"The Greatest Birthday on Earth" Recap Season 3, Episode 10

Happy Birthday Michelle!!! The youngest Tanner turns 3, and you know what that means... the circus is coming to San Francisco! What happens when the birthday girl gets stuck in a gas station during her clown-filled fest?! It's Greasy the Clown and Stephabell to the rescue!!

 

Plus, we have to address the ELEPHANT in the room (literally)! The girls have noticed a very interesting Everywhere You Look and we don't know HOWIE could've missed this... it's all here in the latest episode of How Rude, Tanneritos!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Read ready and has got better or worse. Good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
I think it's gotten better because we're in sync.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
See I see this is not in sync. Oh you're
I see you about a second and a half. Clap, clap,
a second and a half after me. Oh, and I'm
trying to maybe it's just I have a delay.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's your it's yeah, it's definitely your fault. It's not mine.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
It's fine, for sure.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
I'll take that. That's not prob at all.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
So how are you, abe, I'm a little stressed, but
I'm good. I'm good. But you know I'm moving you.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
I've talked about this a little bit last week, and
it's just it's not we're still not moved, but we're
like in that limbo of not really there but not really.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Here, but you're not really in either place.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, it's just sort of weird.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Far the stuff you need is at the other house.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
Exactly exactly like I don't okay, so my coffee pot
is at the other house.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
That moves with you on the last day, I know,
and I'm like, what what what am I gonna do?

Speaker 4 (01:17):
Like, I don't know, So I haven't had coffee today.
First of all, that's that's the first morning. And then
I'm like, well, I usually have tea, so I'm just
gonna during the podcast, I have my little tea.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
So I had to like it's like I'm camping. I
had to.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
Put my my cup under the spigot and then put
it in the microwave and my microwave it, and like
should I boil water on the stove, Like I don't
know how to make tea, So I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
I microwaved it. And at least.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
My throats are horrified that microwave water. It's not like
choice right now. It's we have kettles and such. But
when you're moving, you do what you can.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
It's you do what you can. And here I'm here.
I'm here, I've showed up and uh care you?

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, I mean if coffee I don't, I don't think
I would be I would be making it.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
This is like my fourth cup already, maybe my third.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
See, I would be jittering. I would just jitter right
out of this seat. If I had four.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
Cups, I'm a I'm a two cups maximum, maybe usually
just one cup.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
I yeah, no, I am powered by caf. I'll drink
coffee all through the day, Like I'll go, this is gross,
but I'll go to the coffee pot and like pour
a cup from the morning pot and then microwave it.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Oh see now that Yeah, the British listeners have turned
this off.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
American listeners are like that's disgusting.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, now I just say, you know, we don't want
to brew a new pot. You just want to.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
You know, have a little pick yeah, because I'm like,
I just want a cup and there's like half a
pot still left.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
Why anyway, And it doesn't affect your sleep. You can
drink coffee until dinner time and still be fine.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, I know. Then I'm a little slightly past forty.
I do find like if I have like a like
an espresso or a coffee with dinner, if I didn't
is at like eight o'clock, then yeah, that sometimes will
keep me away. But no, that's the That's the thing
about ADHD brains is we just metabolize caffeine and stuff

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very differently.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
For us.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
It calms it down. So yeah, like I'll I can
take a caffeine nap where I'll just have like a
bunch of coffee and be like because it just kind
of quiets your brain down.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
There is, Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
So yeah, it makes me more anxious if I have
too much coffee, right, yeah, well, yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
That's the thing. There is definitely a tipping point, but
you usually don't know where that is until you've crossed it.
So okay, yeah, I know, it's been a morning.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
It's it's been a morning.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
And to know that you've had the morning that you've
had uncaffeinated, what a ride?

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Hey, yeah, I will do anything for how Rude Tanerto's
and you.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Jody' sweel you know what. I love you for that
a b I do and I don't have the brain
power to explain it after the morning we've had. I don't.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
I can't go down this tangent.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
No, thank you. Let's, you know, let's do a recap.
Let's do a recap.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Let's let's talk about let's talk.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
About a birthday point?

Speaker 4 (04:02):
Please please all right back on the track, here we go.
Welcome back to How Rude Tanneritos. I'm Andrea Barber and
I'm Jodie Sweeten, and today we are discussing season three,
episode ten, The Greatest Birthday on Earth. It originally aired
on December first, nineteen eighty nine, and it goes a

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little something like this.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
The family prepares.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
A circus party for Michelle's third birthday, but on that
very day, Stephan Michelle will go with Jesse to Elmer's
gas station where something goes wrong. It was directed by Billy.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Fousta Coffee Coffee Coffee, and it was written by Jeff Franklin.
Love it.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
We got some great guest stars this week, some returning
guest stars.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
We have Debbie Gregory. She returns to Full House, but
this time as Karen.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, the parent of a different child, not Laurie's, not
Becky's sister.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
But yeah, yeah, like, well thank goodness, because Howie, like
we avoided another house, you know.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
She yeah, she actually moved to get away from how
she moved. She changed her name, she adopted some new kid,
and she's like, no, that wasn't me. I don't know
what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, she was tired of hearing his nation.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
She's been in the house.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
This was Just's girlfriend at the time, So I get
how this happened.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
But but but also how it's only season three right then?
That far removed from Becky as her sister.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Right, did he think nobody would notice?

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Like, come on, well, here's The best part is I
was like, why does she look familiar? And it wasn't,
and it wasn't until I read it just now that
I was like that, okay, got it, got it. So
to be fair, maybe people wouldn't notice, you know what
I mean, I'm not. I knew, I knew. I was like,
I know that we know her.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
But but then I was like, wait, Tevi Greg is Karen.
She was just oh, okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
She was Connie a few episodes ago. Now she's Karen.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Connie and now Karen.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
And the best part is this is her second of
five appearances.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
She'll be back later this season as Karen, and then
she's back in later seasons as Connie Becky's sister.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
So like, talk about whiplash, we're just what we did that,
we just when you're two people and it doesn't matter.
I love this show. I love this Amphibian. Oh my god,
that's amazing. That's amazing. We were stressing out about timelines
and this and that and does this family know you
know this one's Karen is dead. Meanwhile we got somebody

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twenty two completely different people back and forth between seasons,
and it doesn't even matter. Nobody cares what it doesn't matter. Yeah, no,
I'm here for it now. Great.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
It makes you feel so much better about continuity in
other areas.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
This is peak full house right here, this is peak
right full house. Moving on, we also have Raf Moulroe
as mechanic. They didn't get him a name, but he
has a name, right, isn't emer Elmer? Right? I don't
know why he's listed his mechanic on the credits, but okay,
so this guy's done a gazillion appearances.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
I was like, why does he look so familiar?

Speaker 4 (07:11):
He was on Night Court, Charles in Charge, Harry and
the Henderson's The Golden Girls as bartender, Perfect Strangers, Seinfeld
melrose Place.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
I mean, how much time do we have? I keep going?

Speaker 4 (07:23):
This is and he's always playing like the bartender, the mechanic,
the like a repairman, a mugger, a maitre d, a
car washer like.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
These are the roles that he gets.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
He's a character act, a career man, solid career.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
I am just so impressed.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
And he's a great actor. He does this role very
very well, yes he does.

