The Conners Acknowledged Jackie’s Forgotten Season 4 Plot

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Although The Conners season 4 had seemingly forgotten all about Jackie’s boyfriend, Neville, one line in the sitcom made it clear that the series intends to bring his plotline back soon. A lot is going on in The Conners season 4, so it is understandable that the sitcom occasionally loses track of one or two titular family members. Harris’s lengthy feud with her mother Darlene, along with Darlene’s on-again, off-again relationship with Ben, took up so much screen time that Darlene's son Mark didn’t appear in The Conners season 4 for three whole episodes before the show returned to his plotline.

Sometimes The Conners leaves storylines unattended for so long that it begins to feel like the series has forgotten about them. Becky’s academic probation, for example, or Harris’s frequent issues with her immature boyfriend, Aldo, have both been dropped by The Conners season 4 despite initially seeming like serious, character-reshaping subplots. As a result of this tendency, it was refreshing and reassuring to see Jackie’s boyfriend, Neville, mentioned in The Conners season 4 for the first time in a long while.

Related: Why The Conners Needs More Mark (And Less Harris)

While on the phone with his misanthropic great-grandmother Beverly, Mark had a throwaway line in The Conners season 4, episode 18, «The Best Laid Plans, A Contrabassoon and A Sinking Feeling,» about how Jackie was still dating a much younger man. Jackie’s role onThe Conners season 4 has, in recent episodes, mostly consisted of her advising the family’s young and old members while meddling in their love lives, professional lives, and personal lives. However, she had a love interest of her own earlier in season 4, and Mark’s line highlighted how much The Conners has