Bill Maher Appeals for ‘Realistic’ Season 2 of ‘Roseanne': Her ‘Disillusionment’ With Trump (Video)
“As your friend, Roseanne, I must remind you of something very important… you’re a socialist!” the “Real Time” host says
Rosemary Rossi | April 27, 2018 @ 9:59 PM
Last Updated: April 28, 2018 @ 7:30 AM
.@RoseanneOnABC if in the next six months you don’t see Trump’s magic starting to work for you, if you’re still trading pills and driving an @Uber, wouldn’t the more realistic plotline for Season 2 be your disillusionment with Donald Trump? pic.twitter.com/dB3dZr2urV
Bill Maher confronted his “dear friend” Roseanne Barr about her support of President Donald Trump, joking on Friday’s “Real Time,” “You’re a socialist! You’ve been one for 30 years!”
What began as a cordial open letter to Barr, congratulating her on the “big fat” success of her ABC series “Roseanne” and recounting their early years as friends, pivoted to Maher bringing up something he deemed “important.”
“Now it’s 2018… and we have to talk about Trump,” Maher said.
“You’re a socialist! You’ve been one for 30 years!” Maher shouted. “You said, ‘All of my ideas are based in socialism.’ How does that intersect with Trump?”
Maher mentioned that when he’s on the road, people ask him about Barr. “They’re confused — ‘So, Roseanne came back to TV but she’s now a Republican?'” he said. “It’s like for the reboot of ‘Will & Grace’ if Will was into women now. Or if they brought back ‘Cops’ and everyone had a shirt on.”
He reminded her of days gone by when she said there should be a “maximum wage” of $100 million and that those who couldn’t live off of that should be “beheaded.”
“You had it right back when you said, ‘There is a serious class war going on in our country… a war on poor people by rich people,'” he said, quoting her.
Maher appealed to Barr, suggesting a “realistic plot line for Season 2” of her show.
“So, here’s the deal,” he began. “I get that you were mad as hell and wanted to throw a monkey wrench into the whole works and I won’t judge that. But if in the next six months you don’t see Trump’s magic starting to work for you, if [Dan and Roseanne Conner are] still trading pills and driving an Uber, wouldn’t the more realistic plot line for Season 2 be your disillusionment with Donald Trump?
“There’s no shame in it.”
Watch the video above.
'Roseanne' and 10 Other TV Shows and Movies That Retroactively Changed Their Continuity (Photos)
Sometimes shows and movies write themselves into a corner -- hard. That's not a problem if the series or franchise is pulling the plug for good. But with so many revivals and sequels happening today (not to mention programs that get picked up for an additional season after airing a "fauxnale") it's becoming more common to totally retcon (retroactive continuity) plot points to make things work. Here are some famous examples of writers turning back the clock, calling it "all a dream" and just literally pretending like nothing happened.
1. "Will & Grace" -- The 2006 series finale didn't leave a ton of room for a revival, what with Will (Eric McCormakc) and Grace (Debra Messing) having grown apart over a couple decades, gotten married and only reuniting in the final moments while dropping their children off at college. So, when NBC decided to bring the beloved sitcom back this fall, it was clear that ending would need to go. And it did within a matter of minutes in the premiere when Karen (Megan Mullally) explains away all that drama as a dream she had. The kids never existed, the partners were out (due to divorces) and everything was back to the status quo. Classic.
2. "Roseanne" -- First Dan (John Goodman) survived a heart attack in the final season, then it was revealed in the series finale that he'd actually died, but lived on in a novel the titular character wrote. Now, with the revival set for this spring (and the announcement it's including Goodman) we know they are going to need to retcon their retcon. Did that make sense?
3. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" -- Joss Whedon wants to pretend his first attempt to bring Buffy to life never happened -- and so do most fans. When Whedon got the chance to execute his vision properly with the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" series after bailing on the movie of the same name (based on his screenplay), he basically ignored any part of the film he hadn't agreed with. Good call.
4. "Newhart" -- This show was literally, entirely a dream. In the last two minutes of the final episode, Bob Newhart -- who’d play Dick Loudon, a Vermont innkeeper, for eight seasons -- wakes up in a strangely familiar bedroom. “Honey, wake up, you won’t believe the dream I just had,” he says to Suzanne Pleshette, who played his wife, Emily, on the '70s sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show." So that entire wacky show was retconned into never existing and just being a dream of Newhart's on his previous series. Yeah.
5. "Star Trek" -- Iconic villains-turned allies the Klingons debuted in 1966 as, due to makeup effects limitations, basically guys with tans and goatees. However, in 1979's "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," set 5 years after the original series, they received the forehead ridges they're known for. No one commented on the change in subsequent films and it was taken for granted audiences were supposed to pretend they were always like that. Until 1996, when "Deep Space Nine,' set 100 years later, confirmed that old school Klingons really did look different during the Original Series era (the explanation was provided in 2005 by "Star Trek: Enterprise.") But now comes 2017's "Star Trek: Discovery," set just 10 years before the events of the original series. This time, the Klingons look nothing like the original or forehead ridge versions with -- you guessed it -- no explanation given.
6. "St. Elsewhere" -- The staff of St. Eligius Hospital in Boston only exist in the mind of an autistic boy who imagined the NBC drama took place in his snow globe. No, seriously.
7. "Dallas" -- Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) was literally DEAD on this show for an entire season before he was brought back in a very bizarre way. His wife finds him in the shower and suddenly realizes that whole chunk of series was a dream. The was more than a little trippy for fans of the primetime CBS soap.
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8. "Prison Break" -- Apparently, anything is possible on this Fox series. Even bringing people back to life who have electrocuted or been decapitated -- on screen. But, you know, the CIA gets involved, papier-mâché heads. It's all good.
9. "Charmed" -- In the seventh season finale of this long-running WB series about a trio of magical sisters, the girls "killed" themselves off so they could escape their duties as the Charmed Ones. Because the show picked up an unexpected eighth season in the eleventh hour, the writers were forced to find a way to bring them back to the craft. Their solution? Have Homeland Security take responsibility for the cover-up. Works for us!
10. "X-Men: Days of Future Past" -- Remember how Professor Charles Xavier and Magneto died in "X-Men: The Last Stand"? Oh, you do? Why? Cause they didn't. Boom!
11. "Deadpool" -- Honestly, the entire Ryan Reynolds-led superhero series can be considered a retcon. Same actor from "X-Men Origins: Wolverine"? Check. Same character from that universe? Bingo. But they 100 percent pretend his introduction in the 2009 flick never happened.
Will and Grace didn’t have kids and Dan didn’t die — basically everything you knew is a lie
Sometimes shows and movies write themselves into a corner -- hard. That's not a problem if the series or franchise is pulling the plug for good. But with so many revivals and sequels happening today (not to mention programs that get picked up for an additional season after airing a "fauxnale") it's becoming more common to totally retcon (retroactive continuity) plot points to make things work. Here are some famous examples of writers turning back the clock, calling it "all a dream" and just literally pretending like nothing happened.
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