House who would come in kind of meeting us for
the first time, because it's like, well, we've been doing
It's different on Fuller because we were we've been doing
these characters for over thirty years, so it's like right
for new directors to give us a note. It'd be like, well,
you know, actually, we kind of know our characters better
than anybody right on the set. So it is a
(03:27):
little bit different directing a show that's been so established
for so many decades versus a show that's just beginning.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
But even even a new show you are trying, you know,
in a movie, the director it's his or her vision
of what this is going to look like sound like
the pacing all that, and you start a new show,
it's usually a writer who was running the show a vision,
and even if you only did five or six episodes,
(03:57):
a director can't come in with a whole new style
and change everything. Say wait a minute, that's not what
we're trying to do now. Of course, with full house,
with the centuries of experience behind it, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
You know so well that this is wrong, and you
have to tell them.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Nicely, you know, right right, I guess wouldn't happen.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
So you and Mark were showrunners a full House in
season seven and eight? Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Six seven and eight, six.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Seven and eight. Okay, what was the most challenging thing
about show running versus just being a writer?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Well, show running was shockingly complicated and wonderfully complicated. But
luckily we learned how to run a show on a
show that was already running.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, so we kind of just you.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Know, fit right in. We knew what to do, but
we had to make decisions. The first decision we made
was a disaster. Oh, we said, okay, all these We
had six seasons where we had twins playing one role,
which is so important because young kids need downtime, so
(05:09):
one works for forty minutes and the other one rest
and the other one.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
We said, how about triplets. That's going to make it
really easy. We got to get triplets. So we bring
in some triplets and we meet these kids and they're great,
and we go, Okay, let's do it, and they're going
to be Jesse and Aunt Becky's.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Kids playing Alyx.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
We're going to play two kids.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
That's what it was, right, Yeah, I think it was
the renter Is.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
But the ones we picked.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
When we invited John Stamos and Laurie to meet them.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
They were like, oh, we don't like these kids. Oh.
We said, oh, we should have included them in the decision,
and they said, they don't look like us. It's not right.
So the family already sold their house moved out to
Los Angeles, and we had to tell them, oh, you know,
(06:09):
we're we're going in a different direction. And that was
our first decision that show runners, So we said, oh, we're.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
It seems to be the theme for for our shows
is starting off with like one cast member. There's like, no, no,
not that one, and we switch them out. So we
just like to keep with tradition.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Yes, that's true.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
But we loved we loved running the show and uh,
you know, we loved as you said, when you directed Jody,
just making decisions all day.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yeah, what's KIMMI gonna wear?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Who were not casting was great and there was some
interesting things were casting. If you remember, at one point,
I don't know if we were running the show. At
this point, ABC came to us and said, Stephanie doesn't
have a best friend.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Yeah, you know, kill.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Me and DJ and and Michelle had Harry and Taj
Morie and Jimmy and we're Stephanie's friend. So we went
around auditioning girls and we found a really nice girl.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
I think her name was Molly Morgan.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Yes, Mo, Yeah, she's going to be Stephanie's best friend.
She's great and you read together and she seemed really nice.
This is going to be great, and we said, this
is the episode where Stephanie gets involved with someone who's
smoking and they're pushing her to smoke, and Gia comes in,
(07:44):
Mala Sokkerloff. We said, oh, she's tough, she's going to
be fun for this episode. And we shoot the episode
and she's given you a hard time and she's.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Tough, and when we look at it, we go, you
know something. The scenes with Jody and Mala have so
much energy and conflict, and you know you're like worried
for Stephanie. This is this is more exciting. Right, it's
a nice.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Best friend sitting around, you know, talking about clothes, right,
bringing Gia back and sadly.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
We we moved. I think Nicky was going to be
her character's name.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, Mickey, she was in she was in the smoking
episode and yeah, and.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
She's a part of.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
A stunt family, the amazing Morgan's or whatever. And I
drive by and see Renfair posters here in La and
it's Mollie.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
It's her younger sister that's on.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
The that's on the posters.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
But you and Mala had a great relationship. It was
just so much fun.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
We still do to talked to her.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Yesterday I heard podcast with you guys. It was really good.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's so great.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
She's so people still ask her about the cigarettes all
the time and right, it's famous.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Just keep a pack on her, like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Oh that's so great. I remember you and Mark is
just the most nurturing showrunners, Like we've been so lucky
between you and Jeff, just to be like you get it,
like you get the DNA of the show. The heart
of the show for sure, nurturing, making sure the kids
are taken care of. Like it was always about the family.
(09:23):
It was a family. It was we were a family,
and you took care of the people before the production
and I always appreciated that so much.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Yeah, well that was you know, we were elementary school teachers.
