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|season = 9
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|number = 24
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|overall = 222
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|network = ABC-TV
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|airdate = May 20, 1997
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|writer = [[Roseanne Barr|Roseanne]] &<br> [[Allan Stephan]]
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|director = [[Gary Halvorson]]
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|previous = ''[[Into That Good Night, Part 1|Into That Good Night,]]''<br>''[[Into That Good Night, Part 1|Part 1]]''
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|next = ''[[Twenty Years to Life]]''
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}}'''Into That Good Night, Part 2''' was the 24 and final episode of [[Season 9]] of ''[[Roseanne (TV series)|Roseanne]]'', also the 222nd overall series episode, part two of a two-part series finale episode arc. It was written by [[Roseanne Barr]] and [[Allan Stephan]], and was directed by [[Gary Halvorson]]. The episode arc of ''Into That Good Night'' In 2011, the two-part finale was ranked #9 on the ''TV Guide Network'' special, ''TV's Most Unforgettable Finales''. Part 2 of the arc originally aired on ABC-TV on May 20, 1997.
   
 
==Summary==
  
==Summary==
 
Roseanne and her family & friends celebrate the new baby, Harris; Darlene decides to move back into the Conner home; Mark and Becky are going to have a child. The series closes with Roseanne's infamous monologue.
  
Roseanne and her family & friends celebrate the new baby, Harris; Darlene decides to move back into the Conner home; Mark and Becky are going to have a child. The series closes with Roseanne's infamous monologue.
   
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==Plot==
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In the first half, the family talks about life after winning the lottery. Then Roseanne reflects about her fictional life as a voice-over monologue reveals that the show itself has really been her writing. She says that while the book she was writing was based on her life, she changed what she didn't like. For instance: in reality, the Conners did not win the lottery; Dan died of a heart attack; Jackie--not Bev--was gay; Mark and Darlene, and Becky and David, were the Conner-Healy couples. In the final moments, after looking over her book, she goes upstairs and sits on the couch. The show fades to black and her trademark laugh is heard one last time.
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Roseanne and Dan are delighted that Darlene, David and their new daughter, Harris, will be staying with them. D.J. has grudgingly given up his room for them and is moved into the basement. It's just a day of warmth, happiness, and celebration in the Connor house.
  
   
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===In-Depth===
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Family and friends are gathered together, to celebrate the new addition. Everyone comes by to welcome Harris home: Bev, Leon, Scott and Nancy. Each person takes a turn upstairs, having a little one-on-one time with Harris. During the visits over the crib, it is revealed that Mark and Becky are expecting as well. Mark wants to spread the news, but Becky opts to hold off, and let the day be about Darlene.
  
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Roseanne and Dan are delighted that Darlene, David, and their new daughter, Harris, will be staying with them. D.J. has grudgingly given up his room for them and is moved into the basement. It's just a day of warmth, happiness, and celebration in the Connor house.
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Darlene is apprehensive about overstaying their welcome, thinking Roseanne doesn't really want them staying there. She questions Roseanne about it. Roseanne lets her know that she would like them to live with her at the house forever. Darlene is relieved, and would like that as well.
  
   
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Family and friends are gathered together, to celebrate the new addition. Everyone comes by to welcome Harris home: Bev, Leon, Scott, and Nancy. Each person takes a turn upstairs, having a little one-on-one time with Harris. During the visits over the crib, it is revealed that Mark and Becky are expecting as well. Mark wants to spread the news, but Becky opts to hold off and let the day be about Darlene.
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Among the party atmosphere, Leon and his significant other make an announcement. They will be adopting little Nadia, a three-year-old girl from Romania that needs a family. They are congratulated by all, even Bev whom apologizes for her behavior at Thanksgiving.
  
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Darlene is apprehensive about overstaying their welcome, thinking Roseanne doesn't really want them staying there. She questions Roseanne about it. Roseanne lets her know that she would like them to live with her at the house forever. Darlene is relieved and would like that as well. Among the party atmosphere, Leon and his significant other make an announcement. They will be adopting little Nadia, a three-year-old girl from Romania that needs a family. They are congratulated by all, even Bev who apologizes for her behavior at Thanksgiving.
   
