The cast of Fuller House hilariously deals with the absent Olsen twins in Netflix series

THIS is the hilarious way the Full House remake deals with the noticeable absence of the Olsen twins’ character. It breaks the biggest rule of TV.

HOW does the cast of an iconic television show deal with all but one of the famed characters returning for a much-touted modern remake?

A well-timed but unconventional gag is how Fuller House addresses the noticeable absence of original stars Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in the Netflix reboot of the long-running sitcom.

The former child stars both played Michelle Tanner in Full House, which ran for eight seasons until 1995, but declined to return to reprise the character.

“As a family, you respect every family member’s decisions,” Candace Cameron Bure, who plays DJ Tanner, says. “That’s what family is all about.”

But dealing with the elephant in the room — or rather not in the room — was an unavoidable task. Especially given everyone else came back.

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. and the adorable Olsen twins who played Michelle in April 1988. (Picture: ABC Photo Archives / ABC via Getty

Mary-Kate Olsen (who married last November) and Ashley Olsen are now 29 years old. Picture: Robin Marchant / Getty

In the first episode, each of the original characters is reintroduced one-by-one in the kitchen of the iconic Tanner home in San Francisco home.

“Michelle sends her love but she’s busy running her fashion empire in New York,” Bob Saget’s character Danny announces, in a nod to the Olsen twins’ real-life business.

The entire cast then turns to look straight down the barrel of the camera for several seconds, in a rare breaking of television’s fourth wall.

“It wasn’t in the script,” Cameron Bure reveals. “We did it for the writers and the producers in a (scene) run-through as a joke. It was a funny joke, but it was so funny that we said, ‘let’s do it for the cameras’.”

So successful is the tactic that the stars now jokingly disagree about whose idea it was.

“We thought it came from the director but John Stamos insists it was his idea,” Cameron Bure laughs.

While this series includes plenty of nostalgic nods to the original, the plot is entirely new — it focuses on DJ, a recently widowed mother of three boys, as she moves back to her family home in San Francisco to start fresh.

Her sister Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin) and lifelong best friend Kimmy (Andrea Barber) also move in to lend a hand. The wider original cast will visit from time to time.

“It’s a big family and we want them there,” creator Jeff Franklin says. “But this is a show centred around these three women, and so as you’ll see as the episodes go along, the visits become more sporadic. It’s really about (the trio’s) lives and their children, and what the next generation has become.”

The Full House cast in 1989 with Dave Coulier, Jodie Sweetin, Mary-Kate Olsen/Ashley Olsen, Bob Saget, Candace Cameron and John Stamos. Picture: ABC Photo Archives / ABC via Getty Images

The Full House cast is all grown up with a new story to tell in Fuller House for a Netflix production. Picture: Michael Yarish / Netflix

Netflix ordered 13 episodes of Fuller House but has left the door open to another season, depending on the reception to the remake.

And should that happen, executive producer Bob Boyett will have another go at convincing the Olsen twins to sign on.

“We only need one of them,” Boyett says. “We’re hopeful at some point in the future they may change their minds and come back and reprise Michelle. We’re still hopeful that will happen.”

FULLER HOUSE, FROM FEBRUARY 26, ON NETFLIX