Full House: D.J. Tanner

Donna Jo Margaret “D.J.” Tanner is the oldest girl in the Tanner household. She has blond hair, and her wanting to be the best in everything came from her mother, Pam Katsopolis-Tanner. When Pam died in a car accident caused by a drunk driver, D.J. was ten, Stephanie was five and Michelle was a baby.

Shelly: I’ve got to tell the guys this one.

D.J.: And I’ve got to find a new school.

Being the big sister isn’t always easy, but she pulled it off with aplomb.

D.J. handles many tough situations with general ease. Though she gets upset at times over her father prying into her affairs or otherwise embarrassing her (and usually runs off to isolate herself in her room), she is always quick to apologize when she has acted rudely.

Sometimes D.J. gets very mad about the limits her father places on her; in many episodes, she ignores these limits. Nonetheless, however, she does eventually learn her lesson (usually the hard way). This structure of one of the “Tanner sisters” learning a life-important lesson is shown in many episodes.

Full House: Little Shop of Sweaters

It’s Valentine’s Day, and Danny has bought D.J. the royal blue sweater that she wanted. D.J. puts on the sweater and goes to school. At recess, she removes her sweater so she won’t get it all sweaty, but after she puts the sweater on the ground, the school’s gardener runs over it with a lawn mower, and the sweater is shredded. D.J. doesn’t want Danny to know about this, so she and Stephanie go to the mall to buy a replacement sweater, which is priced at $80.

Stephanie sees a sign on the checkout counter that says “Buy now, pay later”. Not realizing that a credit card is required to do what the sign says, she grabs the sweater in an effort to help D.J., but this gets Stephanie accused of shoplifting. Stephanie tells D.J. the whole story, and D.J. decides to wear the sweater (provided that they hide all the evidence) while they go out for dinner with Danny.

The next morning, the girls return to the mall to send the sweater back, but the store clerk catches them upon the sound of the alarm, and calls Danny, Jesse and Joey. The store does not press charges on any of the girls.

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Stephanie: Hey, where’s your new sweater?
D.J.: (pulls parts of her now ruined sweater out of her backpack as she speaks) Right here... and here... and here.
Stephanie: What happened? Did it blow up?
D.J.: I was so stupid! I was playing soccer at recess, and I took my sweater off so it wouldn’t get all sweaty. Next thing I know, the gardener drives his stupid lawn mower right over my sweater.
Stephanie: Daddy is going to freak out.

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Danny: Girls, I really like that you tried to help each other. But why didn’t you just come to me when you were in trouble?
D.J.: Because I thought I could handle things on my own.
Danny: D.J., you always think that. But to be honest, you’re much better at getting into trouble than you are getting out of it.
D.J.: Well, is there any way to practice getting out without getting in?
Danny: Well, no. But once you get in, you have to come to me, or Uncle Jesse, or Joey and let us help you. Because no matter what happens, we’re always on your side.
D.J.: Thanks, Dad. (hugs Danny)

Full House: Beach Boy Bingo

D.J. ends up winning two free tickets to a Beach Boys concert in a radio contest, but then has to make a decision consisting of who she brings with her. She wishes she could take her family with her, but, according to the rules of the contest, she is allowed to bring only one guest. 

Naturally, her dad Danny assumes that he will be D.J.’s choice, since he also likes the Beach Boys. But, much to Danny’s dismay, she selects Jesse instead, although she changes her mind later and tells Danny to go with Jesse (although Jesse changes his mind after a talk with Danny, and tells her to go with her father). 

Danny says that D.J. is going to the concert. However, D.J. corrects him, saying that she isn’t going, since she feels it isn’t worth hurting someone else’s feelings.

“This concert was supposed to be fun. Now everybody’s either hurt or disappointed. It’s just not worth it. I’m not going.”

In the end, however, everybody is satisfied, thanks to some surprise visitors at the Tanner household.

