What I mean is that i’s either a love it or hate it show. It gets criticized for being sickeningly sweet and saccharine but it’s beloved for being a classic wholesome family sitcom.

Family Matters went for nine seasons when Full House only went for eight.

God bless you always!!!

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I agree, people either love it or hate it. I loved it but I can't stand Fuller House. It ruined Full House for me.

I do think a show like Full House at least premise-wise can still work or is still relevant. Bob Saget kind of did a similar show (where he again plays a widowed dad with young daughters) on The WB called Raising Dad. A young Kat Dennings and Brie Larson played his daughters. And CBS right now has a show called The Unicorn, which is also about a recently widowed dad with young daughters.

I said in another thread, that Full House otherwise hasn't really aged that well because it was a show that really wore its earnestness and sentimentality on its sleeve. It was pretty much what you would expect from a Miller-Boyett sitcom front and center. A bunch of broad, cornball, cutesy jokes and as I said, equally as broad sentimentality and Aesop's.

It just occurred to me that what could be written off as cheesy, cloying, saccharine, sanctimony was much more popular in the '90s than maybe today. It isn't just Full House, but Dawson’s Creek, Touched by an Angel, 7th Heaven, and any schmaltzy, maudlin inspirational drama that Robin Williams seemed to specialize in such as Patch Adams.