Ok...number one. Darlene and David had Baby Harris....and Becky and Mark were having a baby of their own.
Darlene and Mark never were together...Darlene did not like Mark.
Jackie was not gay Roseanne's mother Bev (Estelle Parsons) comes out at Thanksgiving and her lover is a gorgeous blonde with a great shape..and she is famous and I can't think of her name!
Jackie did have a baby boy with her husband...but they weren't married when she was pregnant...but after the baby was born.
Dan had a heart attack at Darlene's wedding but did not die at that time. AFter the wedding they went to the hospital to see Dan and they danced for him there! He did die later though. Darlene did not marry Mark...she married DAVID!
Have no idea what she meant about calling DJ a nerd. She was a horrible mother and very disrespectful of her children (IMO) and she was dishonest and a drama queen who thought the world revolved around her! She was a loudmouth and a control freak!
She did have a baby named Jerry...named after Jerry Garcia a member of the Grateful Dead.
Roseanne was an American sitcom about...Americans! Instead of the plastic Hollywood stories your used to in the sitcoms and cinema with hot blondes and big muscly models, Roseanne brought you the reality. Roseanne is a heavy, sometimes obnoxious mother of three, happily married to her husband, Dan, a struggling working man. Becky is their bratty, attractive, miss popular high school student, who can be described as selfish, and sometimes difficult, but in general intelligent. Darlene is the second oldest, known for her rebellious attitude and wise-cracking quirps around the house. D.J. is the baby, known for his nerdy antics and his common spats with Darlene and Becky. Both Roseanne and Dan work hard, but can never seem to get out of their indebtness. A typical blue-collar American family.
Joining them in their daily life is Roseanne's younger sister, the nosy Jackie, who is often low on her luck, especially when it comes to men. Roseanne and Jackie's crazy mother, Bev, is known for stopping by uninvited to criticize the everyday lives of Roseanne and Jackie. Roseanne's best friend Crystal is just your average subject of a blues song, raising her son alone and working hard to fit in the middle-class status.
As time went on, the characters changed, and grew into different personalities, just like reality. Becky met the rebel dumb-as-bricks Mark Healy and dated him continiously, despite Roseanne and Dan's disapproval. Eventually, Becky eloped with Mark and wound up moving back to Lanford, living in a trailor park! Becky found it difficult to follow her dreams as the "smart one", despite her perfect grades in high school, due to her marriage and her need to work. Becky's presence around the family became scarce within the last year of the series.
Darlene began to date Mark's younger brother, the sensitive, easy-going, artistic David Healy. Their relationship was built on Darlene controlling, and owning, David. After getting into a huge fight with his mother, David moved into the Conner house, living in the basement. The two of them tried to get into an art school in Chicago, but only Darlene was accepted, which eventually resulted in the two breaking up. Through thick and thin, the two managed to get back together, and eventually, they married, and Darlene became pregnant.
Jackie went through many struggles in her love life, never able to compare to Roseanne's happy marriage to Dan. She met a man by the name of Fred and had what was supposed to be a one night stand with him, which lead to her pregnancy. Originally resistant of Fred, the two found a fondess for each other and decided to get married. Unfortunately, they decided it best to split up when they realized they had no spark. Jackie would continue to struggle with this problem.
Dan's parents were never a good example of a picture perfect marriage, and it always scarred poor Dan. His mother was cheated on by his lecherous father, and wound up spending the rest of her life in a hospital for the mentally ill. Roseanne's best friend, Crystal, caused some major friction when she chose to marry and have a child with Dan's father.
Roseanne decided to get into business with her sister Jackie, her friend Nancy and her rival former boss Leon, started the 'Lanford Lunchbox', a name coined by D.J. It was a dream come true for the four of them. Dan also had his own business at one point, running a bike shop, however, unfortunately for him, it fell through.
The Conner's knew how to stick together, and resembled a true family, with comical antics along with dramatic climaxes. Roseanne and Dan were there for each other, and there children, as they watched them grow up, fall in love, make good and bad decisions, and eventually start families of their own.
