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I have been blessed with a gift that has come in handy exactly zero times over the course of my life: the ability to remember the plot of every single Full House episode.

Sure, sometimes it takes me about 20 seconds to recall the exact details — but when I manage to conjure up information from the deep recesses of my brain, it's like I'm 7 and watching ABC's TGIF lineup all over again. This is the episode where Stephanie makes a new friend named Mickey, but she's kinda bad, and forges notes from her mom, and hangs out with girls who smoke in the bathroom. Stephanie acts like a total dork around them, and they make fun of her because she doesn't want to light up. Ultimately, Stephanie realizes she doesn't need to smoke to be cool, and when Mickey asks her if she wants to hang out, she responds: "I do, but my lungs don't."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.