Teaser: Michelle and Denise watch a commercial about the "Funny Buddy" riddles hotline. Main Synopsis: In a special episode: Stephanie and her classmate Charles are assigned to work together on a homework assignment. After school, Charles goes to the house with Stephanie, and while working on the assignment with Stephanie, Charles slips up and is forced to admit that his father beats him up all the time. Charles feels helpless because, like Stephanie, Charles doesn't have a mother because Charles's mother is dead. Charles makes Stephanie promise to tell no one about the abuse. Later, when Michelle becomes angry at Danny for punishing her because she ran up the phone bill by calling the "Funny Buddy" riddle hotline several times, Stephanie blows up at Michelle and angrily tells Michelle that she's lucky to have a father who doesn't hit her, and Jesse wonders where Stephanie's behavior is coming from. Stephanie breaks her promise of silence and tells Jesse what Charles told her. Jesse,
After his wife ishuged in a car accident, news anchorman Danny Tanner recruits his brother-in-law Jesse Katsopolis (a rock musician) and best friend Joey Gladstone (who works as a stand-up comedian) to help raise his three young daughters: D.J., Stephanie, and Michelle, in his San Francisco home. Over time, the three men as well as the children bond and become closer to one another.
Danny is reassigned from his duties as sports anchor by his television station to become co-host of a local morning television show, Wake Up, San Francisco, and is teamed up with Nebraska native Rebecca Donaldson.