Full House

When deciding what to blog about this week, I wasn't sure at all what I wanted to write about. I even googled "what to blog about today" but I didn't find any results worth blogging. I then took a glance around the room taking in all that was happening. Heather and Hunter were breaking each other’s wrists while playing a game of mercy, my mom was sitting at the table paying bills, my dad was fixing dinner for tomorrow night, and I sat watching my favorite TV sitcom on nick@night, Full House. It then dawned on me that I wanted to blog about Full House and the connection I share with it. (If you've never seen the show you might not find as much interest in this blog: fair warning)

Short summary: Set in San Francisco, this is a show about a very loving family headed by Danny Tanner, who became a single father when his wife, Pam Tanner, was killed in a car accident. Pam's brother Jesse, and Danny's best friend Joey Gladstone moved into the house to help Danny raise his three daughters D.J., Stephanie, and Michelle. Full House consisted of 8 seasons, 192 episodes and was first aired on September 22, 1987, its last episode was aired May 23, 1995. Reruns are still on regularly today.

I’ll start from the beginning. I began watching Full House due to the suggestion from my childhood best friend Bailey Windecker. I can still vividly remember being 5 years old and standing in the kitchen of her old house making a turkey sandwich for lunch when she asked what my favorite TV show was, my response at the time was SpongeBob. Bailey then suggested that we watch Full House, I wasn't going to disagree just because I hadn't seen the show before so we watched it. Due to the handsome Uncle Jesse (John Stamos), I was hooked after my first episode.

As the show grew older with different storylines and more characters being added, I also grew with different storylines and characters added to my life. I found that each different situation and scenario in the show was handled similarly. Most of them began with a problem, attempted to be solved, and ended with a life lesson of some sort. With something to be learned every episode, it keeps me an avid watcher still today. I can't put my finger on it, but there's something about the show that it comforting to me. It's the show that I watch almost every night between the times of 7-9:30 when I can, it is also the show that makes me feel better and comforts me when I'm sick or down in the dumps. It always manages to cheer me up. The show also brings me back in time to days I would spend with Bailey sitting and watching it with her. I have fond memories and connections with Full House and continue to watch all the reruns to this day.