Milkshake Duck and Jumping the Shark

  So Roseanne Barr is back promoting her show from over 30 years ago, as if it's an icon of American culture that just happened to disappear for a while. She claims that the love among the cast members is so strong that the interval since the show last aired feels like only a week.
    She says that the original set had been destroyed but has been painstakingly replicated, even down to the wallpaper. I used to watch the show pretty much every week, along with a number of other half-hour sitcoms typical of the time. I do recall the set, doodads, and tackiness and all, meant to represent grassroots working-class  American households.
    But am I the only one who remembers what happened in that kitchen with its iconic wallpaper. The show jumped the shark in the form of a Beverly Hills transformation when  the family fell into tremendous wealth.  With the show's fading ratings, I'd stopped watching regularly by then so I don't remember exactly what transformed their lifestyle---maybe a winning lottery ticket.  But they moved--bigtime--and left their old digs behind. Only today's TV audience  members are lured into the nostalgia of what is a fake image of the past.
   Neither do I remember what became of Roseanne when the show soon after ran its course.  But in contrast to the virginal, compassionate image she now presents on the talk shows, I do recall some bitter happenings. Such as undergoing some psycho-babble encounters where she was regressed to her early childhood, and publicly proclaimed that her own father had sexually abused her when she was a child. She'd had no memory of such until she underwent the psychotherapy sessions. Her father was dismayed at the charges, and vehemently denied them. I can't remember (and don't feel like looking up) whether he died as an accused man or, as I may correctly recall, that Roseanne subsequently retracted the charges.
    Cut to the present. I intended to watch the show in its entirety last week, with as open a mind as I'm capable of. Let's see what the show is about. Roseanne and her husband and sister spent the opening minutes of the show bitterly attacking her mother, who was staying with the Connors family due to her adverse circumstances. The mother's money was gone, so no one wanted her, the sister admitted hating her, and they ended up choosing lots to see who would take her first, in what was to be a weekly exchange.  Now this may be a problem facing a lot of families today, but it's never amusing or entertaining or educational to spew hatred and vitriol against an elderly parent, is it?
    (I suspect the show is soon to go down in TV history as the epitome of the Milkshake Duck. But I could of course be wrong.)