The Conners: Jackie's Wedding Acknowledged Roseanne’s Legacy (Unlike Dan)

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While Dan’s wedding on The Conners featured no mention of Roseanne or its titular character, season 4’s finale fixed this by bringing up the show’s former protagonist in the lead-up to Darlene and Jackie’s double wedding. The Conners has always had a complicated relationship with Roseanne. The sitcom spinoff came into existence when Roseanne star Roseanne Barr was fired from the show in 2018 due to racist remarks on Twitter, prompting the network to retool Roseanne into The Conners by killing off the character Roseanne via an off-screen opioid overdose.

Since then, the Conner family has rarely mentioned their deceased matriarch, most likely becauseThe Conners wants to avoid reminding viewers of the earlier series. This has sometimes felt awkward and forced, as was infamously the case when Roseanne’s widow Dan re-married and not one family member mentioned his late wife during the ceremony. However, although The Conners season 4 finale didn’t bring back Grandma Beverly or many other Roseanne characters, the episode did make up for this earlier misstep with one heartfelt conversation.

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At the start of season 4, Dan’s wedding episode featured no mention of Roseanne. This was an odd, jarring choice since Roseanne was Dan’s first wife and only died a few seasons earlier, making it bizarre that he (and her children) didn’t even reference her memory in passing on the big day. What made the problem even more obvious was the fact that Roseanne’s sister Jackie officiated Dan’s second wedding. This led to a lot of debate online over how The Conners should ideally handle the character of Roseanne’s legacy as the show’s former protagonist, and evidently, The Conners