How Rude, Tanneritos!"Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (in 22 Minutes)" Recap Season 3, Episode 3
Jesse and Becky are OVER?! It doesn't take long for this couple to break up (and get back together) in the span of 22 minutes, hence the title... Though some may think Andrea and Jodie are a little too hard on Jesse, they've experienced men like this in real life and need to share from personal experience!
Don't miss the other big milestones this week: Stephanie loses a tooth! To her surprise, the Tooth Fairy is more generous than anticipated! Plus, the Tanner's ever-changing backyard is starting to remind us of Narnia... Hear it all on this week's episode of How Rude, Tanneritos!
Hey, fan, Rito's this episode will be discussing the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus. So if you have little ones who believe that are listening to this episode with you, you might want to skip through certain parts.
Oh my voice, I like my allergies? What did I sound? Still, it's gonna be the next several months as long as I live here in like southern California. It's this time of year is awful. Or to be fair, I did scream really loud at Celia's daughter's high school graduation to be part of it. Yeah, Harper graduated, and I went with Celia to the graduation, which I went to the middle to be's middle school graduation and then Harper's high school graduation back to back, like two days.
In a row.
And let me tell you, it's a lot of names. Yeah, but I was very glad to be there. But I definitely yelled a little bit loudly.
Well good, I'm sure Harper could hear.
You if from from she Ever, the guy in front of me was like, hey, I don't think she could hear you, And I was like I even moved to the like to the isle of the stands because I knew I'm such I know, I'm such a loud yeller, old yeller that I didn't want to be standing like right next to or behind in someone and yell that loud because that would make someone angry. So I did at least go to like the isle, and even Celia. Celia didn't realize I'd walked like ten feet that way and she heard just someone yelling for Harper and was like, who is that crazy? Oh, oh, it's Jody. It's just Joy And that was just when they walked in, Like that was just when I just saw Harper. I was like yeah, and she was like, oh my god. Yeah. She was like, Auntie, Jody's gonna be very proud of you. You worked hard.
Oh that's so sweeteet.
And I yell. We yelled for me too. Zoe came with us. It was very early graduations. We had to be there at seven thirty am.
At least it's early in the day before the heat. Like our graduation ceremonies are always the hottest day of the year at five PM in the direct sun, and it is like Lord of the Flies out there. You have to bring cooler every water, you have to bring an umbrella. But then people yell at you to put down your umbrella anyway.
Yeah, but it was it's been a week of graduations and all manner of things, and apparently I have lost my voice.
That's okay, that's it. You sound normal to me, so this is your.
Yeah, wow, well that sounds so you're saying I sound this terrible normal.
No, I'm saying you don't sound terrible. Although when you got closer to your microphone, you sounded a little bit like sexy phone.
If I have Hello, No, I have to back off the mic a little bit, otherwise it's going to sound like someone's gargling gravel in the microphone.
It's true. We don't want that panor which.
I you know, that might also be adding to it. I should stop doing that.
From regarding with ground flat.
Yeah, it's so hard, you know, It's just it really polishes my teeth.
Okay, and your epiglottis you're wait, no, you're hangy ball. What is it? What did you call it? Your hangy ball?
The hangy ball thing?
Of course?
Oh, it's your your your courage you're oh, hold on, well is it?
No, it's somebody someone corrected us.
It's I think it might betis I think.
Okay, the epiglottis is some somewhere back there.
I think it's I think that might be what it is.
But the hangy ball of courage or what hangy ball is, that's what it is.
There we go or uvula, uvula uvula. Well, what the hell is the other thing that we said epiglottis? I don't know that.
Maybe it's like the little.
Something in your soft palate. Oh, the epic is that like the little where you swallow?
Yeah, I wonder if it's back by the swallowing mechanism. It's been so long since I took it's biology.
It's so oh god. It's such a good thing that we're actors and not doctors.
This is why we don't teach.
This is why, right, although to be fair, we've also never played doctors on TV, so we wouldn't know these things. And it also has been it's been since high school since I took anatomy, so yeah, these are these are so yeah.
Anyways, that was a tangent. Wow, how did we get on you?
Yes, I know that's it. I give up. I'm going home. I don't know what's happening. Okay, Oh wait, I am home.
Okay, well we could, we could recap an episode.
I mean, that's we could, you know, I feel like, why not we should? And I again, I have that thoughts on this episode.
Oh, I got thoughts too. I feel like I always have the same thoughts on all these episodes too.
I know, I'm like, I got the same thought. I guess, but you know, well you'll figure out what it is pretty quickly.
But yeah, okay, well let's let's do it.
But it was just so I literally, I literally when it's when this episode started happening, and what I went, Oh, no, here we go.
Well, okay, I'm gonna save my thoughts.
Let's let's see.
Listen, let me start the show officially here, let's start the show. Welcome back to How Rude Tan Rito's.
I'm Andrea Barber and I'm Jody Sweeten.
And today we're discussing season three, episode three, breaking up is hard to do in twenty two minutes? Is that really the title? That wasn't the title of blou So that's the little.
Yeah, I believe that's the I think that's the full title.
Oh funny, that's hysterical.
They're making reference to, Yeah, the sitcom being twenty two minutes.
Right, that's hysterical. It originally aired October sixth, nineteen eighty nine, and it goes little something like this when Jesse and Rebecca hit a rough patch in their relationship, DJ and Stephanie try to fix things between them, Your Little Meddlers, Medley Kids. It was directed by Billy Fausta Coffee Coffee, and it was written by Jeff Franklin. We have two guest stars this week. We have Bobby Eeks. I hope I said that correct, as Diane yep Okay, best known for her work on soap operas, two soap operas All My Children, where she did six hundred and six hundred and sixty episodes.
Oh My God.
The Bold and the Beautiful where she did one thy two hundred and five episodes. What that soap opera life?
You do one a day? Well, I know that's true. One a day. That's years, that's always the thing. It sounds like, right, that's two that's two years, six hundred and something episodes. Basically, yeah, oh no, like it's what it sounds like. I've been here forever, right.
It's been eighty four years, right, it's.
Yeah, exactly. And they're like no, I just I worked on it for like, you know, two to three years.
Yeah, yeah, no, that it's so impressive. But you're like, yeah, that's soap life. You do a lot of it. But they don't really take breaks, I think except Christmas Day or like the bank episodes for holidays. But yeah, they don't take many breaks. It's it's grueling, very grueling. So my hat is off to her. And next we have Aaron Brownstein who plays Lenny, the little redheaded kid in the Sandbox. And Aaron became a television writer and producer. He stopped acting after this one role, as full house tends to do, and he has worked on Santa Clarita, Diet about a Boy, and he's co creator of a show called Miss twenty fifty nine or twenty fifteen.
Great, yeah, good for him, I know, good for him.
Aaron pivoted to writing and producing and I'm very proud of him.
Well, he was named after he was named after Lenny. Yeah, so he became a his.
That's would you just get that? Yeah? Well not that he I figured it was he was named after Lenny, that Lenny was our writer.
He's not actually named after Lenny, but the show he was, so I'm going to say his name is Lenny and he's carrying on the tradition. I love that.
Oh man, I just got some warm fuzzies. All Right, we're gonna have to get in touch with Aaron and tell him that we're very impressed since it's been thirty six years. Okay, let's get into the show. We start with our teaser. In the living room, Danny and Michelle are playing baby basketball. Danny dunks on Michelle as she attempts to guard him. Michelle tells her dad it's her turn. She seizes her opportunity by running through Danny's legs. Danny picks her up and flies her around the room before allowing her to shoot the ball into the hoop. Danny excitedly points at his daughter and says, in your face, and Michelle repeats the line back at him with her little lisp, in your faith. So cute. Danny adds NBA action, it's Michelle enthusiastically concludes fantastic. Danny laughs and kisses Michelle on the cheek.
Very cute. That was very cute. Yeah, Although I will say that was the tallest baby basketball hoop I've ever seen in my life. Yeah, that was like at least like they actually right. I was like, it's a very large baby.
Yeah, it's three feet taller. They're usually as tall as the kid.
Yeah, I wonder I was like, is there is there like an extension? Like did they make it taller because Bob is so tall? Tall?
I bet you, I bet the otherwise his.
Looked weird in the frame, right, yeah, exactly. Probably couldn't get his head in the frame while holding the show with the basketball thing, it probably looked weird.
