‘The Conners’: Surprise Guest Star Patton Oswalt Has a ‘Grave’ Issue With the Late Roseanne
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The Conners welcomes guest star Patton Oswalt (A.P. Bio) to the show for its March 3 episode, TV Insider has learned exclusively, and the role is linked to the main character of the spin-off’s original series, Roseanne.
Where most spin-offs try to distance themselves from their predecessor to create their own identity, ABC comedy hit The Conners has never forgotten (or has let us forget) the roots of how it all began. That would be the character of Roseanne Conner, played by Roseanne Barr, who hit a high note with the 2018 revival of classic sitcom Roseanne (which ran on ABC from 1988 – 1997) but then almost as quickly hit a low note with a social media tirade that prompted ABC to quickly cancel the show.
Later that fall, star and executive producer Sara Gilbert (who plays daughter Darlene Conner) helped keep the revival alive with the spin-off, The Conners, which followed the famous sitcom family following the off-screen death of Roseanne. The series is currently in its third season and is ABC’s top rated comedy.
In the March 3rd episode, Roseanne’s memory is brought up once again when her sister Jackie (Laurie Metcalf) visits the grave of her sister only to find an appalling surprise with the headstone next to it. Hoping to make things right, Jackie goes to see the cemetery director, Don Blansky (Oswalt), to help her out.
Also in the episode, Darlene’s son Mark (Ames McNamara) is worried he has COVID and Becky (Lecy Goranson) and Harris (Emma Kenney) team up to find out why Josh (Milo Manheim) has been “ghosting” Harris.
The Conners, Wednesdays, 9/8c, ABC.
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I don't watch the show. Roseann jumpstarted their careers and she says one thing off color and you kill her off from a drug over days shame on you so very disrespectful!! I can't count the times a different celebrities before this even happened made Roseanne the butt of their jokes. Here's you know what the problem is with this generation over sensitive and entitlement! I don't watch the show I don't plan on watching the show I don't care if it's top rated! I think every cast member from Sarah Gilbert on down showed great disrespect to Roseanne. And it's because of Roseanne they have careers. Y'all can take the corners and shove it I ain't no watching this show no more. Shame on that Network! I do however watch Roseanne reruns on the weekends.
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How about you take a pillow case and cut a couple eye holes in it...it'll feel just like the good ol' days! Roseanne won't be on the show, but it'll feel like the way you watched the original series.
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Ah, the race card. Who'd a thunk it. Trying to pull to a left wing inside straight, eh ?
Hint.....it never works.
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Do you watch the show at all?
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Have you ever heard of a joke? The person she was talking about wasn't even offended but because people like you are so sensitive - she got repermanded for it anyways. Cancel culture is toxic, and if you're a white person thinking you're being morally superior by "sticking up for the black community' you're part of the problem - coming from a proud black woman.
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You tell em. I agree with you
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I miss Roseanne being on the show. I think they should let her make guest appearances, maybe as spirit or ghost.
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I watch the old Rosanne...can't get into The Connors even though I like the cast...it's missing something..Rosanne Barr!
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Programmed liberal platform. That's all it is.
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This show without Rosanne Barr is boring garbage and everyone on it should be ashamed of themselves for participating in in this affront against personal liberty and free speech.
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hahahaha i hope you are sucking on that gas pipe there hill billy
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Are you here to be troll? Or did you actually watch the show?
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I love the cast, but I MISS ROSEANNE!!! I miss her, I miss her!!!!
Please bring Roseanne back!!
Please!!!!
I LOVE YOU ROSEANNE!!!!
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Hate to break this to you, hot-dog... but Roseanne Barr has died!
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Will not watch it because of what the did to Rosanne. Shame on the network for doing what they did and the cast
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Top rated comedy on ABC. I don't think they are worried about people like you not watching the show.
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30 million to 3 million, if the establishment didn’t have a monopoly, they would be!
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Do you actually watch roseanne? Did you watch it in a regular basis?
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I think the show stinks. I can't believe that the Connors show is #1 comedy show. I wish they would take that show and cancel it.
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Make as many guest accounts as you like, Roseanne. We see you.
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Conners ..programmed liberal beliefs.
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This show still on.? Sorry without Roseanne it's trash. And so is sarha gilbert and the rest of them for not standing next to the woman who made them all who they are including john goodman. She fought for them not to cancel the show and let them go on without her and then they slandered her. They are all trash
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So making racist comments is ok with you? Wow...
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Have you ever heard of a joke? The person she was talking about wasn't even offended but because people like you are so sensitive - she got repermanded for it anyways. Cancel culture is toxic, and if you're a white person thinking you're being morally superior by "sticking up for the black community' you're part of the problem - coming from a proud black woman.
