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Sorry if this has been brought up but I saw the trailer for fuller house and in the background of a quick shot was Gary Griffin and Randall Kirsch.. Could they be part of Jesse and The Rippers or could Mike and Bruce be stopping by..

Fuller Diaper.

I believe Gary & Co. are in the opener...

Well, if anyone can reunite the Beach Boys, it's Stamos. I remember seeing the BB FH ep in 1988, and being surprised that Brian was with the guys. I thought he was estranged from his bandmates at the time - all of the interviews for his solo album indicated as much. I guess it was the lure of that vegetarian pizza that got him to drop by the Tanner house. So I picture this scenario: Uncle Jessie comes home from whatever his job is these days (the Rippers broke up because Jessie was f---ing with the formula), telling the family he has tickets to see the Beach Boys in concert. DJ and Stephanie rave about how great it was seeing them back in 88, but their own kids have no idea who the BB's are. Jessie decides this is not acceptable, and texts his good friend Dr. Love about dropping by the house while the guys are in town. Mike thinks that is a swell idea, and Bruce is by his side waving his hands and clapping "yes! yes! yes!", but Jessie wants the others to come by, too. Mike isn't so hot on that idea, but he says for his friend Jessie, he will try to make it happen.
The big day arrives, and Mike, Bruce, Brian, Al and David are sitting in the living room with the family, talking over good times. Mike suggests they call up the rest of the Rippers, and have a jam in the basement. Jessie tells him the Rippers are no more, and Brian says "Jessie, we put aside our differences to come over and sing with you; I want you to call the Rippers and have them come over here today, then we'll have world peace". Jessie isn't so sure, but suddenly the ghosts of Carl and Dennis appear. The sappy background music starts, as  Carl makes a passionate plea to Jessie worthy of Danny Tanner - he says to put  aside any lingering bitterness to his old band mates; Dennis is too busy checking out what fine ladies Stephanie and Michelle have turned into.
The show ends with the guys jamming in the basement studio - a chorus or two of "Barbara Ann" and "Surfin' USA", and then closing with their latest hit - "That's Why God Made Kokomo a Hit Record".

Someone asks Danny what he calls it.

"The Aristocrats."

The captain cameos as the new uncle Jesse figure. ;)

Help Me, Gibler?

So exactly who all has appeared as a member of Jessie And The Rippers?   I remember seeing Phil Bardowell and Chris Farmer.  Gary Griffin was on multiple times.

So.. emh.. a friend told me that on the first episode of Fuller House John Stamos & the whole cast sing "Forever" (~19:00) backed by Gary Griffin, Randall Kirsch and two other Rippers.

Years ago when I started secondary school, some 'colleagues' (and I use the term loosely) used to run into the toilets and if the crapper hadn't been flushed, would yell, "Full house." Only after checking this show out, did I know what they meant.

(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee92/mbriev16/Rippers_zps62yprd3v.jpg)

I'm someone who absolutely can sit and watch old "Full House" and enjoy it for what it is.

I actually watched the first episode of this new show, and it's jaw-droppingly awful. It's *that* much worse than even the original show.

Some of the reviews, where reviewers are clearly enjoying carving this new show up, are still pretty funny. One says something like "It's like a porn parody without the porn." Another said it makes "Girls Meets World" (the recent reboot of 90s sitcom "Boy Meets World") seem like "The Sopranos."

All kinds of awkward. The little precocious new kids are better actors than the rest of the cast.

A lot of recent reboot/remake/sequel stuff plays off of nostalgia to varying degrees, but this new show is 110% nostalgia with nothing else going for it. It will be interesting to see how long it survives on that count.

Seriously, even if you want wholesome, clean, family viewing, there are far better options.

I'm also absolutely convinced, given the nature of the first episode, that Stamos probably tried everything he could to get Mike Love on this show. I can only assume his touring schedule was just too packed.

No Olsens? No Full House.

Ha!  :-D

Any type of Beach Boys publicity no matter where it comes from is awesome! Forever!

