Sunday, July 16, 2017

Roseanne: Ladies' Choice

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Caricatures by Marla, for the restaurant
Roseanne: Ladies' Choice
ABC
November 10, 1992
Sitcom
DVD
B

Nancy's choice turns out to be her new girlfriend Marla (Morgan Fairchild in the first of three appearances that Fall).  Roseanne and more particularly Jackie are shocked to hear that Nancy is a lesbian, and there are some ironic in retrospect lines about it, re Jackie and Bev.  (Not to mention that the then-closeted-even-to-herself Sara Gilbert has lines about knowing what a lesbian is.)  Meanwhile, Bev's choice is to move into an old folks' home.  We find out that currently Bev is 63, Roseanne 40, and Becky 18.

This is the first of six Roseanne stories by Betsy Borns, the first of five by David Raether.  And if Belita Moreno, the woman selling Bev a spot in the home, seems vaguely familiar, it's because she had then recently finished a semi-regular role on Perfect Strangers (which I don't own but did watch most of at the time).

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