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At first it seemed somewhat unreal, that the person I was speaking to on the phone was possibly a robot or one of those “Madame Merconi” fortune-telling carnival machines come to life. You know the ones with spooky glowing eyes, a rigid Charlie McCarthy puppet-like jaw and palm facing up eager for your quarter and an open-mind.

The voice on the other end of the line quickly went from semi-unintelligible to socks-in-the-mouth syndrome and then silence. Silence? Did I say something? Offend someone possibly? No, probably not. It wasn’t one of those kind of conversations, where two people manage to agitate one another in 15 words or less. Following the silence, the person, a woman, maybe in her mid-30s, I wasn’t sure, chimed back in. She finally spoke, “Yes? Hmm? What you want?”.

If you grew up in the mid-80s like I did, you probably remember Full House, a wholesome family sitcom that first aired September 22^nd, 1987 and had a run of almost ten years, ending in May 1995.

The premise of the show was rather simple and mostly sugar-coated and the issues were, for the most part, contemporary. Basically, it centered on a widowed father named Danny Tanner (performed by Bob “America’s Funniest Videos” Saget) who is responsible for raising his three children; D.J. (Candace Cameron), Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin) and Michelle (famously performed by both of the Olsen Twins; Mary-Kate and Ashley) after his wife is tragically killed in a car accident.