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* GenreTurningPoint: This show was able to not only bring about a more ideal image for the African-American family, one with a middle-class background and having the same problems and aspirations as their white counterparts, and without much in the way of [[JiveTurkey lower class stereotypes]], therefore popularizing the BlackSictom, but also helped to revive the DomCom format to a new generation, subverting gender roles like having the mother be a breadwinner, while the father is a stay at home dad, while also embracing a lot of tropes from 50s sitcoms.
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* GenreTurningPoint: This show was able to not only bring about a more ideal image for the African-American family, one with a middle-class background and having the same problems and aspirations as their white counterparts, and without much in the way of [[JiveTurkey lower class stereotypes]], therefore popularizing the BlackSictom, BlackSitcom, but also helped to revive the DomCom format to a new generation, subverting gender roles like having the mother be a breadwinner, while the father is a stay at home dad, while also embracing a lot of tropes from 50s sitcoms.
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* GenreTurningPoint: This show was able to not only bring about a more ideal image for the African-American family, one with a middle-class background and having the same problems and aspirations as their white counterparts, and without much in the way of [[JiveTurkey lower class stereotypes]], therefore popularizing the BlackSictom, but also helped to revive the DomCom format to a new generation, subverting gender roles like having the mother be a breadwinner, while the father is a stay at home dad, while also embracing a lot of tropes from 50s sitcoms.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The pilot episode, where Cliff calls Theo out for continued poor academic performance at school:
** When college dropout Cosby was invited in 1989 to the University of Notre Dame to speak to a group of black athletes who were graduating. During the course of the speech, [[https://deadspin.com/bill-cosby-once-publicly-bullied-a-notre-dame-football-1661325778 he addressed Dean Brown]], an all-American tackle for the Irish, what his [=GPA=] was, to which Brown replied 2.5; Cosby, according to news reports, then proceeded to humiliate him in front of the other students and parents ("2.5 is OK if you have a mental disorder"), suggesting that Brown did not put forth any effort and berating his effort to tears, and cutting him off every time Brown or someone else tried to defend him. [[https://deadspin.com/the-nd-player-bill-cosby-berated-felt-like-a-failure-fo-1661591222 Brown, who died in 2012, said he felt like a failure for years after this]].
** Ennis Cosby, who was the basis of Theo, eventually discovered that he was dyslexic, which contributed to his poor academic performance. It's a little awkward to see Cosby accusing his learning-disabled son of slacking off by proxy. Ennis's dyslexia was eventually written into Theo's character, so this even works in-universe.
** When college dropout Cosby was invited in 1989 to the University of Notre Dame to speak to a group of black athletes who were graduating. During the course of the speech, [[https://deadspin.com/bill-cosby-once-publicly-bullied-a-notre-dame-football-1661325778 he addressed Dean Brown]], an all-American tackle for the Irish, what his [=GPA=] was, to which Brown replied 2.5; Cosby, according to news reports, then proceeded to humiliate him in front of the other students and parents ("2.5 is OK if you have a mental disorder"), suggesting that Brown did not put forth any effort and berating his effort to tears, and cutting him off every time Brown or someone else tried to defend him. [[https://deadspin.com/the-nd-player-bill-cosby-berated-felt-like-a-failure-fo-1661591222 Brown, who died in 2012, said he felt like a failure for years after this]].
** Ennis Cosby, who was the basis of Theo, eventually discovered that he was dyslexic, which contributed to his poor academic performance. It's a little awkward to see Cosby accusing his learning-disabled son of slacking off by proxy. Ennis's dyslexia was eventually written into Theo's character, so this even works in-universe.
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** The pilot episode, where Cliff calls Theo out for continued poor academic performance at school:
** *** When college dropout Cosby was invited in 1989 to the University of Notre Dame to speak to a group of black athletes who were graduating. During the course of the speech, [[https://deadspin.com/bill-cosby-once-publicly-bullied-a-notre-dame-football-1661325778 he addressed Dean Brown]], an all-American tackle for the Irish, what his [=GPA=] was, to which Brown replied 2.5; Cosby, according to news reports, then proceeded to humiliate him in front of the other students and parents ("2.5 is OK if you have a mental disorder"), suggesting that Brown did not put forth any effort and berating his effort to tears, and cutting him off every time Brown or someone else tried to defend him. [[https://deadspin.com/the-nd-player-bill-cosby-berated-felt-like-a-failure-fo-1661591222 Brown, who died in 2012, said he felt like a failure for years after this]].
