How Rude, Tanneritos!Welcome to the second part of our interview with writer Lenny Rips. We hope you enjoyed all of the memories we've shared so far during part one, and we have so much more to catch up on, So without further ado, here is Part two with Lenny. Lenny, we have to talk about one episode you wrote that is just so legendary on this podcast. It's the Sea Cruise episode, Yeah, which is universally regarded by us, our listeners and even Jeff Franklin ass episode and Channa Sween the worst episode in Full House.
History written by you. We're bringing the ups and the downs, Lenny.
You know what I mean.
No, you're not safe on this podcast.
If you do it every week, sometimes the assausgage is gonna spoil.
That's true.
Well, it was also what was it like the third episode of the show or something.
It was exactly definitely.
It's It's funny because you go back and watch it, and I think the reason that everyone goes, oh, secrews is because it's it was one of the first like five episodes that were meeting everybody, and it was the I think the first episode where it like immediately became obvious that the chemistry was was the family and the kids. It wasn't just the adults and their dating and their whatever like that was they were like, oh, we'll try this, but it just like that episode when you take it with sort of the cannon of all of the rest of Full House, you go, ah, that's why that one wasn't the thing, because it the magic was the family and that took us so kind of far away from it. But it was one of those things that you're like, we gotta try it, gotta you know.
Upsitcoms are about exactly figuring it out what they're about.
Yeah, yeah, it's hard to like figure out who how are these people? Who are these people and how are they you know, what what are their dynamics?
What is their life?
Hey, you don't know the actor right right? So you what if it, well, what's their strength, what's Kimmy's strengths, what's Danny's strength? And that and you that's an experiment, yeah, you know, and and so that keeps.
In the first season at least that keeps evolving for sure.
Character change, Yeah, you definitely.
We we got through watching the first season and it was really remarkable to watch the development of characters and story and relationship, and to watch us as actors also start becoming closer on screen, and you see the relationships developing between us as a as a family, you know, in real life, but it starts being portrayed through how these characters are interacting. You see from episode one to the end of the season, all of a sudden, it's like everyone's like, oh my god, I love you.
Yeah, but you.
See, for a writing stuff, you have to evolve to that, Yeah, that's not going to be the first episode or the third episode or the episode. Your hope is that everyone is a little step closer.
Right, Yeah.
I find the first season of any show, you know, whether you're watching it, whether you're in it.
When you go back and watch the like.
The first half of the first season, usually you're like, oh, wow, this this could have gone really different, Like I say, it could have been a whole other show.
And then you get to.
Like season three or four and you're like, ah, they figured out what they're doing right, right, which is why the Bummer is now in television. It's so hard because you get thirteen episodes, so like, if your first episode isn't completely like all the characters aren't exactly where they need to be. It feels like sometimes people go, well, that's all right, not to cancel it. You're like, but the first few shows of any show are always kind of shaky gives.
I mean, it's a discarver.
So Secrews was a big experiment. Episode didn't exactly work, but that's okay, It's part of the process.
I'm sure I wrote worse.
No, I think it's just Secrews, just secrets as far as Full House goes.
But one thing that's speaking of worse.
What Andrea did want to talk about was the Star Wars Christmas Special, which is legendary in its own right. I have never watched it, I'll let you. I was a not a huge Star Wars fan, but I even have heard of the legendary Star Wars Christmas variety show, and it's amazing to me that it's still out there floating around.
Andrea, you watched it.
Well, it's known as it's been called the worst thing to ever air on TV, and I think a lot of people agree with this.
I think a lot of people said that was Full.
House, Oh get wrong.
Top five.
Well, we're just happy to be included, you know. The closest we'll ever get to anything Star Wars related.
It was one TV in between the first and second film, and Lucas wanted to have Star Wars out in the.
Public, right, Okay.
So the idea of a holiday special was a pretty good idea and CBS was all in, and the studio was all in. And an old friend of mine, Pat Proft, who wrote the Naked Guns movies and Police Academy, I mean.
I really find yeah.
