Roseanne/Tear Jerker

Roseanne has a few emotional scenes, but the one that truly qualifies at tearjerker is the final episode. In the end Roseanne confesses that all of the events since Dan's heart attack were made up. In fact, Dan died that day. The final shot shows an apathetic looking Roseanne sitting in front of the tv, eating chips, indicating that she might have lost her lust for life. Thus the series ends on a bitter note.
- If you take that scene along with the voice-over right before, it sounds like she only briefly gave into food and depression, but got out of her funk and chose to be alive when Darlene's baby was premature, making that last scene on the couch more of a Bittersweet Ending.
The episode around the birth of Darlene's baby, but especially the scene when all the Conner/Harris women gather to take her off life support, and Darlene breaks down. Both Sara Gilbert and Johnny Galecki pull out all their acting chops.
The scene in the fifth season, after Dan gets home from jail and Jackie calls him out for beating up Fisher. It's both hilarious and tear-jerking, especially Jackie says Roseanne's always helping her with her problems, then Dan responds "It's a big job, we had to expand the department."

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