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Ok, there’s a particular sitcom that for some reason, I just REALLY like. To me it just seems a little more real than most other sitcoms.

It’s Roseanne. Now, every time I bring it up to my family and friends, they all give me this weird look. I mean, yes, Roseanne’s voice is rather annoying, but that’s one aspect (albeit a major one) to the sitcom, and the plot to Roseanne isn’t one of those family sitcoms with the mother and father having decent to extremely well paying jobs, it isn’t the kind where they have a lot of expensive and neat collectibles around the house, hell in the first two seasons Roseanne was fired like four or five times from different places. Like I said, it just seems a little more real than most sitcoms.

And yet, no matter who I mention this to, I get these funny looks, sometimes accompanied with the question “Why in gods name do you like that show of all sitcoms?” or something to that effect.

Is it really that bad to most people or something? Honestly I really don’t know why I get the funny looks and arbitrary questions about why I like something just because they don’t.

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It’s mainly the Roseanne herself (the actress) that has people turned away from the show. It’s an ok show, and the ending was a bit interesting, but it’s not something I’d go out of my way to watch.

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So her voice and appearance in general is really that bad?

To me, it’s annoying but not unbearable.

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I think her personality, voice, and appearance just push people away from it. Some people just didn’t give it a chance because of that.

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I’ve not heard of it at all.

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I think that she has some very funny moments and, likewise, with its great cast, the sitcom also had some very funny moments. That being said, it did the thing that I -hate- it when sitcoms do: It got all dramatic at its end. It’s just annoying to me when sitcoms do that and it seems to have happened, sadly, to every one of the best of them.

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The ending I didn’t like, hell most of the 9th season all together actually. But otherwise, it’s a bitchin show on it’s own.

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“Roseanne” was a pretty decent sitcom at least at first. It had a few things going for it that few other sitcoms had. I liked the fact that everybody in the show was working class, not white collar, the two leads were both overweight and still passionate for each other and the kids weren’t too insufferably cute.

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Every season except for season 9 is what makes Roseanne awesome. The early seasons were good, but the real shine was when Darlene became a punk-rocker with a comic book and Becky became the stereotypical white trash redneck (who the hell thinks living in a trailer is a GOOD thing)?

I think one of the best episodes was actually in the later seasons when Darlene was in college and visiting the family, they all went out to dinner and because of being lower-middle class, they were spending money on this dinner like they’ve never seen it before. Darlene, the only one of the five kids (Including Mark and David) in college said she was offered a job paying 500 bucks a week and she turned it down. Granted, this episode was in the early 90’s, but it was still a great episode considering the shock of her relatives for turning down such a good job, as to them 500 bucks a week was good money.

They really fucked things up when they had the family win the lottery though. That was kind of stupid.

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i really liked the show. never got to see it when it was new. but i do get to watch on nick at night.

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Hey Jaks, another thing we agree on. I too am a fan of Roseanne. If there’s nothing on late at night and it happens to be on Nick at Nite, I’ll watch it. I agree that the earlier seasons were the best. I didn’t like most of season 8 and 9. Winning the lottery was a stupid thing for the writers of the show to do… but I think I understand what they were trying to show us. Notice how when they won the lottery, they didn’t go out and build a big mansion and move to Beverly Hills. They stayed in Lanford, IL and kept the house they got married in. Yeah, they used some of the money to “fix up” the house and buy nice furniture and stuff – but they didn’t go completely overboard. They still had real life problems to deal with. It wasn’t the typical “OMG we won the lottery, our problems are over and we all live happily ever after” plot line that they overuse so much on other sitcoms and movies.

I didn’t like the episodes where Dan cheated on Roseanne. That was just stupid and hard to watch. And it just didn’t fit with his character. I think after 7th season, they hired a bunch of new writers and the show went downhill. But in general, I am still a big fan of the show. And I don’t find Roseanne to be all that annoying. I’ve heard a lot worse. Her stand-up act is actually pretty funny.

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the last two seasons i feel they were just trying to get the show canceled so therefore they just wrote horribly kinda like me.

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I can kind of, almost understand banning Roseanne, but The Drew Carey Show?

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Yeah, I’m not sure what anyone’s objection to the Drew Carey show could be… from my point of view, it’s fairly wholesome. Drew Carey himself, of course… less wholesome, let’s say.

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Weren’t you the one who thought early seasons of Home Improvement were offensive, Jaks?

Yep, indeed I was. I didn’t have a problem with offensive material, I just found it odd that it was there considering it seemed more tuned to family viewing, not the teenager to adult audience.

Winning the lottery was a stupid thing for the writers of the show to do…

Well, in season 9, Roseanne herself wrote most of the show.

I didn’t like the episodes where Dan cheated on Roseanne. That was just stupid and hard to watch. And it just didn’t fit with his character.

Also explained in season 9. Most of the stuff that happened in season 9 was actually some daydreaming brought to book, Roseanne dreamed of winning the lottery, Roseanne dreamed that her husband couldn’t have really died and he was just out fooling around somewhere.

The ending made a lot of logical sense, but it’s only that last episode. The 20+ episodes before it were kind of stupid (ESPECIALLY DJ and Heather).

Why would anyone want to watch a show about a bitter trailer trash bitch with a big mouth anyway?

Realism. It has ten times more realism than most sitcoms. It’s really about how they live their lives as poor people. Rich people are rather boring. “I got a girl pregnant.” In most sitcoms, their might be punishment, but it’s nothing they can’t handle. In roseanne, that might as well just be the end of the world, because having a baby is a HUGE thing to those in lower-middle class status.

Are you kidding me? That show was chock full of sexual innuendo and moral depravity.

I will agree to that. Mi-Mi alone was annoying enough. The first episode turned me off where she started calling Drew a pig because he wouldn’t hire her, because she thought he had objections to women, and none of that ever came out of his mouth.

I do like Christa Millers new role though (she played Drew’s girlfriend, and now plays Jordan Cox in the show Scrubs). Fun show.

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I liked the first few seasons of The Drew Carey show because it was somewhat offbeat for a sitcom. I remember one episode where they deliberately tried to overdramatize everything in hopes of winning an Emmy and another where there were deliberate mistakes scattered throughout. Though I personally wasn’t offended by it, I could see how Craig Ferguson’s character and the cross-dressing brother could generate some level of backlash.

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Moral depravity is a pretty strong term, one that I don’t think the show generally merits. Yes, some of the characters act pretty badly towards one another, but the right thing somehow generally gets done in the end.

I’ll agree with you on the sexual innuendo front, but on the other hand, find me a sitcom from the 90s that doesn’t have a lot of sexual innuendo at some point or another. Like it or not, sexual innuendo is a pretty big staple in comedy, and once you lose the innuendo, you generally go straight into outright discussion, which is usually not funny and potentially offensive.

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let’s just bash the show because it’s not seventh heaven. lol just joking the show was excellent. It may of been offensive but that’s what the show was about. was never meant to be a seventh heaven.

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Gee, maybe because it was one of those sitcoms that actually dared to be REALISTIC. It wasn’t all clean and perfect where the family always gets along all the time and they go to church and are perfect little Christians who never fight or never get mad. GAG ME. Shows like that make me sick. Maybe that’s why people wanted to watch Roseanne.

Yeah, it was a show about a dysfunctional family. Yeah, they covered a lot of controversial topics. But maybe that is what I (and many others) liked about it. It’s not a show for “trailer trash” either. If you think that, you have completely missed the point of the show. Have you even watched more than a few episodes to fairly give it such a harsh review? I doubt it.

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i find it funny the people bashing the show but yet Dan won the best t.v. dad.