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About Roseanne having more career advancement at the salon than Rodbells... I think it's a mistake to assume that Roseanne's character wanted to advance. I know we think of Roseanne Bar as progressive and "liberated" woman, but that's not how she portrayed Roseanne Conner. In all the season 2 episodes that involve her finding a new job, her need to be at home with the kids nights and weekends took precedent. In season 3, she tells Becky's principal that she doesn't have a career, she has a job. Her kids are her career. When she goes to Darlene's home ec class, she does so primarily because she percieves Dan being invited to speak as a diminution of the value of a wife and mother. In season 4, it's revealed that Roseanne is part time at Rodbell's and "comes and goes as she pleases." She likes working there because it fits her schedule. As a luncheonette, I presumed it wasn't open for dinner and that's why closing time seemed to be around 5-6pm. Seasons 2-3 Dan was consistently employed and always had jobs lined up. He was clearly the breadwinner and Roseanne worked mostly to supplement the family income and for the social element. She wasn't looking for job advancement or s career. Just for something to provide a bit of money and get her out of the house. In season 5 on the other hand, Roseanne Arnold seemed to have realized "hey, the show is called Roseanne, not Dan so why is it about him owning a business. It should be about me owning a business!" and Roseanne the character had higher aspirations.

You are right!

I've talked about this a few times. Hair salon = classic sitcom tropes. It was like an old WW2 movie with an ensemble of broadly drawn characters. The ditzy blonde, the kind of kooky older woman boss, the ethnic stereotype who is actually the most normal, eccentric and oblivious rich woman and former boss to Roseanne, and, a revolving door of "characters du jour" of salon clients. Plus, it gave Crystal something to do. Imagine the show like this for 9 years? It would be like every other lousy sitcom. Yes, it was better for the character to stay, but her leaving was better for the audience. In the season 2 hiatus, Roseanne consolidated power and took control of the show. Fired all the salon actors (and a lot of people behind the cameras) and decided she wanted to have the character work as a waitress. Roseanne the person credits working in a bar as her launching pad to doing stand up. She had a great raport with the barflies and they had a great comedic back and forth. This is what she was comfortable with and was what she wanted to do on the show. Look at her character at Rodbells. Fires off a bunch of smart alec quips with the customers and employees.

Pizza King *I think* In that same episode, what song was playing in the car that wasn't coming from the radio?

Why doesn't it make sense? Robert Barone at the bank said they would need the wad of cash in Ziggy's boot PLUS a second mortgage on the house. The banker says something like "No Dan, you are the drywall business... What do you got in your other boot?" Then as a last resort he says his boss will know they are serious if they take a second mortgage. Sad we only have a couple eps left and still no clue what happened to the Lunchbox.

Thanks for that.

Guess no one else gets it either lol.

But it got a stereotypical "laugh track" laugh out of the audience. If they wanted to make a point about something fine, but they made it just a throw away line for a cheap laugh.

About as contrived as the neighbour boy wearing an actual bulletproof vest. Like where would these food stamp people get a bullet proof vest likely worth thousand (s) of dollars? Why couldn't it have been a child's policeman dress up toy bulletproof vest? Why did it have to be the real thing? I think the revival is the biggest thing in Fishman's life since the end of the original show run. He was one of the biggest social media posters when they were filming. He made it seem like he was an integral part of the show. Someone here posted a quote from him about how he tweeted that all his fans needed to wait for "his" episode because he was barely in the previous 7 episodes. This was his episode and his wife Gina has now had more lines in this single episode than he's had in the entire revival.

Feel pretty bad for Michael Fishman. Finally he gets to be in an episode and when he drops Mary off he says "Ok, well I'm leaving now to go to the VA"... Basically his role in this ep was just to drop Mary off and then leave. Luckily he came back for that scene with Dan. It's obvious they don't know what to do with his character. I think out of 6 or 7 episodes now, this is only his third appearance? The other 2 were 15 second cameos. I also thought that joke about "there's so many veterans living on the sidewalk already" was in REALLY bad taste and I found it offensive.

One joke I never got... Cousin Ronnie says to Roseanne "That's a nice.... place" At least I think she says place. I never got this joke. Is place another word for apron or something?

I don't think they really want to deal with the "work lives" of the characters in the revival. Roseanne does uber because it's sporadic. If they need a scene where she's working, they can do it. If they need an entire episode where she's not working, they can do it. Same with Jackie as a life coach. Her professional life is off camera as it's not a 9-5 job. We still don't really know for sure what Dan does but in this ep he says he was fixing up a neighbour's house. Again, something he can/can't be doing if the script requires it. Darlene is unemployed. The only workplace we see is Becky's and it's so cliche and tacky and stupid. Does it have to be a Mexican restaurant? Somehow that's innately funny? Just a regular restaurant or diner isn't funny enough? I think Rodbell's and the Lunchbox were funny enough without the gimmick.

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Sorry, wrong answer...

Pretty sure that was the VCR where the Conner family lept into the 1980s. What would Ed have won if he got the first place prize?

Pretended to be his wife. Where did Jackie want to take Booker in that episode?

Bill Maher addressed the Roseanne revival on his show the other night. I'm mentioning it only because he talked about his appearance on the episode where Roseanne buys Dan the boudoir photo set. Basically says it was just a way of her putting some money in his pocket when times were tough.

Roseanne is a huge hit. I don't think he will be working for free lol.

Wouldn't it make more sense for people in Illinois to go to Canada for prescription meds?

Apartment A.

Would have been funny if Blue was Sarah Chalke instead of that stupid egg storyline.

I find 99% of the activity is in the individual episode threads. The first 2 episode thread exploded after the premiere. Since then, activity in the subsequent episode threads has really tapered off. The other threads are still mainly populated by the "regulars" here.

They should have made a follow up joke to the episode in the original run where she goes into the nursing home and Jackie says something like "or, she becomes a vegetable, lives for another 30 years and hits the jackpot!"

Now I just feel like they are insulting the audience... 1) Why didn't they call the supermarket Buy n Bag? 2) Pretty sure those self check outs rely on weight. If you don't scan an item and put it in the bag, an alarm goes off. 3) Harris just punches those cakes and it's like "that's normal"? My family would think I were nuts if I did that as a teen. 4) If we are ignoring season 9, why did season 9 Bev show up? Why didn't normal Bev show up instead? She is like the crazy grandma who says swear words and talks about sex now. How cliche. 5) David says "Wow they haven't changed your room at all". He just climbed into DJs room. He is nostalgic for DJs room? 6) Dan's reaction to David just makes no sense. He comes to his daughter's party and Dan says "well in 2 weeks when you move here you can see your kids"??? What?? 7) The only part of this episode I liked was the scene with David and Darlene. Was really like watching the original run and a scene between the two.

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