# Fuller House, Jodie Sweetin, and awkward feelings **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 2, 2016, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuller-house-jodie-sweetin-and-awkward-feelings/753673 "2016-05-02T07:56:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuller-house-jodie-sweetin-and-awkward-feelings/753673/1 "2016-05-02T07:56:33Z")
Erg. Watching “Fuller House” on Netflix … I don’t know if the people behind this show expected this, or if they’re exploiting it. I watched _Full House_ in the 1990s, when I was almost 30. I guess Candace Cameron Bure is 40 now, making her 10 years my junior. So maybe I was a bit older than the target audience for Full House, at the time. But I can remember, even back then, seeing Stephanie Tanner/Jodie Sweetin as a little girl, and recognizing that she was going to grow up to be a “hottie”. Years go by, and now here’s “Fuller House”, and … Goddam! I was right! Jodie Sweetin has grown … yeah. Wow! Now I watch this hot, grown woman, reprising her role, and while I’m seeing the current hot woman for herself, at the same time I see her acting the role of Stephanie Tanner, and seeing those same mannerisms I remember from when she was a little girl, and I’m all, “Gaaaaah!!” Anybody else having this problem? ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuller-house-jodie-sweetin-and-awkward-feelings/753673/2 "2016-05-02T08:38:13Z")
How rude! ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuller-house-jodie-sweetin-and-awkward-feelings/753673/3 "2016-05-02T08:47:39Z")
Indeed. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuller-house-jodie-sweetin-and-awkward-feelings/753673/4 "2016-05-02T10:41:22Z")
Meh. Any interest I might have in her is significantly tempered by the knowledge of her extreme drug history and trail of broken relationships. She has been not quite right for a very long time. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuller-house-jodie-sweetin-and-awkward-feelings/753673/5 "2016-05-02T12:41:44Z")
On the one hand, she grew up just like you grew up, and that shouldn’t really be any weirder than seeing your friends from school as adults now. On the other hand, like **bobkitty** says, she’s a handful. I’ve heard her interviewed on a couple of podcasts and she’s not very bright and seems inherently troubled. Personally I’m more of a Kimmy Gibbler fan. And Andrea Barber is similarly as hot as I’d hoped. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuller-house-jodie-sweetin-and-awkward-feelings/753673/6 "2016-05-02T12:53:45Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > So maybe I was a bit older than the target audience for Full House, at the time. > > But I can remember, even back then, seeing Stephanie Tanner/Jodie Sweetin as a little girl, and recognizing that she was going to grow up to be a “hottie”. > [@GuanoLad](#): > > Personally I’m more of a Kimmy Gibbler fan. And Andrea Barber is similarly as hot as I’d hoped. I was 12 when the series first started airing and my interest (starting season 2) was firmly held by Lori Loughlin. I had already had a major crush on her from _Back to the Beach_ and _Rad_. 30 years later, I don’t see her getting pushed off my Crush List any time soon. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuller-house-jodie-sweetin-and-awkward-feelings/753673/7 "2016-05-02T13:05:39Z")
I experienced the same thing with Abigail breslin. One year she was the little girl on little miss sunshine, then she started looking like this. [https://www.google.com/search?q=abigail+breslin&client=ms-android-virgin-us&prmd=inv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjuscaPurvMAhUDyYMKHf-jDzwQ\_AUIBygB&biw=360&bih=559#imgrc=KXIA4LhYVL7EdM%3A](https://www.google.com/search?q=abigail+breslin&client=ms-android-virgin-us&prmd=inv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjuscaPurvMAhUDyYMKHf-jDzwQ_AUIBygB&biw=360&bih=559#imgrc=KXIA4LhYVL7EdM%3A) ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuller-house-jodie-sweetin-and-awkward-feelings/753673/8 "2016-05-02T14:20:26Z")
I kinda felt that way for a bit when I first started watching, but it pretty much went away. It helps that she doesn’t really look like her younger self. She was in transition to her adult face when she shoe ended. While she’s still very obviously the same person, it’s not close enough to make me flash back to the younger version. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuller-house-jodie-sweetin-and-awkward-feelings/753673/9 "2016-05-02T15:51:18Z")
Sorry, but the correct answer is Marla Sokoloff. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuller-house-jodie-sweetin-and-awkward-feelings/753673/10 "2016-05-02T15:58:59Z")
I’ve only seen the first episode of Fuller House and I gotta say her outfits are pretty wild. I found myself wondering whether she chose what she wore or did the show producers choose them? ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuller-house-jodie-sweetin-and-awkward-feelings/753673/11 "2016-05-02T16:05:49Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Personally I’m more of a Kimmy Gibbler fan. And Andrea Barber is similarly as hot as I’d hoped. I’m with you on that. I was a bit too old to be Full House’s target audience but boy did I have impure thoughts about Kimmy Gibbler. Don’t judge me. ---
**Author:** ![Totenfeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuller-house-jodie-sweetin-and-awkward-feelings/753673/12 "2016-05-02T20:44:53Z")
God help my depraved soul, but…two words: Ashley Tisdale. (Before the nose job). ---
**Author:** ![Reluctant\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuller-house-jodie-sweetin-and-awkward-feelings/753673/13 "2016-05-03T01:41:59Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > On the one hand, she grew up just like you grew up, and that shouldn’t really be any weirder than seeing your friends from school as adults now. On the other hand, like **bobkitty** says, she’s a handful. I’ve heard her interviewed on a couple of podcasts and she’s not very bright and seems inherently troubled. > > Personally I’m more of a Kimmy Gibbler fan. And Andrea Barber is similarly as hot as I’d hoped. Look man, I don’t know where _you_ went to school, but none of the girls _I_ went to school with grew up like _that_. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuller-house-jodie-sweetin-and-awkward-feelings/753673/14 "2016-05-03T23:36:37Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > I’m with you on that. I was a bit too old to be Full House’s target audience but boy did I have impure thoughts about Kimmy Gibbler. Don’t judge me. You and Bob Saget both, lol ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuller-house-jodie-sweetin-and-awkward-feelings/753673/15 "2016-05-03T23:47:30Z")
Alyssa Milano. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuller-house-jodie-sweetin-and-awkward-feelings/753673/16 "2016-05-04T00:36:37Z")
Sweetin is on the current season of _Dancing With The Stars_, for what it’s worth. She’s mentioned her troubled past, but she seems to be in a better place now. She’s dancing pretty well, though I don’t know if she’ll have a big enough fan base to go the distance. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuller-house-jodie-sweetin-and-awkward-feelings/753673/17 "2016-05-04T00:44:32Z")
> [@Saltire](#): > > Alyssa Milano. Anna Chlumsky. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuller-house-jodie-sweetin-and-awkward-feelings/753673/18 "2016-05-04T00:45:19Z")
Doesn’t tropes or some show like this have a name for this? Hermione was a big one for this. Or Dawn on Buffy. It’s just…odd. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuller-house-jodie-sweetin-and-awkward-feelings/753673/19 "2016-05-04T00:58:22Z")
My at the time GF picked up a copy of Playboy back in the early 90s that had Drew Barrymore on it. She flipped the centerfold open and tried to show it to me, but I was too creeped out to even look. Drew will always be that cute little girl on ET in my eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuller-house-jodie-sweetin-and-awkward-feelings/753673/20 "2016-05-04T16:33:14Z")
When Winnie Cooper from _The Wonder Years_ started showing up in more -uh- [womanly roles](https://johnautry24.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/trudy_third_wheel.png) I had to remind myself that I am old enough to be her father. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuller-house-jodie-sweetin-and-awkward-feelings/753673.md?page=2)