'Roseanne' to air episode about Muslim neighbors in effort to promote tolerance

[brooklynite]

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Source: The Hill

The rebooted season of the sitcom "Roseanne" will feature an episode on Tuesday about a Muslim family living next door to the show's stars in an effort to promote tolerance.

Entertainment Weekly reported on Monday that the show's vocally pro-Trump star, Roseanne Barr, pushed for the show to address the issue in the episode.

“She wanted to get a comeuppance for her own bias,” co-executive producer Dave Caplan told the magazine. “That was her idea.”

Barr's character in the episode becomes paranoid that her Muslim neighbors are part of a terrorist sleeper cell, and are going to build a bomb made out of fertilizer.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/386567-roseanne-to-air-episode-about-muslim-neighbors

[HopeAgain]

1. I'll be busy watching ice melt at that time

Definitely more entertaining.

[louis-t]

2. I have a feeling this will backfire on her.

She's not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

[Ligyron]

12. Some Nazi fans will feel betrayed no doubt.

It's just inconceivable to me that such a significant portion of our fellow citizens are as dense, gullible and fearfully racist as seems to be the case.

They really believed Trump was a genius businessman and how those rural folks in the heartland fell for, never mind still support this big city, smart-ass New Yorker makes no sense to me.

[murielm99]

14. I have been on DU long enough to remember

a lot of South-bashing. People were spouting cliches about Southerners and calling them "Dumbfuckistan."

The Democrats from the South who have kept the lights burning and kept the party alive through thick and thing objected. They had every right.

I am a rural Democrat. My central committee is pretty active, and the grassroots organizations here are doing good work. I am one of those people who has worked to get Democrats elected. I get very tired of hearing about "those rural folks."

[Ligyron]

21. I apologize if it seemed I was mocking rural Americans.

I'm not and didn't mean to.

I've known, lived with and associated with rural people all my life. Many I know were always suspicious of and tended to denigrate big city, smart ass people as personified by New York slickster Donald Trump. I'm just saying: I don't get how so many came to trust and even hero-worship the Donald given he seems like everything they always hated.

[sarge43]

3. Trying to polish the turd, Rosie?

Whatev

[rurallib]

4. expect a nasty tweet from DC

and some lessons on the travel ban.

Does Rosie want it both ways?

[Dave Starsky]

5. She thinks her Muslim neighbors are terrorist killers?

Ha ha ha. That is just too fucking funny. Roseanne, you slay me.

How about an episode where Roseanne refuses to lend a lazy black mother two quarters so she can take her toddler into the pay toilet at the mall? Now, THAT would be an instant television classic!

The comedy just writes itself.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. "going to build a bomb made out of fertilizer."

Just like these upstanding non-Muslim terrorists -

[BigmanPigman]

15. Good point!

[Liberalagogo]

7. I watch the show

but it's NOTHING like it was. It is immensely depressing. Becky's struggling as a widow, so much thta she tried to rent out her uterus to a wealthy woman, only to find she's gotten too old to have a baby, Roseanne is in poor health and has to use a mobility chair to get upstairs, Darlene's an out-of-work single mother with two odd kids and a husband that may or may not come back to her, Jackie is alone, with no hint of what happened to her son, and Beverly got kicked out of the nursing home and legitimately threatened to commit suicide if she was forced into the county home.

Plus, it's only moderately amusing. Yes, I get her point, but this family is NOTHING like what a Shithole supporter's family would be like: interracial, cross-gender, lesbian/gay, liberal/conservative melting pot. The only time politics was brought up was in the first episode and shithole's name was not even said.

The whole Muslim neighbor tolerance thing has been done to death by sitcoms long before. It's not original.

Honestly the revived Will & Grace is better, but not by a lot. I'll just sit back and wait for the Murphy Brown revival next fall. And maybe the Mad About You revival.

[7962]

10. And the Seinfeld revival!

After they're all released from prison!

[Liberalagogo]

16. They sort of already did that

on Curb Your Enthusiasm. It was pretty great. But there's nothing definite about a Seinfeld reunion yet, while Mad About You and Murphy Brown are currently in the works, with only Murphy Brown actually committed to air next fall on CBS.

[Paladin]

8. Too little, too late. (nt)

[llmart]

9. Ratings must be down...

There isn't a whole lot of programs on mainstream TV that are worth watching, so she might not be the bottom of the barrel, but she's still getting very close. Has been show. Hopefully It'll die a quick death.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. This is a fine time for Radio Shack to close. Where am I going to buy a blank Beta tape for that? NT

[jmowreader]

18. You were probably being facetious, but...

https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=blank+beta+tapes&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=232531787759&hvpos=1t1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7285132010907323544&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9029625&hvtargid=kwd-301972047081&ref=pd_sl_9r5f99efj0_e

[mahatmakanejeeves]

19. I was. I have spares. Thanks anyway. NT

[stonecutter357]

13. the jpr/russian trolls will love it...

[marble falls]

17. Thanks for reminding me, I have other things to do. You know .... things.

[keithbvadu2]

20. I missed the first renewal show... Figured I would catch it on replay.

Don't care now.
I plan to miss the rest.

The earlier series was about an average struggling family.
I liked it back then. Still watch it on reruns.
Until they got stupid with the idea of a yooooooge lottery win.
Then it sucked.

Darlene's husband?
Is it still David?
If he's smart (a PHD now?), he will stay gone.

[cvoogt]

22. I hate the word tolerance.

That was a progressive stance in the 16th century maybe, but nowadays we need to go beyond mere 'tolerance'.

[TNNurse]

23. I cannot imagine anything that would get me to watch this show,

[Maeve]

24. Locking

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