Full House: D.J.’s Very First Horse

Wake Up, San Francisco is broadcasting an episode from a horse stable, where D.J. meets a horse named Rocket. She desperately wants a pet, and thinks that he will fit the bill. However, the only way that she will get him is if she has enough money to make the payments needed ($100) every two weeks, so she and her best friend Kimmy pool their money together in order to start making Rocket’s stable payments, without Danny knowing it. D.J. thinks he will not let her have Rocket unless she proves to him that she can handle the responsibility that comes with owning a pet. Her plan consists of secretly keeping up the payments for a couple of weeks, and then telling Danny about Rocket, as she figures that two weeks is enough to prove to Danny that she can handle the responsibility so he will not refuse.

When Kimmy blows her half of the money on shopping at the mall, D.J. cannot make the next stable payment. So, in a desperate effort to make sure she does not lose Rocket, she takes him to the house with her. Danny is shocked when he comes home and sees Rocket in the house. He tells D.J. to take him back to the stable. While there, D.J. bids him farewell, thinking that she will lose him. However, what she is delighted to discover is that Becky has decided to become Rocket’s new owner and make the stable payments, because she misses the times when she and her family had horses in Nebraska. Danny agrees to let D.J. help Becky take care of Rocket.

Kimmy: Well, I asked my mom about the horse.

D.J.: What did she say?

Kimmy: She said, ‘Kimberly Louise Gibbler, have you lost your mind?’ I didn’t really have an answer for that.

Full House: El Problema Grande de D.J.

D.J. has good grades throughout her report card, except for in Spanish class, where she was given a ‘D’ (while Kimmy had gotten a ‘C’). Danny decides to talk to her Spanish teacher, Senorita Linda Mosley, about the grade, and D.J. thanks him for that.

When Linda comes over to the house to have a private discussion with Danny about it, it starts as a simple parent-teacher conference (with Linda showing Danny some colored flash cards with Spanish words on them, such as “el sofa” for sofa and “perro” for dog, respectively). It soon ends with an unexpected burst of passion as the smitten Senorita Mosley plants a kiss on a very welcoming Danny while trying to show him how to roll the double R in Spanish (after telling him the importance of the letter ‘R’ in the Spanish language). When she apologizes, Danny tells her it felt nice and Linda feels better. So they kiss a second time; however, the second kiss is ill-timed because that is when D.J. and some of her friends walk through the kitchen door and into the living room, and they take notice of it. Much to D.J.’s utter mortification, the kiss is an event that the whole school is soon buzzing about.

D.J. soon becomes a target for highly unwelcomed teasing, and she is absolutely furious at her dad for making her a target for teasing (and for not getting her Spanish grade changed).

Danny apologizes to D.J. for making her a target for teasing, and then eventually gets her to admit that the more difficult the Spanish class became, the more she just gave up on it, because she thinks she is no good at it. However, Danny manages to encourage his oldest daughter that he will be proud of her for trying as hard as she can, especially in something she finds to be hard to do, and D.J. thanks him.

Meanwhile, Mr. Malatesta gives Michelle a spot in a marshmallow commercial that Joey and Jesse have been assigned to work on. Joey and Jesse groom Michelle to star in the commercial. She is to sit on a cloud, eat a marshmallow and exclaim “yummy in the tummy”. However, she overpractices by eating too many marshmallows before the actual filming, and as a result, Michelle is full when the camera starts rolling.

Also, Stephanie has gotten a good report card, but her teacher writes that she needs to control her being talkative in class. When Danny makes the mistake of telling her she has to “stop being such a chatterbox”, she takes his words to heart and stops speaking for about three days — which makes Danny feel a little regretful.

Full House: Tanner’s Island

Danny takes the Tanners and his co-host Rebecca Donaldson to Hawaii in honor of their two-year anniversary since becoming a family. Once there, however, Danny takes charge, being his usual controlling self, and marks all the families’ activities together on what he calls a “Clipboard of Fun”.

