Greater than 35 years since Full Home premiered, it is at present among the many finest exhibits streaming on Max for all ages to get pleasure from. Though the collection isn’t good by any means, relating to some complicated retcons and plot holes in its eight seasons, Full Home remains to be squeaky-clean enjoyable. Nonetheless, stars Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber obtained actual about one Tanner family-related element they want the present dealt with higher, and I’ve a stable (if premature) suggestion for the way it may have occurred.
The Stephanie Tanner and Kimmy Gibbler actresses host their very own Full Home rewatch podcast, How Impolite, Tanneritos!, the place they digest episodes, reveal BTS secrets and techniques, and reassess their very own opinions concerning the present (equivalent to their ideas on a disturbing DJ episode) For a current Minisode, the duo mentioned unpopular Full Home opinions, taking to Reddit to see what followers needed to say. Upon seeing one fan’s despire for the present to have featured extra references to Pam, Danny’s useless spouse and the ladies’ mom, Barber was utterly on board. In her phrases:
100,000 p.c. . . . She’s talked about somewhat bit in Season 1. We see a flashback, or not the flashback, however we see the VHS tape.
As Barber stated, Pamela was talked about a handful of instances within the first season because the present was constructing its universe. Essentially the most traditional second includes everybody watching a house video taken the day Pam and Danny introduced residence toddler Michelle, which was the one time that viewers see what Pam appears to be like and seems like.
She’s often introduced up all through the rest of the present, however just for storylines that replicate on unhappy recollections — the origins of Mr. Bear and convos about drunk driving — or conditions that will be higher for daughter to expertise with a mother, equivalent to a slumber events, However aside from that, Pam wasn’t namechecked fairly often, and and Sweetin would have beloved to have extra tales about her under-credit TV mother that did not essentially skew mournful, saying:
It does not have to be morbid or down. It could naturally [be like], over time, when you’ll be able to inform tales about anyone which are humorous. 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 is sort of what you do when somebody passes. That is what you retain them alive with, the tales, and I really feel like Pam simply actually obtained, type of — It was like, you’re useless, bye. You recognize? … I suppose you’ll be able to’t get too darkish in a sitcom. However I feel perhaps as time went on, you can do it otherwise, and it will now not be unhappy.
Clearly, there’s the probability that Pam was talked about numerous instances off-screen, however I undoubtedly would have beloved it if she was introduced up extra usually on-screen, even when it’s only a transient point out quite than just some instances in the case of a giant storyline, as Barber stated:
Yeah. It does not must be sappy with the violins and crying. Like, no. You could possibly simply have an off-the-cuff point out in these later seasons.
That being stated, it’s not so shocking that Full Home solely talked about Pam on a number of events. It’s a sitcom, in any case, and whereas Full Home may undoubtedly take the tone in a unique course, there are solely so many darkish and heavy storylines a sitcom can do. In fact, they may have discovered a method, however even Sweetin thinks the concern was an excessive amount of to deal with:
I undoubtedly agree with this one. They need to’ve talked about Pam extra, and I feel it was simply in all probability concern of getting it flip too darkish after which seeming disrespectful by then going to a joke.
There may be a method that the present may have dealt with mentioning Pam extra that doesn’t essentially have to show darkish.
How Full Home Might Have Naturally Referenced Pam Extra In A Enjoyable Manner
Given the truth that Jesse is Pam’s brother, I feel he may have arrange up some type tribute live performance in Pam’s reminiscence, even when it wasn’t essentially an annual expertise. He and the Rippers would have an opportunity to indicate off their abilities, and it will have been one other straightforward spot for Full Home to herald musical cameos, because it usually did.
The Seashore Boys at all times appeared prepared, keen, and domestically accessible to pop up and carry out a track or two with the Tanners, who even combined it up with New Children on the Block. I can solely think about the sorts of different ’80s and ’90s acts which may have been invited as effectively. They might have even discovered methods to carry the actress again for different “outdated” residence video footage.
Alas, there are solely so many storylines {that a} present can do in a single episode, and even with almost 200 episodes, there nonetheless weren’t sufficient to correctly contact on each single facet. Regardless, Full Home remains to be one in all my favourite exhibits, and nothing will change that or the retro TV theme that also slaps. But it surely doesn’t imply you’ll be able to’t nonetheless take into consideration what may have been.