Full House's Jodie Sweetin Remembers Filming the Iconic Hawaii Episode — and Everything That Went Wrong❤️🔥

The Unexpected Guest

When the Tanner family set out for their Hawaiian adventure in the season 3 premiere of "Full House," it was supposed to be a perfect working vacation. However, Andrea Barber, who played Kimmy Gibbler, almost missed the trip. "I was originally supposed to be in this episode," Barber recalled on the June 18 episode of the "How Rude, Tanneritos!" podcast. "The night before we were to depart for Hawaii, a producer called up and said, ‘The episode is too long.

We have to cut Kimmy out.’"

Despite being cut from the episode, Barber received an unexpected invitation: "We already bought the tickets, we already have your hotel room reserved. Please come with us anyway and just hang out by the pool." To which Barber enthusiastically agreed, "And I was like, ‘Yes!’"

Chaos on the Islands

For the rest of the cast and crew, the trip was anything but relaxing. "No sitcom should ever leave the stage," Jodie Sweetin, who played Stephanie Tanner, revealed. "It’s always a disaster. We are a very well-oiled machine inside of a soundstage, and you take us out and … things go wrong."

One of the first mishaps occurred when series creator Jeff Franklin injured his Achilles tendon playing tennis, rendering him wheelchair-bound and heavily medicated for the duration of the shoot.

"So he was now in a wheelchair and on copious amounts of pain meds the whole time," Sweetin recounted.

On another occasion, miscommunication led the cast to one beach while the crew was at another. "And those two beaches were not anywhere near each other," Sweetin added, highlighting the logistical nightmares that plagued the production.

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