Editing Full House (section)

==Critical reception==
Despite the show's popularity and being an '80s-'90s classic among audiences and families,{{Dubious|reason=not in source provided|date=May 2025}} critics' reviews for ''Full House'' were mostly negative,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2016/02/29/i-want-to-hate-fuller-house-but-i-just-cant/ |title=I Want To Hate 'Fuller House,' But I Just Can't |last=Tassi |first=Paul |magazine=Forbes |date=February 29, 2016 |access-date=January 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118070152/http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2016/02/29/i-want-to-hate-fuller-house-but-i-just-cant/ |archive-date=January 18, 2017 |url-status=live }} "By most critical accounts, the original Full House was a pretty bad show, even by '90s sitcom standards."</ref> but became somewhat more positive in later years.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/2745511/full-house-creator-jeff-franklin-secrets/ |title=Have Mercy: Full House Creator Spills 9 Shocking Secrets |last=February 25, 2016 |access-date=January 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113120826/http://www.mtv.com/news/2745511/full-house-creator-jeff-franklin-secrets/ |archive-date=January 13, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> On [[review aggregator]] [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the show's first season has an approval rating of 40% based on 5 critical reviews.<ref>{{cite web |title=Full House |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/full_house |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=30 October 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Full House Season 1 |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/full_house/s01 |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=30 October 2023}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the first season holds an [[weighted arithmetic mean|weighted average]] score of 31 out of 100 based on 7 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/tv/full-house |title=Full House – Season 1 Reviews |website=Metacritic |access-date=January 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170503234512/http://www.metacritic.com/tv/full-house |archive-date=May 3, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'', Willa Paskin referred to the series as "a hackneyed and [[saccharin]]e family sitcom".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2016/02/fuller_house_on_netflix_reviewed.html |title=Fuller House on Netflix, reviewed. |last=Paskin |first=Willa |magazine=Slate |date=February 24, 2016 |access-date=January 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170112071608/http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2016/02/fuller_house_on_netflix_reviewed.html |archive-date=January 12, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> Isaac Feldberg opined that it was "archetypally average, hiding behind a ubiquitous [[laugh track]] and obnoxiously on-the-nose life lessons."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/television/2016/02/24/netflix-fuller-house-heavy-nostalgia-and-dated-formula/TIkeuaux2oj7iVRxxPnlTK/story.html |title='Fuller House', Like 'Full House', Isn't Very Good |newspaper=The Boston Globe |last=Feldberg |first=Isaac |date=February 25, 2016 |access-date=January 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113132359/https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/television/2016/02/24/netflix-fuller-house-heavy-nostalgia-and-dated-formula/TIkeuaux2oj7iVRxxPnlTK/story.html |archive-date=January 13, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Howard Rosenberg]] of ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' mocked it as "not playing with a full deck. It oozes and blubbers for a half hour, yielding no laughs or life. You need a [[Geiger counter]] to detect its pulse." He added: "It strives to beat out [[CBS]] for second place in the ratings. But this contrived muck isn't one of them. In fact, its entire premise of shared witless fatherhood (a la ''[[My Two Dads]]'' on [[NBC]]) is a great argument for [[birth control]]."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rosenberg |first1=Howard |title=From the Archives: The Times' original review of 'Full House' called it 'contrived muck' and 'a great argument for birth control' and  |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-original-review-of-full-house-contrived-muck-20160218-story.html |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=30 October 2023 |date=22 September 1987}}</ref> 

John J. O'Connor of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote: "And so it goes, one predictable situation following another, with the actors frantically trying to keep the patient [the infant] from becoming a full-fledged corpse."<ref>{{cite news |last1=O' Connor |first1=John |title=TV REVIEWS; 'Full House,' on ABC |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/22/arts/tv-reviews-full-house-on-abc.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=30 October 2023 |date=22 September 1987}}</ref> 
[[Tom Shales]] of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' defended it: "Critics are supposed to rend teeth and gnash clothing when a show like ''Full House'' catches on, but why? The new ABC sitcom seems to follow at least one basic, if often ignored, rule of television: [[First, do no harm]]."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Shales |first1=Tom |title=ABC'S 'FULL HOUSE' PLAYING THE CARDS RIGHT |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/09/22/abcs-full-house-playing-the-cards-right/a2ee26c2-7b24-4870-bcfd-09ba147a26a2/ |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=30 October 2023 |date=22 September 1987}}</ref> 

Josh Kurp of ''[[Uproxx]]'' described the show as "comfortingly bland. . . . a bowl of [[white rice]], spaghetti with no butter or sauce, eggs served on [[Saltine]]s. You could live off it,... but you wouldn't want to."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kurp |first1=Josh |title='Full House' Is Bad, 'Fuller House' Is Worse, So Why Can't I Stop Watching? |url=https://uproxx.com/tv/fuller-house-review/ |website=Uproxx |access-date=30 October 2023 |date=26 February 2016}}</ref>
Josh Jackson wrote in a positive review: "''Full House'': The absolute definition of the 'family sitcom' in the late '80s/early '90s. Unlike the [[Blossom (American TV series)|''Blossoms'']] of the era, ''Full House'' wasn't about the '[[very special episode]]'; it was just wholesome, family friendly entertainment all the time, which has become all the more humorous in the years that followed as former viewers learned just how foul-mouthed Bob Saget could be in literally any other context. This, though, was the television equivalent of [[cotton candy]]: airy, saccharine, and totally insubstantial. Even if you watched a ton of ''Full House'' episodes, I'll bet you barely remember the full plot of any of them."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jackson |first1=Josh |title=The 80 Best TV Shows of the 1980s |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2014/11/the-80-best-tv-shows-of-the-1980s.html?a=1 |website=Paste |access-date=30 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141113003934/https://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2014/11/the-80-best-tv-shows-of-the-1980s.html?a=1 |archive-date=13 Nov 2014 |date=11 November 2017}}</ref>