Warning: There are spoilers ahead for Tuesday's "Roseanne," "Eggs Over, Not Easy."
In its first two weeks, the "Roseanne" revival didn't do a lot to address one of the show's lingering questions: How will the show explain the absence of Mark?
Glenn Quinn, who played Becky's boyfriend, and eventual husband, Mark for seven seasons on the ABC sitcom died in 2002 as the result of an accidental heroin overdose.
There was a minor mention of Mark's death on the season premiere, and Darlene's son is named after Becky's late husband. You can also spot a photo of Mark on a table behind the Conner couch in each episode.
It seemed like that might be the extent of the show's reference to Quinn, but that changed on Tuesday's episode with a tribute to the late actor at the episode's end.
Last chance to head back before spoilers.
"Eggs Over, Not Easy," centered around Becky as she continued her journey to be a surrogate for a woman named Andrea (played by Sarah Chalke, aka the original series' second Becky). She was hoping to use the $50,000 to buy a house with a yard for a new pup.
Her dreams came to a halt when she was told late on the episode there was a good chance she could never have children.
The 43-year-old Becky tries to take the news positively. But during a conversation with her younger sister Darlene near the episode's end, the eldest Conner child reveals she and Mark were planning to have their own kids one day.
"My life wasn't supposed to turn out like this," Becky tells her sister. "Mark and I were gonna have kids... We were trying, like all the time."
A teary-eyed Darlene, who is usually bickering with her sister most of the time, is completely shocked and says she assumed Becky never wanted to have kids because she never had any.
But that wasn't the case.
"No, I just never met anyone after who I wanted to have them with," she revealed. "I just never met anybody as good. I have high standards."
It was a heartbreaking reveal, and one that made Quinn's absence on the show more real.
The episode then ended with a fade to black and a tribute to the actor. You can’t see it if you try and watch the episode on Hulu, but it was captured and shared on Twitter as the episode aired.
A tribute to Glenn Quinn at the end of tonight's episode of #Roseanne.#RIP @therealroseanne pic.twitter.com/5eau2b1e7U
— William Davis (@davis1988will) April 11, 2018
Viewers still don't know when or how Mark's character died, but that may be a story the "Roseanne" writers are waiting to reveal on a future episode.
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