Jodie Sweetin in Valerie

Here's a pre-Full House Jodie Sweetin popping up in the obscure sitcom, Valerie. Ironically, she plays the niece of Edie McClurg, who would go on to guest star in Full House.
Also, yes, that is Jason Bateman as the teen who doesn't want to hold her

[@deannaroberson1451]

Jodie Sweetin was an adorable little girl.🌸

[@silverdarcy1684]

Pamela: Uncle David please carry me! David: Uncle David doesnt want to carry you. Pamela: yes he does David: No he doesnt. Pamela: Yes he does David: NO! He Doesnt! Pamela: yes he doeeesss (fake crying) ........

[@hafsak3785]

HAHA

[@eltravo2112]

Lol close. David said something about not wanting to play nursemaid and she said “Not Nurse Maid....Let’s play Barbie!” David: I don’t wanna play Barbie. Pamela: Yes you do! David: No I don’t Pamela: 😭😭😭 David: Ok let’s play Barbie Pamela: Tea time! She gets David to drink some imaginary tea ☕️ Then she gives a mean stare over to Mark and Willie who weren’t cooperating then they started blowing on their imaginary tea😂😂😂😂 One of the best episodes in the series. This was the one where Valerie is stuck at an airport on her way to Bermuda to meet Mike and she gets her purse stolen by a woman while looking at another older ladies family photographs. Then she gets arrested by airport police because they confuse her as the other woman. She tries calling home and Pamela keeps answering the phone. “Hello” “Hello? Who’s this? “Pamela.” “Pamela who?” “Bye bye!” (Click) 😂😂😂

[@LizC1213]

Her guest appearance on Valerie probably got her the role of Stephanie Tanner on Full House.

[@natvan29]

​@@LizC1213it did I remember reading she was the only one who didn't have to try out for full house everyone eles had to try out to get their part even the Olsens but Jodie didn't she just got the part

[@bonnieriffle8371]

David: (begrudgingly) Allright I'll carry you, Pamela: yeaaaaaayyy!!!!!!

[@nee-nah]

Jodi had the right idea latching on to Jason Bateman! Swoon. 😍😍😍

[@teddyjam8134]

She was adorable. 😃

[@matthoranofficial]

When she said "I want you to carry me", that was the cutest thing. ❤️🥺

[@noormalik9761]

one of the best scenes of the series!!❤️❤️❤️

[@DeeNice681]

"I don't even like the little girl on Cosby", LMAO!

[@marvinhagler001]

DeeNice681 iii

[@natvan29]

To me it would have been funnier if he said I don't even like Shirley Temple since everyone seems to love Shirley Temple. I don't she's ok but to me she is not the best child actress I have seen child actress that are a lot better then her

[@kiranolan7104]

@@natvan29 "the little girl from Cosby" worked better because everyone knew he meant Rudy. I don't think everyone knows Shirley Temple.

[@فطرمهغابي]

That show was my favourite one 😍😍

[@Mastermind8908]

Then Jodie goes on to doing a show about a family that also lost their mother. Well now we know where Full House started from.

[@cbsteffen]

I sometimes think that Full House was based on Valerie/Valerie’s Family: The Hogans/The Hogan Family for the following reasons: 1. Jodie Sweetin’s character in this show as well as that character’s name. 2. The death of the main characters’ mother (although the girls’ mother in Full House died before the show itself took place). 3. The cause of the mother’s death. (It was the same for both mothers.) 4. A sibling of the mother whom moved in after the mother died. 5. The two stairways that might’ve seemingly led to the same floor.

[@CanadianFan]

And made by the same production company Miller-Boyatt

[@JasonDelarosa2000]

An early example of Jodieliciousness! That's the Jodie Sweetin term for cuteness and beauty.

[@MrParkerman6]

No it isn't.

[@JasonDelarosa2000]

@@MrParkerman6 It is :)

[@shanicevu4561]

OMG in this so her name is Pamela just like her mom in full House

[@smill1985]

I didn't even realize that. How appropriate. 😉

[@TRJ2241987]

.....this show wasn't obscure. Maybe people today don't know it, but it wasn't obscure in the 80s. It just had the misfortune of going through multiple name changes

[@David_R922]

Great theme song though.

[@LizC1213]

I love watching reruns of it on Rewind TV Sunday nights, after My Two Dads.

[@cbsteffen]

Obviously because Valerie Harper had a contract dispute that was never settled and therefore didn’t allow her to come back although that was thought to be a possibility (and it therefore took a while to finalize the decision)!

[@annoyed1127]

Mark and Willie Hogan!!! Double cutie overload!!!

[@stars660]

Loved this show.

