Recap / Full House S 8 E 18 We Got The Beat

"We Got the Beat" is an episode in the eighth season of Full House.

As the talent show competition segment of "Wake Up, San Francisco" approaches, Stephanie, Gia, and Kimmy form a girls' band to participate in it, but tension arises when Jesse, as their manager, wishes for them to practice more often, while the girls prefer improving their looks instead. In the meantime, Joey and Danny decide to have a go in the stock market after seeing D.J.'s homework on finances.

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Tropes in this episode include:

• Answer Cut: Early in the episode, Stephanie and Gia both acknowledge that they know no one who can play a keyboard while trying to form a girls' band, so Jesse steps in and says that he knows one person who can do so, though he also warns them that they need to keep a pretty open mind about his candidate. Stephanie is alarmed at once and asks: "How open?" The scene shifts to Kimmy playing the "Charge" fanfare from baseball games.
• …But He Sounds Handsome: Played with. Jesse lists the qualities of someone who was in a band and, therefore, experienced enough to be suitable as a candidate for a band manager without mentioning himself, only for Stephanie to assume Jesse's promoting someone else.
  Stephanie: Which one of the Eds was that?
  Jesse: It was me, huh?
• Epic Fail: Late in the episode, Jesse recounts to Stephanie of an incident that took place with the members of his first band: Everyone in the band was doing his best to look cool before their scheduled performance, not unlike what Stephanie, Kimmy, and Gia did prior to theirs. Come the time of the performance itself, Jesse had applied so much grease in his hair that a drumstick he was holding flew straight out of his hand due to the remnant grease in his hand and struck Little Ed, knocking him out on the spot.
• Get-Rich-Quick Scheme: Zigzagged.
  • Danny and Joey decide to try to make some quick bucks in the stock market after seeing D.J.'s homework on finances, only for the scheme to backfire on them in the end due to mistimed stock sales.
    D.J.: I'm shocked. I never thought you guys would cheat off my homework.
  • On the other hand, Kimmy buys the stocks at the same time Danny and Joey sell theirs, thus making enough money to afford herself a brand-new keyboard when she sells her stocks.
• Insult Backfire: When Stephanie and Gia decide to start a girls' band but know no one who can fill the role of a keyboardist, Jesse introduces Kimmy to them. Stephanie is NOT thrilled with the prospect of having Kimmy as a band member and describes Kimmy in unflattering words to Gia, only for Gia to tell Stephanie that those unflattering terms make Kimmy a perfect fit for the band.
  Gia: Come on, Steph. Right now she's all we got.
  Stephanie: But you don't know Kimmy like I do! She's rude, crude, and lewd.
  Gia: That's perfect!
• Laser-Guided Karma: Michelle, with Derek and Lisa in tow, offers to help Stephanie, Kimmy, and Gia with their own singing, only to be laughed off with the Badass Boast of defeat upon Derek and Lisa. This comes back to bite them come the time of the talent show competition, as not only do they suffer humiliating defeat due to their own neglect of practices, but Derek and Lisa actually end up netting the win for said contest with their singing duet as well.
• Living Prop: Melissa, the girl Stephanie and Gia recruit as the drummer for their band serves this function, as she has two speaking line.
• Music at Sporting Events: Kimmy plays the "Charge" fanfare from baseball games in two occasions, but no one reacts the way she hoped for in either.
  • The first time she plays it, it's her audition piece of choice when Jesse suggests having Kimmy as the keyboardist for the girls' band. The other girls aren't impressed, but Stephanie, being a Sitcom Archnemesis of Kimmy's, is downright disdainful to the prospect.
    Jesse: So she's no Billy Idol, but at least she knows how to, uh, get the crowd going.
    Stephanie: Going where, to the nearest exit?
  • It's worse in the second occasion, because the girls' performance on "Wake Up, San Francisco" completely bombed — live, no less. Kimmy's one last-ditch attempt to get some positive reaction by playing the fanfare is met with utter silence.
    Kimmy: Tough crowd.
• One-Steve Limit: Played with when Jesse talks about his first band to Stephanie and Gia.
  Jesse: It was me, Little Ed, Big Ed, and uh, Regular-sized Ed.
  Rebecca: They didn't have a lot of names back then.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: Danny and Joey's Get-Rich-Quick Scheme via the stock market ends up backfiring in the end due to mistimed stock sales, resulting in them losing money instead of making more.
• Shout-Out:
  • To Ace of Base, as "The Sign", one of the best-known songs by the band, is the song of choice for the girls^note  — in their well-performed moment, that is.
  • The title of this episode serves this purpose to The Go-Go's, as it's one of their best-known songs. Stephanie also refers to the band when they talk about forming an all-girl group.
• Tough Room: When her band's performance goes sour and the other members leave in embarrassment, Kimmy at least tries to have a little fun by doing the "Charge" fanfare on her keyboard. The unimpressed audience doesn't respond by yelling "Charge!" She says, "Wow, tough crowd!" and leaves as well.

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