So, yeah, that's a that's a good catch. I didn't notice that, but yeah, I just think that, right.
I don't think they make them that high. Then you're just playing regular basketball.
Then you got to lift the kid up every time make a basket. Yeah.
Right.
So next door in the kitchen, Joey walks in announcing that the sandbox is ready for Michelle's playdate. Danny shows off the platter of celery sticks that he made for her.
Friends, to which.
To which Joey responds, m Celery sticks every kid's favorite. Every Halloween. I would head straight to the house that gave out celery Come on, Danny, no peanut butter, no raisins on a log, peanut butter, a little bit something. This is a classic, was a little I was.
I was actually a little shocked by Danny's lack of preparedness. I feel like he's usually more uh on the ball and sort of has things like a like a spread, you know what I.
Mean, he would at least throw some carrots in there, or you know, cucumbers and something just but yeah, just plain celery sticks. But the jacks, I don't know.
Celery isn't celery is it's stringy and yeah.
It's like crunchy air. It's like crunchy again.
Well and actually it's like it takes more calories to eat it than it and it actually is worth nutritionally, I believe something like that. It's like the chewing exerts more energy than the celery is even worth. Okay, that's hysterical, I don't I mean, I don't know if that's factually true, but I'm gonna I'm saying it's close enough. Well, I'm sure that's a selling point, right, right, somebody weigh in is celery? Right? Is chewing celery burning more calories than it than it's than you're eating because it's just water threads you know it's.
Yeah, it's crunchy, crunchy water threads. Yeah, it tinted green.
Yeah.
Anyway, anyway, so Steph walks down the stairs attempting to talk, but the giant apple in her mouth is muffling her words. How did you do this? Did you actually have to hold it in your mouth? Like? Yeah, you just like took a bite and like held it with.
You just like took a bite and held it.
Oh wow, that's good because that's a pretty big apple for your tiny little you had such a tiny little head and a tiny little mouth.
I know, I just well, yeah, it's a very it's but no, I think yeah, I just had I mean I was already missing the tooth, so the other one I think was still pretty substantially in there. I could hook it on, you know.
Okay, So did they write this because you lost your tooth or.
I mean I would start yeah, I was starting to lose my front teeth, so I'm sure that they were like, oh, let's make it a storyline, got it?
So you just had no flipper in your mouth, a little fake tooth.
Yeah, they were like, oh, we're just gonna have a missing tooth.
Okay, great, And.
Then I'm sure it'll I don't know though. I think maybe they left it missing for a little while. And then I got like the flippers, which were the little fake removable teeth to keep continuity for when you're loosing teeth.
Flippers are were a big part of life as a child actor. Okay, So Steph has walked downstairs the apples in her mouth, and Danny asks Joey what she said, and Joey mimics these muffled noises. Danny pulls the apple out of STEP's mouth and asks her what she said. Steph clearly states I said, don't pull that apple out of my mouth. My loose tooth is stuck. Danny looks at the apple and points out, not anymore, it's in this apple. Am I the only one that couldn't see the apple or couldn't see the tooth in the apple?
No, because there was no tooth in the apple.
Ab well, not for reals. But wouldn't props have put a fake tooth in the apple?
No? No, No, we weren't that. We weren't that The attention to detailed. Truly, if you look at like old like older sitcoms, think about the way props and set deck and everything is done. Now I find it to be much more like thorough and detailed for sure, probably would or you would have gotten an insert on the like now you would have got like that was for me. I was like, oh, they're going to get an insert on the apple, but they did it.
Yeah, I was waiting for the insert.
Yeah, right, that's I think that's what it was. There was no insert on the apple that I feel like might be a little more present if in like the style of directing maybe today.
Yeah, Okay, so that wasn't a big thing back in the eighties. Billy Foster didn't.
Didn't or maybe they were just like, we're not gonna no, we're not doing this. That's stupid.
So anyway, so I didn't miss it.
You didn't miss anything. There was no tooth in the apple. Okay, you got it.
Yeah, so Steph is relieved. She was wiggling that tooth around in her mouth for a week, but it kept hanging on by this one little slimy, skinny string of tooth cuts.
What a description, right, but you know exactly what I'm talking about, and it's so gross. Everyone every human is like yep, one that where you're like oh go and it like and it's the last one that kind of hurts and you're like, ohh, I don't want to I just want to read. Yeah, that was usually the one that my dad would go, wait, wait American, it's just gonna look at it. Just want to then yank it. Yeah.
Oh yeah, that's just it's the grossest feeling. It's gross to look at, it's gross to feel it. Like I do not miss them.
It's gross and exciting all at once.
True.
Okay, And I will say also there was for losing a front tooth, there was a very minimal amount of any sort of bleeding, thankfully.
Good, okay, good.
I feel like with teeth loss there's always that's always that's usually the panic that kids lose their first few to and they're like, ah and because they're mountain, they're like, oh my god, I'm dying. You're like, you're not dying.
Yeah, it's just it gets blood.
I remember Bee was a little scared of losing her teeth because she thought like she didn't like the bleeding freaked her out. Oh really, it's like it's okay, it stops very quickly. Yeah, okay, yeah, all right, So well anyways, and then you grow out. Here we go.
Now it's a storyline. So Stuff announces that she's going to put the tooth under her pillow right now for the tooth Fairy. She tells them this thing is money in the bank and runs out of the kitchen. We cut too the living room. DJ enters through the front door and sees Steph running towards the stairs, and I love how you like swing wide as you're running to the stairs to like kill some times make for DJ to make her well, well.
What it was is I had to make sure and come close enough to the stairs that when you're doing the shot, you can see me running by and DJ coming in the door so that she says something to me. Otherwise I'm not in the frame, okay, And then she's just talking to no one.
Okay, that's it, because I was just like, why are you running? Like? This is not the past now, it's.
When you banana into a shot and you're like, I'm going to make a really weird angle so that I make it into frame just where I need to.
That must that must be So that must have been so weird for us as kids to get directions like that, which you followed it very well. But did you ever wonder like, why is the director having us do this? Like because we didn't understand I didn't understand camera shot you.
I guess I kind of got the I understood the point or maybe they explained it. I don't know, maybe, but I guess it was that was just always like I knew. I was like, oh, I just have to get closer so that what the camera needs to see is together.
Yeah that's true. By season three, like we knew what a two shot is and yeah, what a widing? Yeah yeah, we knew all those things. Okay, so maybe it wasn't weird, okay, anyways brilliant.
Or maybe I just took a really wide turn. I don't know. Maybe I'm making more out of it than than there was. Maybe I was just being stupid.
Oh it was intentional.
Why did you do it that way?
We were way over by the piano organ thing like you were. It was intentional, So yeah, you did very well. Uh So DJ calls out Stephanie and Steph responds DJ and runs back towards her sister. DJ exclaims, wait till you hear what happened to me, and Steph says, wait, till you hear what happened to me. Steph tells DJ that her tooth came out, and DJ says, that's nothing. I jumped my first fence today. Steph snaps back, big deal, you didn't jump it your horse?
Did you see my head? I went, why did you jump at a fence? And then I was like, oh the horse? I was like, what's she running away from? Why does DJ jumping fences? What's happening here? Yeah?
No, this this has been a through line like this is carried over from season two from that's.
Like, yeah, I should have picked up on that. I was a little more like, is DJ like she like steals something and she's running or what happened? Like why is she running jumping a fence?
Yeah?
She was like oh no, but that's my brain. No.
I'm sure other people felt that too. They should have said I jumped a fence with rocket the horror or something. That should have been some sort of clarification. But that's what I guess.
Then that would kill the joke of you didn't jump at your horse?
Did oh? Yeah? This this was you said this? So seriously You're just like, I'm like, this is the Janice sweetened sarcat like right here, like I can see exactly where this comes from, and I love it. So DJ hits her right back. So you didn't lose your tooth. Your gums did kind of a week come back, and.
I was like, that's a comeback. It's technically there's still my gums. Yeah, you know what I mean, it's still attached to my person.
It's still on your person.
That horse could jump that fence with or without you.
So true, so true. All right, so Stephanie, Stephanie won DJ zero. Right should the comebacks this week? The girls run up to their room together and Becky enters through the front door, yelling, come on, partner, mosey on in here. Jesse staggers in, bow legged and covered in mud. I just love John's physical comedy gets better and better.
