Full House Target Audience

[Left Turn]

What do people think was the target audience for Full House?

[fullhouseforever]

Probably tweens and young teens, which made for a lot of the MK&A fanbase.  And I think it's clear that that phenomenon did have a lot to do with FH success, even if the height of hte popularity among that group might have been a little after FH.  It is also true that family sitcoms were much more common at the time and made up a lot of the TV comedies on air.  With that in mind, it probably did attract more people above the one I mentioned before than you see today.

In the mind's of the writers, it's a tough call though.  The ratings were decent enough from the get-go and yet it's difficult to say what kind of people they were looking for as the viewers in the beginning.  It ended up working somehow.

[BL]

Yeah, definitely kids from about 10 to 14 years old, primarily girls were FH's target audience. Just look at HR; a few years ago, a majority of our membership was 10-15 year old girls. FHF's probably right about it attracting more people in the 80s than it did today; tons of "family" shows from a long time ago are now basically considered kids shows.

[MT Fan]

I agree with most except instead of just young girls  I think it had a lot more of a family aim.

[Left Turn]

I'd say that kids 12 and under were were a constant target audience over the course of the series. It seems that parents were more of a target audience in the early seasons, and became less a target audience as the show progressed. I'd also say that single women were probably a target audience in the early seasons, since Jesse's character was intended to appeal to women, and was initially played up as such. I doubt teenagers were ever a specific target audience, though the more mature and risque adventures that happpend to DJ and Stephanie as they got older would appeal to teenagers. However, if they had wanted to make teenagers the target audience in the later seasons, they likely wouldn't have made Michelle the centre of so many plots.

[fullhouseforever]

They did make a point on the THS that the Jesse character appealed to single women at the beginning, lol.  As for the teenager thing, I think the more mature stories for Stephanie and DJ were a combination of having to give their characters age appropriate storylines and hoping still find a niche to the audience that was growing up with those two.  By the end, it looked like the show's average audience was lower (in age I mean), although different characters applied to different niches.

[Left Turn]

I agree that the average age of the audience was lower at the end of the show's run than at the beginning. It probably had to do with the show having less appeal for adults at the end than at the beginning.

[fullhouseforever]

Even the style of show I seem to get that feeling.  There were a ton of plots that focuses on kids for kids near the end.  Season 1 for sure didn't see that, and even the next couple years it had a lot to do with the interacting of the family unit more than anything.  There were a lot of episodes with the girls by that time, but I do think an older audience would be able to connect to those ones earlier on than the by the time the series was coming to an end.

[Mikayli]

Yeah, pretty much I thik it was families, they said somewhere they lways tried to have a plot for kis s well s one that was more for adults.

[fullhouseforever]

Yeah, that was usually the case.  It does make sense when you think about it though considering if all of the guys or all of the girls didn't have a story in a given episode, that's 50% of the cast without real involvement.  Often you'd see a C story go on for the rest of the characters who weren't in A or B very much.   Even though FH's biggest audience was kids, I don't think it's fair to call it just a kid's show and it's most definitely not a show just for adults.

[Csoup715]

I agree I think it was just intended to be a family show....not something that parents would particularly love so definitely aimed more for the kids, but something that everyone could sit down and watch to together and at least be mildly entertained

[MT Fan]

There were definatly a couple of decent jokes an episode though that really sold it to parents.

[fullhouseforever]

Yep, that's certainly true.  There are some kid shows that manage to do that as well, although I'd hesitate to put Full House in the same category.

[Csoup715]

yeah pretty much all Nick@Nite/TVLand shows are designed to do exactly that.....but like FHF said new kids shows like cartoons and stuff try to put in pretty adult jokes that go straight over little kids heads but then I walk into the room and I'm like damn, this should be like PG-13

[fullhouseforever]

I guess the difference is with those shows, you have a complete kid show premise with the innuendo slipped into lines, whereas with FH you certainly know the ones about the guys' relationships for instance weren't made for the kids, although they could watch it without it hbothering them.