Fuller House reveals the one thing that Kimmy is better at compared to DJ. The pair has been best friends since they were in grade school in Full House and have stuck with each other through their ups and downs. This was why Kimmy never hesitated to move into the Tanner family home after DJ was suddenly widowed, but it also exposed one life skill where Kimmy is doing so much better than her best friend.
It's not like DJ and Kimmy's relationship was a stroll in the park; there were times when they had serious arguments, and at certain points in Full House, they even came close to not being friends anymore. The start of their friendship isn't clear, with Fuller House and its predecessor having conflicting information about the matter, but their dynamic has always been obvious - DJ is the smart and responsible friend, while Kimmy is the fun and erratic one. Danny and the rest of the Tanner clan would always ask DJ why she continued to hang out with Kimmy since they didn't seem to have anything in common, but Fuller House proved that, at the end of the day, Gibbler wasn't all that bad.
In fact, after being dubbed the second-rate friend in her relationship with DJ, Fuller House highlighted the one thing that Kimmy was better at - parenting. Netflix's sequel series focused on Full House's young cast now all grown up, with both DJ and Kimmy already having kids when show began. DJ, like her father, was left to raise three sons alone, when her firefighter husband tragically died during duty, while the newly-separated Kimmy took in her only daughter, Ramona, as she prepared to divorce Fernando. While they didn't have ideal family circumstances, Kimmy was doing much better at handling her situation than DJ was, and it remained this way until Fuller House wrapped up after five seasons.
DJ's situation was the original premise of Fuller House and it's an effort to draw a parallel between the sequel and the original sitcom. Like Danny, she has three kids - Jackson, Max, and Tommy - who are around the same age as she, Stephanie, and Michelle were when Full House started. Instead of devoting at least the first few seasons of Fuller House to showing her as a single mother who's doing her best in a difficult situation, the spinoff opted to have her story be focused on her personal life. She began romantic relationships with Matt and Steve without consulting her kids, and when she agreed to get married again, there wasn't an extensive discussion about what that meant to her kids moving forward. Granted, while Fuller House attempted to make her look like she was only focused on her work and kids, it felt hollow since there were hardly any genuinely touching moment between her and the kids.
Kimmy, on the other hand, was a more hands-on mom. She took time to bond with Ramona and be supportive of her endeavors. There were a few times she went over-the-top when reacting to certain things, but it was always out of her intention to protect her daughter. Fuller House depicted Kimmy as the fun but stern mom, while they presented DJ as an almost absent parent. Aside from parenting Ramona, Kimmy also helped DJ raise her kids, with Fuller House's final season showing her assisting when her best friend was clueless on how to handle Max's peer pressure issue.
In hindsight, DJ's parenting failure can be chalked to Fuller House wanting its story to focus on the eldest Tanner daughter instead of her kids. They devoted too much time to developing her romances; while there's nothing wrong with that, they made a mistake by not involving her kids in that narrative. This is one of, if not the biggest, difference between the Netflix project and its parent series. Granted that Full House also developed Danny, Jesse, and Joey's personal lives, but the focus was always on the kids.
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