Ham-fisted at times, the episode was still pretty groundbreaking for primetime TV in 1997, and its themes were clearly important enough to return to in the form of Mary Conner.
Back in Roseanne’s seventh season, the episode “White Men Can’t Kiss” made a lot of headlines for tackling race and racial stereotypes.
It causes strife between Roseanne and Dan, both of whom come to second-guess their own assumed lack of racial prejudice.
But D.J.’s revival story may be far more directly connected, thanks to the name Geena.