Speaker 4 (07:43):
And last, but certainly not least, we have Aaron Brownstein
returns as Lenny. We last saw him in the sandbox
and breaking up is hard to do in twenty two minutes.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
This is his second and final final apparent, right.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
That was the kid that was like we sure this
isn't the kid that played how No, No, this is.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
The kid that was throwing sand out of the sandbox.
Danny was like, don't yeah, yeah, so.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
Maybe the I don't know, he should there might be
something going on with him.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
He might need, you know, well, let me look at that.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
This is that's why.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
That's that's why this is his last appearance because he's
too messy.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
For Danny Tanner is like, never again.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yeah, okay, So those are the guest stars. Now we
start with the teaser. In DJ and Stuff's room, DJ
asks Michelle if she wants to say hi to Grandma,
and Michelle asks where is she? DJ explains that they're
gonna make her a tape.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Oh my god. I was like, she was like, where's growl.
It's like, I'm faced all, No, it's not that. Space
time is not a thing. No, not no, no.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Catte a cassette in a in like a plastic It
looked like a toy like the little.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Fisher Price ones that you could they were made to like,
what's stand some knocking around?

Speaker 2 (09:01):
But they actually make tapes. They made real tapes.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Oh okay, yes they did. Yeah, that was the whole
point of them was they had a microphone to them,
and then kids could record themselves and be like, this
is so cool. Look where we are now.

Speaker 4 (09:12):
It's like like an early karaoke machine, but without the singing.
So Michelle grabs the plastic microphone and says, Hi, Grandma,
it's Michelle.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Do you remember me?

Speaker 4 (09:24):
She puts the mic down and bluntly asks, now what
DJ suggests they sing the spider song, and the two
of them begin to sing It's a bitsy Spider while
doing the corresponding hand movements. They finished the song and
applaud for themselves.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
Now, I wonder they called it the spider song? Is
is it'sy bitsy spider?

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Like copyrighted? But they sang that. You just say we
can sing it's they sing it's a bitsy spider. Don't
they call it the spider song?

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yeah, they called it the spider song.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
But if they sing I just always it was always
it's a bitsy spider.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
I wonder if your snow even if you.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Sing it, they change it a little bit.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
I don't know know how did they get away with that?

Speaker 3 (10:05):
I want to say, I don't think it is copyrighted.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
I'm saying it was strange that they called it the
spider song when I've only do you want to.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
Sing it'sy bitsy spider.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
I don't know. Oh okay, you never heard it called
the spider song.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
Yeah, if it was a matter of like copyright stuff,
they wouldn't have actually sang a song. So yeah, okay, Well, anyway,
this is this is this is too much, too much
thinking about the Sorry, let's move on to the kitchen,
where Jesse and Joey are sitting at the table with
crumpled paper scattered around them. Jesse says they need to

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come up with a good campaign for Captain Hook peanut
butter Chunk, so they'll need to actually try the product
to do.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
So, Joey, that's an actual product too, right.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah, Captain Hook, I don't know is anymore, but it was.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
It was so there was a little product placement.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
Oh there was no wonder.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Well done full house well done.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
So Joey suggests that they take a bite and say
the first thing that comes to mind. They both take
a large bite and try speaking, but their words are
muffled from the sticky peanut butter in their mouths. This
is such a cute bit between these two knuckleheads. Just
a little boy, they were breaking all over the place.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
So then Michelle stomps in and exclaims happy birthday to me.
Joey reminds her it's not her birthday until she's down
to one birthday cake drawing. Michelle takes one drawing away
for today, leaving four drawings left. Joey asks her how
many until her birthday. Michelle starts to count and then
concludes too many.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
It's a cute idea for a countdown though, well for
three is basically just like a little you know, advent
calendar or whatever for a thing, But it's cute.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
It's a visual representation of how many days the kid
has to wait. I thought it was great.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
So Jesse asks her how how old she's turning, and
she shouts three years old. Joey tells Michelle she's getting
a big circus party for her birthday and she gasps
at the news. Jesse rolls his eyes, declaring a circus
party is for kids. Yes, right, that's right for a

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three year old they're gonna have three year olds there, Jesse,
right right?

Speaker 1 (12:15):
He asks Michelle if we go again with a with
Jesse and like, shouldn't we do what I want to do? Jesse, No,
stop it, stop it.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
There must be a quota, like he has to have
so many Elvis references, like you know in so many episodes.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Well, if we go an episode without it, we won't
know that he likes it.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Right right.

Speaker 4 (12:34):
He has to keep her binding us, so he asks
her if she'd rather have an Elvis party.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
He uses his Elvis voice.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
Saying what do you say, a little mama, and Michelle
responds in her cute little Elvis voice, no, thank you,
big Daddy.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
And the audience loves this. John loves this, like they laughing,
they're cheering. It was really cute.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
Joey asks Jesse what could he possibly have against the circus,
and Jesse admits he hates clowns. They bug him because
they think they're so funny. I don't like clowns.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
I they're mildly scary, you know. I don't have a
problem with clowns because I like scary stuff. But I
definitely have a friend who we can't drive by circus
liquor in the valley without her putting her hands. She
just does not like clowns.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Oh that's severe.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
Yeah, I mean, I'm not scared of clowns, but I'm
just I don't they don't resonate with me.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
I'm just kind of like, yeah, this is this maybe
late clowns. They're a little more kind of weird and artistic,
but like the just the red nose sort of kind
of freaked me out. Think John Wayne Gacy really ruined
the clown thing for everybody.

Speaker 4 (13:40):
So Joey tells him get in the spirit. He and
Danny are gonna dress up as clowns, and Joey Jesse
points out that the two of them already are clowns. Michelle, meanwhile,
is ripping down two more of the birthday cake drawings
while the guys are occupied. Smart yeah, Jesse tells Joey
he'll cook and put up decorations, but if Joey wants

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him to dress up like a chuckle head, take your
rubber nose and honk it. Michelle takes down another drawing
and shows the guys, Hey, there's only one birthday cake
left hanging.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
She shouts, look, happy birthday to me. Hey, you know
it's it counts. It counts right, right.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
Jesse asks Michelle if she pulled off all of these
birthday cake drawings, and she innocently asks who me, and
Jesse mocks her and tickles her. Next door in DJ
and Steph's room, where Steph is reading Comet, a poem
she wrote for school that's about him. Yeah, it reads
My family has a new puppy. He's bigger than a guppy.

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My dad puts down paper for Comet, but he always
forgets to go on. It isn't this great when you
can read your lines from a prop like were you?

Speaker 1 (14:51):
Oh? I love it? Yeah. Every time I'm like in
a note scene, I'm like, m right, yeah, and it
says you know what you should? Yeah? Great? The best
little like cheese, the Bob Saget special.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah yeah, write your lines on a problem. It's fantastic.
So Comment is busy sniffing around Steph's bag. DJ walks
in the room announcing she knows what she'll be from
Michelle's circus party, a lion tamer. Steph rolls her eyes
sarcastically says, oh yeah, like Dad's really gonna let a

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lion in the house. You're just killing me with these deliveries, Jodys,
You're just brutal. Uh. DJ explains she's gonna tame Comet.
She picks up the puppy and tells him to try
to look mean and tough and ferocious, but he's unable
to do any of these things.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
Steph announces she's gonna be a juggler. She picks up
three tennis balls to demonstrate. DJ asks if she knows
anything about juggling, and Steph shrugs technically no, but how
hard can it be?