As corny as the show is, I have a soft spot for Full House, and by extension, Fuller House... probably since I grew up on the original and even attended a 1992 taping (not of a BB episode, unfortunately). I thought the show was pretty much what one would expect, and eerily very similar in tone to the original. Nearly a carbon copy. If you like, or at least have fond childhood memories of the first show, you'll probably not dislike the new show. Especially the pilot. Doesn't mean there aren't a lot of cringe-inducing moments!

It's probably a better remake (just in terms of getting the vibe the same) if one were to compare some of the Brady Bunch reunion films/series to the original.

It was super odd, but also quite cool to see Forever being performed on a new, high profile TV series in 2016. I do have to thank Stamos for keeping Denny's song in the public consciousness.  It was also really bizarre to hear the Scott Weinger, the Steve character (Candace Cameron's character's boyfriend), the actor who himself was the original voice of Aladdin in the 1992 Disney film, singing part of Forever a second time, later in the episode.  Does that count as two separate performances for payment to Denny's estate? I wonder.

If you ever wanted to hear the voice of Aladdin sing a Dennis Wilson tune, look no further than the Fuller House pilot. Maybe that can be the answer to a trivia question, as I'm not sure we have other examples of famous Disney character voice actors singing Beach Boys songs, and certainly not Denny songs.

That said... I wonder if the lack of any Beach Boys original members in the episodes is due to the current state of affairs with the band/brand name. I would be quite surprised if Stamos *didn't* want, or at least put feelers out to the producers to get Mike & Bruce (at minimum) on the show. I would also be quite surprised if Mike & Bruce would have been invited to appear and actually turned it down. Scheduling is a non-reason. Mike will make time for an ELLA Award come hell or high water, and he'd make time for a national high profile appearance on Fuller House too, if it came along. Especially if he could have the spotlight as "The Beach Boys".

What I wonder is: Would Mike/Bruce have been able to come on the show as "The Beach Boys"? Would that have violated the terms of what Mike is allowed to do, which as far as I know is *just* tour under the name? Is representing the brand name in a scripted series the same? Was it too big of a legal hornet's nest? Because Brian was surely not gonna appear on the show with Mike in 2016 and just pretend everything is happy between them, of that we can be sure. Was it just a stalemate and the idea quashed?  

I am a 'full house' fan myself.  have the complete collection that I pull out occasionally and rewatch.
I just finished watching all of 'fuller house' and I thought it was great.
I think the magic is still there to carry on with its more updated adult humour.
We are not as prim and proper like the 80's were anymore.
love the dig at the 'olsens' hehe.
great to see the old cast come in and out, kinda wish they were more involved thou,
but understand the need for the current main characters.
DJ is still cute, and Steph, man, she is so hottttttt.
Even Gibbler is cute.  Dare is say it!  My the years have been kind to these gals!

When is Stamos going to sing "Heaven"? Might as well pay tribute to the other fallen Wilson brother.

https://youtu.be/GcrIZPErvCE

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I'm not going near that show with a 10 foot pole unless Bob Saget gets to swear like a sailor.

Whoa Baby, Stephanie Tanner......Have Merrrrcy

just finished watching all 13 episodes! Very good! Hope they make more episodes! Any type of Promotion of the beach boys is good!

The myriad of discussions on this board of whether the Stamos/Full House imagine hurt or hindered their career suggests it's an open question at the very least.

Appearing on "Hard Copy" and "A Current Affair" in the 90s was technically coverage and press for the band too.

At this point, though, doing "Forever" on that show isn't even a BB reference. It was one of a myriad of self-referential things they're doing on this new show. I'm sure some viewers, especially the really young ones, don't even know it's a Beach Boys song anymore.

The new "Fuller House" show is just rather bland Disney Channel-style sitcom programming. The first episode was truly embarrassing, with literally several minutes eaten up with cheers for the cast just showing up on screen, and hackneyed callbacks to catch phrases from the old show. It's like they took one of those goofy Jimmy Fallon throwback sketches and turned it into a 13-episode season. As if the nostalgia and callbacks weren't obvious enough, they literally employ split-screens multiple times to club you over the head with the fact that they're literally doing a shot-by-shot copy of the original show.

I watched the second episode, and some of the embarrassing, insulting callbacks were gone. The second episode still literally recycles a plot from the original show though, to the point of the episode acknowledging it. What remains is the most bland of sitcoms that, if everything else had been the same but the title, would have never even made it to air, not even on Netflix.

