Melissa we have very different evaluations of Arnold and his influence. I saw Barr do her stand up several times, as I recall shortly before she got the show. She was a wicked and brutally funny comic. I always thought of Tom Arnold as one of the several symptoms of her psychopathology that began to flare after the first few seasons of amazing successe.
On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 11:50 AM Melissa P <[email protected]> wrote: > I was a fan of the series and even attended four tapings, one of them > standing in the rain for hours waiting to get in, then freezing inside the > studio in three layers of thoroughly soaked clothes (which did not get dry > until after the cross-country flight back the next day). However, if my > memory holds, I was there for the taping of the episode Rosanne has cited > as her favorite. > > I'd probably irritate Roseanne herself with this assessment: The show's > best, most creative years were those in which Tom Arnold was involved. > > That said, I didn't think much of the reboot. In addition to it being > unfunny, I found the surrogate storyline bothersome for its straying from > ironclad, medical requirements of surrogacy. > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 11:14 PM, Doug Eastick <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm with PGage. I don't know why, but I stopped watching the original >> series after a few seasons. Guess I just didn't like it anymore. >> >> On Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 1:33 AM PGage, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I stopped watching Roseanne somewhere around season 3, around the time I >>> could no longer differentiate between her intentional humor (which can be >>> among the best) and her psychopathology. I still can’t, so won’t be >>> watching whatever number season this is. I don’t care about her politics >>> and wish her well. I hope she takes some pleasure in fact that her reboot >>> (wherever the numbers settle) will do better than a Cosby reboot would. >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 3:25 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 1:37 AM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Then this happened: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/president-trump-congratulates-roseanne-ratings-success-1202738940/ >>>>> >>>> >>>> I saw somewhere that the show goes to its family dynamic and ignores >>>> politics in the second episode. So if ratings fall, and they most likely >>>> will as curious viewers have had enough, we get to hear Trump blather that >>>> ratings fell because they are not talking about him. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> -- >>> Sent from Gmail Mobile >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
