Roseanne Barr's Show Revival Will Crash and Burn

SOME THINGS ARE BETTER SIMPLY LEFT UNDONE. Like say, a revival of Roseanne. Despite my dislike for all things that Roseanne, a committed liberal, believes in outside of the show she did, I cannot deny that the show was a good one. I'd even go as far as to say it was iconic. 

Certainly one of the successes of the show was that it simply was a typical all-American family struggling through life as so many Americans do.

Simply put, it resonated resoundingly with typical everyday people like you and I.

FOR OTHER REASONS I think there were a lot of shows that had their day, and were profoundly successful for so many reasons it would be impossible to break it all down. Surely one such show that comes to mind is the Carol Burnett Show. The antics and the chemistry of that team of talented comedians was a force to be reckoned with to be sure.

For a long time I have even held, and do to this day, that the Carol Burnett Show was even perhaps one of the BEST COMEDIES ON TELEVISION ever. And while I'd love to see what's left of the cast come back and try it again...

YOU SIMPLY CANNOT DO IT LIKE THAT AGAIN!

I remember a long time ago reading an article that asked Jim Carey why he never did a third PET DETECTIVE movie. His answer?

Jim Carey thought that by the time he'd jump into character for Pet Detective a third time around, he'd not be original anymore. He'd simply be doing an impersonation of the character he created and it wouldn't be funny anymore. Or good.

And so that was the end of Pet Detective. And I think he was right in his way of thinking to be honest.

Carol Burnett cannot come back and copy what she did with her show and be successful in doing that. Take another show that I think would fall under the same frame of thought.

SEINFELD!

Granted, here you have a cast who all are alive and well and quite frankly still funny. And they've mostly all gone on to have successful careers post-Seinfeld. But even if this team, and even the writers, all got back together to revive the show and hope to have a newly found success similar to the one they enjoyed before, they'd all be kidding themselves.

Seinfeld was funny for the show that it was. But it was also funny because it was fresh and everyone involved was having the time of their lives. Anyone would be a fool to think that they could do that again and have a successful show.

So, why does Roseanne think her show will be different? I really have no idea. Besides the idea that she essentially killed the show when her and Dan ultimately won the lottery. It was so far removed from the entire concept of the show that it just fell flat.

DO THEY COME BACK POOR AGAIN AFTER HAVING LIVED THE GOOD LIFE? AND DIDN'T HER AND DAN GET DIVORCED EVENTUALLY? 

I didn't do the research for this as I don't feel it is necessary, and honestly don't remember. Either way I don't it matters one iota.

Roseanne would do well do leave her show in the annals of history. There is even some thought that comes to mind that trying to revive the show may keep newer audiences from having any interest in tuning into any reruns of the old show.

IF THE NEW SHOW IS LOUSY, and I happen to think it will be, IT IS THE NEW SHOW AUDIENCES WILL REMEMBER.

In a nutshell, don't ruin a good thing is what I say. Of course, my advice is not really advise. It's just an opinion. And no one in Hollywood, and certainly not Roseanne Barr herself, will be reading this commentary and be persuaded to change her mind.

THAT ALL ASIDE, you do have some actors and personalities in their later years, their careers essentially dried up, who go on to pawn off their talents to skin creams, pain ointments, and dietary supplements. Maybe they need the money. Maybe Roseanne needs the money.

Or maybe she really has something up her sleeve that she can pull off her show's revival. I doubt it. But only time will tell. Will I tune in? Probably. Just because I am curious. But I think once the curiosity is done and my opinion is confirmed to be fact...

I'LL JUST MOVE ON LIKE I THINK SHE PROBABLY SHOULD...HAVE.