Speaker 3 (15:55):
She has my answer to a lot of things. I mean,
not really, but let's give it a shot.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Do it anyway. It's a special skill on your resume,
even if you never does.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah can yes, Yes, I can't.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yes, And.

Speaker 4 (16:09):
So Stuff attempts to juggle, but the balls immediately fall
to the ground. So she casually walks up to DJ
and asks if she needs a lovely assistant.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
And I gotta say the wardrobe department has really stepped
it up this episode. You were wearing this chic gray
plaid skirt and top combinations.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
It's very, very fashionable.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Although I will say the in the the first scene,
Jesse's vest with the fringe and the it was that
was a choice, that shirt, that whole combo was it
was a thing.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
He's so wearing the light jeans and then the silver
tipped boots like this.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
Well now but now the silver tip boots match the
little silver on his vest.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
He's really leaning hard into this look for season three.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
And I well, we've we've skewed away from rat pack.
Now we're going back towards a motorcycle man. Well it
was doctor Dare, that is, He's like, he.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Blame everything there. Yeah, it's all downhill from here.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:13):
So next we're in the kitchen where Jesse is sitting
on the counter struggling to blow up a balloon. He
finishes and sighs, finally the last one. Just then Danny
walks into the kitchen and exclaims, hey, Jess, I got
another one hundred balloons, and Jesse just glares at him.
Danny picks up on this reaction and asks if he
would rather be Elvo, the lip quivering clown.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Jesse grabs the.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
Bag of balloon. I would rather see that.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Elvo the clown?

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Why? I mean, why not? It's so can you imagine
a weird clown Elvis that would be horrified, I you know,
and John doing an Elvis clown.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
That would be this was a missed opportunity.

Speaker 4 (17:53):
Actually, this would be amazing if he had joined them
as a clown.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Elvo the clown.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
We do get a little bit of him as a clown,
but not with anyway.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
Anyway, So Danny tells Joey he got a great cake.
Joey excitedly asks if he got the triple chocolate with
pink frosting in the shape of a clown's face with
a big cherry on the nose.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Danny says yes. Jesse asks Joey if he'll help him
blow up these balloons, mocking the excitement he just had
when asking about the cake, but Joey shakes his head
with judgment, telling Jesse to grow up. That's ironic.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
Danny asks if one of the guys will follow him
to the mechanic tomorrow because his car sounds like Ed
McMahon again.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
It was like a very deep It was sort of
like a Santa Claus laugh.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
That's it, Okay, that was it.

Speaker 4 (18:44):
I Yeah, I'm not I haven't had I haven't had
any coffee, so I'm not doing impressions today. But Jesse
is insulted because he is a car expert, so he'll
just take a look at it for him, but he questions, no,
Jesse questions, why pay a mechanic when you can pay me.
Danny gives them a look and Jesse says, I'm only

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kidding unless Danny actually wants to go for it. Michelle
runs in and takes off the last birthday countdown drawing
and she shouts, happy birthday to me.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Finally it's the day.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
It's the day, Dan. She's gotten herself all dressed up
and everything. Oh yes, apparently none of the adults in
the house have seen her. They're all look good. They're like,
oh my god, hi, yees heappy birthday.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah, they're always in the kitchen. She runs in from
God's where she's just.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
You know, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
The Tanner girls are very very self sufficient, self sufficient.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
It's okay, no coffee, it's nothing that it doesn't again
you with the morning you've had.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
It's contagious.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (19:47):
So they pick her up, they burn her over to
her cake, and Joey asks if she knows what happens today,
and she says, my circus party, and she puts on
a party hat yay. Danny tells her that it isn't
until this afternoon. Michelle tries again my birthday cake and
she sticks her hand in the middle of the cake
and grabs a bite.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Oh what a fun scene, right for this one.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
But I was like, ah, I'm like, not one adult Dan.
None of them were like no, they were just like, oh, kids,
you ruined the cake with your hand.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
Like how expensive was this cake? You know? This is
like ache.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
I just feel like Danny would be like freaking out
that she's gonna get cake on the dress because she's obviously,
you know, wearing her frillly party.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
I just I was like, oh, okay, no, it's just
funny this whole episode.

Speaker 4 (20:40):
I don't know how Danny made it through between the
popcorn and the cake confetti.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yeah, I was just like, ah, stopped.

Speaker 4 (20:50):
So Jesse laughs and Danny closes the box containing the cake,
saying that's it.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
She's gone.

Speaker 4 (20:55):
Birthday bananas. Joey and Jesse clean off Michelle's hands. Jesse
asks her if she'd like to go fix her dad's
car with him and then after they can go for
a special birthday drive. Michelle says, no way, Jose.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yeah, smart, No, why why would you want to drag
a kid to a mechanic?

Speaker 2 (21:14):
This didn't track for me.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
This was no this was a plot device, to contrivance
to make the storyline work.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
But yeah, I was just like, what come on?

Speaker 4 (21:26):
So Steph runs in the kitchen telling everyone she almost
got it this time. She tries juggling again, just like before,
but all of the balls drop on the ground immediately,
and she angrily yells, I hate gravity. Jesse tells Steph
that they should go take a nice drive, emphasizing how
much fun it will be while staring directly at Michelle.

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He continues to say Michelle can't come because she's not
three years old yet, and Michelle states, I'm three years old,
and Jesse responds.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Excitedly, then you get to go? What kind of reverse
psychology Jesus just to get her to go to the
mechanic like that?

Speaker 1 (22:03):
Why does she need to go?

Speaker 3 (22:03):
Why do they need I mean, do they want her
out of the house so that they can decorate?

Speaker 4 (22:08):
They should have had a line that said that. That
would have made a lot more sense than Jesse just
manipulating these girls into.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Going with him to the mechanic. Right, Yeah, it would
make sense to get her out of the way.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Okay, Jesse go entertaining the girl, right, that's what I
thought maybe was happening, Like okay, well you know, Michelle's hey,
maybe Steph will go and like that's where Steph gets
roped in. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
Maybe there was a line and it was cut because
that would have made a lot more sense.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
And that makes sense. Then it was cut because if
it makes sense, then you should cut that.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
We don't. Logic does not apply in the Gallhouse universe,
just does.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
Funny Karen Connie doesn't matter. Okay.

Speaker 4 (22:47):
So Danny asks, uh, if he's just being nice so
he can get out of blowing up more balloons, and
Jesse says.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
Absolutely, joo babe.

Speaker 4 (22:56):
Danny turns around and he finds Joey eating Michelle's cake
his hands, and he Joey defends himself. Michelle did it first, Oh, Dave,
so funny. So next we're in the living room. It
is decked out in circus decorations.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Holy cown lord is it?

Speaker 3 (23:17):
And all I could think was we went from having
people manually.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
Blow up belongs to this all these boons, fifteen foot
tall circus clown on stilts. Hammel and couldn't buy an
air pump.

Speaker 5 (23:35):
You know it.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Was where did you get the clowns?

Speaker 4 (23:41):
This is just the beginning of the overly extravagant full
house or fuller house parties.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
In the house was wild, wild and horrifying. I have
to say, I was like this, these are these are scary.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Yeah, the decorations are scared It is so extra for a.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Three year all they have done. If Ashley or Mary
Kate was scared of clowns or one of the kids, right, Oh,
they have to do a clown check first, like, hey,
does this picture scare you? Okay, you can get the show.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Hey, the joke's gotta work. So there was no other
choice for them.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
Wow, the circus is yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:19):
Well, and at least Danny Danny explains why. He says
it's too bad his station canceled Uncle Punzie's Big Top,
but it saved him a fortune direct on decorations.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
Okay, so that right, right, I guess I don't know.