I think the association with Full House is kind of a double edged sword. 

On one hand, it exposed a younger generation (I was born in 1980 so the first time I ever saw The Beach Boys was their 1988 FH appearance) to The Beach Boys.

On the other band, it was one of many many things the band did that didn't really help their image. 

Overall, I think the positive aspects (the added exposure) outweigh the negative. 

Did she have some kind of ...uh... enhancement?

Either that or the rest of her shrunk. 

I'll just chime in and mention how weird it is for me to hear the word "nostalgia" mentioned in tandem with the 1990's (which to me only seems like a couple of years ago). I was in my 20's when the original Full House was on and never had cause to watch it (which is why the whole "Beach Boys-on-Full-House-Oh-the-horror!" mentality never meant anything to me).

I did, however, watch "Charles In Charge"...mainly for Nicole Eggert, but that's a subject destined for the sandbox.

And then there's the predecessor - You Again, starring Jack Klugman. Searched for the clip in our archives, but to no avail. Here it is, from October 16, 1986.

Go to 2:55

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCHPlAwBVZE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCHPlAwBVZE)

lol I actually remember this show more than I do Full House, but don't recall The Beach Boys being on it. Thanks.

I've seen several discussions of when Brian's voice changed, but when did Mike's? 1986 and he already sounds like Rudolph with that black plug on his nose. When did that happen?

his nose was on 'the critical list'

Yeah, not a look that I like.

Not a fan of the enhanced Stephanie Tanner? 

How rude. 

Good tune to the end of the episode of You Again? Does anyone know if that was a working tune of the beach boys or was that just a little riff written for the show?

https://youtu.be/sHaU5_

It starts at 0:50 in the video

Prepare yourself. We're already into "2000s nostalgia." Netflix is already doing new installments of "Gilmore Girls", which went off the air in 2007.

A horror movie called Cabin Fever, which was released in 2003, has also just been remade. 

She looks fake.

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not a lot of separation, still not a bad image

I heard when the producers saw her, they almost called the show "Fuller Blouse." 

 ;D

I watched the first 20 minutes of the first episode and I feel unclean.

I have never liked that look. Why do women think they have to do that to themselves?

the opposite of 'no peer pressure'  :-\

Sorry, was just poking a little fun at the ridiculousness of it all. 

While we are all here kidding and laughing "Fuller House" has already been renewed for a second season.

It was a hit, but I don't know if the novelty is really sustainable. 

If the show makes it through an entire second season without The Beach Boys appearing on it whatsoever in any shape or form, I think it will prove my theory right, that there is some sort of legal BRI hornet's nest with how the band would be represented membership–wise on a scripted show in 2016.  All logic would point to the band being invited and happily appearing on the show, if it were simply an easy matter devoid of politics.

Have Mike and Bruce ever, in 18 years of touring, ever represented the brand name by appearing on a scripted show? Has it ever happened?  I know they have appeared on talk shows and whatnot, but I would think a scripted show might make a difference in the impression it might make on a viewer, who might that those two guys ARE the band, verses are simply a touring entity, whereas the actual band contains multiple more members who are estranged.

They could just have Mike do a cameo.  I remember one episode from the original show where Mike showed up to sing Be True to Your School for a telethon.   

Or, if M & B show up to visit the Tanners, they could say "Hey it's Mike and Bruce from The Beach Boys." 

I think the last BB appearance on scripted TV was Home Improvement with Mike, Bruce, Carl, Al, and Matt Jardine.  That had to be around 1995-1996. 

Maybe it's as simple as that, but on the other hand I'm not convinced it's necessarily quite that simple anymore in 2016 after the bitter, public fallout over who constitutes the brand name in what capacity. And things seem especially bitter nowadays in particular. I don't know how politics could *not* play into it.

Maybe Mike Love could appear as Mike Love, but not as Mike Love of the BBs. Considering how Al was treated when he tried to use the brand name himself, I'd imagine Mike would think such a scenario not unfair, right?  ::) Perhaps Mike could encounter a similar roadblock in a scripted show situation. I did find it a bit funny how "The BBs" weren't mentioned when Forever was played on the Fuller House pilot. The song was sung, twice even, but no scripted mention of its origins. That seemed a tad weird to me.