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You have no room to talk wow
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Did you jump to the comments and not read the article? "The series is currently in its third season and is ABC’s top rated comedy." That doesn't sound like 'trash' to me. Sounds like a money-making winner.
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No, it just says that their other shows suck even more. There is no originality anymore, it's all cheap shot one liners, overacted scenes, ridiculous at it's best. The fact that people watch and enjoy show how simple minded ABC's viewers are.
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How sad you stand by what they did to her. This was not a show she made up this was based on her real life. And you wouldn't even know who any of those people are especially Sara Gilbert it wasn't for Roseanne. So it's okay just say they want to put Trump's son in a cage and watch him be raped by a bunch of pedophiles. And that tweet is still on Twitter Peter Ford if you want to look it up. But she can't stay the somebody resemble somebody else. Is disgusting what these people did to her. And actually the show was failing after Roseanne left but they're going to beat that dead horse as long as they can. Perhaps you should do some research and stop listening to mainstream media feed you a bunch of Lies. Stop regurgitating with the TV and newspaper tell you and educate yourself. May God open your eyes tell the truth.
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Because there's a double standard here. The left are the only ones that have free speech it's been that way for a long time you disagree with the left then you get called names
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I'm thinking nobody cares about your opinion
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I watched the original one with my daughters. We lived it. Closest to a show about an average working family than anything else on tv. Hated that the star was taken out...Rookies.....can't handle a Comedian using off color comedy? That's how most of the Good ones started out. Still like the show but also watch the reruns...love the characters. Miss you Rosanne.
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Conners suck
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Agree w Cici, disrespect, ungratefullness, seems to be the norm for many.
Also, Roseanne doesn't need The Conners.
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Connors not funny. Killing Roseanne off was a hugh mistake. Love cast members, but Darlene is really a downer no longer a comedy. I watch old reruns of Roseanne and always laugh.
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No offense but the CONNERS SUCK W/O ROSEANN BARR..Even their acting is TERRIBLE n not really all that Funny..👎👎👎What they did to Roseann was BACK STAB HER AGAIN..SARA GILBERT really BETRAYED BARR N SHOULD BE THROWN INTO THE MAKE BELIEVE GRAVE THEY DUG FOR ROSEANN..It's a DUMB N UNENTERTAINING SHOW NOW..I laughed watching it when it 1st came out but not because it's funny but because it cracks me up that they believe it IS..OMG..ITS NOT👎👎👎 Don't they watch it🤔😏😏👎👎Roseann should have NEVER given the show up to help these BACKSTABBING 2 FACED UNGRATEFULL TRAITORS..AXE IT..NO BODY WOULD REALLY EVEN NOTICE THEM GONE..
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Bòoooring.....withaut Rosane><
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Of course liberals love the conners...true comedy lovers prefer Roseanne because it was actually funny.
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The Conners is okay, but I prefer to watch Roseanne repeats. Roseanne made Sara Gilbert & one comment caused desertion.
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This is America. Freedom of speech. Roseanne should be able to say anything she wants. She was one of the first to be cancelled in this cancel culture we live in.. I guess she's lucky since we haven't gotten to the point of arresting people for what they say yet like in Communists China or North Korea . Iran....Saudi Arabia etc...
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Agree...Roseanne brought mucho money to abc... and because she's not a person of color it's an issue. If she was black or brown they wouldn't have dared remove her for fear of retaliation...and much yellow paint.
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I love Roseanne and her belief that freedom of speech still exists. She is a comedian and was making a joke. Blacks can say whatever they want against whites, jews, and even their own race and call anyone they feel like all kinds of names and nothing is said,, but whites cannot say anything or they are gagged and unjustly shunned like Roseanne and Chris Harrison.
I was never a racist my whole life until this biased crap was started by liberals in Hollywood. PS I won't comment on Patton because I never liked him or his beliefs.
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I don’t watch the conners it’s not the same with out Roseanne and they over blew what she said people have said worse catered to Sarah Gilbert
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I've tried watching the Conners, but without Roseanne it's like taking a shower with your clothes on. It just doesn't feel right!! Bring her back somehow, someway. Make it all a bad dream that Jackie had or something. I don't know, but the show is not complete without her! Love you Roseanne!!
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I think you have an excellent idea,
Just a Bad dream where Jackie wanted to be the star of the family and what would of been if roseanne had died...
The middle child syndrome.
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Even if they were to ask Roseanne to appear as a guest - she wouldn't. She's too angry and she has already said she was done.
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She could come back as a ghost on her favorite holiday, HALLOWEEN!! Lol
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Yes, I say bring back Roseanne Barr , because she's the star of the show ,I love the show and that's why we want Rosanna back.T.u.
