How to kill off Roseanne (The Character) Between this Reboot and Whatever Comes Next?

[Snaploud]

You honestly think they care? They would only care about that if too many people spoke out.

My comments were based upon the Hollywood Reporter's article:

Multiple sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the Disney-owned network is open to potential spinoff ideas with a catch: they have to be without Roseanne Barr and the actress and former head writer of the sitcom would not be able to financially benefit from any new incarnation of the series. A meeting about potential ways to continue TV's No. 1 show is expected to be held next week, sources say.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/roseanne-canceled-abc-open-spinoff-ideas-1116621

I doubt the company as a whole cares. There may be a random executive who cares enough to scuttle the deal over the matter, though.

 

[Caretaker]

You could actually switch it around and ask whether the character of Roseanne Conner deserves to die because of what Roseanne Barr did. I mean, yeah, she's fictional, but she's been around for 30 years and means a lot to millions of people.

But enough with the silly pseudo-philosophy.

Killing her off because of a botched operation might send some mixed signals, considering they planned on going to Mexico for the surgery.

But not killing off the character leaves it open for people to actually think she'll return one day. Then we get season eight of The X Files with people holding out for whenever Duchovny was due up to return.

 

[Nerys Myk]

She's replaced by Ted McGinley.

 

[Pondwater]

She goes fishing with Jerry.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

How about recasting her with Sarah Chalke in old woman make-up?!

 

[bigdaddy]

But not killing off the character leaves it open for people to actually think she'll return one day. Then we get season eight of The X Files with people holding out for whenever Duchovny was due up to return.

Killing Dan off hasn't stopped him from returning.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Maybe they replace her with a robot AI that monitors Twitter for what supremacist sentiment and repeats any identified tweets.

Then again people might not be able to tell the difference and we'd be right back where we started.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Killing Dan off hasn't stopped him from returning.

Well, no, but people like John Goodman.

 

[DrCorby]

She chokes to death because her foot is so firmly wedged in her mouth...

 

[sbk1234]

She dies of some disease, because she has no medical insurance and can't afford any treatment.

 

[Relayer1]

She dies of some disease, because she has no medical insurance and can't afford any treatment.

Beat me to it.

 

[Spot's Meow]

How about recasting her with Sarah Chalke in old woman make-up?!

It worked for Mama's Family.

 

[Ralphis]

I'd just maybe recast the character and call the show "The Conner's". If people want to consider the previous seasons plus the revival season part of the new show's continuity, cool. If they want to think of The Conner's as a new show, that's fine too. It's kind of like when the old Clevland Browns moved to Baltimore and were renamed the Baltimore Ravens, but a few years later were retconed into being considered an expansion team when a 'new' Clevland Browns were formed. Or something like that. Probably the worst analogy ever, but I'm trying.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Hang on, the Cleveland Browns are a sports team?! I didn't realize that Family Guy character's name was a pun.

 

[bigdaddy]

Hang on, the Cleveland Browns are a sports team?! I didn't realize that Family Guy character's name was a pun.

Very few people would call the Cleveland Browns a sports team. Sports teams usually win a game or two a decade.

 

[USS Firefly]

She gets an accident and is replaced with Charisma Carpenter

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Wow. I knew Cleveland Browns was a sports team but never made that connection once until you pointed it out.

For how to kill the character, here's another idea. She's just walking down the street when a convenience store is robbed. A vigilante takes out his gun and shoots down the street at the escaping getaway car, missing the car completely and hitting her.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Nuke her from orbit....

 

[DrCorby]

For how to kill the character, here's another idea. She's just walking down the street when a convenience store is robbed. A vigilante takes out his gun and shoots down the street at the escaping getaway car, missing the car completely and hitting her.

Roseanne Connor is visiting New York City. While walking down Fifth Avenue, President Trump shoots her for no reason. But nothing happens, because he's long said he could do that and that there would be no consequences...

 

[XCV330]

A jet engine falls on a drab, working class house in Lanford Illinois one day. No one was home, fortunately. The family had gone camping. The jet's serial numbers cannot be traced to any known aircraft in the region, and the Conners family, lead by the long time widower husband Dan, and his grown up children, are given rooms in a nearby Holiday Inn while the FAA sorts it out.

But there's a dream at night. A feeling, as if there was someone there who was missing, a hate-filled irrational self-obsessed Ambien chugging nightmare that looked vaguely like the mother they had known long ago, in a previous century. A century where Dan had died instead. Also there's a bit about a Bunny making you want to burn pedofiles' homes down. The end.

sorry. sometimes I question my commitment to sparklevision