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In fact, as a working-class heroine, the abrasive Roseanne owes far less to ''The Honeymooners,'' with its lovable Kramdens, than to ''All in the Family,'' with the bigoted Archie Bunker as an unlovable, true-to-life lead. It is that acerbic attitude that made Roseanne Conner such a lightning rod. She was Mom mixed with Don Rickles, and her series seemed based on the premise that the family that yells together stays together.
In syndication, the early episodes of the series still roll by, preserving the early Roseanne and the days when there was scarcely a difference between Roseanne Conner and the gum-chomping stand-up comic who declared herself a ''domestic goddess.'' In the premiere episode, Roseanne is called to a conference at school because Darlene has been barking like a dog in history class. Roseanne has to ask her factory supervisor at Wellman Plastics for time off. (The biggest visual shock may not be the less glamorous Roseanne of 1988 but the supervisor, played by a George Clooney with longish hair and a pocket protector.)
Even then, the sitcom was more about realistic situations than comic lines. Its humor came from Roseanne and Dan's irreverent, sarcastic response to family life. ''That's why some animals eat their young,'' Roseanne whines at her squabbling daughters.
When the older daughter, Becky, says, ''Our school's having a food drive for poor people,'' Roseanne answers, ''Tell them to drive some of that food over here.'' The series grabbed an audience because it seemed so much more authentic than the shows that surrounded it. In its first season ''Roseanne'' was sandwiched between the contrived Tony Danza sitcom ''Who's the Boss?'' and the arch, upscale ''Moonlighting.''
A lot happened between that premiere and Tuesday's curiously flat finale. In the last show, Darlene and her husband, David (Johnny Galecki), bring their new daughter home from the hospital. The Conners' extended family turns up to welcome the baby. The episode doesn't milk the sentiment of the moment, but it's not very interesting either. It's as if everyone is going through the motions, taking a last curtain call but eager to wrap things up. (The last 10 minutes of the hourlong show were not available for preview, but it's hard to imagine they could make much difference.)
Of course, that restraint is the opposite of this season's earlier excess. After the family won the lottery, and after John Goodman decided to appear only part time, Roseanne and her sister, Jackie (Laurie Metcalf), became the focus of fantasies and self-indulgent escapades. During the show's lowest point, Jim Varney played a rich prince in love with Jackie. The show's declining ratings indicated what a bad idea it was to thrust the working-class Conners into the leisure class.
In part, Roseanne's own success ate away at the show's realistic roots. Like Cher and Madonna, Roseanne became famous for her celebrity. She wrote two autobiographies and appeared on talk shows discussing her multiple personalities, childhood abuse by her parents, the child she gave up for adoption when she was a teen-ager, her cosmetic surgery. That was a pattern the series couldn't possibly keep up with. A rich Roseanne Conner was as bizarre as the conspicuous physical makeover that no one in the Conner family ever mentioned.
In fact, as a working-class heroine, the abrasive Roseanne owes far less to ''The Honeymooners,'' with its lovable Kramdens, than to ''All in the Family,'' with the bigoted Archie Bunker as an unlovable, true-to-life lead. It is that acerbic attitude that made Roseanne Conner such a lightning rod. She was Mom mixed with Don Rickles, and her series seemed based on the premise that the family that yells together stays together.
In syndication, the early episodes of the series still roll by, preserving the early Roseanne and the days when there was scarcely a difference between Roseanne Conner and the gum-chomping stand-up comic who declared herself a ''domestic goddess.'' In the premiere episode, Roseanne is called to a conference at school because Darlene has been barking like a dog in history class. Roseanne has to ask her factory supervisor at Wellman Plastics for time off. (The biggest visual shock may not be the less glamorous Roseanne of 1988 but the supervisor, played by a George Clooney with longish hair and a pocket protector.)
Even then, the sitcom was more about realistic situations than comic lines. Its humor came from Roseanne and Dan's irreverent, sarcastic response to family life. ''That's why some animals eat their young,'' as Roseanne whines at her squabbling daughters.