Full House: Five’s a Crowd

Most fathers cringe when their daughters start dating, but Danny is especially shocked by D.J.’s new love interest Pete — a grungy guitar player who is known for getting his way with the ladies. On the night of their first date, Danny, Joey, and Jesse are all dressed up to attend a special awards ceremony, but plans are changed when the guys learn of D.J.’s frightening whereabouts. Meanwhile, Kimmy is hired by Jesse and Becky to babysit the twins, but she’s not the one doing the majority of the work.

Jesse’s recording studio is used by “The Funky Tongues”, the hottest band in D.J.’s school. Jesse, Rebecca, Danny and Joey then start preparing to go to a local awards ceremony where “Wake Up, San Francisco” and “Ranger Joe” have been nominated. Danny is bothered by the fact that “Wake Up, San Francisco” gets beat almost every year by “Up and at ‘em, Oakland”.

“I don’t know what people see in that show,” he says to Becky.

“Cheerleaders wrestling in a syrup pit?” Becky replies.

D.J. has a date, so Stephanie and Kimmy will baby-sit Michelle and the twins. D.J.’s date shows up, and it’s Pete, the lead singer of “The Funky Tongues”. Pete takes D.J. to a drive-in movie theater. Danny is surprised when Jesse tells him that Pete is exactly like Jesse was at Pete’s age — girl crazy. Danny is even more surprised when Kimmy tells him that Pete has never heard the word “no”. Danny, Jesse, and Joey send Becky to the awards ceremony with Joey’s puppet, Mr. Woodchuck. Then they go to the drive-in and intrude on D.J.’s date, absolutely humiliating D.J., who is furious.

The guys take D.J. home, where D.J. blasts the guys by accusing them of overreacting and not trusting her judgement. The guys apologize for overreacting, and D.J. apologizes for neglecting to tell them she was going to a drive-in movie theater instead of a regular indoor movie theater. D.J. neglected to tell them because she knew that they would overreact and humiliate her, and that was the last thing she wanted to happen. The guys don’t want to stop D.J. from dating, so they promise that they will never again act like a bunch of commandos whenever D.J. goes out on a date. At the awards ceremony, Joey and the “Ranger Joe” show won an award for best children’s programming. However, “Wake Up, San Francisco” still lost, but hopefully not to “Up and at ‘em, Oakland”.

Full House: Yours, Mine and Ours

DJ: (thinking) Oh, I hope that my friends better not see me here with my family. If they do, I’ll never live it down.

Your face is turning bright red. You want to hide yourself in shame. You’ve just done something totally embarrassing (or maybe it’s your mom, dad or younger/older sibling who have done that), and it feels like everyone is staring at you and giggling. Maybe everyone is staring at you and giggling. Hey, it happens to everybody.

Let’s face it. Teens can be embarrassed by their parents. DJ Tanner experiences this in the Season 5 episode Yours, Mine and Ours when she’s in a pirate-themed restaurant with father Danny, his best friend Joey, and her sisters Stephanie and Michelle.

Danny arrives home from work, and notices that the girls are in a bad mood because they haven’t had a good day. Neither has Joey, who would rather forget that day’s “Ranger Joe” episode. Danny suggests that they take a little time off from this stress and go out as a family for what he refers to as “Tanner Family Fun Night”. Jesse and Rebecca stay at home with Nicky and Alex. Danny takes Joey and the girls to a pirate-themed seafood restaurant. When they get there, D.J. is afraid she’ll be embarrassed in front of her classmate Shelly Phillips, who is also at the restaurant, and Joey and the girls seem to get a little more bitter, but they finally lighten up and have fun when, because of not eating a thing, they are forced to “walk the plank” — right into a pit full of balls, that is.

Meanwhile, at home, Jesse and Rebecca are having a disagreement as to how Nicky and Alex should be raised, and complicating things is the fact that Alex is sick and has a fever for the first time in his life. Luckily, however, they talk things out and apologize to each other after working together to help Alex get better.

This is a really neat episode, as well as very inspiring, too. I like it, mostly because being embarrassed is one of the themes of the episode. And embarrassment is very realistic, as it is found quite often in real life.