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"The dad's best friend, Joey, may be mentally challenged, too, as he loves cartoons."
...he may be mentally challenged because he loves cartoons? Now, I've seen the show, and I know what you mean, but...
The Editor: I removed the cruft because it was more an essay than an entry. Anyone who wants to see it again can check the History ~~~~
Looney Toons: Until it scrolls off. In case you haven't noticed, only about a month's worth of changes are shown. Additionally, I think it's quite rude to delete a contributor's comments on the Discussion page -- that's tantamount to censoring their opinion. In light of that, I'm restoring Morgan's entry.
Fine - sorry i didnt know i was being rude.
Morgan Wick: Although only a month's worth of changes are shown, it can be longer if it's inactive. The history never changes until someone edits the page.
Morgan Wick: For posterity and historical interest, here's the content that The Editor removed:
A Dom Com about a widowed father, his brother-in-law, and his best friend. The three share a house and the duties of raising the eldest's three daughters. Everything that was wrong with 1980s television comedy was made incarnate in this bland, overwhelmingly saccharine show. It averaged two or three Aesops an episode, with everything carefully worn down to be as inoffensive as possible, about a third of the 'humor' was derived from the youngest daughter mispronouncing words and asking naive questions. Made celebrities out of Bob Saget and the Olsen twins. Shudder...
WARNING: This entry may reflect the poster's feelings more than anything else.
Alternatively, Full House can be viewed as being one of the last few TV examples of a family with very loving, merciful and caring attitudes toward each other at a time when such values were losing their luster in a world more desirous of hatemongering parents, such as Roseanne and Homer Simpson. This show featured a very stable family, whereas so much of modern TV focuses on dysfunction.
And yet, this family functioned despite numerous major challenges that would have led to those in less stable families to commit suicide/homicide. The wife died because of a drunken driver. The father was borderline obsessive-compulsive about cleaning, and discipline of children was ignored, as shown by various Aesops leading the older sister to be the one to do chores in the background -- see "Crimes and Michelle's Misdemeanor" for the This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself that started the father putting her in timeout finally, for the first time, close to age 4!
Not only that, but the older sister, D.J., must deal with a best friend who may have a mental disability and whose family is crazy enough to wear in-line skates in the house.
There are many problems, and yet they get through it by following the Golden Rule. The worst that could be said is that it's an '80s The Brady Bunch or Leave It To Beaver. Full House demonstrates what this world needs and how to go about it: Love one another no matter what, and you can get through anything. That lesson shows what is probably the closest thing to Christian love on TV in the last 30 years. This is An Aesop everyone needs to learn.
(Note: This review reflects the writer's opinion, too. Given the sharp contrasts, the best way to view the series is likely somewhere in between.)
== Manny Tanner ==
Under what trope would Danny's messy evil psychotic mental twin fall under?
