The Real Reason Full House Ended

"Full House" was easily one of the most beloved shows on television in the early 1990s, and the ratings spoke for themselves with millions of viewers tuning in week after week. When Bob Iger became the new Disney CEO in 1989, he wanted to make some changes, but removing "Full House" from the TV lineup wasn't one of them. "A lot of families weren't watching TV together as much as when I was growing up. But I thought, 'If we could program shows where parents and kids could watch together, we'd be better off from a ratings perspective,'" he told Entertainment Weekly in 2017.

In the years that followed, however, the television landscape changed. According to Forbes, "ABC abandoned TGIF to target an older audience with workplace comedies." And while that shift came a few years after the cancellation of "Full House," it seems that doing away with the show may have been a catalyst for what was ahead. 

Many longtime fans of "Full House" weren't ready to say goodbye to the series and even more were upset with how things ended. As actor Andrea Barber explained in her interview with Decider, the show concluded with a story about Michelle Tanner falling off a horse and getting amnesia, ending in an abrupt manner. "There was no time to write to the finale," Barber explained.