Is it just a coincidence that in nearly twenty years, there have been no appearances by "The BBs" in any scripted show?

Other than the fact that M&B can't record new music as The Beach Boys, I'll admit, I don't know the full ins and outs of the agreement. 

I don't think Mike and/or Bruce would run into any issues appearing as members of The Beach Boys.  But I also doubt the two of them would walk into the Tanners' house and have them go "Hey, its The Beach Boys!!!!" 

And Stephanie would say "Big boys!"

And Mike would reply "Big............" OH nevermind. 

Fans of the original show, Beach Boys fans or not, would say, "Hey, there were five of them last time.  What gives?" 

It would be particularly excruciating if legal restrictions would make the dialog read like "Hey, it's (members of the touring version of) The Beach Boys!"

I could see the prospect of a cameo understandably being avoided entirely by the writers if even a hint of that kind of restriction was floated.

I would think that the casual audience would probably be wondering where Brian Wilson is surely, especially since his profile is probably higher than the other living members combined. Particularly post Love & Mercy.

I would think so, and I highly doubt Mike and Bruce would show up at the Tanner house with Foskett, Ike, and Scott Totten. 

Are we talking about Donald Trump again?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XELGorOpBM

At 2:06 in this video we see that just Mike and Bruce are present in this episode.  I think it's been pretty common in the show for various permutations of the band to show up out of the blue, so I don't think it would be all that alarming if just Mike and Bruce show up in an episode of Fuller House.

Yeah, but remember... that was during Carl's lifetime, back before the sh*t hit the fan in terms of how the band was represented. In 1992, Mike was allowed to release an album as "The Beach Boys" without Brian's involvement; not so today. Since 1998, and particularly since post C50, the identity of the band and who gets to "be" the band has certainly been on the minds of the members and their lawyers.

I don't think that a nearly 30-year old past appearance, during a time period when all living members of the band were welcome to publicly represent themselves as members of the band (but only some just happened to make that appearance) can be compared to what is likely a far more sticky situation today.  Again... we *might* perhaps have Mike and/or Bruce appearing on Fuller House next season, but if it happens, I think there would be some legal hoops for them to clear first... and I'm not convinced Netflix would just approve the writing and filming of a scene without being *very* careful about how M&B and their band status are mentioned. I'd be surprised if it happens at all.

Yeah I for sure agree with you about their possibly being a lot of behind the scenes muckery going on.  But I was more speaking about how things would look from the perspective of your average joe watching Fuller House who know's next to nothing about the band.  They probably wouldn't be really suspicious if only two guys showed up claiming to be the Beach Boys. 

Yeah, I don't entirely buy in to this. The original run of the show had 192 episodes, of which, some iteration of the Beach Boys showed up 3-4 times (if my memory serves me). I've only watched the pilot of Fuller House, but with Stamos essentially just making cameos, I don't see as big a tie to the show for the Beach Boys. Plus, the Beach Boys had a little more heat in the late-80s, early-90s. Short of another reunion with the surviving members, I just don't see it. Would it surprise me? No, but I don't think it is as simple as them not appearing equals Mike & Bruce not legally being able to do so.

I think your average Joe might not know... but then again, the audience of a streaming show that beams into many millions of homes would probably spark more talk and conversation (and thus potential controversy), being that a scripted show is something that becomes far more immortalized and dissected, when compared to a relatively off-the-radar M&B tour in a casino or state fair. I'm not sure hat a Fuller House audience is as "hip" and "in the know" as a nerdier Big Bang Theory audience, but I do nevertheless think a good amount of people will watch Fuller House for ironic reasons - and those viewers might raise more questions about BBs members in an appearance.

If not for politics, it really should be a no-brainer that the BBs would appear on the show. Undoubtedly. If a 2nd season BBs appearance doesn't wind up happening, their non-appearance would be highly unlikely to occur for reasons other than the current state of the band.

I'm sure a discussion of this sort would happen (or has happened) in the Full House writers' room, in the event that Stamos lobbied for M&B to make an appearance. The current state of the band is not going to be a non-issue, should a BBs appearance be floated as an idea. It's something they'd have to contend with, one way or another. Whether or not Mike & Bruce are outright legally "barred" from appearing as "The Beach Boys" on the show, it may simply be that the state of the band/brand is just not an attractive/appealing thing to want to touch with a 10-foot pole, from the producers'/writers' perspectives.

