Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber apologize to ‘Full House’ creator for ragging on some of their old episodes

Everyone’s favorite “rewatch podcasters” Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber got a visit from their old boss, Full House creator (and one-time owner of 10050 sky drive) Jeff Franklin. It was a special season 3 wrap-up episode of the podcast, in which there was some thoughtful ranking and summarization of the shows that aired from 1989 to 1990.

As you may already know, Sweetin and Barber’s delightful program is called How Rude, Tanneritos!and this was a time in which the gals felt the need to fess up to some potential rudeness of their own.

“We finally get to have Jeff in here for one of our recap episodes,” Sweetin said as introduction, after which Barber chimed in, saying, “Well, we felt a little bad at how we’ve been a little critical of the show. Well, critical with love.”

If Franklin was upset, he didn’t show it, saying, “I get it, you know, and all of the vicious criticism is well deserved.”

Sweetin wanted to clarify, though, adding, “I’d like to think it’s not vicious, but hilarious criticism. Hilarious criticism.”

Barber agreed, saying, “You know, it was a sitcom in the ’90s! We’re gonna poke fun at it, with love.”

With the sagacity that likely comes from decades of regular, Everest-sized royalty checks, Franklin responded, “You know, some of it has weathered the years better than others.”

After all this yukkin’ around, Franklin did offer his opinion on why the series was such a success — enough to inspire the five seasons of a Netflix sequel, Fuller House21 years after the original went off the air.

“The happy accident of this show was how amazingly perfect those actors were for the parts that I wrote,” he shared. “(It) was very bizarre. I mean, it was just perfect casting. And by accident. But amazing. So that was a big part of what made the show work.”

Barber pushed back, saying that it couldn’t have all been by accident, and that Franklin used his special set of producer skills to get the remarkable cast that included John Stamos, Bob the case, Dave Coulierand all the others together.

“But I didn’t write for actors,” he explained. “I just made up stuff. These people appeared that were so right for those characters.”

He continued, “It’s just very rare. And then for everyone in this little fake family to turn into a real family, just icing on the cake, was amazing.”

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