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Roseanne: Episodes
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Deftly balancing dark and light material, jokes and drama, Roseanne: The Complete Second Season is a collection of great episodes from series that was still great back then. Anchor Bay does a better job on the set this time around with the uncut versions, though the extras still stink worse than Dan's dirty socks.
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Roseanne often tested the boundaries of network standards and practices. One episode dealt with the young son's masturbation. In others, Roseanne frankly discussed birth control with Becky and explained her choice to have breast reduction surgery. The program ... featured gay and lesbian characters, which made ABC nervous--especially when a lesbian character kissed Roseanne. The network initially refused to air that episode until Roseanne, the producer, demanded they do so.
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In the end credits of the series finale, Roseanne says "Thank You" to Eric Gilliland who had left the show at the end of season eight. Eric Gilliland was set to remain as executive producer through season nine ... like so many, he was under the impression that the show's eighth season would be the last. He inked a deal with Fox. He had remained on the show for a total of four years, longer than any other executive producer on the show. He was the only executive producer who was never fired. Roseanne asked him back to help write and run the final episode, which he did as a favor due to his respect for the show.
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The fourth season of Roseanne opens up with a bang -- and a bit of a whimper from Roseanne, as seventeen-year-old Becky asks for the thing no mother wants to hear from her little girl: birth control pills. Yes, Becky (Lecy Goranson) has reached that point in her relationship with her boyfriend Mark (Angel's Glenn Quinn) where they're having sex. A touchy subject for prime time sitcoms -- even All in the Family had Mike and Gloria married from the pilot episode. Later in the series they break up, only to be reunited when Roseanne interferes and has her words backfire on her.
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Roseanne drifts into a dreamworld in which cartoonish incarnations of her family members prevent her from taking a bubble bath with two hunky servants. It is almost too painful to relive this episode enough to explain why it is one of the worst of the series. Could it be the tropical, fantasy-bathroom set that producers must have found in the alley behind The Golden Girls's studio? Or maybe it's the corny "special effects" of Roseanne vanquishing her husband and children that smack of 1990s cheapest editing technology? The god-awful musical number at the end puts the final nail in the coffin.
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In this conclusion of a two-part episode, Roseanne tries to make Dan feel better about losing the bike shop. The newly wed Becky and Mark (Glenn Quinn) stop by to say goodbye to Roseanne and Dan before they leave for Minneapolis. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
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