Editing Roseanne (section)

=== Season 5 ===
After Dan's bike shop closes, Mark accepts a job in [[Minnesota]]. Becky secretly decides to go with him, and they elope. Jackie and Roseanne each receive $10,000 from their mother, Bev, after she divorces their father. They, along with Nancy, decide to open a diner but can only get the additional money they need from Bev, who becomes a partner. Nancy comes out as a lesbian. The Tildens, a single father, and his two teen daughters ([[Wings Hauser]], [[Mara Hobel]], [[Danielle Harris]]), move in next door. Jackie dates Fisher ([[Matt Roth (actor)|Matt Roth]]), a much younger man she quickly moves in with. When Roseanne discovers Fisher physically abused Jackie, Dan beats him up (never shown onscreen) and is arrested. Roseanne and Jackie's father dies, and Roseanne confronts his longtime secret mistress only to discover her father blamed his daughters for his abusive behavior. Roseanne's rich, estranged cousin Ronnie ([[Joan Collins]]) visits and encourages Darlene to get her [[General Educational Development|GED]] and apply to arts colleges. David applies as well. Darlene wants David to move in when his mother is moving to a new town. Roseanne and Dan initially refuse, but Roseanne relents after witnessing Mrs. Healey's abusive behavior, a decision partially based on her own father's abusiveness. Roger (Tim Curry) recruits Dan to renovate and sell a small [[fixer-upper]] house, then skips town, leaving Dan with a looming debt; Jackie buys the house, saving the Conners from financial ruin. David is rejected from the Chicago arts college that he and Darlene applied to, while Darlene is accepted. Roseanne refuses to let Darlene attend before finishing high school. She fears Darlene might run away to Chicago, but Darlene decides to decline because David was rejected. Roseanne wants Darlene to go after learning David threatened to break up, though Darlene's real reason is fear she will fail.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Roseanne – The Complete Fifth Season|publisher=DVD Talk|url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/23884/roseanne-the-complete-fifth-season|access-date=August 16, 2010 }}</ref> During this season, there is a running gag in which each of the Conners (save Becky) appears in a different scene in the same long-sleeved, egg-printed shirt with a large chicken on the front.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}

Notable guest stars during the season include [[Wings Hauser]] as Ty Tilden, [[Danielle Harris]] as Molly Tilden, [[Mara Hobel]] as Charlotte Tilden, [[Loretta Lynn]] as herself, [[Morgan Fairchild]] as Nancy's girlfriend Marla, [[Bill Maher]] as Bob, [[Ed Begley Jr.]] as Principal Alexander, [[Blake Clark]] as Vic, [[Red Buttons]] as Bev's lover Jake, [[Sally Kirkland]] as Mark and David's mother Barbara, [[Tim Curry]] as Nancy's lover Roger, [[Joseph Gordon-Levitt]] as DJ's annoying wannabe friend George, [[Joan Collins]] as Roseanne and Jackie's cousin Ronnie, [[Matt Roth (actor)|Matt Roth]] as Jackie's boyfriend Fisher, [[Steve Jones (musician)|Steve Jones]] as a threatening diner patron, and in a very brief cameo, [[Chris Farley]] as a customer trying on a too-small leather jacket.