History YMMV / Roseanne

** Johnny Galecki starred with a Parsons (Estelle) on this show, and would later star with another Parsons (Jim) on ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''.

*** Not only did a popular show called ''Series/TheLWord'' debut years later, but DJ's asking this question to ''Darlene,'' whose actress, Sara Gilbert, actually came out as "the L word" later in her life.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The Disney World episode is full of them, mostly involving members of the extended Conner family having trouble realizing that various Disney characters aren't actually real. Granted, the episode was only shot because of ExecutiveMeddling, so there was probably a certain amount of SnarkBait deliberately included.

* HeartwarmingInHindsight: In "December Bride", Roseanne comments that she was unable to locate a [[CakeToppers cake topper]] with two grooms for the wedding of Leon and his partner, Scott.[[note]]Which resulted in her having to break off the bride and use a male ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'' action figure instead[[/note]] These days, not only are there a variety of readily available toppers for gays and lesbians, but biracial LGBTQ couples as well.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: In "Troubles with the Rubbles," Roseanne's neighbor becomes angry with her after her son runs off to a construction site with DJ while staying at Roseanne's house and badly cuts his arm, while Rosanne never knew where they were. While the neighbor had been condescending and snotty to Rosanne throughout the episode and the show seems to want us to sympathize with Roseanne when she tells her off for being overprotective and judgmental, the neighbor is perfectly justified in calling Roseanne irresponsible for allowing two eight to wander around town unsupervised when the adult in charge has no idea where they are, particularly when his own child was injured due to her negligence.

* DesignatedVillain: The woman Roseanne and Jackie's father was seeing for over two decades, though this is more in the episode where he died. When Roseanne meets her at a bar to try and talk about the last years of his life, Roseanne learns that her dad told her that his kids never appreciated the sacrifices he made for them and storms off in anger. It's assumed that this is mostly because the woman only had Al's side of the story, but it's worth noting that the woman herself is portrayed very sympathetically: she's not a homewrecking monster, and she genuinely seems to want Dan to make peace with his father's memory.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Even being the [[BrattyTeenageDaughter bratty teenage daughters]] throughout much of the series (until both became OlderAndWiser), Becky and Darlene get hit with this. The former is so obsessed with her love of Mark, she feels [[NoSympathy nothing]] for either her father losing his job and the family more or less being ''broke'' but super-pissy because Mark now has no job and has to move away. Also, even as Roseanne being a know-it-all jerk sometimes (although at the time, she was much nicer and relatable), her attitude in "No Talking" towards her was rather snotty and to everyone in the family, not just her mother. The latter, even as a {{Goth}} who hated "everything" also had her nasty moments and came off as being difficult just to be difficult, mainly when she cheated on David for no reason, who basically worshipped the ground she walked on, yet in "Snoop Davey Dave" when he reveals that she did drugs in the past, we're supposed to sympathize with ''her'' as David has no right to be angry/bitter about their breakup.

* DesignatedVillain: The woman Roseanne and Jackie's father was seeing for over two decades, though this is more in the episode where he died. When Roseanne meets her at a bar to try and talk about the last years of his life, Roseanne learns that her dad told her that his kids never appreciated the sacrifices he made for them and storms off in anger. Though, this is mostly because the woman only had Al's side of the story.

* SeasonalRot: The ninth season. The show had been in decline for some years before then, and opinions vary on when it started, but the last season is generally seen as being by far the worst (the drastic GenreShift did ''not'' help matters). The controversial and shocking revelation that [[spoiler:the whole show was Roseanne's book, and the last season represented Roseanne's decline as an author after the death of her husband]] rescued it for some people, though for others, it was just the icing on the cake. It's rather telling the revival made it into CanonDiscontinuity.
* StrawmanHasAPoint: In "Troubles with the Rubbles," Roseanne's neighbor becomes angry with her after her son runs off to a construction site with DJ while staying at Roseanne's house and badly cuts his arm, while Rosanne never knew where they were. While the neighbor had been condescending and snotty to Rosanne throughout the episode and the show seems to want us to sympathize with Rosanne when she tells her off for being overprotective and judgmental, the point that two eight year olds should not be allowed to wander around town unsupervised when the adult in charge has no idea where they are is definitely not without merit.