** *** Ennis Cosby, who was the basis of Theo, eventually discovered that he was dyslexic, which contributed to his poor academic performance. It's a little awkward to see Cosby accusing his learning-disabled son of slacking off by proxy. Ennis's dyslexia was eventually written into Theo's character, so this even works in-universe.
** The pilot episode, where Cliff calls Theo out for continued poor academic performance at school:
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** While she handled it in a very overbearing manner, Clair was right in that the ill Sondra shouldn't be around the babies and risk getting them sick.
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** While In "The Day Of The Locusts", while she handled it things in a very overbearing manner, Clair was right in that the ill Sondra shouldn't be around the babies and risk getting them sick.
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** [[Franchise/{{DCAU}} Amanda Waller]] appears as one of Clair's friends from high school in ''Clair's Reunion.''
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* IdiotPlot: A couple a season, and ''usually'' involving [[TheMillstone Vanessa.]] One memorable one involved her and her friends defying her and their parents to go to a concert '''out of the state''', and in the ensuing idiocy, they lose their car, their money ''and'' their tickets due to trusting a con artist who pretended to be a security guard who said he could get them backstage. Clair sums it up perfectly:
--> '''Clair:''' "Anyone with ''half a gnat's brain'' would say, 'I'm going home now!'"
--> '''Clair:''' "Anyone with ''half a gnat's brain'' would say, 'I'm going home now!'"
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** In one episode, Cliff is planning to buy new furniture for his office, and calculating the sizes he will need. Vanessa suggests that he make his calculations using Base 12 instead of the more familiar Base 10, but Cliff finds the idea confusing and silly. The episode portrays Cliff as wrong and Vanessa as right, but in reality, the practical value of Vanessa's suggestion was extremely dubious, for several reasons :
*** First, Vanessa claims that, since there are 12 inches in a foot, using Base 12 would be faster, because you wouldn't need to divide by 12 to convert inches to feet. However, eliminating that division step would only save a person a few seconds, which in most cases would be insignificant.
*** Second, whatever time that you would save by not having to divide by 12 at the end would likely be eaten up by the time you would spend mentally converting figures into Base 12 in the first place. This is borne out in the episode itself, when Cliff and Vanessa test out her theory by each adding up a series of numbers. Vanessa does reach the answer faster than Cliff, and the episode presents this as proof that Vanessa is right. But the episode ignores the fact that Vanessa only reached the answer a few seconds faster than Cliff did, meaning that the savings in time was trivially small.
*** Third, and most important ... In most situations, it is far more important to complete mathematical calculations ''accurately'' than to complete them quickly. Even if it is true that using Base 12 is faster, this episode ignored the fact that using an unfamiliar system like Base 12 also greatly increases the risk of making an error. In this case, Cliff was calculating sizes of furniture for his office. If he followed Vanessa's suggestion of using Base 12, Cliff might shave a few seconds off his calculation time ... but if he wound up buying the wrong size furniture because he had made a mistake (due to using an unfamiliar mathematical system), it would cost him far, '''''far''''' more than a few seconds to correct the error.
*** First, Vanessa claims that, since there are 12 inches in a foot, using Base 12 would be faster, because you wouldn't need to divide by 12 to convert inches to feet. However, eliminating that division step would only save a person a few seconds, which in most cases would be insignificant.
*** Second, whatever time that you would save by not having to divide by 12 at the end would likely be eaten up by the time you would spend mentally converting figures into Base 12 in the first place. This is borne out in the episode itself, when Cliff and Vanessa test out her theory by each adding up a series of numbers. Vanessa does reach the answer faster than Cliff, and the episode presents this as proof that Vanessa is right. But the episode ignores the fact that Vanessa only reached the answer a few seconds faster than Cliff did, meaning that the savings in time was trivially small.
