After the sudden death of his wife, a young father enlists the help of his brother-in-law and his childhood friend to help him raise his three daughters.

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This is a story about a sports broadcaster later turned morning talk show host Danny Tanner and his three little girls, D.J. (Donna Jo), Stephanie and Michelle Tanner. Before the show begins, Danny Tanner's wife is killed by a drunk driver. So he needs help raising his three little girls. He asks his rock musician brother-in-law, Jesse Katsopolis, and his comedian best friend, Joey Gladstone, to move in with them. As the show goes on, Jesse gets married to Rebecca Donaldson, Danny's co host of the talk show. The two have kids of their own, who are twins, Alexander and Nicholas Katsopolis. However, the show is about what happens as the story is going on. Written by Raffi Nazarian <[email protected]>

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Lori Loughlin (Rebecca) wears her own wedding dress when she and Jesse get married. See more »

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Jesse was supposed to be a High School drop out, however in the episode _"Full House" One Last Kiss (1990)_ when Jesse is at his High School reunion, while he is dancing with his old girlfriend there is a flashback, during the flashback he rides his motorcycle into the gym when his girlfriend says "Jesse, you're going to get in trouble." Jesse replies "I graduate tomorrow, what are they going to do, expel me?" Jesse has also mentioned that he refused to wear his graduation cap because it would mess up his hair. See more »

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[repeated line]
Jesse: Have mercy!
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Everywhere You Look
Performed by Jesse Frederick
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One almost wishes an episode featured the family dying in their sleep from carbon monoxide poisoning.
22 January 2010 | by – See all my reviews

I never watched all that many episodes of this show, what I did watch of it was one of the worst sitcoms I have ever seen then and since. To start off with lets make the show have two of the most annoying people on the planet as stars of the show. Bob Saget is really annoying anyway then add to him that guy who played uncle Joey I think it might have been. All I know is that he did incredibly bad and incredibly annoying voice impersonations. I mean you know it is bad when John Stamos plays the least annoying character and he is basically a narcissistic egomaniac. Then you have the children who were all annoying little pains, all had the spoiled mentality and you got to watch as the two older sisters argued again and again with the Stephanie one being particularly annoying. Then you had the baby who started out not so annoying as she was a baby and an ugly one at that and grew to be less ugly, but more annoying as the show progressed. What really irks me is that they released this entire series on DVD which is fine by me, I am not going to buy it nor fault anyone who does, but they seem to refuse to release any more "Perfect Strangers" on DVD after the initial release of seasons 1 and 2.


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