Three months after a car accident kills his wife, Danny Tanner recruits his brother-in-law (Jesse) and his friend (Joey) to move in and help raise his three daughters, 10-year-old D.J., 5-year-old Stephanie, and 1-year-old Michelle.

Fearing that his long work hours are negatively impacting his relationship with his children, Danny takes the girls on a string of father-daughter outings.

The process turns out to be more strenuous than they expected, after Joey borrows Jesse's motorcycle and does not come back until the next day.

Note: This is Alice Hirson's last appearance on the show as Claire Tanner; she is later replaced by Doris Roberts in the season three episode "Granny Tanny".

The station where Danny works is filming promos showing the members of their news team at home, which means a camera crew will be coming to the house.

Everything seems to be in place when a woman named Ronnie Gardner shows up at the house for the filming, but Danny is perplexed when her methods of producing spicy television include dressing Jesse up as an English maid, having perfect French girls, replacing sweet baby Michelle with an unknown child and completely removing Joey from the picture, so Danny needs to tell Mrs. Gardner off and show the viewers the real Tanner family.

As all this is going on, Jesse and Joey try hard to locate the source of some strange animal noises in the house, which turns out to be a ferret.

The fact that Danny and Joey and the girls are going to Disneyland in Anaheim delights Jesse, who has been waiting to spend a romantic weekend alone with his girlfriend Samantha.

[25][26] On Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, the season holds a score of 31 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.