Editing Roseanne (section)

=== Season 1 ===
Roseanne ([[Roseanne Barr]]) is a line worker at Wellman Plastics, along with her sister Jackie ([[Laurie Metcalf]]) and friend Crystal ([[Natalie West]]). Jackie has a brief relationship with Booker ([[George Clooney]]), the foreman at Wellman. Roseanne's husband Dan ([[John Goodman]]) finds sporadic work as a construction contractor. Dan has a strained relationship with his divorced father, Ed ([[Ned Beatty]]), a traveling salesman who was often absent during Dan's childhood. Roseanne and Jackie's meddlesome parents Beverly ([[Estelle Parsons]]) and Al ([[John Randolph (actor)|John Randolph]]), consider moving to Lanford, panicking both sisters, although this is quickly dismissed as just an "idea".

Middle Conner child Darlene ([[Sara Gilbert]]), a tomboy, often struggles with her femininity as she enters puberty and gets her first period. Eldest child Becky ([[Lecy Goranson]]) faces dating problems with her first boyfriend Chip ([[Jared Rushton]]), who is introduced in the "Lover's Lane" episode. Youngest child David Jacob, known as "D.J.", has to work hard to be noticed amid all the family's activities. Season one also finds the Conners experiencing, and surviving, a tornado. In the "Death and Stuff" episode a door-to-door salesman dies in the Conners' kitchen, and in the season finale Roseanne stands up to the new abusive foreman ([[Fred Thompson]]) when she leads Jackie, Crystal, and other coworkers as they quit Wellman Plastics. D.J. is played by Sal Barone in the pilot episode, then by [[Michael Fishman]] for the remainder of the series. This season includes a running gag where the word "corn" is used in every episode.<ref name="mbc">{{cite web |url = http://www.museum.tv/eotv/roseanne.htm |title = Rosanne |publisher = [[Museum of Broadcast Communications]] }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title = Roseanne – The Complete First Season |publisher = [[DVD Talk]] |url = https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/17422/roseanne-the-complete-first-season |access-date = August 16, 2010 }}</ref>

Notable Season 1 guest stars include [[William Sadler (actor)|Bill Sadler]] as Dan's friend Dwight, [[Robert Harper (actor)|Robert Harper]] as Chip's father, Andrea Walters as Chip's mother, and [[J Anthony Crane|Tony Crane]] as Becky's love interest "The Tongue Bandit". Bill Pentland, Roseanne Barr's first husband, made a cameo as one of Dan's friends in the "Saturday" episode.