How can I find the transcript from the last episode of Roseanne?!


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How can I find the transcript from the last episode of Roseanne?

I am looking for the entire monalog that Roseanne gave in the final episode. She talked about how women should be strong and her depression when she was sitting in the basement. I am looking for the word-by-word version. If anyone can help me with a link or web address, I would appreciate it.


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The final episode ended on an unusual note, with a 15-minute closing monologue by Roseanne revealing that after she was given a writing room (referencing a story thread from a few seasons beforehand), the entire series was all story written by the character of Roseanne Conner and based on her family life and experiences, although the last season was totally fictional. She also revealed that whatever parts she hadn't liked about her real life, she'd changed in the story; for instance, it was her sister Jackie - not her mother Beverly - that had come out as a lesbian. Dan's "leaving" for another woman was also used to symbolize the pain Roseanne had felt when following his massive heart attack at the end of season eight. Dan had actually died. Thus, the ending scene of season eight at the moment when Dan opens his eyes in the hospital following his surgery and all the ninth season is fiction.

It was also revealed that, despite actually happening, Becky and Darlene eventually ended up with the opposite Healy brother (Becky with David, and Darlene with Mark).

It is also important to know that John Goodman, only appeared in 12 episodes, out of the 24 that were produced. [Episodes 1-4,12-14,18,19,22-24] However his voice is heard in episode 21.

The surrealism of season nine was explained as the "real" Roseanne Conner's way of dealing with the tragedy of Dan dying, which she snapped out of as a result of Darlene giving birth. The Conners' living room then returns to the way it was for the first eight seasons of the show, and Roseanne embarks on a career as a writer. The episode ends with a wide aerial shot of Roseanne sitting on the living room sofa, and text is displayed on the screen:

Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.

- T. E. Lawrence

The following comment comes directly from Roseanne Barr herself. On December 23, 2006, she reportedly posted this on the message board of her website:

"Thanks to Dan Kelly, I was able to revisit the last episode of my show, where Roseanne reveals that writing is what she used to survive depressing times. The Roseanne sitcom was based on my real life, I was suicidal and broken when I gathered all that was left of myself and wrote five minutes of jokes, which became an act, and ultimately the Roseanne show. As we leave our protagonist in her living room, completion of her book just managed, she will have a quiet moment alone to think, before she throws the windows and the doors open and steps out into the world to make feminist television history, much as I did."


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