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Photo by Paul Archuleta\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At 90s Con this year, Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber slid into their seats between John Stamos and Candace Cameron Bure, grinning like the class clowns who got away with it.<\/p>\n

Asked what it is like when the cast gathers, Sweetin did not reach for a polished sound bite. \u201cIt\u2019s total chaos, but it\u2019s fun,\u201d Sweetin says. \u201cI mean, we\u2019re family. We\u2019re a weird, insane, inside-joking, crazy family.\u201d For her and Barber, that is not just nostalgia. It is the story of a friendship that started in 1987 and never really wrapped.<\/p>\n

From TGIF Kids To Lifelong Confidantes<\/h2>\n

When Full House<\/i> premiered in 1987, Sweetin was the sharp-tongued middle Tanner, Stephanie, and Barber was cast as next door menace Kimmy Gibbler. On screen, Kimmy was the punchline. Off screen, the girls were just two kids sharing a tutor, a soundstage and a very specific kind of childhood.<\/p>\n

\u201cFull House was our childhood for eight years, eight very formative years,\u201d Barber says. Those were the seasons of on-set homework, growing pains and learning to hit a mark in front of a live studio audience. While the scripts had them bickering, real life was quieter \u2013 two young girls figuring out fame side by side.<\/p>\n

Producers, publicists and even parents came and went from the soundstage, but the person who understood that double life best was the one sitting next to you on the couch between takes. That kind of bond tends to stick. Decades later, they still talk about each other not as former co-stars, but as family.<\/p>\n

Fuller House And The Grown-Up Version Of A Childhood Bond<\/h2>\n

By the time Netflix called with Fuller House<\/i> in 2016, the women were no longer tween sitcom darlings. They were in their 30s and 40s, navigating careers, kids and the long tail of growing up on a hit series. Coming back as Stephanie and Kimmy meant coming back to each other, this time with grown-up boundaries and better shoes.<\/p>\n

\u201cJodie and I have always been close and Fuller House just brought us even closer, and so I\u2019m expecting that this podcast will do the same. We\u2019re just going to get even closer,\u201d Barber says. Filming the sequel from 2016 to 2020 put them on the same lot again, in the same rhythm of table reads and tapings they had known as kids.<\/p>\n

If Full House<\/i> was shared adolescence, Fuller House<\/i> was their shared midlife chapter. They were juggling school pickups and social media instead of math tests, but the dynamic stayed the same: they were each other\u2019s person. What changed was the perspective \u2013 they could finally process, together, what that original experience had meant.<\/p>\n

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NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 19: (L-R) Andrea Barber, Candace Cameron-Bure and Jodie Sweetin pose backstage at the musical “Dear Evan Hansen” on Broadway at The Music Box Theater on September 19, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Bruce Glikas\/FilmMagic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How Rude, Tanneritos!: Turning Memory Lane Into A Weekly Hangout<\/h2>\n

Leaving the set in 2020 did not mean leaving the family. In 2023, Sweetin and Barber launched How Rude, Tanneritos!<\/i>, the official Full House<\/i> rewatch podcast with iHeartPodcasts. Every week, they cue up an episode, spill behind-the-scenes memories and break down the moments that made the show a comfort watch<\/a> for a generation.<\/p>\n

Before the podcast premiered, Barber was almost giddy about what it might do for their relationship. \u201cFull House was our childhood for eight years, eight very formative years. And so getting to relive those memories, things that we haven\u2019t thought about in 35 years, I expect it\u2019s going to deepen our bond even more than it already is,\u201d Barber says.<\/p>\n

By this year\u2019s 90s Con, she could confirm that prediction. The rewatch has basically become a standing friend date. \u201cWe love inside jokes,\u201d Barber says. \u201cPeople are like, \u2018Why are they laughing? That\u2019s not funny.\u2019 But to us, after almost 40 years of friendship and family, we laugh at everything.\u201d Listeners are effectively eavesdropping on two sisters who never run out of material.<\/p>\n

The Full House Family They Still Choose<\/h2>\n

That private giggle loop is exactly what fans glimpse when the cast walks on stage together. At 90s Con, Sweetin and Barber joined Stamos, Bure, Lori Loughlin, Dave Coulier and Scott Weinger to celebrate the show\u2019s legacy and remember Bob Saget, the TV dad who anchored their found-family narrative on and off screen.<\/p>\n

The grief is real, but so is the joy. Nearly 40 years after they first walked onto that San Francisco living room set, the energy is less red carpet and more chaotic family reunion \u2013 the kind where everyone talks at once and someone is always finishing someone else\u2019s story. For Sweetin and Barber, that chaos is the point. Friendship at this level is not tidy. It is a lifetime of shared punchlines, hard seasons weathered off camera and the decision, again and again, to keep calling each other family long after the theme song faded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42690,"featured_media":991999,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23],"yoast_head":"\nThey Met on Full House in 1987. 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