The Roseanne episode at WDW

SpectroPhoenix

SpectroPhoenix

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The Full House episodes are especially great since the voice actor for Aladdin, Scott Weinger, plays the character of Steve, and at one point DJ sees him dressed as Aladdin in the parade!

I remember being really confused with where Michelle's private Alice in Wonderland tea party takes place.

But still, the Boy Meets World episodes are the best, not only because it's a great show, but they highlight EPCOT a lot and end with a kiss in front of the fountain :sohappy:
 
JIMINYCR

JIMINYCR

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Can't be the Contemporary. They never had bell hops dressed up in the corny bell hop costumes, carry luggage into the rooms. Also the bell hop isn't wearing a CM badge.
 
NEmickeyfan

NEmickeyfan

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Think you folks are over thinking this. The only thing you see at the hotel is the outside and inside the room. When they open the drapes, you never see what they are looking at outside the window. For filming purposes, they could have used ANY hotel....and their plan worked as many thought it was at WDW.
 
MAF

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Kamikaze said:
FTFY.

To answer the question - Roseanne was an awful, awful show. Every episode.



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Sorry but the first three or four seasons were amazing. Anyone who would say "every episode" was awful has probably never seen even a single one.
 
slappy magoo

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MAF said:
Sorry but the first three or four seasons were amazing. Anyone who would say "every episode" was awful has probably never seen even a single one.
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Agreed. it certainly didn't maintain its quality over the years, but the first few seasons were very...VERY good. I find most people that didn't like it just didn't like Roseanne and were less inclined to give the show a chance as a result. And in a way I can't blame them - she thrived on being a controversial divisive figure - but there was some excellent slice-of-life writing on that show, often referred to, like The Simpsons, as the anti-Cosby Show. But when they didn't go off the rails, Roseanne had some brutally funny but honest episodes based on what it was like to live in a dwindling lower-middle-class America, paralleling the 90s recession and the slow build back, sibling rivalries and unexpected crises. It was Good Times 2.0, another show that started strong before getting more erratic and silly and preachy.
 
mp2bill

mp2bill

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MAF said:
Did anyone else think the episode where the cast of Roseanne went to WDW was not good? I just watched it yesterday on Netflix and I thought it was pretty awful. It was a two-parter and they only show them in the parks for barely one episode. Also they didn't stay in a Disney hotel. I don't know, there could have been so much potential, but it seems like they didn't really do anything with it. Anyone else not like this ep? :shrug:
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It's Roseanne. The show as a whole was pretty awful.
 
backinaction

backinaction

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the picture of the hotel they were staying in does look an awful lot like the contemporary. In the family matters episode they stayed at the wilderness lodge. My favorite episode tho is the step by step one. Classic lines " hi my name is JT disney" and i like when they showed what pleasure island looked like when it first opened.
 
Wilt Dasney

Wilt Dasney

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slappy magoo said:
Agreed. it certainly didn't maintain its quality over the years, but the first few seasons were very...VERY good. I find most people that didn't like it just didn't like Roseanne and were less inclined to give the show a chance as a result. And in a way I can't blame them - she thrived on being a controversial divisive figure - but there was some excellent slice-of-life writing on that show, often referred to, like The Simpsons, as the anti-Cosby Show. But when they didn't go off the rails, Roseanne had some brutally funny but honest episodes based on what it was like to live in a dwindling lower-middle-class America, paralleling the 90s recession and the slow build back, sibling rivalries and unexpected crises. It was Good Times 2.0, another show that started strong before getting more erratic and silly and preachy.
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Agreed to all this. And John Goodman really made that show. He embodied Dan so convincingly, and just had a tremendous sense of comic timing. His character knew when to give space to Roseanne without being whipped. Easily my favorite part of the show.

As for the Disney episode...eh, it had its moments but just felt kind of forced to me. The tenor of that show was so opposed to the glazed smiles Disney puts out, and a lot of the humor came from the conflict between them. Some of it worked (Roseanne vs. the Disney manager, Dan's quest for beer), and some of it just felt lame (Darlene melting around Pooh).
 
AEfx

AEfx

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unkadug said:
Jackie does look out the window and comment's on Walts's vision of the orange groves becoming the castle and something about ample parking and convenient shuttle service.

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Haha yup. :)

That's why I really like this episode.

It's only technically one episode at WDW, though it was part of a two-part story.

I love seeing it whenever it is on - the scene with Roseanne and Jackie in front of the castle learning "Disney Speak" from the guide, haha.

Like most shows at the time, they certainly aren't real tours of the parks - but to be honest I think Roseanne has the best WDW-episode, followed by Step by Step (which was only marred by the fact that the main storyline was about a "friend" who visits with them and not an actual cast member of the show).
 
JafarMaleficent

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A little off topic. But not too much. In the step by step episode at disney which wasn't that great in my opinion. They showed the neon armadillo in pleasure island did that exist? And is the record flash is trying to break real? I'm sure its not but if it is I want to break it lol. And also where is panitti's?
 
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Wilt Dasney said:
Agreed to all this. And John Goodman really made that show. He embodied Dan so convincingly, and just had a tremendous sense of comic timing. His character knew when to give space to Roseanne without being whipped. Easily my favorite part of the show.

As for the Disney episode...eh, it had its moments but just felt kind of forced to me. The tenor of that show was so opposed to the glazed smiles Disney puts out, and a lot of the humor came from the conflict between them. Some of it worked (Roseanne vs. the Disney manager, Dan's quest for beer), and some of it just felt lame (Darlene melting around Pooh).
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All of these ABC shows visiting Disney was obviously a marketing ploy to exploit the Disney-ABC merger that had happened earlier that year. Roseanne, who HATED studio execs, no doubt wanted to spend as little time as possible on it.
 
plaz10

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JIMINYCR said:
Can't be the Contemporary. They never had bell hops dressed up in the corny bell hop costumes, carry luggage into the rooms. Also the bell hop isn't wearing a CM badge.
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SPEAKING of the bell hop...if you go back and watch the episode, the bell hop is Eric Dane from greys anatomy! McSteamy to those familiar with the show!
 
AEfx

AEfx

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JafarMaleficent said:
A little off topic. But not too much. In the step by step episode at disney which wasn't that great in my opinion. They showed the neon armadillo in pleasure island did that exist? And is the record flash is trying to break real? I'm sure its not but if it is I want to break it lol. And also where is panitti's?
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1) I liked it in that, out of all of them (though Full House is close) it showed more of the parks.

2) Yes, the Neon Armadillo did exist.

3) No, the record is not real. :)
 

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