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''I'm very proud of it. It's more relevant now than it was then. I'm very proud of its timelessness and, you know, the fact that it has a political edge that is even more relevant now than it was then. I'm proud of the fact that it's never gone off the air for 20 years. My stand-up comedy that it's based on was groundbreaking. I'm that kind of a person. I'm not going to do anything by the book or the way anybody else does it. I set out to talk about America's working women, and yeah, I guess that's groundbreaking.''

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'Roseanne': The Cast Looks Back On the Show's 20th Anniversary

By Tanner Stransky | Oct 22, 2008

In celebration of the groundbreaking sitcom's milestone, we asked the creative team -- from Roseanne Barr and John Goodman and the rest of the cast to staff writer Joss Whedon -- to share their memories

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