15 Things You Never Knew About ‘Roseanne’

4. That’s My Space!

Leaving other actors alone was clearly not in the style for Barr and her then husband Tom Arnold. After Julia Louis-Dreyfus of Seinfeld fame unknowingly parked in Arnold’s assigned spot, Arnold left a heated note which read: “How stupid are you? Move your f–ing car, you a-hole!” Of course he used all the letters to get his point across. The actress, Seinfeld co-creator Larry David, and co-star Jason Alexander later confronted Arnold about it and Barr’s claws came out. She returned a volley with just as vile a note, accompanied by a bar of soap—“gifts” left on Louis-Dreyfus’ windshield. Long after Barr and Arnold were still telling the story, while the Seinfeld camp tried to avoid the unpleasant subject.

5. Er? Plot Twist?

Since much of the hilarity from the series was the Conners’ inability to pay all their bills, fans were a bit lost when they suddenly won the Illinois lottery to the tune of $108 million in season nine. What was really happening is that Roseanne Barr had bought the U.S. rights to Absolutely Fabulous, a popular British TV series, but no network was taking the bait. So she decided to have her own spin on it with the lottery episodes. In them the family embarked on various eye-popping spending sprees and in one episode, stars of Absolutely Fabulous’ Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley guest starred.

6. Roseanne’s House

In 2013, the house that was used for all the exterior shots of the Conner family home, was put up for sale for $129K. Given the fictional family’s continuous financial crisis, it’s interesting to consider that they might not have been able to purchase it themselves even at this low price. Either way, while the show is set in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois, the house where all the magic “happened” is found in Evansville, Indiana.