This is the thread where we talk about Roseanne.

parsons

a couple of years ago, there was an article about her struggle with (multiple personality/disscoative(sp)/something else) and i kept thinking that one of the more fascinating things about both the special, that article, and the last season of roseanne (and really the wasteland that was post roseanne) was that she was one of the last few who got very rich very quickly, and didnt know what to do about it.

she doesnt have that meta/postmodern sheen of artifice, that training of how to live and what to do with fame, and its really weird, to watch roseanne, and see it in a meta way, see how its in a coded way, about figuring out how to deal with issues of public/private

the scene at her father's funeral, or some of the interactions with jackie, or how much she hates arnie, in some of those episodes, or jackie going to therapy, and its not the working class versmillitude of the early episodes, but its this bizarre document on fame...

i also found it really interesting that, everyone eventually got paired off, and for the last (3?) seasons they had no idea how to handle, what to do with dj.

(you can see similar issues from the beginning, of grace under fire, with brett butler, and it disintergrates sooner, but there are episodes, maybe a dozen or so, that are the best, most real things ever on television, a hyper, broken remix of roseanne)

Yeah! It was like she wrote most of it a couple of years ago and hadn't updated it yet.

It sure did get bad at the end, when they won the lottery, like they were selling out the whole point of the show to begin with.

i mean, i really can't get over the first and second seasons. just got the DVDs and i'm really, i've been transported to another place.

um...

one of the 1st comments on this thread was something about how roseanne isn't a good actress/comedian and how it's like dan's show. i couldn't disagree more! they're on equal ground. both so great. all of em. gushing, i know. the dvd menu screen is staring me in the face as i type! gg

http://www.roseanneworld.com/blog/2007/08/my_sex_tape.php

holy crap! (various posts)

http://perezhilton.com/?cat=316

Date: Aug 9, 2007 5:35 PM
Subject: i wish that perez h.
Body: would sneak onto my land here, and then i could legally shoot him. I think i could lure him with promises of free lard cookies and chubby chasing gays who would actually want to let him gag on their knobs. He didnt get that my blogs were a joke, and then he didnt get that my intern thing was a joke either. How can you be gay and that dense? He may as well be an ignorant fat hillbilly…he has all the astute appreciation of irony and humor that they do. Gay guys should turn straight out of shame that he is one of their kind.

Date: Aug 9, 2007 5:48 PM
Subject: i am not rosie odonnell
Body: and tired of people thinking i am. One, I am cute, two, i like guns and I am crazy not depressed. I am glad that whoopi got the job on the view and not me after all. She is perfect for that show… and like rosie she will talk about things that have nothing to do with working people, public schools, or unions, or how both parties are irrelevant to this country’s constitution. Plus, I would not be able to stop staring at Barbara Walters’ head the whole time. It is huge. she looks like mr. burns.

Date: Aug 9, 2007 5:58 PM
Subject: posh spice looks
Body: like a ghoul dressed up like a drag queen.

Fuck yeah!

That Perez fellow seems quite irritating.

I just bought series 1 of Rosanne and it is definitely Classic.

There's a mid-point that I like the best, I couldn't say which season it is but it's when Darlene goes from sorta funny to completely awesome. Then Becky 2.0 shows up and it's kind of weird after that.

There are still many good bits from the Chalke era on, don't get me wrong, but Lecy Goranson was the truth.

why does it get weird with 2nd Becky? she was cute

darlene rocks

I think every boyfriend I've ever had has had Darlene pretty high up their crush list. This is fine by me, because Darlene was totally ace.

rly? that's awesome i didn't know straight boys liked darlene

Sarah Gilbert and her gf just had their second baby earlier this week!

that's awesome i didn't know straight boys liked darlene

cute, smart, and smart-assed? Oh, how little you understand straight boys. Of course we love Darlene.

=P

Wait - Darlene was cute? She was definitely smart and smart-assed but cute?

Oh, TOTALLY. Blew both Beckies out of the water. Personality goes a long way.

SO CUTE. but Becky 2 was hot

Whoa @ the GIS for Sarah Gilbert

Personality def goes a long way and don't get me wrong, I love me some Darlene but I just never thought she was particularly attractive.

Becky 1 was a better Becky and had the bitchy teenage girl shtick down but Sarah Chalke was definitely hotter.

hotttttttttt

darlene just lit up the room

with gasoline?

no in that screentalk talented actress way =)

Wiki tells me that Sarah has a new little girl named Sawyer, who is now 8 days old. Awwwwww.

^^ That'a what I said upthread although I didn't know her name. That's so cute!

So, Sara Gilbert is gay? How much hotter could she get for straight boys?

One of the most underrated white Bordeaux grapes and...oh, I thought this was the thread where we talk about Roussanne.

=/ =) o_O

Darlene is uber-hot, no question. Sarah Chalke never did anything for me. I know she's improved a lot since then, but when she was on Roseanne, she was easily the worst actor on the show. It wasn't just that she wasn't a convincing Becky, she wasn't a convincing human. Completely wooden, and acting that bad cancels out the hotness, for me. Lecy had loads more personality, and I think that made her attractive in a weird way when she came back for most of season 8. She was really gawky before that.

This thread needs a recent Sara pic. Just because.
http://z.about.com/d/tvcomedies/1/0/x/3/-/-/sara_gilbert.jpg

haha barbara walters does kinda look like mr burns
i am neutral on roseanne herself but:
the show was awesome for the first few seasons, pos my favourite show for a while there - you could really tell they were having fun doing it too - crass sure but warm and fuzzy and real (except for laff track obv)

that pic reminds me of Chicago Sarah

even the laugh track seemed real, it was so funny. she looks good!

tho a bit wan?

yeah they don't have the time or inclination to start from scratch. there might not have been scripts written but they were probably close to pre-production & planning when Roseanne was fired.

never ever heard of Dusty's Trail until now

were there multiple Gilligan's Island spinoffs? I don't remember that title but I remember watching a spinoff (and enjoying it - Gilligan's Island rules)

the gilligan's island episode of roseanne is really bad

dusty's train does not appear to be a spinoff btw. and doesn't have other actors outside of bob denver

The Connors is more like AfterMASH.

Or Major Crimes

AfterMAGA

You have no fucking idea what Roseanne is going to say at the end of this video. Not a clue. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s weirder than that.

pic.twitter.com/lfzXMnrj7s

— Nick Laparra (@NickLaparra) June 27, 2023

sounds right

He has a lot of personality traits that are usually coded as feminine.

and tits

Probably just a joke. Big wind up, unexpected absurd payoff, no elaboration. Basically a clickhole template.

From 2016:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/10/trump-feminine-speaking-style-214391/

Thought this was going to be about her antisemitism.

Was tempting to post that clip, but I thought better.

If she hadn't been kicked off her namesake show, there would be so much potential for her screen character to become a Q wife and battle her TV family.

"Trust the plan, Dan."