Full House: S6E6: Educating Jesse (Back To School Series)

Happy Full House Friday Tanner Fans, Angela Bowen here, the host of Oh Mylanta Holy Chalupas: An Unofficial Full House Fuller House Podcast. Here’s the next episode in the Full House Back To School Series Full House S6E6: Educating Jesse, which aired on October 27, 1992. In this episode DJ and Kimmy look to Joey and Jesse to be spokesman for their Stay In School Campaign. Jesse adamantly refuses and it isn’t until he is cornered in the kitchen by his family demanding to know his reasons for not helping that he blurts out “I can’t help you with your stay in school campaign, because I didn’t stay in school. I’m a drop out” I also look up famous high school drop outs, for example Albert Einstein. The family is shocked that Jesse kept this secret from them as are we the audience who saw Jesse in Season 4 go to his 10 year high school reunion. Becky does a little reversal psychology on Jesse and he tells her he’ll go back and retake that one English Class he needed in order to get his diploma and finally graduate high school. Turns out that stewed prune of a teacher that put Jesse in his place 10 years ago is still teaching and he remembers Jesse. Jesse gets way off on the wrong foot with this teacher if he's trying to prove that he's more mature and he's not the same delinquent from 10 years ago as the teacher Mr. Peterson thinks he is. Jesse starts cutting up in class trying to impress his classmates who chuckle nervously as he makes snide comments at the teacher's expense. The teacher ends up roasting Jesse after he recites part of the poem "O Captain, My Captain by Walt Whitman, only to freeze like a deer in headlights when the teacher asks him what the poem means and Jesse just gleams the first few lines "there was a captain, a journey, which was finished, they all got out of the rack and they all won a prize" Nice interpretation there, Jess. I read the whole poem during this podcast episode and discover it is way longer the just the first paragraph Jesse recites, it is always very dark. Spoiler Alert, the captain dies. The teacher informs Jesse it's actually about Abraham Lincoln and Jesse jokingly asks "Why didn't they just call it "O Lincoln, My Lincoln". The teacher at this point has had enough of Jesse's antics and tells him to sit down carefully, so as not to hurt his brain, the class laughs uproariously and a humiliated Jesse instead of sitting down and shutting up, he asks for the pass and before walking out the door looks at Mr. Peterson and says "See you in another 10 years" Meanwhile Michelle is having difficulty learning to tie her shoes it doesn't help matters that Danny and Stephanie one up each other in battle of who can tie their shoe better or correctly and we get two shoe tying songs: The Tree Song and Bunny Boy Bunny Boy thanks to Becky who's jumped on the teaching Michelle to tie her shoes band wagon. I like Bunny Boy, Bunny Boy better. I learned that there is a record out there for fastest shoe tier, set by a group of people in Singapore as of October of 2018, who participated in this event for a charity. We can't forget the plot that started Jesse on his back to school journey, Dj and Kimmy try to come up with a slogan for their school's Stay In School Campaign, it's a shame the other students don't get a say or maybe they could care less and left up to DJ to come up with a few and they can all vote on one. I also looked up some stay in school or school slogans. Some were pretty cool and creative. Join me next week for the next episode Back To School Series, Full House S6E16: Be True To Your Preschool, which aired on January 26, 1993. In this episode Jesse lies about the twins' academic abilities to get them in to a prestigious preschool. Kimmy gets her drivers license. If You'd like to EMAIL The Podcast or Send A Comment On An Upcoming Episode: [email protected] Have a great weekend!