Among the various activities they do, he and the family decide to take an off-site trip to the Hawaiian island of Pua for a picnic and a Polynesian show. They stop for a rest on a (seemingly) deserted island. However, Danny realizes he did not tie up the boat correctly, which means that (for now) the family is stranded. Meanwhile, Joey thinks he is seeing an attractive hula girl, and Jesse and Rebecca have an argument about Elvis Presley (Jesse’s music idol), until they get over it in the end.

Thanks to a speech from D.J. after she gets their attention using a shell as a horn, the adults set aside their differences, and the family builds a hut to stay in until they are found. That evening, Hawaiian inhabitants of the island find the gang and escort them to the Polynesian show on the other side of the island. It turns out that they really were on Pua, just the wrong side of it.

They end up dancing with everyone on the show. Joey, in fact, actually sees the hula girl he’d been imagining all day, and they both decide to dance together. At the end, Rebecca speaks with one of the musicians, and they’ve decided to play “Rock-a-Hula” by Elvis Presley, with Jesse singing lead.

Full House: Tanner vs. Gibbler

To celebrate Kimmy’s 12th birthday, D.J. plans a special party at the house with some of their closest friends.

When Stephanie slips up and mentions the surprise birthday party to Kimmy, Kimmy decides to bring her new karate class friends, Melissa and Nina, two older girls in junior high, to the party with her.

Upon arriving, however, all that the two girls want to do is invite a bunch of friends over to trash the house, so when D.J. kicks them out for even thinking about trashing the house, Kimmy decides to abandon the party and go to the mall with them. This begins a feud between the two girls. With help from Jesse and Joey, D.J. and Kimmy end their feud, as Kimmy realizes that D.J. refuses to let her forget who her real friends are.

Meanwhile, Danny panics when he finds out that he’s been removed from his job as a sportscaster at the TV station. Luckily for him, it turns out that the station has created a new local morning show titled Wake Up, San Francisco, and they need two people to host the new show. Danny is named as one of the hosts, while his co-host for the new show is Rebecca Donaldson, who had moved to San Francisco from her hometown of Valentine, Nebraska many years ago, after coming off her two-year success in A.M. Omaha.

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D.J.: I’m D.J. I’m glad you could make it.
Nina: We wouldn’t miss a party for our new pal Kammy.
D.J.: Her name’s Kimmy.
Kimmy: D.J., they wear lipstick. They can call me whatever they want.

Full House: The Miracle of Thanksgiving

When his first Thanksgiving without Pam arrives, Danny is determined to make the day extra special for his daughters. When Grandma (Claire Tanner) is unable to make it as expected, because a snowstorm up north in Washington has stranded her at her home, the men are inspired to make restaurant reservations. However, D.J. and Stephanie encourage them to have the traditional festivities at home. The results involve a burned turkey, a smashed pumpkin pie, and lots of tears. But the biggest challenge of all is how Jesse has not yet come to terms with Pam’s death.

D.J.: (as she and Danny walk into Danny’s room and sit on the small table in front of the bed) Dad, you don’t have to tell me. I know I ruined Thanksgiving for everybody.
Danny: You didn’t ruin anything.
D.J.: I let Mom down.
Danny: Why? Because of the turkey? D.J., Mom knew Thanksgiving wasn’t about turkeys. It’s about family, and being thankful for what we have. I’m thankful I’ve got you. You’re the one who pulled us all together tonight.
D.J.: You’re just trying to make me feel better.
Danny: Is it working?
D.J.: No.
Danny: You think you feel bad? I feel worse.
D.J.: You couldn’t.
Danny: Oh yeah? Wait ‘till I tell you what’s been going on. I felt so bad about your frozen turkey that I offered those ladies $200 for theirs.
D.J.: Dad, that’s crazy. You should have just told me the truth and given me the $200. That would have made me feel better.

DJ Tanner and Kimmy Gibbler

Let’s face it. Have you ever had a best friend who everyone else saw as annoying except you? How many people are disliked by their friend’s family? I can think of one: Kimberly Louise “Kimmy” Gibbler, best friend to Donna Jo “D.J.” Tanner on “Full House” (1987-1995). Disliked by almost everyone in the Tanner family except D.J., Kimmy is that kind of best friend.