I was gonna say, here we are again, John with the physical comedy. He really it's as I've grown older, I just see how much the Dick Van Dyke and Jerry Lewis and Dean Martinette, like all of these old comedians had such an influence on John.
I never remembered him being this good at physical comedy. I knew he's a funny actor. But I didn't. I just don't remember these comedic well. I never had seen this episode before either, But I'm just like, wow, he is right exactly like I didn't. I didn't know he did this. Yeah, but he's so good the way he like swings his leg down the stairs. It's really really funny, fantastic work. John So Becky says to him, don't be a baby. You know you had fun. Jesse insists the horse had it in for him. He tried to be nice to the horse, but the horse thanked him by throwing him in the mud and laughing at him. Jesse tries to mimic the horses laugh, which kind of sounds like the Wicked Witch of the West, but he hurts his back in the process. Jesse asks Becky for a chair, and she slides a stool between his legs. I was impressive. Yeah, I'm like, I wonder how many times they had to rehearse that because it was great, great timing. Becky tells Jesse the next time they go riding, she'll get him a cute little pony, but Jesse thinks not. He admits, I had a little chat with my butt. There will be no more horseback riding. Becky tells him that's not fair because she always does everything he wants to do, like going to hear his band play. Jesse argues, well, yeah, but that's fun. Oh here we go? No?
Yeah, I was like, oh, here we go.
But Becky pushes back, well, I happen to think that riding a horse is fun. She begins to walk out of the room and Jesse tries to follow her, but he's still on this stool. After wincing in pain, he asks, you mean to tell me that horse riding is more fun than music. When's the last time you saw mister Ed play in front of fifty thousand screaming fans? Huh? Becky shoots back, and did Guns and Roses ever win the Kentucky Derby? These are just like this is so nineteen eighty nine, right, You're like, oh, yes, guns n' Roses?
Yes, right.
Jesse tells Becky if she doesn't want to go to the smash club tonight, then she should just skip it.
After a moment, I don't know why, and then I was like, Anne, done.
Right episode the episode, the end of the fight, right, okay?
Yeah? And then I was like, oh wait, no, we're gonna keep going. Okay, got it.
We're only on like minute two of the twenty two. I was like, okay, this is yeah. So Jesse asks her for a nice soothing BackRub, and Becky responds, Okay, I could really use one, and she sits in front of him on the stool.
I do love Becky. Becky, She's just just a check.
She's the best. Sure. Next, were in the backyard. Joey is telling a story to Michelle and her friends while they sit in the sandbox.
As Joey suddenly appearing sandbox.
Yeah, you know, the shape shifting backyard, the shape shift in the box.
Suddenly we've got a giant sandbox and seven hundred pounds of sand. Yeah you know that have somehow made it into the backyard.
Just another day at the at the full house at the right. Yeah, As Joey makes spaceship noises. None of the kids look impressed.
He was impressed.
I was.
I wrote down like Dave's noises, Yeah, they're so cool. I love his little Jetson's noises.
Now the kids, the kids weren't buying it, but which is like He's he would be a hit with the preschool set.
You know, like with all the voices, this was it's true target audience.
I think, yeah, yeah, so okay, But for whatever reason, these kids aren't impressed with it. Danny comes out and he tells the kids he has something that they are going to love. One kid named Lenny pleads no more. Celery serious, Oh I love this kid already. I just love him. Danny hands out sandbox toys for the kids. Joey hands a toy to Lenny, but Michelle grabs it from him and says, my toy. Joey reminds Michelle not to be selfish. Danny stands up for his daughter, saying, his sweet Michelle was just informing this little sand crab that that's one of her favorite toys. He proceeds to hand Lenny a new toy, and Michelle grabs it from him, again, saying my toy.
Dan.
Danny disregards Michelle's selfishness as just something that happens in families. No one knows why it happens. So Joey grabs Danny's mini broom and offers it to Lenny. Before the little boy can take it, Danny grabs it and emphasizes that it's his. He realizes his selfish behavior and sheepstly, sheepishly gives the broom to Lenny, asking him not to bend any bristles.
I remember when my kids went through this. Yeah, don't mean they still go through it with each other. That's mine. You know, they will fight to the death over a lip gloss.
Yeah, but it's a tough pre school set.
What was the what did they say for the rules for toddlers? What's mine is mine? And what's yours is mine?
Too? Oh? Yes, very accurate.
Yeah, yeah, or toys that are laying on the ground. I either am coming back to that or I just haven't started playing with it yet. But it's mine.
Inside the mind of a preschooler, yep.
Right, yep. And and I find there are a lot of people that never quite outgrow that mentality. True.
You can tell the adults that grew up never the ones that were raised by Danny Tanner, never correcting their selfish.
They're just really self Yeah. Yeah, finding a lot of them on the world, now, okay, but yeah, it's uh yeah, it's interesting, the toddler mentality of like all of it's mine. Everything I did, I looked at it, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine. They're like the little seagulls from Nemo. Mine, Ye, mine mine exactly.
No, they are they it's it's just a phase they have to grow out of too. You know. It's hard to it's hard to be parent that, but the Tanners are trying. Next, we're in the kitchen and DJ is wiping down the table as Steph walks over. She tells her big sister that she's been thinking, which prompts DJ to say, uh oh, Steph truly, Steph continues, is a dangerous pastime. You never you never know what's going to come out of Steph's mouth.
Whenever I walk up to anyone and go, you know, I've been thinking, it's watch out, just watch out.
But Steph continues. She says, Santa Claus works one night a year and always gets milk and cookies. But the Tooth Fairy works every night and all she gets is a sad full of old teeth.
Patriarchy in action.
Steph, this is actually very logical, Like this makes sense, very true. I'm proud of Stephanie. She's like, wait, where's the equality here? You know, the tooth Fairy.
Deserves she's working every day, yep, and he gets all the now.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, maybe it's because the tooth Fairy doesn't want to get cavities. So maybe you should have left her celery instead of cookies, because that would not have rotted her teeth. She's a big fan of.
She's got ample teeth and make dentures out of She could figure it out, you know what I mean. She care about cavity, she could just pop a new one in.
Yeah, it's true. She's got a bag, a bag full of them.
That's why there was a horror movie actually made about the tooth Fairy because it is a little creepy when you think about someone going around with a bag of teeth. Yeah, well, Felicity was tearing for a normal person and you were like, here, look at this bag of teeth. I have people be like, that's strange. It's strange, and grow put on fairy wings and all of a sudden, everyone's like, hey, cool, oh creep in my room.
Yeah no, my kid. Felicity would not. She never put her tooth, never put a tooth under her pillow, because she was terrified of this little creature flying around her room. And I'm like, okay, I'll support that. That's fine. Yeah, she never I never had to pay for her teeth, so I did.
And there were occasionally times the Tooth Fairy was very busy and fell asleep or overlooked it, and I was like, oh, she must have been really backed up on duties that night. I'd bet she'll come tomorrow and then she would also have to leave a note. But that was what busted me eventually, was Zoe realized that the notes from the Tooth Fairy and the notes from Santah looked oddly similar.
Oh no, she got on wow, yeah, wow.
She was like she literally had two notes and she was like, she's.
Like handwriting analysis, Like, yeah, for real, at like nine, why did the Tooth Fairy and Santa write?
And I was like, okay, are you ready for some truth?
Yeah, that's a yes, that's that's she's too smart. She's she's always been too smart.
But wow, I'm gonna take this to a professional handwriting analysis.
That's impressive.
Okay, back to the recap, back to full house.
Yes, right, So Steph is taking it upon herself to leave the Tooth Fairy milk and cookies. She tells DJ, don't try to stop me. I've made up my mind. End of story, case closed, good night, and good luck. She's just very Steph has feelings about this, like she is serious about this tooth.
Well, she's probably used to DJ being like, I have some thoughts and Stef's like, don't even I'm done as yeah yeah, yeah.
So Steph heads up to bed and DJ size so young and yet so strange. I never believed in the tooth Fairy or Santa, did you like as a kid? Yeah, well, Sherry Barber, oh my god, yeah, oh Sherry Barber didn't. She wasn't a fan. She's she thought it was like lying to kids.
That was that Bee's dad was like, that was like, well, I'm not going to lie, and I was like, yeah, we are, like and what my thing was there is a limited amount of time in your life where you get the opportunity to have the innocence of belief in something that is so out of the realm of possibility that I didn't want to steal that bit of innocence.
That's a great way to look at it.
