back when i was in college, i was friends/used to have an abnormal obsession with this guy named andrew (leanne "lovingly" referred to him as "skanky", and i still refer to him as skanky to this day). skanky and i had a weird friendship at best. it started out as an online flirtation that morphed into a i liked him/he thought i was cute but he was still stuck on his ex thing. blah blah blah.
one thing we agreed on was our love of roseanne. although we loved it for completely different reasons. skanky said he loved/hated roseanne because it reminded him so much of his family life. i had a hard time believing this because 1) he was an army brat, 2) he hated his parents, and 3) i would've killed for a family like the one on roseanne.
i loved roseanne because even though the family was a little dysfunctional, there was still all the love. no matter how much roseanne berated her kids or husband or sister or mother, those instances were tripled with her mentions of her love towards them. and i think that's what i loved about it, because in my family, it was like every 10 beratings was followed by a third of an admission of possible love.
the family on roseanne? i would've killed for that. my sister and i almost have a roseanne relationship, but it's changed a lot since she's become a mother. it used to be that we could rely on each other occasionally, but could always rely on each other against our parents. i was even comfortable enough to actually come out to her several years back. but ever since she became a mom, it's been different. she turns to our parents for advice. she defends our parents to me. it's almost like we didn't grow up together.
things i wished i had that were prevalent on roseanne:
1. that whenever i stood up for my principles, even if they were stupid, my parents would support me.
2. a relationship with my sister that's kind of like that relationship jackie and roseanne had in respect to growing up in their family; like they were both soldiers that survived the same war.
3. that glenn quinn were still alive.
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1. doyle! i heart doyle.
2. i had SUCH a crush on johnny galecki. i used to watch it and think that darlene was soooooo lucky.
3. except i had to watch it in secret because my parents didn't allow me to watch it. i think they found roseanne too shrill. can you imagine?
4. if you were a connor, roseanne would never let you buy any threadless shirts.
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