*** Third, and most important ... In most situations, it is far more important to complete mathematical calculations ''accurately'' than to complete them quickly. Even if it is true that using Base 12 is faster, this episode ignored the fact that using an unfamiliar system like Base 12 also greatly increases the risk of making an error. In this case, Cliff was calculating sizes of furniture for his office. If he followed Vanessa's suggestion of using Base 12, Cliff might shave a few seconds off his calculation time ... but if he wound up buying the wrong size furniture because he had made a mistake (due to using an unfamiliar mathematical system), it would cost him far, '''''far''''' more than a few seconds to correct the error.
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** Iman and Angela Bassett can be spotted as patients of Cliff.
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** An unrecognizable Alicia Keys played one of Rudy's friends at a sleepover party. All of five years old, she has no individual lines, has short hair and is never addressed by name, unlike all the other children. She is credited by her real name, Alicia Cook.
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** An unrecognizable Alicia Keys Music/AliciaKeys played one of Rudy's friends at a sleepover party. All of five years old, she has no individual lines, has short hair and is never addressed by name, unlike all the other children. She is credited by her real name, Alicia Cook.
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** A pre-''Series/HomeImprovement'' Patricia Richardson plays one of Cliff's patients in "Calling Dr. Huxtable."
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** A pre-''Series/HomeImprovement'' Patricia Richardson Creator/PatriciaRichardson plays one of Cliff's patients in "Calling Dr. Huxtable.""
** A pre-''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' Creator/GatesMcFadden appears in the episode "Cliff's 50th Birthday". She's billed by her real name, Cheryl [=McFadden=].
** A pre-''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' Creator/GatesMcFadden appears in the episode "Cliff's 50th Birthday". She's billed by her real name, Cheryl [=McFadden=].
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** The show's very reputation itself ever since the rape allegations against Cosby have surfaced. Is it still a timeless classic show despite the misdeeds of its main star, or has it become unwatchable because of those? Some critics have [[TakeAThirdOption proposed a middle ground]] on the issue, stating that the show should not be in syndication now but can be [[PosthumousPopularityPolynomial brought back after Cosby dies.]]
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** The show's very reputation itself ever since the rape allegations against Cosby have surfaced. Is it still a timeless classic show despite the misdeeds of its main star, or has it become unwatchable because of those? Some critics have [[TakeAThirdOption proposed a middle ground]] on the issue, stating that the show should not be in syndication now but can be [[PosthumousPopularityPolynomial [[PosthumousPopularityPotential brought back after Cosby dies.]]
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** The show's very reputation itself ever since the rape allegations against Cosby have surfaced. Is it still a timeless classic show despite the misdeeds of its main star, or has it become unwatchable because of those? Some critics have [[TakeAThirdOption proposed a middle ground]] on the issue, stating that the show should not be in syndication now but can be [[PosthomousPopularityPolynomial brought back after Cosby dies.]]
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** The show's very reputation itself ever since the rape allegations against Cosby have surfaced. Is it still a timeless classic show despite the misdeeds of its main star, or has it become unwatchable because of those? Some critics have [[TakeAThirdOption proposed a middle ground]] on the issue, stating that the show should not be in syndication now but can be [[PosthomousPopularityPolynomial [[PosthumousPopularityPolynomial brought back after Cosby dies.]]
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** The show's very reputation itself ever since the rape allegations against Cosby have surfaced. Is it still a timeless classic show despite the misdeeds of its main star, or has it become unwatchable because of those? Some critics have [[TakeAThirdOption proposed a middle ground]] on the issue, stating that the show should not be in syndication now but can be [[DeadArtistsAreBetter brought back after Cosby dies.]]
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** The show's very reputation itself ever since the rape allegations against Cosby have surfaced. Is it still a timeless classic show despite the misdeeds of its main star, or has it become unwatchable because of those? Some critics have [[TakeAThirdOption proposed a middle ground]] on the issue, stating that the show should not be in syndication now but can be [[DeadArtistsAreBetter [[PosthomousPopularityPolynomial brought back after Cosby dies.]]
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* HilariousInHindsight: Late in Season 2, Rudy does extra chores do buy a "Mega Woman" action figure, who is married to "Mega Man." The video game world would see the release of ''VideoGame/MegaMan1'' a few years later.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Late in Season 2, Rudy does extra chores do to buy a "Mega Woman" action figure, who is married to "Mega Man." The video game world would see the release of ''VideoGame/MegaMan1'' a few years later.