Speaker 4 (24:33):
Yeah, Okay, at least they didn't go out and buy
all this stuff for a two hour party, which she
doesn't even rent.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
You'd rent it, you would rent it at a large
party supply company that you know where you rent where
they do things like the oscars. You know, that's where
you get a seventeen foot tall you know, clown on stilts,
not just anyway and just go looking around in a corner,
you know, party city for that.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
I'm surprised they didn't put it in the backyard, the
shape shifting backyard, where they could have made it even
bigger than the love.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
Well, that's the thing is, it actually started out as
a normal sized clown mannequin, and then it just then
we stretched it in the backyard because we needed it taller,
and so we were like, all right, backyard, do your thing,
and then we just brought it back in there.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
It worked, It definitely worked. So the phone rings and
Danny picks it up. It's Jesse.

Speaker 4 (25:26):
Danny asks where he is, because Michelle's friends are going
to be there any minute. We see Jesse on the
other line. He tells Danny.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
They're stuck at a gas station.

Speaker 4 (25:35):
The mechanic doesn't know what's wrong with Danny's car, but
they do know it's going to be very very expensive,
isn't it always is?

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Never preparing your car is never cheap.

Speaker 4 (25:45):
Right, Jesse adds, Look, this had nothing to do with
me adjusting your idol, and Danny sarcastically asks why would
he blame Jesse just because he was the last person
to touch his car and now it's dead. Jesse says'll
be home just as soon as Elmer revives the car.
He tells Danny not to worry about the bill either,

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He's taken care of it by finding Danny's credit card
in the glove compartment.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
Jesse quickly hangs up.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
Elmer tells Jesse he's all set, and he says he
doesn't know who the donkey brain is that fiddled with
his idol, but.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
He ought to get his money back. Whoops. Jesse smiles nervously,
and he says he'll see what he can do.

Speaker 4 (26:28):
Elmer says he's going home to see Esther, his wife,
but Jesse thinks he said siesta, so he says.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Hey, enjoy your nap. Elmer clarifies what he said, telling
Jesse it gets people every time. Okay, this guy's a jokester.
He's got jokes.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Where are they though? Where did they go in San
Francisco to this mechanic on a tree lined street? Are
they there?

Speaker 3 (26:57):
You could call the house, but you couldn't call a cab.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
I oh, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 4 (27:03):
I I well it was a very spacious garage too,
for our gas station for San Francisco.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
Right, yeah, yeah, that's Elmer.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Maybe they went out and they were out on a
drive outside of San Francisco, because that's what you should
do when you have a big event, is go drive
somewhere in a car that you're getting fixed.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
Oh yes, yes, that nothing ever goes wrong then.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
Now, then we wouldn't have a series.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
So you know, I get it.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Jokes gotta work, yep. So Jesse asks Michelle and Steph
if either of them have to use the bathroom before
they go. Both girls raise their hands and say I do.
Jesse's relieved because he also has to go to the bathroom,
so they all run towards the bathroom to take their dumps.
Jesse and the girls going to the going to the dup.
Jesse and the girls go into.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
The bathrooms, and then Elmer is shown locking up the
garage singing about seeing esther. Meanwhile, in the living room,
Danny and Joey are finishing the party set up. When
the doorbell rings, Danny sarcastically says, oh great, the birthday
girl is still at a gas station and my house
is about to turn into Sesame's circus. Joey asks if

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he should answer the door, and Danny says, well, if
we're really quiet, maybe they'll go away. Back at the
gas station, the girls and Jesse leave the bathroom and
Michelle says time for presents. Jesse tells Michelle, you got it, babe.
We're out of here, and he attempts to open the
garage door.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
The door doesn't open.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
Jesse says, we're out of here again and tries the
office door, which is also locked. He nervously turns to
the girls, asking if anyone has to go to the
bathroom again. Steph says uh oh, and Michelle asks.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
Why did you say that. Steph breaks it to her,
if they can't get out of there, she's going to
miss her birthday. Michelle whimpers, no.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
Happy birthday to me, and Steph gives her a big hug,
trying to comfort her. That was such a sweet moment
like that.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Hog was genuine. I could tell like you were you
were close to her. It was so sweet.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah, oh yeah, I'm very close with that.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yeah, her breaking moment too.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
Yeah, Oh, I wonder if there wasn't a window in
the bathroom that that Jesse could have like tossed one
of the kids through and figured out how to open it.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
Well, and there's all sorts of tools at this mechanic
as well. He could have just thrown can't you break
a window?

Speaker 2 (29:28):
I don't know. It seems like I don't know. I
don't know the jokes. The storyline has to work. Storyline's
gotta work.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
Storylines gotta work. Story has to work.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
Story a little bit later at the jobs, if we
made too much sense, we'll let it slide. Uh.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
Later in the living room, DJ is singing Row Row
Row your boat to entertain Michelle's friends, and again she's
wearing her signature mustard yellow and black colors like.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
Every straight off the Starship Enterprise.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
DJ tells the kids to finish off the song, but
they sit there in silence, staring at her. One kid
pours the bowl of popcorn on his head, and DJ
finishes the song.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
Life is but a Nightmare, Oh Lenny, Lenny.

Speaker 4 (30:14):
She calls her dad and Joey into the room, considering
she's dying in there, and DJ wonders aloud, why didn't
they just go to chuck e cheese.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Yeah, this would have.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
Been simple.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
And also one that every parent asks themselves when they
post a birthday party at their house is why didn't.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
It's a lot easier.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
Yeah, So we cut to the kitchen where Danny and
Joey walk in in their extravagant clown costumes and Danny's
even comes with huge clown shoes. This is the stuff
of nightmares. Like this was horrifying.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
It horrib This was so above and beyond like three.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
I And also I was like, why wouldn't you put
those stiffy shoes on until you got up the stairs?
You know what I mean? Why would you try?

Speaker 2 (31:05):
And you know, Bob's got long limbs, now he's got
long feet.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
It's well, I mean, it was funny that he was trying,
but it was that was the thing. You're like, who
would do that? But I mean it was a lot.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
And what happens next, it's just is gonna hants in
my nightmares. Joey tells Danny they have to start the show,
and Danny questions, without Michelle, we're gonna put on a circus.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
For the neighbors kids. Joey says, it'll be a lot
of fun, and when Michelle gets back, they will do
it again for her. There's a knock on the door
and a beautiful woman and a little boy are standing there.
She asks, why is she at the back door?

Speaker 1 (31:45):
Why did she come to the back door? Well, because
she's been there before. So she's like, I know where
the back door is. I'll just see myself in right.
Nobody else knows where the back door is, but she's like,
I look, I've been here before. I was here visiting
my sister. I mean, oh my gosh, what's you know? Jeff.

Speaker 4 (32:01):
Jeff once told me that one of the hardest parts
about writing is writing characters, entrances and exits, like, because, yeah,
it would make sense she would come in the front door,
but the party's at the front door, so they have
to have her come in the back door.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
But it doesn't make sense.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
So yeah, yeah, but you didn't. You didn't have to
have her coming through the back You could have had
her come in through the kitchen and be like, oh, yeah,
the bathroom, and like, she.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
That is way too logical for this show.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
I know, I know.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
So uh. The guys introduced themselves to Karen Penner.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
She's liar, liar, You're not Karen Penner, you're Connie Donaldson
Dave Donaldson.

