| The Seven-Month Itch (Part 2) | |
| Season 1, episode 20 | |
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| Air date | March 18, 1988 |
| Writer(s) | Story by: Rob Edwards & Russell Marcus Teleplay by: Lenny Ripps & Kim Weiskopf |
| Director | Russ Petranto |
| Previous | The Seven-Month Itch (Part 1) |
| Next | Mad Money |
The Seven-Month Itch (Part 2) is episode twenty of season one of Full House. It originally aired on March 18, 1988.
Synopsis
Picking up from where we left off, the Tanner girls are extremely upset when Danny tells them that Uncle Jesse has moved out. Danny excuses them from the room so he can privately discuss Jesse's note with Joey. After the discussion, Joey says that Jesse went to the desert. D.J. thinks he went to the beach, but Joey jokes that the desert was all beach.
The next morning, Joey makes pancakes for everyone's breakfast. While they all agree that the pancakes aren't the same way that Jesse makes them, they still criticize Joey's attempts (Stephanie finds hers to be soupy in the middle, D.J. finds hers to be hard as a rock, and Michelle finds hers to be bland). Then, the phone rings. On the other end is Jesse, who's staying at a log cabin in Tahoe. They all take turns talking to him before he gets back to business, and that's entertaining his friends.
Back at home, in her and Stephanie's room, D.J. is having a tough time adjusting to guitar lessons with Danny subbing for Jesse as her teacher; on the other hand, Stephanie moves her stuff into Jesse's room (her old room) while he's gone, and even enlists the help of both her older and younger sisters.
Before long, however, the girls have concocted a scheme to bring Jesse back. Unfortunately, this scheme involves a series of flat-out lies—including one that throws Jesse into a panic and the rest of the household into utter chaos. That lie is that Michelle has a cold, and that she's coughing real bad.
Over at the cabin, Jesse is still entertaining his friends when he gets the trick phone call. Then, after an image montage of all of his happy moments with Michelle since the series premiere (set to "Baby Love"), he abandons his friends and heads home.
Back home, Danny and Joey are playing basketball in the living room when Jesse makes his return, and they fill him in on the trick phone call about Michelle being sick.
He angrily explains that ever since he's been out of high school, he's done what he's wanted, whenever he wanted, and with whomever he wanted. He's had no one to answer to or worry about but himself, so he took off to find that guy. Then he gets the trick phone call and rushes home, only to be indeed tricked.
As he's about to leave again, Danny and Joey stop him and make him realize that that call should serve as a reminder as to how he's been there for the girls. Joey says that he hasn't lost anything by moving in, and what he's gained is simple: Whenever Michelle was sick, he'd be there to take care of her. Joey asks why he came back when he got the call, and the answer was simple: he cares about her, and even cared about her before moving in.
They tell him that before he moved into the house the girls were just his nieces, stopping by about four times each year to give them their birthday and Christmas presents. Danny thinks that Jesse forgetting about the past 7 months is a mistake, and Jesse realizes that the girls really love him, and he also realizes that being part of the family is filling an empty space in his heart that he didn't realize was there before. Joey and Danny tell him they can make it work, and let him take a few days off from raising the girls--but on the condition that they stay out of his room.
And speaking of whom, Stephanie's asleep in there and doesn't even know that her uncle's home until he opens the door and finds her. She calls for her sister and they reunite with him, saying their plan worked. He explains the obvious that he returned home because he missed them as much as he missed Michelle. He "pinky swears" to Stephanie that he'll never leave again.
And speaking of whom, she's asleep in her crib when he comes in with one of Stephanie's teddy bears for comfort. He chats with her about his time away from home with Samantha. Then after getting the call, he realizes he couldn't abandon his "little Munchkin", and will always be there for her from here on out. He gives her a goodnight kiss and says he loves her.
Guest star
Chelsea Noble played Samantha (shown in photo). She later became the sister-in-law of Candace Cameron. For more information, see Part 1.
Trivia
This is the first time that Jesse mentions moving out. The second time is in the episode "Fuller House". Both also apply to Stephanie moving back into her old room as a result.
Goof: When Jesse is thinking about Michelle, a clip is shown from a later episode, "D.J. Tanner's Day Off". This says that "D.J. Tanner's Day Off" was filmed before "The Seven Month Itch", but aired after.