We love kids, We knew kids.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
We loved you guys, and you know we we did
We had adventures with your guys San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
We went to Disney World.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Oh that's right, Yes, that's right. And I mean you
guys were you guys were a part of the last
two episodes of the show.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Yeah, I mean wrote.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Those you wrote the finale, right, Yeah, and Mark, maybe
that was a talk to us about the end of
the series because we weren't expecting to be canceled.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
When we didn't expect to be canceled, I think they
added a couple of episodes.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
On and uh, we wanted to do a show full
of memories. That call it a clip show.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
You have all the clips of old memories like that,
So we did Michelle has amnesia.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Michelle fell off the horse.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
And we tell all these stories looking through photos to
kind of spark her memory. And I think, you know,
there were a couple of shows that had Mary, Kate
and Ashley together, maybe.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Three yeah, together episode with the Grandfather there was an
angel and a Devil with the two of them in it. Yeah, yeah,
giving her advice. But the strange thing was, whenever the
two of them we're in a scene together, one of
them would get sick. Really yeah, one of them would
(11:08):
feel sick. And you know, maybe it was the pressure,
the competition.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
They thought they were going to be compared, but it
happened every time we put them in a scene together.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Interesting, Well, they're not used to acting, they're not used
to being scene partners, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah right, Oh it's different acting with your sibling rather
than just being with your sibling.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yeah, it was it became competitive. Maybe that's that was
our theory. Maybe competitive they're in the scene together and
that last I do have a video of the last
curtain call.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
I yes, yeah, I love that video.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
It's on it's on the the I think it might
have gotten it on its own tape, but I know
it was definitely like recorded in that most of the
cast I think got a clip of that.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Tears, so many tears and hugs and yeah, yeah, it
was a hard day and we.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Didn't really realize the impact at the time, but what
an effect that was going to have, like it's over.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Yeah, yeah, that was.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
It was crazy. I mean, especially for us, you know,
we were like, oh wow, so it's just like done done.
You know, as kids, it's very hard to kind of
comprehend that.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
We were having fun. You know, when we went to
Disney World such amazingly, Miller and Boyette said, you know
what they wanted, They want us to go someplace. Let's
go to Holland.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Whoa.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
And we were like, if that's every kid's dream to
go to Holland. You know, maybe Miller and Boyette wanted
to go to Holland for some reason, I don't know.
They kept pushing.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Holland and we said, no, we got to go to
Disney World. That's that's going to be more kid friendly.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
You know, which, yeah, I can't imagine that there was
a large audience of children who were.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Like, oh, I just want to know more about Holland.
I want to see wouldn't his shoes in the windmills.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
You know, that's my finger and a dike.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
That's wait, that is not how I meant it.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
What No, because you put your the little Dutch boy
his finger in the dike to stop it from yeah, yeah,
to stop the flood.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
He did it.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Well, that was a good call to switch it to
Disney World, because.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
I know what it was.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
It was a challenge because you know, when we went
to Hawaii, the show was not that popular. There were
a few people who watched us who came around to
see what. I remember as we're leaving the set, we
all got on a bus to go back to the
hotel and a bunch of kids were waiting and looking
(13:45):
because they were fans of the show, and they see
all is Dave col Dave, and they got so excited,
and Dave stuck his head out of the bus and said, kids,
don't forget to wipe.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Oh yeah, that sounds that's exactly what Dave would say
as well.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Uncle Joey just that.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Yeah he did. That's exactly what he said.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Yeah, it was fun, but then when we got to
Disney World, we needed top security.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
I remember jo bathroom in.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Peace, No, I got followed into the bathroom. Somebody asked
for an autograph under the stall.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
It was like, you don't want me to sign this
piece of paper and hand it back to you.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
This is you know, Yeah, just hold on a minute.
That was nuts, but it was yeah, that was that
felt like when you really.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Realized like, oh yeah, we've this is a lot of
people know what this is.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Yeah yeah, we had the fans all over the place
by that point. Yeah, yeah that's true. Now do you
know that? You know when you when you put together
a writing staff, it's like putting together a sports team.
You need the joke. Well, we had Lenny Rips.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
A master of Lenny. We had Lenny on the show.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Yeah, I heard that he was good. He when when
Andrew you used to kid around with Lenny and he
would say, Kimmy Gibbler, I created you, I can destroy you.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yes, yes, that's right.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
And then you have.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Someone who's like who really knows story. We had Rob Dames.
We used to call him the King of structure. He
would say, wait a minute, what if we take this
scene and put it here, change that scene there. But
the hardest thing to do were the heart scenes. That
was hot because comedy writers want to do the jokes,
and you know, Lenny Rips paid a violinist to come
(15:38):
to one of the table reads give a message like
maybe we're getting a little too sappy.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
But it didn't go over well. They were serious, Yeah, yeah, they.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Were pissed about that.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
He told us that story that he was like, yeah,
I hired a violinist and it didn't go.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Over well, didn't go over.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Now, Jeff Franklin was the heart and the soul of
the show, but the show had another heart that people
didn't know about.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
He knows, and it was Tom Miller.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
When we took over the show, Jeff said, before I leave,
I have to tell you something. Every time you send
the script to Tom Miller, he's going to call you
up and.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Talk to you for maybe an hour and a half,
two hours about the heart scene. Oh.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
He cares about that more than anything. And he would
get on the phone with us. Now this is a
middle aged man, and he'd be saying, like, you know, Dennis,
when a twelve year old girl starts to see that
she's becoming a woman, and he give us all this
heartfelt stuff and they care so much about this and that,
and we would take in notes and he really poured
his heart into those scenes and that's why they were
(16:45):
very effective, because you.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Know, he had a feel for that and it was
really good, really good.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
And people, you know, I think he passed away, but
you know, people don't realize behind the scenes, you know
what really goes on.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
He was great at that.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
It was Yeah, and see that he was I could
see Tom Miller being the heart guy.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Yeah, for sure, it was.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Yeah, it was this thing. Yeah, that was this thing.
