Episode
Full House: 13 Candles
Overview
It's D.J.'s 13th birthday. A lot of friends are coming to D.J.'s birthday party, including Kevin, a boy D.J. has a crush on. While the party's music is playing, Kimmy tries to get D.J. and Kevin to dance with each other, but they're too nervous, so Kimmy and the rest of D.J.'s friends try to get D.J. and Kevin to kiss by setting them up during a game of "spin the bottle". After a spin, just as D.J. and Kevin are about to kiss, Danny, Jesse, and Joey -- who overheard the whole situation -- get overprotective and barge in and stop it from happening. D.J. becomes furious and feels embarrassed by what the guys did, and she feels that they have ruined her 13th birthday. Becky talks to D.J. and the guys, and the guys remember that they themselves played "spin the bottle" when they were D.J.'s age, so after D.J. talks to Becky about the situation, the guys apologize to D.J. for overreacting, and D.J. apologizes for being angry.
Details
- Series
- Full House
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 1990-02-09
- Runtime
- 23 min
Episode context
13 Candles is Episode 17 in Season 3 of Full House. It aired on 1990-02-09. The runtime is 23 min.
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Episode 16: Bye, Bye Birdie
It's Michelle's first day of preschool, a day that she has highly anticipated, but at preschool, Michelle accidentally lets the class's pet bird fly out the classroom window, and now none of her new classmates want to be her friend, but that attitude changes when she brings a new bird to class. Meanwhile, Stephanie, who is fascinated by D.J., wants to read D.J.'s diary and learn all of her secrets, but Stephanie unintentionally breaks the lock that holds the diary closed, and when Stephanie tries to glue the lock back onto the diary, she ends up gluing her hand to the diary's cover.
Episode 18: Mr. Egghead
Teaser: Michelle and Danny record the welcome message on the new answering machine. Main Synopsis: Joey gets a chance to be "Mr. Egghead" on a TV science show called "Mr. Egghead". Stephanie and her class are the guests on Joey's tryout episode. Joey feels like Mr. Scrambled Egghead when he accidentally breaks Stephanie's nose during the taping of the show, and Stephanie and her class are scheduled to have their class picture taken on the next day. Stephanie was humiliated in her class picture last year, because the photographer snapped the picture while Stephanie was in the middle of a sneeze, but this year, Stephanie absolutely refuses to let a bandage on her nose result in yet another humiliating class picture, because she's afraid her classmates will call her "Robo-nose".
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Episode 20: Honey, I Broke the House
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Episode 13: No More Mr. Dumb Guy
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Episode 21: Just Say No Way
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Episode 12: Joey & Stacy and... Oh, Yeah, Jesse
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Episode 11: Aftershocks
An earthquake has left its emotional marks on Stephanie, and now the only thing she wants to do is cling to Danny. Jesse and Joey suggest taking Stephanie to a child psychiatrist. Danny reluctantly follows the suggestion and takes Stephanie to Doctor Mary-Ann Steiner, who uses a picture Stephanie drew to get her to explain her behavior -- on the day of the earthquake, Danny was three hours late getting home from work, and Stephanie thought she'd never see Danny again, and she's been clinging to Danny ever since, so she'll always know where he is. Doctor Steiner helps Stephanie come up with a solution to her problem. Meanwhile, D.J. wants to hide from the world when she gets her first zit -- right on her nose.
Episode 23: Fraternity Reunion
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