Sounds like a good enough explanation for me. Thanks
for sharing that.
-Brandon
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Just came across this on tvtome.com, it settles the
> whole David/Kevin thing, thought it was interesting:
>
> ****************
>
> 138. Everyone Comes to Jackie's
> gs: Michael O'Keefe (Fred) Johnny Galecki
> (David)
>
> Jackie's house buzzes with activity as
> Roseanne tries to hide David from Dan.
>
>
> b: 08-Feb-1994 pc: 715 w: Betsy Borns & Mike
> Gandolfi d: Philip Charles MacKenzie
>
> NOTE: We get reaffirmed David's real name
> isn't David, but Kevin, as we find out in episode
> The Bowling Show when he was first introduced.
> a.. Roseanne never actually states that
> David's real name is Kevin, and Dan disregards her
> and continues on with the argument they are having,
> as if she was just being sarcastic - which in fact
> she was. Since Mrs. Healy (David's mom) and Mark
> (his brother) always called him David, there is no
> reason to assume that Roseanne's statement is
> anything other than a joke. The writers on the show
> had wanted to call the character David from the
> beginning but were unable to because Johnny Galecki
> was playing a character with that name on another
> ABC sitcom at the time of his first appearance on
> "Roseanne". By the time of his next appearance, the
> other sitcom had been canceled, so the writers used
> the name they had originally wanted, instead of
> staying with Kevin. If they had wanted to explain it
> they probably would have at the time, but obviously
> they felt no need and assumed that everyone would
> just accept David as the character's name. Already
> on just the second appearance of the character on
> the show, everyone in the family refers to him as
> David before Darlene ever says his name at all, so
> the Darlene-changing-his-name theory really doesn't
> wash - except, as a JOKE.
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Send holiday email and support a worthy cause. Do good.
http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com
------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~-->
Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar.
Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free!
http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/LQ0rlB/TM
--------------------------------------------------------------------~->
*********************
Message archives
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RoseanneNetwork/messages
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RoseanneNetwork/
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