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* IdiotPlot: A couple a season, and ''usually'' involving [[TheMillstone Vanessa.]] One memorable one involved her and her friends defying her and their parents to go to a concert '''out of the state''', and in the ensuing idiocy, they lose their car, their money ''and'' their tickets due to [[WhatAnIdiot trusting a con artist who pretended to be a security guard who said he could get them backstage.]] Clair sums it up perfectly:
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* IdiotPlot: A couple a season, and ''usually'' involving [[TheMillstone Vanessa.]] One memorable one involved her and her friends defying her and their parents to go to a concert '''out of the state''', and in the ensuing idiocy, they lose their car, their money ''and'' their tickets due to [[WhatAnIdiot trusting a con artist who pretended to be a security guard who said he could get them backstage.]] backstage. Clair sums it up perfectly:
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment:
** The Cosby allegations cast a new light on "Last Barbecue" from Season 7, in which a "secret barbecue sauce" Cliff makes that gets partygoers sedated and aroused [[http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/trending/Cosby-Show-episode-features-Cliff-Huxtable-drugging-partygoers-with-mystical-barbecue-sauce.html plays a key role in that episode's plot]].
** "The Day the Spores Landed" has Cliff dreaming he, Theo, Elvin, Martin, and 11,000,000 other men are pregnant. Among those men is basketball player Magic Johnson. Shortly before the series ended, Johnson announced he was HIV positive. Unsurprisingly, this reference was deleted in syndication. [[note]]The only way to see the episode now is with the reference intact on Amazon prime, which offers the entire series in their first-run formats. The edited version [[BannedEpisode is no longer included in the show's syndication package]] due to sensitivity following the rape scandal against Cosby[[/note]]
** In a 1987 episode, Creator/RobertCulp (Cosby's old co-star in ''Series/ISpy'') guest-starred as Scott Kelly, an old Navy chum of Cliff's who was visiting the Huxtables, along with his wife, played by Ann Reinking. Scott and Cliff reminisce about old times, and Scott gets the bright idea to put potato chips on pizza like they did in the Navy. His wife puts the kibosh on that idea, as Scott has a heart condition and she doesn't want him to have a heart attack. It's all PlayedForLaughs, but 23 years later, Culp died of a heart attack in real life.
** The Cosby allegations cast a new light on "Last Barbecue" from Season 7, in which a "secret barbecue sauce" Cliff makes that gets partygoers sedated and aroused [[http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/trending/Cosby-Show-episode-features-Cliff-Huxtable-drugging-partygoers-with-mystical-barbecue-sauce.html plays a key role in that episode's plot]].
** "The Day the Spores Landed" has Cliff dreaming he, Theo, Elvin, Martin, and 11,000,000 other men are pregnant. Among those men is basketball player Magic Johnson. Shortly before the series ended, Johnson announced he was HIV positive. Unsurprisingly, this reference was deleted in syndication. [[note]]The only way to see the episode now is with the reference intact on Amazon prime, which offers the entire series in their first-run formats. The edited version [[BannedEpisode is no longer included in the show's syndication package]] due to sensitivity following the rape scandal against Cosby[[/note]]
** In a 1987 episode, Creator/RobertCulp (Cosby's old co-star in ''Series/ISpy'') guest-starred as Scott Kelly, an old Navy chum of Cliff's who was visiting the Huxtables, along with his wife, played by Ann Reinking. Scott and Cliff reminisce about old times, and Scott gets the bright idea to put potato chips on pizza like they did in the Navy. His wife puts the kibosh on that idea, as Scott has a heart condition and she doesn't want him to have a heart attack. It's all PlayedForLaughs, but 23 years later, Culp died of a heart attack in real life.
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** The Cosby allegations cast a new light on "Last Barbecue" from Season 7, in which a "secret barbecue sauce" Cliff makes that gets partygoers sedated and aroused [[http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/trending/Cosby-Show-episode-features-Cliff-Huxtable-drugging-partygoers-with-mystical-barbecue-sauce.html plays a key role in that episode's plot]].
