Roseanne: Nightmare on Oak StreetABC
February 14, 1989
Sitcom
DVD
B
Grace McKeaney wrote this story that, among other things, shows how television (especially ABC) had progressed since Samantha Micelli got her first bra four years earlier. Darlene reaches menarche and has more trouble adjusting to puberty than tomboy Sam. Dan doesn't know what to say to Darlene, but Roseanne does, giving a feminist and somewhat pagan speech about Darlene being part of Nature now. Meanwhile, Becky, who seems oblivious to all this (but then she and Darlene were never close), has another offscreen date with her boyfriend Chip and lets him kiss her on the cheek. Note that we find out some more about Roseanne and Jackie's still as yet unseen mother.
Interestingly, instead of the female director who's been handling most of the first season, Ellen Falcon, this episode went to John Pasquin, for the first of twenty-five times.
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