Going along with the punching theme, there was the episode where Becky’s boss called her a bitch. Dan went down to the store to have a word with him to find Mark had already taken care of it. After finding out that Mark had punched the guy in the gut, Dan asks if he made him puke. Mark tells him no. Dan mumbles under his breath, well I would have made him puke.
I must have been channeling Mark on the the punctuation there.
The episode I remember is when Becky had some homework from a home economics class and based on the assignment, Roseanne thought the teacher didn’t understand how real people get by. So she took Becky and some of her classmates grocery shopping. (The only thing I remember was stretching the meatloaf with corn flakes.)
I remember that one. Becky was mortified to find out Roseanne had been refilling the Kellogg’s Corn Flakes box with the generic version of corn flakes for years.
So the total is $74, I have $41 in my checking account, it’ll take the check 3 days to clear, and I get my paycheck on Wednesday.
Which is even more funny today because I’ve never met a single person who would look down on a store brand item today.
This was what I came in to mention. 
I really liked how the same clothes would show up repeatedly on Roseanne rather than everyone having new clothes all the time. And that chicken shirt was just funny!
I loved Roseanne’s odyssey through minimum wage jobs after she quit her job at the plastics plant (due to Fred Thompson’s s.o.b. manager). I may be leaving some out but she was a
—Fast food chicken clerk (I loved the guy who wouldn’t make up his mind at the counter-
Customer: 'I dunno… so many choices… life’s too short.
Roseanne: Yeah it is. Why drag it out?
—Hair salon clerk (the job that irritated her because it was so boring and low pay and yet the people were really nice to her)
—The department store waitress (where she met Bonnie and Leon)
Best moment may have been Darlene’s ad for the store.
I can’t remember if she had any others before getting the money from her mom and buying The Lunch Box. (About that same time IRL Roseanne and Tom Arnold opened a loosemeat place in his hometown in Iowa.)
Dan went through dry wall hanging and other various construction jobs, the bike shop, part time job at a Big & Tall shop, house flipping with Tim Curry and pals, and then got the job with the city shop which was the financial turnaround for the family.
It’s cool to see a family actually in fluctuation workwise since many if not most of us have had periods of that in our lives.
Oh god. That was one of the best episodes ever put on television. That was so real and so moving and so damned true.
I loved the show. I was in my teens at the time. Forget the Brady Bunch or Dallas. Roseanne was like my life on television only funnier.
Not to get political or anything but I remember getting so irked at Bush I’s criticism of Roseanne Barr. I kept thinking watch that show shmuckface and you won’t have to gawk at a supermarket scanner.
One of my favorite moments?
At the end of the show they’re sliding around the waxed kitchen floor. Who shows up? Champion figure skater Scott Hamilton to demonstrate how floor sliding is done. Perfect.
I loved the show but, in the episode where she interviewed for the office job with Lynn Thigpen, I thought it was unrealistic that she didn’t know and wasn’t told that the job involved knowing how to use a computer until she’d practically been offered the job (or had she been offered the job?).
Didn’t Dan briefly sell jacuzzis and was bothered by the fact that he was pressuring people into buying them that couldn’t really afford them?
Now that you mention it, that was unrealistic. What I lurrrved about that scene is that we in the audience were totally set up for Roseanne to get the job. She had great chemistry with the interviewer. She needed the job. She would do just about anything for the job. The interviewer was a recognizable actress, so a part time gig on the show was not out of the question. In any other sitcom, Roseanne would have gotten the job (and the show might have taken a Dilbertesque turn).
But NOoooooOOOOoo - Roseanne did not get the job. There was no easy out, no “great reset”. It was much more life-like, and much less sitcom-like. Bravo!
The show where they deduce the boy is masturbating has maybe my favorite line EVER. It was something like this:
Rosanne: Do you think he actually doing that? But he’s so young…
Dan: Maybe he’s gifted…
I can understand the computer issue not coming up until the end of the interview. To the interviewer, it was so much a part of her experience it never dawned on her to mention it, and it wasn’t part of Roseanne’s so it didn’t occur to her. There were probably still some offices that didn’t involve a lot of computer use at the time.
Dan did sell Jacuzzis for an episode or two. I remember a customer expressing interest, then saying he was in a lot of debt.
Dan sold jacuzzis at Landford Days, Loretta Lynn was a guest on the show and Darlene was punished for drawing dead cows in front of the diner.
I remember the episode when Roseanne got the “computer” job and then had it taken away. but a qucik search at ImDB with Lynne Thigpen only reveals an episode in Season 1 when she was the Doctor who operated on Darlene when she had appendicitus. Can someone point this episode out?
I also liked the episode when Becky was suspended for giving the one finger salute in the class picture. The Principal (Dann Florek) basically said Roseanne was a bad Mom because her kid gave the finger. But it was discovered that Becky did not give the finger and Roseanne has her “defining” moment with the Principal.
It was Madge Sinclair (the head nurse on Trapper John, M.D.), not Lynne Thigpen.
Upon further review, I found the episode, Season 2 episode #3, “Guilt by Association” but Lynne Thigpen is not listed in the credits at IMDB.
ETA: thanks JayJay
“Guilt by Dissociation”, actually.
Actually “Guilt by Disassociation”
Dan: I’m here because I’m tall, not because I’m big.
DJ: LOOK! I can wrap this belt around myself four times.
More on the masturbation episode (like others, quoted from memory):
Darlene: “He spends like an hour in the bathroom upstairs, because it’s the only door with a lock on it. Which means he’s really good at it…(pause for laughs)…or, really bad at it.”
One of my favorite moments was the end of the first episode with Sarah Chalke as Becky. The family is all sitting around watching an episode of “Bewitched” and someone (I’m thinking Roseanne) makes a comment about how they can’t believe a show can switch an actor playing the same character and expect no one to notice.
Sarah responds by saying that she always liked the second Darrin better, and the entire family turns and looks at her like “WTF?”
Of course, this was recapitulated when Lecy returned as Becky: on her first entrance, Darlene quips, “Where the hell have YOU been?”
Best Sitcom Ever.