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Originally Posted by Ireneparalegal

When Roseanne was IN LOVE with her man Tom Arnold, he was made producer of the show (Roseanne) and had alot of input behind the scenes (much to the chagrin of alot of other people)...anyways, Tom Arnold had his own short-lived (very short-lived) show THE TOM ARNOLD SHOW. They incorporated that into the Roseanne show as a way to give it more publicity. It didn't matter that Tom had already been playing a character (Arnie)...the Roseanne characters weren't supposed to notice the RESEMBLANCE of the two guys...LOL

Irene your right but in real life it was called The Jackie Thomas Show and it aired mid-season right after Roseanne on ABC that year...however there was also to other shows called Tom (CBS 1994) and The Tom Show (The WB 1997) with him in it...

Anyways a little back story on The Jackie Thomas Show. It was a show with in a show where Jackie Thomas was an obnoxious actor who let fame get to his head and thought he handle the show so he took it over. It wasn't as successful as Roseanne but it had very good writing. Martin Mull also starred in it and that explains his absense from Roseanne at the time (his character was Leon Carp) Ive only seen one episode and Ive been looking for the rest of the series for awhile...