Episode
Full House: Gotta Dance
Overview
Stephanie's dance teacher has told Stephanie that Stephanie has the potential to become a professional dancer. It would be a dream come true for Stephanie, but it means taking special classes before and after school and on weekends, an earlier bedtime, and less TV. Stephanie convinces Danny to let her have a shot at it. As a result, Stephanie no longer has enough free time to spend with friends and family, and she has a dance recital coming up, and Danny is more excited about it than Stephanie is. On the night of the recital, Danny tells Stephanie that if the director of the Bayview Dance Academy, who is in the audience, likes Stephanie's performance, Stephanie can get into Bayview's summer dance camp. Minutes later, the recital begins, and Stephanie messes it up on purpose. Stephanie then tells Danny that she wants things to go back to the way they were, when she had the time to spend with friends and family
Details
- Series
- Full House
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 1991-11-05
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
Gotta Dance is Episode 8 in Season 5 of Full House. It aired on 1991-11-05. The runtime is 24 min.
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Episode 7: The Volunteer
After school is dismissed for the day, D.J. goes to the Golden Gate Nursing Home to visit 75 year old Eddie Johnson, her "adopted grandparent" in the Adopt-A-Grandparent program. At home, Stephanie and Kimmy have a disagreement -- Kimmy seems to think her dog Coco is smarter than Comet, so they agree to invite all the dogs that live in their neighborhood into the Tanner family backyard for a little dog show in order to settle this. D.J. has promised to be the judge, so at the end of her visit with Eddie, D.J. tells Eddie about the dog show. Eddie wants to see the show, so he sneaks out of the nursing home and goes with D.J. to the house. At home, D.J. notices Eddie acting strange, like he doesn't know who D.J. is.
Episode 9: Happy Birthday, Babies (1)
It's Michelle's 5th birthday. Michelle is afraid she's about to lose her status as "the baby of the family", because Becky is pregnant. Michelle thinks this status is what makes her special. As a result, even though she can't stop it, Michelle doesn't want to be 5 years old. As the family convinces Michelle that she's special to them no matter what, Jesse is having what he thinks are sympathy pains.
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Episode 6: The Legend of Ranger Joe
Joey feels like his life is going nowhere. He doesn't want to read a bad review of his last performance, and he doesn't have to, because the newspaper's employees are on strike, then the KFLX radio station calls and asks Jesse a cartoon trivia question that Jesse can't answer, but Joey answers it correctly, winning tickets to the Donny and Marie reunion, then Linda, an attractive technician from Hilltop Cable Company, comes over and puts a booster on the cable out back, then comes inside and works on the TV. Now channels such as the Truck and Tractor Pull network are available. Before leaving, Linda agrees to go to the Donny and Marie reunion with Joey. Jesse and Joey then sit down to watch "Wake Up, San Francisco". The first guest is local children's TV show legend Ranger Roy, who is Joey's childhood idol. Roy announces that after 30 years of hosting his show, he is retiring, but before he does, a new "ranger" will be chosen.
Episode 10: Happy Birthday, Babies (2)
Michelle's birthday party has just started when Becky announces that she's going into labor. The twins are coming, and she needs to get to the hospital, fast. When Jesse leaves to take Becky to the hospital, the others stay behind to speed up Michelle's birthday party so they can get to the hospital to be there when the twins are born. At the hospital, Jesse's "sympathy" pains turn out to be appendicitis. As Jesse undergoes an emergency appendectomy, Danny is the one who is at Becky's side for the time being. After the surgery, Jesse is placed in the maternity room that Becky is in, and even though he went through an operation, Jesse is still at Becky's side when Becky gives birth to twin boys. Nicholas "Nicky" Katsopolis is named after Jesse's father, and Alexander "Alex" Katsopolis is named after the teacher who inspired Becky to go into journalism.
Episode 5: The King and I
A record company tells Jesse that if he can write a song that can be a hit, Jesse and the Rippers will be signed. When the family prepares to go to Lake Pollock for a big family reunion, Jesse, who is frustrated by his lack of song ideas, says in an angry way that he can't go to Lake Pollock with the family. Later, in a diner, an Elvis Presley impersonator helps Jesse realize that he was wrong to lose his temper and snap at the family, and that his obsession with writing a hit song for the record company has made him forget how important his family is to him.
Episode 11: Nicky and/or Alexander
Becky and the twins come home from the hospital, and Becky's doctor has mentioned that it's common for new mothers to have mood swings. Nicky and Alex are still wearing their hospital bracelets. Michelle feels left out when D.J. and Stephanie are allowed to hold the twins and Michelle is not allowed to. Becky wants to take a picture of Nicky and Alex for her mother Nedra, but Becky wants Nicky and Alex to be wearing the booties Nedra made for them, but Jesse doesn't think the booties are manly, and he wants the twins to look manly. Later, Becky removes the bracelets from the twins, but leaves the booties on the twins so she can tell them apart. Minutes later, while Becky is out of the room, Jesse removes the booties from Nicky and Alex's feet. It takes Jesse only a few seconds to realize that now he can't tell Nicky and Alex apart without the bracelets and the booties. Jesse and Becky finally let Michelle hold one of the twins, and
Episode 4: Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Girl Gone?
Todd Mitchell, one of high school freshman D.J.'s schoolmates, is spreading a false rumor around school that D.J. is the worst kisser. It's Todd's way of getting even with D.J. for refusing to let Todd kiss her on the way home from the library. D.J. shows Kimmy a sympathy card that D.J. got from Kathy Santoni, who, on the card, refers to the situation as a "mega crisis". Later, under the guise of collecting dirty clothes to take downstairs to the laundry room, Danny goes upstairs to D.J.'s bedroom while she's not there and finds the card. The term "mega crisis" arouses Danny's curiosity, and he wants to know what D.J.'s mega crisis is. Later, at a bowling alley, Danny is spending some time with D.J. when Kimmy shows up and takes D.J. to the mall, where Todd Mitchell is continuing to spread the rumor. At home, Danny slips up and mentions "mega crisis", indicating to D.J. that Danny has seen the card.
Episode 12: Bachelor of the Month
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Episode 3: Take My Sister, Please
D.J. is absolutely fed up with Stephanie. Therefore, D.J. petitions the guys to let her have her own bedroom -- something she hasn't had in 4 years. The guys talk it over, and they decide to let D.J. have her own bedroom. D.J. feels relieved, after four years of sharing a bedroom with Stephanie. The new arrangement is that D.J. and Michelle will switch rooms, and as a result, Michelle will be Stephanie's new roommate, while D.J. takes over Michelle's old bedroom. Problem is, Michelle doesn't want to be Stephanie's roommate either, making Stephanie believe that no one wants to live with her. For D.J., this puts the prospect of having her own room in jeopardy, until she helps Stephanie accept the change, and they help Michelle accept the fact that she'll be Stephanie's new roommate. Meanwhile, Becky's Lamaze instructor, Lisa Green, holds a Lamaze class in the living room with Jesse and Becky and some of their friends.
Episode 13: Easy Rider
Michelle wants to learn how to ride her bicycle without the training wheels on it, and Joey volunteers to teach her. During the bicycle lesson from Joey, Michelle crashes into a bush and gets a scrape on her hand, and she tells Joey that she doesn't trust him anymore, but Joey encourages Michelle to continue to learn how to ride her bike, and convinces her to trust him. Meanwhile, Becky and Jesse take Nicky and Alex to visit Becky's aunt Ida, and they end up taking almost everything in Nicky and Alex's bedroom with them. Also, Danny and Vicky become closer.
Episode 2: Matchmaker Michelle
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Episode 14: Sisters in Crime
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