Decider’s Sitcom Advent Calendar Day 19: ‘Roseanne’ Won’t Be Home For Christmas In This Sobering Special

The Christmas season is here and that means one major thing for TV devotees: re-watching all of your favorite festive sitcom episodes! In celebration of the season and the tradition of TV comedies getting all holly jolly for one episode a year, Decider presents our very first Sitcom Advent Calendar. Every day leading up to Christmas, Decider’s resident sitcom elf Brett White will share one holiday-themed sitcom episode for you to stream to make your days merry and bright.

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Decider’s Sitcom Advent Calendar Day 19

Roseanne, “No Place Like Home For The Holidays”

Season 5, Episode 12
Original Airdate: December 15, 1992
Written By: Eric Gilliland
Directed By: Andrew D. Weyman

All Roseanne wanted was for her family to be together on Christmas Eve, but a snowstorm and teenage hormones dashed her holiday dreams! In true Roseanne fashion, this special episode features a no-nonsense look at the stresses of the holiday season.

Christmas Trope Count: 10 (All About Christmas, Decorating Indoors, Terrible Gift, Mistletoe Joke, Visiting Family, Last Minute Shopping, Someone’s A Grinch, Religion!, Stranded Christmas, Carols)

Decorating Indoors usually means putting up a tree or hanging lights, but when a blizzard strands you in a diner, you don’t really have much to decorate–unless you count your sleeping grandma.

Christmas Carol Count: 5 (“Good King Winceslas,” “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, “O Christmas Tree,” “We Three Kings,” “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”)

A Second Helping: “Santa Claus” (Season 4, Episode 12)

Day 1: Full House, “A Very Tanner Christmas”
Day 2: How I Met Your Mother, “How Lily Stole Christmas”
Day 3: The Golden Girls, “‘Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas”
Day 4: Black-ish, “Black Santa/White Christmas”
Day 5: Step By Step, “Christmas Story”
Day 6: Home Improvement, “Yule Better Watch Out”
Day 7: Fresh Off the Boat, “The Real Santa”
Day 8: Cheers, “Christmas Cheers”
Day 9: Family Matters, “Have Yourself A Merry Winslow Christmas”
Day 10: The Odd Couple, “Scrooge Gets An Oscar”
Day 11: The Office, “Christmas Party”
Day 12: Friends, “The One with the Holiday Armadillo”
Day 13: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, “Captain Latvia”
Day 14: 3rd Rock from the Sun, “Jolly Old St. Dick”
Day 15: Will & Grace, “All About Christmas Eve”
Day 16: The Bob Newhart Show, “I’m Dreaming of a Slight Christmas”
Day 17: That Girl, “Christmas and the Hard-Luck Kid”
Day 18: 30 Rock, “Christmas Special”

Watch Roseanne's "No Place Like Home for the Holidays" on Amazon