I'm My Friend Karen!

If you're like me, you've spent many a day in spirited debate with your loved ones over what, if anything, is the best episode of any television show ever. And if you know a thing or two about best episodes, you know that the answer is easily "A Pox in Our House," the episode of Full House where Stephanie Tanner gets the chicken pox and tries to sneak out of the Tanner family quarantine because her dance class is being visited by a "real ballerina" that day.

I've posted the best scene from this best episode below - it's the part where Stephanie, wearing a full disguise, makes a break for it and is eventually caught by Uncle Jesse.

Why is this the best episode of any television show ever? Take your pick... could it be:

• The sheer fact that Stephanie Tanner owns a Stephanie Tanner-sized trenchcoat for the occasions upon which she may need to traipse in cognito through her own home?
• The classic comic styling with which she pigeon-bobs her head while tiptoeing through the kitchen in said trenchcoat?
• The moment where Dannys voice has clearly been overdubbed to cover an accidental silence in the final cut ("Gotta find a babysitter")?
• Stephanie Tanner's brilliant delivery of "I'm my friend Karen!" to explain her trenchcoated presence at the door?
• The not quite identifiable dialect she takes on in intoning "Chiiicken pox? I bettah get out of heah!"?
• The dramatic tossing aside of her hat and glasses while exclaiming "I can't take it anymore! It's me! It's me! ...Stephanie!"?
• The fact that, by the way, Uncle Jesse's last name used to be Cochrane? What happened to that?

No matter what your reasoning on the way there, the conclusion is undeniable - this was the best episode of any television show ever. With the possible exception of that episode of Super Sloppy Double Dare where the girl had to catch as many burritos as possible in the rim of her 4' wide sombrero, while her teammate fired them out of a trebuchet. But come on. We can't all be Olympians.