** Bruce Helford was an executive producer. Helford is best known as creator and executive producer of ''Series/AngerManagement'' and co-creator and executive producer of ''Series/TheNormShow'', ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'', and ''Series/TheGeorgeLopezShow''.

* {{Narm}}: Watching the beginning of the tornado episode with them treating a tornado ''watch'' with gallows humor and panic can be rather ludicrous to viewers from Tornado Alley. (For the record, a tornado '''watch,''' basically means "Conditions are right for a tornado; stay tuned, one might form. A tornado '''''warning''''' means "A tornado has been spotted, YouCanPanicNow.") They are vindicated soon after though...

* InternetBackdraft:
** The revival's very existence, due to Roseanne's controversial behavior since the original run ended. ''Series/{{Blackish}}'' producer Kenya Barris went on record saying, after Roseanne was fired for her racist tweet, that ABC should've never have hired her in the first place, since her misbehavior was well documented and they should've expected something like this.
** The crack at Dan and Roseanne missing "all those shows about Black and Asian families" drew the ire of many viewers for what many felt was a spiteful (and unwarranted) jab at ''Series/{{Blackish}}'' and ''Series/FreshOffTheBoat'', both fellow ABC sitcoms. The most frequent criticism of the joke is that the shows are written off as solely being about pushing the idea that black and Asian families aren't that different from white ones, rather than the comedies they ultimately are.
** In the original series, Roseanne was vehemently against corporal punishment since she was physically abused by her father, even crying when she impulsively spanked DJ. Now Roseanne forces her granddaughter's head into a sink full of water. Fans objected strenuously to this, pointing out that even if Harris was acting like an entitled brat, it was way out of character for Roseanne.
** Many fans were outraged that David turned into a deadbeat dad as way to cope with his brother's death and the insistence that he and Darlene just weren't good for each other, which many fans felt insulting to the characters. Even if Galecki has other commitments, there should've been a better way to explain his absence without assassinating his character.
** The final straw was Barr making a racist post on Twitter about a former Obama staff member. Producer Wanda Sykes immediately stated that she would not be returning to the show, Sara Gilbert condemned the post, as did showrunner Bruce Helford, and ABC shot the program dead in the water shortly thereafter.
** After the series was cancelled a lot of streaming sites like Amazon Prime pulled the season from their line-up, leading a lot of 1-star reviews from people who had purchased the season and wouldn't get a refund.

** A lot of people have this reaction to the show's final season, and the final episode in particular. Luckily for fans, with TheRevival it has been effectively [[AuthorsSavingThrow written out of the show's continuity]].

** [[spoiler: Considering ''Series/TheConners'' sees Darlene and David breaking up again, this dialogue in "The Wedding" is very sad.
--> '''Darlene''': Well, it's my last morning as a single woman. \\
'''Roseanne''': Not necessarily. *Looks in Jackie's direction* Right, Jackie?]]

* AlasPoorScrappy: Non-fatal example. While Harris is pretty much no one's favorite character, even her staunchest haters were horrified to see her physically abused by Roseanne shoving her head into a sink full of water, especially since the original series had established Roseanne as ''vehemently'' opposed to using corporal punishment to discipline her kids.

* NeverLiveItDown: Suffice to say, [[DontShootTheMessage the show's "Republican voters are people, too!" message]] will probably have the stigma of being associated with Roseanne Barr, who was leading that message, being racist. On that note, those remarks have likely [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor tanked her career]] as well. Though ABC is still moving forward with a spinoff that does not feature Barr in any way (titled ''The Conners''), said program will have to work VERY hard to escape from the shadow of its former star's odious behavior.
* OvershadowedByControversy: The revival's success was overshadowed by the title star's outspoken support of Donald Trump. A racist tweet aimed at a former Obama advisor was enough for ABC to end the show. Before the day was out, even the original series had been dropped from its reruns on TV Land, Paramount Network, CMT, and Hulu due to how toxic her name had become.