You really cared.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
About that and that's what makes a standout you guys.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Oh yes, Yes, Which episode was the hardest to write?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
We almost gave up the.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Wedding, No, not the finale complicated that.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
We almost gave us.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
The birth of the twins Greek.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
What else?
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Admirers track? We couldn't.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I think Stacey Herr and Ellen Gilis were writing it. Yeah,
came in and they said, it's impossible. It's too crazy.
You have to say who wrote the note, who gave
who do they give it to by accident? Who does
that person think gave it to them? Who do they
what do they think? We had to make a giant
chart with lines and arrows of who's who got a flowchart.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Well, I don't complicated.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Speaking of hard and commlicated.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I don't know if you know this, but uh, Andrey
and I actually read an entire episode, just the two
of us playing all of the characters, and we asked
the audience to pick what episode and they picked that episode. Really,
so each of us got to play like four. People
(18:39):
talk about not knowing who sent to where and what
it was. I think the fans did it on purpose.
But yeah, that I completely know what you mean about, like,
I'm not sure who wrote this letter and gave it
to who.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
It was hard to keep track. A very highly rated episode.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
The highest love it. Fans absolutely love that episode.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Jeff asked me to be the voice of Comment.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
I was gonna this.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
I went into the booth.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
And I said, gee, I wish I had a Hamburger.
And came back to me later and said, you know what,
I don't want Comment to have a Brooklyn accent. I'm
gonna I'm.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Gonna have Dave do it, and he did it all
for my voice.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Comment should have had a Brooklyn accent. That would have
made that would have made as much sense as anything
else in this show.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Honestly, yes, we had two comments, right, oh yeah, we
had comment and we had Bob the Dog, Bob the Dog,
and that was his Well called him by his full name.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Bob the Dog, because if you said Bob, Saggat turned around, right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
So it was like no, no, no, you're Bob and
then you're Bob the Dog.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
And the reason for that is one of them was.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
More well behaved than the other. And I won't tell
you who, but give us the dog.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
On one hiatus, a movie was being shot and they
the dog air Bud.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
He was yet no, they were the dog and dyed
his hair dark brown.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Yeah, and we couldn't get it back to the original
color and we got a new dog.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
And then later when Mark.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
And I were running the show, the head of ABC
called us in and said, I know, I just came
up with the idea that's going to save the show.
We said, who, why does the show need saving? We're
already a big hit.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
He said, well, this is going to bring it over
the top.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
There's a dog called air Bud that could play basketball,
and we're going to get rid of the second comet
and we'll bring in air Bud and he'll be the
new comet. So we brought the dog in and all
that dog could do is play basketball. All it did
was look for basketball.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
It was just like, let me give me a ball,
Give me the ball, get the ball, get the.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Ball in the ball.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Right, You're like, oh, no.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Dog, that's not gonna work. That's not gonna work.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Comment was the best to Comet and Bob. The dog
were so they were so well behaved.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
They Yeah, they were good.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
They were great dogs. I had a lot of scenes
with Comment.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I'm quite partial, and I think there was a dog
called a Jacks. That's right. That's why we called them Comment.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
We said, we can't use the name Ajax because you
can't call a dog by its real name. Because what
if you're doing a scene where you call the dog,
but you don't want the dog to come, so Commet
and that's his name, he's going to come, right, so
you use a fake name.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
That's a good point.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
That's where we got Comment from, Let's call it instead
of Ajax.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Okay, that was cute.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I love these stories. I just love it relive in
these memories behind the scenes. Yeah, so fun and so
cool to hear stories that Jodie and I've.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Never heard before.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
You know, oh yeah, like we've been surprised plenty on
this Podcas asked, wait.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
What yeah, oh yeah, you had so many, so many people.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
And can you believe we're still talking about the show,
you know, thirty eight years later, we're still here.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Right, Yes, Luckily people want to hear us still talking
about the show. That's that's the nice part, because we
could be talking about this and people could be like,
I don't care, we're very thoughts.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
They remember that, yeah, and it's true. Giving Tom Tom
Miller credit. Now, Bob boy yet was also a very
smart business guy and the very good producer. And the
first episode we had Scott No, that's Scott. Uh wait, DJ's.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Boyfriend Scott one Gott, Yeah, thats Scott played Steve.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
He played Steve Steve.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
So, uh, Steve comes in for the first time and
we see him and he's great and he's cute, and
we say, oh, he's going to work.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
He's going to be great.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
So when we go to uh uh sweetening, where you
put in the audience reactions and smooth it out, Bob says,
put in screams girls screaming when Scott opens the door,
and we said, why nobody in the audience screamed. He said,
this is how we did it with the funds on
happy Days.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Next time, once this airs, the next time he comes
in the door, the audience is going to scream.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
And he was right. He was right because you know,
suddenly you're paying attention. What did they screaming?
