| Leap of Faith | |
| Season 8, episode 21 | |
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| Air date | March 21, 1995 |
| Writer(s) | Chuck Tatham & Jamie Tatham |
| Director | Joel Zwick |
| Previous | Up on the Roof |
| Next | All Stood Up |
Leap of Faith is episode twenty-one in the season eight of Full House. It originally aired on March 21, 1995.
Summary[]
On Wake Up, San Francisco, Danny and Becky have a special guest named Edna, an elderly yet feisty woman who, despite her age, still goes bungee-jumping, and shows a film of one of her recent jumps. Edna invites Danny and Becky to jump with her. While Danny declines, Becky accepts Edna's offer, as she is inspired to spice up her own life with this thrilling new experience.
However, although Jesse ironically has always been a bit of a risk-taker himself, he hits the roof when Becky decides to accept Edna's invitation and get the crew of Wake Up, San Francisco to videotape the jump. Jesse does his best to talk her out of it, but his efforts only result in friction between them.
Finally, after a talk with Joey about it, where Joey convinces Jesse that the reason he's so opposed to Becky's bungee-jumping is that he loves her and is afraid of losing her. As the show prepares to film the jump, Becky decides not to jump with Edna, and Edna opts to jump in a bikini. However, Jesse shows up, and declares Becky is right, to want to spice up her life. In the end, Becky announces that instead of jumping with Edna, she will jump with Jesse, and the two end up doing the jump together.
Meanwhile, Joey accidentally wins two tickets to a sold-out Counting Crows concert, so he decides to give the tickets to D.J. and Stephanie. However, Michelle (who doesn't really care about Counting Crows and can't even say their name) insists that she likes the band as well, and she never gets to do anything fun, like her sisters do.
So, to decide who is and isn't going, Joey presents three licorice sticks, one of them half-eaten, and whoever gets the half-eaten stick won't go, and Stephanie gets said stick, meaning Michelle and D.J. are going to the concert. D.J. feels cheated as well, because the concert will be more of a babysitting affair for her, with Michelle in tow. D.J. and Stephanie set out to trick Michelle into giving the ticket back to Stephanie.
They pretend that the furnace is broken, and the house is freezing, and that the T-shirt-wearing Michelle is freezing too, but she insists she's boiling. Stephanie feels the "burn", and D.J. volunteers to take her temperature just as they bundle her up and tuck her in bed. They decide that her 116-degree "fever", "spots" in Stephanie's mirror, "vomiting", and memory loss of such are all signs of Schmedrick's disease. But she'll only have to stay in bed for two days... just long enough to miss the concert, and she'll be alright. Michelle is still not buying what they are selling—until Stephanie tells her that the Schmedrick's disease was "named" after her biology teacher.
The two older sisters learn why Michelle wanted to go to the concert in the first place; she feels excluded when they get to do fun things without her. D.J. and Stephanie feel their guilty consciences kicking in, and allow Michelle to go to the concert with D.J. But in the end, the three sisters make a deal: Michelle agrees to give Stephanie the ticket to the Counting Crows concert, and they in turn, agree to include Michelle in their activities more often. But, when Michelle suggests getting pierced and tattooed, they suggest a PG-rated movie instead, to which Michelle agrees.
Quotes[]
Michelle: I'm gonna call Lisa. Maybe she can tell me who the Counting Cows are.
D.J.: Counting Cows? It's Counting Crows.
[Michelle is doing her homework and fanning herself when her sisters come in and concoct a scheme.]
D.J.: Michelle, how can you sit there in just a T-shirt? The furnace is broken and the house is freezing.
Stephanie: Yeah, you better put this on (a jacket, see infobox photo) before you get sick.
Michelle: What are you talking about? I'm boiling!
D.J.: Boiling?
Stephanie: [feeling Michelle's forehead (with gloves on)] Ow! Better put another shrimp on the barbie.
D.J.: [putting a cap on Michelle's head] If only there were a way to take her temperature. [feels in her pocket] Hey! We're in luck! A thermometer in my parka. What are the odds? [And she puts it in Michelle's mouth.]
Stephanie: We better get you into bed immediately [and that they do].
Michelle: [muffled] But I feel fine!
D.J.: Well, all sick people start off feeling fine. [She then takes the thermometer out of Michelle's mouth and reads it.] Oh, my gosh! 116!
Michelle: Is that bad?
D.J.: Not if you're a rump roast.
[D.J. and Stephanie are about to leave for the Counting Crows concert when Michelle has something for them.]
Michelle: I've got to tell you guys something: Since you were so good to me, I really don't care about the Counting Cars.
Stephanie: Crows.
[Stephanie offers the ticket to Michelle, but Michelle refuses, saying...]
Michelle: You guys go. You're the ones who like the Counting Cats.
Both older sisters: [in unison] Crows!
Jesse: Listen, I know why you’re doing this. You’re trying to get back at me for all the times that I made you worry. Well, you know what? It worked; I’m worried. You win. Sit down, relax, have a muffin. [He takes a muffin from the plate and puts it on the table.]
Becky: Jess, this has nothing to do with you. I’m doing this for that little girl back in Nebraska—"Lowboard Donaldson".
Jesse: [looking puzzled] Is that your cousin with the one eyebrow?
Becky: That’s Celeste.
Jesse: Oh, oh, oh.
Becky: I’m Lowboard. When I was ten, I went to the public swimming pool with all my friends, and we decided we would jump off the high diving board. Well, I climbed all the way to the top, I took one look down, and I chickened out. By the time I got back down to the bottom, I had a new nickname: "Lowboard".
Danny: You know, I can relate to that, actually. You won’t believe this. I got my nickname at a swimming pool too — "Shallow-End Tanner". [sighs] College sophomores can be so cruel. [Jesse and Becky give him looks.]
Trivia[]
- Even though the show is set in San Francisco, California, the actual bridge where Jesse and Becky go bungee jumping is the Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena, California, 380 miles south of San Francisco.
- Michelle calls Stephanie "Steph" in this episode.