While some members of the Tanner household can tolerate her, other members can’t stand her. Stephanie in particular, dislikes Kimmy, who in turn, teases her back quite a bit in the early seasons. Kimmy is not above teasing the other Tanners also, calling Jesse “Hairboy” because of his perfect hair at times and calling Danny “Mr. T” (which he sometimes doesn’t seem to mind a bit), and going so far as to play “Breaking Up is Hard to Do” on their organ in the Season 7 episode Is It True about Stephanie? after Danny and Vicky break up. However, the Tanners’ biggest fear is her removing her socks, as her stinky feet (which became a running gag during the later seasons) are her biggest means of torture for anyone.

However, it is D.J. who really loves her like a sister. The reason, whether it’s because she can live on the edge a little by hanging around her, or because she gets to practice her leadership skills and guide her, is uncertain. It’s probably more of the desire to help Kimmy, though there is a little of the edge, too. For instance, it’s revealed in the Season 8 episode Stephanie’s Wild Ride that when they were thirteen, Kimmy and D.J. hitch-hiked to Berkeley on Halloween. D.J. has also prevented Kimmy from getting way too wild, such as when Kimmy got drunk at a party, and D.J. brought her home for the night (in “Under the Influence” from Season 8). Kimmy held a job for a few hours at the brand-new movie theater as an usherette and box office attendant (in “Sisters in Crime” from Season 5), but then presumably got fired. Later, she got a new job as a waitress at the Smash Club in Season 7.

Kimmy’s schoolwork is always average at best, and she copies off D.J. all the time. While no mental challenge is ever mentioned, it is quite possible that she had one. It may be that the writers of Full House wanted a prism with which to break the harsh reality of mental retardation into an artful spectrum of subtlety, and Kimmy provided the means for them to do this.

However, bad grades are only part of the Kimmy Gibbler persona. Her tastes in clothing and other things were quite strange at times. Her parents didn’t pay much attention to her, it appears, as they paid for her to go on a trip to the Walt Disney World Resort with the Tanner family in the Season 6 two-parter The House Meets the Mouse, and in the Season 3 episode Those Better Not Be the Days, her mom even punished her by grounding her over at the Tanners.

In the Season 2 episode Tanner Vs Gibbler, D.J. throws a surprise party for Kimmy. When Kimmy shows up with her two friends from junior high (Nina and Melissa), who are in her karate class, her companions converse about how they have trashed homes in the past at wild parties. They proceed to pick up the Tanners’ phone and call friends (presumably fellow party animals) such as “The Duke.” D.J. angrily seizes the phone and tells him it’s a “prank call” before leaving Kimmy with the decision to either stay at her house or go with her junior high friends to the mall. Kimmy chooses the older girls instead of D.J., despite the fact that they call her “Kammy” and don’t seem to care much about her well-being (especially in comparison to D.J.). D.J. tries to guide Kimmy and steer her in the right direction by telling Nina and Melissa the proper pronunciation of Kimmy’s name, to which Kimmy replies, “They wear lipstick. They can call me whatever they want.” In the end, the two make up and continue their friendship. This is one of several tumultuous times during their friendship that Kimmy is to blame (and she knowingly did wrong).

Besides her stinky feet, Kimmy is also known to snore, and in many episodes, these issues are addressed. It is made clear throughout the series, even mentioned by Danny, that without D.J., Kimmy’s life would have gone in the wrong direction.

One imagines her as a wonderful support for D.J. in the weeks after Pam Tanner’s death; in fact, Danny isn’t quite as annoyed by her in the first couple of seasons — possibly because he remembered Kimmy helping D.J. through the grieving process after D.J. lost her mom in a car accident caused by a drunk driver.

