For eight seasons, Full House told the always comforting and often cheerful story of the extended Tanner family, who all lived in one very, very full house in San Francisco. The series is so beloved even over 30 years after its original release that a Netflix spinoff, Fuller House, has been airing since 2016, with its fifth and final season currently half released.
Full House is often remembered for its cutesy characters, its cheesy catchphrases, and its love of a meaningful speech followed by a hug. But even this nostalgic classic in all its saccharine sweetness didn't manage to avoid introducing some of the most obnoxious characters in sitcom history. We're taking a look at the ten worst offenders.
Denise Frazer
Children on television can often come off as cloying, irritating, or downright obnoxious. Unfortunately, Full House was absolutely packed with children who fall into all three of those categories. One of those characters is the character of Denise Frazer, Michelle's late in the series best friend portrayed by Jurnee Smollett Bell.
As a poor replacement for Michelle's far superior best friend Teddy, Denise is overbearing and over the top with her sarcasm, especially for someone as young as she is.
Nelson Burkhard
It's hardly ever an enviable position to be a character introduced as a new love interest, following the breakup of a fan favorite couple. Nelson Burkhard, the rich geek with a heart of gold played by 90s sitcom regular Jason Marsden, therefore never really stood a chance.
Still a remnant of the bygone era of television when nerds were seen as less than cool, and almost unbearably squeaky clean, Nelson was one of DJ's boyfriends in the final stretch of the series, and mainly used his money to try and win her heart.
Lisa Leeper
If you thought Denise was obnoxious when it comes to Michelle's friends, you really haven't seen anything yet. Enter Lisa Leeper, a pushy brat who seems to have been added just to add some more girls into the mix of Michelle's testosterone heavy friendship circle.
Whether she's harshly bossing around her partner in crime Derek, or making Michelle feel bad for not being able to get the hot new toys, it's hard to find any reason to like Lisa.
Kathy Santoni
Ah, nemeses. Many sitcom characters have them, even if they're as young as middle school and high school student DJ Tanner. Over the course of the series, DJ often finds herself plagued by the interference of Kathy Santoni, a girl considered more popular and more conventionally attractive than DJ.
DJ is dumped by her first boyfriend for Kathy, who finds DJ smart but Kathy prettier. Kathy is also portrayed as a stereotypical blonde bimbo, making her character one of the more dated tropes in the series, all the way down to the teen pregnancy she endures in the seventh season.
Aaron Bailey
Do we even need to explain Aaron's inclusion on this list? Doesn't the face he's making in this photo really say it all? No? Okay, let us continue. From the moment Aaron Bailey enters the series, he's never anything more than a teeny, tiny terror - and one that the series uses far too frequently, at that.
Whether proving to be a babysitting nightmare for DJ, physically and verbally bullying poor little Michelle, or mocking Jesse whenever he can, Aaron routinely proves that he's one of the most obnoxious characters in the series. He just also happens to come in a particularly small package.
Mrs. Carruthers
Sexual harassment is always so funny in the world of 80s and 90s sitcoms, isn't it? Especially when it involves a woman considered outside of the stereotypical dating age chasing after a goofball who's never been actively pursued by anyone over the course of the entire series. But we digress.
Mrs. Carruthers is a badly written, poorly conceived character from the moment she sets foot on screen. It's no fault of portrayer Marcia Wallace, who is often hilarious in the part. But Mrs. Carruthers just adds an extra icky feeling to any scene she's involved in, whether sexually harassing Joey or not.
Rusty
As we've already shown many, many times so far, Full House really had the market cornered when it came to introducing kids who were absolutely obnoxious. But none of them were absolute monsters quite in the way that the impossibly annoying and manipulative Rusty was.
Rusty is the son of one of Danny's girlfriends in the series' fourth season, and any time he's around, it's guaranteed that he'll cause trouble. Whether pranking Stephanie and DJ with charcoal gum and Danny with hair dye, or sending the Tanner family into chaos with a fake love letter, Rusty is always bad news.
Stavros Katospolis
Sometimes, it can be a lot of wink-wink, nudge-nudge fun when a sitcom star takes on a double role for an episode, whether as an alter ego or a long lost relative. And then sometimes, you get one of the sleaziest characters in history as in the case of Stavros Katsopolis, a walking stereotype of Greek culture.
Stavros only appears in one episode, but the over the top level of his creepy behavior and thieving ways more than merit him being so high up on this list. Sorry, John Stamos. We love you. We just don't love him.
Gia Mahan
DJ isn't the only character who's given a nemesis during her middle school years. Stephanie gets one too, for better or worse, in the form of Marla Sokoloff's Gia Mahan. Gia is one of the most immature characters in the entire series, an emotionally stunted bully who relentlessly picks on Stephanie for being a goodie two shoes.
Even when these two manage to make amends virtually over night, Gia continues to change Stephanie for the worse, getting her involved in one harebrained scheme and dangerous situation after another.
Viper
When it comes to DJ's Steve-replacing boyfriends, we've already talked about poor Nelson never having much of a chance or much of a characterization to go by. But things are even worse in the case of her older rocker boyfriend, Viper.
An absolute air head and stereotype of everything people assume to be true about guys playing in garage rock bands, Viper is a character who never once feels organic to the story or the series. He and DJ fight more often than they get along, often concerning his own lack of intelligence. What kind of message is that to send about relationships?