“Kareem, he’s on my sweet spot,” John Stamos-as-Uncle Jesse Katsopolis pleads to the referee of his in-progress charity three-on-three basketball game.
“I can’t find pants,” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (as himself) matter-of-factly replies. “Get over it.”
That joke lands just before one of the more unlikely game-winners in scripted television history. Uncle Jesse, whose basketball ability had been proved to be worse than the family dog’s earlier in the episode, launches and buries a contested deep shot from the right side to propel his team (also featuring Danny Tanner and Joey Gladstone, and coach D.J. Tanner) to victory.
If you were a late-’80s or ’90s kid (or the parent of one), “Full House” was a prime time or after-school staple, even in syndication. And midway through the series’ eighth and final season, the family-friendly sitcom welcomed one of its more prominent guest stars,…
