If you’re of millennial age, chances are pretty high that you grew up watching the heavily syndicated sitcom “Full House”. This saccharine comedy-drama was filled with family-friendly lessons about love, doing the right thing, and that’s basically it. It constantly pervaded every living room in the country for eight years before mercifully going off the air.
Upon revisiting this series, we noticed some scenes that definitely did not age well, given actress Lori Loughlin’s 2020 conviction and prison sentence for her connection with a college admissions bribery scandal. As such, here are five episodes where Aunt Becky offers to get D.J. admitted to USC by bribing the school with $500,000 to have her accepted as a fake rowing recruit.
- Season 2 Episode 2: “Tanner vs. Gibbler”
You likely remember this episode as the one where D.J. throws a surprise birthday party for her best friend Kimmy, only to have Kimmy walk out after showing up with her cool, older friends. You may have forgotten, however, Aunt Becky’s offer to have D.J. feel better by having her friends’ parents pool together their money to amass half a million dollars for a bribe to eventually get D.J. into USC. Pretty shocking given that this was Aunt Becky’s first appearance on the show.
- Season 3 Episode 2: “Back to School Blues”
It’s the first day of junior high for D.J., and she is not having a good time. From being separated from Kimmy to eating lunch alone in a phone booth after being laughed at by the entire cafeteria, today is an absolute disaster. What certainly doesn’t help, though, is Aunt Becky’s insistence that D.J. overcome this by telling everybody she’s a highly sought-after crew member in anticipation of future college recruitment. Ease up a little, Aunt Becky, she’s only in seventh grade!
- Season 3 Episode 21: “Just Say No Way”
Uh oh, D.J. got caught with beer at the school dance, and there’s no convincing Uncle Jesse that she was just holding a can brought by her date Kevin and his shitty friends. She’s in big trouble, and Aunt Becky is only making matters worse by telling her it’s OK if this keeps her from being accepted into a good school, because she’s got a plan to bribe the admissions department at USC when it’s time to send out applications. Come on, Aunt Becky, you’re only giving the green light for D.J. to slack off and misbehave!
- Season 7 Episode 17: “The Last Dance”
Ugh, D.J.’s great-grandfather Papouli JUST died, and Aunt Becky is callously talking about her contact who can facilitate a “side-door” admission into USC with a weighty bribe while everyone else is standing around the kitchen table crying. A little tact would be the least she could have shown here, but sadly, she’s as lacking in that as she is in basic human empathy.
- Season 8 Episode 9: “Stephanie’s Wild Ride”
OK, this one’s not just on Aunt Becky. After the family finds out that Stephanie’s friend Gia is in the hospital from a car wreck, Danny, Jesse and Joey immediately join Aunt Becky in compiling fabricated documentation of D.J.’s elite rowing career to send to USC along with her application, without so much as a passing glance at Stephanie to see how she’s dealing with the news. We’ve heard of middle child syndrome, but this is ridiculous!
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