| Girls Will Be Boys | |
| Season 5, episode 24 | |
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| Air date | April 28, 1992 |
| Writer(s) | Tom Burkhard & Stacey Hur |
| Director | Joel Zwick |
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Girls Will Be Boys is episode twenty-four of season five on Full House. It originally aired on April 28, 1992.
At lunchtime, Danny and Michelle are having spaghetti for lunch (or what she calls "pasghetti"). She first eats it with her fork, but when she notices it dangling, she (like most kids) tries eating it with her hand, so her dad teaches her a "much neater" way to eat it: pick up some pasta with the fork, and using the "spaghetti helper" (spoon) spin it around until it becomes a pasta ball. She tries it, which unfortunately, results in too much pasta on her fork. This leads Danny to remark, "Next time, I'm making Spaghetti-O's." He asks her to finish up, and then he's cleaning her up (with a bath, of course).
Summary
Aaron Bailey convinces Teddy to not play with girls anymore. As a result, Teddy no longer wants to be Michelle's friend. So, in order to win Teddy back, she tries to look like and act like a boy, but she does not get the expected results. When Becky sees what's going on with them, she mentions that she was a tomboy growing up, and Danny jokingly says that one Halloween, he wanted to be Julie Andrews.
Upstairs, the three kids are playing with guns, and Teddy pretends to be "injured" from the "battle". Michelle decides to tend to him as a "nurse's aide". Aaron does not find that to be true, but Michelle assures him that guys can be nurses too. Aaron decides that Michelle is not "a real boy", and asks Teddy to leave her room with him. As they do so, she tells Danny that she is "a crummy boy" (eliciting groans from the audience).
As the inspirational music plays, Danny figures out what is really going on, and Teddy decides that he still wants to be Michelle's friend, as he reveals to her that Aaron was being too bossy. Michelle also befriends a girl named Denise Frazer. Danny realizes that Teddy is going through a stage, just like Michelle did when she was growing up. He opens up and realizes that every person goes through stages in life, and everyone in the family isn't an exception, as each of them have gone through stages in life, too. She realizes that, just like D.J. and Stephanie, boys will like her more and play with her more, and even date her once she reaches the stages that D.J. has reached and Stephanie will eventually reach. He reminds her of who she really is—sweet, funny, friendly, kind, terrific, and, above all, the one-and-only Michelle Tanner.
Meanwhile, while Stephanie is listening in on a phone conversation between D.J. and Kimmy Gibbler, Stephanie accidentally lets on that she is eavesdropping. As a result, D.J. says that she will get revenge on Stephanie for meddling in her private life, and that Stephanie will not know how it will happen...or when...or even where. However, one clue is that D.J. won't need Kimmy's mom's stun gun. That causes Stephanie to be paranoid and tense enough to watch D.J.'s every move. As soon as D.J. gets off the phone, she offers to allow Stephanie to play a new game that she got for her computer.
Later, when D.J. bakes up a homemade double-chocolate fudge brownie to make up, Stephanie throws it out, thinking that her former roommate is trying to poison her. When she tells D.J. what she really heard, D.J. is shocked that Stephanie knew all about her so-called "evil plot", and the Stephanie suggests it'll take more than a brownie to do her in. D.J. says she already did her in, and that making up the revenge stuff will ensure that Stephanie has learned, or will learn, her lesson. Though if eavesdropping on the phone chat wasn't bad enough, Stephanie promises to read about it in the diary, which proves she (still) hasn't learned, nor will she learn, her lesson.
Also, Jesse reluctantly accepts an offer to appear on Ranger Joe as "Lumberjack Jess".
Trivia
This is the first appearance of Michelle's friend, Denise Frazer, who would make eleven appearances in seasons five through seven.