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The Conners Season 5 Nails One Story Most Sitcoms Avoid

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While The Conners season 5 doesn't recapture all of Roseanne's strengths, it does address one story that almost all family sitcoms steer clear of.


Warning: Spoilers for The Conners season 5, episode 7.


While it was tough to watch two of the show’s heroines lose their jobs at the same time, this plot line allowed The Conners season 5 to prove that the Roseanne spinoff can address economic realities that most family sitcoms ignore. The Conners are not like most families seen in television sitcoms. They don’t live in the sort of palatial home seen in Fuller House, and they don’t have access to the seemingly endless income available to the upper-middle-class characters of Modern Family.


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Even the Conners’ Halloween decorations seem out of their budget since, unlike most sitcom families, they live paycheck to paycheck. However, this gives The Conners as a series a chance to explore storylines that most other family sitcoms avoid entirely. This was proven in The Conners season 5, episode 7, “Take This Job and Shove It Twice,” when both Darlene and Louise lost their jobs in the same episode. The issue was not presented as a relief or an opportunity to turn over a new leaf but, realistically, as a real problem for both characters. Despite this, The Conners still wrung relatable humor out of the plot.


While The Conners season 5 got a fun episode out of Jackie’s desire to be a better parent than her mother, a jarring reminder that the spinoff completely retconned her son from Roseanne. The Conners continued the story of Roseanne after killing off the show’s former lead character, Roseanne Barr’s eponymous heroine. This led to some strange problems, as the early seasons of The Conners struggled to reference Roseanne without reminding viewers of the character's death and bringing down the light-hearted tone of the family sitcom.

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