More than 35 years later, John Goodman is saying goodbye to Dan Conner.
With the two-part series finale of The Conners airing Wednesday at 8/7c on ABC, the Emmy winner said the seven-season revival has gone by “so fast” as he opened up about bidding farewell to the patriarchal character he originated on Roseanne in 1988.
“It’s really hard. It’s something I’m going to miss for a while. I’m old and resistant to change,” he told People, adding: “It was so exciting when we got this together and it seems like it was two weeks ago. Showing up every day and just being here with everybody. It’s a great place to work.”
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Goodman said, “It’s just being here every day and like [my costar] Jay [R. Ferguson] said, we just come in and laugh a lot. And it’s hard.”
After ABC gave the series an abbreviated renewal last May for its seventh and final season, Goodman said he’ll “be grateful for a long time” that the network gave them the “courtesy” of allowing them to finish the show.
After Roseanne Barr starred as the titular middle-class in matriarch in Roseanne for nine seasons from 1988 to 1997, she reunited her onscreen family for a revival in 2018. Although the updated series was renewed for another that year, Barr was terminated from the show for racially insensitive tweets.
The Conners premiered as a spin-off in October 2018, focusing on the eponymous family in the wake of Roseanne’s death from an opioid overdose.