Looks like Halloween is coming early this year, huh?
Not only are the General Mills “Monster Cereals” returning to store shelves this month, but we’ve just learned that every single Halloween episode of “Roseanne” just went up for streaming on Amazon, totally free for Prime members!
Well, I should note that all nine seasons of the show hit the service last night, but you’ll surely understand why we’re focusing specifically on the Halloween specials.
Beginning with Season 2, the Conner family went big with their annual celebration of Halloween, a tradition that continued throughout the show’s entire run. From Season 2 straight through Season 9, a total of EIGHT Halloween episodes aired on ABC.
- Season 2 – “BOO!”
- Season 3 – “Trick or Treat”
- Season 4- “Trick Me Up, Trick Me Down”
- Season 5 – “Halloween IV”
- Season 6 – “Halloween V”
- Season 7 – “Skeleton in the Closet”
- Season 8 – “Halloween – The Final Chapter”
- Season 9 – “Satan, Darling”
As I wrote in my in-depth look at the “Roseanne” Halloween episodes last year, they “remain a high watermark for television Halloween specials, paving the way for all subsequent shows to celebrate a holiday that was once completely absent from the small screen. There are few shows nowadays that don’t acknowledge Halloween in October, and Roseanne did it both first and, if you’re asking me, best. Particularly in the early seasons, the Conners’ celebrations showed that it was okay to get crazy, let loose, and have a whole lot of spooky fun on Halloween.”
Mind you, the entire series and even specifically the Halloween episodes have long been available on DVD, but it’s nice to see them unleashed on Prime Streaming.
So get to watching. It’s never too early!
