Summary The Conners season 6 features a touching tribute to the late Roseanne, with Roseanne’s mother Bev offering a heartfelt speech to Dan.
Bev’s speech credits Dan with bringing happiness to Roseanne’s life and reveals a softer side of Bev that few viewers could have anticipated.
This tribute suggests that The Conners season 6 may be setting up Bev’s death, as the show ties up loose ends and allows her to make amends before the character’s demise.
Not only did a major Roseanne character return in The Conners season 6, but they brought with them a devastating tribute to the show’s former main character. In the six years since Roseanne was retooled into The Conners, the sitcom spinoff has always had a troubled relationship with its former heroine. Since Roseanne’s real-life actor Roseanne Barr was fired for racist tweets, the show avoided eulogizing her at length and drawing attention to her absence for the first few seasons of The Conners. However, Roseanne was a huge part of the family’s lives, so the series inevitably acknowledges her sometimes.
While The Conners season 7 might see the series shy away from mentioning her again, season 6 of the spinoff has already featured a touching tribute to the late sitcom heroine. Season 6, episode 2, “Valentine’s Day Treats and Credit Card Cheats” saw one pivotal Roseanne character return to the series for the first time since midway through season 5, and she provided a moving tribute to Roseanne in the process. This touching elegy couldn’t have come from a more unexpected source as it was Roseanne’s bitter, perpetually aggrieved mother Beverly who provided the episode’s surprisingly touching scene.
Beverly Told Dan He Was Roseanne’s Rock In The Conners Season 6
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“Valentine’s Day Treats and Credit Card Cheats” saw Jackie investigate a string of frivolous purchases made on her elderly mother’s credit card, assuming frauds were responsible. Instead, it turned out that Bev had spent the money on puppies, a timeshare, and charitable donations herself. While none of The Conners’ main characters are rich, the infamously cheap Bev seemed like the least likely character to make these extravagant purchases. However, when Dan arrived to tell her she needed to give up the puppies, Roseanne’s Bev offered a heartbreaking tribute to him and her late daughter that proved she really had changed.
The Conners is available on Hulu; Roseanne is available to watch on Peacock.
Despite her advanced dementia and her historic struggles with her son-in-law, Bev gave Dan an eloquent, moving speech that credited him with all of Roseanne’s happiness. She told Dan that he wasn’t the rock that dragged her daughter down, as Bev had once feared, but instead proved the rock that weathered all the storms of her tumultuous life. Bev finally burying the hatchet with Dan after decades of resentment was a genuine shock, and seeing her admit that Roseanne’s widower brought her daughter all the joy in her life was one of the spinoff’s most affecting tributes to Roseanne’s central couple.
Why Bev’s Speech to Dan Was So Surprising (& Sad)
After The Conners season 6 premiere changed Darlene’s story by proving that she wasn’t as unfortunate as she seemed, “Valentine’s Day Treats and Credit Card Cheats” showed the audience a new, softer side of Bev that few viewers could have anticipated. However, this was also a tragic twist, as it proved that The Conners season 6 is almost certainly setting up Bev’s death. Between her unanticipated appreciation of Dan and her season 5 reunion with Jackie, it seems that The Conners is tying up any loose ends and allowing Bev to make amends before the Roseanne character’s death.