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#1

Roseanne quotes.........

So, in the same vein as the Golden Girl's favorite quotes thread, let's do the same with ROSEANNE.

One of my personal favorites :

Trainer: Well not everyone's designed to be fit.
Roseanne: WELL I AM FIT!
Trainer: Yeah right, and I'm the lightweight world boxing champion!
(as the trainer walks off)
Roseanne: Oh yeah? Well I'll snap your spine in half like a potato chip ya bitch!

I don't WANT to live in what they call "a certain way." In the first place I'd be no good at it and besides that I don't want to be identified with any one class of people. I want to live every whichway, among all kinds---and know them---and understand them---and love them---THAT's what I want! - Philip Barry (Holiday)

Updated On: 2/2/06 at 05:05 PM

#2

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Not so much quotes as moments...

At the Spelling Bee - 'It may be spelling but it's all we've got.'

At the gay wedding when Roseanne couldn't find two male figures to dress the top of the cake 'so I got these two Pocahontas action figures.'

Halloween -
Roseanne: Fred is gay
Dan: Fred's not gay
Roseanne: He's the gayest. He is gay, gay, gay, gay, gay.

...fragment of the day...

Updated On: 2/2/06 at 05:39 PM

#3

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I met Roseanne a couple of months ago and she signed my DVD set of the first season for me.

"This is why some mothers eat their young!".


Becky: Cindy Clark's mom lets her babysit and she is only fifteen.

Rose: Cindy Clarks mom is a drunken slut.

Becky: Cindy Clarks mom gives her five dollars an hour to babysit.

Rose: Cindy Clarks mom is a RICH drunken slut.
"Oh Link...your pork is ready..." - Edna Turnblad
#4

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My favorite Roseanne quotes would take up more than the available bandwith for this site.
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#5

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Becky: "Darlene come and help me clean"

Darleen: "Sure! As soon as I finish my book......Call me Ishmael."
#6

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This one is incomplete on Beverly's part because I can't remember it all, but is was kinda like this!

Roseanne: "Mom, Nancy and Marla are 'Lesbians'"

Beverly: "Well ofcouse they are. I'm a Lesbian, You're a Lesbian. We're all Lesbians! You've got to get up pretty early to get one past me Roseanne!"
#7

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Jackie: So why is it I can remeber it like it was yesterday?

Rose: Because you have total recall of all things imaginary.
"Oh Link...your pork is ready..." - Edna Turnblad
#8

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Oh and if someone remembers it, I LOVE the quote that Roseanne tells Jackie about "a dream that Every Mother has."

Something about loosing your baby, and then she says "and you just fly away!"
#9

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Oh yeah - about the ring and the birds mouth...what the hell was that line?
"Oh Link...your pork is ready..." - Edna Turnblad
#10

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Don't remember the lead-in exactly, but it's when their finances are on the rocks (I think they took out another mortgage on the house or something) and Dan says, "We're screwed." Rosanne says, "..we are so far beyond screwed that the light from screwed would take three billion years to reach this couch."

Once again, I haven't got it exact, but it's the BEST line EVER, anywhere!


Thank you, Nick@Nite, for running a groundbreaking classic like this. Did that show ever win an Emmy - or Rosanne herself in that role? For the longest time they were ignored. This is why I hate Hollywood.



Salmon leap from the womb of the white sea you look on; they are calves, they are lambs of good color, in peace without slaughter.

Updated On: 2/2/06 at 07:56 PM

#11

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And, of course, anything Darlne says. Anything. Remember when she wrote that poem she had to present? That was a great episode. I know that poem by heart, for some reason.

Also loved when Dan beat up Fisher for beating up Jackie, and then Rosanne "accidentally" dropped Fisher's television and says something like "Oops! I just HATE myself for that."
Salmon leap from the womb of the white sea you look on; they are calves, they are lambs of good color, in peace without slaughter.
#12

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To Whom it Concerns
by Darlene Conner

To Whom it Concerns, Darlene's work will be late.
It Fell in her pancakes and stuck to her plate.

To Whom it Concerns, my mom made me write this,
and i'm just a kid so how can I fight this.

To Whom it Concerns, I lost my assignment
Maybe I will get lucky - solitary confinement.

To Whom it Concerns, Darlene's great with a ball
but guys don't watch tomboys when they're cruising the hall.

To Whom it Concerns, I just turned thirteen
too short to be quarterback, too plain to be queen.

To Whom it Concerns, I am not made of steel
when I get blindsided, my pain is quite real.

I don't mean to squawk but it just really burns
just thought I would mention it - To Whom it Concerns.
"Oh Link...your pork is ready..." - Edna Turnblad
#13

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Sweet :)

Okay here is one, something about when they were short on money and I think that their electricity was going to get cut off, and I think it goes off and Roseanne say:

"Well, Middle Class was fun!"
#14

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diddo, Rath. I love that show.

I have NEVER met Cheyenne Jackson. I have never hung out with him in his dressing room, he did not tweet me, he never bought me a beverage, and he mostly certainly didn't tickle me. . .that is all.

Updated On: 2/2/06 at 08:36 PM

#16

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I have to admit, I hardly ever watch Roseanne, but I thought this was a good place to share this interesting tidbit - Laurie Metcalf, the actress that played Jackie, went to my high school. I believe she went to school with our drama teacher.

Just an interesting fact.
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#17

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I loved when Becky was getting birth control advice from Jackie with Rosanne listening on. Becky hears the options and says "well, doesn't all that kinda kill the mood"

Rosanne: "Not as much as a screaming baby with a loaded diaper."

That cracks me up everytime.
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#18

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Roseanne : Darlene, Nancy's gay.

Darlene : Oh wow, Mom did she tell you?

Roseanne : NO Darlene we saw the 'I'm a big ole' dyke' bumper sticker on the back of her car!
I don't WANT to live in what they call "a certain way." In the first place I'd be no good at it and besides that I don't want to be identified with any one class of people. I want to live every whichway, among all kinds---and know them---and understand them---and love them---THAT's what I want! - Philip Barry (Holiday)
#19

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Roseanne was just one Jay Leno and it was really fun listening to her talk to Jay and the sex lady!
#20

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Did that show ever win an Emmy - or Rosanne herself in that role?

I don't know if the show itself ever won Best Series, but Laurie Metcalf won several, John Goodman was nominated most years the show was on, and Roseanne won at least once (and was nominated a few times).

It took them a season or two to get there (and that last season was just unfortunate), but at its peak, it was the best show on TV.
#21

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I've have actually looked that information up before and here is what I remember.

Laurie Metcalf won Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series 3 years in a row(!), 1993-1995 and the last 2 times she beat fellow cast member Sara Gilbert.

Roseanne won 1 emmy for best actress pretty early, I think around 1990, and was nominated after that.

John Goodman was nominated a lot, but unfortunately never won.
#23

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One episode she said, "You couldn't be any gayer unless your name was Gay Gayerson"

Also, one episode, when her mom was visiting, they were sleeping in the living room and her Mom said something like, "Sleeping on your side is bad for your heart."

Dan replied, "So it a rusty spike."


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#24

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“Birth control that really works: Every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.”
“Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.”
I have NEVER met Cheyenne Jackson. I have never hung out with him in his dressing room, he did not tweet me, he never bought me a beverage, and he mostly certainly didn't tickle me. . .that is all.
#25

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From her standup days:

"I don't understand why lesbians hate men so much.
THEY aren't the ones that have to f*** them!"

"Christ, Bette Davis?!?!"

Updated On: 2/3/06 at 08:36 AM

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