And, despite some arguments over the years — such as when D.J. fired Kimmy from her sports reporting job on the school paper for writing an article that belonged in the gossip column instead, or when D.J. forgot her sixteenth birthday because it was also D.J.’s six-month anniversary of being with her boyfriend Steve Hale — Kimmy remained a faithful and trusted friend right up to the end. This is shown when she brings Steve to the Tanners’ doorstep, so he can escort D.J. to her senior prom in the Season 8 episode Michelle Rides Again, Part 2.

From Season 3 to Season 5, Danny was often seen telling D.J., “Please make new friends,” although he stopped at the beginning of Season 6, as he’d realized that D.J. took her friendship with Kimmy very seriously, and that he was wrong in trying to get D.J. to stop being friends with Kimmy.

In the Season 8 episode Under the Influence, DJ told him that Kimmy had gotten drunk at a frat party the previous night and couldn’t go home (and she had fought her for the keys). However, D.J. was afraid to tell Danny the truth at first because she was afraid Danny wouldn’t permit her to see Kimmy again, but that was just fine with her.

He replied, “Well, Deej, I know I say a lot of things about Kimmy being an annoying, obnoxious nuisance, and I mean every one of them. But she’s still your best friend.”

Also, Joey and Jesse are sometimes quite annoyed by Kimmy. However, in the Season 3 episode Those Better Not Be the Days, when they switch places with the girls so the girls step into the adults’ shoes and vice versa, and later look into the future and see what the girls are like as adults, Kimmy, portrayed as a beautiful woman who wears a tight dress, tells them, “Eat your hearts out, boys. Too bad you weren’t nicer to me when I was a kid.”

Then Danny assured Joey and Jesse that their future didn’t have to happen in the way they saw it, and they could all learn something from what they had seen.

Joey said, “Yeah. I’m going to start being really nice to Kimmy Gibbler.”

In my opinion, D.J. and Kimmy are best friends, and always will be. :)

Full House: Is It True about Stephanie

Stephanie’s classmate Jamie, who plays guitar with some friends in a band called Human Pudding, asks Steph to go on a date with him to The Smash Club, and Stephanie excitedly agrees. Stephanie’s rival, Gia Mahan, is not exactly as excited about it as Stephanie is. It turns out that Gia likes Jamie too, and she is not about to let Stephanie have him that easily. 

Gia comes over to the house and warns Stephanie to break the date, or she will make her life miserable. However, Steph stands her ground, and refuses to break the date. Little does Stephanie know how dirty Gia is willing to play to get him. 

On the next day, in order to make Jamie cancel his date with Stephanie, Gia spreads a false rumor at school that Stephanie wouldn’t get any dates unless she paid guys to date her, and even put a sign with the words “Date Stephanie, earn big bucks” on Stephanie’s locker.

Jamie, who has been getting ragged on because of the rumor, asks Stephanie who started it, and she says, “Gia. She said if we didn’t call off our date, she’d make my life miserable.” Jamie thinks that maybe it is a good idea to break the date, because he does not want to get ragged on anymore. Stephanie is hurt by that.

The next day, with the help of her friend Mickey, Stephanie gets even with Gia by hanging up a blow-up of Gia’s failing report card in the hallway. Jamie apologizes to Stephanie for the events of the previous day, and tells her that he is not about to let Gia run his life. Jamie says that if it is okay with Stephanie, the date can be back on, and she likes that. Stephanie shows him what she did to Gia, and Jamie says that she had it coming. Gia comes in and sees what happened, and, after angrily yanking the blow-up off the wall, goes straight to her locker. Stephanie walks up to Gia, who has her face buried in her locker, and says, “So, Gia, I guess we’re even”. Gia turns around, and Stephanie sees the tears on her face.

Stephanie then feels guilty. At The Smash Club that night, after a talk with Jesse about the situation, Stephanie sees Gia. Stephanie and Gia talk, and they finally become friends (while also learning that seeking revenge isn’t very sweet at all). Gia then tells Stephanie that she can have Jamie, as Gia now has eyes for the drummer of Human Pudding.

Meanwhile, Danny is having problems adjusting to life without Vicky, and it is pretty much affecting the whole household.

