Uncle Jesse wasn’t the only one with sticky fingers …
It seems John Stamos wasn’t the only Fuller House cast member with sticky fingers.
Jodie Sweetin tells PEOPLE that much like her sitcom uncle, she too tried to make off with an iconic — and unwieldy — piece from the show’s set after it wrapped.
Back in 2020, Stamos revealed that after Netflix’s Full House reboot ended, he managed to take home the blue-and-white checkered loveseat that served as the centerpiece of the Tanner family’s living room in both the original series and Fuller House.
Sweetin, however, says she wasn’t quite so ambitious as to try to sneak an entire piece of furniture off the set, telling her own tale while speaking to PEOPLE about her back-to-school partnership with OLLY.
“I took the head of that weird little statue that sat at the base of the stairs,” says the 42-year-old, who played middle Tanner child Stephanie. “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.”
So, Sweetin explains, she settled on just head of the wooden statue — known as “Sea Pappy” — that appeared in both shows. But even that didn’t go unnoticed.
“I got stopped with the head in my car,” Sweetin says. “And they were like, ‘You can’t take that until we inventory it.’ So, I tried to steal the Sea Pappy head, basically.”Undeterred, Sweetin says she put a Post-it note on the top-hatted noggin, claiming it as her own.
“And then one day, a couple of weeks later, my doorbell rang,” she continues. “I opened it up and no one was there, just the Sea Pappy head. It was the best moment.”
Sweetin previously showed off her trophy during a 2021 appearance on the late Bob Saget’s podcast, Bob Saget’s Here For You. “The Sea Pappy head was a mission,” she told Saget, who played her dad Danny Tanner on Full House. “That was a major thing.”
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“This was the Sea Pappy that they recreated,” she explained. “It’s actually made of Styrofoam because they had that one that was a joke — whatever. Well, they glued the head back on and just left him there. So, it’s not the wooden one, it’s just the Styrofoam replica.”
“I would have helped you take the whole thing. I was there,” Saget said.
“Well, I mean we can go find it,” Sweetin joked. “Somewhere, there’s a headless Sea Pappy.”
