Jodie Sweetin says Dave Coulier sent ‘Full House’ cast ‘horrifying’ AI image

Dave Coulier is keeping that Uncle Joey spirit alive and well in the Full House cast group chat.

Jodie Sweetin revealed that Coulier likes to liven things up via group text much like his character livened things up in the Tanner household during the beloved sitcom’s run in the ’90s. Most recently, the comedian shared an AI-generated photo of the cast as “goths,” which Sweetin told PEOPLE was “horrifying” at first.

“Like, aged-down goths. And for some reason, there was a Kourtney Kardashian lookalike in there who was supposed to be Becky,” she added of the character played by Lori Loughlin. “But me and the Olsen twins were the same age, except for Mary-Kate, who actually looked like she does today.”

Sweetin explained that the late Bob Saget, who played beloved patriarch Danny Tanner, was also in the image depicted as Geddy Lee, the lead singer of Rush.

“It was just a very, very strange thing. Dave made a joke. I didn’t get it,” Sweetin said, adding that she eventually understood. “I was like, ‘Oh, sorry actually, the joke was great.'”

The reveal that the Full House cast keeps an active group chat alive came right before several cast members reunited for iHeartRadio’s How Rude, Tanneritos! Wedding Special live event.

Sweetin and her podcast cohost and castmate Andrea Barber hosted the Sunday event that saw former costars Loughlin, John Stamos, Scott Weinger, and Marla Sokoloff reflect on their time on the show.

The event marked one of the handful of times the show’s cast members have reunited since Saget died in 2022 from head trauma after accidentally hitting his head in a Grande Lakes, Fla., hotel room.

Coulier was among the stars missing from the reunion, as were Sweetin’s TV sisters, Candace Cameron Bure, and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.

While Coulier couldn’t make the live event, he has made an appearance on the How Rude, Tanneritos! podcast before. In April, he opened up to Sweetin and Barber about learning that he’d beaten stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma and that his son, Luc, and daughter-in-law, Alex, had welcomed their first child together on the very same day.

“I got the good news the day the baby was born,” Coulier told his former castmates. “So I heard the news and I was so excited, and then Luc called us and he said, ‘Hey, the baby just was born.’ And so, I mean, it was an amazing day.”

Coulier noted that Luc and Alex welcomed a “healthy, great little baby” named Chance Lee. “He’s 7 pounds, 6 ounces, and we will see him, I think, in 12 days,” he added. “Because we’re in Michigan and they’re out in Sacramento.”

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The comedian also recalled feeling like he’d accidentally “killed the moment” after delivering a real stinker of a joke in the family group chat following the announcement of Chance’s birth.

“I said to my son — everybody was teary-eyed and everything and [was] texting when the baby was born — and I said, ‘I cannot wait to see that kid’s expression on his face after he pulls my finger for the first time,'” Coulier recalled. “And there was just like, no one responded. It’s like, ‘Okay. I killed the moment.'”

Thankfully, he explained that Luc messaged him back a few minutes later, telling him, “I just got that.”