While there's always a chance that the show writers have zero interest in bringing the band on at this time, I really tend to doubt that. They sung Forever on the pilot of the new show (twice), remember, and backing members of various BB incarnations were anonymously present. The writers are reaching back into their bag of tricks to pull out ALL the stops for references to things that viewers would fondly remember from the old show. Especially since the Olsen twins aren't there, they are finding ways to compensate, and they play that nostalgia card very heavily.

I just can't see the BBs not logically being a part of that, or at least not being an idea floated around... and I also find it hard to believe that Mike wouldn't bug Stamos to try and make something happen, and that Stamos wouldn't thus lobby hard to the show's writers/producers (of which Stamos, himself, is one!) 

Mike's not a guy who would want to miss an opportunity like this, especially seeing as the show is an apparent hit. Mike has clung to Stamos for decades; you think Mike wouldn't want to generate more Stamos/Beach Boys press if he could? Just because the band only appeared 3-4 times (I'm not sure of the exact number either), the fact that Stamos never went away from The BBs and has stayed on for decades has only served to drill the Full House/BBs connection deeper into the public consciousness, and that cemented connection is what makes a BBs non-appearance all the more surprising.

In theory, a BBs appearance done right would generate a bunch of applause by the audience at the taping, and be an opportunity for the show to have a viral nostalgia moment. The thing is, I'm not sure there's a way to do a 2016 "BBs" appearance and do it "right", and I think the writers and producers would find themselves in a bit of a quandary.

Stamos really is pretty tight with these guys

http://www.people.com/article/john-stamos-fuller-house-dating-mystery-woman

I feel like this article is relevant

http://www.theonion.com/article/that-full-house-episode-where-they-meet-the-beach--2293

So we have Girl Meets World and Fuller House...can a revival of the Wonder Years be far behind? Of course it would be set in the 80's, so we could see Kevin's son walking his girl home - the new Winnie - as Getcha Back or Kokomo plays.

https://youtu.be/jYZPuji6Mk4

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Well, my apologies. This certainly seems like confirmation that there have been talks:

Q I know you had a couple of appearances in "Full House." Have you had any contact from "Fuller House" to have another go at a short, little cameo?
A Yeah, well, we're working on it. We're hoping to do that, I think it'd be fun to do, following up on what we'd done before. We'd love to do it, I've even spoken to the fellow who came up with 'Full House' originally … Jeff Franklin. He's directed some of the more current stuff on 'Fuller House,' so there've been conversations about it. John's a big Beach Boys fan, he loves coming out and playing drums with us. We backed him up on the song, "Forever," when Uncle Jesse got married on "Full House." That was the song he sang, and we did the backgrounds on it. And he did another version of it on "Fuller House," he just told me.

Source: http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/entertainment/article/Q-A-Beach-Boys-talk-TV-touring-and-The-Beatles-6869179.php

The first episode is awful , but gets better after that. John Stamos is not one to f the regular characters any more so I he Beach Boy thing probably won't happen.

'Not one to f the regular characters?' A typo that has a completely different meaning! I meant John is not one of the main characters.

Unsurprisingly, Mike wants in on the Fuller House series, and he's making efforts to make it happen. If it doesn't pan out in season 2, I would find it suspicious if band politics were not a reason for that. There's no good reason for it not to otherwise happen.

Maybe Mike wants to be on Fuller House, but Fuller House's handlers won't let it happen on his terms. 

Ha.

Sorry, I couldn't resist. 

Maybe Mike wants Full House (and Fuller House) creator Jeff Franklin alone in a room to co-write the episode without any interference.  ;D  After all, it seems Mike's in a real writing mood.

I'm sure Jeff Franklin would welcome this. 

But, Mike is always bringing up Jodie Sweeten's drug abuse in the past.  And about how he never got credit for writing the famous "Let's order a vegetarian pizza" line from the 1988 episode. 

This board is making me laugh today.

