Roseanne dies, Dan and Jackie get together and get married, and Jackie discloses that the year she was sent away to live with Nana Mary she gave birth to a daughter she named Mary and gave up for adoption.
Dan and Jackie track down Mary, now living in Texas, married to George Cooper and the mother of three children.
I would definitely watch “The Conners” but I don’t want to see Dan and Jackie hooking up. They got too much of a brother-sister type relationship going on for that to work.
I’d like to see Darlene take over as the alpha female while driving Dan crazy with her liberal shenanigans.
The first rebooted episode begins with footage of the family around the kitchen table with voiceovers from Dan Conner. The scene fades away, all but Dan who is then shown writing a novel in the basement. Dan’s voiceover continues “Rosie died of a heart attack last year…” I was so angry at her for “abandoning” me, I just wrote the story and cast her as the worst thing I could think of … A TRUMP SUPPORTER1
Stupidity squared. The original series had jump the shark so hard that they had to whip out a, “and it was all a dream,” ending. Then they decide to reboot the whole fiasco and go for a naked cash grab, reanimate the dead co-lead character, forget all about the dream bullshit ending and start raking in that sweet, sweet, MAGA-lucre.
So my take is: why the fuck do we need this rehashed crap polluting the airwaves in the first place? Here’s a thought for Hollywood TeeVee writers. Come up with something original, you soulless hacks.
If they really want to rub it in, they’d recast Roseanne’s role and give it to Tom Arnold.
I could see a continuation of Roseanne without Roseanne (like Garfield without Garfield, I guess). The new series was pretty good and they could have continued it with Dan and Darlene running things after Roseanne’s death.
Problem is that the name is so tainted that ABC is not going to take a chance on it.
Move it to FX and make the family out and out white supremacists. Nazi flag in the living room, family outings where they burn black churches and drag gays behind their pickup.
Not that I’d come within a hundred miles of watching it, but I bet it would have a market.
I think you need an Ambien. The show had both a black granddaughter and gender fluid grandson.
There was an in show setup for Roseanne’s death, if they wanted. She had developed an addiction to her pain pills. But that would be a pretty grim way to reboot a sitcom, despite the pleasure it would give a few people.
Send Roseanne to rehab.
Focus on the rest of the family.
Darlene and Jackie are the natural characters to focus on. Dan would react to the other characters. That’s always been his role in the show.
Rocks fall. Everyone dies.
Oh, I think it would have given a hella lot of pleasure to a LOT of people…I can’t imagine why the black granddaughter and the gender fluid grandson were even created and stuck into that mess. Why? In real life, in all white Lanford in flyover country full of the Klan, they would have been beaten up and attacked. Was it to show you can be a tRumpsucker in some things, like a cafeteria Catholic picking and choosing which rules to follow? Could you proudly parade your gay and black relatives around and CALL yourself a real tRumpsucker? I thought you were supposed to hate ‘inferiors and perverts’ … Would have been interesting to have seen attacks on those grandkids on that show by Nazis and gay bashers, if only to hear Roseanne blathering.
How about, “Road trip” up the California coast. Cliff ensues.
Too soon?
Because it gets John Goodman back on TV, and that’s never a bad thing.
Well, John Goodman did play a gay man in one short-lived series, so that’s Good To Go.
It would have been a good way to tackle some good issues head on. Comedy done right works well for that. Drug epidemic, mixed families, LBGTQ, stories all could have been explored.
Of course, her fans would still have been upset.
Yeah, too soon. Those kids deserved better.
Change the spelling of their name slightly and merge it into the Terminator timeline when aunt Sarah comes to visit.
From what I understand, the main problem with all of these is, Roseanne Barr’s idea for The Connors might be, collect the royalties for using the characters she co-created. Even if this isn’t true, I think that so many people would think that it is (and a lot of them then sending out Facebook messages that spread through “the Share network”) that they would boycott the show based on that.
Is Valerie Harper available?
Talking about a possible continuation of the show, Variety said, “One big problem to overcome is the fact that Barr has a significant financial interest in the series, and there is concern that a new iteration that would benefit her financially would be a non-starter for everyone involved.”
They also mentioned that some of the actors, producers and writers have guaranteed payments written in their contracts, meaning the production company and ABC have to pay out whether or not they continue with the show.
The OP asked for ideas. It wasn’t specified they had to be nice ideas.
In the land of cable networks, having a show with totally amoral, violent, unlikable, evil people for the leads is not uncommon. There’s even an opening on FX on Wednesdays now.
Not going to quote the whole thing, but I saw a suggestion where they rename the show Rosie with Rosie O’Donnel (but then it goes into the “all was a dream” territory)
Brian