Jodie Sweetin and Dave Coulier look back fondly on the bittersweet reunion Full house honor shared.
During a panel at 90s Con Florida, Sweetin and Coulier — along with their former co-stars Candace Cameron Bure and Andrea Barber — recalled seeing Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen at a memorial for Bob Saget, who died of head injuries in January 2022.
“We saw them at Bob’s memorial and that was one of the last times we were all together,” Sweetin, 42, said of the twins, who played Michelle Tanner’s younger sister on the show.
“Toilet [Stamos] has Dumbo from Disneyland, the ride, in his house and who doesn’t?” Coulier said. “I have this wonderful picture of me, Mary-Kate and Ashley sitting in Dumbo and laughing.”
“It was one of my favorite moments because as if no time had passed, these are my children,” he added.
A full house gathering at the Bob Saget memorial.
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On May 17, Stamos, 61, shared a photo of a cast reunion in honor of Saget’s 68th birthday. A black and white Instagram photo shows Stamos standing with Full house cast — Mary-Kate, Ashley, Sweetin, Coulier, Cameron Bure and Scott Weinger. In addition to the actors in the play, Full house creator Jeff Franklin was also in attendance.
“Happy birthday Boba. This was taken while we were gathering at his funeral,” the caption began.
“Although Bob was not physically there, his spirit was unmistakably present, enveloping us in warmth and shared memories that brought both laughter and tears,” Stamos continued.
“On that day, each of us felt the weight of his absence and the strength of the bond he fostered between us. Bob was the heart of our ‘Full House’ family,” Stamos explained.
He added: “His legacy of kindness and compassion was evident in the faces around me, (on Dumbo) in the tender ways we supported each other, reflecting the love he always gave. We celebrated a life that was truly a gift to all of us.”
Andrea Barber, Jodi Sweetin, Dave Coulier, Candice Cameron Bure and Bob Saget in 2017.
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Full house aired from 1987 to 1995 and became a huge hit. In 2016, Netflix launched a reboot, the so-called Fuller House, for which Bure, Sweetin and Barber returned, and it lasted until 2020 when it ended after five seasons. In 2023, Sweetin and Barber started a rewatch podcast called How rude, Tanneritos!, where they share memories and behind-the-scenes secrets from the series.
“Full house it was our childhood for eight years, eight very formative years,” Barber told PEOPLE at the time. “And so reliving those memories, things we haven’t thought about in 35 years, I expect it will deepen our relationship even more than it already is.”
In an episode in June, they opened up about how they stayed professional on set given the fact that they were all like family.
“We would make each other laugh,” Sweetin said. “We’d have these silly moments between Stephanie and Kimmy that we’d have to do — especially in the Fuller House. The forehead is a great place to look when you’re trying to hold it together.”
“That’s a good trick,” Barber agreed.
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Coulier, who played Uncle Joey, has too Full house rewatch podcast, which launched around the same time his former cast members came forward Full House Rewind. For the first episode in July 2023, Coulier sat down with creator Jeff Franklin to look back at the beginning of the series.
“I remembered our first table read,” Coulier began as Franklin added, “Where the room was full of studio and network executives. They were all there to see Stamos, I think.”
(l-r) Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, Scott Weinger, Mary-Kate/Ashley Olsen, John Stamos, Andrea Barber, Dave Coulier, Lori Loughlin, Bob Saget.
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Before they knew it, Franklin joked that Sweetin “stole the whole thing.”
Coulier then recalled, laughing about Stamos (who played fan heartthrob Uncle Jesse), “And I remember going out with John. He’s like, ‘The whole show is going to be her. We can’t do that!’
At the end, the two joked that Stamos learned to work with “these really funny kids,” who intimidated him at first.
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