That's you know, it's like, look, you get to like you you well, I guess some people like to continue believing in a lot of things, but it yeah, it was like, you get to, you know, believe in things like this as a kid. Yeah, magic, you know, Like I didn't want to take that, so oh.
Yeah, that's a great way to look at it.
I did.
I did this with my kids too.
We all lie to our kids about I was like, just to add it to that's life, kids, just like, yeah, that's life. Yeah.
I did the Sada stuff with my kids just because I'm like, they're hearing about it at school. I don't want them to. But no, Sherry Barber was like, it's lying and I want credit for the gifts that I give you. I don't want this random man to get that cedit tracks.
Yeah, Cherry Barber like that. No, we're not doing that, Scherry Barber's and I'm going to tell you why in a presentation, right yeah.
Yeah, I will be writing a dissertation on that.
I will be writing yeah yeah, yeah, well I will be uh disseminating it at our family meeting yea, and yeah I would like you all to take notes.
Yeah, very Sherry Barber. Okay, enough about the tooth fairy. Becky walks into the good.
We are just tangent all over the place today.
It's like two hour podcasts.
Sorry, folks, we're only recording one episode, but it took us just as long as we do when we record.
Two parts are like, get on with it, girls.
Yeah, Michael's like, I'm just cutting all the shit out anyway, it doesn't matter.
He'll leave it in.
He leaves it in. Well, it's part of her charm. That's what we do.
Like, nobody just wants to recap. They want our thoughts on it. That's why we're doing it.
So watch the show, Watch the show. Watch here are random yammerings anywhere else exactly this is and that's good for you. This is what we're here for.
Yep. Okay, So back to the show. Back to the shows for that intermission. Back from our commercial break. Does anyone need a potty break, like a snack break? Take it now?
Okay.
So Becky walks into the kitchen and DJ asks her if they can go riding next week. Becky agrees, and then she compliments DJ on how well she did today. Becky asks when did DJ decide to jump the fence and DJ admits, well, when the horse was about halfway over. See, Steph was right, It was all the horse, the horse, did it not?
DJ? Exactly, she just held long ago, right.
So Jesse walks in, happy to see Becky. He grabs her hand and says, the band doesn't go on till nine, so I figured we could get a bite to eat before we go. Becky says she's been thinking about what he said earlier, and she thinks he's right. Jesse responds, of course I was right. What did I say? She reminds him of what he said about her skipping the club, and Jesse says, Oh, he didn't mean skip it, skip it. He meant skip the argument, skip it. Becky responds, so you didn't mean it when you said you'd never go writing again. Jesse admits, Oh, no, I meant that. Jesse asks why she doesn't want to come to the club, and Becky admits is because he plays the same songs every time.
I get that. I've been with a musician. Sometimes you're like, hey, I don't want to hear this at all anymore. Yeah, Like that's totally Yeah.
That's a valid feeling. It is a valid feeling, and it's not offensive. That's just you know, it is what it is.
It is what it is. You play this songs every time?
Yeah, yeah, So Meanwhile, Joey has walked upstairs with his laundry basket and finds himself literally in the middle of this argument.
Oh worst timing ever. Dang it.
Becky tries to recruit Joey into the argument, and Jesse does the same, adding, come on, the smash club is fun, right, Joey. Becky says it's loud and smelly, and then sarcastically adds that the lady's room is immaculate. Jesse tells Joey to argue that Becky is wrong about the lady's room. Becky yells for Joey to tell Jesse she's right about it.
My god, Joey throw uping other people into their nonsense. Now whole family's getting in an argument because you too can't be mature enough to just go do your own thing for an evening.
Good lord, God, it's getting tedious and petty, and I'm just like, wow, this is here we go, Here we go. Joey awkwardly states I think I better just stay out of the lady's room, and he crosses off. Jesse is in disbelief that Becky doesn't want to come to the smash Club tonight.
Oh the arrogance. How dah you not want to come? I'm like, bro, And it's not like.
It's so an important, like it's it's it's not like it's his first time at this venue and it's a first performance and she's got to be the opening night. No, it's the same same damn show that he's always done.
So I feel like most of the time, like I actually tell my husband, like, you don't have to come to that. Don't worry about how it's fine, Just don't just it's yeah.
Yeah, no, it's true.
It's it's a lot, but I get. But Jesse and Becky, it was a different time. It was the eighties. There was more expectation. I guess you had to do everything together.
I don't know, I don't know. It's very codependent. But okay, so is everybody else in the full house. We're all codependent.
Well, right, look, this is we could break down the psychological profile of this entire household and family, but we won't. We'll save that for a right, and minis so we'll say, well, we'll save that for in like twenty minutes.
So suddenly Michelle talks to Jesse through the baby monitor, and she says uncle, Jesse, it's me, Michelle Tanner.
Also, baby monitors work one way, don't they?
No, they could work both ways. But where this is? Where did this baby monitor come from? Like? Hello, device, got work? Yeah, it's just like this is so awkward. And why is she introducing herself to her uncle with her first and last name like she's never.
Met since they do that, I don't know, because they do that sometimes they're being weird and silly. They were trying to make a joke.
It was just so like, yeah, when little kids learn their full name, when they learn their full name and they're like, hello, I am, and you're like, I know, I've actually bestowed that name upon you.
But thank you, I.
Signed the birth certificate.
I R yeah, exactly.
So Jesse storms off to Michelle's room. Becky asks Joey, why, oh wait, it is one way, isn't it. They're the baby monitor's supposed to be.
Yes, it's one way. Baby monitors are. The baby's not monitoring you.
Right, you're monitoring the baby.
The baby doesn't need to hear what the hell you're doing unless you push the button.
Oh but does he talk back to her?
No?
I don't know if he talks back to her.
No, he doesn't. He leaves it on the wall.
She's got to leave it so the joke works, right, right, Okay, Okay, I just got really confused there for a second. Okay, So Jesse's gone. He's gone off to see Michelle. Becky asks Joey why men cling to their antiquated macho attitudes. Joey responds in a deep, husky voice, because we're tough and we're rugged, and then he goes back to separating his laundry. Love it. Yeah. In Michelle's room, Jesse walks in and asks how he can help her. Michelle asks for a kiss, and Jesse proceeds to give her an upside down kiss. He adds, see someone still loves me. It's all about Jesse here. Jesse rests his head on the crib and asks Michelle if he can talk to her.
Why why I was like, why, I literally went why what I feel Why?
I feel like, why would you talk to a toddler about your love life?
About your love life? It's so weird.
Well, yeah, and I don't know for sure, but I feel like this is a running theme where Jesse's always talking to Michelle about deep problems that he Yeah, I'm like this.
Poor child, this she doesn't have the capability to deal with this. Yeah, I mean here.
Usually I feel like shows will use a different type of plot device, like either you're on the phone, or you're writing in your diary, or.
You're talking, you're talking to another adult, or the baby monter happens to be in the room, not that you're like, hey, I need to unload some things on you two year old, like it was.
I know, and I know they did, I know why they did it.
And then the best part comes next though, Oh when he says when she says by saying she's a monkey, and he's like, can I tell you my problem first? Like yeah, yeah, yeah, kid, stop being a toddler.
Got back to me, back to me, yes, I'm like, she's three years old. She is not your therapists. See, come on, it's just peak Jesse, peak Jesse.
It really is right, just just making his emotional problems some woman's issue, you know what I mean, Like, yeah, it doesn't matter how they are problem, it doesn't matter old just like here, solve my solve my problems because I can't handle myself because Grandpa Nick.
It's all started with handle himself. Well, yeah, so Jesse takes Michelle's bear from her and she says, my toy. Jesse responds, Michelle, you don't want to grow up and be selfish like Becky. Next thing, you know, you won't want to go hear your boyfriend sing, just grow up.
Stop it. He was just like, you're such an You're such an idiot.
He's such an ass he is. We cut to the kitchen where what do you know, Becky can hear everything Jesse is saying through the baby monitor. Jesse goes on to tell Michelle that Becky is really starting to get on his nerves. Joey and Becky hear this, and Joey quickly gets up, saying he better turn on the garbage disposal.
Or turn off the baby monitor. You know what I mean, Like, just turn off the baby monitor.
This is so awkward on so many levels, Like it's so awkward to watch. Jesse continues to say. Sometimes she gets so stubborn and pigheaded. Becky's eyes go wide as she turns to Joey and says, excuse me before running up to Michelle's room.
