When making the video for the new baby, Roseanne tells the baby that her mom had known about her father's affair for 20 years, but when Bev reveals to the family that her husband, Al is having an affair in the season 4 Thanksgiving episode, she tells everyone she's known about it for a few years. In the following episode from season 4, Kansas City, Here we Come, Roseanne tells Dan that she found out from her mom that her father was in fact having an affair for 20 years. This discovery by Bev was what led her to kick Roseanne and Jackie's father out of the house, thus, all alluding to the fact that Bev had just learned about the actual length of the affair also. Over the course of the show, it is shown that Roseanne does seem to lean towards thinking that her mom could have known about the affair for its 20 year duration, but in the video she tells the baby that her mom has known about the affair for 20 years as if it is a fact.
DJ: (not wanting to eat the meal Mark has prepared) I wish we had a dog. Darlene: Maybe we did.
Fred: Hey, girls, what are you doing? Becky: (sorting through a box) Just looking at stuff no one wants anymore. Darlene: (sarcastically) Oh, she doesn't mean you, Fred.
DJ: (using a camcorder to record a message to his unborn sibling) Hi! I'm DJ, your older brother. Ha! By the time you see this, I'll have a moustache, 'cause I just sent away for it!
Dan: (listening to Jackie talk 'crazy' about Fred) I'm gonna get a beer. Enjoy your tour of the galaxy.
Roseanne: (recording a message to her unborn child via a camcorder) Your dad works really hard. He, um, always wanted to give you guys... everything. But, um, over the years, I guess, uh, his dreams kinda fell down, one right after the other. But, now he's working for the city, which is great because you cannot be fired for
Roseanne: I can't imagine what you'll see in your life, because I've seen some pretty amazing things. I've seen men walk on the moon, uh...a woman run for vice president, the fall of communism, and Michael Jackson married Lisa Marie Presley, an event that will send thousands of Elvis impersonators back to the career of truck-driving.
Roseanne: (recording a message to her unborn child via a camcorder) Okay, I'm going to give your dad a turn to talk to you, now, but, before I go, I want to tell you one thing: you know that we had you late in our lives, but we really wanted you, and, uh, that's basically because you're our last hope for a good retirement, which is totally going to happen because, after all these years, I finally figured out how to raise a kid that will grow up to be incredibly successful, and, that is: every time you turn around, you tell them how wonderful they are, and... how beautiful they are, and... how priceless they are, and, how much they are loved– and, you are.
Becky: Why can't any of you believe that Mark would be a good cook? I mean, what's wrong with Mark? Darlene: Ok. Not all at once. Lets do this in an orderly fashion.
DJ: Mark's cooking? I mean, I may be just a kid, but, isn't he an idiot?
Becky: Mark, go to the store and buy what you need. Tonight, the whole family's having rigatoni! Jackie: And later, rigor mortis. Mark: Hey! I'm not making dessert.
DJ: (inspecting his first baby tooth, saved in his baby book) It's a tic tac!
Becky: Oh, Darlene, you're not going to believe what I just found! Darlene:Your virginity? No, wait, you left that behind a dumpster at K-Mart.
Becky: Oh look, Darlene! It's your little pink oven! Darlene: Oh look, Becky. It's your Barbie that I baked inside of it.
This episode was originally scheduled to air October 3, 1995, but was pre-empted by breaking news coverage of the O.J. Simpson Verdict. By the time it aired out of sequence, Roseanne is portrayed as still being pregnant after having given birth in a previously aired episode, and Dan is seen with a beard that had been shaved off in prior episodes as well.
Dan: (listening as the TV blares the theme song from 'The Facts of Life') You know, when you think about it, this show was the Friends of the 70's. Dan is making an allusion to The Facts of Life (1979-1988), an NBC sitcom about seven young girls and their housemother in a private, upstate New York school, and to the NBC long-running (1994-2004) comedy series, Friends, which focused on a group of six friends living in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Dan is making a joke alluding to the idea that Roseanne, the television show, could be considered the Friends of the 80's.
Becky: (watching her family eat a meal that Mark has prepared for them) What is in that junk, anyway? Mark: Aw, lots of stuff, but I think it's the Jergens they're really responding to. Mark is making an allusion to Jergens Lotion, a body lotion distributed by the Kao Corporation.
Jackie: (interrogating Fred) Then why the sudden interest in skiing, Mr. Famous Guy Who's a Skier Guy? Fred: Is Andy ready, or not? Jackie: Jean-Claude Killy! That's it! Jean-Claude Killy! Jackie is alluding to French alpine skier and triple Olympic champion (Winter Olympics 1968), Jean Claude-Killy.
Jackie: Oh, Mark, Mark, bo bark. Jackie is making an allusion to Shirley Ellis' 1960's release, "The Name Game," a pop song based on a children';s sing-along rhyming game that creates variations of a person's name.
Jackie: (when Mark admits he can cook) Now, Mark, when you say you can cook, do you mean cook, or do you mean Ragú on bread? Jackie is making an allusion to Ragú, the brand name offering 35 varieties of Italian-style sauces that can be economically purchased in grocery stores. Currently, it is the best selling brand of pasta sauce sold in the United States.
DJ: (inspecting his first baby tooth saved in his baby book) It's a tic tac! DJ is making an allusion to tic tac, a brand of tiny, white, hard breath mints.
Becky: Oh look, Darlene! It's your little pink oven! Darlene: Oh look, Becky. It's your Barbie that I baked inside of it. Darlene is making an allusion to Barbie, a best-selling fashion doll invented by Ruth Handler and launched by Mattel, Inc. in 1959.
S 4 : Ep 24
Aired 5/5/92 (24:00)
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Aired 4/28/92 (24:00)
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Aired 3/31/92 (24:00)
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Aired 3/24/92 (24:00)
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