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* [[A-Cup Angst]]: Jackie's small breasts are a source of embarrassment to her. Doesn't help that Roseanne teases her about them, and a woman at the health spa in season 9 says they're "much too small for her body".▼
* [[Absurdly Bright Light]]: one Christmas, Roseanne and co. defy their POA with a light display designed for this. (They wear sunglasses to turn it on.) We don't see the display, but we do see that it does indeed create absurdly bright light.
* [[Abusive Parents]]: Mark and David's mother, especially to poor David. Roseanne's father was physically abusive to his daughters. Dan's mother was also (literally) insane, and his father was a traveling salesman who was rarely home. You'd have an easier time finding parents who ''aren't'' abusive on this show; even Roseanne herself has an episode where, in a fit of anger, she strikes DJ, and then panics over it because she very badly doesn't want to be the kind of parent her father was.
▲* [[A-Cup Angst]]: Jackie's small breasts are a source of embarrassment to her. Doesn't help that Roseanne teases her about them, and a woman at the health spa in season 9 says they're "much too small for her body".
* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: There was an entire episode dealing with the fact that DJ was going through puberty and had locked himself inside their bathroom to masturbate for hours on end. In another later episode, after his girlfriend leaves, he looks down at his dad's photo of Julie Newmar in his hand, then [[Aside Glance|gives the cameras a naughty look]] and rushes to his room.▼
* [[Actually Pretty Funny]]: “Crime and Punishment”… Roseanne thought the comics Darlene created was funny, in her words.
{{Quote| '''Roseanne''': Finally Darlene’s personality pays off.}}
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Becky. Not just marrying Mark, but in the first season she cheated on her boyfriend with a leather-clad stud. Roseanne and Dan's early relationship was apparently built on this as well.
* [[Anything That Moves]]: Nancy. After coming out as a lesbian, she would occasionally casually say, "Ugh, I'm so fed up with women. I'm gonna go back to men this week."
* [[A Nazi by Any Other Name]]: Edelweiss Gardens (although it certainly fits other creepy brainwashing cult tropes). German, employs a vast a majority of blonds fitting the Aryan phenotype, one of the employees even makes a one-handed salute that, apart from a closed fist, is disturbingly reminiscent of the Nazi salute? Yeah. Roseanne even says, "Today, it's "Hi, I'm Hans the Hare", tomorrow it's ''"I was only following orders"''."▼
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: An inversion in the context of the episode. In one, Jackie is upset that she's done something she regrets. To try to get her to open up and tell them, everybody else starts talking about bad things they've done. They're all very forgiving when Roseanne mentions pledging (but never donating) a huge amount of money to a telethon just to hear Jerry Lewis say her name on TV and when Bonnie reveals she and her husband once robbed a liquor store. However, when Jackie announces that she slept with Arnie, everybody else is disgusted and outraged (apparently in high school, they all took a blood oath and promised he would never be allowed to breed.) In fact, when Roseanne realizes, "She will forever be known as the woman whose sister slept with Arnie," everybody ignored Jackie and starts to comfort ''Roseanne.'' Sleeping with Arnie was just that unforgivable.
** The list of complaints lobbied against her former husband by Bev goes from jaywalking back to arson: "He was rude to my children, cheated on me, had horrible table manners and made me drive an old car with bald tires!"
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* [[The Couch]]
* [[Creepy Child]]: D.J. "Barbie Killer" Conner.
▲* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: There was an entire episode dealing with the fact that DJ was going through puberty and had locked himself inside their bathroom to masturbate for hours on end. In another later episode, after his girlfriend leaves, he looks down at his dad's photo of Julie Newmar in his hand, then [[Aside Glance|gives the cameras a naughty look]] and rushes to his room.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: After puberty, Darlene goes from a tomboy to this. Pretty much everyone in the family cracks wise, though.
** D.J. slips into this toward the end of the series.
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** This is [[Lampshaded]] right after Becky and Mark get married. David says to Mark, "Thanks to you, I'm now related to my girlfriend."