** "The Day the Spores Landed" has Cliff dreaming he, Theo, Elvin, Martin, and 11,000,000 other men are pregnant. Among those men is basketball player Magic Johnson. Shortly before the series ended, Johnson announced he was HIV positive. Unsurprisingly, this reference was deleted in syndication. [[note]]The only way to see the episode now is with the reference intact on Amazon prime, which offers the entire series in their first-run formats. The edited version [[BannedEpisode is no longer included in the show's syndication package]] due to sensitivity following the rape scandal against Cosby[[/note]]
** In a 1987 episode, Creator/RobertCulp (Cosby's old co-star in ''Series/ISpy'') guest-starred as Scott Kelly, an old Navy chum of Cliff's who was visiting the Huxtables, along with his wife, played by Ann Reinking. Scott and Cliff reminisce about old times, and Scott gets the bright idea to put potato chips on pizza like they did in the Navy. His wife puts the kibosh on that idea, as Scott has a heart condition and she doesn't want him to have a heart attack. It's all PlayedForLaughs, but 23 years later, Culp died of a heart attack in real life.
** "The Day the Spores Landed" has Cliff dreaming he, Theo, Elvin, Martin, and 11,000,000 other men are pregnant. Among those men is basketball player Magic Johnson. Shortly before the series ended, Johnson announced he was HIV positive. Unsurprisingly, this reference was deleted in syndication. [[note]]The only way to see the episode now is with the reference intact on Amazon prime, which offers the entire series in their first-run formats. The edited version [[BannedEpisode is no longer included in the show's syndication package]] due to sensitivity following the rape scandal against Cosby[[/note]]
** In a 1987 episode, Creator/RobertCulp (Cosby's old co-star in ''Series/ISpy'') guest-starred as Scott Kelly, an old Navy chum of Cliff's who was visiting the Huxtables, along with his wife, played by Ann Reinking. Scott and Cliff reminisce about old times, and Scott gets the bright idea to put potato chips on pizza like they did in the Navy. His wife puts the kibosh on that idea, as Scott has a heart condition and she doesn't want him to have a heart attack. It's all PlayedForLaughs, but 23 years later, Culp died of a heart attack in real life.
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* CreatorsPet: Olivia was blatantly added because Rudy had grown up so much that the earlier "Cosby with Cute Kids" antics were missing, meaning scene after scene of he and Olivia being cute together.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Late in Season 2, Rudy does extra chores do buy a "Mega Woman" action figure, who is married to "Mega Man." The video game world would see the release of ''VideoGame/MegaMan1'' a few years later.
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* ViewerGenderConfusion: Maria from "Slumber Party" was believed by many to initially be a boy, given her short hair and wearing red, black and grey pajamas.
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Not YMMV. And it must try to make an Aesop out of those moments.
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** The episode "If the Dress Fits, Wear It" has Clair use a rather dangerous crash diet in order to fit into a dress she's grown out of. Throughout the episode the fact she is torturing herself with fitness, starving herself, and having terrible cramps at night is all played for laughs, until the end of the episode where it not only is shown the diet has worked perfectly, but with absolutely no negative side-effects. It basically tells the viewers that harmful crash diets are safe and work great. Not only that, but Clair did not ask for any kind of familial assistance or support during it. While Cliff did overhear her plans to lose weight (but didn't know about the crash diet right away), he pretended to be ignorant until finally calling her out about her attitude at the end, which only applies the trope further because of Clair being EasilyForgiven due to succeeding.
** Clair reacts to Sondra and Elvin's plans to open their own business with shock and horror, and then proceeds to become livid that they aren't following their original plans of continuing to law school and medical school, respectively. So basically anybody who isn't a doctor or a lawyer is a total piece of shit in Clair's eyes, even successful small business owners.
** Rudy presenting a legitimately mature and well thought out argument about why she didn't like some of her parents rules gets completely eclipsed by them letting her stay up as late as she wanted, resulting in her being exhausted the next day. The message essentially becomes that your parents are always right and you should never question them.
