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It's pronounced Jacques? Lol. It was Janice or Janet I think though. What colour was Meg's Cadillac?

The reason I say season 5.5 is because the first few eps were kind of a link to season 4 with Becky leaving and the bike shop closing and losing the electricity etc. She has that long hair style and looks like she had some plastic surgery around the time the Diner story line which was roughly mid season. As awesome as the Fisher beating up Jackie story line, you can see Roseanne's really nasty side start to emerge. Yes she was right to be mad at Fisher and etc, but that scene in his apartment when she's talking to really makes me cringe sometimes. The "I own a loose meat sandwhich shop, I know what to do with the body" was delivered in kind of a different tone than the original Roseanne Conner. I think the original would have said it a bit more straight. Not in the crazy vengeful tone of "mean Roseanne", which again, was probably justified but I don't want to start an argument on that lol. I totally agree about the transitions. I mentioned it in the thread for the pilot. I think that's part of the problem of it not being "connected" to the original/Lanford. They need to put in the effort of going around and taking pictures of the street signs and the birdhouse on the porch etc like they did in the original. And that stupid "Roseanne is filmed before a live studio audience". What's that about? Totally destroys the verisimilitude of the show and just makes you think it's some Hollywood production. I knew a lot of the laugh track in the original was canned (partially due to Natalie West's laughter) but I didn't care.

I actually find Sara to be the best so far. Her voice obviously has changed a lot but she still has witty repartee that reminds me of the original Darlene. I think she actually gets the best lines, possibly because she is exec producer... Roseanne Bar seems to think Roseanne Conner was just a grumpy, mean woman like she was in season 5.5+. The original Roseanne Conner was a light hearted but a brutally sardonic and insightful wit. It's totally a cliche now, but the first few seasons really did "hit a nerve" and showed people on tv who looked like the people who were watching it. It's crazy the parallels between the show and my family. The real Roseanne Conner was always laughing and shooting off one liners and my fave parts are when she giggles through her lines. I really wish this is how Roseanne approached the character now. I mean, the original was based on her real kids and family. She is now a mother of adult children with grandkids. She should channel some of her real life into the show like she did with the original.

The problem with John is he thinks every line has to be delivered in a funny voice. Maybe he forgot this isn't how Dan talks, or he thinks he has to spice up weak material.

Haha, hate to disagree but the best part of that ep is when Roseanne is looking down the drain and she says she can see the ring. Jackie looks at Dan and he's shaking his head and shrugs his shoulders lol.

I'm not from Moldova but I can't stand Jim Varney. Imagine how I feel!

Fell into a bridge piling. Another Season 1 Q... What was the name of the song that won the "Radio Days" contest?

Z is for Phyllis Zimmer

Pete

Steej. Here's a hard one. What was the name of the maintenance worker at Wellman's?

Frankenberry. What play was DJ in when he didn't want to kiss Gina?

The problem with the upstairs is both the hallway and the bathroom are between the bedrooms at the same time.

Pretty sure thrift store was a lie Harris made up. The stuff was being stolen from expensive stores and thus had security tags.

A person would say "Grandpa Conner" and not "your Dad". Jackie would say "since you lost Mark" but in the pilot she says "since your husband died". The way they refer to characters from the original with pronouns instead of nouns is very phoney and awkward. That's why people take umbridge. Not because they are looking for references to the original.

What Roseanne did is akin to waterboarding lol.

I think it's really because she is exec producer and responsible for there being a revival.

Darlene and Roseanne lit the torch for bitchfest 94.

Donna Jo is a terrible name tho lol.

My takeway from this ep... Seems to be continuing a downward slide from the first episode in quality. I still liked the ep though. -Where's DJ? So far he's appeared once in 3 episodes and had 2 lines. -Roseanne's job is confirmed to be Uber. I guess they didn't want to make her workplace apart of the show like the original. We still don't know what Dan does. -Roseanne uses corporal punishment on Harris. Don't remember her doing this in the original except the DJ spanking ep. Seems really out of character. She used to punish by grounding, taking away allowance, or embarassing the kids. Her getting in the shower at the end seems way more in character. -Ed Conner references lacking. Why do they insist on using pronouns instead of the character's names? In this first ep Jackie says to Becky "since your husband died". In this ep both Dan and Darlene just refer to Ed as "dad" or "your dad"? If this was the original series, Dan would have said "when I was a boy, old Ed Conner told me..." during that story. I don't know if they are afraid people won't get the reference or if they have to pay the people who created the characters or what but it's getting annoying. Makes me think there will be no reference to Crystal being married to Dan's dad in her episode. -A lack of connection to the original show. Yet another episode where we don't find out what happened to the Lunchbox or David or Mark or other storylines from the original. -The design of the kitchen is really starting to annoy me, specifically the cabinets. The original kitchen looked like a kitchen you would find in a house of the era. The new kitchen looks like a kitchen built for a camera. What I mean by that is often items are made larger so they appear of correct size on camera, but it looks like they didn't get it quite right. The counter top looks too high, the upper cupboards are too high (Sara Gilbert could practically walk under them) and the right side one is disproportionately large, and the vent panel under the sink is all wrong too. -Funniest line was "Thrift Store? They don't put security tags on items that cost less than a security tag!

I think it supports a "the script called for a bathroom to show how messy Harris was and that would allow 2 people to shower at once" scenario. The original bathroom had a single stall style shower and wouldn't have work for the joke.

It's a mistake in the production design, blame Garvin Eddy. There are two bathrooms. The one downstairs off the hallway IS the "hall bathroom" Darlene references in the masturbation ep. Upstairs is a Jack and Jill bathroom between the two bedrooms. In the Fisher episode everyone is referencing, Darlene says "I locked my door, but the little freak must have got in through the bathroom" at the beginning during the bath bead incident. This whole scene is just to premise the fact that the bedrooms are connected through the bathroom for the later scene when Darlene walks in on Jackie. Keep in mind this is just a tv show and it's not a real house. Yes, upstairs doesn't really make perfect sense. In the first 2 seasons, DJs room is backwards with the entrance the left side and the bathroom on the right. Same with the garage in the first season. The entrance was on the left. Also the basement stairs were originally through a door in the kitchen. Later they were in the service porch.

R is for Roxanne Conway

Just finding it hard to believe he'd be "DJ" in the military. I guess they'd probably just call him Conner.

Is it weird that he's grown and they still call him DJ? Maybe he would have picked something like Dave or Jake?

P is for Package Something every mother wants to see on their daughter's boyfriend...