Let's Call It Quits

"Let's Call It Quits"
Season 1: Episode 23(23 / 231 episodes)
Network	ABC-TV
Air date	May 2, 1989
Written by	Grace McKeaney
Directed by	Ellen Falcon
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Let's Call it Quits, which originally aired on ABC-TV on May 2, 1989 was the 23rd and finale of Season 1 of Roseanne, also the 23rd overall series episode. The episode was written by Grace McKeaney and directed by Ellen Falcon.

Summary

Roseanne has difficulty accepting the new rules from a tough new supervisor at the factory. After he raises the cap on the quotas yet again, Roseanne approaches him to try and get him to ease off. The boss agrees, but he needs a favor from her in return. They come to a temporary agreement that ends up resulting in a permanent solution.

Cast

Starring

• Roseanne Barr as Roseanne Conner
• John Goodman as Dan Conner
• Laurie Metcalf as Jackie Harris
• Michael Fishman as D.J. Conner
• Sara Gilbert as Darlene Conner
• Lecy Goranson as Becky Conner

Also Starring

• Natalie West as Crystal Anderson
• George Clooney as Booker Brooks

Guests

• Fred Thompson as Keith Faber
• Anne Faulkner as Sylvia Foster
• Charlayne Woodard as Vonda Green
• Nancy Fish as Claire
• Michael Earl Reid as Lou
• Evelina Fernandez as Juanita Herrera (uncredited)

Trivia

• This is the last appearance of Booker until the Season 4 episode "Trick Me Up, Trick Me Down".
• This is the final episode to feature the factory set. It will return in Season 3 of The Conners.
• In regards to the Wellman Plastics factory, the ramifications of Roseanne and her friends all quitting won't be revealed until the Season 9 episode "Lanford's Elite".
• Because they never seemed to get any laughs in any of the factory scenes, Roseanne and her cast jokingly believed that the Wellman factory set was built over a haunted Indian burial ground. When the Conner kids' bedrooms were later built over the factory set, Roseanne and the crew thought the laughs came few, again, and joked that their theory was right.

Quotes

Jackie: Why is it we work long hours at a job we hate for $8 an hour which we can't even live on with quotas we can't fill or else we get canned?

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Roseanne: If it's one thing I hate to see in a plastic factory, its bits of plastic lying all over the place!

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Mr. Faber (to Roseanne): I know how business works, sugar. You scratch my back, I scratch yours. Now, I'm more than willing to scratch your back. The question is, are you willing to scratch mine?

Roseanne: Now, Mrs. Faber isn't going to jump out of the closet dressed as a Dutch girl, is she?

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Mr. Faber (to a table of Roseanne, Jackie, Crystal, and several co-workers): Well, are you little ladies enjoying your lunch?

Roseanne: Well the veal is tre bien, and how is your swordfish, sis?

Jackie: As usual, the food is to die for, but the ambiance stinks.

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Roseanne (to Mr. Faber) Well I guess we're not gonna make our quota today honeybunch (walks away)

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