One report says that John Goodman will do TWO things in the coming network TV season:
a supporting role in an HBO series on (fictitious) televangelists; and "The Conners" at ABC.
Which makes me wonder. Maybe John Goodman is returning to ABC, as Dan Conner, with an idea to giving the character a proper send-off so that the younger Conners can carry on without his generation. They could kill Dan off a second time? Or Dan could show up long enough to explain/justify Roseanne's absence, then gracefully take his leave?