So he and I had written do you remember Shields in Your Now? They were a mime group, but in a thousand years ago they were really really.
Popular, right okay?
And they had their own TV show. I mean it was huge.
Mimes were huge in the eighties. It was it was. It was a time of mimes, and they.
Played robots with their characters. Got it? And Pat and I wrote for them.
Now, how do you for a mine? That's the well, and you write for stage direction?
Mostly the first ten minutes of this holiday special, it's all it's on the Wookie planet, and the Wookies don't speak a discernible language, so the first ten minutes is just and they don't talk, So how did you write something where they don't speak a language.
Except I've always been students of Silent Company.
Okay, okay, old silent movie, isn't it.
Yeah?
Yeah, so I we knew how to write side gags.
Yeah huh.
So we were perfect for Shoes in ther Now because they were all side gigs and we both knew how to do that, right, you know, And that's was pretty successful. The producers of that holiday special work for shows in your Now and when we found out when they found out that it was about wookies, so let's have Pat and Landy come in because they write nonverbal stuff.
Uh huh, okay, lot's of physical comedy write excellent wookie jokes, I guess.
So we spent twelve hours with George Lucas going.
Over the script, right okay.
And I mean that was it was worth it for for that.
That's so free.
I mean yeah, I wouldn't care what anyone said after that. I'd be like, but I got to spend twelve hours with George Lucas, so.
Okay, and that he was brilliant and yeah, so we wrote the script what worked with his director, a terrific guy who had done mostly music videos in Canada, but a really talented man, and when we went to shoot, he was over his head because this was video and you know, he'd spend two hours on one shot and.
We had to right, this was a variety TV show, not a film, right, And it.
Wasn't his fault, I mean, just it was the wrong guy, but a wonderful guy and a great director.
They fired him, which I understand what he did.
And Lucas walked away when they fired him. So then they in very fine writers from the Carol Burnett Show who were really.
Carol Burnett Show is hilarious.
Yeah, not the right writers for Star Wars.
Yeah, no, No, bookies can't quite pull off Carol Burnett.
So they their ear.
Yeah, So they write in these Carol Burnett writers and all of a sudden there's a Harvey Kuerman and all of these.
Variety people and b Arthur.
B Arthur was in this.
Archer was in it.
Joe, do you got to watch it? She sings to aliens in a bar like it's the most amazing thing.
I think I actually have seen a clip of that, because I saw it and I was like, what in the hell is happening?
I really scen were Diane Carroll.
Into a Wookie and he's having an orgasm.
It's not safe for work, it's not safe for kids. It's a very like almost port graphic scene involving Yeah, it's like I was so uncomfortable. That might have been right about the time my TV broke. This holiday special broke my TV, Lenny, it randomly turned off in the middle of just trying to watch it.
It turned off in the middle, and now my TV.
WI my TV won't come back on. So yeah, thanks, thank you, Lenny.
So our name was so but our name was stolen it, but I didn't know what had happened to it. So so the night it was there and I had a party, it was catered right, and all my friend's over it turned it on and after five minutes I turned it off and said, let's party.
Let's just get really drunk because what's going to happen after this is gonna suck.
But it became really famous.
Yeah, and there's a documentary out called A Disturbance in the Force was out this year about that show that I'm in.
The documentary.
I watched that too.
That's what I had heard about and how I heard about the Christmas special was through that documentary.
Disturbance in the Force. I love documentaries, and so I was like, wait, documentary. I had no idea you were in it or attached like it was all crazy.
Let me has the first talking head and the last talking head in that documentary, Like it's it's phenomenal. Highly recommend a Disturbance in the forest.
See, I'm all for things that go sideways and become weird cult classics.
And you're like, it was so bad that it was great, like.
But you know, and also these Star Wars people are fanatical.
Oh right, you can that's true.
And they're reading things into it and it becomes part of the canon, you know, but sometimes misfied this.
Would never happen and you're like, dude, you don't you you didn't write any of this.
