re: #137 Belafon

Which is why they wrote about cross-dressing children, understanding neighbors from the Middle East, and had the son married to a black woman. //

I realize people here are cynical, but there’s plenty to suggest that what they were trying to do with the show went well beyond the money.

That is respectable. The thing is, they could have probably done that with a different vehicle. They didn’t necessarily need to go back to the well of Roseanne (a show, that honestly, in its first run lasted a season too long).