Jodie Sweetin, Andrea Barber, John Stamos and Lori Loughlin recently had a mini Full House reunion during a live version of the How Rude, Tanneritos podcast. The gang reminisced, as old cast members do, and eventually the conversation turned to Bob Saget, the late actor who played Danny Tanner on the show.
As anyone who’s seen The Aristocrats knows, Saget was notorious for filthy jokes, which made him an interesting presence on the set of a kiddie sitcom. Despite working with young co-stars, Saget rarely held back his favorite kind of humor. Stamos asked the younger actors, “What’s the most foul thing Bob said ever that got him the most in trouble?”
“I don’t know that I’d want to say it into a microphone,” replied Sweetin, who played Saget’s TV daughter Stephanie. Since she’s reluctant to repeat the raunchy punchlines, let’s let Saget do it himself. He guested on Conan back in 2012 and shared this sweet story from his sitcom days. “We had a live donkey on the show once,” he recalled. “A live donkey called Eeyore. And then the donkey, with a studio audience, and it was full air conditioning and stuff, I don’t know if this has ever happened here, but the donkey got excited in front of the audience. It got an erection.”
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Saget proclaimed he didn’t know what to do, considering kids were around. His solution was to rename the donkey Peppermill instead of Eeyore. “You know when you go to Olive Garden and you get fresh ground pepper,” he told Conan. The donkey’s visible arousal “looked like a peppermill.”
The euphemism, Saget said, was to “help the children and protect them,” although calling attention to the sight seems like a dubious solution.
The problem for Saget was subsequent visits to Italian restaurants. “I will get a Caesar salad, and the guy will come over and he’ll go, ‘Would you like some fresh ground pepper?’”
Saget’s response: “Get that thing away from me! That is a donkey (bleep).”
“What the hell are you doing?” asked O’Brien, which sounds like the reaction Saget often got on the Full House set.
“Our moms would be up in the bleachers in the audience on non-audience nights,” remembered Barber about Peppermill jokes and other off-color punchlines. “So, it was just the moms and a few stand-ins. But they would stand up and they’d be like, ‘Bob!’”
Stamos and Loughlin complained that they’d get called in along with Saget and Dave Coulier when Saget couldn’t control his potty mouth. Producers would reprimand them as a group, even though Saget was almost always the guilty party.
Not Coulier? “Dave didn’t say as many bad things,” said Stamos, “but he had a gas issue. And the poor twins were at butt height.”
If Mary-Kate and Ashley hadn’t been exposed to Coulier’s toxic fumes, explained Loughlin, “they would have been 5-foot-11.”
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