# On Roseanne, which Becky is better? Lecy Goranson or Sarah Chalke? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 29, 2018, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-roseanne-which-becky-is-better-lecy-goranson-or-sarah-chalke/811425 "2018-03-29T17:24:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nadnerb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@Nadnerb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nadnerb)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-roseanne-which-becky-is-better-lecy-goranson-or-sarah-chalke/811425/1 "2018-03-29T17:24:59Z")
You decide. All opinions will be equally respected. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-roseanne-which-becky-is-better-lecy-goranson-or-sarah-chalke/811425/2 "2018-03-29T17:27:03Z")
Becky is supposed to be a bitch and Goranson plays a bitch better than Chalke, but I prefer Sara C as an actress. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-roseanne-which-becky-is-better-lecy-goranson-or-sarah-chalke/811425/3 "2018-03-29T17:27:58Z")
I think Goranson better _looked_ the part of a lower-middle-class kid. Chalke is a little too pretty. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-roseanne-which-becky-is-better-lecy-goranson-or-sarah-chalke/811425/4 "2018-03-29T17:33:20Z")
As the first person to cast a vote, I prefer Lecy. She just looks more the part; not unattractive by any means but not “Hollywood cute”. SC just looks and seems too sweet to be part of the Connor clan. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-roseanne-which-becky-is-better-lecy-goranson-or-sarah-chalke/811425/5 "2018-03-29T17:34:39Z")
I have a vested interest in Beckys. Chalke is who I associate with the role. You know it’s Becky with the good hair;) ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-roseanne-which-becky-is-better-lecy-goranson-or-sarah-chalke/811425/6 "2018-03-29T17:35:06Z")
Well, I \*was \*the first at the time :mad:😛 I got to blathering with my coworkers while I was writing my post. ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-roseanne-which-becky-is-better-lecy-goranson-or-sarah-chalke/811425/7 "2018-03-29T18:05:34Z")
Lecy by a mile, for me. I always thought she was underrated back in the show’s heyday: she didn’t get the good lines that Sara Gilbert got and her character (by design) was kind of grating, but she did a great job of making Becky believable and even kind of sympathetic. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-roseanne-which-becky-is-better-lecy-goranson-or-sarah-chalke/811425/8 "2018-03-29T18:23:37Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I think Goranson better _looked_ the part of a lower-middle-class kid. Chalke is a little too pretty. this is what I was going to say exactly. I look at Sarah Chalke and don’t see someone who is supposed to be Roseanne and Dan’s kid. Lecy, I do. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-roseanne-which-becky-is-better-lecy-goranson-or-sarah-chalke/811425/9 "2018-03-29T18:27:06Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > this is what I was going to say exactly. I look at Sarah Chalke and don’t see someone who is supposed to be Roseanne and Dan’s kid. Lecy, I do. Yep. Not even close or a question for me. Lecy is the better actress for the role. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-roseanne-which-becky-is-better-lecy-goranson-or-sarah-chalke/811425/10 "2018-03-29T18:47:58Z")
I am in the “Lecy fit the role better, but Sarah is the better actress” camp. Lecy looked like part of the Conner family, Sarah stuck out like Marilyn in The Munsters. ---
**Author:** ![escaped](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@escaped](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/escaped)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-roseanne-which-becky-is-better-lecy-goranson-or-sarah-chalke/811425/11 "2018-03-29T20:06:28Z")
Lecy Goranson 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-roseanne-which-becky-is-better-lecy-goranson-or-sarah-chalke/811425/12 "2018-03-29T21:06:19Z")
Imagine flipping their roles in the revival where Chalke would play the daughter and Goranson would play the character who drops by. That would be all kinds of wrong. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-roseanne-which-becky-is-better-lecy-goranson-or-sarah-chalke/811425/13 "2018-03-29T21:33:51Z")
I’ve not seen Lecy Goranson in anything besides _Roseanne_, but given that, I’ll say Sarah Chalke is funnier, but Goranson is the better actress (at least at 14 or whatever age she was during the original run). . ---
**Author:** ![Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/59ef9b/32.png) [@Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorkshire_Pudding)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-roseanne-which-becky-is-better-lecy-goranson-or-sarah-chalke/811425/14 "2018-03-29T22:11:56Z")
Sarah Chalke is the other Becky. That’s not so much an opinion as an observation, I think, and that sort of cements it for me: however good SC may have been, she was the alternate. I may have felt the other way had I seen her first, but…well, that’s not what happened! I yield to no man in my delight in Sarah Chalke’s presence on screen, but that notwithstanding: Lecy _is_ Becky, Sarah is the _other_ Becky. ---
**Author:** ![stanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@stanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stanger)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2018, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-roseanne-which-becky-is-better-lecy-goranson-or-sarah-chalke/811425/15 "2018-04-01T05:13:39Z")
Sarah Chalke is certainly pretty – conventionally pretty – but I always found fit the role better and was attractive enough to boot. I loved the horrified look she would get on her face whenever her parents embarrassed her. I suspect she nailed the typical mortified teenager look perfectly. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-roseanne-which-becky-is-better-lecy-goranson-or-sarah-chalke/811425/16 "2018-04-02T04:53:27Z")
Didn’t vote because I never really got into the show enough to tell. I do know that, when I did watch, it tended to be Chalke in the role. I agree she didn’t seem bitchy, though. More like the exasperated one. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-roseanne-which-becky-is-better-lecy-goranson-or-sarah-chalke/811425/17 "2018-04-06T03:46:06Z")
Becky 1, I could not stand Chalke as Becky 2 (I liked her on scrubs, though) Dick York \>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\> Dick Sargent, btw. The first Lionel Jefferson \>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\> the 2nd one for that matter. oh, but the 2nd DJ on Roseanne was way better than the DJ from the original pilot. ---
**Author:** ![Rough\_Draft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@Rough\_Draft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rough_Draft)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-roseanne-which-becky-is-better-lecy-goranson-or-sarah-chalke/811425/18 "2018-04-06T17:50:58Z")
I voted Sarah Chalke, but the majority may well be right in picking Lecy Goranson. Chalke was definitely the better actor, though. In fact, as noted elsewhere, there weren’t many good actors on that show besides John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, and Sara Gilbert. ---
**Author:** ![Nadnerb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@Nadnerb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nadnerb)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-roseanne-which-becky-is-better-lecy-goranson-or-sarah-chalke/811425/19 "2018-04-06T18:16:05Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Becky 1, I could not stand Chalke as Becky 2 (I liked her on scrubs, though) > > Dick York \>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\> Dick Sargent, btw. > > The first Lionel Jefferson \>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\>\> the 2nd one for that matter. > > oh, but the 2nd DJ on Roseanne was way better than the DJ from the original pilot. And it’s important to know that Michael Fishman didn’t play the original DJ. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-roseanne-which-becky-is-better-lecy-goranson-or-sarah-chalke/811425/20 "2018-04-10T00:41:12Z")
> [@Nadnerb](#): > > And it’s important to know that Michael Fishman didn’t play the original DJ. Yeah, I was just blanking on the actor’s name but yeah, Fishman was the 2nd, better DJ. Apparently the original DJ (dunno the actor’s name) had parents who pullled him and moved away from Hollywood after the pilot. (probably good parenting, definitely good for the show) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-roseanne-which-becky-is-better-lecy-goranson-or-sarah-chalke/811425.md?page=2)