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| And this is one of the saner moments. |
ABC
October 31, 1995
Sitcom
DVD
C-
Barr directed and co-wrote, with Lois Bromfield, this odd entry that might well be the Shark Jump, or at least the Putting on the Waterskis moment. (It'll be easier to tell as the season progresses, or regresses.) The title I believe has something to do with the fact that this was originally supposed to be the final season of the series, but it doesn't explain why Roseanne, after well over a year of pregnancy, gives birth to a baby boy (Cole Roberts in his first appearance), whom she names after the spirit of Jerry Garcia (Fred Asparagus, who'd played Del Moore on Who's the Boss?), after seeing the recently departed musician in a labor-induced hallucination. Even before the hospital sequence, we get Ed McMahon and Sarah Chalke, as themselves (I think) mixed in with trick-or-treaters. And a mini-clip-show of past Halloweens (which is why Gilbert and Goranson are tagged).
Basically, the whole thing is a mess, not exactly redeemed by the tag where Roseanne fields staged-sounding questions from the audience. (OK, I did laugh when a man who claims to be one of the writers asks what the hell the episode was.) You know I've never been a big fan of the Halloween episodes, but they at least had some bearing on reality. And contrast this episode with some touching and funny moments in the episode with the flashback to D.J.'s birth and you'll see what this series was starting to lose. It's not all over, but the future doesn't look too bright from this point on out.
Jason Davis's middle Roseanne character is nameless, but he was possibly the lawyer kid. Bobbie Bates makes her first of two nameless appearances on the show. (And she was a dancer in Mame over twenty years earlier.) Trippy Dancer Tera Hendrickson would be Barb on Ellen.
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