Fans spoke loud and clear in a recent Looper survey about “The Conners.” When 606 viewers were asked to name their favorite character, siblings Becky, Darlene and DJ all landed in the same range. (The breakdown: Becky Conner-Healy 16.01%, Darlene Conner 17.49%, and D.J. Conner 15.68%.) Aunt Jackie (Laurie Metcalf) scored a little better, with 18.32 percent of the votes. The least favorite, by far, was Harris Conner-Healy (Emma Kenney), the bratty teen daughter of Darlene and her ex-husband David (Johnny Galecki). Harris scored a measly 3.14 percent of votes in our survey. So who landed as most popular? That would be Dan Conner; the loveable patriarch played by John Goodman received 29.37 percent of the votes.
Dan Conner’s win may not be a huge surprise to fans. Time once described the character as one of the Top TV dads, right alongside Mike Brady and Ward Cleaver. And that hasn’t changed, even though his family life has. Over the past five seasons of “The Conners,” viewers saw Dan go from a mopey widower to a newlywed. His house is still open to his kids, grandkids, and sister-in-law, and he was accepting when his young grandson Mark Conner Healy came out as gay. Fans have always loved Dan. In a Reddit thread, one fan wrote that Dan has been a favorite “since day 1,” while another agreed, “Dan is always no 1 for me.”
While Dan was actually killed off in the original “Roseanne” series, Goodman was fine with that being a forgotten plotline. When asked what he thought of how his character was brought back for the revival series, he cracked that he “didn’t really care” how it happened, just that it did (via E! News).
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