Oh boy.
She runs into Michelle's room and holds the baby monitor up behind Jesse's ear so that he can hear his own voice echoing. Jesse nervously turns and says, Hi, you found the baby monitor. He asks Michelle to do that impression of him again, and Michelle shakes her head.
No, dude, now you're throwing a toddler right under the bus because you talk some shit and now you can't back it up.
Yeah, okay't he's digging that whole.
Charity of middle schooler Jessie.
Yeah, he's just give him a shovel. He's digging that hole deeper and deeper.
Michelle's like, I want no part of this.
She's give me my toy, give me my monkey.
Yeah, it's like my toy, my monkey. I just wanted to say bye. That was it here. I'm in the middle of this.
This poor child just wanted to kiss. Like all she wanted to kiss from Hi, I just and he unloaded everything on her. Now she's witnessed to this dispute. It is just a poor child is going to need a therapist in a few years. So Becky tells Jesse she wants to talk to him alone, and Jesse insists that anything she wants to say to him she can say in front of his niece. Becky smiles and says, that's not true, and she turns.
And walks out brilliant, loved it.
She just does not take any crap from him. She's just like, nope, we're talking alone. Yeah, I love Becky. So they go immediately into Jesse's room, and Becky angrily yells, stubborn pig headed. Well, it just so happens that this stubborn pighead only goes to that club to be with you, see. Jesse coolly responds, then why are we arguing?
Let's go?
Becky scoffs, no way. Becky asks why she should do what Jesse wants to do if he isn't going to do what she wants to do. Jesse says, Oh, he gets it. This whole thing is about revenge.
What you started it you what what I mean? This whole thing, the whole thing that you what's happening.
He's the one that was talking into a baby monitor about his pig headed, selfish girlfriends.
Right, well, well, I think he's saying that that that the whole thing is about revenge because he didn't want to go horsebend. Oh it's not, but like, it's not revenge. If you get to say you have don't like something, she gets to say she doesn't like him.
Yeah, and she said revenge. She's saying she loves him. She only goes to this danky nightclub for him because she loves him, and it's he just this. He misses the point completely. Jesse accuses Becky of not wanting to go to the club because he he doesn't want to ride her stupid horses. Becky says that the stupid horses are a lot smarter than him.
They're getting asked me certainly more emotionally intelligent. Horses are very intuitive. Yeah, they can sense a vibe.
They are very smart. Jesse does not sense a vibe. Yeah, they have those like therapy horses too. Maybe maybe Jesse should get on a therapy horse.
And yeah, all equine therapy is you don't ride the horse. Do you just get the No, you just get the horse to do what you want it to do through nonverbal commands. It literally is all about attaching your energy to the horse and getting a horse and you to communicate in a way that you that doesn't use language.
Oh, I didn't know that.
I didn't because horses are extremely intuitive. They can pick up on your energy on your so if you're super nervous, they will not come towards you. Oh wow, Yeah, they they're really really intuitive. You have to like kind of sync up with one before you really ride one or do anything with them.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Oh that's cool. I didn't know that fun fact.
Yeah, for the day. They are extremely emotionally intelligent.
So oh maybe that Well, that explains why the horse threw Jesse into the mud and laughed at him.
Exactly. No, the yellow horse was like, get off me. I don't need this energy on my back.
Jesse tells her, just say I'm right. So she bites back, Okay, I'm right, and she storms out the door, through the hallway and down the stairs, going against Jesse's demands. Jesse tells beck.
Girl, yeah good, she's like back here, she's ending the argument. Yeah, and she's like, I'm done. I'm gonna walk on down the stairs. I'm gonna walk down that stair and that's here, and that's stare and.
That's their Yeah, this isn't a productive argument. They're just getting nasty and below the belt. So yeah, it's time to leave. Jesse meets her on the stairs, the landing of the stairs and tells her that this whole thing is her fault. Becky disagrees and says, what else is new? We always disagree. We're completely different people with completely different interests. This is such an interesting camera shot where they're like the camp. Billy Foster does this, He pushes in into the set.
He definitely Yeah, he definitely uses the depth of the set more than other directors do. And that's usually because that takes a reset and it takes a repo and it you know, yeah, different paths and all the stuff because you got to get the camera in and move stuff out of the way. But I like it because it gives it a little bit more reality. H I will say. The lighting in this episode was very strange to me. Yeah. It was like we were it was like being on like a theater stage. It was almost like we were lit from the front and up.
Oh yeah, okay.
You know what I mean, like like but the front lights were way like they were bright, way too bright. It was weirdly flat anyway. Yeah, strange.
Yeah, And in this shot right here, they're very dark. It's very dark on that.
Yeah, well, sight because it wasn't lit was a different light for well you, it was lit from above, but you didn't light for back there because you lit for closer to the camera aisle. Because you didn't, you rarely pushed up that far. So that's why, like when we're in the little alcove in the girl's room, or on the stairs or in the alcohol, like, it's so much darker back there because you didn't have the type of lights that you could just direct everywhere. You had well you know those big, gigantic glass bulb, huge hot studio lights.
Yeah, oh yeah, no, it's very very interesting, but.
It is an interesting shot. I definitely noticed that he does stuff like that over.
Yeah, I like it. It's different, and I do like it. Jesse argues, well, maybe we should start dating other people we have more in common with. Becky laughs, Oh so that's what you want. Jesse insists, Well, it's obviously what you want. Becky says, she never said that. She never said that, No, she didn't. Becky slams the baby monitor against his chest and declares, fine, this relationship is over. Goodbye Jesse. He yells right back, fine, goodbye, Rebecca. She walks out the front door, slamming it shut. Once she gets out, she sighs with regret. She walks back to the front door, ready to open it, but decides against it and walks away. Jesse opens the door to see if she's still there, but she's gone. We cut to an uncomfortable commercial breakdown, and then we're back in the girls room. Stef's alarm clock goes off and she excitedly sits up, exclaiming she's been waiting all night for this. Why are the girls sleeping with the lights on? Like again? Talking about the lighting. It is very bright in this.
Room, right, yeah, it's there's no sort of sort of well, it's it's daytime, you know what I mean. So all of that light is obviously coming through that window in the back there or whatever window you don't see on the fourth wall. It's an expansive window, very long. It's just all all glass. Yeah, it's a big sliding door. I feel bad.
I feel bad for trying to sleep and stuff is.
Just Michelle's getting Nobody ever gets to sleep in the dark in this house. They're all it's some sort of psychological torture. They're all kept slightly awake. And yeah, in the in the bright lights. It's not fair.
It's so funny to me. DJ complains that it's Saturday, but Steph reminds her right, Saturday's sleep in for crying out out. But Steph reminds her it's tooth fairy Day and she looks under her pillow. She finds money and says, whoa baby? Now. I don't think this is the first time we've said whoa baby? But whose catchphrase is this? I thought it was Michelle's catchphrase, whoa baby?
Well, not not even a catch I think it was just sort of a she would say it sometimes.
Okay, okay, because the like.
Three people it kind of I got pat This one's one that like got passed around. We all would say it. I remember. It was kind of a collective. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay.
So DJ judges Stephanie for getting so excited about a one dollar bill, but Steph shows DJ the dollar bill and she shoots up out of bed and shouts twenty dollars. Whoa baby. Steph knew that those milk and cookies would pay off, but DJ bursts her bubble, telling Steph that she's the one who ate the cookies. Steph scolds her and warrants her that she'll be in trouble this Christmas because the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus are like this, and she crosses her fingers to bring her point across.
But it was more like this this.
You're like, y, Yeah, and here's another interesting camera angle. Sorry I'm talking about this so much, but.
No, I love it because, yeah, they pushed all the way into the second of the bed up.
Yeah, you can see the girl's door behind you.
Well, that's a very that feels to me like a very single cam sort of shot, because usually when you're doing like a single cam show or whatever, and it's not a single cam, you usually have two, but you're usually getting like your you know, cross like perspective. Yeah, everyone's perspective, And so in a sitcom you usually put people on the same plane so that you don't have to do that and necessarily to get their shot. It's like, why you never turn your back towards camera in a sitcom, you always turned towards the camera. But Billy really would go push into set and and like you'd see different parts, one of which we see in this scene.
