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Full House - The Complete First Season (1987)
The greatest sitcom in telvision history!
Edward R. Murrow, the late CBS news reporter and spiritual father of broadcast journalism, remarked after seeing an early, experimental television broadcast that "this medium will either become the most important, infulential, and provactive tool mankind has yet developed or; alternatively, may become simply a lot of lights and wires in a box."
Folks, let me make something perfectly clear. Before the now-legendary evening of September 29, 1987, when the first half-hour episode of "Full House" premeired on the American Broadcast Network (ABC), televsion was well on its way to degenerating into just the sort of mechanical, vapid, hackneyed amusement device that Murrow feared it might someday become. Televison had for years been churning out a callous, shopworn parade of programs that utterly failed to utilize the medium's true capacity to enlighten, both intellectually and spiritually, the viewing public. Then, like the first glimpse of land after decades at sea, we saw "Full House" glow like a shining beacon on the horizon, a sitcom lighthouse come to brighten our way to shore. As the theme song so majestically refrained, "When you're lost out there, and you're all alone, A light is waiting, to carry you ho-ooo-oome Everywhere you look! Da-duh-du-due-da-da-da!"
Not since the death of Lenny Bruce has the American public been treated to a comedic genuis of the caliber of Bob Saget. Saget brought the boxcutter-sharp wit of his stand-up routine to the small screen, and now, with the long-overdue release of "Full House" on DVD, a new generation can reverently embrace the madcap antics of Danny Tanner, his pal Joey, brother-in-law Jesse, and daughters DJ, Steph, and Michelle. Much as comics of the 90s listened to Lenny Bruce albums to hone their routines, so will the stand-uppers of tomorrow watch "Full House" to see a virtuoso in action, a comedic trailblazer light-years ahead of his time. The comedic earthquake "Full House" unleashed reverberated throughout the TV world. Dare I say that, without "Full House," there could never have been a "Blossom." My sincere hope is that the scripts of this program are someday transcribed and preserved at the Smithsonian Institute's History of Televsion display, replacing the relics of lower-quality fare like "All in the Family" and "The Honeymooners."
For although Carrol O'Connor and Jackie Gleason were talented actors, both of them put together could never match the comic brillance of Dave Coulier doing his spot-on Popeye and Bullwinkle impersonation, or the precocious talent of Mary-Kate Olsen slicing off John Stamos's mullet right before his killer gig singing Kokomo with the one living Beach Boy. Like many of you, I will treasure the digital copy of this television masterpiece for the rest of my born days. And to those of you who think "Full House" deserves a "Straight Flush," I say to you this: "How rude!"
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