The character of dj

Agree

DJ kind of seemed like the character they gave storylines to didn't fit other characters but that Roseanne wanted to cover. Like the episode where she's thinking of having the abortion. DJ agrees with her on it. WTF? What kind of kid would say that and what kind of mom lets her kid (of that age) in on what's wrong her baby. That always creeped me out and then I realized it was him, because he was the most like placeholderish of all the characters. Speaking of babies, the episode where he keeps accosting Jackie and Andy seems out of place. He puts Andy in a pot, because that week DJ loves babies, visiting Jackie and Fred, and I guess is also displaying serial killer traits. Just as the episode with him kissing the black girl just seems like an episode to show Roseanne treating a black man like garbage while pretending to be so high and mighty, especially over Dan who is that week racist. There's very few episodes where DJ is the main plot and he's essential to the story. You could take DJ out and those episodes would still be the same.

maybe that's why the writers said "screw it" and just turned him into an insufferable little douche.


Welcome to the El Flamingo, Jeffrey!
Don't piss in the pool, Jeffrey.

This has been touched on offhandedly before: Fishman was a cute kid who had a striking resemblance to Roseanne when he first appeared on the show, but his lack of talent most likely attributed to his scarce screen time on the show.

Come on—he wasn't much of an actor, ever. The older he got, the more apparent it was 'cause he couldn't just rely on being a cute little kid who parroted simple lines anymore.

Fishman was a cute kid who had a striking resemblance to Roseanne when he first appeared on the show