Author's Notes:
Michelle Tanner and Joey Gladstone have a lot in common. Not only do they have a lot in common with each other, but they also have a lot in common with other pairs of sitcom characters who have a lot in common: Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver and June Cleaver from Leave It to Beaver, Lisa Douglas and Eb Dawson from Green Acres, Maxwell Smart and Agent Larabee from Get Smart.
The number of allusions to Beaver and Max are very common and are typically references to specific episodes. Allusions to Lisa and Eb are much rarer. As for allusions to June and Larabee, sometimes they are specific and concrete, but they are usually general and abstract (for example, Joey and Michelle's heart-to-heart talks like June and Beaver's heart-to-heart talks, and Jesse being annoyed by Joey and calling him an idiot can be compared to the Chief being annoyed by Larabee and calling him an idiot), sometimes more of an allusion to the actor (Barbara Billingsley and Dave Coulier both did voices for the TV series Jim Henson's Muppet Babies; keywords for Robert Karvelas include "cousins," "twins," "Greek," and "Nikos the Village Idiot").
For "Michelle and Joey Haiku Season 5," I added another haiku ending, "Synchronous medley," in case something that Michelle and Joey did reminded me of situations involving three or more of the sitcom characters mentioned above. The situations may be general or specific.
[I'm not exactly sure how many of them are allusions, but so many of the scenarios seem too random and specific to be a coincidence.]
1 Michelle and Joey in "Double Trouble" 1
Joey sings the blues
Because Michelle's excited
About school starting
2 Michelle and Joey in "Double Trouble" 2
Joey tells Michelle
How to make friends talking like
Bullwinkle J. Moose
3 Michelle in "Double Trouble" 1
Michelle says hello
To Teddy like Bullwinkle
Teddy thinks she's weird
4 Joey in "Double Trouble" 1
Danny and Joey's
Evil twins say negative
Things about babies
5 Michelle in "Double Trouble" 2
She'd help babysit
Her twin cousins as long as
She doesn't change them
6 Michelle and Joey in "The King and I" 1
Michelle sings a song
About some frogs on a log
Then Joey joins in
7 Michelle in "The King and I" 1
Turtle and duck song
That was Michelle's suggestion
(Douglas and Dawson)
8 Michelle in "The King and I" 2
Michelle wants to know
If they're at the motel yet
Hints of Larabee
9 Joey in "The Legend of Ranger Joe" 1
Joey take Roy's place?
Staring, Joey made a face
Like Michelle Tanner
10 Michelle in "Gotta Dance" 1
What's Becky doing?
Jesse plans to trick Michelle
With an ice cream bribe
11 Michelle in "Happy Birthday, Babies, Part 1" 1
Michelle's baby book
Brings back lots of memories
Hints of The Beaver
12 Michelle and Joey in "Happy Birthday, Babies, Part 1" 1
Michelle and Joey
Pose for Danny's camera
Joey is not five
13 Michelle and Joey in "Happy Birthday, Babies, Part 2" 1
All of the grown-ups
Rushed off to the hospital
Except for Joey
14 Michelle in "Happy Birthday, Babies, Part 2" 1
They have birthday cake
But they cannot use a knife
They're gonna pig out
15 Michelle and Joey in "Happy Birthday, Babies, Part 2" 2
Michelle doesn't know
About appendectomies
Joey's science talk
16 Michelle in "Happy Birthday, Babies, Part 2" 2
Michelle wants to know
If the twins have arrived yet
Hints of Larabee
17 Joey in "Happy Birthday, Babies, Part 2" 1
Joey said he would
Teach Nicky and Alex sports
Hints of Maxwell Smart
18 Michelle and Joey in "Easy Rider" 1
Kids are making fun
Because she can't ride two wheels
Joey says he'll help
19 Michelle and Joey in "Easy Rider" 2
She crashed in a bush
Now Michelle's mad at Joey
(The Beaver and June)
20 Michelle in "Easy Rider" 1
She wanted to ride
Until Joey said "busses"
Hints of Maxwell Smart
21 Michelle and Joey in "Easy Rider" 3
A strike or a ball?
Joey plays the kind of trick
Bugs did on Daffy
22 Michelle in "Sisters in Crime" 1
Michelle said she won
A Ding-Dong playing a game
But that was a lie
23 Michelle in "Too Much Monkey Business" 1
Michelle thought Ginger
The Monkey was Danny's sis
Synchronous medley
24 Joey in "Too Much Monkey Business" 1
Joey is in charge
Of looking after Ginger
Hints of The Beaver
25 Michelle in "The Devil Made Me Do It" 1
What will Michelle do?
Will she listen to the Good
Or the Bad Michelle?
26 Michelle and Joey in "Driving Miss DJ" 1
Joey disciplines
Both Michelle and Stephanie
(The Beaver and June)
27 Michelle and Joey in "The Trouble with Danny" 1
Michelle is upset
That Joey's making a mess
What is wrong with her?
28 Michelle in "Girls Will Be Boys" 1
To impress Teddy
She becomes one of the boys
Hints of Lisa D
29 Michelle in "Captain Video, Part 1" 1
For the cooking badge
Michelle prepares tuna cream
Hints of Lisa D
30 Michelle and Joey in "Captain Video, Part 2" 1
Joey helps Michelle
Count her lemonade money
One dollar eighty
31 Michelle and Joey in "Captain Video, Part 2" 2
Fifty lemonades
Did not have to be consumed
(Lisa, Larabee)
32 Michelle and Joey in "Captain Video, Part 2" 3
Michelle and Joey
Both give Jesse suggestions
How to make records
Haiku Notes: Seven, Lisa in "Son of Drobny" and "A Girl for Drobny," and Eb in "The Beverly Hillbillies;" Eight, Larabee in "Smart Fell on Alabama;" Eleven, Beaver in "Family Scrapbook;" Sixteen, Larabee in "Smart Fell on Alabama;" Seventeen, Max in "Pheasant Under Glass;" Nineteen, Beaver and June in "June's Birthday" and "The Silent Treatment;" Twenty, Max in "Kiss of Death;" Twenty-Four, Beaver in "Beaver and Stanley;" Twenty-Six, General Beaver and June; Twenty-Eight, Lisa in "The Liberation Movement;" Twenty-Nine, General Lisa's bad cooking; Thirty-One, Lisa in "Oliver and the Cornstalk," and Larabee in "And Only Two Ninety-Nine."