* [[The Dutiful Son]]: Charlotte is the Tildens' dutiful daughter: she's easygoing to the point of being a doormat and does all the cooking and housework while Molly runs around being a wild child.
* [[Extreme Doormat]]: Charlotte, see above. There was one time when she was locked out of her house and was planning to stand outside in the rain for hours instead of being able to muster up the courage to ask Roseanne if she could stay at their house.▼
* [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]]: Young George Clooney.
▲* [[Extreme Doormat]]: Charlotte, see above. There was one time when she was locked out of her house and was planning to stand outside in the rain for hours instead of being able to muster up the courage to ask Roseanne if she could stay at their house.
* [[Fake Guest Star]]: ''Roseanne'' in its nine years never ''added'' actors to the main billing whose characters were newly introduced. The only character who was dropped from actor billing was Crystal after she stopped appearing, but numerous other characters were introduced who became indispensable to the show's plot, particularly Bev, David, Jerry, Leon, Mark, Nancy, and Scott. However, none of their actors ever got more than a guest credit, as the main billing became strictly limited to the fictional immediate family (minus Jerry, who was born later) and Jackie.
* [[Five-Man Band]]
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* [[Informed Flaw]]: Dan despises his dad and repeatedly explains that he is a horrible person. Every time he's shown, though, he is wonderful and kind to the entire cast, and never once, not even to his new wife, does he seem bad. This was on purpose, and not played for laughs.
** His onscreen behavior was the biggest part of Dan's loathing. His complaint was that his father was ''always'' gone and put work before his family. His doting father "routine" when he was around was, in Dan's mind, one big cover for the fact that he didn't give a crap about his family and would buy them off with gifts in the minimal time he spent with them.
* [[Invisible to Gaydar]]: Both Leon and Nancy, and almost anyone each of them was paired with. ''Roseanne'' played this trope straight regularly before many other shows did.▼
* [[Jail Bake]]: The morning after Dan beats up Fisher and spends the night in jail, Crystal comes over and gives him a cupcake with a nail file baked inside it.
* [[Jerkass]]: Roseanne; Darlene and Becky (to a less extent when compared to their mother)
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* [[Moebius Neighborhood]]: The neighborhood's geometry is extremely vague, and the Conners deal with arriving, recurring, and departing neighbors, but never more than one family at a time.
* [[Monochrome Casting]]: Especially blatant in a series that supposedly focused on the working-class income bracket.
▲* [[A Nazi by Any Other Name]]: Edelweiss Gardens (although it certainly fits other creepy brainwashing cult tropes). German, employs a vast a majority of blonds fitting the Aryan phenotype, one of the employees even makes a one-handed salute that, apart from a closed fist, is disturbingly reminiscent of the Nazi salute? Yeah. Roseanne even says, "Today, it's "Hi, I'm Hans the Hare", tomorrow it's ''"I was only following orders"''."
* [[Nested Story Reveal]]: {{spoiler|In the season 2 finale, Dan builds Roseanne an office in which she can realize her dream of becoming a writer. In the final episode, it's revealed that the entire series has been based on a semi-autobiographical story she's been writing in the office. In the story, [[Fix Fic|she's changed a number of details about her life that she didn't like]], while in reality, Dan actually died from his heart attack during Darlene's wedding; Darlene actually married Mark, while Becky married David; her sister, rather than her mother, was a lesbian; and Roseanne didn't win the lottery.}} This is seen by some fans as brilliant, but by others as a desperate attempt at a [[Retcon]] to justify some of the series' poorly-received plot lines (particularly in latter seasons). So it's not entirely played straight, but [[Not a Subversion]] either.
* [[Nobody Poops]]: Completely averted. Roseanne probably had one of the most visible bathrooms on television. Characters were shown in the tub, dyeing their hair, getting high, brushing teeth, and even taking a pregnancy test. An entire episode focused around D.J.'s new-found [[A Date with Rosie Palms|love of the bathroom]].
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** In the series finale, Glenn Quinn's normal Irish accent slips out slightly.
