Roseanne: Bird Is the Word

Roseanne: Bird Is the Word
ABC
November 13, 1990
Sitcom
DVD
B

Despite some continuity issues, which I'll get to, this is a good episode with a nice twist.  Several students of the Class of '93, including it seems Becky, give the finger in the class photo.  Roseanne has to go see Principal Hiller (Dann Florek, who would return several seasons later as Darlene's doctor), and in the outer office she reconnects with her old high school friend Anne-Marie Mitchell (Adilah Barnes in her first of fifteen appearances).  Then it turns out it was another kid's hand but Becky took the credit for it because it made her more popular.

This is the first of eight Roseanne episodes written by Joel Madison and Don Foster, but I don't know if that explains the inconsistencies.  Becky is supposed to be 16 at this point, although a previous episode put her birthday in March.  Also, it appears that Darlene isn't yet at high school, so either she got left back, or they extended the years of the junior high, a la The Brady Bunch when Marcia started high school so much later than Greg.  Furthermore, we've already met Anne-Marie's husband Chuck, although the writers may not then have intended to give him the family they would, including an at the moment unseen Chuck, Jr.  Note that there's a joke about Gilligan's Island, which would be ironic after the GI tribute episode.