Yeah, Oh it's so cool. First time it really stands out to me. I don't know if it stands out to the fan ritos, but I'm interested to know if they caught that too. But yeah, it's fascinating. You're right, that does seem like a single cam you know, in the very few single cam things that I've done. It is weird because I'm so used to like, you have to cheat out towards the camera, right, right, you know, you have to project your voice.
It's right. When you're doing a single cam thing, you can turn wherever, whatever direction you want.
It's very different, very very different. So now we're in the kitchen. Danny is consoling Jesse about Becky, telling him to call her and apologize. Jesse admits that they don't have one thing in common, and Joey argues, well, you're both crazy about me. Steph runs in, shouting about her twenty dollars bill from the Tooth Fairy. Danny takes the bill and says, whoa baby. He's obviously shocked. Dj claims this isn't fair. She asks her dad why she never got that kind of money from the tooth Fairy. Danny tries to say the tooth Fairy was possibly fumbling around in the dark and accidentally took the wrong bill out of his or her wallet. DJ says that she hopes the allowance fairy makes the same mistake. So the family sits at the table for a pancake breakfast and Michelle grabs the plate, saying my pancakes. Joey asks everyone to show Michelle how much fun sharing can be. So each member of the family passes a single pancake to the person next to them, demonstrating sharing. And here we see the fourth wall behind Dave and Canda.
That was what I was gonna say, is this is the I don't know that we've seen it yet.
Yeah, is this the first fourth wall?
I think it is the first fourth wall? Oh wow again Billy Foster getting these interesting shots of the full kind of the full view of the or more of the view of the house that that you don't usually see in some of the episodes. But yeah, this was the fourth wall.
I wonder if he was a single cam direct Like, I wonder if he did a lot of single cam work, because you're right, this is like the single cam thing. And that's like I don't think the fanerritos know like just how much time this takes to like set up the wall. You have to dress the wall with things on the wall, you know, and then you have to repoe the camera. It's it's a whole thing. It takes like forty five minutes for this one little shot of Dave and Tanda's passing a pancake to each other. You know, it's it's so cool. I'm glad. I'm glad he did it because.
It's it's different. But we'll give some dimension to the set and to the house, and you know, it makes it feel like a real house, not just yeah, a stage with a set exactly.
So, once the pancake gets to Michelle, Danny says, I wish someone would share their pancake with me. Michelle grabs the pancake with her hands, crumbles it up, and passes it to Danny, saying, here, Daddy, she's so cute in this. Danny thanks Michelle and sarcastically tells her he's proud of her. Becky knocks at the kitchen door and Danny gets up to open it. Jesse turns to Johan.
Is it ever locked?
Oh? Yeah? And why is she coming to the back door? Where does she live? Like? Why?
Well, because everyone's in the back because everyone's in the kitchen, so otherwise it'd be weird if she came in the front door. Because you're right, you've got to have everyone in the shot.
That's true. Okay, okay, the girl. The backyard is used a lot in this episode, between the Sandbox and Becky.
Well, there's that hole. There's a whole imaginary land back there where people come and go and cars drive in and out, and it's like Narnia.
I love it.
It is. Yeah, that's the Yeah, the Lion, the Witch, and the Tanner's backyards.
Perfect. That'll be the next installment in that. So Jesse assumes that Becky's coming back to apologize to him, of course, but Becky enters holding a box of Jesse's things. She addresses him as mister Kitsopolis and sets the box down, assuming that he wants his possessions back that he left at her apartment. The possessions include an emergency hair dryer an emergency styling spray. Well, Jesse insists that the spray is Becky's because it's for hard to manage hair, and she responds, no, it must be yours. It's for vain and pompous hair. Steph butts in asking if the two of them are having a fight. Thank you, Stephanie, Stephanie. Steph is our Greek chorus, like she is always just saying what's on our line?
She really is. She's always just like, are you hey, Hi, there's a family here, the pancakes. You just want to take this elsewhere?
Steph is the only reasonable one in the else.
Uh So.
Becky tells her that they decided not to be boyfriend and girlfriend anymore. DJ's panics. She says they can't break up. Steph agrees, saying they're just like Ken and Barbie.
Funny. That joke went it was relevant than not so much than now again. Oh yeah, you know that's right.
It made a full circle.
Yeah.
Steph tells Danny to make them hug and say I love you. Danny uncomfortably relays this message to Becky and Jesse and is met with no response. Becky admits that she should get going, and DJ quickly tells her that she has an idea. She decides that they should all go to the movies tonight. Stefph holds up her twenty dollars bill and says it's on me and the tooth Fairy.
Becky thinks byby eighties, twenty dollars three people could go to a movie.
That won't even get you a small popcorn anymore. Like good, I mon't even.
Get you a ticket. Now, let's go on unless you're sixty five or older.
Yeah, true, so true.
Yeah.
Becky says, thanks, but she admits that she has plans tonight. This gets Jesse's attention. When Becky finally leaves, he says, I can't believe it. She already has a date. DJ runs outside, chasing after Becky.
He Jesse should be in the Olympics. For all of the jumping to conclusions that he does this, man jumps.
It's always worst case scenario. It's always a blow to his ego, even if it's not right instence, Yes, she already has a date, bro, Nobody.
Said that she's got plans. Her plans might be sitting at home and eating food and crying. I don't know.
Maybe she's plans with a girlfriend or her brother.
You know this, there's a lot of options right to how is this about me?
Yep yep So in the backyard, DJ asks Becky if she and Jesse are going to get back together, and Becky says she can't promise that. DJ tells her she has to. She sighed, telling Becky that if she stopped coming over, DJ would really miss her. Becky assures her that the two of them are always going to be friends. This is so sweet, you know, like Becky's become like a mother figure and a friend. And yes, made me a little sad. I was just like, oh, I feel pain.
So it's the hard thing about like adult breakups and you know, kids and stuff.
It's the kids get attached. Yeah, of course hard. So DJ is very hopeful, asking if they can still go writing and talk about stuff. Becky smiles, telling DJ absolutely, anytime you need me, I'm here for you. She also agrees to go see the movie tonight with DJ and Steph. They say they're goodbyes, and DJ goes back inside. A little bit later, up in the girl's room, Steph runs in, telling DJ that Becky is on her way up. DJ is polishing her writing boots. When Steph asks where is Jesse. DJ says he's not here yet. Steph wonders, well, then, how are we gonna get them back together? DJ tells her they got a stall. Becky and Steph nods got it. The girls are scheming to get these two back together. Indeed, Becky walks in asking if they're ready for the movies yet. Steph responds, not yet. You got to make up with uncle Jesse first. Steph first, I mean she is.
It's she's the Greek chorus and also the the the idiot, the right right that. Yeah, She's just like, I'm just you asked a question and I'm giving you the factual answer.
She can't, she can't hold it in, like she's like, yeah, this is why.
This is why you're He's like, no, no, no, this is yeah. We're not doing that yet because you got to do this first. Oh sorry, surprise, whoops.
So DJ takes the reins, telling Becky that Jesse feels really terrible. Steph adds, he told us how sorry he was for everything he's supposed to be sorry for. The girls say he's been walking around with a sad, little puppy dog face, and they proceed to mimic the face for Becky. It's very cute. You guys tilt your heads the same way, right, It's so cute. So we cut to the living room, where Jesse walks through the front door with another girl.
I can't.
I knew it.
I knew it.
I knew it, Like, this is just a classic move a class I was. I was like, this is the same day, right, this is because they went they were going to the movies that year, So this, yeah, he's already been on a date.
This fool oh because he jumped to a conclusion because he assumed, and you know what they say about assumption.
Yeah, like he's made his own bed like this. You know, he's creating problems for himself. So he calls see Jesse Jesse. Yes, he compliments, uh this this girl's Elvis impression, saying it's the best one he's ever seen a woman do. The girl, whose name is Diane, tells Jesse that she loved watching his show. Jesse tells her that this whole day has been rate, adding Becky would have never sat through a rehearsal. What dude, like, not only is he is this offensive towards Becky, it's offensive towards this girl too, Like, don't look, So.
That's what I'm saying. I was like, ew ew, bro, you do just literally need somewhere, someone there to fan your ego all the time, Like yeah, Jesse, get it's really really. I was like, ew gross, stop, very very toxic. And I also said that. I also was like, oh, this girl is just stop. She's desperate.
Yeah, she seems to sit through it and stop.
It, honey, stop it. Yeah.
It's their first date, so she's trying to Maybe she's trying to stroke his ego a little bit, and I don't know. It's I felt bad for Diane and for Becky.