But the big deal to the Star Wars the orthod, I thought, is that it's the first introduction of Boba Fett.
Oh yeah, I.
Have never met, but apparently he's a very popular character.
Okay, yeah.
And they also see Star Wars as the bible.
That's yeah, they it is.
You can't and particularly now that's the thing with any of the like big franchise.
You do one thing and it's that's it. You never again.
But I get every time there's a Star Wars movie, it get calls from fanzine for interviews, and I mean.
It's a life.
I love it, but the show is.
It's amazing to me that George Lucas wasn't confident that fans would stay with the Star Wars franchise in between the first movie and Empire Strikes Back. So that's that's why he created the holiday special, was to keep interest alive in the star.
It's great genius was he made the money and made a lot of money and toys.
He got lots of money, right right right.
He was all about the merchandising and the rights and sell, and he knew sell the characters and people watch the movies regardless.
Alive I mean in between movies. I mean, I totally get it. It's just that he lost control of it. Yeah.
To be honest, I I blame the Wookie for everything. It's the or the mind because they what are they going to say?
Nothing?
It's definitely not be Arthur's fault.
That's don't speak ill of b I will.
She is my hero.
I love Arthur. Yes, Harvey Harvey Corman was it?
Yeah?
Oh my god, there was it was. There was a lot of.
Became a cow Burnett sketch show, which I'm not criticizing it, but I don't.
But that's not what the fans wanted.
It, right, because obviously the fans wanted a realistic depiction of what the Star Wars characters are doing on Christmas.
Damn it.
Well, no, Life Day. It's not Christmas. It's Life Day. That's what they celebrate in November is Life Day the Wookie planet.
Is Okay, I'm great, what day is it I'm celebrating?
You know, November. I can't remember November seventeenth.
That's my I'm I've changed it.
I'm now celebrating Life Day on November Day, dressing like a Wookie and I'm just gonna show up on Lenny's porch.
I'll leave a bubble of order for you.
Yeah. Watching that, I'm like, this must be what it's like to take psychedelics because it was just so out there. It's like, Wow, what a mind trip.
It's great.
And I love how you start the documentary the Disturbance in the Forest. You start with the line, there are always better stories about failure than success, and you alluded to this previously. About how you wish. You know, sometimes sit comes and end up with you know, all pretty and neat with a tide in little bow. You know, there's and this is a great example of that. How the Holiday special was a complete failure, but hey, we're still talking about it in twenty twenty four.
Almost had it been good, it would have it wouldn't have.
Like been like, oh, yeah, that's Star Wars Christmas ning. But now it's like, oh have you ever talked about that? And it becomes its own narrative.
I mean, the thing is that everyone who sees it thinks they were thinks they're into something.
Secret, right, right, Yeah, the idea that we.
Know about this and most of the fans don't, or we saw this and most of the fans didn't.
Right.
For years, you could not get a copy of it.
It has a very bootleg feel to it, even on YouTube, which is where I saw it.
Yeah.
Yeah, Like, I'm so proud of you, Like I know that I know it's a flop, but like that is a great credit to have to your name.
It's like, I love, like you said, the history of like everything in this business and how many people, I mean everyone that we've interviewed for the show You Joel Adria but has talked about the various failures or things that didn't work out that led to something else that did.
And I always like, I love those stories.
Because so many times I think we all need to step back and go, oh, wow, had I not failed at this or that, or that I didn't have gotten where I wanted to be or wound up in the thing, you know, because you don't. Winning is great and having everything go great is really nice, but you don't learn much from that.
And if we're good producers, we have an atmosphere on the set where you can fail at first to try to get better, where you don't get judged if it doesn't work. I mean you can judge everybody, judges everybody everything, but okay, it's good that you try things and that the atmosphere that you want is because I'm not naive to think that if I wrote it, it's gold. It has to go through the actors and sound like. I'm pretty good at language, so I can write a joke for Red Fox or a Runney Dangerfield or Bet Middler and make it sound like they said it right.
So that's that is such a skill that is, I don't know if you can.