[@amandao.8043]

Not that obscure - the show ran for 6 seasons. It started as Valerie, then Valerie's Family, then the Hogan Family. Valerie Harper was fired after to Season 2 - thus the name changes. Jason Bateman was pretty well known and Edie McClurg played the hilarious secretary in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

[@TheBandit025Nova]

Grace

[@sycamoreleaves74]

This takes me back... Wow. They don't make them like this anymore, now it's all trash TV because that's what the people want to see apparently.

[@SereniaSaissa]

I loved Valerie because i thought Mrs Poole was HILARIOUS!!! I dont remember seeing this episode but its been over 30 years so maybe I just forgot!!

[@wotan10950]

Edie Mcclurg appeared in an episode of The Valerie Show, called Community Theater. She’d always played the ditz on this, and most other, shows. But in that one episode, she had to recite a love speech.......and the cast and audience were floored when she brought up a soliloquy from her heart and soul, equal to anything by Judi Dench or Maggie Smith. I wish it was on KZbin somewhere.

[@JeanesaPierre-un2xj]

I Love Jodie Sweetin And She Is So Cute 🥺 And Adorable 😍🥰 😀❤️😃😍💖💝

[@brendaechols5929]

Cute little girl.

[@mollylea2643]

I heard that as soon as Jeff Franklin saw her in this, he immediately cast her in Full House!

[@smurvin]

Interesting to know. Weird how Full House ended up becoming the more popular of the two sitcoms while Valerie/Hogan Family faded into obscurity despite lasting for 5 years.

[@mollylea2643]

smurvin I know! You can't even find it online anymore!

[@smurvin]

Well, someone actually uploaded a lot of episodes onto Dailymotion (which is where I got this clip from) but, for the longest time, you couldn't find it anywhere

[@mollylea2643]

smurvin Really? Thanks for the tip!

[@jmjfanss]

and more recently fuller house.

[@JasonDelarosa2000]

A year before _Full House_ and eight before _Jodie_

[@RetroManMike]

Thanks for uploading this. I'm reading the book Unsweetined and I was hoping this would be on here.

[@johnpenguinthe3rd13]

This show, Valerie, was NOT obscure. It aired on NBC on Monday nights at 8:30 p.m on prime time right after ALF (which was another huge hit show) and Valerie was a VERY popular mainstream hit with MILLIONS of viewers for several years (at it's peak, Valerie was getting 18 million viewers per episode) for six seasons from 1986 - 1991 and this show spawned actor Jason Bateman who became very famous for a while. The show also had a huge real life controversy which made nationwide headlines (there is a reason why the show started as Valerie, was later renamed Valerie's Family and then renamed the Hogan Family for the rest of it's life). Granted, I guess it's considered obscure today by anyone not alive when it aired since it's not on any streaming services and there is no DVD that I can find (wouldn't surprise me if it's because of legal crap due to the whole Valerie controversy. Seasons 1 and 2 might be the ones tied up in legal crap. They would probably have to start the show with season 3 when the show got renamed as Valerie's Family and just rename everything as Hogan Family for streaming services and DVD).

[@cbaacworth2849]

ACTUALLY SILVER SPOONS SPAWNED JASON BATEMAN LONG BEFORE THIS SHOW

[@trainradioable]

@@cbaacworth2849 And he was fired from Silver Spoons because he overshadowed Ricky Schroder.

[@adambaum9732]

@@cbaacworth2849 But this was only after this show "Valerie" did Jason Bateman become a star.

[@nee-nah]

What controversy?

[@johnpenguinthe3rd13]

