Contemplating the dying of Pam Tanner kicked off the plot of Full Home, why did the ABC sitcom ignore her absence for many of its eight-season run? Followers don’t know why, and, because it seems, forged members Andrea Barber (Kimmy Gibbler) and Jodie Sweetin (Stephanie Tanner) don’t both.
Barber and Sweetin mentioned Pam’s quick shrift in the course of the February 20 “minisode” of their podcast, How Impolite, Tanneritos!, as they reacted to Reddit customers’ complaints about Full Home. And one of many quibbles is that the present hardly talked about Pam.
As followers know, Pam welcomed daughters D.J. (Candace Cameron Bure), Stephanie, and Michelle (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen) with husband Danny Tanner (Bob Saget) and died in an car accident earlier than the occasions of Season 1. Following his spouse’s dying, Danny enlisted brother-in-law Jesse Katsopolis (John Stamos) and finest good friend Joey Gladstone (Dave Coulier) to assist increase his youngsters.
Barber and Sweetin identified on the podcast that viewers get a short glimpse of Pam in a VHS tape recording proven throughout a Season 1 scene, when the character is performed by Christie Mossman, however that’s about it. And Pam deserved extra of a posthumous presence, the actors argued.
“It doesn’t must be morbid or down,” Sweetin mentioned. “It might [be like] naturally, over time when you possibly can inform tales about any person which are humorous. Like, I might have beloved to have heard extra tales about Pam with the youngsters or one thing she did with Danny … as a result of that’s form of what you do when somebody passes. You retain them alive with the tales, and I really feel like Pam simply actually bought, um, form of… It was like, um, you’re useless, bye. You realize?”
Barber agreed, saying, “Yeah, It doesn’t should be sappy with the violins and crying. Like, no, you could possibly simply have an informal point out in these later seasons.”
Plus, because the actors mentioned, Pam was conspicuously absent from image frames across the Tanner home. Stephanie even had a headshot of her dad by her mattress however no picture of her mother.
“Pam was form of erased by season 4,” Barber mentioned.
“By Season 4? By Episode 4!” Sweetin quipped. “They had been like, simply wipe her identify off. Yeah. Bye.”
In a latest Reddit thread on the subject, followers advised methods Full Home might have integrated Pam into storylines. One fan proposed flashbacks and “perhaps even seeing a few of D.J. and Stephanie’s recollections of their mom,” particularly within the sitcom’s early years, “the place they might’ve shot flashbacks with the women [because] not that a lot time has handed.”
One other fan mentioned Pam might have appeared in dream sequences “the place she visits every of the women for very totally different causes that embrace main life adjustments, struggles, and achievements.”
“I’d even have her come to Danny in a dream to approve of Vicky so he would really feel extra reassured in relationship her and proposing,” that fan wrote.
Coulda, woulda, shoulda, Full Home writers!