Roseanne putting her hands on Harris and holding her head down in the sink

She's older now and just may not have the patience anymore. I thought the scene was funny.

We never saw her get physical in that way but I didn't find it out of character. It's clear that Harris is too old for a spanking but Roseanne felt she needed some kind of physical punishment and she knew that Darlene wouldn't do it. I think also, it's like someone sid up thread, Roseann and Dan are both 20 years older than the last time we saw them, it seems like everyone has been out of the house for at least 10ish years, if not longer. They're out of the habit of dealing with all of BS teens that age can heap on a parent. Couple that with constantly being in pain with (typical) aches and pains, that's the sort of thing that make a person much crankier than we might remember them.

I guess she's turned into her mother a little bit.

I think people are blowing this WAAAAY out of proportion. Roseanne didn't hit Harris--she simply sprayed her head with water. That was NOTHING.

And Roseanne's complaints about her father were how he would beat her and Jackie on a regular basis for little to no reason at all and would emotionally abuse them as well. That's not exactly the same thing as holding Harris' head under some water after she mouthed off continuously.

This isn't even the first time she's been physical with kids in general, either. Aside from spanking DJ, she had zero problem grabbing Molly Tilden by the arm and yanking her back into the room in season 5. Also, Dan and Roseanne have both in the past taken DJ by the ear out of the room, Dan took Darlene out of the room by her hair once.

Roseanne and Dan weren't even advocating spanking to Darlene--they were telling her to lay down the law and not allow her kid to walk all over her. Both Roseanne and Dan have punished/yelled at their kids plenty of times throughout the show.

Let's also remember that Roseanne was laughing the entire time she was spraying Harris with the sprayer. She wasn't abusing the kid--she was making the kid feel a little of the embarrassment and degradation that Harris was making Roseanne feel. If anything, Roseann showed INCREDIBLE restraint around Harris and, if anything, was softer toward Harris than the younger Roseanne may have been. Just rewatch the scene. She hardly even raised her voice to Harris. Young Roseanne would have been yelling.

Must be the Trump deplorable influence!

I agree with one of the other posters. As we get older our tolerance level goes down.

I had no problem with the spraying, it was the holding her down part that I didn't like. That would be classified as assault.

I think they could have made the scene a little less intense.