‘The place did outdated grandma go?’

No matter occurred to predictability?

Full Home stars Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber are reminiscing about among the plot holes and dangling threads that emerged over the eight seasons of their beloved TGIF sitcom. “There’s so many!” Sweetin mentioned on the newest episode of their How Impolite, Tanneritos! rewatch podcast.

As followers little doubt recall, Sweetin performed center sister Stephanie Tanner on Full Home, which ran from 1987 to 1995 on ABC, and on Fuller Home, the Netflix sequel collection that ran from 2016 to 2020. Barber additionally appeared on each reveals as Kimmy Gibbler, the oddball bestie of huge sister D.J. (performed by Candace Cameron Bure).

For Barber, one of many greatest Full Home plot holes needed to do with Kimmy’s personal siblings. She recalled that her character initially had three sisters, however there was later a point out of an older brother named Garth whom viewers by no means noticed. Then a youthful brother named Jimmy confirmed up on Fuller Home and ended up marrying Stephanie. (The character cannot consider she ended up with a Gibbler, both!)

Sweetin provided a idea about Kimmy’s household.

“Perhaps the Gibblers took [Jimmy] in as an older teenager,” she mentioned. “Perhaps the Gibblers had been a foster household, and they also had numerous children coming out and in. They referred to as them siblings, you recognize, to essentially create a household dynamic. Perhaps that is what it was.”

Barber wasn’t shopping for it, though she joked that Sweetin had married into the Gibbler household, so she in all probability knew the lore. Barber additionally mentioned she warned the group behind Fuller Home that introducing Jimmy within the second season was going to be a factor.

“They mentioned, ‘Oh, we’re so excited, we will have Jimmy Gibbler,'” the actress recalled. “And I am like, guys, no, the followers are going to lord this over me. I am gonna get questions. I am gonna get DMs. I am gonna get emails — for the remainder of my life! — should you identify him something aside from Garth. They usually’re like, ‘No, we like Jimmy and Kimmy. We just like the rhyming a part of it.'”

As predicted, followers had questions. “I am nonetheless listening to about it,” Barber mentioned, “and I’ll.”

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For Sweetin, she additionally had issues with consistency within the Tanner household. Stephanie’s dad, Danny (performed by the late Bob Saget), was coping with the lack of his spouse and the mom of his daughters, which is why he moved in with John Stamos‘ Jesse, his late spouse’s brother, and his good friend Joey (Dave Coulier). However the group felt very a lot on their very own.

“My greatest one appears to be the, like, bizarre lack of connection between Jesse’s household and Danny’s household, notably in the beginning of the present,” Sweetin mentioned. “Every little thing else within the household dynamics of the forged simply felt so real, after which it simply left me with numerous questions. Moreover the very fact of, the place did outdated grandma go?”

Sweetin and Barber are sure to give you extra, as a result of they’re solely within the third season of their Full Home rewatch. Take heed to the podcast episode above for extra.