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Right? I like him.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
That's brilliant.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
He knew, he knew those tricks. You know.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Oh, that's a great trick.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
That's a good I thought you were going to say
he should walk in like eating something like, you know,
because Steve was always eating like a like an orange
or something.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
My favorite line was of Steve was we had goat
cheese pizza and he tried it and he goes, Wow,
from now on, if it comes out of a goat,
I'm eating it.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
I actually say you saying that.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I'm like, I remember that line because I remember I
couldn't keep a straight face, and neither could Bob or
Dave or anyone else.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
So yeah, that was he was good. He hit the jokes.
He was very good.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
He really did, really did, and went on to become
a writer of such jokes.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
So yeah, he knew his stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Well, Dennis, thank you so much for joining us on
the show today. It was so much fun to get
to talk to you and see your face and like
I've just this has been great. I really really enjoyed it.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Lovely to see become so successful so professional.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Well reserve your judgment on that second one.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
But professional.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Your success stories. That's a wonderful thing. Yeah, wonderful thing
it is.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
And then you know, large part because we got to
work around people like you, guys who actually cared about us.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
And our well being and had fun, it's made a
big difference in our really.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Yeah, yeah you too, Dennis. So good to see you.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Yes, you too, Yes, until Mark next time you have lunch. Yeah, yeah,
please do to love to you.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Bye bye.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Oh he looks the same.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
He's exactly the same.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I mean except for the white hair, like it's just
the hair is white now, but the mustache, the hair.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Yeah, he sounds exactly the same.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
The energy, Yeah, that's he's exactly the same.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Yeah, that was so so good to see.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Gosh, it's it's legitimately been decades, well except it Fuller,
but yeah we saw.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Yeah he came briefly at Fuller, but you know.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
When people come visit the set sometimes, especially on a
show and you're like hi, bye.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I know you only get to say hi for a second,
and it's it's always.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Getting to cure some of his stories and the things
we didn't know and like sort of behind the behind
the curtain peaks little bit.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
So it's so fun to hear the stories, whether we
know them or not, it's so great to hear the stories.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Yeah, that was awesome.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
That was awesome you guys, thank you so much for
joining us for another really fun episode of how Rude Tannerritos.
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and plot twist and then we can reclaim that for
you and you'd be like, ah, here, smell it.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
This is actually it.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yeah, it would be life changing for me if we can.
If we can reclaim the feet.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
I'll do my best. I'll do my best.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Or we just make it like those those terrible jelly
beans and actually make it that when you light it,
it just smells horrific.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Yeah, we're like, we told you that, you tried to
warn you.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Have you not seen the show?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Thank you guys for joining us for another fun episode.
We love you and we will see you next time.
And remember the world is small. The house is full
of snacks, so many snacks for all these writers, just
snacks on snacks on snacks.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
There's a pile of them in the middle of the room,
just like, yeah, it's like a trough.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
It's great if it really is.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
And I think I might have also chosen that because
I want a snack.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
It's time, it's time for a time Bye everybody.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
M hmm.
Hey there, faner Ritos, Welcome to part two of our
interview with Dennis Rinzler. We had so much fun catching
up with Dennis and learning all about his time in
the industry as a writer and producer, so we can't
wait for you to hear the rest of our conversation
in part two. Let's get into it. There's the common
saying in Hollywood, you know, never work with actors, or
never work with kids or animals.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
No, I think that actually is the saying never work
with actors. I think that's what I just don't.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Never work with child actors or animals. But you and
Mark were drawn towards working with child with child actors,
and you just gave us the nicest compliment a few
minutes ago about how you know we were great on
set and nail and the jokes. So it sounds like
you preferred working with child actors, maybe more than adult actors.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
The kids were great, and they're also open to a
little collaboration. You could say to a young person, let's
try this, maybe this will be funny.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Sometimes you say that to an experienced actor and they say,
I don't tell me how to what's funny. I'll tell
you but you know that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
We always found the children to be more open to
try different things and this ego.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
The egos.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Yet it's a great point.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
You didn't have that on.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Fullows you already well you were brought up in a
in a nurturing environment of creativity. So when you directed Andrea,
did you give people suggestions to try things a different way?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah? That was Jody directed.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
I directed. I'll be honest, I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I didn't have to, Like, I implicitly trusted that everyone
would bring it to life exactly how I sort of
envisioned it in my head. And I think also directing
people that you know or that you know you've been like,
it gives you sort of that confidence where you're like,
I don't even have to I know, I'm not gonna
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have to give notes on the scene because they're gonna
nail it. And absolutely, but yeah, it was you know,
it was very It was interesting being on the other
side because I felt like immediately when I went behind
the director podium, everyone became their characters.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
And then as soon as I was like.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
In the scene, then everyone I was like, oh, you know,
just everyone's name, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
It was it was weird, but yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Your acting background.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
You know, the best directors you know, you work with
Rich Correll, Yes, and.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
He was on you know, Leaf at the Beaver.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, so he knows exactly how you're thinking and how
you're feeling, and he's sure the same way, like these
are just actors. These are not you know, I mean,
these are characters. They're not just people act as they could.
