Even curiouser, this grifter’s name is “Jim” – as in Jimmy McGill, Saul’s birth name? And while Roseanne takes place in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois, Jimmy is from Cicero, Illinois – making it conceivable that he found his way to Lanford at some point before relocating to Albuquerque. That being said, Dan Conner mentions that Jim is in the “shoe business” – which could be explained away as either a lie, or maybe Jimmy worked at a shoe store before becoming a lawyer, and, eventually, the world’s sketchiest Cinnabon manager.
Complicating matters slightly, Rhea Seehorn, who played Kim Wexler on Better Call Saul, appeared as an animal shelter employee on a recent episode of The Conners, the newly Roseanne-less Roseanne. Although, that show takes place today, while the events of Better Call Saul only went as far as 2010, perhaps implying that Kim will change her name and profession in the interim.
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Also, it’s been suggested by some that Breaking Bad takes place in the same universe as The Walking Dead, thus paving the way for a season of The Conners in which Dan and Jackie have to fight their way through hordes of flesh-eating zombies.
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Related: Roseanne: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
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