Stephanie Tanner

Ah, Stephanie Judith Tanner. The cute smile. The getting excited. And best of all, there was the one liner she made famous on the show: “How rude!” 

I’ll always love her. She is so beautiful with her blond hair. Plus, she loved to dance. And, as the middle child, she had a trademark sneakiness and often got into big sis DJ’s private life. I think if I had a little sister, I wouldn’t mind if she wanted to peek into my private life; we would share it together.

“When I’ve gone too far

When I’ve had enough

When I’m losin’ ground

Feelin’ out of touch

I don’t run and hide

I just look inside

For a simple piece of mind

Like a neighborhood

On a city street

I know the path

It knows my feet

And when I feel afraid

Feel like checkin’ out

You stand up and take a bow

You shine when others need you

You speak and I believe you

I know the light, it guides you

I’ll join the line that walks behind you

[Chorus]

You shine, you shine

Like a window to your heart I see

All the possibilities

You shine, you shine

And every day’s another opportunity

To shine

The way you see the world

The way it sees you back

You’re the photographer

You take the photograph

If you don’t like the way

The way it looks at you

You’ve got all the power to choose

Turn right, turn left, turn the other way

Make it light, make it dark, make it go away

I love the way you write the script to your own life

You’re the star, you’re on tonight

And when I feel unnoticed

Just two steps back from hopeless

You turn my world around with a single smile

That’s who you are, that’s who you are

You shine, you shine

Like a window to your heart I see

All the possibilities

You shine, you shine

And every day’s another opportunity

To shine

I know the light, the light that guides

I’ll join the line that walks behind you

You shine, you shine

In my life I know you shine

You shine

Like a window to your heart I see

All the possibilities

You shine

And every day’s another opportunity

To shine”

~Aly and AJ, Shine

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Full House: Working Girl

Holding down a job and school at the same time isn’t easy at all, as DJ Tanner found out the hard way in the episode “Working Girl” in Season 4 of Full House.

I like the episode Working Girl from Full House, because I learn some good things from it. Plus, I’m glad DJ decided to put her paycheck in the bank, although I smile at the part where she says to her dad Danny, “Dad, can I have a raise in my allowance?” I think every parent in history has heard those words from their kids quite often, too.

DJ desperately wants to buy an expensive pair of shoes ($160 for both shoes), so when she doesn’t get the money from Danny, she asks Danny to let her get a part-time job so she can earn enough money to get the shoes. Danny lets DJ start working for a photographer named Jack at the mall. Her job is to make reluctant kids smile for the camera. Danny allows DJ to have the job under one condition: she must make sure her grades stay smooth. However, this is easier said than done, as DJ’s science grade has been suffering lately. But she believes that the job will not only get her enough money to buy the shoes, but also will prove to Danny that she is not a little kid anymore.

However, DJ ends up in a sticky situation when she brings home her science exam with an “F” grade on it (as she’d been too busy with work and a lot of other classes), and then it gets even stickier when her best friend Kimmy changes it to an “A”. So after a little advice from Jesse (who had done the same thing when he was in junior high - such as changing 40s to 90s, and zeros to hundreds), DJ tells Danny what really happened. Danny tells his eldest daughter that she wanted to be a responsible adult, and what she did was the least responsible thing she could’ve done.

“I just wanted to prove that I could earn my own money,” DJ explains.

“Well, that’s all out the window now, because you’re going to have to quit your job, and no hanging out at the mall until you pull up that grade,” replies Danny.

“OK,” DJ says. “I guess I’ll go back to being a kid again.”

“Deej,” says Danny, “there’s nothing wrong with being a kid. You should enjoy it. You got the rest of your life to be an adult.”

Luckily, despite all the trouble she got into, DJ has gotten her first paycheck, which was more than enough to pay for her tennis shoes. But DJ decides to put it in the bank after all the hard work she did to earn it.

Meanwhile, Jesse and Rebecca are unable to agree on where their wedding should take place. Jesse wants the wedding to be at Graceland (home of Elvis Presley), and Rebecca wants the wedding to be in her home state of Nebraska. Luckily, with some help from Joey, they come to a final agreement and decide on having their wedding at their own home town: San Francisco.

