Release Date: 2011
Running Time: 3hrs 6min
Roseanne will always be one of my favorite tv shows of all time (and I don't think I'm the only one). The humor was always on point and surprisingly still relevant, but what I loved the most was the family dynamic. They didn't give us a cookie cutter, tv sitcom family; they were real just like the rest of us, they had fights and financial troubles. And they LOVED Halloween!
It's safe to say that the Roseanne Halloween episodes are the best of any sitcom (fight me on this). That's why my "Pick of the Week" goes to Roseanne: Tricks & Treats dvd released by Mill Creek Entertainment in 2011. Running at 3hrs and 6min, it features all 8 Halloween-themed episodes (season 1 didn't have one): BOO!, Trick or Treat, Trick Me Up, Trick Me Down, Halloween IV, Halloween V, Skeleton in the Closet, Halloween- The Final Chapter, Satan, Darling.
Now I'm going to be honest here, not every Halloween episode is AMAZING. They really started to lose their spark towards the end of the series, like the rest of the episodes in those seasons, but those first few were classics! BOO! was the first and probably the best- Roseanne and Dan spend the episode trying to one up each other with spooky pranks to determine who really is "the master!" And Roseanne dressed as a male lumberjack in the second episode, Trick or Treat is absolutely hilarious.
I have to say, though, that the icing on the cake of these episodes were the costumes, by far. But it wasn't Roseanne and Dan that were best dressed, it was the kids! Darlene and Becky always had the coolest costumes that I'm still jealous of to this day. Becky dressed as a mutilated prom queen, Darlene as Tippi Hedren in The Birds, or little DJ as Hannibal Lector complete with straightjacket- they were definitely winning best costume somewhere in Lanford.
That said, Roseanne: Tricks & Treats is a must-own for any fan of the sitcom and the Halloween season. And you can't beat that price tag of $5.49 over at Amazon! So go and buy it and stick around for our episode of Horror Huddle on Halloween when we talk in-depth about the episodes!
