Written by Kevin Abbott and directed by Philip Charles MacKenzie, the episode originally aired October 5, 1993 on ABC.
Joined by Jackie, the three lock themselves in the bathroom and get high, but the experience is no fun as their sense of adult responsibility is too strong to allow them to relax.
Club noted the episode's resonance in the context of the time period, an era in which those who grew up during the sexual revolution of the '60s now had to deal with the responsibilities of parenthood: Roseanne was also one of the last of the TV shows and movies that came along in the Big Chill/thirtysomething ’80s that tried to define what it meant for the children of the ’60s to accept the responsibilities (and defeats) of adulthood.
Club said one of the main appeals of the episode is that the drug-theme "feels so real...like a lived-in experience for these people", adding that "all of that humor is character-based" rather than caricature.
[1] The site's Genevieve Koski noted "Pot seems a lot less fun the older you get and the more responsibilities you take on.
[7] Splitsider called it "one of television’s most honestly and hilariously handled pot-based family sitcom episodes".