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 "I've Got a Secret" 1
Michelle asks for cash
Danny would not, Joey would
Joey asks for cash
2 Joey in "To Joey, With Love" 1
Joey volunteers
To be substitute teacher
Hints of Maxwell Smart
3 Michelle and Joey in "To Joey, With Love" 1
Danny tells Michelle
That what she did was not nice
Then he told Joey
4 Michelle and Joey in "To Joey, With Love" 2
Danny asked, "Which part?"
She said, "The part Joey said"
Hints of Maxwell Smart
5 Michelle and Joey in "To Joey, With Love" 3
Michelle decided
To give the silent treatment
(The Beaver and June)
6 Joey in "To Joey, With Love" 2
Trouble with the map
That's in front of the blackboard
Hints of Maxwell Smart
7 Joey in "To Joey, With Love" 3
He demonstrates the
Old egg-in-the-bottle trick
(The Beaver and Max)
8 Michelle in "You Pet It, You Bought It" 1
She sold lemonade
To hot construction workers
(Beaver and Lisa)
9 Michelle in "You Pet It, You Bought It" 2
Instead of candy
She bought a little donkey
Hints of The Beaver
10 Michelle in "You Pet It, You Bought It" 3
Then Becky suggests
Donate Shorty to a zoo
Hints of The Beaver
11 Michelle in "Claire and Present Danger" 1
She asks Stephanie
To speak more clearly next time
Hints of Larabee
12 Joey in "Under the Influence" 1
It's a fish pastry
That Joey named "Flounder Tarts"
Hints of Lisa D
13 Michelle in "Arrest Ye Merry Gentlemen" 1
A tie cup holder
Is a very silly gift
Hints of The Beaver
14 Michelle and Joey in "DJ's Choice" 1
The new swings are good
Car keys will not hurt kids' thighs
Michelle gives a stare
15 Joey in "The Producer" 1
Vanilla Weasels
Are no longer sold in stores
Hints of Maxwell Smart
16 Michelle and Joey in "Super Bowl Fun Day" 1
Joey and Jesse
Were supposed to take Michelle
To the museum
17 Michelle and Joey in "Super Bowl Fun Day" 2
To watch the big game
Joey and Jesse bring the
Class to Weeb's Sports Grill
18 Michelle and Joey in "Super Bowl Fun Day" 3
Joey is sorry
That he didn't keep his word
He'll make up for it
19 Michelle in "Dateless in San Francisco" 1
The party's a dance
For the third grade girls and boys
Hints of The Beaver
20 Joey in "Dateless in San Francisco" 1
A different teacher
Is his secret admirer
Hints of June Cleaver
21 Joey in "We Got the Beat" 1
Joey and Danny
Invest in DJ's mock stock
Hints of The Beaver
22 Joey in "We Got the Beat" 2
They sold their bad stock
Kimmy was smarter than them
Hints of The Beaver
23 Michelle and Joey in "Taking the Plunge" 1
She asks Joey to
Take a picture of the queen
(The Beaver and June)
24 Joey in "Up on the Roof" 1
Joey invented
Blue stuff he named "Silly Dough"
Hints of Maxwell Smart
25 Michelle in "Up on the Roof" 1
Becky taught Michelle
How to cookâthe cooking's bad
(Douglas and Dawson)
26 Joey in "All Stood Up" 1
Eating cream filling
Out of Ho-Ho's relaxes
Joey, not Jesse
27 Joey in "All Stood Up" 2
Jesse wants Joey
To shut up; Joey obeys
Hints of Larabee
28 Joey in "Michelle Rides Again, Part 1" 1
He wants to wrestle
He fell off the banister
Hints of Larabee
29 Joey in "Michelle Rides Again, Part 1" 2
Instead of a horse
Joey rides Milton Burro
(The Beaver and Max)
30 Michelle in "Michelle Rides Again, Part 2" 1
She got amnesia
After falling off her horse
(Douglas and Dawson)
31 Michelle and Joey in "Michelle Rides Again, Part 2" 1
Michelle was confused
About which bedroom was hers
Joey likes his toys
Haiku Notes: Two, Max in "A Tale of Two Tails;" Four, General Max; Five, Beaver and June in "June's Birthday" and "The Silent Treatment;" Six, Max in "A Tale of Two Tails;" Seven, Beaver in "The Pipe," and general Max; Eight, Beaver in "Water, Anyone?", and Lisa in "Oliver and the Cornstalk;" Nine, Beaver in "The Clubhouse," "A Horse Named Nick," and "Three Boys and a Burro;" Ten, Beaver in "Captain Jack," "A Horse Named Nick," and "Beaver and Stanley;" Eleven, General Larabee; Twelve, General Lisa's bad cooking; Thirteen, Beaver in "June's Birthday;" Fifteen, Max in "One Nation Invisible;" Nineteen, Beaver in "Beaver's Dance;" Twenty, June in "Beaver Gets 'Spelled;" Twenty-One, Beaver in "Stocks and Bonds;" Twenty-Two, Beaver in "Stocks and Bonds;" Twenty-Three, Beaver and June in "Forgotten Party;" Twenty-Four, Max in "My Nephew, the Spy;" Twenty-Five, General Lisa's bad cooking, and general Eb liking Lisa's cooking, but may be associated with "An Old Fashioned Christmas;" Twenty-Seven, Larabee in "Moonlighting Becomes You;" Twenty-Eight, Larabee in "Physician: Impossible" and "Rebecca of Funny-Folk Farm;" Twenty-Nine, Beaver in "Three Boys and a Burro," and Max in "Tequila Mockingbird;" Thirty, Lisa in "Who's Lisa?", and Eb in "Trapped"
Author's Notes
I can't believe how many sitcom parallels I've found for season 8. Especially for Lisa and Eb! Sadly, not too long after Full House ended, Eva Gabor, who played Lisa Douglas on Green Acres, died at the age of 76. That makes her the second of the six credited actors who played one of a "synchronous twosome" of one of the three alluded-to sitcoms to have died.