Judge, so begin to hear your voices on the TV show, right, you know, not only the funny, but how would Kimmy.
Gibber say it?
Yeah? Yeah, I mean.
How would Bannie say it?
I definitely felt like Steph has a lot of your zingers and sort of quick punchline responses. Kim me too, But I just like, you know, I hear it's funny even just talking to you. I'm like, I hear like some of Steph in it, you know what I mean. I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah, Like it would take somebody with that kind of sarcastic, witty, smart sensibility to be to write for a little smart alec kid.
Yeah, I mean, characters were fun to write for when they were at a little bit of an age.
Yeah.
Who's the hardest character to write for on Full House? Would you? Says standing Away?
Because he had to carry a lot of information? Yeah, true, not just jokes, and sometimes that's hard to write for it. But how do you keep that interesting?
Right? How do you explain things to the audience without making it making it seem like you're explaining things to the audience?
And he was also kind of the straight man to Joey's that's right, yeah.
But what is that hard? I mean obviously Dave is easy.
Right, silly comedy bits.
Yeah, and Dave will bring you stuff. And Bob you know, you know, we knew Bob because he was doing he was doing the warm ups for Bosom Buddies, right, that's right.
Oh yeah, that's right.
Bob was the warm up guy for Bosom Buddies. For our audience that maybe doesn't know what warm up is. It's the person that literally tells jokes and gets the audience warmed up and ready to be laughing and having fun in a sitcom audience, so.
They're really really important.
And in between scenes and while you're moving cameras and doing that, they're keeping the audience hyped up, laughing, having fun so that the energy doesn't drop.
I'll tell you the great warm up story.
Yes, that's they were doing a show and in between scenes they would throw candy out to the audience.
You know, there's something to keep them occupied. Right.
Nobody told the warm up guy that the audience half of them were blind.
Oh no, After the first thing, he's throwing candy audience and it's hitting these people.
Bob was the one throwing it.
No no, no, no, no, no, somebody else Okay, God, but still, Oh yeah, that's definitely something that you want to you want to know before you start throwing things at people.
Yes, can you see it?
The warm up guy needs to be briefed before the taping.
I mean, yeah, certain things are very important.
Yes.
Do you have any stories about Tom Hanks from your Bosom Buddy days?
Only that Tom and Peter Scillari, who were teams, were lovely And what I had the stories is that they were wonderful improvisers. Yeah, they were very fresh and real, and they seemed like they were their characters, you know, I mean they were. They were young, hip, funny, a little bit quirky guys. Yeah, and they were really nice guys. I mean they made every script better, as every actor does if you give them a chance and they're the right people.
But the particular stories.
I mean, he was really sweet and we hung out with him and like and Ian Scullari were wonderful people that it was just great. I mean it was a hard show because we went to the edge so much, but it was really fun. And when Tom became a huge star, it was not a surprise.
Yeah, just a very nice man.
And yeah, and just a great appeal, like he's just one of those people that you enjoy watching.
Yeah, yeah, I mean he's and I run into him. He's still a wonderful guy.
Yeah, I've always heard that about him, which I I'm so glad to hear that.
That's so nice when you when your heroes meet your expectations, You're like, oh god, he seems like a nice guy. I'm glad that he is.
His terrific guy and extraordinary talented and he is a friend of one of my best friends, and he's a good friend of his and say, he is, by any standard, a good man.
I love that. Now.
You also wrote, well, you wrote the helped write the original short movie Frank and Weenie.
And I bring this up because I actually am.
A huge I love the twenty twelve version, the stop motion Frank and Weenie.
Yeah it's a different movie.
Yeah, yes, very yes, a different movie.
But what was it like writing a short movie back in what was it in the early eighties? And then finally seeing I had a contract with Disney okay to create television, and I had on that and listen, everything with.
TV and movies is accident and networking.
My assistant was friends with another assistant who was best friends with Tim Burton's girlfriend who was producing his movie Okay, and they were they were looking for someone to write this movie.
