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July 29, 2005
Add Blues Harmonica...
The Roseanne cast reunited in a bowling alley to celebrate the release of the first season on DVD. Think back, you remember Roseanne Barr Arnold Thomas Barr Spielberg. And her husband, Walter, whose resounding cries of "Shut the Fuck Up, Donny!" kept us in stiches for twenty years at ABC. Wasn't that made into a T-Shirt, along with "Eat My Shorts" and Ross Perot's pie chart?
The late eighties and the early ninties... the era of big Hammer pants is over, my friend. We cry.
They are also releasing "A Different World" to DVD. My question is why. We cry.
Back to RBATBS, our "domestic goddess" before Martha Stewart turned the phrase into something blond, thin and felonious. (And before America turned blond, thin and felonious as well.) This was a great television show, a great, great television show. Funny and cutting. Truthful and painful. Until the last season, where we collectively gasped and fainted at how horrible something could become so quickly. That was until "The West Wing." But even that doesn't have Donna winning the lottery... yet.
The Connor family... welcome to DVD land. May you not make the two-sided disc mistake of the afore mentioned "West Wing." I will not be purchasing the first season, but I will probably have to buy the season where you lost the bike shop, the daughter and the electricity. As RBATBS so deliciously put it,
"Well, middle class was funnn!"
It was, indeed.
Posted by emily at July 29, 2005 10:24 PM