Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber Were Traumatized by This Truly BizarreFull HouseDream Sequence

Mar. 15, 2025

Bob Saget, Lori Loughlin, John Stamos and Dave Coulier in ‘Full House’ in 1990.Photo:ABC

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Just in time for Spooky Season,Andrea BarberandJodie Sweetinare looking back in horror at a bizarre and unintentionally creepy moment inFull Househistory.

On the most recent episode of their podcastHow Rude, Tanneritos!, the two hosts revisited the 16th episode of the beloved sitcom’s third season, 1990’s “Bye, Bye, Birdie.” And, no, it’s not a Halloween-themed episode.

Mary-Kate or Ashley Olsen in ‘Full House’ in 1990.ABC

“Oh, boy. Horrifying,” Sweetin said. “What is happening? Like, why? This was so creepy.”

“I wrote down ‘What the f— kind of acid trip did I just watch?’ ” Barber added.

The dream sequence comes early in the episode, after Danny (Bob Saget), Jesse (John Stamos), Joey (Dave Coulier) and Becky (Lori Loughlin) all tuck Michelle in the night before her first day of preschool. The scene then shifts to Michelle’s dream of, presumably, what preschool will be like: a big room filled with giant toys, with the four adult actors playing … well, it’s not exactly clear what, alongside a VFX enlarged Michelle in a pink princess dress reminiscent of Glinda the Good Witch fromThe Wizard of Oz.

The sequence opens with Loughlin dressed in a sailor dress and pigtails, with exaggerated freckles drawn on her face, playing hide-and-seek.

Bob Saget and Lori Loughlin in ‘Full House’ in 1990.ABC

“I couldn’t figure out if they were supposed to be toys, and that’s why Michelle appears larger than them,” Barber said. “The scale was really weird too when she comes out in her Glinda dress. I don’t know. I’m like, are they toys? Are they friends?”

“They were trying to make it like the adults were kid size,” Sweetin suggested. “But Michelle was so much larger than them. It was like Godzilla or something coming out.”

Mary-Kate or Ashley Olsen, Bob Saget, Lori Loughlin, John Stamos and Dave Coulier in ‘Full House’ in 1990.ABC

“I just didn’t understand the point,” said Barber. “This episode would have been fine, perhaps better, without the dream sequence. What was the point of this?”

“Maybe the writers were pissed at them,” Sweetin joked of the four adult actors.

Stamos in particular, she added, seemed to be performing under “duress.”

“At some point during that day of shooting, I feel like he turned to [showrunnerJeff Franklin] and was like, ‘I’m gonna meet you out in the parking lot after this. This is ridiculous,’ " Sweetin joked.

John Stamos in ‘Full House’ in 1990.ABC

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Barber added that she and Sweetin needed to get Loughlin, Stamos and Coulier onTanneritos!to ask whether they protested doing the scene and why they ultimately ended up agreeing to it.

“I don’t even know what the point of this is,” a baffled Barber said.

“I don’t know that there is one. I think they were like, ‘What’s the weirdest thing we can do?’ " said Sweetin. “There is no logic. Nothing makes sense here. Nothing!”

“I was legitimately horrified,” Barber said of the scene. “I was like, have we jumped the shark already? Season 3?”

“I would have preferred if a shark came and ate everybody in that scene,” Sweetin joked. “Just put us all out of our misery.”

source: people.com