Author's Notes:
Michelle Tanner and Joey Gladstone have a lot in common. Not only do they have a lot in common with each other, but they also have a lot in common with other pairs of sitcom characters who have a lot in common: Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver and June Cleaver from Leave It to Beaver, Lisa Douglas and Eb Dawson from Green Acres, Maxwell Smart and Agent Larabee from Get Smart.
The number of allusions to Beaver and Max are very common and are typically references to specific episodes. Allusions to Lisa and Eb are much rarer. As for allusions to June and Larabee, sometimes they are specific and concrete, but they are usually general and abstract (for example, Joey and Michelle's heart-to-heart talks like June and Beaver's heart-to-heart talks, and Jesse being annoyed by Joey and calling him an idiot can be compared to the Chief being annoyed by Larabee and calling him an idiot), sometimes more of an allusion to the actor (Barbara Billingsley and Dave Coulier both did voices for the TV series Jim Henson's Muppet Babies; keywords for Robert Karvelas include "cousins," "twins," "Greek," and "Nikos the Village Idiot").
For "Michelle and Joey Haiku Season 5," I added another haiku ending, "Synchronous medley," in case something that Michelle and Joey did reminded me of situations involving three or more of the sitcom characters mentioned above. The situations may be general or specific.
[I'm not exactly sure how many of them are allusions, but so many of the scenarios seem too random and specific to be a coincidence.]
1 Michelle and Joey in "The Long Goodbye" 1
She is too busy
To come down when Joey calls
Until Teddy comes
2 Michelle and Joey in "The Long Goodbye" 2
Michelle doesn't want
Teddy to move far away
Joey feels the same
3 Michelle and Joey in "The Long Goodbye" 3
Here's a solution
To Michelle missing Teddy
Write and make new friends
4 Joey in "Road to Tokyo" 1
Joey hypnotized
Would vote for Kimmy Gibbler
Hints of Maxwell Smart
5 Joey in "Road to Tokyo" 2
Joey argues with
Danny about Brussel sprouts
Hints of The Beaver
6 Joey in "Radio Days" 1
Jesse tries ice cream
On Joey, who's not Michelle
Hints of June Cleaver
7 Joey in "Radio Days" 2
Jesse took out the
Yellow Froot Loops for Joey
Hints of Larabee
8 Michelle and Joey in "Radio Days" 1
Michelle counts to three
But neither would say "sorry"
So she counts to six
9 Michelle and Joey in "Radio Days" 2
How embarrassing
Ranger Joe's caught in a trap
And kids are laughing
10 Joey in "Radio Days" 3
Poor Joey Gladstone
He's all tied up in the dark
Hints of Larabee
11 Michelle and Joey in "Trouble in Twin Town" 1
Joey tells Michelle
That niceness is contagious
She thinks "chicken pox"
12 Michelle and Joey in "Trouble in Twin Town" 2
Michelle tries niceness
On twins Debbie and Darla
And they were nice back!
13 Michelle and Joey in "The Play's the Thing" 1
She thinks it's unfair
That she's not Yankee Doodle
The two men are firm
14 Michelle and Joey in "The Play's the Thing" 2
When he was a kid
He wished he was Fred Flintstone
(The Beaver and June)
15 Michelle in "The Play's the Thing" 1
She must remain still
To play Lady Liberty
Hints of The Beaver
16 Joey in "Nice Guys Finish First" 1
Joey said he thought
The bug was a bacon bit
Hints of Maxwell Smart
17 Michelle and Joey in "Nice Guys Finish First" 1
Michelle imagined
Joey as Kimmy's Mutt Man
She was really scared
18 Michelle and Joey in "Nice Guys Finish First" 2
Joey promises
That he will not get angry
(Kermit and Piggy)
19 Michelle and Joey in "Nice Guys Finish First" 3
Michelle allowed him
To be an "in-betweenie"
And he won the game!
20 Michelle in "I'm Not DJ" 1
Michelle told DJ;
Stephanie's mad at Michelle
DJ's not Danny
21 Michelle in "Designing Mothers" 1
Stephanie pretends
Michelle's head is in a fence
Hints of The Beaver
22 Michelle and Joey in "The Dating Game" 1
Michelle feels Joey
But she doesn't understand
What he meant by "hots"
23 Joey in "The Dating Game" 1
Joey spilled salad
All over poor Alison
Hints of Maxwell Smart
24 Joey in "The Heartbreak Kid" 1
Danny and Joey
Did not know that Barbara Ann
Really loved Jesse
25 Michelle and Joey in "The Heartbreak Kid" 1
"When you get married
"You leave your family's house"
"Jesse didn't leave"
26 Michelle in "The Heartbreak Kid" 1
Michelle didn't know
That Steve thought that the wedding
Was only a game
27 Michelle in "Silence Is Not Golden" 1
Michelle got her jokes
From Funny Buddy's hotline
The phone bill was huge
28 Michelle in "Please Don't Touch the Dinosaur" 1
She's in big trouble
She wrecked a big skeleton
Hints of Maxwell Smart
29 Michelle and Joey in "Grand Gift Auto" 1
DJ's Firebird
Is better than Michelle's gift
She got a Slinky
30 Joey in "Grand Gift Auto" 1
They remind Joey
Of how much he meant to them
Series of flashbacks
31 Michelle and Joey in "Room for One More" 1
Michelle and Joey
Watch Nicky and Alex ride
On their brand new bikes
32 Michelle in "Room for One More" 1
Michelle looks after
Scruffey, a mischievous pig
(Douglas and Dawson)
33 Joey in "The House Meets the Mouse, Part 2" 1
Joey tells Jesse
That he is afraid of sharks
Hints of Maxwell Smart
Haiku Notes: Four, Max in "I Am Curiously Yellow;" Five, Beaver in "Beaver Won't Eat;" Six, June in "Beaver's Bike;" Seven, Larabee in "And Only Two Ninety-Nine;" Ten, Larabee in "The Day They Raided Knights" and "Do I Hear a Vaults?"; Fourteen, General Beaver and June, but may be associated with "Beaver's Sweater;" Fifteen, Beaver in "School Play;" Sixteen, Max in "The Hot Line;" Twenty-One, Beaver in "Price of Fame;" Twenty-Three, General Max; Twenty-Eight, General Max; Thirty-Two, General Lisa and Eb's friendship with Arnold Ziffel; Thirty-Three, Max in "Kiss of Death"