@@nee-nah Fom what I remember during the 80's from TV news shows of the time is that the actress Valerie Harper was in an intense war with the show's executives (Miller / Boyett under Lorimer productions. Miller & Boyett have produced TONS of shows like Full House, Fuller House, Family Matters (Steve Urkel's show), Step by Step, Perfect Strangers, etc, etc, and Valerie / Hogan Family is one of them). Miller / Boyett's side of the story is that Valerie Harper was being an intense witch with a crazy temperament (a super diva) with them and Valerie started demanding for more money, more cuts of the percentage of the profits from the show (even for future reruns), more creative control, etc, etc, but she was doing it in a very super diva way (pretty much treating them like crap. Again, this is Miller and Boyett's side of the story). Valerie's side of the story is that she had the right to ask for more money and control. After a verbal battle between both sides, out of protest Valerie decided to NOT show up for the taping of an episode of her show at the last minute (leaving the rest of the crew and other actors unable to film the episode). Allegedly, Miller Boyett caved in and verbally said they would agree to her demands (but they didn't put anything in writing). Valerie came back on another day and shot the episode and left after she did her scenes. Well, the producers decided (without telling her) that would be her final episode and decided to kill her character off permanently and renamed the show to Valerie's Family and they publicly fired her. Valerie didn't like this and decided to sue. During the lawsuit, the producers decided to rename the show The Hogan Family (they seriously wanted all mention of her character killed off in every way). Things did NOT go well for Miller / Boyett since they LOST the case. Since Valerie did come back to film her scenes, this showed that she had intent to continue the show and that her firing was wrongful termination. I think she also had somewhat of a small creative input clause in her contract so them killing off her character, something she didn't approve, is in conflict with that. In the end, she was awarded TONS of money (millions upon millions of dollars for the two seasons of the show when it was still named Valerie and even received millions for some of the third season, when her character was killed off, since she had intent to work that season if her character hadn't been killed off) and on top of this she gained around 10% of all profits and future profits of the show (even in the future when the show would be cancelled and put into reruns) but only for the first two seasons (when the show was called Valerie) and I think even for some of the third season (when it's called Valerie's Family), but NOT for seasons 4 and 5 and 6 (when the show is called The Hogan Family). While Valerie Harper passed away back in 2019, I do believe that any money made from the first two seasons of Valerie (and maybe even some of the third season) would go to whoever is in charge of her estate. Finally: It's been speculated that is the reason why this show (Valerie for seasons 1 and 2, Valerie's Family for season 3 and The Hogan Family for seasons 4 and 5 and 6) has never officially appeared on streaming services and has never had a DVD set while all the other Miller / Boyett shows like Full House Family Matters (Steve Urkel), Step by Step, Perfect Strangers, etc, etc, etc, have been on major streaming sites (they use to be on Hulu but got moved over to HBO MAX and they are even available on Freevee, which is Amazon's secondary streaming app) and have all gotten multiple DVD sets while the Valerie / Valerie's Family / The Hogan Family show has been locked in a vault somewhere, never released again. Yes, they most likely can release seasons 4, 5, and 6 without any legal problems and maybe some of season 3 without legal problems, but it's seasons 1, 2, and MAYBE some of 3 where legal crap and money demands could get in the way (all coming from Valerie's estate to the point where they might even be able to block the Hogan Family seasons if those were released by themselves since they could legally argue that the Valerie seasons are a package deal with everything else and cannot be ignored). One FINAL note: While I mentioned that they killed off Valerie's character, I forgot to mention HOW they did it. They literally BURNED her character alive. Seriously, during season 3, the upper part of the house caught on fire (I think due to an electrical glitch with a lamp or something that bursted into flames) and while the rest of the family ran out of the house, Valerie didn't make it and she BURNED to death with the fire destroying her while in the house. While they didn't show the death (since this is a family sitcom), this was highly unusual for a family sitcom to kill off a character in a very disturbing way like this. I guess Miller / Boyett truly hated Valerie. You can tell there was a lot of personal hatred coming from the writers and producers in the way they set her character on fire and killed her off in that way.

[@leroymaxwellii2747]

Jodie Sweetin!

[@EricTidalgo]

🥰JONHERIC😍

[@Launchpad05]

'How rude!'

[@GuyanaCapital-qr3wg]

Best times ever !!!

[@kennybegeske8824]

Give Me A Long Kiss Goodnight And Everything Will Be Alright Tell Me Edie I Won't Feel A Thing So Give Me Novacaine

[@lindabeyda915]

omg Jodie is the cutest thing! where can i find a full episode?

[@smurvin]

Here's the whole episode: www.dailymotion.com/video/x538bf8

[@lindabeyda915]

thank you so much! wow that was a fast reply! i commented this not even a hr ago!

[@smurvin]

You were lucky

[@nannymcnanny5523]

+Linda Beyda an*

[@shayanchamas60]

@@smurvin Hey thanks! I checked it out too. Brings back memories. Thanks for the link.

[@kennybegeske8824]

Yeah,That's What I need a Edie McClurg Mom with Redhair

[@presley1712]

Classic. Grew up with this show

[@marvinhagler001]

Presley 17 ii

[@needles1987]

Mrs. Poole thinks the Hogan boys are righteous dudes.

[@k.w.gamingtime6330]

OMG JODIE IS ADORABLEEEEE!!!!! (Whoops I almost called her Steph! 🤣) I LOVE the part when she is being picked up!! She’s SOOOOO CUUUTE and TINYYYY!!!!! I bet she’s like 20 pounds!! 😍🥰😘

[@TheRealBlackarrot]

Nobody locked their doors on 80s sitcoms

[@nannymcnanny5523]

their*

[@Janardsleftear1280]

lmao

[@donotreply-dallaskeffer2285]

Nobody locked their doors on any that I recall. Often, nobody even closed their doors!

