# 'Roseanne' returning to ABC with the full cast intact **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 16, 2017, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794 "2017-05-16T22:39:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/1 "2017-05-16T22:39:01Z")
[‘Roseanne’ returning to ABC with the full cast intact](http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-roseanne-to-return-to-abc-20170516-story.html). ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/2 "2017-05-16T22:51:59Z")
I wonder who’ll they’ll cast as Jerry, Andy, and Harris, who would all be in their early 20s now despite being infants/toddlers on the original show. Time flies! ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/3 "2017-05-16T23:07:20Z")
Thank you for the warning. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/4 "2017-05-16T23:11:37Z")
Full Cast in tact? One of the actors that plays Roseanne’s son-in-law is dead and the other one is one of the lead actor in another sit-com. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/5 "2017-05-16T23:16:57Z")
Dan is dead. I assume that will be explained somehow. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/6 "2017-05-16T23:17:36Z")
It was all a dream. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/7 "2017-05-16T23:58:52Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > It was all a dream. Within a dream within a dream? ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/8 "2017-05-17T00:50:40Z")
I thought Roseanne had gone almost completely blind from a degenerative eye disease. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/9 "2017-05-17T00:55:04Z")
Why? Does somoene have dirty pictures of the producers, or something? The show wasn’t all that to begin, and those actors still alive haven’t (imo) aged all that well. > [@Mahaloth](#): > > Within a dream within a dream? Mawwage… ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/10 "2017-05-17T00:59:39Z")
And I thought NBC reviving **Will & Grace** was strange. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/11 "2017-05-17T01:00:36Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Full Cast in tact? > > One of the actors that plays Roseanne’s son-in-law is dead and the other one is one of the lead actor in another sit-com. Most importantly-[which Becky](https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/roseanneshow/images/b/b6/Roseanne-becky--chalke-%26-goranson.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20101113002437)? [AKA the worst example of [The Other Darrin](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheOtherDarrin), ever…] ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/12 "2017-05-17T01:23:25Z")
From the link: > [@](#): > > Besides Barr as the Conner family matriarch, the eight-episode reboot airing in 2018 will feature John Goodman as her husband, Dan, along with former co-stars Sara Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf, Michael Fishman and Lecy Goranson. Sarah Chalke, who played Goranson’s character, Becky, in later seasons, will appear in another role, ABC said. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/13 "2017-05-17T01:50:45Z")
Will Sara Gilbert’s character play for the other team? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/14 "2017-05-17T01:55:18Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Most importantly-[which Becky](https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/roseanneshow/images/b/b6/Roseanne-becky--chalke-%26-goranson.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20101113002437)? > > [AKA the worst example of [The Other Darrin](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheOtherDarrin), ever…] I think Donna Reed as Miss Ellie Ewing on Dallas was the worst “Other Darrin” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/15 "2017-05-17T02:15:06Z")
Yet another show to avoid. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/16 "2017-05-17T04:15:03Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Most importantly-[which Becky](https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/roseanneshow/images/b/b6/Roseanne-becky--chalke-%26-goranson.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20101113002437)? [Becky.](http://img.providr.com/all-images/abby-brittany-hensel-conjoined-twins25.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/17 "2017-05-17T07:15:20Z")
> [@Helena330](#): > > From the link: Are they calling it a reboot because it will undo the last season? That’s not what a reboot is, but it’s the only reason I can come up with for using that word. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/18 "2017-05-17T07:48:02Z")
Why in the name of sanity would they revive this? ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/19 "2017-05-17T07:48:56Z")
I’ve suggested this before, but if TV executives think that they can revive any TV show, no matter how long ago it ended, I think they should revive _Life with Elizabeth_, which ended in 1955: > **[Life with Elizabeth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_with_Elizabeth)** > > Betty White > Life with Elizabeth is an American television sitcom starring Betty White as Elizabeth and Del Moore as her husband Alvin; Jack Narz is the on-camera announcer and narrator. The series aired in syndication from October 7, 1953, to September 1, 1955. The show was the first of many sitcoms for Betty White across the decades and was based on sketches involving the Elizabeth character that she had performed on her earlier talk show Hollywood on Television. > The low-budget comedy was prod... Betty White will play a 95-year-old woman who’s been widowed since 1970. She’s always told her children that she isn’t ready to date someone new, and she spends most of her time alone in her house. Suddenly in 2017 she decides she’s ready. The show will be about her wacky adventures. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/20 "2017-05-17T11:27:15Z")
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