I'm just curious because I'm watching the older ones where Darlene was more of a Tomboy! She seemed happy at the least. As soon as she became a teenager she started wearing black alot & just got mean,overly sarcastic & depressed. I haven't seen every episode but was their an episode that addressed why she became like that??

I'm just curious because I'm watching the older ones where Darlene was more of a Tomboy! She seemed happy at the least. As soon as she became a teenager she started wearing black alot & just got mean,overly sarcastic & depressed. I haven't seen every episode but was their an episode that addressed why she became like that??

The episode which faced your question would be the Season 4 episode titled 'Darlene Fades To Black'. Darlene changed when she started high school, the change can be seen as apart of her character's growth.

Here's TV.com's description and thoughts on that episode http://www.tv.com/roseanne/darlene-fades-to-black/episode/28137/summary.html

I think Darlene was the only child of the show whom we saw the character change and grow. DJ and Becky kind of stayed the same, though with some changes. Darlene on the other hand, pulled a total 180.

I perfered depressed Darlene to tomboy Darlene btw, I related to her more.

Well I saw the episode last night & I liked it. It was nice to see a tv character struggling with finding herself & slipping into a depression because of it. I really felt bad for her in that episode because there was no one she could relate to :( .

They changed her to dark moody and depressing because Roseannes daughter was going through that stage in real life and she put that into the show with darlene.:)

They changed her to dark moody and depressing because Roseannes daughter was going through that stage in real life and she put that into the show with darlene.:)


Where did u get this info from? I wanted to know this myself

her "depression" could be becuz of goin to college (in real life) and all the stress that was.

Where did u get this info from? I wanted to know this myself
I think she mentions it on one of the extras on the dvds.;)