Full House Reviewed is complete, with Metafilter shoutout.

February 1, 2014 11:01 AM

The author of Full House Reviewed posts his last entry, and he attributes Metafilter to his popularity. Also, someone needs to tell him who we really are.

It's a touching farewell actually, as we finally learn who the author really is. Hating "Full House" has been a popular topic since the original FPP.

posted by Melismata to MetaFilter-Related at 11:01 AM (26 comments total)

Ha, neat!

Here's the MeFi mention:

"When I got about halfway through the series I was feeling like I’d gotten enough out of the project and was seriously considering packing it in. One day a friend of mine who is particularly internet savvy called me up to tell me that FHR had been posted on something called Metafilter (I still don’t really know what that is) and so I checked the site’s stats. Before then, the most hits I’d had in a day was about 600 when Dave Coulier accidentally retweeted the sites URL that one of my few readers had sent to him, but all of a sudden I had 30,000 hits in a day. The site went viral and ended up getting reposted all over the internet and all of a sudden I had an actual sizeable following. Having a popular blog is a funny thing because it doesn’t really lessen the feeling that you’re just some nerd who’s wasting a bunch of time fucking around on the internet, but it does make it feel a little more valid."

posted by LobsterMitten (staff) at 11:05 AM on February 1, 2014 [4 favorites]

MetaFilter: it doesn’t really lessen the feeling that you’re just some nerd who’s wasting a bunch of time fucking around on the internet, but it does make it feel a little more valid
posted by hippybear at 11:19 AM on February 1, 2014 [59 favorites]

> he attributes Metafilter to his popularity.

I think you mean "he attributes his popularity to Metafilter." I wouldn't mention it except that I clicked the link thinking "I've never heard of this guy, how can he claim MeFi owes its success to him?" and was confused by what I found; I hope to save others the same confusion.
posted by languagehat at 11:24 AM on February 1, 2014 [9 favorites]

I would have thought he attributes his popularity to Full House?
posted by arcticseal at 11:34 AM on February 1, 2014

KINGMAKER
posted by Beardman at 12:42 PM on February 1, 2014 [4 favorites]

Metafilter: Wasting a bunch of time fucking around on the internet, but it does make it feel a little more valid
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 12:42 PM on February 1, 2014 [3 favorites]

That weed was somehow involved in the creation of the blog I simply would have never guessed.
posted by Toekneesan at 1:19 PM on February 1, 2014 [3 favorites]

Where does he reveal who he is? I didn't see that.
posted by annsunny at 1:28 PM on February 1, 2014

Actually, he reveals more of himself in the last episode review here, at the very end. He seems to be a pretty cool cartoonist/illustrator person.
posted by Melismata at 1:41 PM on February 1, 2014 [1 favorite]

He got the blue bump.
posted by homunculus at 1:43 PM on February 1, 2014 [1 favorite]

Homunculus, that sounds nasty
posted by annsunny at 1:46 PM on February 1, 2014 [2 favorites]

Full House is white privilege? Oh please. He watched all the episodes but never figured out what Danny did for a living?
posted by Ideefixe at 2:39 PM on February 1, 2014

Oh, he definitely figured out what Danny did for a living. Read the reviews.
posted by Melismata at 3:20 PM on February 1, 2014 [1 favorite]

I've got a blue bump.
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 3:28 PM on February 1, 2014

I wouldn't worry about it too much. They can swell for a bit at first, usually just for a few days, but they always go away after 30 days no matter what. Although they do occasionally rupture and release a grey discharge.
posted by homunculus at 4:22 PM on February 1, 2014 [2 favorites]

Interesting how he came to the end of his project the VERY WEEK after the cast appeared together on Jimmy Fallon. Coincidence ...?
posted by thinkpiece at 4:43 PM on February 1, 2014 [1 favorite]

What does Danny do?
posted by Danila at 5:06 PM on February 1, 2014 [5 favorites]

FHR was frequently great. Really felt like the blogger was being pushed to the brink of madness at times.
posted by Chrysostom at 6:45 PM on February 1, 2014 [1 favorite]

The fact that I can tell you, without looking it up, what Danny's job was at the show's beginning and near the end of the run, tells you all you need to know about my teenage social life (or more kindly, how much I loved my little sister).
posted by MCMikeNamara at 6:57 PM on February 1, 2014 [2 favorites]

SO WHAT WAS IT, THEN???
posted by Jacqueline at 7:33 PM on February 1, 2014

He's originally a sportscaster, then he becomes co-host of a local morning show, "Good Morning, San Francisco."
posted by Chrysostom at 7:49 PM on February 1, 2014 [1 favorite]

Had no idea Danny's occupation was a big mystery. That's how Jesse met Becky.
posted by bleep at 8:36 PM on February 1, 2014

"Wake Up, San Francisco!"
/pedant
posted by zorrine at 8:47 PM on February 1, 2014 [3 favorites]

You are absolutely correct, not sure how I typed one while thinking the other.
posted by Chrysostom at 9:23 PM on February 1, 2014

Still seems ambiguous to me. The truth is out there people!
posted by Potomac Avenue at 9:38 PM on February 1, 2014

I've never seen a single episode of Full House, but I really, really love reading about shows and movies that are too terrible to actually watch. Usually I make do with wikipedia summaries, but FHR is just tasty dried shrimp and catnip and all good things for a one such as me.
posted by L'Estrange Fruit at 8:06 AM on February 11, 2014