Speaker 4 (32:47):
Karen claims that she's Robert's aunt as well as Howie's
mom and Joe Joey says.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
Have we met before? Okay, so maybe this was like
an inside joke.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Oh my god. I couldn't with that.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
I was like, yes, we met.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
In an earlier episode, up in Michelle's room read, Danny
introduces himself, saying he's a single parent who loves foreign
films and long walks on the beach. Karen says, it's
nice to meet you both.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Karen's like, I just come to a kid's birthday party.
Why are you?

Speaker 3 (33:25):
Why are you dressed like a clown and telling me
what some care?

Speaker 1 (33:29):
Wait? I just literally wrote down why is he being creepy? Him?

Speaker 2 (33:32):
Out of cringe? Just this scene, Like I had to
watch it with my hands over my eyes. It was oh.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
So.

Speaker 4 (33:41):
Danny tells Karen he's usually a snazzy dresser and earth
tones go great with his brown dough eyes.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
He humbly brags that she may.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
By the way, I just so that everyone is clear,
it's brown doe do oe as in dough, a deer,
a female deer, not brown do o ug like bread dough.
I just wanted to clarify that because I have a
feeling there were some kids that were like brown doe eyes,

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Like h.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
Okay, okay, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
I just it's it's just not it's not a term
that people say brown eyes.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
For all the for the younger set that's listening to this,
For the younger.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
Set, it's not that he has dough ball eyes.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
He's got yeah, his brown dough eyes.

Speaker 4 (34:33):
Then he humbly brags that she may have seen him,
the real him on his talk show Wake Up San Francisco.
Karen is very excited about this. She says she has
breakfast with him every morning. She loves the show.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
Danny tells, I'm supposed she can get it all the
way Nebraska. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
Danny tells her to stay for the circus and the
birthday cake, and then he asks her if she's When
she says no, he tells her to stay for as
long as she'd like. Man, Danny's hard up, like he's
just really just laying it on thick.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Thick Is that frosting on the cake?

Speaker 4 (35:16):
Danny shows Karen and her nephew to the living room.
Joey asks Danny, what's with him? He's never seen him
so aggressive? Yes, thank you, Joey.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
Seriously, Yeah, I mean it can't be that.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
You're like, I look great.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
What do you what?

Speaker 4 (35:31):
Danny admits he doesn't know what came over him. He
just got this manly feeling, and quite frankly, he liked it.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
No.

Speaker 4 (35:40):
Oh, this is the worst impossible time to pick up
a woman is when you're wearing a giant clown.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
Costume with giant feet. Oh dear, well, yeah, okay.

Speaker 4 (35:54):
Jesse tells the girls they're stuck. There's even bars on
the window. Michelle pouts, asks about her circus party stuff.
Tells her not to worry because Uncle Jesse is gonna
come up with a plan to get them out of there.
Jesse admits his plan is to wait there until Goober
lets them out, and Steph says, well, I was wrong,
there is no plan.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
Michelle pouts, saying she wants her circus party. Jesse tells
her he's sorry, but he doesn't know what to do.
But then he finds some supplies lying around and gets
an idea. He tells me.

Speaker 4 (36:26):
He tells Michelle he's going to give her the best
circus party in the history of circus parties.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
Michelle, that's a bit of an over cell. But okay,
he didn't need to that hard, you know what I mean. Like,
we're going to try and do her best, but like
the best circus party in the history.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
He's trying to do his best. And it's well, she's three,
you know, it's you gotta do what you gotta do.

Speaker 4 (37:01):
Uh So, Jesse adds that it's gonna happen right here
in the gas station, and stuff is like, what in
this gas station?

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Jesse tells her to trust him. He pulls her to
the side to whisper his plan, reminding Michelle not to listen,
so she covers her ears. Back in the living room,
DJ is dressed as a lion tamer and she introduced
me to the Tanner family circus to the kids. They
let out a huge applause. Dj adds that it's starring

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her Tanner the Tamer, and the kids applaud again. She
warns them stand back because she's about to release Comet
the Ferocious. When Comet is revealed in his cute lion costume,
Lenny the kids says, hey, that's not a lion, let
me go home.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
That's what makes me?

Speaker 3 (37:54):
Yeah, just the stuff you get, the popcorn on your head.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
I'm not a lion, you're the I love kids like this.
They just have to like be like, no, this isn't right,
this isn't true.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
Right, actually you're wrong, and you're like you're three Okay.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
I love this kid. I'm sad it's his last appearance.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
I don't worry. We'll be coming back as another character.

Speaker 4 (38:18):
I wonder why he didn't stick with acting. This is
the guy that became a writer eventually in his adult year.
Since like, he's like, I'm done with his acting thing.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
Yeah, so uh.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
DJ begins her performance telling comment to jump through a
hula hoop, and when when he doesn't because he's a puppy, she.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
Lifts him through herself.

Speaker 4 (38:40):
The kids cheer for her performance, and DJ calls in
the clowns for the next bit. Joey and Danny burst in.
Danny is pushing Joey in a wheelbarrow.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
It can't have been easy to push the barrel with him.
I wonder I would can you imagine I would have?

Speaker 2 (39:02):
You would have broken a bone out of the door
for sure.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
Joey pops a balloon full of confetti and Danny immediately
vacuums the floor after him.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
Mm hmmm, yes, I would be Danny glitter.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
It's like you'll never get it up.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
It's just it's just bigger glitter, right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
Joey introduces himself in a high pitched voice as Jojo
the clown and his sidekicks. Name is clean.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (39:27):
Danny greets the kids and his clown voice and reminds
them it's a clean circus, and it's a clean circus.
Is a fun circus, Joey argues at the best circus.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
Oh, look, there's balloons.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
Look, speaking of circuses, it's just balloons just popped up
on your screen.

Speaker 4 (39:47):
My god, we're leaving the episode right now, right, But
Joey counter He counter argues that the best circus is
a messy circus, and then he sprays Danny with silly string.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Oh oh, silly string. What do you think silly strings
made of? What? What? Weird?

Speaker 2 (40:06):
It's sticky, you can't ever get it doesn't for the environment,
it can't be good for your lungs. You can't get
it off of your clothes like this was, it's everywhere.

Speaker 4 (40:17):
It's yeah, So Danny tries to spray Joey back, but
he sprays himself instead, and the kids are just getting
a big kick out of this. Danny declares it's time
for some good, clean fun with balloons. Danny holds up
a balloon in the shape of a heart, sits next
to Karen and says, I give you my heart as
he hands her the balloon.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
Karen awkwardly thanks him and then whispers.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
Right, it's again. Read the room, Danny, read the room, bro.
She's not interested. She wasn't interested when you were hitting
on her in your clown out in the kitchen. She
was like, yeah, great, I just want to come bring
my nephew to this birthday party. And now you're making
her even more and she's well, although although I guess
I'm wrong, well, because she comes back for another episode.

Speaker 4 (41:06):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (41:07):
But she's also the only other adult in the room
that's not a family member, like a Tanner family member.
So it's like, why every other parent just dropped off
their kids.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
Danny doesn't get out often. Maybe it doesn't right, Well,
I got questions.

