(CNN) The success of ABC's "Roseanne" revival has networks looking back to the future when it comes to the 1980s. Yet after the controversy stirred by that show and the guilty verdict this week against the decade's biggest star, Bill Cosby, there are reminders that the comfort associated with nostalgia obscures the baggage that can go with it. Culturally speaking, it was a time when networks like CNN and MTV were still in their infancy, and Fox News didn't exist. In the case of "Roseanne," star Roseanne Barr's status as a blue-collar icon has morphed into something pricklier, given her outspoken support of President Trump and embrace of conspiracy theories via social media. Not all the programs of that era, however, hold up particularly well, prone as they are to casual jokes about homosexuals, women or race that would be deemed insensitive or offensive by current standards.

Source: CNN April 27, 2018 18:45 UTC