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  • Actor-Shared Background:
    • Stephanie Tanner is a recovering alcoholic. Her actress Jodie Sweetin battled alcohol and drug abuse shortly after Full House wrapped in 1996 and continued to do so until she finally got sober in 2008.
    • Just like her character, Ramona, Soni Nicole Bringas is of Spanish descent.
  • Breaking Old Trends: Seasons 3 and 5 were notable for breaking the Netflix season limit of 13 episodes maximum, albeit released in groups of nine.
  • The Cast Show Off:
    • Jodie Sweetin has an outstanding singing voice that she shows off on more than one occasion. Stephanie ends up trying to build a music career, facilitating more and more singing.
    • The show is also fond of having everyone dance, with the main characters showing their stuff. Ramona specifically gets a number of moments to show off because Soni Nicole Bringas is a dancer in real life.
    • Since Candace Cameron Bure has a love for fitness, she decided to do real hands-on wrestling in episode 6 instead of having a stuntwoman do it. She later does an American Ninja Warrior inspired obstacle course in yoga pants and a sports bra.
  • Channel Hop:
    • While Full House aired on ABC, Fuller House is streaming on Netflix.
    • While the Japanese dub of the original series aired on NHK, it's also streaming on Netflix Japan, although this could well be inverted since Time-Warner has negotiated to allow NHK to also air Fuller House alongside it streaming on Netflix in the future.
  • Character Outlives Actor: The first dog who played Cosmo died at age 4 during a surgery due to complications.
  • Corpsing: When Matt wins Vet of the Year despite his own clinic only lasting three weeks, Jodie Sweetin appears to ad lib "I had a girlfriend longer than that." When Candace Cameron Bure gives a surprised "What?" she, Jodie and Marla Sokoloff (Gia) all burst into laughter just as the scene cuts away.
  • Cross-Regional Voice Acting: The European Spanish dub used voice actors from Madrid and Barcelona.
  • Directed by Cast Member:
    • Jodie Sweetin directed "The Nearlywed Game".
    • "Perfect Sons", "Five Dates with Kimmy Gibbler", and "Basic Training" were directed by Candace Cameron Bure.
    • Dave Coulier directed "Nutcrackers", "Surrogate City", "President Fuller", "Ready Player Fuller", and "Cold Turkey".
  • Fake Brit: Los Angeles-born Jodie Sweetin tries to sound British during Stephanie's first appearance. The first episode explains this away as she just got back from London, where she lived during the time between Full House and this series.
    • Even in universe, others are wondering whether her accent is real or an affectation. Likewise, after she is snapped back to her normal American accent after catching scent of Kimmy's infamously smelly feet, it's unclear whether the smell simply annoyed her enough to cut out the pretense or whether it was so rank that it literally hit a hard reset on her brain's language center.
  • Follow the Leader: Ever since returning, Full(er) House was indirectly responsible for the influx of classic sitcoms like Roseanne and Will & Grace returning years after the original series ended.note 
  • Hostility on the Set: Series creator Jeff Franklin reportedly came to blows with the writers and staff. The controversy led to Warner Bros. dropping him from the show and probably factored into the main cast and higher ups unanimously agreeing to end the show after 5 seasons, although Netflix managed to broker one more season of the show to be produced, with the true final season premiering on June 2020.
  • Multiple Languages, Same Voice Actor: Beginning in season 2, the Buenos Aires-born Juan Pablo di Pace is dubbing himself as Fernando in both Spanish dubs (Latin American and European) and the Italian dub. It helps that Fuller House is dubbed for Latin America in his native Argentina.
  • The Other Darrin: The show overall took great pains to bring back the original cast, even those that played minor characters. However, there have been a few exceptions which necessitated this trope:
    • In a season one episode, Stephanie calls an old friend from the original series, Harry Takayama, with whom she had a pretend marriage ceremony; she affectionately calls him her "husband." The original child actor, Nathan Nishiguchi, has retired and the part was recast with Michael Sun Lee.
    • In the second season High School reunion episode, Nelson, played by Jason Marsden in the original show, is recast with Hal Sparks due to a scheduling conflict, whereas Viper and Duane are played by the same actors.
    • In the Japanese dub, the only (so far and obvious) replacements are the Katsopolis twins, who were voiced by Satomi Koorogi in Full House and now they're voiced by Atsushi Abe instead here;note  and Nick Katsopolis, who was voiced by Takeshi Aono in Full House, and since he died in 2012, he is replaced with Tamio Sobami here.
    • In the Latin American Spanish dub, Full House was originally dubbed in Mexico City. For Fuller House, it was instead dubbed in Argentina and everyone was inevitably recast.
