Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber Think the Adults on Full House Were Too Mean to Kimmy Gibbler

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  1. > The show, she said, “didn’t acknowledge that Kimmy is an actual person with feelings. Like, they brought me up to be this caricature that was immune to insults. It was like, no. She’s obviously a real person.”

    > “Kimmy was sort of the — she was either the butt of the joke or the one that, you know, said the zinger,” Sweetin, 43, whose own character lobbed her fair share of insult’s Kimmy’s way, said, adding that she would have liked to have seen the character show more depth and for Bure’s character to have supported her more.

  2. My mom would always say this and I was like quiet mom you’re ruining it.

  5. I hope it didn’t hurt Kimmy’s, a fictional character, make-believe feelings. 

  7. In the 1980s, any super popular teenager had only one friend and that was an unlikeable character. This all changed in the 1990s when Zack from Saved by the Bell was allowed a second friend.

  8. Now that I’m a mom, it’s true. Who would talk to another kid like that? Weird ass adult behavior to bully the “nerd,” who is actually just a nice friendly neighborly kid.

  9. Man, who cares. It’s an old sitcom that doesn’t hold up nearly as well as everyone nostalgia thinks it does

  10. I’ve definitely had that thought after watching the show as an adult.

  11. We have Nazis taking over this country. Who could possibly give a shit about this?

  12. Agree. She was the butt of their jokes. Which was just weird and cruel when you look at it logically. She was a kid.

  13. They named Mike Seaver’s best friend after an erection. Nothing was off limits.

  14. Just so we’re clear: this is a TV show. This shit ain’t real. Tons of other kids were called out to be butt of the joke. Screech, any number of character in Step By Step, Beans, any Disney character? This isn’t unique.

  16. They were. She was a child. I could never act like that to a kid

  17. I sort of thought that was the joke/conceit of her character, no? Kinda like Jerry in parks and rec

  18. To be fair, if my daughter’s neighbor friend burst into my house all day everyday, ate up my food, and was generally super annoying I would likely not be so fond of her either.

  19. They *were* mean to her. That was the point. That’s why it was funny. All these comments to the tune of “that would be so inappropriate in real life…” are a bit ridiculous. Yeah. No shit. But this is a tv show. *Not* real life. In real life we handle the Urkels and Screeches and such with more tact. It’s why it’s fun to laugh at it in a sitcom. Cause you watch it and you’re like “Man, I *wish* I could say that to Lil Tommy down the road. He’s such a fucker.”

  20. Hahaaaa….

    I went to high school with her. I moved and she was a senior my freshman year. I was literally the female version of fresh prince. Got into some trouble and sent to live with my auntie in LA. It was fucking surreal as hell for a kid who grew up watching that show on the regular and then seeing her at school. She was super low key and well liked.

    I always liked her character because I was that annoying ADHD kid.

  22. Uncle Jesse is a dick to everyone except the girls he wanted to sleep with.

  23. she was an annoying character who was always butting in

    but yeah, the adults were a little too mean to her

  24. I saw Blossom a few times, and I think the character Six was basically the same. Everyone dunked on her.

    Family Ties had skippy , the adults roasted him all the time

    Others mentioned Boner from Growing Pains

    It was the style of the times

  25. this is because all tv writers in the 90s were dopey twats who were mad they weren’t writing for friends. and, they all lived in a time before medical marijuana.

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