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As the extended family gathers around the kitchen table for takeout food, Roseanne looks at each one of them and reflects. As she reflects she reveals that she has really been writing a book about her life and that is what we have been watching. In her "book" whatever she didn't like about her life, she changed. In "reality" Dan actually died from a heart attack. The family never won the lottery. She switched the couples around, so Mark and Darlene were actually dating, and David and Becky were dating; she simply felt that David was more Darlene's type, and Mark was Becky's. And it is Jackie who is gay, not Bev.
   
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She also says that Jackie is her rock and she wouldn't have gotten as far as she did without her. She says that a lot of people have called DJ a nerd, but oftentimes nerds are just artists. She says Leon isn't as cool as she made him and that Scott actually was a probate lawyer she had met and fixed up with Leon. She says that Nancy was also her hero as she got out of her marriage and found a new strength in spirituality. Roseanne reveals that she wrote Dan's affair and the lottery win to compensate for the feeling of loneliness she experienced in the aftermath of his death--until Darlene's premie daughter was born and almost died, which snapped her out of her depression and returned her focus to her children's lives. Then, at the final moments, after everyone fades away, we find Roseanne in the basement, in her old writing room reflecting over her book. She then walks upstairs and through the old kitchen and walks into the old living room, and sits on their old couch. Her trademark laugh is heard one last time as the lights go out.
   
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==Cast==
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And as the extended family gathers around the kitchen table for take-out food, Roseanne looks at each one of them and reflects. As she reflects she reveals that she has really been writing a book about her life and that is what we have been watching. In her "book" whatever she didn't like about her life, she changed. In "reality" Dan actually died from the heart attack. The family never won the lottery. She switched the couples around, so Mark and Darlene were actually dating, and David and Becky were dating; she simply felt that David was more Darlene's type, and Mark was Becky's. And it is Jackie who is gay, not Bev.
  
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===Starring===
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*[[Roseanne Barr|Roseanne]] as [[Roseanne Conner]]
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*[[John Goodman]] as [[Dan Conner]]
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*[[Laurie Metcalf]] as [[Jackie Harris]]
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*[[Sara Gilbert ]] as [[Darlene Conner]]
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*[[Michael Fishman]] as [[D.J. Conner]]
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*[[Sarah Chalke]] as [[Becky Conner]]
   
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===Also Starring===
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She also says that Jackie is her rock and she wouldn't have gotten as far as she did without her. She says regarding DJ, that a lot of people have called him a nerd, but a lot of times nerds are just artists. She says Leon isn't as cool as she made him and that Scott actually was a probate lawyer she had met and fixed up with Leon. She says that Nancy was also her hero as she got out of her marriage and found a new strength in spirituality.  Roseanne reveals that she wrote Dan's affair and the lottery win to compensate for the feeling of loneliness she experienced in the aftermath of his death- until Darlene's premie daughter was born and almost died, which snapped her out of her depression and returned her focus to her children's lives.  Then, at the final moments, after everyone fades away, we find Roseanne in the basement, in her old writing room reflecting over her book. She then walks up stairs and through the old kitchen and walks into the old living room, and sits on their old couch.   Her trademark laugh is heard one last time as the lights go out.
  
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*[[Glenn Quinn]] as [[Mark Healy]]
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*[[Johnny Galecki]] as [[David Healy]]
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*[[Estelle Parsons]] as [[Beverly Harris]]
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*[[Martin Mull]] as [[Leon Carp]]
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*[[Sandra Bernhard]] as [[Nancy Bartlett]]
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*[[Fred Willard]] as [[Scott]]
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===Guests===
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*[[Garrett & Kent Hazen]] as [[Andy Harris]]
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*[[Cole and Morgan Roberts|Cole Roberts]] as [[Jerry Conner]]
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*Kevin Marshall Brady as Party Host <small>(uncredited)</small>
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*[[Lecy Goranson]] as [[Becky Conner]] <small>(archive voice, uncredited)</small>
   
