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Season eight of Roseanne is the one where everything finally began to truly advance apart. This is not to say there aren’t some genuine episodes, but you have to really retract through episodes rotund of fantasy, inane slapstick, and politically accurate undertones to glean to the truly top-notch blue collar slice-of-life episodes that made up the majority of episodes in prior years. WARNING - SPOILERS AHEAD.

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The season opener, “Shower the People You Fancy with Stuff”, very unceremoniously returns Lecy Gorenson as Becky Conner Healy, with Roseanne taking advantage of the sudden replacement with an inside joke by remarking that it seems like Becky’s been gone for four years - exactly how long Lecy Gorenson has been gone from the exhibit. The raze of the display makes fun of the switch of actresses playing Becky even more with a clever imitation of the opening theme song of 60’s series “The Patty Duke Exhibit” in which Patty Duke played twin cousins. It is a trustworthy opener to the season, but it is not typical of what follows.

One pickle with season eight is that Roseanne NEVER did fantasy episodes well during any season. Fortunately, past seasons had petite doses of them. In season eight, though, we fetch “Halloween: The Final Chapter”, “The Fifties Explain”, “Springtime for David”, and “The Getaway, Almost”. Not all of these episodes are pure fantasy. Some of them, such as “The Getaway” are more politically factual slapstick than anything. However, they all seem like evil and disjointed half hour comedy skits keen characters who hardly know each other rather than portion of a display about a middle class family trying to regain by the trials that life throws their diagram. It was particularly dim to witness what became of the Halloween episode this year, always a Roseanne staple. Gone are the bad costumes and the clever pranks of previous years. They have now been replaced by a circus of the absurd and the bizarre.

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Episodes that seem to have been conceived for the sole purpose of preaching political correctness are “The Last Thursday in November”, which is the Thanksgiving episode, “The Last Date” with Dan and Roseanne crashing a bar mitzvah, and the most tainted of the three, “December Bride” in which Scott and Leon win married. The uncommon contradiction in “December Bride” is that Roseanne, who is supposed to be so open-minded and is acting as Scott and Leon’s wedding planner, has decorated the room in which the wedding is to be held in outrageously terrible taste using every stereotype in the book. This episode stands out as a accurate slay. It had the opportunity for several moving things to happen - for Leon and Roseanne to finally bond and also to gape the prejudices against such unions in middle America (this was 1995 in small-town Illinois after all), objective to name a couple. Instead we win another noxious slapstick episode in which the most arresting thing that happens is Leon kissing Roseanne to figure out if he actually might be straight when he gets a case of the pre-wedding jitters.

There are some well-behaved episodes sprinkled through the season, but the best episodes are towards the raze starting with Darlene’s unexpected pregnancy, the result of a night of passion with David during the Conners’ prance to Disneyland. However, Darlene and David have a thought figured out that includes marriage. Roseanne does some resplendent acting here, really showing the disappointment of a woman who realizes she married the good man perhaps too soon, now also realizing that both her daughters have followed in her footsteps and she is powerless to do anything about it. “The Wedding”, which features David and Darlene’s wedding, is noteworthy better viewing than the one featuring Scott and Leon. There is a vast father-daughter moment between Dan and Darlene where Dan apologizes to Darlene for being furious at her and gives her a key to a bank box with some extra money. When Dan tells her not to establish off her dreams because some day she’ll realize that time and her dreams have passed her by, you realize Dan is really talking about his bear life. Designate and David also have a vast moment when David says that he wishes their parents were there. Trace suddenly comes out of the village clown mode he has been in since 1993 and wisely tells David that their parents really had no legal to be there because they had never behaved as parents. The Conners had done what their acquire parents should have, and really were, in fact, their parents by action if not genetics.

Unfortunately, there is another life altering event that occurs that day that shatters the newlyweds’ plans - Dan’s heart attack. This is the subject of the last two episodes. Dan survives his heart attack, but when he comes home from the hospital he finds it impossible to change his ways. The season ends with Dan and Roseanne having a colossal fight over Dan’s resistance to a healthier lifestyle that concludes with a microscopic Godzilla crashing into the Conners’ television cloak - a fitting metaphor for season nine.

I concept “Complete Season” meant fair that, COMPLETE! Why are we peaceful getting butchered versions that we can scrutinize on TV? First episode they prick the whole ending off. No Patty Duke Exhibit ending? They play that piece on Chop at Nite! Then on the Recount to Video episode they slit a theme song that ruins the entire joke. The family is watching TV while Roseanne is out of the room and Dan says “You know, this was the ‘Friends’ of the 70’s”. The joke doesn’t work on the DVD because it is not the theme song they originally played. They played the Three’s Company theme song and on the DVD it is some generic 70’s sounding song with no lyrics. How noteworthy could it possibly cost to accept the rights to employ a couple of seconds of an weak TV theme song? I know these companies can afford it. Speaking of money, I’m sick of paying $25 or more for butchered TV shows I can sight on regular TV. If this had been uncut I would have given it 4 stars but nick up only gets a 2 star rating. Although there are some very obedient episodes included in this season I cannot give more than 2. I opinion we were done with lop up versions after the first season. What happened?
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