Speaker 4 (41:23):
So Danny decides to let Jojo entertain the kids, and
Jojo announces guess what kids, Cleano is on the make
and winks.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
Danny in says he was just having some good, clean fun.
Then he pours a bowl of popcorn down Joey's overalls
and then adds some fruit punch to the mix too,
and Joey says he's having a party in his pants.
Oh my god. Oh, First of all, how do they
keep straight faces in this scene doing this bit?

Speaker 1 (41:52):
I mean, luckily they were dressed as clowns and they
didn't really have to, But but I was like, Danny
pouring fruit punch and popcorn down Dan would be horrible a.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
Character for Danny.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
I was just like, what, although this whole, this whole
episode is just out of character for Danny. They have
fallen and hit his head. I think I think somehow
Danny hurt himself before this episode and.

Speaker 4 (42:18):
He is macause nothing else about his behavior this episode makes.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
Sense, because nothing like Who's right?

Speaker 2 (42:27):
The doorbell rings when you think it can't get weirder.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
Literally, I fell out of my chair when I watched
the doorbell rings.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
DJ opens it and a real elephant walks in.

Speaker 3 (42:42):
What what? What?

Speaker 1 (42:47):
How did the elephant read up the stairs?

Speaker 3 (42:49):
An elephant?

Speaker 1 (42:50):
A baby elephant? How did the horse John? I'm gonna
go up again the horse right, well, the horses. It's
it's also shape shifting. When the backyard changes at the front,
steps can either collapse or go up. It was very
very accessible. It turns into a ramp. Yeah, who and

(43:11):
who the hell is letting a child be in charge
of an elephant?

Speaker 3 (43:15):
Who's in charge of this elephant.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
That they just handed an elephant over?

Speaker 3 (43:19):
And we're like, sure, can't take the elephant up those stairs?

Speaker 2 (43:23):
Handler for the elephant?

Speaker 1 (43:25):
Child? Wild? Just just this elephant drove itself there, Okay.
The bar was like I'm here, I heard I got
a party rental. Three o'clock.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
You're smoking a cigarette by his car, Like, all right,
let's get to these stairs.

Speaker 1 (43:40):
Do this thing on me, you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (43:42):
Like, just this is what the elephant does.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
Everyone's got to make a living, include the elephant.

Speaker 1 (43:47):
Yeah, he's gotta do. Yeah, he's got to do things,
you know, God, this poor elephant. And that was also
I was like, oh, I as an elephant, remember.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
You elephants when you were in Thailand?

Speaker 1 (43:58):
Right, I did, but in a way like I did
it at a place that does not allow them like that.
You don't ride them, you don't you basically interact with
whatever they're doing, as opposed to like tak me a
picture or whatever.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
You know, the elephants are really that into painting as
far as I know, so it, yeah, just kind of
letting them do their thing. But yeah, this this poor
little elephant.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
Though he was very cute, but yeah, I just thought.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
So, especially when they're very they are nimbled.

Speaker 4 (44:35):
I'll tell you that the elephant proceeds to reach his
trunk into Joey's pants and take out JoJo's underwear.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
Stop it, stop it?

Speaker 1 (44:46):
Can we did they plan this? With the how What
if they hadn't planned this? What if the elephant was
just putting its trunk.

Speaker 3 (44:55):
Down, down, down, down Joey's pants and he was like, well,
guess we're.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
Just doing this. This is the play.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
This scene is so awkward and weird and unhinged.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Dave Dave had Dave had a party in his pants
and an elephant in his pants. And if you think
that he could have said either of those things without
absolutely losing his mind.

Speaker 4 (45:22):
And you know he loved I'm surprised he didn't write
this scene himself because he he was loving this, right,
I would.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
Be a little nervous though at an elephant sticking its
trunk down my pants, you know what I mean, I
don't know, they're they're they're you know, it's the thing
that you want to do.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
I hear so many jokes in my head.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
I can't say.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
About an elephant trunk in Dave's pants.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
I mean, come on, they write themselves. I mean, not
that you would know it from this scene because it's
so weird and just awkward and not funny, but but yeah,
the jokes could write themselves if this were.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
Not having a hot flash from laughing stord.

Speaker 4 (46:05):
Okay, let's get back to the gas station, please, where
it's a little more normal.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
Oh right, where things are normal. Let's get back to
the normal part of this show where these people are
trapped in a gas station that has a boys and
a girl's restroom.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
By the way, at a gas station that looks like that,
but they've got boys and.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
You know, ready for anybody.

Speaker 4 (46:27):
I have to breathe, I can continue. Jesse and Steph
are dressed up in mechanic outfits, using items from the
garage to pretend to be clowns for Michelle. Michelle claps
when she sees them and says, yay.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
I mean at least she wasn't like Letty, that's not
a clown.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
She's not willing to play along. Yeah, at least she was.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
At least, yeah, she long, we're willing to go with it,
my god.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
Jesse introduces himself as Greasy the Clown, and Steph announces
that she's Stepha bell a clown. They blow fake confetti
at Michelle and say Happy Birthday, Michelle, and she responds,
thank you very much. Steph tells her Greasy will now
walk a tightrope without a net. Greasy walks across a

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laid down ladder as Steph uses an air pump to
make sounds to go along with the Little Circus song,
So cute, so innovative, Love it.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Well's I actually started a band before Girl Talk. It
was the precursor. Was for the precursor girl Talk? It
was Yeah, it was Pumpy Up is what the name
of the band was.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
So then Greasy announces it's time for Michelle's Big Top.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
Greasy, I mean you know what that fellow what Bob
and David call it the rest of the show.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
Greasy, It's the hair.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
It's always the hair. Yeah, So Greasy says it's time
for Michelle's Big Top and here wait, what does this say?
Greasy announces it's time for Michelle's Big Top to present
Greasy and Stepha Bel's Extravaganza of Puppet Love.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
Intro. Let me tell you I love sock puppets. Okay,
I don't know why I do. I think they're absurd
and ridiculous. And I had a whole skit where, like
I did a comedy thing with sock puppets re enacting
weird craigslist as. I don't know what it is. I think,

(48:26):
I just I just think sock puppets doing anything are
It's so stupid because it's so poorly done and it's.

Speaker 3 (48:34):
Just a hand doing that like it's I love it.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
It's simplistic.

Speaker 3 (48:38):
I love muppets. I love sock puppets, and I think
this is.

Speaker 2 (48:41):
This is the origin of your love for soft puppets.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
It's this, yeah, with a name like the the Extravaganza
of Puppet Love. I mean, come on, not until Avenue
Q did we get that kind of uh you know,
incredible uh puppet mastery.

Speaker 4 (49:04):
So Just and Steph use dirty Socks to do a
sock puppet show about being stuck in a gas station.
Steph's puppet says it's the uncle's fault, and Jesse's puppet
argues that it isn't. Then Steph's puppet ricks rips the
sock off of Jesse's hand and Jesse exclaims, help, I'm naked,

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and Michelle smiles, saying that's funny.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
What I love your passive aggressiveness. You're just like, let's
turn this, pop this.

Speaker 1 (49:34):
He guess what You're a yeah, Well that's the thing.
You can do that with a puppet.

Speaker 3 (49:39):
You can, you know, like Kermit calls him one a
name and you're like, that's funny.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
But it's so passive aggressive.

