Where Are They Now? Here’s What Your Favorite TV Characters Are Doing Today
By Sundi Rose
Photo: ABC
Roseanne
The ninth and final season of the beloved blue-collar comedy was a strange departure from the eight seasons before it. “Strange” might be an understatement as the Connors won the Illinois state lottery and were suddenly in possession of $108 million dollars. As a result of this sudden wealth, the Connors went on one whacky adventure after another, leaving audiences scratching their head, wondering where their favorite show about a working-class family had gone.
The finale, however, walked back all this nonsense, when we find out it had all been a fantasy Roseanne cooked up to deal with the death of her husband, Dan. It was a sad and devastating way to end a series we loved for nine years, but it was a relief to put that last season out of its misery.
Roseanne Barr herself wrote about where everyone would be today, and far be it for me to imagine anything outside of her vision. She wrote in her blog:
"“D.J. gets published, Mark dies in Iraq, David leaves Darlene for a woman half his age, Darlene meets a woman and they have a test tube baby, Becky works at Walmart, Roseanne and Jackie open the first medical marijuana dispensary in Lanford, Illinois, and pay off the mortgage before the house is foreclosed on, Arnie becomes the best friend of the Governor of Illinois, Mom sells a painting for ten grand, Nancy and Arnie remarry, Jerry and the grandsons form a band like the Jonas Brothers, Dan shows up alive after faking his death, Leon has a sex change op, [and] Bonnie gets busted for selling crack.”"