Roseanne: Father's Day

Roseanne: Father's Day
ABC
February 7, 1989
Sitcom
DVD
B

Lauren Eve Anderson wrote this episode where we meet Dan's father Ed (Ned Beatty, perfectly cast).  Ed is a likable guy but a bit of a know-it-all, and he grates on Dan, partly because Dan can see Ed in himself.  (And later we'd learn a darker background to Dan's parents.)  Roseanne has some laugh-out-loud lines, but it's Goodman who steals the tag scene, by deliberately rambling like his father.  Note that Dan's age is shifted here, to 1953, with his mother pregnant again in '56.  (Did the baby die?  Dan doesn't seem to have any living siblings.)

Jackie is absent for the first time, but we do see Crystal and get a sense of her chemistry with Ed.