Roseanne - Season 2 (1989)

An emotionally-needy architect at Dan's new job site adopts the Conners as a surrogate family much to their terror.

Roseanne feels the empty nest syndrome when Jackie leaves for police training and Darlene goes to her first party.

Roseanne is perturbed when a friend of Dan's plants a passionate kiss on her during Dan's weekly poker night with his buddies. The first appearance of Tom Arnold as Arnie.

The first of the annual Halloween episodes finds Roseanne doing her best to scare Dan who is waiting to hear about an important business deal going through.

Ten minutes alone in the bathtub is all Roseanne wants, and when she doesn't get it, her fantasies take hold for thirty wild and musical minutes.

Thanksgiving at the Conners' brings the usual family strife and hilarity as Roseanne is determined to make her parents stay at a motel and Jackie continues to hide the fact she joined the police.

Roseanne is ecstatic when Darlene is asked to read her poem for her school's recital, but Darlene refuses to do it.

Working two jobs, Roseanne finds she and Dan are drifting apart and turns to Jackie for support.

Roseanne gets the silent treatment after clashing with Becky when she becomes the teenage daughter from hell.

Roseanne lands a job at a chicken restaurant, with a total dweeb for a supervisor. He wants her to work weekends, which she is unable to do, so she invites the boy to dinner and gets Dan to help him assemble his carburetor for school. But will the kindness pay off in the end?

Becky and her friend make "tornadoes": a combination of several liquors they find in the liquor cabinet, topped off with a splash of root beer.

Jackie plays happy homemaker with Dan and the kids when Roseanne is called away for three days for a family emergency.

In his first appearance, Dan and Roseanne's old friend Ziggy returns for a visit, prompting the Conners to wonder what happened to themselves and when they became "old".

Roseanne feels she's sunk to an all-time low when she gets a job sweeping up hair at a hair salon.

Determined to squeeze back into an old pair of jeans, Roseanne commits herself (and Dan, much to his horror) to yet another dieting spree.

Roseanne's meddling in Jackie's life explodes in her face.

Jackie gives Roseanne the silent treatment after she's had enough of her interfering in her love life.

Roseanne and Dan contemplate a lawsuit after Mrs. Wellman rear-ends Roseanne in her car.

The countdown to the deadline for filing their tax returns finds Dan and Roseanne running around in circles trying to get it done in time.

Convinced that Dan and Becky's relationship needs some maintenance, Roseanne forces him to accompany Becky to the mall as she tries to bond with Darlene.

For Roseanne's birthday, Dan fixes up the basement as a space for her to write and takes the kids away for the day. Roseanne is ecstatic...and then stricken with writer's block.