What brilliant writing from Roseanne and the other writers of the show. The last and final episode shows Roseanne narrating from the kitchen table explaining how she was writing a book all along about her life and telling the viewers the reality or her "real" family. As though, we were reading her book. It was a sad ending but IMO...genius.
shareI hated it. Actually, I hated that whole final season, and that last episode where it's revealed that nearly everything we invested in was a lie, was the cherry on top of the sht sundae.
sharei also hate season 9 but the last 5 minutes of the last episode has so much emotions in it. it makes me emotional every time
shareit always chokes me up and i have to try hard not to cry the last part of the last show.
esp after she talks about dan being dead.
and up to the lady singing the song in the end.
last night my tv was on tvland and at 4:27am i woke up for no reason. i have no idea why i woke up.
and looked at the tv and it was the scene right when she was closing the door and walking to the couch and the lady san the song in the last episode.
it made me cry
I think Phoebe Snow was the singer. It sure sounded like her.
shareI feel like i would like the finale better if it turned out that only the timeline after Dan's heart attack was made-up for her book as a way to cope with Dan's death. Having the majority of the entire series be a lie was a bad move and opened up so many plotholes
sharei agree. i understand why she didnt want to face dans death.
but didnt want her to change everyone else.
and i also wish they didnt make Jackie crazy starting season 8
Same. I still imagine it that way. Everything the same, but Dan dies and she wins a small lotto. Remember, they were very poor so any money to them would have seemed like mega millions. However, if anyone watched her reality show, the Darlene daughter was married to a Mark like man. The Becky daughter didn't seem married to a David like man. It was weird watching that with the finale in mind.
shareNo matter how many times I watch the finale I really don't even get it. Becky started dating Mark in a pretty early season. 3 or 4, was it? So Roseanne's fictional writing started back that far, or what?
shareUm, Roseanne apparently began writing the series at some point after she meet the girls' boyfriends so much further down the road than Season 3. That has to be the case given the switch she does after all. I was never under the impression she began and was writing the events down as they happened.
shareI'm with you lovelyRose89. Pretty shocking final for a sitcom and defiantly the most depressing moment in a sitcom ive seen. But at the same time its the same reason I think its one of the most underrated sitcoms. Roseanne was honest and real, as other shows like Full House seemed to sugarcoat the world.
Top 5/6 Favorite sitcoms by the way
1. Seinfeld
2. King of Queens / Everybody Loves Raymond (cant ever choose between the two)
3. Roseanne
4. Friends
5. Frasier
I didn't like the unnecessary retconning of certain character arcs (the whole swapping of David/Mark & Darlene/Becky really bothered me) but it was a nice recovery from an otherwise dire season. Not perfect, but a decent note for the show to go out on.
Anyone here mentions Hotel California dies before the first line clears his lips.
I hated the ending and they were in talks of doing a spinoff show. Thank goodness that didn't happen. A show were we see basically the truth of everything we just come to know in the last few minute of this show's finale would have been jarring when looking back at the rest of the show where things are different in it's details. And just how the hell long was Roseanne's book that every inch of it to be featured to us? Did she write like a long ass series or something? The whole book thing just seemed ridiculous to me.
shareYes I like the idea better if Roseanne was a widow by the end and moving on. Everything, except the lotto, is the same
shareYou mean by Dan having been killed off at the end of Season 8 so he's absent in Season 9? I don't think they would have killed Dan off unless the actor wanted to leave for good.
shareI loved the finale and I cry every time lol
shareThe series ended for me with season five. After that it just felt like a caricature of what it has established. I couldn't relate to it anymore. Jackie became wacked out of it, Roseanne kept changing so dramatically with her face lifts and plastic surgery. The story lines became to 'sitcom' whereas before you felt this families trials and tribulations. Their everyday struggles.
Some good things that remained where John Goodman and Sara Gilbert however, but they had little to work with and by season nine it just wasn't working period. I wish season nine had gone back to the basics, Roseanne losing Dan in the first episode and dealing with being a widow, a single mother and trying to make ends meet. I just couldn't relate to the insanity of that final season.