Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Full House and Fuller House From Creator Jeff Franklin

Glamour: Who came up with You got it, dude,'?

Jeff: Uh, I'll just take credit for it, how 'bout that? I don't remember. Well, if I didn't say it first, I put it in the script.

Glamour: So it wasn't something the Olsen twins said on their own that you incorporated.

Jeff: No, it was in the script. And then it got a big laugh, and we used it again, and it got another big laugh, and so...

Glamour: The rest is history. Who's decision was it to change Jesse's last name from Cochran to Katsopolis?

Jeff: That was John Stamos' idea. He wanted his character to be Greek, and it would have been great if he had expressed that in the beginning, so we didn't have to change the name in the middle of the show, but I thought it was fine. You know, so what? So we changed his name. It was John's request. Between the two of us, we came up with Katsopolis some how.

Glamour: What about Vicki (Gail Edwards), Danny's girlfriend? She seemed to be a fan favorite, and then kind of just left and moved away.

Jeff: Honestly, I did not do the last three seasons [of Full House]. I was not involved. So, that was one of many extremely bizarre plot decisions that were made in my absence.

Glamour: Is that because you went on to do Hangin' With Mr. Cooper?

Jeff: I went on to Hangin' with Mr. Cooper and actually can't really discuss the circumstances...

Glamour: The nature of the business.

Jeff: There were some terrible decisions made. The audience was really invested in Danny and Vicki. That was a relationship that I had started and invested time in, and I think the audience really liked that relationship. In essence, what became a tease, [because] years and years we're building something, and then you just end it for no reason. That was one of many terrible decisions.

Glamour: What else didn't you like?

Jeff: The other relationship that began under my years as a show-runner was DJ and Steve, and then they also decided to break them up and replace him with a little Richie Rich kid…

Glamour: Nelson.

Jeff: Who's rooting for a nerdy rich kid? And then you had a tattooed guitar player…

Glamour: Viper.

Jeff: Yeah, it was just terrible storytelling. I was appalled, honestly. That's one of the great things about this series is that I get to go back, and, I mean, those shows [that I wasn't a part of] are never going to go away, but at least that's not the end of the series now. I mean, they never even bothered to do a last episode.

Glamour: I have the first four seasons on DVD. After around season five, it just changed a bit. I still loved it, but it was different.

Jeff: The show jumped the shark almost immediately.

Glamour: How would you have liked to end the show since you didn't get to write a series finale?

Jeff: Again, I thought it was horrible. Not binge-worthy, but cringe-worthy. First of all, what eight-year-old has amnesia? The stories I did while I was there were slice-of-life stories that everybody could relate to. I mean, [the amnesia storyline] was from the moon. To do a story about amnesia for an eight-year-old kid was ridiculous. So it was a very unsatisfying ending to the series. I really hated it. It's great to come back and give something to the fans, that's not their last memory of Full House now. In a way, the first episode [of Fuller House] is what the last episode should have been.