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

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.