Because of my deal with Disney, I was already being paid for it.
And through these connections, I had lunch with him a couple of times and we kind of unders I understood what he wanted.
And that's how it happened. You know, as I say, I was under contract anyway.
Yeah, so might as well might as well put you to.
Work, right, And he knew what the movie was. I mean, he gave me all stack of art of what was going to look like. Yeah, and I understood it to be a movie about a kid who was an outsider. And I was a kid who was an outsider. So I think he saw that I got it, and yeah, that's that's that happened. I mean, I wear a couple of drafts and he shot it, and from that movie he got Peev's Big.
Adventure, right.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Yeah, that was his movie after Frank and Winny.
Which is one of my favorite Tim Burton films.
Great Still's Big Adventure is so.
I mean, it's great. I used to watch that all the time as a kid. I loved it so and I love Tim Burton, so yeah, what a cool really interesting guy, you know, very interesting.
Yeah.
And and Frank and Wine the half hours in black and white and you know where else you are you in a studio was going to give you in the eighties over a million dollars do and a half an hour film?
Right?
And then oh god, the eighties when they gave money to do show.
For a week and they pulled it because it scared the kids.
They should have scared the kids.
Let them get them right, I'll survive them up a little bit, right, But they only knew what was coming.
But it was really an hundred to do and it was fun and it was great. You know, I was really proud of that. It was the first movie I was involved in.
Okay, what have been some of your favorite projects?
Then?
Well?
I rewrote The Flintstones okay? And I rewrote Are We There Yet?
And snow Dogs?
Oh yeah, and oh yeah.
I re wrote lots of movies. I did the Golden Girls in Athens.
What this is Jody's love language?
Greek Golden Girls.
Yeah, Disney sold the scripts to Greek television. Greek tell sitcoms are about forty five minutes long, so they needed someone to come in and help expand the scripts. So the actors were pretty easy to replace because they were all stereotypes. So the Pety Way character came from instead of a small town in Minnesota, a small island in Greece. That was over okay, right, The characters that were easy to do, and there were things in the show. For example, there was a gay fight attendant in season one in a few episodes, right, we brought him back. We brought back people in the families.
Okay, oh cool, and expanded it.
And I lived in Athens for a month.
Oh oh wow.
Oh that's sort of like when Scott Weiner has gone to do because he is a writer and he's gone to like go punch up shows and gone parents live in Paris and stuff and do some stuff.
What a cool, What a cool experience.
And then I wrote one of the two top sitcoms in Germany.
Did you live in Germany for a while too?
Then?
How to know?
I went to to Germany?
Okay, but it was great, and they brought in English translated in German. And again my ability to write physical stuff was good because I was able to write.
Jokes that that did translate, yeah, even if the language might not.
Yeah, I would imagine it's very hard.
Like humor in different cultures and languages can be very different, and what lands in one country and another would be like either offensive wouldn't make sense or what you know, you've got to kind of.
What they wanted to do was do these shows and then sew them all over Europe. But for that exact reason, it didn't work. What they turned back to were police shows, which work everywhere, right, Yeah, because that's not a function of wordplay and language and everything. It's procedural. Right, So they were able to do one in France and just and some titles in German or page and still work, right, But right, the jokes didn't work.
I find jokes in German, I imagine, are just a bunch louder and scarier sounding.
They're more physical. The pilot that was involved and someone walks into a store with.
A gun, and I mean that's the sitcom that's usually Yeah, that's I mean that sounds very German, that sounds very German.
It's yeah, like.
That now but but but that was acceptable, right.
So yeah, it's it is true though.
You'll watch shows and other places and you're like what we would or we would either never do that here or like what it's just an interesting kind of windows everywhere.
Well, it does. It's very universal. That's a good point. We hear that from Brazil and Japan, Like we have huge lots of fans, lots of fans in Japan, Yeah, and Brazil, so it's working there at least.
Yeah, I'm not surprised.
I'm totally not surprised.
