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Full House Screws Up Walt Disney World

One thing that I get annoyed with is when TV shows take liberties with established facts about existing places.  For example, MTV’s Road Rules screwed up in their first season by showing the Winnebago driving north on a highway. The problem was that each subsequent highway shot was from a section of road that was further south than the previous one.  All the editors had to do was place those highway shots in their correct order.  They were going to show those shots anyway, so at least be smart about it.  It was like insisting that the first five letters of the alphabet are “A-B-E-D-C”. 

Take the “Let’s go to Walt Disney World” story arc used in the season six two-part Full House episode.  Jesse and his band are invited to Disney World to play, and the entire Tanner clan decides to tag along for their own crazy sitcom antics.  I did find it a bit of a stretch that the Tanners would all be staying at the Grand Floridian instead of a less-expensive hotel, but they can afford to live in San Francisco, so I’ll let that slide.  And that’s where I knew the episode would have a little trouble.

The timeline is totally unbelievable:

I expect a certain amount of creative license with my mid-80’s sitcom plotlines.  But if you’re going to screw around with what is, in essence, a travelogue for the theme park, at least get your facts straight.

The nice thing about the episode is that it showed some great shots of the 20th Anniversary Surprise Celebration Parade, and the skybuckets flying over Fantasyland.  From the perspective of showing different areas of the park, it was a much better-done Walt Disney World-related sitcom episode than was the Rosanne episode that attempted to do the same thing.  We’ll cover that episode in a future posting.

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