Dan and Roseanne try to talk Mark into coming back to Becky; meanwhile, Roseanne finds out that David is living with Darlene and heads for Chicago to confront them.
The show portrayed a working-class family struggling to get by on a limited income in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois. Many critics considered the show notable as one of the first sitcoms to portray an American family in which economics necessitated two parents working jobs outside the home.