How The Conners Wronged Johnny Galecki's David

When Roseanne got rebooted in 2018 and then again as The Conners later that same year, it made sense that the writers would have to write around Johnny Galecki's David. The actor was a bit busy at the time as one of the leads on one of the biggest shows on a rival channel. Thereby, it was one thing to have David and Darlene divorced and living in separate places, but it was another to make David a deadbeat dad. Everything the audience had known about David up to that point suggested that although ineffectual, he was not the type to abandon his children completely.