Sickeningly sweet saccharin show starring the obnoxious Olsen twins, Mary Kate and Ashley, who play the youngest daughter Michelle.
The show centers around a sort of extended family.
Danny, the dad is a widower raising 3 daughters, Michelle, the youngest, Stephanie, the middle girl and DJ, the oldest.
They share a house in San Fransisco with Dad’s friend Joey, an aspiring comedian and Uncle Jesse, an aspiring musician.
(In the last 2 seasons of the show, Uncle Jesse gets married and he and his wife have twin boys. And they all still live in the same house. Must be nice having a house large enough to house 4 adults and 5 children all having their own bedrooms)
The show is about the trials and tribulations of raising 3 girls and all the situations they go through. For instance, Stephanie is always bugging DJ, and DJ is ’’growing up too fast’’ and Michelle (who seems to be the smartest one on the show, although the youngest) always does something cute and precocious to make the older sisters realize that they should get along. Somethimes they even make her smarter than Dad, Uncle Jesse and Joey (Who is forever lingering in his teenage years anyway.) Dj (the oldest) starts dating and stays out past curfew, with a boy dad didn’t approve of in the first place....Big story, he tried to kiss her and she broke curfew and dad had his ’’stern’’ dad talk with her. ’’You’re grounded for 2 weeks, no TV, no dates, friends over the house, no going to the mall!’’ And DJ replies with, ’’I guess it is a deserving punishment.’’ (OOOOOOOOO SAD FACE AND ALL)
’’Aw , ’’says dad, ’’I think you’ve learned your lesson, I can’t ground you.’’ Hugs, hugs. And just then ’’baby’’ Michelle strolls into the room with something cutsie to say...............And the laugh track, canned laughter, and prerecorded chuckles and guffaws come from the audience.
Come on folks.........This show should be called Full Fantasy House. I’ve never met any family quite like The Tanner family. Always happy, ultra forgiving, learning a ’’lesson’’ from everyday life. You can’t just stay out past curfew and say oops, sorry. There has to be a long intricate sad story as to why.
And lest we forget, the girls are all cute and DJ only dates football players and the most popular boys in school.
Also, when Dad isn’t working as the host of a morning talk show (Good Morning San Fransisco) he’s busy being obsessivly clean about the house. When Jesse isn’t working (At what, I don’t know) he’s busy looking for the ladies and doing assinine things to try and become a famous rock star. And for Joey, he just does stupid things throughout the show and he’s another one that I can’t figure out exactly what he does for a living.(If anything.)
So, the girls fight and argue, Dad gets angry with them, or Joey gets angry with them or Uncle Jesse gets angry with them. Whoever’s turn it is to be the ’’main’’ character for the 30 minute show that week.
They also have a dog Comet (sometimes he’s there, sometimes he’s not.....)He doesn’t really add to the storyline anyway.
I’d only reccomend this show to very young children (not because of the storylines, but because ’’The Olsen Twins’’ are popular now, what with their full line of girls clothing, trademark school supplies and such...$$$$$)
Young girls ages 4 to about 8 may enjoy the show, but that’s about it.
Mind you, there is no violence, sex or bad language, so if your 6 year old daughter wants to watch...........let her.