And it's a great way to see it. The acting
background really helps.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I always felt bad for the guest directors on Fuller
House who would come in kind of meeting us for
the first time, because it's like, well, we've been doing
It's different on Fuller because we were we've been doing
these characters for over thirty years, so it's like right
for new directors to give us a note. It'd be like, well,
you know, actually, we kind of know our characters better
than anybody right on the set. So it is a
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little bit different directing a show that's been so established
for so many decades versus a show that's just beginning.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
But even even a new show you are trying, you know,
in a movie, the director it's his or her vision
of what this is going to look like sound like
the pacing all that, and you start a new show,
it's usually a writer who was running the show a vision,
and even if you only did five or six episodes,
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a director can't come in with a whole new style
and change everything. Say wait a minute, that's not what
we're trying to do now. Of course, with full house,
with the centuries of experience behind it, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
You know so well that this is wrong, and you
have to tell them.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Nicely, you know, right right, I guess wouldn't happen.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
So you and Mark were showrunners a full House in
season seven and eight? Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Six seven and eight, six.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Seven and eight. Okay, what was the most challenging thing
about show running versus just being a writer?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Well, show running was shockingly complicated and wonderfully complicated. But
luckily we learned how to run a show on a
show that was already running.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, so we kind of just you.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Know, fit right in. We knew what to do, but
we had to make decisions. The first decision we made
was a disaster. Oh, we said, okay, all these We
had six seasons where we had twins playing one role,
which is so important because young kids need downtime, so
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one works for forty minutes and the other one rest
and the other one.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
We said, how about triplets. That's going to make it
really easy. We got to get triplets. So we bring
in some triplets and we meet these kids and they're great,
and we go, Okay, let's do it, and they're going
to be Jesse and Aunt Becky's.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Kids playing Alyx.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
We're going to play two kids.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
That's what it was, right, Yeah, I think it was
the renter Is.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
But the ones we picked.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
When we invited John Stamos and Laurie to meet them.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
They were like, oh, we don't like these kids. Oh.
We said, oh, we should have included them in the decision,
and they said, they don't look like us. It's not right.
So the family already sold their house moved out to
Los Angeles, and we had to tell them, oh, you know,
(06:09):
we're we're going in a different direction. And that was
our first decision that show runners, So we said, oh, we're.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
It seems to be the theme for for our shows
is starting off with like one cast member. There's like, no, no,
not that one, and we switch them out. So we
just like to keep with tradition.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Yes, that's true.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
But we loved we loved running the show and uh,
you know, we loved as you said, when you directed Jody,
just making decisions all day.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yeah, what's KIMMI gonna wear?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Who were not casting was great and there was some
interesting things were casting. If you remember, at one point,
I don't know if we were running the show. At
this point, ABC came to us and said, Stephanie doesn't
have a best friend.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Yeah, you know, kill.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Me and DJ and and Michelle had Harry and Taj
Morie and Jimmy and we're Stephanie's friend. So we went
around auditioning girls and we found a really nice girl.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
I think her name was Molly Morgan.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Yes, Mo, Yeah, she's going to be Stephanie's best friend.
She's great and you read together and she seemed really nice.
This is going to be great, and we said, this
is the episode where Stephanie gets involved with someone who's
smoking and they're pushing her to smoke, and Gia comes in,
(07:44):
Mala Sokkerloff. We said, oh, she's tough, she's going to
be fun for this episode. And we shoot the episode
and she's given you a hard time and she's.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Tough, and when we look at it, we go, you
know something. The scenes with Jody and Mala have so
much energy and conflict, and you know you're like worried
for Stephanie. This is this is more exciting. Right, it's
a nice.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Best friend sitting around, you know, talking about clothes, right,
bringing Gia back and sadly.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
We we moved. I think Nicky was going to be
her character's name.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, Mickey, she was in she was in the smoking
episode and yeah, and.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
She's a part of.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
A stunt family, the amazing Morgan's or whatever. And I
drive by and see Renfair posters here in La and
it's Mollie.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
It's her younger sister that's on.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
The that's on the posters.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
But you and Mala had a great relationship. It was
just so much fun.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
We still do to talked to her.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Yesterday I heard podcast with you guys. It was really good.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's so great.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
She's so people still ask her about the cigarettes all
the time and right, it's famous.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Just keep a pack on her, like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Oh that's so great. I remember you and Mark is
just the most nurturing showrunners, Like we've been so lucky
between you and Jeff, just to be like you get it,
like you get the DNA of the show. The heart
of the show for sure, nurturing, making sure the kids
are taken care of. Like it was always about the family.
