John Stamos almost made that house a bit less full.
On Dave Coulier’s (Uncle Joey) podcast “Full House Rewind,” series creator Jeff Franklin appeared in the first episode to chat about the show’s beginning.
One major revelation from Franklin was him revealing John Stamos tried to quit the show after he saw how talented the kids were, and worried they’d one-up him.
According to Franklin, it happened at the series’ first table read where he said studio executives showed up to “see Stamos.”
“Jodie [Sweetin] just stole the whole thing,” the creator said. Sweetin played middle daughter Stephanie Tanner. Franklin recalled her “knocking jokes out of the park.”
Coulier recalled Stamos telling him at the time, “the whole she’s gonna be her. We can’t do this.”
Even Stamos has discussed the incident. In an episode of “Hot Ones,” he told host Sean Evans he went in not knowing how significant the child actors’ roles were going to be in the show.
"It was pitched to me as a 'Bosom Buddies'... with, you know, a couple of kids in the background," Stamos said. "We did a table read of it, and I was the star. I was coming off of ‘General Hospital.’ We sit down, and we started reading, and Jodie Sweetin, who plays Stephanie, reads her lines, and people are dying laughing. I mean screaming. I was like, 'What's happening here?'"
He even called his agent after the table read and asked him to get him off the show.
Stamos did stick around and was a large part of the incredibly popular sitcom.