Fuller House

[lostbeachboy]

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..

[MikestheGreatest!!]

Fuller Diaper.

[Steve Latshaw]

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

[Lonely Summer]

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".

[the captain]

Someone asks Danny what he calls it.

"The Aristocrats."

[SMiLE Brian]

The captain cameos as the new uncle Jesse figure.

[lostbeachboy]

Help Me, Gibler?

[acedecade75]

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.

[STE]

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.

[Smilin Ed H]

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.

[Marty Castillo]

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.

[HeyJude]

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.

[Lonely Summer]

No Olsens? No Full House.

[Aum Bop Diddit]

No Olsens? No Full House.

Ha! 

[The_Beach]

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

[CenturyDeprived]

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?  

[bringahorseinhere?]

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!

[Lonely Summer]

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

[RickD]

https://youtu.be/GcrIZPErvCE

[sockittome]

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[Alex]

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

[KDS]

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

[The_Beach]

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

[HeyJude]

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.

[KDS]

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.