Roseanne Barr's Epic Twitter Rant, Wages War on Hollywood, NBC and Anderson Cooper

**Catty** · November 30th, 2013, 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by Laurent

I don't know who was writing for her show the last few seasons, but whoever it was torpedoed it. The show went from hilarious to ridiculous. In the beginning when she was working a factory job with a bad perm, it felt real. Then she started wearing several tons of make-up and professionally styled hair with bumpkin clothes, still trying to keep the same vibe while glamming herself up. Finally, she just said fuck it and said to hell with realism.

I stopped watching after they won the lottery although I think the show was redeemed during the last episode. I think they listened to audience feedback and ended it in a good way.

**SHELLEE** · November 30th, 2013, 11:36 PM

Originally Posted by Bombshell

Did you see what they did last week?! I SHIT MYSELF. I don't want to spoil anything. But if you haven't seen last Sunday's, you need to watch it post haste!

No but I hear tell they kill off Brian which makes me none to happy. Btw I LOVE the use of "post haste".

**sjankis630** · November 30th, 2013, 11:53 PM

Didn't Roseanne claim to remember being molested when she was around 2?

God , I hope that isn't true.
But if it is ....... she is one rememberin' bitch!

**idunno** · December 1st, 2013, 06:16 AM

Hollidays, booze, fading career... a bad combination for a celebrity.

**aabbcc** · December 1st, 2013, 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by Catty

I stopped watching after they won the lottery although I think the show was redeemed during the last episode. I think they listened to audience feedback and ended it in a good way.

I also quit watching the show. It wasn't any good at all by then, with the exception of the theme song, which I loved. Deja View (here in Canada) still airs the show, and for some reason, all they seem to play are the later episodes. Very disappointing because the show was at its best in the early days. I don't know why they seldom show the first seasons.

**joebob** · December 1st, 2013, 11:56 AM

Originally Posted by MohandasKGanja

Didn't Roseanne claim to remember being molested when she was around 2?

She also onced talked about Jewish Mind Control. She's been ready for a pink wig for a long time.

**AgentOrange** · December 1st, 2013, 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by joebob

She also onced talked about Jewish Mind Control. She's been ready for a pink wig for a long time.

She recently introduced Cathy O Brien at a talk here in Toronto about MK Ultra mind control. Cathy O Brien claims to be a former CIA mind controlled Manchurian candidate or something.

**dallison** · December 1st, 2013, 04:45 PM

I would love if another sitcom came out, that was like the great years of Roseanne. I noticed that a lot of sitcoms have gone for the really weird type of sense of humor, where everything is really over the top. All of the characters have the same kind of sense of humor while being dumb as stick.

**Kittylady** · December 2nd, 2013, 03:23 AM

Originally Posted by SHELLEE

Family Guy is awesome.

Giggidy!

Whatever is going on with Roseanne she's just proved exactly why she has censors going over everything.

**fattymatty** · December 2nd, 2013, 02:28 PM

To me, she can do almost no wrong. Even if she's responsible for Roseanne losing it's shine and becoming typical sit com crap, I will love her and that show forever. That being said, I never thought this show would get off the ground.

**Witchywoman** · December 2nd, 2013, 02:44 PM

She looks damn good here....

Like an Aunt Bea makeover.

**aabbcc** · December 2nd, 2013, 03:41 PM

Her head looks too big for her body in that photo.

**hustle4alivin** · December 2nd, 2013, 05:23 PM

Yeah, Rosanne really fell off after Rosanne Barr and Tom Arnold (who was an EP on the show for awhile) managed to piss off and fire damn near every good writer in Hollywood back in the day. Getting hired, writing and getting fired from the show was a rite of passage for many a writer during the height of the show's fame back in the 1990's.

I think Rosanne hit its stride starting around season 3, peaked around 4 and 5 (Dan losing the bike shop, Becky running off and getting married, etc) and began to lose steam sometime midway through season 6, around the time Tom Arnold and Roseanne were going through their divorce. The ratings declined, so advertisers weren't willing to pay the rates that they were paying at the peak of the show's popularity, and ABC wasn't getting a return on their investment, but were still contractually obligated to pay Barr's salary, plus John Goodman and Laurie Metcalf (who were earning somewhere between $400-500K/episode at its peak). So the show had to take who they could afford after awhile. I like to pretend the final season didn't happen, but I'll give Roseanne credit for trying to clean up her mess by saying it was all a dream. I read somewhere that she didn't want to have a reunion for the show, so killing off Dan Connor and claiming that she made it all up was a final "fuck you" to ABC. Not the smartest decision (to me), but pure Roseanne Barr nonetheless.

Keep in mind that some of those writers were Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow, who went on to have very successful careers in their own right and probably have the power and pull to keep Barr blackballed for a very long time. It doesn't help that Roseanne goes off like this either.

Honestly, I don't think network television is a good place for the type of show Rosanne Barr wants. She'd be better off on cable, Netflix, or Amazon nowadays. Different day, different time.