Speaker 4 (49:45):
I love it, just to take out all your aggression
with the yeah. So Jesse announces the finale and begins
to sing and juggle, and then he encourages Steph to
juggle too. Steph says she can't do it, Jess he
urges her to try it, just for Michelle.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
Steph gives in. She throws the balls in the air
and catches all three. How many times did you do that?

Speaker 1 (50:10):
Miraculous with the size of my little tiny hands.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
It's did you know how to juggle going into this episode?

Speaker 1 (50:17):
Or no? I had to learn for this student, I
learn how to juggle again.

Speaker 3 (50:23):
This is you're like, hey, you know what we need
you to do in three days juggle?

Speaker 1 (50:27):
It was like, oh my god, and I do have
very tiny hands and like as a child they were
even smaller, and so it was like trying to learn. Yeah,
but I did it.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
I got one revolution. You did also, John.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
Juggles, Where did this come from?

Speaker 1 (50:44):
Like?

Speaker 2 (50:44):
I guess he was telling the truth on the resume.
Where syn list your special.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
Talent one in his mouth does a whole?

Speaker 2 (50:51):
This guy did he take lessons too?

Speaker 1 (50:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
I was impressed, though, you learned how to jungle?

Speaker 3 (50:58):
Juggle whall playing the drugs?

Speaker 2 (51:00):
Yeah? Maybe, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
I mean maybe with the with the drumstick, you know.

Speaker 4 (51:03):
Oh yeah, okay, so he's got that the dexterity in
his fingers. So Jesse and the audience all cheer for
Steph and Stephan. Jesse end the show by shouting by
a bang. Michelle asks Steph, how did you do that?
And Steph is like, I have no idea. Jesse runs

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into the bathroom and brings out a makeshift cake of
twinkies with candles on it.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
Singing, because that's where I want the cake to come
out of. It is a pile of Twinkies laid in
a gas station bathroom.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
Maybe there was a vending machine back there and they
were there was a machine cake.

Speaker 3 (51:42):
But still you're storing them in the bathroom.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
It's just peak cleanliness here. This episode is just not
at all right.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
Michelle didn't get a birthday party, but she did get
a staff.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
So Michelle out the candles and Jesse and Stephanie cheer.

Speaker 4 (52:03):
Elmer finally shows back up this guy and he asked,
what the h double hockey sticks is going on in here?

Speaker 1 (52:12):
I thought he went home?

Speaker 2 (52:13):
Why did he come back like this is?

Speaker 1 (52:15):
Maybe he didn't because he was going to he was
going to see Esther. He's going to si Esta, and
the implication is that he like goes home and comes back.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
I didn't catch that.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
I'm so excited dancing on his way.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
Why am I just now realizing this? You had to
explain it to me. Sorry, it's okay, I haven't had coffee.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
Yeah, no, Coty, you haven't had It's or maybe I'm
just imagining something ter her and maybe she just makes
a really great turkey sigh.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
I don't know, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (52:46):
It could be either one, but hey, it's it seems
to me it's a choose your own adventure.

Speaker 3 (52:50):
They might be leaning into.

Speaker 4 (52:53):
Yeah, Jesse asks what's the matter with him for not
checking the bathrooms before locking up, and Elmer reminds Jesse
he's the one with a funnel on his head.

Speaker 2 (53:05):
Back in the living room, man the back and forth
in this episode, Back in the back, in.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
The in the circus, in the cycle Circus.

Speaker 4 (53:12):
Danny is cleaning up after the party when Jess and
Steph and Michelle finally get home. Danny hugs his kids
and asks Jesse how Jesse says, hey, this wasn't my fault, Danny.
Danny doesn't believe him and storms off, what do you
mean it was a The.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
Carvering down is also your fault because you messed with
the idol and you were like convincing these two kids
to leave the house with you. This is entirely your fault, Jesse,
is entirely your fault. There's no one else just fifty
I mean, elsewhere did lock you in the thing? But again,
what were youse?

Speaker 2 (53:55):
Didn't you call for a cab?

Speaker 1 (53:57):
You know, it's just this is He's totally your fault, Jesse.

Speaker 4 (54:01):
I'm sorry, so Jesse yells after Danny says he says
that he's sorry. Danny turns around asking how could you
let this happen, adding in that they just put on
a three hour circus for the neighbor's kids. Danny is
empathetic towards Michelle, knowing how much she was looking forward
to the party. He tells her they can still have fun,

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but Michelle excitedly tells her dad that she saw clowns.
She points at Jesse and says Uncle Jesse was a
clown and Danny is shocked. Uncle Jesse was a clown,
but Uncle Jesse hates clowns, and Jesse responds.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
More than ever. Steph tells her dad that Jesse made
a whole circus at the gas station with a tightrope walker,
a puppet show, and two jugglers, Thank you very much.
Danny asks Jesse if he really did all of that
for Michelle, and Jesse tells him, hey, it was my
niece's third birthday. Danny apologizes to Jesse and then tells him.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
Why why did he apologize? Well, the turn and this
was so quick. You did all of that for Michelle.
You got her locked in a gas station, you fed
her possibly tainted twinkies. I mean, yeah, but I don't know.

Speaker 3 (55:13):
I wouldn't be immediately be like, well, it's shame on me.

Speaker 1 (55:16):
I'm sorry. I would be like, well, at least she
did something after getting locked in a gas station.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
At least he'd made up for it. But you know,
Jesse didn't. He did stretch himself. He hates clowns. He
dressed up as a mechanic clown and he made it special.

Speaker 4 (55:29):
I think Danny was just so worried that Michelle was
going to be upset at missing the party, that's but
she ended up being like she loved it.

Speaker 5 (55:35):
That's she was like, great, that's three year old. You
know that you don't need live elephants. You don't need
all of the desertion foot all, yeah, or fake camels.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
Kids just want simple, simple, easy parties where they're loved.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
They just want a bucket of popcorn to dump on
their heads and a.

Speaker 2 (55:54):
Cake where you can reach your hands in and smash
it in your face. So, Danny, where am I? Danny
apologizes to Jesse and then he tells Jesse, hey, you
were a great uncle. Today and every day.

Speaker 4 (56:08):
He gives him a huge hug, but Jesse stops him,
this is a bozo no no, and he shakes Danny's
hand instead. DJ walks in telling Michelle that they saved
her a special surprise from her party and it's in
the backyard. On the way to the backyard, DJ asks
Jesse how he got locked in a gas station, and
Jesse explains, someday, when you're older and you get locked

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in a gas station, you'll understand.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
I'm forty eight. I'm still waiting for that day. Never
been locked in a gas station?

Speaker 1 (56:39):
Way, I don't have I been locked in the station.

Speaker 2 (56:42):
You have to think about it.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
Well, because I've definitely had a few instances sort of
like with the nineties con bathroom where the handle came off,
you know what's right. So yeah, but I don't think
like I haven't been stuck there permanently, like the handle
came off or whatever. And luckily I was like with
a friend in a seven eleven.

Speaker 4 (57:02):
Okay, yeah, and you didn't dress up as a clown
and walk a ladder as a tightrope either.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
I mean I did, but that was had nothing to
do with anything.

Speaker 3 (57:10):
I mean, just did that and then they kicked me
out of seven eleven.

Speaker 4 (57:13):
So yeah, So in the backyard, the elephant is standing
with Jojo the clown, waiting for Michelle.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
God, he's waiting for a smoke. Rate that elephant.

Speaker 3 (57:23):
He's like, my done yet?