 :lol

I believe there is nothing wrong with them appearing as Mike Love and Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys

IIRC, there was a Full House episode where Mike and Bruce guested and sang a couple songs with Uncle Jesse.

they did.  they were in the basement, where they sang 'forever'.  Then they joked about Elvis doing a surfin song.
Stamos then puts on the Elvis voice and says 'if everybody had an ocean, across the USA'.
Mike breaks into their acoustic version of 'Surfin USA'.
I watched that over and over on VHS.

I think that's the one where Mike, somewhat creepily, brushes DJ's hair during the "bushy bushy blonde hairdo" line. 

I don't remember the scene all that well, but I doubt it was creepy. I think our culture has gotten a bit oversensitive about any fun, affectionate moment like that from an adult to a child. If Mike was eyeballing any female on that show, it would have been Rebecca.

I don't remember it as creepy, he touched her long hair to emphasise the 'bushy blonde hair' for a couple of seconds.
but in this day and age, who knows? why not throw a law suit out there and find out  ::)

Maybe I'm mis-remembering it.  I haven't seen that particular episode in many many years. 

As far as the legalities of billing a potential Mike appearance on this "show", he and/or Bruce could certainly say they're "of the Beach Boys." The only case I've heard where someone couldn't say that was a period of time in the early 2000s when there were temporary injunctions preventing Al from using that sort of verbiage, and eventually that ridiculously unfair injunction was lifted, by 2005 if not earlier.

But keep in mind that Mike's touring band does numerous TV appearances as simply "The Beach Boys", so if Mike actually performed live on the show (with or without some iteration of the touring band), he could probably simply call it "The Beach Boys."

The entire oeuvre of Beach Boys-related appearance on the show haven't exactly been examples of great acting or high art, nor of accuracy (Wait, Bruce Johnston is in control of granting rights for "Uncle Jesse" to record "Forever?" Number one, Bruce doesn't control the publishing, and number two, ANYBODY can cover the song as it has already been published).

The moment I saw the five hundred awkward callbacks to the old show contained solely in the pilot to "Fuller House", including a crapped out lip-synched performance of "Forever" 15 minutes into the first episode, I knew the only thing good thing that would come out of it would be that maybe Mike Love would finally find something he wants to do (appearing on "Fuller House") that he can harp on instead of "getting Brian alone in a room" to write.

Oh, but I think the guys are missing a golden opportunity - as they did with Baywatch years ago, Brian and Mike could write a theme song for the new show.

I'd be willing to bet, should scheduling along it, that Mike and / or Bruce show up at some point.

For a show that's very reliant on callbacks and nostalgia, it would only make sense to do a big callback to one of their most memorable episodes.

I hear Bob Dylan's penciled in to appear...

Maybe he can teach them the Wilbury Twist.

an appearance by Mike & Bruce wouldn't do any harm to the 'Beach Boys' name in regards to the newer younger generation.
Us oldies have our reasons against it, but in terms of keeping the name and the music out there, it would be a good thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dor96YnM_qo
let's not forget that Stamos has kept 'forever' alive with this

Yeah, as cheesy as Full House was, it did help introduce a new generation to The Beach Boys. 

Looks like we might be getting a Mike and Bruce cameo next season!

(http://i.imgur.com/QHQnLVm.png?1)

(Lloyd corrects “signing” to “singing” in the comment section)

My prediction is that "Fuller House" doesn't last long enough to have Mike & Bruce or anybody else guest star on it.  Seriously, it's truly horrific!

Yes, I tried watching a few clips posted on youtube, and it was awful. For someone expecting the warm and fuzzy feeling of the original show, it was quite a rude jolt. Lots of crude humour, and mostly, just plain unfunny.

Believe it or not, it appears to have been a big hit:

https://theringer.com/netflix-fuller-house-ratings-a325e1cab531#.rjebc7t6b

Awsome news! I hope Mike And Bruce are on next season! Great show and will be much better seeing The Beach BOys on it again!

But Mike and Bruce ARE the Beach Boys. Maybe they can plug their new single, Barbara Ann's Goin' to Kokomo b/w Caroline, Yes.

Don't forget Til I Live (the Mr. Positivity super, ultra, extra mega-positive lyric version)!
 

I'm cork in a bottle of wine,
doncha know I'm feelin' fine...

