If you guessed ‘disembodied head,’ give yourself a gold star
When it comes to sitcom thievery, Stephanie Tanner has nothing on her Uncle Jesse.
After the Fuller House revival ended its Netflix run, John Stamos made off with the blue-and-yellow loveseat that sat center stage for both the original Full House and its recent reboot. In 2020, Stamos shared an Instagram photo revealing the familiar couch repurposed as a road block at the top of a staircase. “Baby safety gate or one of the most iconic couches in pop TV history?” Stamos brazenly asked. “You make the call.”When Fuller House ended, Jodie Sweetin wanted to swipe a piece of the show’s history as well. Furniture was tough to smuggle past the studio gates, so she set her sights on a smaller prize. “I took the head of that weird little statue that sat at the base of the stairs,” Sweetin told PEOPLE. “I attempted to take the whole thing, but it was rather unwieldy the night of the wrap of the show, and hard to get out of there without anyone noticing that I was carrying a giant statue.”Undeterred, Sweetin took just the noggin of the figure affectionately dubbed “Sea Pappy” through the run of both shows. She attempted to sneak the disembodied head past security but did a lousy job of concealing the theft. “I got stopped with the head in my car,” she said. “And they were like, ‘You can’t take that until we inventory it.’ So, I tried to steal the Sea Pappy head, basically.”
Despite getting caught, Sweetin was determined to make Sea Pappy’s skull her own, attaching a Post-It note to mark her territory. “And then one day, a couple of weeks later, my doorbell rang,” she explained. “I opened it up, and no one was there, just the Sea Pappy head. It was the best moment.”Sweetin showed off her prize to Bob Saget on his Here For You podcast back in 2021. “Oh my God,” Saget exclaimed, impressed with the audacity of his TV daughter’s plunder. “That’s a major thing.”
“It was a mission,” she confided to Saget. The treasure could have been even larger but there were logistical considerations, like “no joke, how can I fit the entire Sea Pappy into my car?”
Where is the rest of Sea Pappy, Saget wondered. “I would have helped you take the whole thing.”
“I mean, we can go find it somewhere,” Sweetin replied. “Somewhere, there’s a headless Sea Pappy.”
