# '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:** 2
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/21 "2017-05-17T11:40:49Z")
I’m surprised they were able to get Goodman to sign on. His career is doing well enough that he doesn’t need to return to a supporting role in a sitcom. He’s a bigger name now than Roseanne is. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/22 "2017-05-17T11:49:39Z")
There have been shows brought back with much of the original cast, often in the form of TV movies (_Perry Mason, Rockford Files, Gilligan’s Island_, a one-off of _The Andy Griffith Show_), but usually not the full nucleus. Usually someone has died, or gotten fed up with the show or too famous to return (like Tina Louise on GI)The only other case I know of where they did bring back everyone was the voice cast for _The Jetsons_ when it was revived in the 1980s. For the Jetsons movie they replaced the voices of Judy (with Tiffany) and Elroy. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/23 "2017-05-17T13:00:17Z")
I’ll probably watch the first episode out of sick fascination but I doubt it will be worth watching. I liked the show first run for the first 5 years or so but I’ve never really enjoyed going back and watching it again. I’m glad they’re ignoring the last 2 years as they were terrible anyway. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/24 "2017-05-17T14:02:07Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Why in the name of sanity would they revive this? Money. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/25 "2017-05-17T14:20:57Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I’m surprised they were able to get Goodman to sign on. His career is doing well enough that he doesn’t need to return to a supporting role in a sitcom. He’s a bigger name now than Roseanne is. Clearly you haven’t seen Roseanne’s reality show about life on a macadamia nut farm. I wish that I were making that up. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/26 "2017-05-17T14:31:19Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I’m surprised they were able to get Goodman to sign on. His career is doing well enough that he doesn’t need to return to a supporting role in a sitcom. He’s a bigger name now than Roseanne is. Since he died in the original show, I wonder if he’ll just make a few cameo appearances in flashbacks. SImilar to Melissa McCarthy’s role in the Gilmore Girls reunion- she was only in one brief scene at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/27 "2017-05-17T14:42:19Z")
Finally there will be some good TV on for a change instead of all the shitty TV we’ve had to put up with since the late 90s. > [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > Clearly you haven’t seen Roseanne’s reality show about life on a macadamia nut farm. > > I wish that I were making that up. This was one of the few non-shitty TV shows since Roseanne went off the air. ---
**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, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/28 "2017-05-17T14:46:43Z")
> [@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. Rosanne once said in an interview she thinks DJ would’ve ended up getting killed in Iraq; they could just have that be Mark’s fate instead. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/29 "2017-05-17T14:57:22Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Why in the name of sanity would they revive this? Well, the Gilmore Girls and Full House revisits were successful I wouldn’t be surprised to see more of this. With that said, while I give Roseanne a fair measure of credit\* for helping break us out of the Full House/Growing Pains/Cosby Show style family show slog of the 80s and paving the way for modern ‘family’ comedies, I don’t know anyone who was asking for more Roseanne today. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/30 "2017-05-17T16:33:33Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Why in the name of sanity would they revive this? eta: make that "I agree" ---
**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, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/31 "2017-05-17T18:12:06Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Well, the Gilmore Girls and Full House revisits were successful I wouldn’t be surprised to see more of this. > > With that said, while I give Roseanne a fair measure of credit\* for helping break us out of the Full House/Growing Pains/Cosby Show style family show slog of the 80s and paving the way for modern ‘family’ comedies, I don’t know anyone who was asking for more Roseanne today. I agree with all of this. I’ll watch because of Laurie Metcalf and John Goodman in the hope that I won’t be embarrassed for them. Roseanne could still tank the whole thing. I didn’t watch her reality show, but my impression is that she’s gone batcrap crazy. It wouldn’t surprise me if it turns out to be impossible to work with her. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/32 "2017-05-17T18:42:52Z")
The big question is whether or not Tom Arnold will be in it. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/33 "2017-05-17T19:04:10Z")
I think it would be funny if they randomly switched between the two Beckies. Without comment, of course. Maybe even within the same episode. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/34 "2017-05-17T20:04:34Z")
Didn’t watch it the first time; won’t watch it the second time. ---
**Author:** ![akrako1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@akrako1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akrako1)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/35 "2017-05-17T20:52:32Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Didn’t watch it the first time; won’t watch it the second time. thanks for letting us know! I’ve never been sky diving, which i will continue to not do. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/36 "2017-05-17T21:37:46Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Why in the name of sanity would they revive this? Because they’ve done the math and think it’ll make money. That’s the answer to 90% of questions about tv scheduling and production - someone who can make decisions thinks that it’ll make more money. That said, I have less than no interest in this. Or W&G. ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/37 "2017-05-17T22:09:57Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Money. There ya go. Roseanne is always liking the flashy, loves to be center stage/spot light. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > or gotten fed up with the show or too famous to return (like Tina Louise on GI) I thought the ladies that dont come back is because the gain weight? Tina Louise too famous or too fed up? > [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > Clearly you haven’t seen Roseanne’s reality show about life on a macadamia nut farm. > > I wish that I were making that up. I liked it. was different but then again I like seeing Hawaii (this coming from the least likely to EVER watch “reality tv”) I’ve always liked Roseanne as most standup female comedians, but all stand up even Liked the show too except after they won the lottery. It was a good ending though. They only made 6 episodes, summer entertainment, just stay outside and enjoy the weather instead of watching tv…thats what most people do right? ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/38 "2017-05-18T01:50:14Z")
I assume George Clooney has signed on. Right? Right? mmm ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/39 "2017-05-18T02:40:53Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > I assume George Clooney has signed on. > > Right? > > Right? > > mmm Was he on Roseanne? I only remember his early days as being a semi-regular on “The Facts of Life.” ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794/40 "2017-05-18T03:38:20Z")
George Clooney, Martin Mull, Tim Curry, Sandra Bernhard, Estelle Parsons, Ned Beatty, Shelley Winters, and Morgan Fairchild - right off the top of my head - had roles on Roseanne… If it’s an update on the family, I am really interested to see what happened with all of them…I saw a picture of Roseanne recently and didn’t even recognize her. I hope that in the context of the show she overcame her sad near-poverty and became successful at something. ‘Little D.J.’ is coming back, he’s in his 30’s by now, at least…This is one of the rare sitcoms I really enjoyed and I’m looking forward to it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roseanne-returning-to-abc-with-the-full-cast-intact/786794.md?page=3)