Yeah, when we went to Japan, they said they loved the full House Family because we were a little crazy and wacky and not at all like sort of the more subdued and structured like family dynamics in a Jazanese family. But what they said they really related to was the like generations living together and different parts of the family all coming together and like that family unit idea. And yeah, I mean that was kind of the base of the show, that that translates everywhere.
Family is well.
What there's a great story that they did a production of Fitter on the Roof in Japan and the guy who played Debby came to the writer and said, do they understand this in America?
This is such a Japanese story.
Wow, And it's because it was about generations.
Yeah, oh yeah, Okay.
The exact same thing that you're talking about.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, Filler on the Roof absolutely is about that and very Yeah.
Wow, that's interesting.
I like that connection.
Yeah, I do too.
And I again like knowing that people all over the world have watched Full House and grown up with it. I mean people in all of Europe and Japan and Brazil and Greece and.
Just it's aking for something different.
Yeah. Yeah, it has struck a chord of.
Some kind with so many people across generations, across cultures. I am always very proud and like kind of just honored that that show.
You know.
I think when we were doing it, nobody considered it to be something that was like a cultural touchstone.
No do you know.
We were like, it's fun and it's a silly sitcom and whatever. But as it has gone through the ages and through generations and through sort of the shift in everything that's gone on the last thirty seven years, people still connect with it and love it. And that's that's very that's hard to do. Not everything will last for thirty something years.
Yeah, it is for so many people an important memory mm hmm.
Yeah, an important memory with their families and with their you know what, getting together and watching TV on a Friday night. Particularly now when that was something, when that's something that it has been lost a little bit, well not a little bit, a lot of it, uh that it's I think families love remembering when they used to do that, and then also with fuller, like getting to do that again and being like, oh see this was what we used to do. Is I'll watch Family Together as a you know TV it together as a family appointment TV.
Sure.
So, I mean what was the Fourhouse experience like for you as compared to the original?
Mind blowing? Like we never thought we'd get to come back and do it again, Like, yeah, special was that? I mean, now everybody's got a reboot, but we were one of the first.
I also think getting to come back, you know, talking.
With you today about sort of the collaborative process and the note and the being able to shape storylines or jokes or do all of that, that was something I think as an adult coming back, I was so excited to get to be a part of because you know, when we were kids, we showed up, we did our lines, we did our job, and then we went and did our other job, which was school and life and whatever. You know, you're not giving a ten year old a seat at the notes table and being like what do you think?
But as an adult to come back, it was such a.
Great experience because you were like, oh, wow, like I get to participate in the creation of this, and it felt there was such for me, at least, a sense of ownership more over the final product and over the show and what we were doing.
Sure, and it was it was really cool.
And I you know, I got to direct an episode, Andrea got to write, Candice got to direct some like we all got to do things that we had been exposed to since.
We were kids, that we just had absorbed.
And learned and lived. And then we got to come back and do it as adults all over again and be on the flip side of it, which was really really cool.
And I also think audiences rarely get to see the people they love grow up.
Yeah, and usually when they do their horror stories, yeah right, I mean usually stories about kid actors. You don't hear anybody say they finished the show and they were really in real estate and they're rich and they're successful, and everybody's happy. People don't care about this story, right, So when you hear about young people who are actors, it's almost always a horror story.
Right, right, And this I think it was like people were so excited to see that the Tanner clan come back, and yeah, they and we were all kind of still the same people. And I always say, like our characters on the show and our real selves, even with the adults, Like there was such crossover in so many ways because you guys as writers listened to us as people and what we who we were and also who we.
Thought characters should be, and like it.
It just we got to come back and like live those fully experienced characters as adults, and people loved getting to see where they all wound up and what happened.
Oh, I know, I know.
It was very satisfying. And we tried to recreate that type of atmosphere on the Fuller House set for the kids that we experienced on Full House too, where it was very nurturing. It was never like we weren't trying to push the kids over their time limits or yeah, you know, we try to be very respectful of their job to say that.
We were very careful about you guys.
You guys really were.
