Whatever happened to predictability? This episode of “How Rude, Tanneritos!” was not that.

Full House actress says she tried to ‘grow an orange tree’ in her stomach as a kid

Whatever happened to predictability? This episode of "How Rude, Tanneritos!" was not that.

By Raechal Shewfelt

Raechal Shewfelt

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February 3, 2026 6:45 p.m. ET

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Jodie Sweetin, Andrea Barber, and Candace Cameron Bure on 'Fuller House'. Credit:

It almost sounded like a *Full House* scene with Kimmy Gibbler and Stephanie Tanner.

"When I was in kindergarten. I tried to grow an orange tree in my stomach," actress Andrea Barber, who portrayed Kimmy on *Full House* and revival series *Fuller House*, said on the Feb. 3 edition of rewatch podcast, *How Rude Tanneritos!*

"So I ate dirt, and I ate oranges, and I drank water," Barber, who was 11 when the show debuted, explained to podcast cohost Jodie Sweetin, who played Stephanie on the shows. "And then I put my mouth up to the sun, to get the sunshine in. I was in kindergarten."

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Sweetin was floored about the story that came up as the former costars discussed an episode of their original sitcom in which Stephanie's baby sister, Michelle (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen), has the idea to grow a money tree.

The original series, which aired for eight seasons, from 1987 to 1995, also costarred Candace Cameron Bure, John Stamos, Dave Coulier, Lori Loughlin, and the late Bob Saget, as a nontraditional family with Barber's Gibbler as their eccentric and sometimes pesky neighbor.

"There's so many jokes running through my head that it is like a collision of nonsense," Sweetin said. "What in the human planter are you doing?"

Barber described herself as "a very creative and bored 5-year-old child" who obtained dirt by digging on her school playground and water from the communal water fountains.

"How am I not diseased still?" she asked.

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Barber explained that the dirt hadn't tasted good, but she was "committed to the experiment," which only lasted a few days.

"There was no evidence of a tree growing in my stomach, so I gave up," Barber said.

What would she have done if a tree would have grown in there, Sweetin asked. Had she thought of that?

Candace Cameron Bure and Andrea Barber on 'Full House'.

At that point, Barber seemed to realize the hilarity of what she was saying, which had both women laughing much of the time.**

"When I started telling this story, I didn't know it was this bizarre," Barber said. "I thought this was just a cute childhood story."

That was too much for Sweetin: "What do you mean you didn't know it was bizarre?!"

Sweetin added that she was "fascinated" and eventually would follow up.

"I need you to know that we're coming back to this at some point," Sweetin said, "because I am never going to forget when you tried to become a human orange tree."

Listen to their full conversation above.**

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