I felt bet it was. I was just very upset at Jesse.
So Jesse gives the girl a hypothetical. If I said, let's hop on a Harley go to Vegas, roll some dice, what would you say? She answers, I'd say your bike or mine? He enthusiastically says yes, and then compares it to what he thinks Becky would say. The girl questions, how come you can't go five minutes without mentioning Becky. Jesse apologizes and says he's gonna go upstairs and not mention the B word. So upstairs, Jesse runs into DJ, who tries talking to him, but he blows her off. She mentions that Becky's there, and he asks, my Becky, I mean my ex Becky. Jesse starts to stress out about this situation that he has found himself in because he created it. He's trying to think of what to do. DJ tells him that Becky said she was really sorry for everything she's supposed to be sorry for. She claims all she does is make a sad, little puppy dog face and again mimics the face for him. DJ adds that Becky was crying all day, and Jesse begins to look concerned. DJ leads Jesse into the girl room where Becky is. The two say hello, and Jesse admits, well, it's nice of you to apologize. Becky asks nice of me and DJ. She says DJ said, but he adds that DJ and said Becky's been making a puppy dog face all day, and he shows her the face. Becky argues that the girls told her he's the one who's been making that face. Jesse and Becky turned to Steph and DJ and the girls make that puppy face to them, and Stuff asks, come on, didn't you guys miss each other like crazy just a little? And Jesse admits that, well, maybe he missed her like crazy a little if she missed him.
How do you have time? Do you have time to it's mean. I know he was talking about it this whole time with Diane, but he had time to give her a call.
Yeah, yeah, you know, it's been like two hours. People like this breakup is still higher.
Oh my damn, it was quick.
They haven't even had time to just like think this over and like let it marinate a little bit. Becky says, of course I missed you. Jesse grabs her head and kisses it, saying, oh, Becky, I've been thinking about you non stop as he holds her. Diane from downstairs walks up behind him and says, Jess, I thought we were leaving. This is such a good moment. It's right, you're like, oh, you idiot.
But also like, why is this lady just walking upstairs in the house of people she doesn't know?
Yeah, it was a little forward. She got tired of.
Yeah, yeah, she got tired of. Wait, right, but oh.
Boy Becky's reaction. Becky is just like, who is this? And Jesse nervously chokes up, and Steph whispers to DJ this could get ugly. Wait, that's the understatement of the year, right, So Becky breaks the ice, addressing the girl, Well, it's nice to meet you. Whoever you are, I'm sure you too have a lot in common. Goodbye, Jess, and she leaves. He tells Diane to stay there as he quickly follows Becky out.
I would have been like, why would stay there? Like sn get out and home? Yes, like right, just release, children will escort you out the back door, right like. There's obviously two ways to get out of the in and out of the house. Why's she got to stay?
It's it's so awful, dripping with awkwardness. So in the hallway, Jesse calls after Becky and she furiously turns around, asking you couldn't even wait one day?
Barely an hour? Yeah? Really one hour?
Yeah, it's it's it's oh. I don't even have words for this. Jesse claims he only made a date because she said she made a date. Becky corrects him. I didn't say I made a date. I said I made plans. Mm yeah, listening. Listening is an important skill. The new girl, the new girl, Diane interrupts, excuse me, but there's no other way out of here, and she leaves.
But there is. You should see this shape shifting backyard. Diane, Please score you out that way.
Yep, Jesse tells Diane he's really sorry. Diane faces Becky and says, I hope you're Becky because if you're not, you're going to hear an awful lot about her for the rest of the day. And Diane leaves Becky.
You imagine if it wasn't Becky, and then that one would have been like, who's Becky?
Right, he's just digging that hole.
Yeah yeah.
Becky slowly turns to Jesse and her demeanor has softened. She asks him if that's true, and Jesse says yes, and he even admits I sang viva loss Becky. Becky laughs at this, and Jesse leads her into his room. Jesse says he hates it when they fight. It's always so silly.
He claims, it's always yours. You always started Jesse.
That's not what he says.
He's like, I hate it. It's so silly. I mean, I do it.
But he's like, you always first, you get me, and then I get mad, and then they're just fighting about who gets mad first.
This is just so I've done that.
I know when you're in it, you can't see outside of it, right, and it's like you need someone to just smack you upside the head.
Yeah.
Jesse finally yells for them to stop and then asks what are we fighting about this time? And Becky says about the way we fight. Jesse realizes that this is their stupidest fight yet.
Jesse claims, you don't know, I don't know. There's been some pretty stupid ones. This is this is yeah, fighting about the way you fight is up there.
It's up there. Jesse claims that he doesn't care about winning fights. He just wants her to understand him better. Now if he win.
That does feel like absolutely cares about winning fights?
Is that's his number one goal is to be right.
This is right. It's just be right.
So Becky says, well, instead of arguing with each other, why don't we try really listening to each other. Jesse says that's exactly what he wants. He wants them to know and understand each other better. Jesse and Becky try applying this method to their current problem. Jesse says, so, all we have to do is give up everything we've ever loved before and we'll both be happy, right, And Becky's like, no, you're wrong. She assures him that they don't have to give up anything. They can do their own things and still be a couple. Ding ding ding that there we ago there. Yeah, the moral of the story, the simple solution that took twenty two minutes to get to right.
Right, Yeah it is. Hey, I don't like horses. Okay, cool, I'm gonna go ride and I don't feel like going to your show tonight. All right cool? See after that's it. Yeah, done, it's problem solved.
You fight, you have to bean yeah you know, you know, no sling and mud. Yeah, it's it's you have to be a whole person in order to be the other half of a couple.
In my bed. So I love that.
So like, this is what Becky is saying. She's just like, you gonna have your own interests and we'll join each other sometimes and other times. You know, it's good to.
Have space, Like, hey, yeah, it's great to have space. I love space, I love my favorite. Space is wonderful. Yes, But I think that's also something that comes with maturity. And to be fair, Jesse and Becky are still in their twenties.
Yeah, they're in their mid twenties.
You're still very like it's all or nothing.
So that's true.
Yeah, I will think like when I think about, like back to when I was like twenty five, it was it was that sort of dramatic all or nothing, like you know that's true, look a little while to figure out. Oh wait, actually a healthy relationship is just easy.
Yeah, I forgot what I was gonna say. I gets distracted. U Becky says, how about you only go writing with me because you want to? And Jesse says, all right, and you only go to the club with me because you want to, and Becky responds, okay, but never because we feel that we have to. Jesse admits he'll still go horse horseback riding with her because he really loves being with her. There you go, that's it. That was all. That wasn't that hard. It wasn't that wasn't that hard.
Jesse, Becky, you could have started there.
But the show, the show has to work. The storyline has to work.
He's like, Okay, I'll do the thing that I should have done. You're like, but how we yep, yep, I get it, I get We're all it's.
I get it. Yeah, And this is probably Jesse's first like real long term relationship. If you think about yeah.
I mean, we've seen we've seen who he's been before that.
Yeah, so he's learned.
We've seen who he was four minutes ago. Yeah, so yeah, you know, I'll cut.
Him some slack here because he does. He's learning, and it takes him a while. It takes him twenty two minutes, but he does come around and he's like, okay, he does. He's learning and he's growing along with him.
So yeah, Becky is forcing him to kind of grow up a little bit. I appreciate this.
He needed Becky so badly. Oh yeah, so Becky says, there's one good thing about fighting. They have a great time making up. Jesse goes off on a tangent about how many gross things their love is better then, and Becky interrupts, just say have mercy and kiss me, and Jesse does just that. DJ and Stuff stand in the doorway and say, aw in Unison, I can't believe you guys left your room to come in to watch them making out Like this is so opposite of how.
It usually Well that's the that's what the Tanner House does. No one can make out unless there's someone there to watch it. It's like if a you know, if a tree falls in the woods and no one's there to hear it. If if two people make out in the Tanner household, and no one's there to witness it, did it really happen?
This is that is the most accurate thing you've said today. That is so funny.
Yes, yeah, yeah. They can also like my kids even now there's sixteen, almost fourteen, if they see me give my husband a kiss, they're like, ell as so grossed out. They're like, oh God, that's gross.
Ill yeah, it's gross. I mean in that last decadees like that doesn't go away once you're no longer a teenager.
