Dave Coulier

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Dave Coulier was discovered living with a family of woodchucks in the wilds of Canada's Yukon Territory in 1967, at the apparent age of eight years old. Evidence at the site -- a rusted-out Range Rover, several gnawed-on corpses, a 1961 copy of Hockey Quarterly, Eh? magazine -- suggested that Coulier was the only survivor of a family wilderness vacation gone awry. The well-meaning Mounties who returned him to civilization left Coulier in the care of anthropologists at the University of Alberta, who began a long and difficult process of trying to teach Coulier table manners, erect ambulation, and what passes for English in Canada.

After four years, the scientists made a breakthrough, managing to teach Coulier first the hand signals, and then the accompanying words, to the phrase "Cut it out!" His subsequent progress was rapid, and by 1979, Coulier was able to re-enter society and begin doing voices for various animated cartoons. Ascending quickly through the traditional bizarre, slime-intensive children's shows that form the lower ranks of the Canadian entertainment industry, Coulier achieved the pinnacle of his fame with his role as the irresponsible imbecile Joey on the long-running ABC series Full House. He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1992 for the Very Special Episode, "Why Joey Shouldn't Play With Matches."

Coulier was crushed when the role of Joey, which he was supposed to reprise for NBC's Full House spin-off Friends, was instead given to the younger Matt LeBlanc, who only seemed like he had been raised by animals in a godforsaken wilderness. Retreating from the public eye, Coulier now lives on a remote woodchuck sanctuary in the far north of Canada.

A brief romantic relationship with noted Canadian banshee Alanis Morissette in the early '90s left Coulier deaf in both ears.