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For years, Full House star Dave Coulier 's name has come up again and again as the most likely candidate. But as the actor revealed in an interview, the truth is more complicated.

Coulier calls the idea that "You Oughta Know" is about him an "urban legend," and blames it on an offhand comment he made decades ago. There I said it. While Coulier admits he dated Morissette, he calls the subject of her song "a real a-hole," and says he doesn't want to be that guy. But Coulier has also admitted that the song's lyrics seemed awfully familiar the first time he heard them.

Remember when Morissette sings, "Did you forget about me, Mr. That sounds pretty damning, but it's not exactly a confession either. I especially liked it when we went to the movies," a reference to the song's lyric about the singer performing oral sex on someone in a theater. In the Boston Herald reported that Coulier "admitted the lines are very close to home. Especially the one about 'an older version of me' and bugging him in 'the middle of dinner.

The topic of the song is discussed in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Morissette told star Larry David whom the song is about then David to a disappointed friend , but the audience never hears who Morissette said the song was about.

Jay told the story of the break-up, and after he finished Silent Bob wiped a tear from his eye while Jay laughed at him confessing to have been lying the whole time. In an August interview to the Calgary Sun , Coulier admitted to being the ex-boyfriend portrayed in the song.

According to him, he heard the song on the radio and noticed the singer seemed to be really angry. Upon discovering it was Alanis, he realized he had "really hurt" her and called her to patch things up. In October Morissette reiterated her refusal to identify the subject, commenting to a CanWest News Service journalist, "Well, I've never talked about who my songs were about and I won't, because when I write them they're written for the sake of personal expression.

So with all due respect to whoever may see themselves in my songs, and it happens all the time, I never really comment on it because I write these songs for myself, not other people.

The entire mystery surrounding the song has brought some minor comparisons to Carly Simon 's song " You're So Vain ," in which Carly sings about a mysterious boyfriend. Bowersox sang the line about oral sex originally "Will she go down on you in a theater" but re-written, presumably to make it "family friendly," as "Will she go down with you to the theater.

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