Roseanne advises an unhappy Becky to change her life - not realizing that Mark doesn't share his wife's eagerness for change, so Becky intends to change her marriage.
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.