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Type of bind: DVD
Brand: STARZ HOME ENTERTAINMENT
EAN num: 0013131455199
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Quantity: 4
Publishing house: Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 05, 2006
Running Time: 575 minutes
Sale Popularity Level: 6698
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: October 18, 1988
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Welcome to one of the best-loved – and most daring – seasons in ROSEAN numNE history. It was the year in which Roseanne finds a surprising stash, Dan (John Goodman) re-connects with an old flame, Jackie (Laurie Metcalf) becomes pregnant, Darlene (Sarah Gilbert) leaves for college, Becky (Sarah Chalke) returns home, and DJ (Michael Fishman) sneaks off to church. There’s the series’ shocking lesbian kiss, a Halloween to remember, a Thanksgiving the Conners wish they could forget, the fan favorite 'White Trash Christmas', and much more in these 25 classic and uncut episodes nominated for 5 Emmy® Awards. Glenn Quinn, Johnny Galecki, Michael O’Keefe, Estelle Parsons, Sandra Bernhard and Martin Mull co-star in this top-rated season featuring performances by Mariel Hemingway, Vicki Lawrence, Shelley Winters, Ned Beatty, Florence Henderson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ahmet Zappa and even Fabio!
DVD Features:THE COMPLETE SIXTH SEASON All 25 Original UNCUT Episodes From Season 6
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For anyone who loves John Goodman -- the whole series is well worth owning. During the series run there were some spots where cast discontent resonated on the screen... but it's short lived. These characters are so much alive and average.
With the crap that's on TV these days... reality everything... this sitcom rerun is my saviour! Even on DEJU they only seem to run up to season 4 then go back to the beginning again...
Next on my list: Get Smart
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Ahh Roseanne, quite easily the greatest sitcom in TV history (sorry Seinfeld [overrated and repetitive] and move over MASH). For a great many Americans, Roseanne was the ONLY sitcom depicting house life that even remotely approached ringing true. My wife and I are both such big fans that we periodically watch the show from beginning to end (yes, all the episodes), something made easy by the fact that we never watch TV, only DVDs (greater freedom, no commercials). As I do in many of my reviews I will try to offer a few observations that other reviews haven't already made.
The show was serendipitously blessed by its cast, the best any sitcom has ever enjoyed. The comic timing between Roseanne and John Goodman was not only flawless, but their chemistry rang so true that they really did seem like they were married. The show was lucky to cast both Goodman and Metcalf, two actors whose performances really raised the entire show up another level.
The show starts off wonderfully, portraying a blue-collar family that not only seems real, but is real funny (and that says a lot--most sitcoms are not actually all that funny, and, believe it or not, studies show that people are not actually laughing at the jokes [which suck] but because they hear the sound of other people laughing). This in-and-of-itself had a lot to do with the show's immediate appeal: finally here was a family most Americans could actually relate to. Forget the Cosby family (the No. 1 show at the time).
Though the scenes at the plastic factory are pretty flat (which Roseanne was aware of--she joked that the set was built over a burial ground and cursed), the rest of season one is dynamite. In season two the show peters out with a few episodes that are actually quite boring and stupid. Many people say the show got worse in later seasons, I actually think (excepting the last season) that some of season two's episodes are the worst the show ever saw. In fact, in my opinion, the season two episode Sweet Dreams is the worst episode in the entire show's run. Other than this it's still excellent. Seasons three, four, and five are all great, maintaining the show's high standard. At times more episodes focus on incidences outside the Conner residence, which to me is unfortunate as the shows staying inside the house (especially the kitchen) and focusing on the whole family together are the ones that really shine. Thus, when a season focused too much on Roseanne at work (such as endlessly boring scenes of Roseanne at the beauty salon or in the mall's café) it really detracted from the humor.