(09:23):
It was a family. It was we were a family,
and you took care of the people before the production
and I always appreciated that so much.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Yeah, well that was you know, we were elementary school teachers.
We love kids, We knew kids.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
We loved you guys, and you know we we did
We had adventures with your guys San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
We went to Disney World.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Oh that's right, Yes, that's right. And I mean you
guys were you guys were a part of the last
two episodes of the show.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Yeah, I mean wrote.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Those you wrote the finale, right, Yeah, and Mark, maybe
that was a talk to us about the end of
the series because we weren't expecting to be canceled.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
When we didn't expect to be canceled, I think they
added a couple of episodes.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
On and uh, we wanted to do a show full
of memories. That call it a clip show.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
You have all the clips of old memories like that,
So we did Michelle has amnesia.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Michelle fell off the horse.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
And we tell all these stories looking through photos to
kind of spark her memory. And I think, you know,
there were a couple of shows that had Mary, Kate
and Ashley together, maybe.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Three yeah, together episode with the Grandfather there was an
angel and a Devil with the two of them in it. Yeah, yeah,
giving her advice. But the strange thing was, whenever the
two of them we're in a scene together, one of
them would get sick. Really yeah, one of them would
(11:08):
feel sick. And you know, maybe it was the pressure,
the competition.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
They thought they were going to be compared, but it
happened every time we put them in a scene together.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Interesting, Well, they're not used to acting, they're not used
to being scene partners, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah right, Oh it's different acting with your sibling rather
than just being with your sibling.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yeah, it was it became competitive. Maybe that's that was
our theory. Maybe competitive they're in the scene together and
that last I do have a video of the last
curtain call.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
I yes, yeah, I love that video.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
It's on it's on the the I think it might
have gotten it on its own tape, but I know
it was definitely like recorded in that most of the
cast I think got a clip of that.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Tears, so many tears and hugs and yeah, yeah, it
was a hard day and we.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Didn't really realize the impact at the time, but what
an effect that was going to have, like it's over.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Yeah, yeah, that was.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
It was crazy. I mean, especially for us, you know,
we were like, oh wow, so it's just like done done.
You know, as kids, it's very hard to kind of
comprehend that.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
We were having fun. You know, when we went to
Disney World such amazingly, Miller and Boyette said, you know
what they wanted, They want us to go someplace. Let's
go to Holland.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Whoa.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
And we were like, if that's every kid's dream to
go to Holland. You know, maybe Miller and Boyette wanted
to go to Holland for some reason, I don't know.
They kept pushing.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Holland and we said, no, we got to go to
Disney World. That's that's going to be more kid friendly.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
You know, which, yeah, I can't imagine that there was
a large audience of children who were.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Like, oh, I just want to know more about Holland.
I want to see wouldn't his shoes in the windmills.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
You know, that's my finger and a dike.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
That's wait, that is not how I meant it.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
What No, because you put your the little Dutch boy
his finger in the dike to stop it from yeah, yeah,
to stop the flood.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
He did it.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Well, that was a good call to switch it to
Disney World, because.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
I know what it was.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
It was a challenge because you know, when we went
to Hawaii, the show was not that popular. There were
a few people who watched us who came around to
see what. I remember as we're leaving the set, we
all got on a bus to go back to the
hotel and a bunch of kids were waiting and looking
(13:45):
because they were fans of the show, and they see
all is Dave col Dave, and they got so excited,
and Dave stuck his head out of the bus and said, kids,
don't forget to wipe.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Oh yeah, that sounds that's exactly what Dave would say
as well.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Uncle Joey just that.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Yeah he did. That's exactly what he said.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Yeah, it was fun, but then when we got to
Disney World, we needed top security.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
I remember jo bathroom in.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Peace, No, I got followed into the bathroom. Somebody asked
for an autograph under the stall.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
It was like, you don't want me to sign this
piece of paper and hand it back to you.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
This is you know, Yeah, just hold on a minute.
That was nuts, but it was yeah, that was that
felt like when you really.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Realized like, oh yeah, we've this is a lot of
people know what this is.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Yeah yeah, we had the fans all over the place
by that point. Yeah, yeah that's true. Now do you
know that? You know when you when you put together
a writing staff, it's like putting together a sports team.
You need the joke. Well, we had Lenny Rips.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
A master of Lenny. We had Lenny on the show.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Yeah, I heard that he was good. He when when
Andrew you used to kid around with Lenny and he
would say, Kimmy Gibbler, I created you, I can destroy you.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yes, yes, that's right.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
And then you have.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Someone who's like who really knows story. We had Rob Dames.
