History NightmareFuel / Roseanne

** Roseanne's justified [[AdultFear reaction]] when Jackie keeps denying her abuse: she's covered in bruises, she won't tell anyone about it and Roseanne fears that Jackie could've been raped or mugged and she wouldn't even know about it.

* In ''Dan's Birthday Bash'', after being stopped by Roseanne from fighting off a mook named Bobo the day before, Dan unleashes his pent up anger on a piece of drywall by bashing it into pieces with his hammer. Unbeknownst to him, Darlene came back with a pencil sharpened for him and she sees this and it is frightening to watch. Once Dan calms down and sees that Darlene was watching him destroy drywall in anger, he immediately feels bad and takes off to the bar.

[[caption-width-right:350: Crystal's reaction says it all. It's just a Halloween prank and makeup, but still...]]

* In the season one episode ''Slice Of Life'' Darlene suffers a ruptured appendix during a simple game of baseball and she has to be rushed to the emergency room for surgery. Roseanne feels bad because this happened not long after their mother-daughter fight.

* One Halloween episode, "Trick Me Up, Trick Me Down," opens with Roseanne and Dan pranking Kathy: Roseanne acts like she had killed Dan and is still holding the "bloody" knife. Even though it's obviously a prank, it is still a little unsettling as Kathy appears genuinely afraid for her life.

[[caption-width-right:350: It's just a Halloween prank and makeup, but still...]]

* In "Dan's birthday bash", after being stopped by Roseanne from fighting off a mook named Bobo the day before, Dan unleashes his pent up anger on a piece of drywall by bashing it into pieces with his hammer. Unbeknownst to him, Darlene came back with a pencil sharpened for him and she sees this and it is frightening to watch. Once Dan calms down and sees that Darlene was watching him destroy drywall in anger, he immediately feels bad and takes off to the bar.

* Roseanne, who is harsh but not physically abusive towards her children, spanking DJ after he wrecks their car, finally having been driven to the end of her rope. Roseanne is so horrified she can't even speak, recalling [[NotSoDifferent it was just like what her father would do]]. Thankfully she makes things right with DJ.

* Just the simple fact that Jackie's boyfriend Fisher was beating her regularly and that Jackie was unable to bring herself to walk out on the relationship even after one especially bad beating that had her retreating to Roseanne's with a badly bruised back. Her anguished cries of "Close to door!" when Darlene accidentally discovered this really drives the horror home before anybody starts asking questions. Her breakdown with Roseanne pushes her on what happened is no less unsettling, and surely something that unfortunately many people can relate to who have been in abusive relationships. It just makes it that much more satisfying when Dan returns the favor to Fisher after he finds out what he's been doing, and later when Jackie finally finds the nerve to call it quits.

* Dan's drunken stupor in one episode where he tries to confront his dad over his mother's worsening mental health. He ends up scaring both Crystal and her son Lonnie as they try to keep him calm, forcing Roseanne to intervene and drag him back home.

* One Halloween episode where Roseanne and Dan prank Kathy: Roseanne acts like she had killed Dan and is still holding the "bloody" knife. Even though it's obviously a prank, it's still a little unsettling.

* Dan's heart attack at the end of the eighth season after Darlene's wedding. By the time Roseanne understands what's happening, he's collapsing onto the ground in pain and barely able to breathe. Luckily, he gets better and as of the revival series is confirmed to have fully recovered from the ordeal, whereas in the original series finale he was revealed to have died.

* Just the simple fact that Jackie's boyfriend Fisher was beating her regularly and that Jackie was unable to bring herself to walk out on the relationship even after one especially bad beating that had her retreating to Roseanne's with a badly bruised back. Her anguished cries of "Close to door!" when Darlene accidentally discovered this really drives the horror home before anybody starts asking questions. Her breakdown with Roseanne pushes her on what happened is no less unsettling, and surely something that unfortunately many people can relate to who have been in abusive relationships. It just makes it that much more satisfying when Dan returns the favor to Fisher after he finds out what he's been doing, and later when Jackie finally finds the nerve to call it quits.

* Dan whenever he is sent flying over the edge is sure to be this. When he finds out David had been living with Darlene in Chicago without his knowledge, he is absolutely ''furious''. Ordering him in no uncertain terms to leave his house, Dan ''punches a hole in the wall'' as he storms out of the room right before Roseanne. A few episodes later, David sneaks in to see Darlene who has come home for the week, and when he catches them Dan immediately starts scuffling with him. David wisely bails just as Roseanne interrupts, only to find herself on the receiving end of Dan's fury when he realizes Roseanne was aware of all of it and said nothing to him. Though he doesn't get physical, his fury was enough to send Roseanne out of the house for the rest of the night until things blew over.

** Perhaps more unsettling is the fact that we don't know what the customer's deal was or what became of him after the fact.

* Roseanne, who is harsh but not physically abusive towards her children spanking DJ after he wrecks their car, finally having been driven to the end of her rope. Roseanne is so horrified she can't even speak, recalling [[NotSoDifferent it was just like what her father would do]]. Thankfully she makes things right with DJ.