** The episode "If the Dress Fits, Wear It" has Clair use a rather dangerous crash diet in order to fit into a dress she's grown out of. Throughout the episode the fact she is torturing herself with fitness, starving herself, and having terrible cramps at night is all played for laughs, until the end of the episode where it not only is shown the diet has worked perfectly, but with absolutely no negative side-effects. It basically tells the viewers that harmful crash diets are safe and work great. Not only that, but Clair did not ask for any kind of familial assistance or support during it. While Cliff did overhear her plans to lose weight (but didn't know about the crash diet right away), he pretended to be ignorant until finally calling her out about her attitude at the end, which only applies the trope further because of Clair being EasilyForgiven due to succeeding.
** Clair reacts to Sondra and Elvin's plans to open their own business with shock and horror, and then proceeds to become livid that they aren't following their original plans of continuing to law school and medical school, respectively. So basically anybody who isn't a doctor or a lawyer is a total piece of shit in Clair's eyes, even successful small business owners.
** Rudy presenting a legitimately mature and well thought out argument about why she didn't like some of her parents rules gets completely eclipsed by them letting her stay up as late as she wanted, resulting in her being exhausted the next day. The message essentially becomes that your parents are always right and you should never question them.
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* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Lewis Erlicht, president of Creator/{{ABC}} Entertainment, [[http://www.minyanville.com/special-features/articles/cosby-abc-nbc-ge-disney-viacom/4/23/2010/id/27121 said in 1984]] that TV comedy was "dead. Forever. Bury it." He also considered an educated, middle class, happy African-American family "unrealistic". As such, he rejected a Creator/BillCosby's pitch for a domestic sitcom. The show was eventually greenlit by Brandon Tartikoff, president of Creator/{{NBC}} Entertainment, where it became a ratings giant (one of three shows ever to rank #1 in the Neilsen ratings for five consecutive seasons), as well as setting the bar for both African-American roles on television and intelligent family-friendly comedy. In fact, as a result of the show's mega-popularity, many other NBC shows, a lot of them heretofore struggling to win viewership, became hugely popular in the Nielsen ratings as well. All of this gave NBC much needed revenue to avoid going bankrupt. ABC, for their part, saw many of their once mega-successful programs take a tremendous nosedive in the ratings, which in turn, led to a huge decline in revenue, causing the network to be bought out by a company only a tenth of their size, Capital Cities Communications. As a result of the missed opportunity for ABC caused by his poor judgment, Erlicht was abruptly and humiliatingly demoted to a position of senior vice president and head of the network's in-house production company, ABC Circle Films, and replaced by Brandon Stoddard, president of the network's former theatrical films division, ABC Motion Pictures.
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** The family lip-syncing to Ray Charles “Night Time is the Right Time” for Russell and Anna’s anniversary.
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it's not retroactive recognition if it's based on prior credits, and nobody is really known for creating one-season Homeboys in Howard Space
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** In addition to co-creating ''The Cosby Show'', Ed. Weinberger also served as creator and executive producer of ''Series/{{Amen}}'', co-creator of ''Series/TheBillCosbyShow'', and co-creator and co-exeuctive producer of ''Series/{{Taxi}}''.
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** In addition to co-creating ''The Cosby Show'', Ed. Weinberger also served as creator and executive producer of ''Series/{{Amen}}'', co-creator of ''Series/TheBillCosbyShow'', and co-creator and co-exeuctive producer of ''Series/{{Taxi}}''.''Series/{{Amen}}''.
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** Matt Robinson wrote ten episodes. Robinson is best known for playing Gordon on ''Series/SesameStreet'' from 1969 to 1972.
** Bernie Kukoff wrote eight episodes. Kukoff is best known for co-creating ''Series/DiffrentStrokes''.
** Ehrich Van Lowe also wrote eight episodes. Van Lowe is best known as creator and executive producer of ''Series/HomeboysInOuterSpace''.
** Bernie Kukoff wrote eight episodes. Kukoff is best known for co-creating ''Series/DiffrentStrokes''.
** Ehrich Van Lowe also wrote eight episodes. Van Lowe is best known as creator and executive producer of ''Series/HomeboysInOuterSpace''.
