He didn't want to play 'second fiddle,' according to the show's creator.
"The first person to be cast was Jodie Sweetin," Jeff recalled. He remembered being impressed by her talents as a mere 4-year-old."This is Shirley Temple incarnate," he said."What is going on with this little girl? She's knocking jokes out of the park.""So, we sent Jodie the script. I don't know if she read it — or it was read to her," Jeff jokingly said."So, Jodie was the first.
""I learned this much later that he was so upset about having to play second fiddle to these really funny kids that he went out and called his agent and said, 'Ah, this is a mistake. Get me off the show.'", John shared his side of the story:"We did a table read of it, and I was the star. I was coming off of, and all the mothers were like [fawning]. And we sit down, and we start reading.
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