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[Note: This article contains spoilers for the season premiere of The Conners.] Tonight saw ABC air the series premiere of The Conners, a.k.a. “What You Get When The Star Of Your Most Successful New Sitcom Does A Bunch Of Shit That Forces You To Fire Them, The Show” But while Roseanne Barr has been well-and-truly excised from the series that once bore her name—with ABC making it clear that she won’t profit in any way from the “spin-off” series—she may have still gotten something approximating the last laugh. About a month ago, Barr appeared on an internet chat show, announcing how disappointed she was in the way ABC had decided to kill Roseanne Conner off: An opioid overdose, building off a plotline that gradually built up through Roseanne’s last season, in which Roseanne developed a gradually worsening addition to pain pills after knee surgery. At the time, Barr called the decision “cynical and horrible,” stating that it wasn’t the way she wanted her long-running, groundbreaking T