While the opening credit scene for the show’s revival, set to premiere later this month, features some new characters, there are definitely plenty of throwbacks to the original.
The theme song is the same as it was in Roseanne‘s early run original seasons, and does anyone recognize that chicken shirt? Then there’s Roseanne’s laugh — I know y’all missed that.
The new season of Roseanne premieres March 27 on ABC.
Updated Feb. 13, 2018, 10:45 a.m. PT: We have some more clues now about how the reboot of Roseanne will handle the fact that Dan, who was killed off in the original series’ final season back in 1997, is now suddenly alive and well. In a new table read trailer posted courtesy of E! News, the first dialogue exchange audiences will hear from the first episode has been revealed.
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“Dan!” Roseanne yells in the clip.
“What?” Dan replies.
“I thought you were dead,” she yells, prompting laughs from the audience.
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And while this quick bit of exposition helps reset one major Roseanne storyline right off the bat, that’s all we’ll get to see reset for now. As E! notes, Dan’s death isn’t the only thing being retconned in Season 10 of Roseanne. Other crucial storylines, including Aunt Jackie’s coming out and who the Conner girls ended up marrying, will be reworked or possibly not even acknowledged when the show hits the air. As for the plotline about Dan’s death, more insight (and jokes) will come when the first episode of the new season airs on March 27. We’re still skeptical about how the writers are going to make this plot hole work, but John Goodman told E! News he’s satisfied with it.
“I thought it was a clever way to do it, handle it and get it out of the way,” he said. Well, that works for us (for now).
Original story, published Dec. 27, 2017, 8:15 a.m. PT:
With revivals of nostalgic old TV shows still wildly popular, we’re seeing a new trend emerge: completely ignoring everything that happened in a show’s series finale for the sake of its revival. We saw it with Will & Grace, and now we’re going to see it with Roseanne.
Fans of the original Roseanne surely remember the 1997 series finale in which Dan (John Goodman’s character) was tragically killed and then the family won the lottery. It was weird and kind of overdone, and honestly, the show is better off without it having happened, which is good news, because Dan is definitely alive and well in the revival even though we don’t quite know how.
According to Us Weekly, the show is going to use Dan’s death (and apparently his return from the dead) as a big joke in the pilot episode of the revival. In the promo, we get a little bit of a taste of how the new Roseanne is going to treat this whole situation with humor, but not a lot of details on how they plan to actually explain that the traumatic death of a beloved main character never happened.
In the promo, Dan is lamenting the current Chicago Bulls team and says, “I still think the Bulls of ’96-’97 would have beat these guys anytime.”
Roseanne replies, “You can’t live in the past, Dan! When things are gone, they’re gone forever,” and then lets out her signature laugh. It’s a double-sided joke — both Dan and the series were presumably “gone forever” and both are now back.
The promos for the Roseanne revival are really leaning into Dan’s return on the show, and he seems to be the focus of the majority of early promos for the revival. We may not know what to expect when it comes to the plot, but it sure is good to see how Dan and Roseanne are doing in their golden years.