Full House: Back to School Blues

Oh, the tween angst! It’s the first day of junior high for D.J. Tanner (Candace Cameron Bure) and she’s learning the hard way that she’s not in elementary school anymore.

The new school year is starting. Stephanie, who is entering 2nd grade, is the only Tanner left in her school, and she expects a bad day at school. But instead, against her expectations, it turns out to be a good day for her (including being chosen as the Room 7 official fish feeder).

The same can’t be said for D.J., who is entering 7th grade, which is a step closer to becoming a teenager. On her first day at Van Atta Junior High, D.J. is separated from her best friend Kimmy except for sixth period Spanish, humiliated by a mean girl Colleen and her gang, a squad of girls dressed like tarts, discovers that she’s wearing the same outfit as Mrs. Agbabian, the annoying lunch lady, and has to eat lunch in a phone booth.

The next morning, D.J., along with Kimmy, decides to put on makeup. The reason why is because she believes the only way to fit in among the other students is to do what virtually the other 7th graders are doing when they put on makeup - look twice as old as she really is. Danny thinks D.J. is overdoing it, so he lets Rebecca help D.J. with the makeup.

The next day, Kimmy’s schedule changes so that she and D.J. can have the same lunch, especially with D.J.’s new friends from her English class, Karen Sykes and Susan Ericson, who are sitting at Colleen’s gang’s table. Colleen refuses to sit with scrubs (her name for people like D.J.), saying, “I’d rather eat in a phone booth”. So she and her gang split up and go eat at different tables.

Meanwhile, Joey tries to teach Jesse how to play golf in order to impress a golfing client.

Full House: Please Don’t Touch the Dinosaur

Michelle and her class are going on a field trip to a local Museum of Natural History and Danny is one of the chaperones. When the other chaperone, Ms. Gwelch, cancels because of illness, Danny finds himself in over his head with being the only adult in charge of sixteen kids.

Desperate to find a replacement before the trip, he persuades Jesse to come along. However, Danny’s feelings are hurt when Michelle chooses to be in Jesse’s group instead of his.

At the museum, Danny acts like a drill sergeant by constantly making up new rules and keeps his group on a tight leash. Jesse, on the other hand, lets his kids run wild throughout the exhibits. Danny also treats Jesse coldly and constantly lectures him on how to handle things, creating more tension between the two. While in the dinosaur exhibit, Michelle and Denise start playing a game of tag and accidentally knock over most of a $4,000,000 skeleton, effectively ending the field trip when the museum kicks them out.

Back at the house, Danny explodes at Jesse, berating him for letting his group get so out of control. Jesse snaps at Danny to get off his back and to stop treating him like a little kid, stating that the dinosaur is going to be fixed, and that he’ll be doing community service at the museum for “the next ten weekends in a row” to make amends. He also says he was just trying to let the kids actually have some fun, which was the last thing Danny was doing. However, Danny continues to lecture him, asking Jesse when he will stop trying to be “Mr. Cool” and start taking his responsibilities more seriously. Jesse asks Danny when he is going to get off his back. As the fight escalates, Michelle, becoming more and more angry, finally snaps at them to stop fighting. She tells them that she knocked over the dinosaur and that it was her fault, before running to her room in tears.

Realizing that their arguing did no good except hurt Michelle’s feelings, Danny and Jesse follow her to her room. There, they apologize for their behavior. They say that while she did knock over the skeleton, the real reason the field trip was a disaster was because neither one of them did a good job at being in charge (Jesse with being too flexible and Danny being too strict). Danny admits that the real reason he was so hard on Jesse was because he was jealous that Michelle wanted to be in his group instead of being with Danny, and apologizes to Jesse for his behavior. In the end, Jesse promises to be more responsible when it comes to being in charge, but will still hang a little loose, while Danny promises to tone down the sergeant behavior and be more reasonable when it comes to making rules.

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”.