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I think you should bring Roseann Barr back to the show. You could say it was a wrong body in that crash and she had amnesia all this time. She would get.my vote bring her back she is sorely missed. I stopped watching the show it has no substance. It is like a wilted salad, it is ok but not fantastic as it was, I really miss Roseann. Bring her ba k . The show has list its spark. Need her back asap!!!Please please please.!!!!
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The show needs Roseanne. Pleassssseeeee bring her back.
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I love the show! But they've brought back Dan..they went from lottery winners to poor...I miss Roseanne!!! And where is Andy? And Roseanne son?? . Sometimes the show depresses me...because ROSEANNE should be brought back!!! The rythm is off...and its because ROSEANNE is missing!!! Thx..I feel better 😉
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Never watched the show without its star.
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The original was a great show with a genius twisty finale, but this revival just bows down to all societal agendas in play which is disgusting, who the hell wants yet another show stuffing crap down our throats.
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Love how they are glowing examples of how to not get covid...Wearing masks..social distancing...its very real to our new normal and that is brave and deserves a big thumbs up!
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I watch the show and like it. It would be good if Rosanne was back. She could always walk out of her writing room and say she's finished a manuscript. Anyway, if you watched the season she was on, in the revival, she was on the path to death by drug overdose. This may have all been a fix from the start with her only wanting to do a year. Hollywood is a strange place and things are staged.
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If you were more informed you would know that Roseanne is 100% behind them going on without her. They moved forward because of her, not in spite of her. Google it.
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Patton Oswalt murdered his first wife. He should be in prison.
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I agree with all of the other comments, the show is no where as good as if Rosanne was on she was the main character, I still don't understand why is had to go!!!!
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Seriously that was completly uncalled for. The infamous Tweet was not racist, inconvienet truth
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I don't miss Roseanna. I love the connor
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WHOS NEXT TO SAVE THEMSELVES FROM THEIR TERRIBLE SHOW W/O BARR..Doesn't even come close to calling it Entertaining much LESS FUNNY ANYMORE W/ O HER..OMG ITS BAD!!👎👎👎🤔😳 DONT THEY WATCH??? Maybe they can get WANTABE B LIST ACTRESS Her Royal DUCHESS OF DUMBARTON N her NINNY HUSBAND on the show !! They WOULD BE PERFECT😳😬😂😂😂
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I totally agree with CiCi...Celebrities have said eorst things than Roseanne. That was some BS when the killed her off..The Conners is boring..if Roseanne was still on the show, She would have been checking them...The show has no closure..Come on...The character Becky an Achoholic? Really?
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If you listen to the jokes on The Connors you’ll see an attempt by Sara Gilbert to be off color. There was even a joke by her calling blacks 3/4s of a person. Most comedies on tv lately are lame and The Connors fit right in that mode.
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Rosannne sabotaged the re-boot because she was old and tired and didn’t want to return to work. She still receives a check from each new show. The incident of the off color joke was only a publicity cover she created so she could quit. Stop being a puppet folks
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The show is still enjoyable for me with Sara Gilbert taking more of the center stage. As for Rosanne, she’s already been dumped from the show, so why can’t people let her be? She made a mistake and has paid the price. Boorish celebrities like Trevor Noah & Samantha Bee can be offensive but get a pass. Funny how that works.
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Kind of difficult thing to do since Roseanne DIED!
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Rosanne needs to stay dead on the show. The reboot of Rosanne was a waste The rest of the family is doing great without her. The Conners need to send annoying Jackie on a long vacation.
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Love The Connors. All the same humor without Roseanne’s whining and cringeworthy cackling
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I never could stand Roseanne Barr. She thought she was so funny making fun of the national anthem and disrespecting America till she got booed. I do enjoy The Connors though. It is a well written show with timely topics. I know the Trump sycophants hate that it is the number one show on the network.
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Sarah Gilbert is ALWAYS soo Negative & Boring! And Please get Jackie a Garnier Hair Color box! She looks terrible with those ROOTS. AND take Dan to the Barbers for God's sake!
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Roseanne is toxic.Good riddens. If she was on I would not watch it ever. Smart move. Goodbye!
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Riddance.......
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Can't wait!!! Lovin The Conners!!!!
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I like the show. Love all of the characters and don't miss Rosanne at all. Never crazy about her character or her as a person. Glad she's gone.
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Roseanne definitely made the show what it was however, the show is still very good and that is because all of the rest of the originals have continued to stay on the show even Bev! I hope the show continues to do well the show still makes me laugh and I enjoy watching! Job well done!
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Roseanne , She did it to her self
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She was targeted. Because she was a popular and successful Caucasian. Just like Paula Deen and Megan Kelly, etc.... sad
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