We used to call him the King of structure. He
would say, wait a minute, what if we take this
scene and put it here, change that scene there. But
the hardest thing to do were the heart scenes. That
was hot because comedy writers want to do the jokes,
and you know, Lenny Rips paid a violinist to come
(15:38):
to one of the table reads give a message like
maybe we're getting a little too sappy.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
But it didn't go over well. They were serious, Yeah, yeah, they.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Were pissed about that.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
He told us that story that he was like, yeah,
I hired a violinist and it didn't go.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Over well, didn't go over.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Now, Jeff Franklin was the heart and the soul of
the show, but the show had another heart that people
didn't know about.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
He knows, and it was Tom Miller.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
When we took over the show, Jeff said, before I leave,
I have to tell you something. Every time you send
the script to Tom Miller, he's going to call you
up and.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Talk to you for maybe an hour and a half,
two hours about the heart scene. Oh.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
He cares about that more than anything. And he would
get on the phone with us. Now this is a
middle aged man, and he'd be saying, like, you know, Dennis,
when a twelve year old girl starts to see that
she's becoming a woman, and he give us all this
heartfelt stuff and they care so much about this and that,
and we would take in notes and he really poured
his heart into those scenes and that's why they were
(16:45):
very effective, because you.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Know, he had a feel for that and it was
really good, really good.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
And people, you know, I think he passed away, but
you know, people don't realize behind the scenes, you know
what really goes on.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
He was great at that.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
It was Yeah, and see that he was I could
see Tom Miller being the heart guy.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Yeah, for sure, it was.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Yeah, it was this thing. Yeah, that was this thing.
You really cared.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
About that and that's what makes a standout you guys.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Oh yes, Yes, Which episode was the hardest to write?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
We almost gave up the.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Wedding, No, not the finale complicated that.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
We almost gave us.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
The birth of the twins Greek.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
What else?
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Admirers track? We couldn't.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I think Stacey Herr and Ellen Gilis were writing it. Yeah,
came in and they said, it's impossible. It's too crazy.
You have to say who wrote the note, who gave
who do they give it to by accident? Who does
that person think gave it to them? Who do they
what do they think? We had to make a giant
chart with lines and arrows of who's who got a flowchart.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Well, I don't complicated.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Speaking of hard and commlicated.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I don't know if you know this, but uh, Andrey
and I actually read an entire episode, just the two
of us playing all of the characters, and we asked
the audience to pick what episode and they picked that episode. Really,
so each of us got to play like four. People
(18:39):
talk about not knowing who sent to where and what
it was. I think the fans did it on purpose.
But yeah, that I completely know what you mean about, like,
I'm not sure who wrote this letter and gave it
to who.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
It was hard to keep track. A very highly rated episode.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
The highest love it. Fans absolutely love that episode.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Jeff asked me to be the voice of Comment.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
I was gonna this.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
I went into the booth.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
And I said, gee, I wish I had a Hamburger.
And came back to me later and said, you know what,
I don't want Comment to have a Brooklyn accent. I'm
gonna I'm.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Gonna have Dave do it, and he did it all
for my voice.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Comment should have had a Brooklyn accent. That would have
made that would have made as much sense as anything
else in this show.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Honestly, yes, we had two comments, right, oh yeah, we
had comment and we had Bob the Dog, Bob the Dog,
and that was his Well called him by his full name.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Bob the Dog, because if you said Bob, Saggat turned around, right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
So it was like no, no, no, you're Bob and
then you're Bob the Dog.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
And the reason for that is one of them was.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
More well behaved than the other. And I won't tell
you who, but give us the dog.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
On one hiatus, a movie was being shot and they
the dog air Bud.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
He was yet no, they were the dog and dyed
his hair dark brown.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Yeah, and we couldn't get it back to the original
color and we got a new dog.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
And then later when Mark.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
And I were running the show, the head of ABC
called us in and said, I know, I just came
up with the idea that's going to save the show.
We said, who, why does the show need saving? We're
already a big hit.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
He said, well, this is going to bring it over
the top.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
There's a dog called air Bud that could play basketball,
and we're going to get rid of the second comet
and we'll bring in air Bud and he'll be the
new comet. So we brought the dog in and all
that dog could do is play basketball. All it did
was look for basketball.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
It was just like, let me give me a ball,
Give me the ball, get the ball, get the.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Ball in the ball.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Right, You're like, oh, no.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Dog, that's not gonna work. That's not gonna work.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Comment was the best to Comet and Bob. The dog
were so they were so well behaved.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
They Yeah, they were good.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
They were great dogs. I had a lot of scenes
with Comment.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I'm quite partial, and I think there was a dog
called a Jacks. That's right. That's why we called them Comment.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
We said, we can't use the name Ajax because you
can't call a dog by its real name. Because what
if you're doing a scene where you call the dog,
but you don't want the dog to come, so Commet
and that's his name, he's going to come, right, so
you use a fake name.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
That's a good point.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
That's where we got Comment from, Let's call it instead
of Ajax.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Okay, that was cute.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I love these stories. I just love it relive in
these memories behind the scenes. Yeah, so fun and so
cool to hear stories that Jodie and I've.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Never heard before.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
You know, oh yeah, like we've been surprised plenty on
this Podcas asked, wait.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
What yeah, oh yeah, you had so many, so many people.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
And can you believe we're still talking about the show,
you know, thirty eight years later, we're still here.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Right, Yes, Luckily people want to hear us still talking
about the show. That's that's the nice part, because we
could be talking about this and people could be like,
I don't care, we're very thoughts.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
They remember that, yeah, and it's true. Giving Tom Tom
Miller credit. Now, Bob boy yet was also a very
smart business guy and the very good producer. And the
first episode we had Scott No, that's Scott. Uh wait, DJ's.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Boyfriend Scott one Gott, Yeah, thats Scott played Steve.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
He played Steve Steve.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
So, uh, Steve comes in for the first time and
we see him and he's great and he's cute, and
we say, oh, he's going to work.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
He's going to be great.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
So when we go to uh uh sweetening, where you
put in the audience reactions and smooth it out, Bob says,
put in screams girls screaming when Scott opens the door,
and we said, why nobody in the audience screamed. He said,
this is how we did it with the funds on
happy Days.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Next time, once this airs, the next time he comes
in the door, the audience is going to scream.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
And he was right. He was right because you know,
suddenly you're paying attention. What did they screaming?