[@TRJ2241987]

Haha I think this all the time on Married With Children with Marcy's god awful burst ins

[@erinmefford8041]

Ty for uploading these clips been forever since I have seen this show also i just subbed to u

[@kennybegeske8824]

Poor Edie McClurg

[@jenniferholzman119]

I wish Valerie stayed on longer

[@kennybegeske8824]

Put it on Netflix and Hulu and AMC and Logo on TV

[@mamacindyrogofsky495]

Mrs Poole first appeared in Small Wonder!

[@heatherboster1937]

🤣🤣🤣Now THERE's an 'obscure' '80s show...ok, maybe not that obscure, but super weird.. That Tiffany chick who played the Robot, 'Vicki' and that awkward Jerry kid (was he one of Jerry's ACtuAL 'kids') who played Jamie were some kinda child actors 😂🙃

[@karlchung]

Jodie Sweetin's acting debut

[@mgc1022]

I believe she did commercials before then, but yeah this was her first role in a TV series. Jeff Franklin saw her in this and cast her as Stephanie on Full House based on that performance alone, no audition needed.

[@TravonJamelGreen]

Jodie sweetn is nice actress!

[@armyofpets5547]

And a motor mouth.

[@TravonJamelGreen]

That was her catchphrase "how rude!"

[@kennybegeske8824]

Put It on Cozi TV

[@IlseBelievesInPink]

Much cuter than the Olsen twins.

[@curlyyasmin181]

Lets play ballerinaa!

[@kennybegeske8824]

Put it on Netflix and TV land logo

[@lisastrayer1174]

Is this the only episode Jodie is in of this show?

[@kennybegeske8824]

Mrs Iron man

[@nik1128]

Why does this look like it was filmed 95 years ago

[@musicaltheatergeek79]

@Marty McFly IIThe show did not look this fuzzy when it originally aired. There was no HDTV in the '80s -- you couldn't see people's pores/flaws -- but the picture quality was still pretty clear.

[@MrParkerman6]

@musicaltheatergeek79 Yes you could, dumbass.

[@winniethepooh4630]

My name is valerie

[@thenewctc]

Can't believe those idiots fried Valerie From her own show! It was really good(watching on Daily Motion right now) They kill her in a car accident then burn her house down!! Sitcom right lol..at least Valerie made money during all 6 seasons even though she was only in 2. Rip Beautiful 😢💐🌠

[@Daisyno2]

like she was the first

[@rjb1216]

Kind of stretching the word ironic there a little, more of a coincidence if that

[@vaishnavisingh3077]

it is so blurry

[@fooddrugadministrator4079]

I want my TV to be blurry if I watch old shows

[@Romans8-9]

@25 Years ago Its because whoever uploaded it, likely transferred it from an old vhs.

[@emily5968]

The most attractive thing a guy can do is be good with children

[@sebastiansancho5430]

Sobresalido de Padres Forzosos.

[@dannymorante519]

pamela:bye bye women:no wait wait please who is this. pamela:Pamela women:Pamela Pamela who? pamela:bye bye women:no wait phone taking away. women stood there doesn't know who is pamela.

[@AJTComicsBrand]

Are they related to Hulk Hogan?

[@reeseni7620]

Jodi Was so tiny

[@666_.flamingo]

Isn't what she's called in the show is what her dead mom is called in full house? She's cute tho

[@malloryhead]

Man that lady always played the annoying neighbor in shows lol

[@OneLoveRSR]

She also told Steve Martin "you're fucked!" in Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

[@kennybegeske8824]

TV G

[@fooddrugadministrator4079]

Thank you for not proving your racist

[@fooddrugadministrator4079]

This is how I act around pit bull dogs!

[@mayarehaste7473]

hello

[@drseafrog]

sup?

[@albertomarruffo6279]

Why did they change the name to The hogan Family?

[@patricknedz]

I think because the lady that played Valerie left the show and the character was written out.

[@petrarazov5611]

What season and episode is this?

[@smurvin]

Boston Tea Party Season 2 Episode 11

[@jackson5116]

So Jodie was 4?

[@arthurworkman4399]

You don't like Rudy that little girl on Cosby -- what an insult -- just about everyone fell in love with Rudy. What was not to like about little Rudy Huxtable.

[@smurvin]

It's a joke, don't take it so seriously

[@arthurworkman4399]

@@smurvin duh I know that silly - I was joking as well that's why I made the comment. Many old shows back then used to poke fun at each other.

[@michaelleary9233]

And Raven became cool when she got her own show on Dianey Channel-they even made a sequel!

[@tripface78]

If I remember wasn't she very annoying in this episode