** In the original series, Roseanne was vehemently against corporal punishment since she was physically abused by her father, even crying when she impulsively spanked DJ. Now Roseanne gleefully forces her granddaughter's head into a sink full of water; even if Harris was acting like an entitled brat, it was way out of character for Roseanne.

%%* BrokenBase: The series finale.

** The revival's very existence, due to Roseanne's controversial behavior since the original run ended. ''Series/{{Blackish}}'' producer Kenya Barris went on record that after Roseanne was fired for her racist tweet that ABC should've never have hired her in the first place, since her misbehavior was well documented and should've excepted something like this.

** In the original series, Roseanne was vehemently against corporal punishment since she was physically abused by her father even crying when she impulsively spank DJ. Now Roseanne gleefully forces her granddaughter's head into a sink full of water; even if Harris was acting like an entitled brat, it was way out of character for Roseanne.

* OvershadowedByControversy: The revival's success was overshadowed by the title star's outspoken support of Donald Trump. A racist tweet aimed at a former Obama advisor was enough for ABC to end the show. Before the day was out, even the original series had been dropped from its reruns on TV Land, Paramount Network, CMT and Hulu due to how toxic her name had become.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: We're obviously supposed to see her as a whiny brat, but many people found Harris' reaction to her situation pretty understandable. This increased after Roseanne's solution was to shove her head under cold water.

* WinBackTheCrowd: Due to the fact that the show hadn't been on the air in twenty years and was mirroring Roseanne's real-life support of Donald Trump, the belief was that the reboot would not succeed. However, ratings for the first episode exceeded expectations, and the show brought in 18.2 million total viewers, which was 10% higher than the ratings for the original finale in 1997. Even more impressive was that this happened in both a television and a political landscape that are way more fractured than they were when the show went off the air. Then [[HopeSpot subverted]] when it started badly hemorrhaging viewers after the first few episodes, who apparently had their curiosity sated and didn't feel the need to keep watching. [[ShaggyDogStory Rather embarrassingly]], the show had already been renewed for another season on the strength of those opening ratings. Barr posting a racist tweet comparing a former Obama advisor to an ape was the last straw for ABC and led to them euthanizing the show.

* HarsherInHindsight: The episode "Go Cubs", where Roseanne meets her Muslim neighbor and defends her from an Islamophobic cashier, as the racist tweet about Valerie Jarett that got the revival canned was Islamphobic itself.

** Possibly crossing over with HarsherInHindsight, but Dan's abrupt offscreen death in the finale of the original show is rather funny in light of John Goodman's confirmation that ''Roseanne'' would be killed off in ''Series/TheConners''.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The Disney World episode is full of them, mostly involving members of the extended Connor family having trouble realizing that various Disney characters aren't actually real. Granted, the episode was only shot because of ExecutiveMeddling, so there was probably a certain amount of SnarkBait deliberately included.

* HilariousInHindsight: After the show got cancelled, one suggestion was that the show should be retooled without Roseanne Barr, called "Dan" (having John Goodman hang out with Creator/JeffBridges) and gradually transition into a ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' TV series. The former is pretty much what ''The Connors'' is.

** The revival's very existence, due to Roseanne's controversial behavior since the original run ended. ''Blackish'' producer Kenya Barris went on record that after Roseanne was fired for her racist tweet that ABC should've never have hired her in the first place, since her misbehavior was well documented and should've excepted something like this.

* NeverLiveItDown: Suffice to say, [[DontShootTheMessage the show's "Republican voters are people, too!" message]] will probably have the stigma of being associated with Roseanne Barr, who was leading that message, being racist. On that note, those remarks have likely [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor tanked her career]] as well. Though ABC is still moving forward with a spinoff that does not feature Barr in any way (tentatively titled ''The Conners''), said program will have to work VERY hard to escape from the shadow of its former star's odious behavior.