This question is for people who watch rosaine like on nick @ night......?

Question

Does anyone know why they swiched out the becky's but then switched them back?

Answer 1

Two actresses, same role.
One of the most documented moments of the series occurred in the fifth season when Lecy Goranson (Becky) left the series to attend Vassar College. The character was absent for the second part of the season five and the first part of season six with the explanation that she was living with her husband, Mark Healy. Instead of writing Becky out, the character was recast with actress Sarah Chalke (now of Scrubs fame). Wary of the potential backlash to reshaping a longtime role, producers sought to diffuse the criticism. At the end of Chalke's first episode, the Conner family watched a Bewitched episode, and several characters complained about the recast of Darrin Stephens. Chalke said she'd always liked the second Darrin best and smiled.

Goranson returned to the role two seasons later. When Lecy first returns as Becky in the eighth season premiere, Roseanne and Darlene say things like, Where the hell have you been? It feels like you've been gone for three years. Becky responds, Why does everyone keep saying that? The episode concludes with Goranson and Chalke dancing as if they were each other's reflection in a black-and-white amusing parody of the closing credits of The Patty Duke Show, where Patty Duke played two identical cousins. The song, Nearly Identical Beckys, is set to the tune of The Patty Duke Show, featuring altered lyrics. William Schallert, who played Patty's father on the series, appears with Dan in a cameo at the end of the parody. The eighth-season opening credits -- showing morphed images of each cast member over the years -- featured images of both actresses as Becky, but only Goranson's name was displayed on-screen. Both actresses appeared in eighth-season episodes, and during David and Darlene's wedding, the actresses alternate between scenes in playing the role of Becky. The changes had become a running gag.

In one episode after ABC was acquired by The Walt Disney Company, the show, like many others on the channel, created a plot about the characters visiting Disney World. Chalke played Becky during this particular episode and tells Roseanne how excited she is to be going to Disney World when the announcement is made, leaving Roseanne to comment, Aren't you glad you were here this week?

After season eight, Goranson left again and was replaced by Chalke full-time. Chalke returned to the role in the ninth season because Goranson had signed on only for the eighth season, believing it would be the show's last.

In an episode that pretends to glimpse into the future, Jackie, dressed very much like her television mother Bev, is apparently DJ's guardian and only living relative (or at least the only one who will speak to him). During a visit to a psychiatrist with an adult DJ, played by John Goodman, she fearfully asks why DJ keeps muttering, they say she's the same, but she isn't the same. At the end of the episode, snippets from the series show the two actresses playing Becky with a voiceover of the adult DJ's mantra, they say she's the same, but she isn't the same, clearly driven mad by his sister's twin-like identity.

Answer 2

The original Becky was in college and wanted to concentrate on that .She came back when she was finished with school.

Answer 3

omg i was just watching that and they were showing the 2 beckys together... im not exactly sure y she left. i think she didnt want to be apart of the show, so she was replaced. i heard that they missed her soo much on the show..and brought her back in a later season.

Answer 4

no but I cant stand they did that though. I think the original becky wanted to try her hand at movies ( she was in boys dont cry ) and it didnt work out well, i love watching roseanne,lol

Answer 5

I think Lecy Goranson went to college

Answer 6

I've wondered that very thing many times, but I have no idea sorry!