    • The European Spanish dub, on the other hand, stayed in Madrid and kept almost all of the roles. The only two exceptions were Stephanie (whose original voice actress, Valle Acebrón, passed away in 2010) and Kimmy. However, their replacements are two of the most respected and well-known voice actresses in the country: Marta Barbarà and Graciela Molina (both from Barcelona), respectively.
      • Funnily enough, Fernando in Season 1 was dubbed by veteran Spaniard voice actor Roberto Encinas in the European Spanish dub and Sebastián Castro in the Latin American Spanish dub. Beginning with Season 2, Fernando is voiced by... Juan Pablo Di Pace, dubbing himself in both versions.
    • The French dub went and replaced everyone except Olivier Destrez as John Stamos.
    • Brazil had it pretty bad, as the dub changed cities from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo. Curiously, Danny Tanner is voiced by Tatá Guarnieri in Fuller, and by his son Caio in the final seasons of Full House.
  • Posthumous Credit: Despite dying of complications of heart failure in April 2020, executive producer Thomas L. Miller is still credited for the second half of Season 5. Granted, this is justifiable as production of the series had already been completed months before his death.
  • Produced by Cast Member: John Stamos reprises his role as Jesse Katsopolis and is one of the show's executive producers.
  • Real-Life Relative:
    • Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber's real-life daughters, Zoie Herpin and Felicity Ritky, appear in "A Tangled Web".
    • Candace Cameron Bure's daughter, Natasha Bure, appears as a member of the rivalling student sorority in "College Tours."
  • Reality Subtext:
    • When Danny invites DJ to stay at his house for as long as she needs, Jesse asks him if he's sure about it, and if he knows how much the house is worth now. That's a nod to the fact that, since the late 90s, San Francisco has infamously become one of the most expensive cities to live in America - a San Franciscan real estate agent estimated that the Tanner house could easily sell for around $3 to $3.5 million!
    • Becky getting a new, obnoxious, sexist co-host for "Wake Up, San Francisco" is somewhat odd considering the show's creator Jeff Franklin was removed for apparently similar behavior being revealed in the wake of the #MeToo movement.
  • Role-Ending Misdemeanor:
    • In February 2018, Warner Bros. dropped Jeff Franklin from Fuller House and didn't renew his contract after accusations of abusive behavior both on the set and in the writer's room surfaced. Steve Baldikoski and Bryan Behar succeeded Franklin as the show-runners, while Franklin was still billed in the credits as the show's creator.
    • After Lori Loughlin's involvement in the Operation Varsity Blues scandal came out in March 2019, Netflix dropped her from the show's production. In the end, the show's fifth and final season was produced without Loughlin's involvement.
  • Role Reprise:
    • Every main actor who played a credited character on the original series returns, including the Tuomy-Wilhoit twins who played Alex and Nicky. The main exception is neither Mary-Kate or Ashley Olsen return as Michelle, and Michelle is not recast initially with the hope one of them would be willing to reprise the role, but it never came to fruition.
    • Even some minor recurring characters from the original show, a few of which were Put on a Bus then, have appeared with their original actors, such as Jesse’s father Nick, the Rippers band members, Kimmy’s ex Dwayne, and Vicky Larson.
    • Many of the original voice actors in the Japanese dub returned to reprise their roles, including Chika Sakamoto as DJ, Ikue Otani as Stephanie, Miki Itō as Kimmy, Kenyuu Horiuchi as Jesse, Hōchū Ōtsuka as Danny and Kōichi Yamadera as Joey.
  • Separated-at-Birth Casting:
    • A holdover from the original show, Jodie Sweetin and Candace Cameron-Bure still look uncannily like sisters.
    • Michael Campion and Elias Harger (Jackson and Max respectively) look a lot like brothers.
    • Soni Nicole Bringas looks like she could definitely be the daughter of Andrea Barber and Juan Pablo Di Pace.
    • Landry Bender (Rocki) and Marla Sokoloff (Gia) look like mother and daughter.
  • Throw It In!: Stephanie's line about having a girlfriend for three weeks was adlibbed by Jodie Sweetin, and the surprised reactions from Candace Cameron and Marla Sokoloff were genuine
  • What Could Have Been: It was rumored that, after the Olsen Twins declined, the producers considered asking their younger sister Elizabeth Olsen to play Michelle. Rumor states that her agent immediately refused, and Elizabeth made it known that she never considered it.
  • Written by Cast Member: "College Tours" was written by Andrea Barber.
  • Written-In Infirmity: Jodie Sweetin broke her ankle during production of the third season, so the writers had her character Stephanie also have a broken ankle beginning in the season's second episode.

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