* [[Out of Focus]]: An in-universe example. While not an Unfavorite, DJ was often forgotten about by both his parents and the writers because he kept to himself while his sisters caused endless grief and drama. One episode had him totally silent for almost the entire thing, but then ended with him telling his horrified parents he'd gone three days without speaking and they hadn't even noticed.
* [[Overprotective Dad]]: Guess.▼
* [[Playing Gertrude]]: The math on Bev and Nana Mary's ages is a little hazy, but Shelly Winters is only seven years older than Estelle Parsons.
* [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]]: In one episode, Roseanne is in New York and meets the women of ''[[Absolutely Fabulous]].'' It didn't really seem to be a pilot, until you realize that Roseanne was attempting to produce an American version of the show. It then seems like she brought over the ''Ab Fab'' ladies to see if their British style of comedy would fly in America.
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** This was also due to Arnold getting his own short-lived series.
** [[The Bus Came Back]]: Arnold's character returned in one episode to try to patch things up with Nancy, claiming his alien story was him panicking at being married. The end, however, reveals he was abducted by aliens and was trying to get Nancy to go back with him.
▲* [[Overprotective Dad]]: Guess.
* [[Rags to Riches]]: In the ninth and final season, the Conners win a multimillion-dollar lottery jackpot. {{spoiler|Only to be retconned at the last episode where it's revealed Roseanne's just writing all of the season as a way to deal with the loss of Dan.}}
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: In a symbolic sense, the final season. Since the show was a reflection of Roseanne's real life, they needed to create a rags to riches plot to reflect Roseanne achieving success as a stand-up comic. That's where winning the lottery came from.
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'''Dan''': Darlene is repeating everything D.J. says a second before he says it.
'''Roseanne''': ''(to Darlene)'' Don't be so childish! }}
▲* [[Invisible to Gaydar]]: Both Leon and Nancy, and almost anyone each of them was paired with. ''Roseanne'' played this trope straight regularly before many other shows did.
* [[Sweeps Week Lesbian Kiss]]: Roseanne making out with bisexual Nancy's girlfriend. [[Moral Guardians]] were ''furious!''
* [[The Talk]]: Subverted. Roseanne and Dan are preparing themselves to give this to Becky, when they discover that ''Darlene'' actually needs it more.▼
** Another version of Type 1 occurs with DJ, when he was beginning to get erections in class. Roseanne, who doesn't trust Dan to do this right, decides to try and tell DJ that awkward moments happen to everybody, and tells the story of her first period. This sends DJ screaming from the room. When Dan stops him and tells him that he shouldn't run from the room, DJ says it's about her period, and Dan simply says "As you were."▼
* [[Take That]]: When Disney purchased ABC all their shows were forced to do a Disneyworld episode, Roseanne obviously didn't enjoy having to make a two-episode Disney World commercial, so in the very next episode they turned around and created an elaborate slam against Disney for being forced to do so (including mocking their treatment of employees), and made it's mascot a rabbit as a way to cover their butts if they get called out on it.
** The [[The Other Darrin]] gag in that episode was worth it.
{{quote|''Becky (Chalke)'': I always wanted to go to Disney World!
''Roseanne'': Aren't you glad you were here this week? }}
▲* [[The Talk]]: Subverted. Roseanne and Dan are preparing themselves to give this to Becky, when they discover that ''Darlene'' actually needs it more.
▲** Another version of Type 1 occurs with DJ, when he was beginning to get erections in class. Roseanne, who doesn't trust Dan to do this right, decides to try and tell DJ that awkward moments happen to everybody, and tells the story of her first period. This sends DJ screaming from the room. When Dan stops him and tells him that he shouldn't run from the room, DJ says it's about her period, and Dan simply says "As you were."
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Sort of, it seems like for the first few seasons, the Connor family lived on Roseanne's notorious meatloaf.
* [[Tranquil Fury]]: If Dan's hollering and yelling, he's just blowing off steam. But when he gets quiet, ''run''.
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