Operation Varsity Blues Already Happened on 'Full House' and 'Desperate Housewives'
Whatever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paper boy, Aunt Becky’s thoughtful and measured approach to the rigged academic admission system? After Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman's involvement in the 50-person arrest around a college admission scam ring, a lot of very well versed Full House and Desperate Housewives fans put together the pieces to reveal that Loughlin (well, Aunt Becky) and Huffman (Lynette Scavo) had been in this position before.
In a Season Six episode of Full House, Aunt Becky and her husband Jesse Katsopolis (John Stamos) are working to get their twin sons, Nicky and Alex, enrolled in an elite pre-school. In the midst of the rigor, Jesse decides to elaborate some details on the boys’ application to make them more appealing before level-headed Becky steps in to set things straight-the most important thing is that their kids are happy. Her character says, "Maybe the fast track isn’t it. I mean, Nicky and Alex are normal and healthy kids, and whatever track they’re on, they seem to be doing okay.” Turns out the twins do get in, but they throw the acceptance letter away because happiness comes first!
But 26 years have gone by, and while Becky might have been a proponent of that mushy crap, Loughlin is hard. Wake up San Francisco! Money makes the world go ‘round. Before People published one of the earliest posts about the strange parallel, a couple of Twitter fiends were also onto the similarities.
And then there's also that episode when DJ had a dream that she tried to cheat by getting SAT help from her family via a walkie talkie in a burrito. Essentially, Full House was rife with foreshadowing.
Not to be outdone, there is a Season Three episode of Desperate Housewives when Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman) literally bribes her son's baseball coach to put him back on the team, despite how bad of a player he is. And she does so-are you ready for this-by paying for the team to get new helmets. Felicity! We've seen this before. Thank God PhotoShop wasn't as popular to common people in 2007!
All of this is to say that the old adage is true: life does imitate art, and no matter what your snootiness around art is, Full House and Desperate Housewives are the perfect pieces of art to imitate for this particular crime. Now if we could just figure out how Huffman's husband, William H. Macy, managed to sneak out of all of this relatively unscathed. I mean, the man was in Fargo.
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