Apparently, Uncle Jesse wanted to get evicted from Full House. On last week’s episode of Hot Ones, John Stamos revealed that he “hated” Full House at the beginning and had even threatened to quit the family sitcom, which ran on ABC from 1987 to 1995.

“Full House…I hated that show,” he said. Stamos told Hot Ones host Sean Evans that the series was initially pitched to him as a version of Bosom Buddies—the ’80s buddy sitcom starring Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari—featuring some children. Produced by Bosom Buddies creators Thomas L. Miller and Robert L. Boyett, Full House would follow Bob Saget’s character, Danny Tanner, a widower who decides to raise his three daughters with his friends “Uncle Jesse” Katsopolis (Stamos) and Joey Gladstone (Dave Coulier). “As we’re casting it, I was like, They’re spending a lot of time casting these kids that are gonna be in the background,” Stamos said. 

It quickly became clear that the Tanner kids, played by Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, and infants Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, were going to be a much larger part of the show, much to Stamos’s chagrin. “We did a table read of it, and I was the star, I was coming off General Hospital…and we sit down and we start reading, and Jodie Sweetin, who plays Stephanie, reads her lines and people are dying laughing—I mean, screaming,” Stamos recalled. “I was like, What’s happening here? … They couldn’t even hear my lines, they were laughing so hard at her. And I’m, like, slinking down in my seat.”

Stamos admitted that he felt like a “big shot” at the time and believed he was supposed to be “the star” of the series. After the table read, he recalled, he went to the lobby of the Century Plaza hotel and called his agents, telling them to “get me the fuck off this show!”

Eventually, Stamos came around on the sitcom, but not before trying to get the Olsen twins fired from the series. “I fought it for a long time,” he said. “And then I finally said, What am I doing? It’s a beautiful show we built with sweetness and kindness. There was no central character on that show, is what I realized. The central character was love, and we were the best representation of a loving family, not a normal family. And…the new normal was now an unconventional family.”