 
==Trivia==
  
==Trivia==
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*This episode was viewed by 16.57 million people.
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*This episode was viewed by 16.57 million people.
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*The last 15 minutes of this historic broadcast are a monlogue written and delivered by Roseanne. In perhaps the most surprising and effective post-modern coup in modern television, the entire last season of the show is revealed to be the character Roseanne's fantasies as she struggles to deal with the death of Dan (who presumably did not survive his heart attack during Darlene and David's wedding). Then, pushing the envelope further, Roseanne/author and Roseanne/character reveal that the entire series has been part of the fantasy, and that the characters we have come to know are fictional composites of the "real" people in "Roseanne's" life: "Darlene" is really married to "Mark" and a pregnant "Becky." to "David," "Jackie" is gay, etc. This does not entirely make retrospective sense, but it is undeniably a powerful way for Roseanne to take back authorship of her show.
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*The last 15 minutes of this historic broadcast are a monlogue written and delivered by Roseanne. In perhaps the most surprising and effective post-modern coup in modern television, the entire last season of the show is revealed to be the character Roseanne's fantasies as she struggles to deal with the death of Dan (who presumably did not survive his heart attack during Darlene and David's wedding). Then, pushing the envelope further, Roseanne/author and Roseanne/character reveal that the entire series has been part of the fantasy, and that the characters we have come to know are fictional composites of the "real" people in "Roseanne's" life: "Darlene" is really married to "Mark" and a pregnant "Becky." to "David," "Jackie" is gay, etc. This does not entirely make retrospective sense, but it is undeniably a powerful way for Roseanne to take back authorship of her show.
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*At the end of the episode when Roseanne comes out of the basement the house is in it's original form with the original furniture, etc. before they won the lottery. However, the wallpaper and tile in the kitchen are not the same. Some of the decorations are not the same either.
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*At the end of the episode when Roseanne comes out of the basement the house is in its original form with the original furniture, etc. before they won the lottery. However, the wallpaper and tile in the kitchen are not the same. Some of the decorations are not the same either.
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*In this episode, we learn Becky and Mark are expecting a baby, a fact that is only mentioned this one time and never revealed to Dan and Roseanne.
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*In this episode, we learn Becky and Mark are expecting a baby, a fact that is only mentioned this one time and never revealed to Dan and Roseanne.
 
*In the early seasons of the series (for example: episode 2.24), the basement is accessed through a door in the kitchen. Later on (examples: episode 6.24, episode 7.02), the basement is accessed through the service porch [which is unrealistic, since Dan built that addition onto the house himself (see episode 3.21)]. Near the end of the final episode, the basement door is back in the kitchen.
  
*In the early seasons of the series (for example: episode 2.24), the basement is accessed through a door in the kitchen. Later on (examples: episode 6.24, episode 7.02), the basement is accessed through the service porch [which is unrealistic, since Dan built that addition onto the house himself (see episode 3.21)]. Near the end of the final episode, the basement door is back in the kitchen.
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*This episode marks the last appearance of [[Glenn Quinn]] as [[Mark Healy]]. He died in 2002
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==Quotes==
  
