Roseanne

About

As of 2026, it's 38 years old.

Roseanne was the antidote to the glossy, perfect TV family — a loud, funny, working-class household where the couch was lumpy, the jobs were precarious, and the jokes had a real bite. It put a kind of family rarely centered on network TV front and center and made it a massive hit.

Sharp and unsentimental, it tackled money, weight, and work with a bluntness most sitcoms avoided, anchored by Roseanne Barr and John Goodman's lived-in chemistry.

Honest, funny, and refreshingly un-glamorous, Roseanne is the sitcom that found huge laughs in the realities most shows were too polished to show.

Roseanne season by season

Roseanne ran for 10 seasons (1988–2018) across 231 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.