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The show portrayed a working-class family living in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois, struggling to get by on a limited income. It was considered the most socially ground-breaking sitcom in generations, as it was the first situational comedy that realistically identified with what most Americans already had been doing for decades: it showed both parents of a traditional family working out of the house.[1] For many years, Roseanne was, in contrast to many of the most popular shows at the time, tackling subjects such as poverty, alcoholism, narcotics, sex, first menstrual periods, masturbation, obesity, feminism, domestic violence, and homosexuality. Another important theme was Roseanne's dominance in raising her children and husband Dan (John Goodman) joking that his wife "wore the pants" in the family, but deep down inside loving her as she is.

Roseanne was a breakthrough for women because it was one of the first shows to put an overweight, dominant, yet smart woman as the lead role. It also showed women sticking by each other and speaking their minds without being "punished" in some way.

The show was hugely successful from its beginning, spending its first six seasons in the top five of the Nielsen ratings and inspiring a rash of stand-ups getting their own sitcom deals, a practice that continued for years afterwards. During the seventh season the show dropped some in ratings, but still managed to stay in the top 10 of the Nielsen ratings. However, during its ninth, and final season, the show's ratings dropped considerably and drifted away from its original storyline and had fallen out of the top thirty

• Roseanne Barr's Official Web-Site
• Encyclopedia of Television
• Nick At Nite's Roseanne

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