Oh Full House. Love it or hate it, we all watched it and all remember it. And now, whenever we see Mary-Kate or Ashley smoking, drinking or starving we stop and wonder, what happened to them? They were so cute on that show! Well, as the Dixie Chicks poorly covered, ‘time makes you bolder/ Children get older/ I’m getting older too’. We are all getting older, even Michelle Tanner. She will, however, live on in our hearts and through syndication.

Full House was so monumental, and so influential. With plot lines like ‘DJ is wearing the same dress as the popular girl!’, ‘the kitchen wall was smashed in!’- this happened twice- and my personal favourite, ‘the creation of a successful all-ages-family-oriented music club where Kimmy Gibbler is a waitress’, that always ended in puppies, flowers and happiness in 22 minutes or less, Full House taught me how to live, how to love, how to lie, and most importantly, how to laugh.

So, what qualifies as Full House greatness? Well, after much thought, and internet research, I have compiled a list of the 10 greatest things that would not exist in pop culture today if it were not for Full House. So kick back, relax and enjoy the guilty pleasure that is the Full House alumni and their current B-list (and C-list and D-list) endeavors!

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So yesterday, January 22, was apparently the Saddest Day of the Year. Apparently this was based on science, which means, I assume, that a scientist actually spent a good amount of time researching, documenting and reporting on the phenomenon. Knowing at least a little bit about how science works (I know there are beakers involved), I imagine this took a very long time, which leads me to wonder what kind of social life a scientist who devoted himself to determining the saddest day of the year would have.

I bet all his scientist buddies were working on things like curing cancer or developing a new crazy kind of glue (but not Krazy Glue) and when all the scientists went out for drinks they would talk about their cool experiments and give each other high-fives, while Mr. I’m-working-on-finding-the-saddest-day-of-the-year just sort of sulked in the corner, and sighed.

Then he’d go home and measure his own level of sadness, and compare it to a variety of factors. Then he’d sigh, shuffle some papers around, mark his findings on a clipboard — “Not today,” he’d say to himself, in his lonely apartment, before crawling into bed and hoping that tomorrow he will finally find success.

But don’t let that bring you down, because the hypothetical scientist in question DID succeed! He found the saddest day of the year! And it was yesterday! Did you have a bad day? Were you depressed and lonely? I’d be concerned if you didn’t! Defying science is always a bad idea.

For BE-Something’s first Top 10, I thought I’d play on the theme of sadness and focus on some of TV’s saddest moments. These aren’t the saddest ever, by any means, as I haven’t seen enough TV nor thought long enough about this to make such declarative claims. I was also limited by what was already uploaded on youtube. But, still, they’re all sad moments, and I hope you keep them in mind for the saddest day of next year, when you shuffle about and stare at your shoes and wonder if you’ve already peaked in your life.

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