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Roseanne’s Halloween DVD YES YES!

I think I've found the greatest DVD in history, and I am absolutely serious. Then again, I thought the same thing last year when The He-Man & She-Ra Christmas special came out. And then even just a short while back when The Wizard nailed a release. Still, this may top 'em all:


Awwww fuck yeah, a DVD containing each and every Halloween episode of Roseanne. Now, I love the show, but I realize that this is not an opinion shared universally. Between off-screen antics and a final season that can be held accountable for at least forty suicide cases, I understand that Roseanne is an object of polarization among would-be critics. On the other hand, nobody could argue that the show wasn't the very best sitcom in history as far as Halloween episodes went. From Darlene sprouting a fleshy alien through her belly to Dan dressing as a kind of Jason/Leatherface hybrid, all seven Roseyweens are here, and the star even provides audio commentary as a bonus feature.

I'll hold off on a more in-depth look until the Halloween Countdown rolls around, but just know that the DVD is out now and dirt cheap. It's easy to spot, too, since few other DVD boxes feature anything that looks like a pumpkin with Roseanne's face carved into it.

I wasn't expecting to post twice today, so let's consider today's earlier post the Saturday Day Thread, and this one the Saturday Night Thread. Even though I'm posting this in the afternoon. Yeah.

Posted by Matt on 09/02/2006. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 82 comments

I agree the Simpson’s is still a funny show, but not the Treehouse of horros any more. They’ve been painful to watch for quite some time now.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 09/02/2006 7:41 PM

Invader Norbert, the last time I went to Great Escape, it was awesome. I think. I don’t really remember it. :\

Chestnuts roasted by Denise @ 09/02/2006 7:43 PM

I like Roseanne because it makes me feel better about being poor middle-class white trash.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 09/02/2006 8:00 PM

Kid Nicky, yeah, I thought about that and that is probably the reason. (Man, I am agreeing with you a lot lately).
That still doesn’t really satisfy though. Yeah there is a lot of Simpsons stuff out there but I still wouldn’t mind an X-E take on some piece of Simpsonmania or whatever. (p.s. please don’t take this as a whine or complaint. Just happy to be on the team, boss)

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 09/02/2006 8:30 PM

This Rosanne thing I saw just last night. It goes firmly into my “things that I want desperately and would give a testicle to own if they made it but no one will ever make it and I’m a raving looney for wanting it, but fuck off it’s an awesome idea that nobody understands” catagorey.

I’ve loved the Roseanne halloween episodes and I’ve been wanting this for years.

The first thing I thought and am a little ashamed to admit cause they weren’t nearly as good but were still pretty damn good when I saw this in the store was “maybe they will do Home Improvement Halloween collection if this does well.”

Not really, the first thing I thought was “YES, I cannot belive this is a world where my such specific whims are eventually being catered to.” But I thought the Home Improvement thing second.

I remember fondly when Simpsons Halloween and Roseanne Halloween were together more or less. that was always my nearly favourite week of October.

Back when Simpsons were good Halloween episodes. Back when they were Halloweeny, not just weird or killed people, but HALLOWEENY, and in OCTOBER!

I don’t know about all of you, but I’ve been getting “Halloween” Simpsons in November. I don’t even want to get started on that.

But I will say what the Fuck with SImpsons Halloween Collections? I’ve been waiting for that for years, no brainer, but they’ve only done this really cool looking VHS box set that is very cool halloweeny but only two Treehouse of Horrors out of six and the DVD with a slightly random mix of Halloween episodes, which I am thankful fore. But Give me ALL OF EM.

Anyway, I’m pleased beyond description about Roseanne halloween episode collection. THere is absolutely no way we types of people are so numerous to warrent this, but fuck the odds, I’m ecxstatic.

Oh, and I’m getting my job at a halloween store back. I love my resume: I show them my jack o’lantern tattoo on my wrist and say “when do I start?” It has begun.

Chestnuts roasted by spooky @ 09/02/2006 9:15 PM

Spooky: Is it a regular happy jack-o’lantern or an evil one?

Chestnuts roasted by Phil G. @ 09/02/2006 9:20 PM

Oh, Mystie, I completely agree about Roseanne. ;)

Chestnuts roasted by Denise @ 09/02/2006 9:29 PM

I just gotta say, my favorite Rosanne costume had to be the ventriloquest and dummy. That was just awesome.

Chestnuts roasted by Ronald MacKinnon @ 09/02/2006 10:12 PM

Just as I was reading this, nickelodeon went from Sponge Bob to Roseanne. Crazy. And it’s the episode where she starts writing as a birthday present. I really didn’t enjoy when they won the lottery and I like to pretend the last episode never happened. Not that that makes me original. Y’know, thay made a Sponge Bob Halloween DVD, we have that one.
Today it was chilly here and when I got home today, I could smell a fireplace. It made me want one so badly. I went to Yankee Candle Co. today to stock up on fall candles. Lucky me they were having a sale. I got Gingerbread Maple, Cranberry Chutney, Pumpkin Spice, Pumpkin Pie, Vanilla Oak, and …..the new one Autumn Leaves. It is SO good. They nailed it. They also had a Halloween one that was Candy scented, and pretty good smelling, but they only had it in the big twenty dollar jars, and the small ones were on sale. I frickin’ love candles. I also love hearing everyone elses anticipations for the upcoming seasons.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 09/02/2006 10:16 PM

I’m eating candy, listening to the XE Halloween jukebox and reading Madd Matt articles.

