The Best Episodes of Roseanne
Last Updated: Jan 21, 2019
Roseanne is an American sitcom broadcast on ABC from 1988 to 1997 starring stand-up comedian Roseanne Barr. The show portrayed a working-class family struggling to get by on a limited income in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois. Many critics considered the show notable as one of the first sitcoms to portray an American family in which economics necessitated two parents working jobs outside the home.
#1 - Another Mouth to Shut Up
Season 8 - Episode 20
Just weeks after their hot night in Disney World, Darlene drops a proposal -- and a surprise announcement: she's pregnant -- on David, whose major life changes seem to be happening all in one day.
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#2 - The Back Story
Season 4 - Episode 15
After Roseanne throws her back out, Bev arrives to help out -- and to spoil her grandchildren.
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#3 - Brain-Dead Poets Society
Season 2 - Episode 10
Darlene refuses to read her prize-winning poem on Culture Night at her school, preferring to stay home to watch a ballgame with Dan, until Roseanne lays down the law.
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#4 - Let's Call It Quits
Season 1 - Episode 23
Roseanne has difficulty accepting new rules from a tough new supervisor at the factory.
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#5 - April Fool's Day
Season 2 - Episode 22
On April 15th, Dan and Roseanne offer the kids a frantic lesson in family accounting; and in despair finally visit the local IRS office.
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#6 - One for the Road
Season 2 - Episode 14
When the parents are away, Becky and her friend Dana play with a little help from the liquor cabinet.
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#7 - An Officer and a Gentleman
Season 2 - Episode 15
When Roseanne is called away, Jackie impresses Dan and the kids with her homemaking skills.
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#8 - Toto, We're Not in Kansas Anymore
Season 1 - Episode 20
As a tornado spins through Lanford, a storm is brewing inside the Conner house over the whereabouts of Jackie who hasn't returned from her trip to the market.
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#9 - Father's Day
Season 1 - Episode 14
Roseanne steps in to referee when Dan's visiting father pontificates about Dan wasting time working as a contractor.
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#10 - Scenes from a Barbecue
Season 3 - Episode 24
The Connors celebrate Mother's Day with a barbecue with Roseanne's feisty grandmother.
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#11 - Good Girls, Bad Girls
Season 5 - Episode 10
Roseanne reluctantly allows Darlene to go to a rock concert in nearby Rockford with Molly -- who abandons her.
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#12 - The Commercial Show
Season 4 - Episode 19
The Conners are sitting pretty for a TV ad for Rodbell's Luncheonette, but at home things get ugly between D.J. and Todd. Leon and Steven break up, and the Bowmans move back to Chicago.
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#13 - The Wedding
Season 8 - Episode 23
Darlene's wedding day brings unexpected tears, joy and tenderness as Dan is finally able to express his love to Darlene and the young couple's wedding vows bring Roseanne to tears.
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#14 - Home-Ec
Season 3 - Episode 16
Darlene is embarassed when Roseanne gives Darlene's home economics class a supermarket lesson in real-life family budgeting; D.J. has to deal with a bully.
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#15 - Don't Make Me Over
Season 4 - Episode 24
The girls take Roseanne to the Beauty Box for Mother's Day in hopes of convincing her to let them attend a weekend rock concert.
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#16 - Chicken Hearts
Season 2 - Episode 13
Roseanne strains to treat her 17-year-old boss with respect so she can have weekends off to be with her family.
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#17 - Dan's Birthday Bash
Season 1 - Episode 9
Dan's birthday bash at the Lobo Lounge is interrupted by a bully who picks a fight with Dan at the pool table.
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#18 - Roseanne Gets the Chair
Season 10 - Episode 3
Roseanne’s clash with Darlene over how she’s raising her kids – especially Harris – reaches a breaking point; while Dan tries to help Roseanne with her bad knee by getting her an elevator chair, which she refuses to use because she doesn’t want to admit getting old.
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#19 - Crime and Punishment (1)
Season 5 - Episode 13
Dan disciplines D.J. for taking offensive reading material to school-- Darlene's comic book. Dan reacts strongly when Roseanne discovers that Fisher has beaten Jackie.
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#20 - Santa Claus
Season 4 - Episode 12
Roseanne talks Leon into letting her play Santa Claus at the mall -- and hears something she wishes she hadn't from one of the kids' mothers, who turns out to be Darlene's new friend and confidante.
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#21 - It's a Boy!
Season 5 - Episode 19
Roseanne wants Darlene's boyfriend David to move in with them, but Dan refuses to allow it.
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#22 - Bingo
Season 4 - Episode 13
It is Crystal's choice to choose where the gals' night out will be. Crystal chooses bingo and they all hate it. After Roseanne wins $50 playing bingo, she gets hooked on it. Becky and Darlene baby-sit Little Ed, but when Dan comes home its D.J. and Dan that end up taking care of the baby. Roseanne and Crystal get into a fight, but at the end they make up and Roseanne learn that Crystal is pregnant again.
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#23 - BOO!
Season 2 - Episode 7
The Conner family terrify each other out of their wits on Halloween night.
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#24 - Darlene v. David
Season 10 - Episode 5
David unexpectedly shows up for Harris’ birthday after being absent for years, forcing Darlene to re-examine their relationship and the rest of the family. Meanwhile, Roseanne and Jackie’s mother, Bev, temporarily moves into the Conner home after an incident at the nursing home prevents her from returning.
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#25 - Vegas Interruptus
Season 3 - Episode 19
Roseanne may lose her job if she and Dan go on their long-awaited trip to see Wayne Newton perform in Las Vegas.
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