==Quotes==
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:(Voiceovers from the episode "[[Happy Birthday]]" , the final episode of [[Season 2]])
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:'''Roseanne''' [closing monologue]: Everyone wonders where creative people get their inspiration. Actually, I’ve found it’s all around you. Take Leon for instance… Leon is not really as cool as I made him. He’s the only gay guy I know who belongs to the Elk’s Club... Then there’s Scott. He really is a probate lawyer I met about a year ago and introduced to Leon. I guess I didn’t get too creative there… A lot of kids have called my son a nerd but, as I told him, they called Steven Spielberg a nerd too. A lot of times nerds are really artists who just listen to the beat of a different drum… My mom came from a generation where women were supposed to be submissive about everything. I never bought into that, and I wish mom hadn’t either. I wish she had made different choices. So I think that’s why I made her gay. I wanted her to have some sense of herself as a woman… Oh yeah, and she’s nuts… My sister, in real life, unlike my mother, is gay. She always told me she was gay, but for some reason, I always pictured her with a man. She’s been my rock, and I would not have made it this far without her. I guess Nancy’s kind of my hero too… Cause she got out of a terrible marriage and found a great spiritual strength. I don’t know what happened to that husband of hers but in my book I sent him into outer space… When Becky brought David home a few years ago I thought, “This is wrong!” He was much more Darlene’s type… When Darlene met Mark, I thought he went better with Becky… I guess I was wrong. But I still think they’d be more compatible the other way around. So in my writing, I did what any good mother would do. I fixed it… I lost Dan last year when he had his heart attack. He’s still the first thing I think about when I wake up and the last thing I think about before I go to sleep. I miss him… Dan and I always felt that it was our responsibility as parents to improve the lives of our children by 50% over our own. And we did. We didn’t hit our children as we were hit, we didn’t demand their unquestioning silence, and we didn’t teach our daughters to sacrifice more than our sons. As a modern wife, I walked a tight rope between tradition and progress, and usually, I failed, by one outsider’s standards or another’s. But I figured out that neither winning nor losing count for women like they do for men. We women are the one’s who transform everything we touch. And nothing on earth is higher than that. My writing’s really what got me through the last year after Dan died. I mean at first I felt so betrayed as if he had left me for another women. When you’re a blue-collar woman and your husband dies it takes away your whole sense of security. So I began writing about having all the money in the world and I imagined myself going to spas and swanky New York parties just like the people on TV, where nobody has any real problems and everything’s solved within 30 minutes. I tried to imagine myself as Mary Richards, Jeannie, That Girl. But I was so angry I was more like a female Steven Segal wanting to fight the whole world. For a while I lost myself in food and a depression so deep that I couldn’t even get out of bed till I saw that my family needed me to pull through so that they could pull through. One day, I actually imagined being with another man. But then I felt so guilty I had to pretend it was for some altruistic reason. And then Darlene had the baby, and it almost died. I snapped out of the mourning immediately, and all of my life energy turned into choosing life. In choosing life, I realized that my dreams of being a writer wouldn’t just come true; I had to do the work. And as I wrote about my life, I relived it, and whatever I didn’t like, I rearranged. I made a commitment to finish my story even if I had to write in the basement in the middle of the night while everyone else was asleep. But the more I wrote, the more I understood myself and why I had made the choices I made, and that was the real jackpot. I learned that dreams don’t work without action; I learned that no one could stop me but me. I learned that love is stronger than hate. And most important, I learned that God does exist. He and/or She is right inside you, underneath the pain, the sorrow, and the shame. I think I’ll be a lot better now that this book is done.
  
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:(Voiceovers from Roseanne's birthday episode from years back)
  
 
:'''D.J.''': Happy birthday, Mom. Here, pencils.
  
:'''D.J.''': Happy birthday, Mom. Here, pencils.
 
:'''Darlene''': Yeah, and I got you some notepads.
  
:'''Darlene''': Yeah, and I got you some notepads.
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:'''Dan''': You know Stephen King started this way.
  
:'''Dan''': You know Stephen King started this way.
 
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:(Roseanne leaves the basement)
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Revision as of 04:57, 20 June 2020

Into That Good Night, Part 2 was the 24 and final episode of Season 9 of Roseanne, also the 222nd overall series episode, part two of a two-part series finale episode arc. It was written by Roseanne Barr and Allan Stephan, and was directed by Gary Halvorson. The episode arc of Into That Good Night In 2011, the two-part finale was ranked #9 on the TV Guide Network special, TV's Most Unforgettable Finales. Part 2 of the arc originally aired on ABC-TV on May 20, 1997.

Summary

Roseanne and her family & friends celebrate the new baby, Harris; Darlene decides to move back into the Conner home; Mark and Becky are going to have a child. The series closes with Roseanne's infamous monologue.

Plot

In the first half, the family talks about life after winning the lottery. Then Roseanne reflects about her fictional life as a voice-over monologue reveals that the show itself has really been her writing. She says that while the book she was writing was based on her life, she changed what she didn't like. For instance: in reality, the Conners did not win the lottery; Dan died of a heart attack; Jackie--not Bev--was gay; Mark and Darlene, and Becky and David, were the Conner-Healy couples. In the final moments, after looking over her book, she goes upstairs and sits on the couch. The show fades to black and her trademark laugh is heard one last time.

In-Depth

Roseanne and Dan are delighted that Darlene, David, and their new daughter, Harris, will be staying with them. D.J. has grudgingly given up his room for them and is moved into the basement. It's just a day of warmth, happiness, and celebration in the Connor house.

