Dan and Roseanne are a loving couple, but their affection works because their fights are just as potent as their flirting. The relationship between Roseanne and Jackie became particularly strong as Roseanne fought against Jackies desire to become a cop and meddled in her relationship with her short-lived fiance Gary; Roseanne and Metcalf developed an interplay that could be caring, playful, and bitterly jealous, and sometimes all three at once.