10 Full House Quotes That We Now Use in Everyday Conversation

CAPICHE?!

I have never heard any of these in my life

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, August 17, 2018 7:54 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag

oh puh-leez

But srsly whatever happened to predictability

― F# A# (∞), Friday, August 17, 2018 8:31 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the show was unable to answer this question, who are we to etc.

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, August 18, 2018 5:15 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ah but the show WAS the answer to the question

I used to get mad as a kid when they shortened the theme to cut out the pre-chorus that rarely got played after early seasons

the theme had a gravitas that the show did not live up to

There are a number of shows whose theme songs seem to have been selected more or less at random from a box of generic theme song submission tapes. Occasionally, the artist would be asked to amend the song so as to include the show's title (see: the Silver Spoons theme writer, who clearly didn't know or bother to ask what 'silver spoons' actually referred to), but as long as the lyrics made some vague reference to humans interacting with other humans it was basically good enough for broadcast.

It was sad the day all those things went away, I agree.

― Melted Belts, Priced To Move (Old Lunch), Saturday, August 18, 2018 12:34 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I remember when it happened

― faculty w1fe (silby), Saturday, August 18, 2018 1:11 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

We were rapt, gathered around the wireless

― faculty w1fe (silby), Saturday, August 18, 2018 1:12 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Theme song was oddly prophetic about the decline of paperboys and evening TV, it's true.

Btw, I have never seen Silver Spoons and only know of it because it has been referenced on ilx. I'm sure it was better than Full House, though, which is sort of the thing. Like, I feel like this show has endured more strongly in the public's imagination than Family Ties, even.

which is why we have Fuller House, which is worse because it now acts like it knows how bad it was in the 80s

Having recently been sucked into an episode when I realized that it was inexplicably being broadcast on actual tv in the year 2018, I can promise you that Silver Spoons is at least as bad as Full House.

(These cable networks dedicated to shows that haven't even been seen in reruns for the past thirty years are very good at snuffing out any lingering illusions you might have that the programs you watched as a kid were anything but terrible.)

if only for a Small Wonder dedicated station

Fresh Prince of Bel Air holds up.

If Head of the Class and Diff'rent Strokes were actually garbage, I don't want to know. xp lol

or Today's Special

xpost yeah I can still watch Fresh Prince, but it succeeded mostly due to humor that wasn't cornball and tackling some pretty heavy topics (ie the episode where Will gets shot, or when his biological father abandons him...again)

I'm guessing you don't mean the TVOntario classic Today's Special.

oh but I DO

i dunno what network we got it on in the States but it was on in my household all the time. i didn't even realize it was Canadian until I was an adult

That is my biggest O_O in a while.

(Ep where Will and Carlton go to jail was good too.)

I'm guessing you don't mean the TVOntario classic Today's Special.

― The inexorable rise of identity condiments (Sund4r), Monday, August 20, 2018 7:04 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh but I DO

― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal)

i also had a weird fucked up relationship with today's special, growing up. didn't know it was a canadian show!

I thought this was a parody thread and all the poll options were made up :(

This is deadly serious, how dare u.

The very idea that I would ever start a thread with my tongue anywhere near the inside of my cheek is frankly offensive.

I can't watch these clips without thinking of Horsing Around. That's a pretty brutal takedown of this style.

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"cowabunga dudes!" isn't even a full house original, they just lifted it wholesale. i guess that's true of some of the others too, like have mercy

missing "Lawsie, Miss Scarlett!"

wait a second, maybe full house shared a parent company with TMNT? Full House = ABC, TMNT in the late 80s = ? maybe they also owned mylanta?

TMNT was a spin-off of Full House IIRC (from the season when Joey got that job as the pitchman for shredded cheese and got completely lost in his Shredder persona until Stephanie taught him an important lesson about family and sharing and not unleashing hordes of robotic ninjas on San Francisco).

during that time, a lot of the family was first experimenting with drugs

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have mercy got robbed

How rude was the token full house phrase back in the day

Can’t believe it’s one vote less than #1

I honestly don't remember (or get) "oh Mylanta" at all. I would have probably voted "have mercy" if I'd brought myself to vote.

Howie

Where Howie

I want Howie

Wtf is a Mylanta.

Would you like to watch 117 Full House commercials in a row, okay then here you go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cnJaMb84M0