Thats what i said "Great show and will be much better seeing The Beach Boys on it again!"

So, apparently Season 2 of Fuller House has now been released on Netflix. I have yet to watch it (maybe I'll make it through an episode or two), but from the looks of it, no Beach Boys. No Mike and/or Bruce whatsoever. It's legitimately surprising. Looking on IMDB at the episode list, it seems the Fuller House writers even wrote the boy band The New Kids On The Block into an episode of this season.

I wonder what happened? I thought I read an interview with Mike where he talked about a Fuller House Season 2 appearance being in the works? Or did I imagine it? I know there was a tweet (posted earlier in this thread) implying Mike and Bruce were hanging with the Fuller House team. Wouldn't Mike and Stamos have lobbied hard for an appearance? Could this have been a legal maneuver where Mike & Bruce are only allowed to tour as "The Beach Boys", but not appear as "The Beach Boys" as actors in a written show? If that's not why this happened, I'm curious as to what the reason is. Maybe Netflix thinks the show's audience doesn't want/care to see a band with members in their 70s? I think it's got to have something to do with either Beach Boy band politics or ageism. Not sure what other reason there could be.

There was a huge (70%) ratings drop between Seasons 1 and 2, so I wouldn't hold my breath for a Season 3.

I would guess it's due mainly to Mike's touring schedule (and the apparent fact that they seemingly *rushed* a second season into production to strike while it was hopefully still hot), and also that the huge nostalgia factor that is leading people to watch this awful show in the first place has more to do with 80s nostalgia than people from the BB's era. True, the BB's via "Kokomo" and being on the original run of the show are part of the 80s nostalgia, but I'm guessing people who grew up in the 80s are inclined to be into "New Kids on the Block" and other stuff that was more part of youth culture in the 80s (witness the insane success of the new "NES Classic Edition" videogame console).

That crossed my mind too, yet I'd be pretty surprised if Mike wouldn't have made some Hurclean efforts to switch a few shows around if the opportunity arose for a Fuller House appearance. 

I'm sure Stamos and Mike would love to make it happen, and they shoot the thing in LA. It wouldn't seem to require much; a cameo could seemingly be shot in a day.

Hopefully lower ratings (to the degree they can be measured on Netflix) will put this show to bed as quickly as possible. I can actually sit down and watch the original "Full House" episodes, especially the early seasons, despite objectively knowing they're awful. But this new show is far, far, far worse.

What they really needed to save it was an Olsen Twins appearance. Those gals forgot their roots, and are now too cool for school (and too cool for Coulier!)

 I can't believe they made a second season of this disaster.  Fuller House is one of the worst shows ever.

Maybe Mike and Bruce are waiting for an Olsen's return. Or they need a comeback hit to propel them into the charts again.

I didn't mind 'Fuller House', but being into the nostalgia of the original show,
I can appreciate it.  As a stand alone show, it really would be pretty pathetic.
I enjoyed watching the first season, but it wouldn't be on my top 10 list of
things I'd wanna rewatch in a hurry.

I've just heard from a friend who watched Season 2 that they talk about the song "Forever" in the season finale. The guys are arguing, and Danny says to Jesse "my favorite song is not Forever", and Jesse is dismayed by the comment.

Strictly for nostalgia, I watched the first episode.  But, once you get back the "hey, it's those people I watched on TV 20 years ago" feeling, I thought it wore off pretty fast. 

"Heard from a friend" - nice try...

I thought someone might call me out on that :) But honestly, I ain't kidding! I confess to having watched Season 1, but I have not seen a frame of Season 2.

Truth is, whilst I could imagine a modern TV Show namechecking The Beach Boys (or maybe even Brian Wilson for a bit of indie cred), I doubt many TV watchers would give two craps about a guest appearance by Mike Love and Bruce Johnston, in 2016. They just don't have that type of starpower. Even on Fuller House.

It would make sense on Fuller House since that show lives and breathes on nostalgia, and the Beach Boys guest appearances on the original show is one of the more memorable aspects of it. 

Might be more appropriate this time around to have a visit from Wilson Phillips.

Except Wilson Phillips never appeared on the original show, but Mike and Bruce both have. 

"Fuller Diaper"