You never I guess you're I guess you're never like you're always like, oh, I just don't I don't want to see that your parents, you know, I don't want to see you have an emotion. It'd be weird and like kiss your my dad or what? Ill gross?
Right, it is super weird. So Jesse stands saying he knew the girls were going to come in.
See he knew the makehout alarm went off and they were like, wait, we ot to go witness it.
That's the natural laws of the universe. In the Tanner house of In.
The Tanner Household rights, shape shifting backyard and uh public may.
Public public PDA. Yeah, so he thanks the girls for sticking their noses where they don't belong. DJ smiles and says anytime. Steph offers to still pay for that movie, but DJ tells her twenty dollars won't be enough. Steff assures her, I'm good for it. I got a mouth full of baby teeth. She walks towards Jesse and Becky as she points to each tooth, adding up how much money she's going to get for all of them? And that's our shown. Oh that's what you were. Very funny. The tooth storyline was very cute. The Michelle not sharing her toys. That was a very short, short storyline, but sure, but it was a way to tie.
Michelle into it. With the It was a you know, it was Jesse and Becky heavy.
Very very heavy on Jesse and Becky, which I had a problem with. I was just like, good God, they're always fighting, but I weren't they just fighting a few episodes ago, and they were, but it was last but.
It was last season, right, So that's the thing, is I That's why I was like, oh my god, this again. But I was like, oh, it's because we're watching the episodes like Closer in succession, right, it does feel like they're back at it again. But but to be to be fair, to be fair, they do there's a lot of it's a semi contentious relationship, and it's there seems to be a fairly high amount of conflict.
There's there's a lot of red flags. And I how long have they been dating? I'm trying to do the math, like they've been dating what a few months? Six months or less?
I don't know, because it's a lot.
Of fighting for a new couple, a brand new couple. Yeah, yeah, and I'm trying to separate. Okay, what if three months had passed before we started season three? Like it would be normal, you know, right?
And I think that's kind of the implication because we did stay true to the kids' ages. We never aged up anybody or you know what I mean, Like, so the kids sort of aged in their real time rue. So yeah, it would be it's probably been a year almost eight six months.
Is yeah, at least six months, maybe closer to a year, yeah, okay, yeah.
Still, it's just it does feel like a lot of fighting. It's a lot of fighting. I but maybe we're you know, we're looking at it with a different lens.
Yeah, that's true.
Half an hour every week. It feels different than when you're watching it like we do and watching several episodes and then you know, recapping them. But I still I still do have it's weird, do you have mine?
I know, I've read some of the fan Rito's comments, and there's a lot of people that disagree that. A lot of people think we're being too hard on Jesse.
Yeah, they're just like, maybe, you know what, maybe I mean, maybe we are, Maybe we are. I don't know. Maybe I think I think because I think it's we personal experience.
That's what I was going to say, because we're we're in our forties now, we've had we've been in toxic relationships.
So that's what it is. That's exactly what it is is. I'm like, this is triggered. Like fan Rito's are like, don't be so hard. I'm like, no, this you should be right on this behavior. Don't do it like this is as a forty two year old woman, like this is the thing that you go oh no, no, no, no, no no no. So it is I have a very different perspective on it. When seeing yep, like yep, all of these things aren't necessarily great uh things, but it's yeah personal.
I think if you've been in a relationship like this, it stands out like a sore thumb and you you you kind of triggered, not triggered.
But just like well, and I guess the thing is too like look right, we have a viseral reaction because we're like, oh my gosh. If this were real life, this would not be a great they would be fighting all the time in this way. But it's it's just you know, I forget it. It's it's sick. And so if there's no contentiousness and no like back and forth, you have no storyline. Yeah yeah, because storylines depend on some sort of conflict, you know.
So, and sitcoms are known for just their manufacturing drama no right.
Right for no reason. So I get it, I get it, and it is, but it definitely is. I think it's those things where we're like we're seeing it as a pattern of behavior of like, oh, this would extrapolate into someone who would be very difficult to deal with it, but really it's like they're fine, they make it through. We see them at the end. Jesse's still making Becky carry all the bags. It's just who they are.
Ye, well, and we we we know we know the grow. We know that Jesse's growing, like he's growing.
Yeah, he's growing.
So it's not like we're always going to be ragging on him like this. He's a young guy, right with hormone young He's learning. We're learning along with him. So you know, it's a journey people.
I'm not Yeah, we're not trying to be hard of this is this is what I do. It's my you know, I'm the We're we're for those of you who are old enough to remember the Muppet Show, We're like Stetler and Waldorf, the two old man muppets in the bout which I used to so I used to say that they reminded me of my dad because that was my dad. And now I'm like, now that I have become one of them, where it's just always some smart ass comment up in the balcony from the peanut gallery that's not useful or helpful, but just wow, this guy's doing it in like I'm like, oh, I've become that. That's it. It's just everyone, It's okay. We love Jesse we love Becky. We're not trying to be harsh.
We do. We love we love these characters. We played these characters.
We love these characters. But but sometimes Jesse was a bit much. But he's he's a twenty six yearld man. He's learning. Yep, he's learning.
And and Becky is icon, she is she's a great role model. Oh this is this is how you need to defend yourself when you're in a relationship.
Yes, yes, so, And that's the thing is like, I I love that because it does it gives Jesse somewhere to go, like if he did, if he wasn't like this, Becky wouldn't have anything to be like, this is not how you behave you know, you wouldn't have get to see like his journey.
So I do I get that nobody wants to watch perfectly formed people that No, no.
But the best shows are about terrible people that you're like, oh, this is you know, sort of morally ambiguous. It's not, Yeah, it's not that. Just look, we're forty year old women who have seen some sh okay guys. We have our own bring our own personalities to them.
Yes, And that's the point of a rewatch. Podcast is just to get into the knitting gretty take things way more seriously than you need to.
Right, this is just right, that's what we do. Breaking up is hard to do in twenty two minutes. It's it is so is a good deep dive on narcissism, but we try. You know what, Okay, so I have an everywhere you look.
Good because I have a really bad one. It's not it doesn't really count. So you go go, okay, Well, remember last week we talked about the Mel Gibson poster up in the upright in the Jays, right above DJ's bed. Well, I was looking at it again and it looks like it's not really it's not like a rectangular poster. It's like cut out.
It's a cut out of his head. It looks so is head cut out. That's what I said. It's a head cut out. Last week I was like, it is just a cutout head of Mel.
Yeah, I didn't. I thought it was just a regular poster. I didn't realize it was.
Just at it's a cutout.
Like one of those fat heads or whatever whatever they you know, Kimmy Gibbler had won in Fuller House. But yeah, that was just I'm like, this is it wasn't a lethal weapon poster, which is what I thought it was.
No, No, it was just his head with his beautiful hair. It's so weird.
Anyways, that was that was mine.
That's the only that was yours. So mine actually happened because I watched through the very end of the credits, so good for you, and uh it came. The very last shot of the credits is us all around the kitchen table and it's a pullback shot where it's uh starts on Danny picking the shell up and putting her in the high chair, and then it pulls back to reveal the whole family. But the pullback, if you watch it is super rough, like the camera's like doing a little bit like there's no you know. It's this is in the days before you could have the like auto whatever, so the wheels going over the set or just like picking up every little bump. So it's like and it it tilts, it tilts up and you see off the set like by where the stairs are and the back window there you totally see up off the stairs. But it's just a really rough pullback and like up it's it's just it's an interesting shot because it's sir, just so not smooth at all, you know. For like the last supposed to be sort of beauty shot pulling away, it just looks like like somebody's doing it over ground.
They just grabbed a handheld and we're just you know, instead of having a camera on wheels.
Yeah. No, no, it was very obvious that it was just a dolly shot that is not on even you know, or it was on those tripods like the Yeah. Oh yeah, so that was Yeah. That came about because I was just I was watching through the credits because I just wanted to see people's names that I remember and that had maybe hadn't thought about in a while.
Yeah.
Oh that's a good idea.
I should I'm going to start doing that because yeah usually do that, So okay, I'm gonna do that.
Yeah, even like people that worked in the office or whatever. I was like, oh my god, that's yeah, I remember that person. Yep, yep.
It's like a where's Walt on your little postery you have right next to you. Yeah, where it's the whole cast and crew, all these little what do you call it, a little montage of all of them, the little collage that's the word I was looking for. Yeah, it's a you can pick them out like where's Waldo? Oh?
Yeah, that so great. I love that.
Well.
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