It was an ideal place to you know, work as a kid. But it really was like the experience that we had on Full House and on that show was wonderful and magical and like, yes, it was hard work, but compared to some of the other stories that I hear about sets of that era or working as kids, I'm like, yeah, we didn't have that, Like we all.
Really when you saw some of these other kids auditioning with their families, you really saw what the downside of this, right, you know. I mean I remember a kid came in and you see, it was like seven years old. I'm talking to them, what are you doing it for the weekend? Is that it's really exciting? I'm going to his birthday party? Mother says, no, we're not. Don't remember the agent as a dinner.
That we're going to.
Oh right, you know, the kid got it, But the kid still needs to be a kid. You know, he wants to go to the park and play on the playground, not going executive dinner.
Give me, it's easy a lot because you're auditioning kids.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And it's definitely like our families were so involved in such a part of it, and our moms in particular, like it was I always say it was the most normal, abnormal way to grow up.
Like it just seems always in the stands.
Yep.
They were always there, even in a bunch of episodes and I was.
Talking to your mom. I mean we would talk, you know. They weren't like apart.
From this show.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was.
And again that's also something that's not always the case that like even the kids parents are included and talked to and that everybody knows them, you know, just I'm.
Always but you didn't have to show.
Up his parents No, no, not have stage moms.
They no, I mean no, I mean nobody came to me and said, you know, Andrea can use a couple of lines and act too right.
I know that our parents were not. They were like just have fun and like do your job, and but it wasn't about.
Like what's next and who are you going to be and we're you know.
It was always about like just be a good human and then we'll figure the rest out.
I think that they trusted us with you yea, in the sense that they knew that we were not going to put you anywhere that was uncomfortable or inappropriate.
True, you we have We were raised by a community of really solid, lovely, wonderful adults on the on that set and uh and and when we got to do it with Fuller too, we got to really we create that and include those kids, and it meant a lot.
It's rare that any of us can be part of the legacy, and foll else is a legacy.
Yeah, that's huge, Lucky Well, Lenny, this has been such a joy and an amazing interview.
I mean, we have had. It's so great to see you, it really is.
I haven't so great, like we said, haven't seen you in thirty something years. I've only seen photos of you that I have from when we, you know, were shooting the show when I was a kid. But I just always remember how kind and wonderful and funny you were and I and it's wonderful to see that you haven't changed.
Well, you guys are wonderful ladies. Thank you, and that's you know, And I'm proud of had you turned out. I take no responsibility for it, but I'm very pleased.
Oh, Lenny, we love and appreciate you seriously.
Thank you for bringing Kimmy Gibble into the world. Thank you for.
Like we have you to think.
I mean, they're two legendary characters. And also, Gimbler is the best name in the world. That was not the name came up with the greatest name.
Gibbler is. I mean, it's the most ridiculous last name ever and it's and it's so Kimmy. Yeah, thank you so much, Lenny. We loved having you. We really appreciate it. And that was Lenny Rips.
Everyone, what a great episode, two parts of a fantastic interview. Being able to work with him on Full House was such an unforgettable experience, and he is so incredible at what he does.
We loved being able.
To reminisce on all the work he's accomplished throughout his life and hearing about I mean, the Star Wars, Christmas thing, gold Greek Golden Girls. There was so many fantastic things that we found out about Lenny Rips, and I was just really honored to have him on the show. So thank you so much for tuning into another episode of How Rude Tanner Rito's Make sure that you are following us on Instagram at how Rude Podcast. You can also email us at howardpodcast at gmail dot com, where you can send us questions for some of our minisodes, or comments or concerns, or you know, your thoughts on the Star Wars Christmas special.
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Us for another fun episode of how Rude tanner Rito's and remember everyone, the world is small, but the house is FULLA.
I've had to stop for a second though. I know why. I almost said the show is small, and then I was like, nope.
Well you paused right before you say it.
I think that helps, like reset while I pause and say it in my head.
But that was why I was like, that show is I was like, no
That's not the thing, so yeah, yeah, no it I figured it out.
