GROSSEANNE

ROSEANNE
1988-1997 ABC

GROSSANNE
MAD #287, Jume 1989
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker

Get ready for pages of fat jokes. Hey, it's not me doing the fat-shaming.

Roseanne was vehicle for comedian Roseanne Barr's working-class mother standup act long before the monomial cancelled loose cannon that became her legacy. The show was about Roseanne Conner. Her husband Dan (John Goodman) worked in construction and they had three kids, D.J. (Michael Fishman), Darlene (Sarah Gilbert), and Becky (Lecy Goranson). Roseanne's sister Jackie (Laurie Metcalfe) would drop in. They all lived in Lanford, Illinois.

The rabbit in the second panel may be a reference to Fatal Attraction, but more likely it's a joke about how the species of animal she's cooking for dinner gets increasingly bigger. Before this series, John Goodman had been in Raising Arizona.

GROSSEANNE
Cracked #244, May 1989
w: Rich Kriegel (Lou Silverstone)
a: Walter Brogan

Roseanne worked at a plastics company with her sister.

I don't know who everyone is in the last panel except Dan Rather, Bill Cosby, Peter Falk, and ALF.

GROSEANNE: THE SECOND HELPING
Cracked #291, August 1994
w: Greg Grabianski
a: John Severin

In the last few seasons the part of Becky was replaced by Sarah Chalke. Darlene's boyfriend David (Johnny Galecki) became part of the cast. Roseanne's second husband Tom Arnold is also under the table, he was co-producer of the show.

Dan no longer worked at a construction site and did the occasional odd job at home or ran his own contracting company.

Roseanne and Jackie later worked at a diner.

Here was a TV Guide cover by Bruce Stark.