Speaker 1 (57:25):
I gotta stand here and wait with this kid.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
When's my union break?

Speaker 1 (57:28):
Right? When's my right? Yeah? I gotta get all the
way down those stairs again, how am I going to do? Oh?

Speaker 3 (57:33):
No, Well, now he's in the magical backyard. He can
just apparently walk out that.

Speaker 2 (57:36):
Yeah, he could just float out or something.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, which, And also, I'm how do
they get the elephant in the backyard?

Speaker 2 (57:43):
They just walked him through the kitchen. We've had a
cow in that kitchen. We've had a lot of things
in that kitchen.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
Door does it? I don't think that door would fix
Oh that's right.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
Well the front door. They had to open both both
of the front door.

Speaker 1 (57:54):
So how did they get it in the back door?

Speaker 4 (57:56):
Well, then, like you said that, the elephant is very limb.
He just I don't know, he just metamorphosized his way
into the backyard.

Speaker 2 (58:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (58:07):
So Michelle yells Bimbo and everybody laughs Jesse corrects her,
saying it's Dumbo. Danny tells Michelle this present is not
to keep, it's just to ride. He places her on
top of the elephant, and when the elephant begins to walk,
Michelle shouts, whoa baby. Michelle continues to ride on top
of the elephant. Well, everyone sings happy birthday to her,

(58:31):
and that is our show.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
Wow, what a show, the greatest show on earth. Dare
I say? I mean that was wow. The things that
the Tanners pull off never cease to amass.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
But despite the the uh lu critic critic ludicrousness, That's
what I'm looking.

Speaker 1 (58:56):
Despite the critics Luke ludicrous, why.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
The ludicrousness of this episode.

Speaker 1 (59:04):
Ludacris, come on, you know, come on, every ludicrous.

Speaker 2 (59:10):
Okay, finish lines in sight. I've almost made it to
the end. I just can't. Words are hard right now.
Despite the ludicrousness of this episode, I loved it like it.

Speaker 1 (59:22):
Hit me right because because it was ludicrous and it
was what Full House does, which is make you feel
those little heart feeling moments of you know, a circus
in a gas station and reminds you what's important.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
All this kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
This is what despite all of the absolute insanity that's going.

Speaker 1 (59:44):
On around you.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
You're right, the full House does this. They're mastered. The
full House is a master at ludicrousness and heartfelt scenes.

Speaker 3 (59:51):
And this episode, yeah, all of it to doing them
all at once.

Speaker 4 (59:55):
Yeah, I thought it was a great And this is
this is now our recurring theme for Jesse being stuck
in places and creating things like remember he was the
airport Christmas episode right right where he's got convinced all
of the passengers that the code rack was a Christmas tree.

Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
Pretty creative, you know, I'm just putting. I mean, I
see why he got out of the bug extermination business
and into into jingle writing. Yeah, obviously much more, much
more attuned to that.

Speaker 4 (01:00:19):
It's it's yeah, this is I like the site of
Jesse that it's he makes the best out of a situation.

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
And right where, well, I like the side of Jesse
because this is the side of Jesse that isn't.

Speaker 1 (01:00:30):
Making it about him.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
Yeah, yes, he did all of this.

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
Like this side of Jesse because this is the side
of Jesse where we see him put aside the stuff
he does or doesn't want to do for the kids.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
That's exact.

Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
Yeah, And after the Doctor Dare episode and all that.
You know, we've seen like Jesse. You know, he has
a tendency to go into Jesse land, and this was
definitely a time when he was like, I don't like clowns.
I don't want to do this, but I'm doing it
for the kid.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
He doesn't. It was it was a very sweet woman.

Speaker 4 (01:00:58):
Yeah, more more of this, Jesse, Please, less of Doctor
Dare and more of mechanic clown Jesse.

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
Yeah, yes, can we yeah, bring the mechanic clown back,
which I never something I never thought i'd say. No, boy,
speaking of things, did you have uh? Did you have any?
Everywhere he looks in this episode, besides everywhere you look
at are clowns.

Speaker 4 (01:01:21):
There was so much visual stimuli in this, Like I
could not concentrate. I looked at the extras in the
kids scene, in the kid circus scene, I couldn't recognize
any of them.

Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
Were those little kids though, were dressed I've never seen
little girls dressed like.

Speaker 1 (01:01:34):
That for a party since nineteen fifty seven, Okay, Like
they were in the most frilly little party dresses. Like
I was like, who's dresses like that? But I mean,
I guess yeah, But anyway, Yeah it was. But the
woman that threw me off was the strange camel and
the weird mannequin person in the alcove that I would

(01:01:56):
have preferred if Joey's mannequin were riding the camel.

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
Yeah, sense, Yes, that threw me off to the woman
on the camel, and I'm like, is this really what?
There are camels at circuses? I guess so I don't
know elephants for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
I don't go to circuses with animals and them I.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
Don't like yeah, yeah, true, true, But I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
But fake camels, you know, plastic paper mache camels and
alcoves are fine, But elephants walking up your stairs and
into your backyard not let them be.

Speaker 3 (01:02:24):
I don't want to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
Yeah, that poor elephant, poor elephant. Oh man, did you
have it? Everywhere you look?

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
Or maybe we did it? I know, I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:02:32):
Everywhere I looked was insanity, That's basically you know what
I mean, Like.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
I that was all I saw.

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
Yeah, so I couldn't.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
I was.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
I felt like I had ADHD because I was just like,
I don't know where to look. There's so much going on.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
But everywhere you look is Becky's sister.

Speaker 4 (01:02:47):
So yes, Becky's sister will reincarnate as somebody else next time.

Speaker 1 (01:02:53):
Yeah, just don't worry about who she is. She don't
ask her too many questions. Her identity needs to remain secret.

Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
And I bet in the next episode she's in Joey
will say why do you look familiar?

Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
Have we met for her?

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
Do you have a twin? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
I mean Connie and Karen maybe you know so similar?

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
Okay, saying okay, well, this fever.

Speaker 3 (01:03:14):
Dream of an episode. It was fun, though, I do.

Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
I remember like learning to juggle for it and being
really excited when I got it on that one you
know thing, and practicing a bunch because it was hard. Yeah,
it was. It was hard to figure that out in
a couple of weeks. Absolutely, but apparently John is a
master at it. So who knows.

Speaker 4 (01:03:31):
You know, John is always surprising us with things that
he can do. So right, yep, my party hat goes
off to him.

Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
I like that. I like that, I got one.

Speaker 1 (01:03:44):
You got brilliant.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
Now I'm gonna go find a coffee somewhere else.

Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
Oh yes, a coffee, coffee, coffee, coffee claff. This is
just gonna be your mantra around your house today like
it's gonna be Foster. Oh, thank you guys so much
for joining us for another wild and crazy ride on
full House and through our circus, both on the show

(01:04:08):
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Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
At how Rude, how Rude Podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
No, No, I know, but I said at how Rude
like it's an Instagram. Uh No. The email address is
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Red Podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
Look, we both need coffee right now.

Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
Coffee, coffee, coffee, coffee. Yeah, I need it. I need it.
But thanks again for joining us. You guys, We we
love you. And remember the world is small, but damn
is that living room big? Yeah? Because you can fit
an elephant in it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
Yeah, the world is small, but Dave's pants are very big.

Speaker 1 (01:05:11):
Small, but the tents is big.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
Nailed it.