Roseanne: One for the Road

Roseanne: One for the Road
ABC
January 9, 1990
Sitcom
DVD
B-

While Dan, Roseanne, Jackie, and D.J. are visiting  R & J's parents, Becky and her friend Dana Hudson (Lindsay Fisher, who would play this character twice more, despite Dana's mother forbidding her return) get drunk in the living room.  Something feels off about this episode, or maybe I'm getting tired of Becky being both a problem child and "the good girl," as if the writers didn't have a clear fix on her.  It's still a pretty good episode, and I like how Darlene is both sympathetic and teasing, but there were moments when I would've rather have seen what was going on at the grandparents'.

Dana's mother Karen is played by DeeDee Rescher, who was DeeDee the Waitress late in the Three's Company run.