Hurricane leftovers are lame. Holla.

Chestnuts roasted by Hey I'm Jeff @ 09/02/2006 10:17 PM

Add me to the total victims of a Halloween-less Target. We should have just gone to the mall where the cool kids go.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 09/02/2006 10:30 PM

Damn Matt,

The ticket stub of Dracula’s Castle on the trapper keeper makes me very sad.. : ( im sure it makes you sad too.

Good tribute though. just very very sad.

Im happy though because this year, at the NYS fair on the midway, they got a new dark ride, with brand new stunts, pretty good stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by Don @ 09/02/2006 10:38 PM

Add me to the list of people with Targets lacking Halloween goodness yet. I was so excited as I made my way to the seasonal aisles, only to see the familiar signs telling me stuff will be there soon. So depressing!

Chestnuts roasted by Christine @ 09/02/2006 11:01 PM

Yaaaaaaaay my first Saturday night thingy! Wooooo!! Ok, I

Chestnuts roasted by c0rp0rate Z0mb1e @ 09/02/2006 11:03 PM

WHY does this site HATE ME? It just totally ate the paragraph+ I spent all of 6 minutes typing! First it negates my very existence, and now this?! :’(

Chestnuts roasted by c0rp0rate Z0mb1e @ 09/02/2006 11:08 PM

This site hates a lot of people. Try not to take it too personally.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 09/02/2006 11:15 PM

I suppose I’ll get used to it… anyways, my first post on this thread addressed 2 key points… #1 that I totally attended a laborday picnic thing (even though it rained) at my boyfreind’s dad’s house in a halloween babydoll shirt bought post season last year at Target (they kick ass for their halloween stuff – I used to have this AWESOME display of a holographic vampire from Halloween a few years back that a freind who worked there got me) and a day glo orange zip up hoody, also a target original…
And #2 that I would give my right eyeball, or most anything else, for that matter, for the stickery thing of the zombie on the enhanced halloweenified blog page preview… that thing would make a KILLER necklace… I have a penchant for turning things into necklaces…

Chestnuts roasted by c0rp0rate Z0mb1e @ 09/02/2006 11:21 PM

Damn I love this site…

Rosanne is really hit and miss with me, but I’m a halloween nut, so it’s great to see this…

Random question…

Anyone remember a horror classics playset, that included a few figures (semi bendable I believe)…

The playset was cardboard I think… I vaguely remember dracula being a definite in the set. It had to be during the 80s…

Chestnuts roasted by Squidboy @ 09/02/2006 11:31 PM

When I was 5 or 6 (so ’88 or 89) I was OBSESSED with Dracula, and I DO remember a horror classics playset… not sure if it is the same one you reference, tho… this one was a single peice of cardboard that opened to fold out like a pop-up book, and my figs WEREN’T bendable AT ALL… I distinctly remember that irking me something FEIRCE…. the only thing that moved were the arms, and only at the shoulder… but I know they stood about 12 inches… Ol’ Drac was just the right size to bite the necks of all the barbies my parents kept buying me for some damned reason…

Chestnuts roasted by c0rp0rate Z0mb1e @ 09/02/2006 11:40 PM

If you plan on writing a long post, I suggest typing it out in Word, Wordpad, Notepad or whatever first, and copy paste it into here, just in case something goes awry.

Okay, we took a trip to a second Target over in Jersey tonight, and…what a Hallo haul we had. :0

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/02/2006 11:52 PM

So I’m around alot, but hardly ever for the SNT. Does anyone ever mix candy corn and peanuts? I asked earlier, but just silence…..

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 09/02/2006 11:55 PM

Also, mix it, eat it, dance around in joy. Candy Corn + Peanuts = Awesome. Peanuts with the red skins on them work best too.

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 09/02/2006 11:56 PM

I had to fucking work all night or I would’ve been at Target. I plan to go tomorrow, though. I was out there Wednesday night, and they only had some bins set up for the candy, but that’s all! :( I was so sad… They better have more tomorrow – I know they had an immense amount of empty shelves, and I can’t see them leaving all that open space for so long. Managers go insane over that kind of stuff.

I loved Roseanne, too. My family used to call me Darlene, because my personality matched hers so well. Had a little crush on David, too. :P

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 09/02/2006 11:58 PM

Right on Ryane, what was it about David? For me it was the hair. Something about the 90′s and guys with long hair.

Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 09/03/2006 12:03 AM

hehe, yeah I meant to add, for c0rp0rate Z0mb1e: It’s good to get into the habit of copying and pasting before you post here. I know there’s nothing worse than losing all those words in one second. :(

Fox: Sorry, I always hated Candy Corn. But, I can’t eat it even if I wanted to – it has gelatin in it, and I’m a vegan. And, I’m having a hard time remembering what Candy Corn tasted like, to see if it would’ve been a good combo or not. :\ Sorry!

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 09/03/2006 12:04 AM

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