A gay-free San Francisco was annoying then, but now it will be downright offensive.
But with the star, Candace Cameron Bure (DJ Tanner) being a fundamentalist Christian, she was bound to put the kibosh on any attempts at inclusion. Besides, who was watching this show? Elderly people wearing MAGA caps and reading church newsletters about gays trying to destroy society. Surely they would not approve.
Well, it took a few years, but two of the show's writers were gay, and finally decided to go out on a limb and pitch a plotline with a gay character. Candace reputedly "loved" their idea, and was happy to give it a green light.
Um...she wouldn't have to actually appear in any scenes with the little fairy, would she?
So in Season 4, released in December 2018, Episode #11, "It's Always Open":
She loves the boy's fashion sense and campy "in your face" femininity, and, being unaware that gay people exist, think he would be a perfect match for her daughter Ramona (Soni Bringas).
In spite of living in San Francisco in 2018, Casey agrees to a date with a girl.
Ramona instantly figures out that feminine=gay, so this is obviously a non-date. But the two have a lot in common, mostly a dislike for their mothers, so they become besties.
In the B and C plotlines, the buffed but stupid Jimmy (Adam Hagenbuch, top photo) wants to raise the baby in Nepal, which he pronounces "Nipple," and DJ and Stephanie join a dodgeball class. Yeah, that's the problem with modern tv series -- if you don't watch in chronological order, you're lost.
Jackson (Michael Campion), dressed as a gorilla, asks Rocki (Landry Bender) to the prom. She is leery because "Prom is an embodiment of the heteronormative jock culture with a dress code that targets girls in order to control our bodies."
No one knows that gay people exist, but they know the word "heteronormative"?
At the prom, Jackson tries to impress the other football players by talking trash, which gets him in trouble with Rocki.
Casey and Ramona go to the prom together, too (gay-free San Francisco, remember? No one else for Casey to ask). While they are dancing, a cute boy gives him the eye, and Ramona the Helpful Heterosexual encourages him to strike out on his own and make a connection.
In the B and C plotlines, DJ is a chaperone at the prom (but she never interacts with Casey), and back home, some guys I couldn't identify have a cooking contest.
That's all. Sort like a show from the 1990s, where revealing that someone is gay was enough, and the gay characters were usually gender-nonconforming.
What else do you expect from a Full House reboot?
I hear that Brian has been cast as the lead in the upcoming CW series Glamorous. He plays a gender-noncomforming gay teen who disses a cosmetics company on his blog, and is rewarded with an internship.
It worked for George Costanza in 1994.
See also: The10 Hunks of Fuller House
Or just 90s nostalgia in general. People who say "Oh, just kiss Republican ads like a Clinton, or I'll run as a third party candidate and we'll get Trump for sure then. Capisci?"
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