Roseanne Season 9 Episode 22

There's some questionable dialogue in this episode. In regards to Dan's mom:

Dan: I think she's still mad at me for putting her in the hospital.
Roseanne: That was over 20 years ago. I'm sure she's over it by now.

The history behind Dan's mom is that in the episode from season 6, Lies my Father Told me Dan has, in the previous episode, taken his mom to a mental institution after he goes to her home to give her the money that his dad was supposed to give her and finds her sitting on the porch in the rain, not knowing who Dan is. He tells Roseanne she was institutionalized twice when he was a kid which both times, were caused by, what Dan thought, how his dad was treating her. Roseanne tells Dan that Crystal called her and told her some stuff about Dan's mom. She had been institutionalized a lot when he was a kid, but his dad told him she was visiting a relative so Dan wouldn't think bad of his mom. Also, Roseanne says that she was institutionalized before her and Dan's dad even met. I think what the dialogue was trying to portray was Dan was saying his mom was mad at him for once again putting him back in a hospital, and Roseanne was trying to say, why would she still be mad about being institutionalized all along when it first happened a long time ago. It's still not written totally correct and comes across, obviously as confusing. The first time Audrey, Dan's mom, was institutionalized had to have been at least over 45 years ago.