Netflix's 'Fuller House' is brilliant

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Interesting range of reactions to this one. The AV Club described the show as ā€œlike a porn parody without the porn.ā€

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I summon @Donald_Petersen-ā mon!

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I donā€™t know about the rest of you, but Bob Saget is near the top of my list of probable ā€œBest People IRLā€ (along with whatā€™s-his-fizzy-headed-danceā€™n-with-the-oldies - oh, Richard Simmons!) for being overly selfless with their lives.

Bob for giving up on his dreams for a steady income to help his sister and Richard, well, he was way ahead on the anti-body shaming curve - well before it was cool!

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This was a big part of my childhood and in so many ways just resonates with what I think of when I think of 90s sitcoms. It sounds promising in that it makes fun of itself, because in so many ways (I talked about this in a long-lost thread about video games) playing these older themes straight just reminds you of how they donā€™t hold up well. Far more effective is to highlight how things change and yet stay the same. Will have to give it a viewing.

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Good lord, you have a strange relationship with this terrible show.

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Funny. Iā€™ve never seen an episode of either show, but my GF grew up in the Bay Area with ā€œFull Houseā€, has loads of nostalgia associated with it, and thinks the new show should DIAF.

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You have to use the signal.

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Bob Saget was probably my favorite bit of The Aristocrats. I think mostly when he breaks down nearly in laughing tears apologizing to all the Full House / Funniest Home Videos fans then takes a deep breath and proceeds to go down the rabbit hole of offensive even further with glee.

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Itā€™s bad. But bad in a way thatā€™s kind of charming.

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And Mary Kate has moved on to bigger things. Sheā€™s gone back to school.

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I am building a geodesic greenhouse this month (not pictured!), they are my favorite kind of Fuller houses.

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I never watched this show, but from here it smells like a Brady Bunch reunion.

More like the Real Live Brady Bunch.

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This Full House reunion seems ridiculous to me, but I did recently watch all 9 seasons of ā€œFacts of Lifeā€ on Netflix so Iā€™m certainly in no position to judge anyone.

Now if only Family Ties was availableā€¦

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Nothing you can say will get me to watch this show. Nope!

(Sorry @Donald_Petersen!)

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Thatā€™s the standard shipping signal.

I have a prime account, letā€™s try that.

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I put it as ā€˜reasons you never actually look back at the thing youā€™re nostalgic for $500 Alex.ā€™

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ā€œBrilliantā€

Itā€™s no Brady Movie, which is what I was hoping for.

I mentioned that earlier in another threadā€¦ Are they still a going thing? I saw the touring show way back when WITH DAVY JONES!

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