A Tanner Family Reunion. (Full House/ALF Crossover)
Just a little bit of a summary before I get into the story…
Willie Tanner is in fact, a second cousin of Danny Tanner from San Francisco. This was discovered a few years ago when Donna Jo Tanner was helping her daughter Alexis Joan with a family tree project. A Family Genealogy was written in 2006 by one Stephanie Judith Tanner, who writes romance smut fiction under the name Judy Tanner. Donna Jo, or DJ as she is known by only her closest friends, decided to begin planning a Tanner Reunion, inviting the other Tanners up to San Francisco for a gathering. They weren't expecting the arrival of a furry little pussycat eater.
"Steve, I told you the Reunion was this weekend, and now you tell me you want Alexis to come and stay with you?" Donna Jo was screaming into the phone at her ex-husband Steven Hale. "I am so sorry you're so unplanned."
"Just like Daniel Jesse was?" Oh, no, he did NOT GO THERE. Daniel Jesse, or DJ, was their now 18 year old son. How convenient it was that Steve, who had been a Last-Minute Prom date, forgot to carry some protection with him that night. When Danny found out about the pregnancy, DJ and Steve drove out to Lake Tahoe and got a quickie marriage. Even then the marriage was problematic; after DJ's birth, Steve decided to transfer schools and played his remaining college football years at Stanford. He never did make it professionally however; not one team was interested, not even his two local teams, the niners and the raiders. Not having a career for Steve to fall back on, Donna Jo was forced to drop out of Stanford and work at the Smash Club full-time as a shot girl, eventually weaning her way into community college and a business degree. She is now a full owner of the renamed Smash Café, a totally hip Wi-Fi enabled coffee shop. She and Steve divorced shortly after DJ became pregnant with Alexis. Steve then moved to Colorado where he coaches youth football in a Denver suburb. He has since remarried with two sons and three stepsons.
Meanwhile, Stephanie lives in Modesto, as an English teacher and romance novelist (she is unmarried at 32). Her on again-off again boyfriend, Brendon, is the Principal of the high school where she works. She also did time in rehab in 2005 for a cocaine heroin and meth addiction, but was able to overcome it, thanks to Brendon. Brendon is divorced, and has a 24 year old son, Jacob.
Michelle Tanner. Oh, the tangled web that is the youngest of the girls. She was diagnosed with Bi-Polar in 2001, after the 9/11 attacks. She and her first real boyfriend, Aaron Bailey, were engaged for two years during their college years, but when Michelle's Bi-Polar meds were giving her anxiety, they broke up. She has attempted suicide at least twice, and still lives at home (As does DJ and her kids). After Michelle broke off her engagement, Aaron moved south, to Orange County, and settled down with a new girlfriend who gave birth to their son in 2012.
Jesse Katsopoulis and his wife Rebecca moved out of the Tanner house in 2000, after Jesse finished college. In Addition to sons Nicholas and Alex, now 20 and in college themselves, Jesse and Rebecca have added to their own full house, Tanner, born in 1996, and daughter Pamela (named for Jesse's sister, who died in early 1987), born in 1999.
Becky and Danny remained on Wake up San Francisco until new producers decided they were "too old" and cancelled them in 2004. They both remained with the station; Rebecca Donaldson/Becky Katsopoulis is an anchor for the midday news, and Danny covers the 49ers year round.
Joey Gladstone felt the house was getting too big for him to stick around, and moved into his own apartment in 1997. He still performs stand up on occasion, and appeared in several failed sitcom and dramatic television pilots. Gladstone did eventually get married…
Kimmy Gibbler. Last we heard from her, she married that goofball kid, Dwayne/Dwight/Whatever (let's call him Whatever, cause that was all he ever said). Well, unfortunately, they got divorced- okay, maybe not legally divorced, but more annulled, in the Summer of 1995. She then enrolled in community college, and moved to southern California for a while. It was there, in 2002, she and Joey Gladstone (Yeah, you read that correctly) were married. How did that happen? She visited him on the set of one of his failed TV pilots. Something happened, maybe it was the Los Angeles sun or something, but they found they all along had a thing (of course she being a minor back when they lived in SF, it wasn't a good idea to confess such feelings).
As for the other Tanner brood… After the Alien Task Force took ALF away, the Tanners moved to Iceland for a while… They Escaped, only after Lynn wanted to go back to school in the United States, and Willie was caught smoking crack with some Icelandic teenagers.
Willie and Kate are still happily married however, and retired to Arizona when Eric graduated from high school.
Lynn went to Princeton on a scholarship, but felt it didn't suit her, and instead ended up at USC. She married her college boyfriend (a former TA 10 years her senior) and lives in Whittier with "The Professor" and three daughters.
Brian is a filmmaker/musician living in Texas. He is not married, and is not in a relationship; his film work leaves little time for a social life, but does occasionally mingle with the girls he meets playing in clubs on Wednesday nights.
Eric is all grown up and in graduate school at the University of Arizona. He and his college buddies share a house off campus. He has a girlfriend of two and a half years, but because of her Christian upbringing, they do not live together and will remain in separate homes until they decide to get married.
All but one member of the Tanners remember the pussy eating furball… that would be Brian. Almost all of Brian's films were based on the time that ALF had lived with them. Alf had become Brian's best friend in those 4 short years, and the experience of losing his best friend left him in a state of shock and thus began a career of writing and directing films about friendship and loss, and maybe a little alien involvement as well. One of these films, Melmac and Glory, was viewed at a small film festival outside of Nova Scotia in 2009… A Certain little furball had seen the film, and has since spent the last 4 years searching for his Earth family, hoping for a second chance at life….