Family and friends are gathered together, to celebrate the new addition. Everyone comes by to welcome Harris home: Bev, Leon, Scott, and Nancy. Each person takes a turn upstairs, having a little one-on-one time with Harris. During the visits over the crib, it is revealed that Mark and Becky are expecting as well. Mark wants to spread the news, but Becky opts to hold off and let the day be about Darlene. Darlene is apprehensive about overstaying their welcome, thinking Roseanne doesn't really want them staying there. She questions Roseanne about it. Roseanne lets her know that she would like them to live with her at the house forever. Darlene is relieved and would like that as well. Among the party atmosphere, Leon and his significant other make an announcement. They will be adopting little Nadia, a three-year-old girl from Romania that needs a family. They are congratulated by all, even Bev who apologizes for her behavior at Thanksgiving.

As the extended family gathers around the kitchen table for takeout food, Roseanne looks at each one of them and reflects. As she reflects she reveals that she has really been writing a book about her life and that is what we have been watching. In her "book" whatever she didn't like about her life, she changed. In "reality" Dan actually died from a heart attack. The family never won the lottery. She switched the couples around, so Mark and Darlene were actually dating, and David and Becky were dating; she simply felt that David was more Darlene's type, and Mark was Becky's. And it is Jackie who is gay, not Bev.

She also says that Jackie is her rock and she wouldn't have gotten as far as she did without her. She says that a lot of people have called DJ a nerd, but oftentimes nerds are just artists. She says Leon isn't as cool as she made him and that Scott actually was a probate lawyer she had met and fixed up with Leon. She says that Nancy was also her hero as she got out of her marriage and found a new strength in spirituality. Roseanne reveals that she wrote Dan's affair and the lottery win to compensate for the feeling of loneliness she experienced in the aftermath of his death--until Darlene's premie daughter was born and almost died, which snapped her out of her depression and returned her focus to her children's lives. Then, at the final moments, after everyone fades away, we find Roseanne in the basement, in her old writing room reflecting over her book. She then walks upstairs and through the old kitchen and walks into the old living room, and sits on their old couch. Her trademark laugh is heard one last time as the lights go out.

Cast

Starring

Also Starring

Guests

Trivia

  • This episode was viewed by 16.57 million people.
  • The last 15 minutes of this historic broadcast are a monlogue written and delivered by Roseanne. In perhaps the most surprising and effective post-modern coup in modern television, the entire last season of the show is revealed to be the character Roseanne's fantasies as she struggles to deal with the death of Dan (who presumably did not survive his heart attack during Darlene and David's wedding). Then, pushing the envelope further, Roseanne/author and Roseanne/character reveal that the entire series has been part of the fantasy, and that the characters we have come to know are fictional composites of the "real" people in "Roseanne's" life: "Darlene" is really married to "Mark" and a pregnant "Becky." to "David," "Jackie" is gay, etc. This does not entirely make retrospective sense, but it is undeniably a powerful way for Roseanne to take back authorship of her show.
  • At the end of the episode when Roseanne comes out of the basement the house is in its original form with the original furniture, etc. before they won the lottery. However, the wallpaper and tile in the kitchen are not the same. Some of the decorations are not the same either.
  • In this episode, we learn Becky and Mark are expecting a baby, a fact that is only mentioned this one time and never revealed to Dan and Roseanne.
  • In the early seasons of the series (for example: episode 2.24), the basement is accessed through a door in the kitchen. Later on (examples: episode 6.24, episode 7.02), the basement is accessed through the service porch [which is unrealistic, since Dan built that addition onto the house himself (see episode 3.21)]. Near the end of the final episode, the basement door is back in the kitchen.
  • This episode marks the last appearance of Glenn Quinn as Mark Healy. He died in 2002

Quotes

(Voiceovers from the episode "Happy Birthday" , the final episode of Season 2)
D.J.: Happy birthday, Mom. Here, pencils.
Darlene: Yeah, and I got you some notepads.
Becky: And I got you a dictionary and a thesaurus.
Dan: You know Stephen King started this way.
(Roseanne leaves the basement)
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