Apparently, Uncle Jesse wished to get evicted from Full Home. On final week’s episode of “Sizzling Ones,” John Stamos revealed that he “hated” Full Home initially, even threatening to stop the household sitcom, which ran on ABC from 1987 to 1995.
“Full Home… I hated that present,” he mentioned. Stamos advised Sizzling Ones host Sean Evans that the sequence was initially pitched to him as a model of Bosom Buddies—the 80s buddy sitcom starring Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari—starring himself, Bob Saget, Dave Coulier, and a few youngsters. Produced by Bosom Buddies creators Thomas L. Miller and Robert L. Boyett, Full Home would comply with Saget’s character Danny Tanner, a widower who decides to boost his three daughters together with his buddies Stamos’s “Uncle Jesse” Katsopolis, and Coulier’s Joey Gladstone. “As we’re casting I used to be like, ‘They’re spending a variety of time casting these children which are going to be within the background,’” Stamos mentioned.
Rapidly, it grew to become clear that Tanner children, performed by Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, and infants Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, had been going to be a a lot bigger a part of the present, a lot to Stamos’s chagrin. “We did a desk learn of it and I used to be the star coming off of Basic Hospital … and we sit down and begin studying and Jodie Sweetin, who performs Stephanie, begins studying her strains and individuals are dying laughing — I imply screaming,” Stamos recollects. “And I used to be like, ‘What’s occurring right here?’ They couldn’t even hear my strains they had been laughing so arduous. I’m like, slinking down in my seat.”
Stamos admits that on the time he felt like a “large shot,” and felt he was purported to be “the star” of the sequence. After the desk learn, he recollects going to the foyer of the Century Plaza Resort, calling his brokers, and telling them to “get me the fuck off this present!”
Finally, Stamos got here round on the sitcom, however not earlier than attempting to get the Olsen twins fired from the sequence. “I fought it for a very long time,” he mentioned. “After which I lastly mentioned, ‘What am I doing?’ It’s a stupendous present we constructed with sweetness and kindness. There was no central character on that present, is what I spotted. The central character was love, and we had been the most effective illustration of a loving household, not a standard household. And it was the brand new regular, now an unconventional household.”
