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FULL HOUSE’s DJ Tanner was Supposed to End Up with This Love Interest

FULL HOUSE’s DJ Tanner was Supposed to End Up with This Love Interest

By Movieguide® Contributor

David Lipper was supposed to play DJ Tanner’s long-term boyfriend on the ’90s sitcom FULL HOUSE, but then the show was canceled.

“I was slated to be her next boyfriend going on and on for the rest of the series until they found out they were going to be canceled,” he told Dave Coulier on the “Full House Rewind” podcast.

Lipper played Viper, a member of Uncle Jesse’s band, who became 17-year-old DJ Tanner’s (Candace Cameron Bure) secret love interest.

“Lipper’s final appearance came in the episode ‘D.J.’s Choice,’ a half-hour in which D.J. felt pressured to choose between tattooed rocker Viper and rich kid Nelson (Jason Marsden),” EW reported.

“Then they decided that she was going to…make a decision between Nelson or me because I dumped her, and then I wanted her back, and then it was going to be me, but then she picked nobody because the show is ending,” Lipper said of the episode.

“Viper’s romance with the oldest Tanner sister was never rekindled following her decision not to choose him or Nelson at the end of the original series,” Screen Rant reported. “Instead, the story of FULLER HOUSE saw DJ and Steve become a couple, the pair first having dated in FULL HOUSE season 5. By the end of the sequel series, the pair are married, despite many ups and downs and many different relationships throughout their lives.”

Courier explained why the beloved family show came to a sudden end.

“We were told that there was a possibility when The WB network started that we were gonna do two more seasons on the WB,” Coulier said. “But at that point, Season 8, people were kinda like, ‘How many more stories can we tell? We’ve already told a 192 of these.’ Like, you know, not everybody was into it. I was like, ‘I’ll do two more seasons, man. I’m having a blast. You know, I’ll come in and do Popeye and walk out.’”

“I wish I could have been on longer, and I wish it could have gone more seasons,” Lipper added. The show ran from 1987 to 1995.

Lipper also mentioned that despite the numerous movies he’s been in since, people still recognize him most for FULL HOUSE.

“I get recognized more from FULL HOUSE really than the 60 movies I’ve done since put together,” he laughed.

Movieguide previously reported on the bond the FULL HOUSE cast members share.

The actor also discussed FULL HOUSE’s enduring popularity, crediting the cast’s real-life bond. 

“I think people could feel that we really loved each other and still do. You can’t fake that. That’s really hard to manufacture,” Coulier explained. “We text on someone’s birthday, we say congratulations for things, we ask each other for help. It’s really a wonderful family. I don’t think any of us in the very beginning expected that to happen for the rest of our lives. So I keep in touch with everybody.”

He continued, “We’re like a family, you know? We bicker, we argue, we call people out on their stuff. We have problems with each other, but at the end of the day, we love each other and we kind work through it. I mean, we’ve been through pickups, cancellations, births, deaths, marriages, divorces—the stuff that any family goes through.


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