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Right? I like him.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
That's brilliant.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
He knew, he knew those tricks. You know.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Oh, that's a great trick.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
That's a good I thought you were going to say
he should walk in like eating something like, you know,
because Steve was always eating like a like an orange
or something.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
My favorite line was of Steve was we had goat
cheese pizza and he tried it and he goes, Wow,
from now on, if it comes out of a goat,
I'm eating it.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
I actually say you saying that.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I'm like, I remember that line because I remember I
couldn't keep a straight face, and neither could Bob or
Dave or anyone else.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
So yeah, that was he was good. He hit the jokes.
He was very good.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
He really did, really did, and went on to become
a writer of such jokes.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
So yeah, he knew his stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Well, Dennis, thank you so much for joining us on
the show today. It was so much fun to get
to talk to you and see your face and like
I've just this has been great. I really really enjoyed it.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Lovely to see become so successful so professional.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Well reserve your judgment on that second one.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
But professional.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Your success stories. That's a wonderful thing. Yeah, wonderful thing
it is.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
And then you know, large part because we got to
work around people like you, guys who actually cared about us.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
And our well being and had fun, it's made a
big difference in our really.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Yeah, yeah you too, Dennis. So good to see you.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Yes, you too, Yes, until Mark next time you have lunch. Yeah, yeah,
please do to love to you.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Bye bye.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Oh he looks the same.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
He's exactly the same.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I mean except for the white hair, like it's just
the hair is white now, but the mustache, the hair.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Yeah, he sounds exactly the same.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
The energy, Yeah, that's he's exactly the same.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Yeah, that was so so good to see.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Gosh, it's it's legitimately been decades, well except it Fuller,
but yeah we saw.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Yeah he came briefly at Fuller, but you know.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
When people come visit the set sometimes, especially on a
show and you're like hi, bye.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I know you only get to say hi for a second,
and it's it's always.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Getting to cure some of his stories and the things
we didn't know and like sort of behind the behind
the curtain peaks little bit.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
So it's so fun to hear the stories, whether we
know them or not, it's so great to hear the stories.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Yeah, that was awesome.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
That was awesome you guys, thank you so much for
joining us for another really fun episode of how Rude Tannerritos.
If you want to find us out there on the intranets,
you can find us at the Instagram.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Our handle is at how Rude podcast, or you can send.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Us in an email at how Rude Tanner Ritos at
gmail dot com. You can check at our merch store,
which is how Rude merch dot com. I almost just
said merch dot com, which it's that. I'm sure that's somehow,
but it's not ours. So yeah, you want how Rude
Merch dot com. We've got all kinds of fun stuff
in there and uh and are always trying to figure
(26:48):
out more, so you know, shoot us some emails, suggestions, comments,
of what you guys would like to see. Mugs, keychains,
scented candles. I don't know, you know what I bet
would sell big what Kimmy Gibbler feet candles, except they
smell really good. They smell like Guardina's or something, and
(27:10):
and plot twist and then we can reclaim that for
you and you'd be like, ah, here, smell it.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
This is actually it.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yeah, it would be life changing for me if we can.
If we can reclaim the feet.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
I'll do my best. I'll do my best.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Or we just make it like those those terrible jelly
beans and actually make it that when you light it,
it just smells horrific.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Yeah, we're like, we told you that, you tried to
warn you.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Have you not seen the show?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Thank you guys for joining us for another fun episode.
We love you and we will see you next time.
And remember the world is small. The house is full
of snacks, so many snacks for all these writers, just
snacks on snacks on snacks.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
There's a pile of them in the middle of the room,
just like, yeah, it's like a trough.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
It's great if it really is.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
And I think I might have also chosen that because
I want a snack.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
It's time, it's time for a time Bye everybody.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
M hmm.
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