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** The episode "Off To See The Wretched" is echoed in "A Double Lit Candle Can Cause A Meltdown", with Vanessa in the first episode and Rudy in the second one lying to their parents to sneak off somewhere they shouldn't be--an out-of-state concert and a teen dance club, respectively, and having the evening be a complete disaster, capped off by their parents finding out. The main difference being that Vanessa got chewed out far worse than Rudy did.

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* DawsonCasting: With Sondra, who was 20 during the first season. Sabrina [=LeBeauf=], who played her, almost didn't get the role because she was 26, only 10 years younger than Phylicia Rashad.

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With Sondra, who was 20 during the first season. Sabrina [=LeBeauf=], who played her, almost didn't get the role because she was 26, only 10 years younger than Phylicia Rashad.Rashad.
** Adam Sandler, then in his early 20s, played one Theo's friends when Theo was a high school upperclassman.
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* BannedEpisode: Thanks to the rape allegations, the whole show got this treatment on cable networks, including [=TVLand=]. It was not immediately known whether or not other programs starring Cosby are or will be included. However, at least on the Viacom-owned [=TVLand=] (and its related networks), mere references to ''The Cosby Show'' have been removed from the website altogether.[[note]] (often, even shows that formerly aired on the network and not currently accessible from the main page can be accessed if one knows how to search the site)[[/note]] After Cosby was sentenced to prison in 2018, Bounce TV, which started airing reruns ''after'' these allegations came to light, pulled the show from their schedule. As of this writing, reruns are still on [=TVOne=] (although they do skip over some episodes that may rub some viewers to wrong way, such as the infamous barbecue episode.), Amazon Prime and several ad-supported streaming services (like The Roku Channel and [=PopcornFlix=]) that carry other series from the Carsey-Werner catalog.

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* BannedEpisode: Thanks to the rape allegations, the whole show got this treatment on cable networks, including [=TVLand=]. It was not immediately known whether or not other programs starring Cosby are or will be included. However, at least on the Viacom-owned [=TVLand=] (and its related networks), mere references to ''The Cosby Show'' have been removed from the website altogether.[[note]] (often, even shows that formerly aired on the network and not currently accessible from the main page can be accessed if one knows how to search the site)[[/note]] After Cosby was sentenced to prison in 2018, Bounce TV, which started airing reruns ''after'' these allegations came to light, pulled the show from their schedule. As of this writing, reruns are still on [=TVOne=] (although they do skip over some episodes that may rub some viewers to the wrong way, such as the infamous barbecue episode.), Amazon Prime and several ad-supported streaming services (like The Roku Channel and [=PopcornFlix=]) that carry other series from the Carsey-Werner catalog.
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* AlanSmithee: Yep, he directed season 8's "You Can't Stop the Music" an(other) excuse for Cos indulge in his musical tastes on the show.

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* CreatorBacklash: At least three of the actors did say they wonder how they ever could have liked the fashions of TheEighties that are all over the place in it. Tempestt Bledsoe really spoke up about this in the ''Lookback Special'' given the fact that the actors didn't have a lot of say in their wardrobe and Vanessa's hairstyles in the first half of season 5 look utterly ridiculous as of 2023.



* OldShame: Not the show itself, but at least three of the actors did say they wonder how they ever could have liked the fashions of TheEighties that are all over the place in it. Tempestt Bledsoe really spoke up about this in the ''Lookback Special'' given the fact that the actors didn't have a lot of say in their wardrobe and Vanessa's hairstyles in the first half of season 5 look utterly ridiculous today.

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