Saget, who played gentle patriarch Danny Tanner on the family sitcom, died in 2022 at 65.

Full House star Andrea Barber shares how cast keeps Bob Saget’s ‘memory alive’: ‘We’re a big family’

Saget, who played gentle patriarch Danny Tanner on the family sitcom, died in 2022 at 65.

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- *Full House* star Andrea Barber says she and her castmates are all still working to keep Bob Saget's memory alive.

- After Saget's death in 2022 at 65, Barber shared on *The Mindfire Pod* that his onscreen family members "talk about him all the time" in group chats.

- "We're a big family," Barber added. "We're always throwing some memories in there, especially if it involves Bob Saget."

Friends may come and go, but family is forever.

Even TV families, in the case of the *Full House* cast. Series star Andrea Barber recently opened up about the enduring bonds between the fictional Tanner family and the actors, like her, who played their close friends and neighbors.

The actress behind the eccentric Kimmy Gibbler said she talks "all the time" to her former sitcom comrades, telling *Mindfire Pod* host Carrie Berk that she and several *Full House* cast members "have a group chat. We are always chatting. We're always throwing some memories in there, especially if it involves Bob Saget, because we love to talk about him and laugh, and think of the good times, and keep his memory alive."

Bob Saget and Andrea Barber in Los Angeles in 2017.

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Conversation then turned to Saget, who died in 2022 at 65. The Philadelphia-born actor played compassionate patriarch Danny Tanner on the popular ABC series, father to three daughters played by Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, Jodie Sweetin, and Candace Cameron Bure (who starred as Kimmy's best friend D.J.).

When asked if she still thinks about Saget, Barber immediately replied, "All the time. All the time. We talk about him all the time. We think, 'What would Bob say in this situation?' Or, 'What kind of joke would he be cracking right now?'"

Barber speculated that Saget "would have loved this era of fan conventions and cast reunions. I think he would have loved all of it, because we're a big family. We grew up together. We spent more time together in the '80s and '90s than with our biological family members."

As a result, the cast "became very, very close, and we're still close to this day."

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That sentiment rings true for several other *Full House* alums as well.

Sweetin and Barber have cohosted the *Full House *rewatch podcast *How Rude, Tanneritos* since 2023. Barber noted in her *Mindfire *interview that despite Sweetin's not-always-simpatico relationship with Bure, she herself attended Bure's recent 50th birthday celebration.

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Speaking in 2024, Sweetin shared that Saget's death brought even the most disparate members of the extended Tanner clan back together.

"It was just like it was before," she recalled. "It was normal. We all, you know, spent like four days just constantly together… and it was like nothing had changed."

You can watch Barber's full interview on the *The Mindfire Pod *above.

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