With season six Sarah Chalke was devastatingly miscast as Becky. It really didn't matter that she didn't at all look like Lecy Goranson, the problem was that the performance she turned in was of an entirely different character (and it was quite a bad performance at that). Sure, other characters changed as the show progressed, but this was ridiculous. Roseanne, for instance, becomes more sarcastic and bitchy as the show progresses, but as my wife pointed out to me, if you revisit season one you'll see that she didn't at all start out that way (in fact she was quite the loving mother at first). And yes, her appearance constantly changed as she lost weight, tanned and had surgeries. Jackie's character changes too, dramatically, as many others have noted here. Many here say that season seven or eight is the beginning of the end of the show. I however think that the beginning of the end was Roseanne's real-life marriage to show producer Tom Arnold. After that fiasco, if I recall, Roseanne went kind of nuts in real life, becoming all new agey and crap, and it started to show in the show. Though the show's very last episode tried to bring things home a little bit, the debacle that was season nine needs a lot of explaining. How did they EVER think that having the Conners win the lottery was in ANY WAY a good idea? Was Roseanne trying to give a comic blue-collar commentary on the wealthy? I don't know, but that simply didn't work.
Some trivia and observations (and feel free to discuss some of this by leaving comments, and by all means, explain the reasoning behind season nine): Lanford Illinois does not really exist. The footage is from Evansville Indiana. Most if not all of Dan's comic mannerisms John Goodman seems to have borrowed from Curly (The Three Stooges), which he justified by making the character of Dan a big fan. When the Conners are watching TV, from the sound of it they are usually watching old movies, especially old B horror movies, sci fi and westerns. The coffee table is almost always covered with comic books. Season one disappointingly does not have a Halloween episode, but Nightmare on Oak Street kind of counts, starting off with a great Halloween feel to it. There are, throughout the very first three or four seasons, a great many references to corn and creamed corn (can ... Read More
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Roseanne is still funny after all theses years especially how they joked about Sarah Chalke replacing Becky for this season...Good Season!
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When it comes to over-weight female comics making eponymous sitcoms in the mid-eighties to nineties, none did it better than Roseanne. Whether it was under either her Barr or Arnold surname, Roseanne produced intelligent and hilarious comedy with an outstanding cast of supporting actors and some of the most hard-hitting and innovative scripts of the era; scripts that made you laugh without insulting your intelligence.
I loved Roseanne then, and it's even better now, a little older, a little wiser, and a little more jaded by subsequent failed attempts to repeat the Roseanne phenomenon with lesser female comics of varying sizes.
This DVD is so funny that I can write this review in full knowledge of its brilliance despite the fact that I haven't quite found the time to watch it yet. I know that I will soon, just like I did with the previous five seasons.
John Goodman is also brilliant in this. So brilliant that sometimes I wished that they had called it "Dan" instead of "Roseanne"; or at least "RoseDan" in an effort to acknowledge his stellar efforts.
Laurie Metcalf steals every show, but despite this I don't feel that they should ever have considered calling it "Jackie", because the "RoseJackie" compromise doesn't quite have the same aesthetic effect.
Either way, I would have loved a spin-off along the lines of "My Two Dads" where the two different actors who played Becky over the years could meet up, live together, and maybe date Paul Reiser and Greg Evigan?
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Like a good wine The Roseanne sitcom continues to get better with season six. Highlights are the very first episode where Roseanne packs Darlene off to College in "Too Down One To Go" and "A Stash From The Past" where Rosanne and Dan begin reminiscing about their days as teenagers after they discover a stash of Marijuna in the house. Sarah Chalke makes her very first appearance as Becky in "Homecoming" and regular guest artist Shelly Winters makes a hilarious appearance in "Thanksgiving 93" Long before Ellen, Roseanne was already causing controversy and provoking open discussions about sexuality with the episode "Don't Ask Don't Tell" where Roseanne and Jackie visit a gay bar and Roseanne receives a kiss on the lips from Guest star Mariel Hemingway. In one of the most heartfelt episodes "The Drivers Seat" Roseanne has to cope with her actions after she hits DJ.
This is a must have for any fan of Roseanne, sadly this series does not feature any extra's but it includes all 25 UNCUT episodes and is one of the funniest seasons with regular cast members returning John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Sarah Gilbert and Sandra Bernhard. Roseanne season six, feels as fresh and new as when it very first aired on TV and is a great way to reaquaint yourself with a truly beloved show that was one of the most successful Television sitcom's of the 80's and 90's.
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