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** In a 1987 episode, Creator/RobertCulp (Cosby's old co-star in ''Series/ISpy'') guest-starred as Scott Kelly, an old Navy chum of Cliff's who was visiting the Huxtables, along with his wife, played by Ann Reinking. Scott and Cliff reminisce about old times, and Scott gets the bright idea to put potato chips on pizza like they did in college. His wife puts the kibosh on that idea, as Scott has a heart condition and she doesn't want him to have a heart attack. It's all PlayedForLaughs, but 23 years later, Culp died of a heart attack in real life.
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** In a 1987 episode, Creator/RobertCulp (Cosby's old co-star in ''Series/ISpy'') guest-starred as Scott Kelly, an old Navy chum of Cliff's who was visiting the Huxtables, along with his wife, played by Ann Reinking. Scott and Cliff reminisce about old times, and Scott gets the bright idea to put potato chips on pizza like they did in college.the Navy. His wife puts the kibosh on that idea, as Scott has a heart condition and she doesn't want him to have a heart attack. It's all PlayedForLaughs, but 23 years later, Culp died of a heart attack in real life.
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** In a 1987 episode, Creator/RobertCulp (Cosby's old co-star in ''Series/ISpy'') guest-starred as Scott Kelly, an old college chum of Cliff's who was visiting the Huxtables, along with his wife, played by Ann Reinking. Scott and Cliff reminisce about old times, and Scott gets the bright idea to put potato chips on pizza like they did in college. His wife puts the kibosh on that idea, as Scott has a heart condition and she doesn't want him to have a heart attack. It's all PlayedForLaughs, but 23 years later, Culp died of a heart attack in real life.
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** In a 1987 episode, Creator/RobertCulp (Cosby's old co-star in ''Series/ISpy'') guest-starred as Scott Kelly, an old college Navy chum of Cliff's who was visiting the Huxtables, along with his wife, played by Ann Reinking. Scott and Cliff reminisce about old times, and Scott gets the bright idea to put potato chips on pizza like they did in college. His wife puts the kibosh on that idea, as Scott has a heart condition and she doesn't want him to have a heart attack. It's all PlayedForLaughs, but 23 years later, Culp died of a heart attack in real life.
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** "The Day the Spores Landed" has Cliff dreaming he, Theo, Elvin, Martin, and 11,000,000 other men are pregnant. Among those men is basketball player Magic Johnson. Shortly before the series ended, Johnson announced he was HIV positive. Unsurprisingly, this reference was deleted in syndication. [[note]]The only way to see the episode now is with the reference intact on Amazon prime, which offers the entire series in their first-run formats. The edited version [[BannedEpisode is no longer included in the show's syndication package]] due do sensitivity following the rape scandal against Cosby[[/note]]
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** "The Day the Spores Landed" has Cliff dreaming he, Theo, Elvin, Martin, and 11,000,000 other men are pregnant. Among those men is basketball player Magic Johnson. Shortly before the series ended, Johnson announced he was HIV positive. Unsurprisingly, this reference was deleted in syndication. [[note]]The only way to see the episode now is with the reference intact on Amazon prime, which offers the entire series in their first-run formats. The edited version [[BannedEpisode is no longer included in the show's syndication package]] due do to sensitivity following the rape scandal against Cosby[[/note]]
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: The many, ''many'' imitators that have come since make even the best of Cosby episodes seem stale and dated.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: The many, ''many'' imitators that have come since make even the best of Cosby episodes seem stale and dated. The lead star's modern reputation certainly doesn't help appeal to newcomers.
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** Cliff and Clair unfairly set Rudy up to fail when she complains about all of the rules she has to follow. There's no reason they couldn't have said something like, "Okay, we'll extend your bedtime for half an hour for one week, and if you can't handle it, it's back to what it was.", etc. It's especially bad when you consider that she actually presents her arguments very calmly and maturely. The overall message is a rather patronizing, "Your parents are always right and you should never disagree with them."
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** Rudy presenting a legitimately mature and well thought out argument about why she didn't like some of her parents rules gets completely eclipsed by them letting her stay up as late as she wanted, resulting in her being exhausted the next day. The message essentially becomes that your parents are always right and you should never question them.
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** Cosby has never been nominated for an award, but that is because he purposefully never submitted a reel to be nominated. He disliked encouraging competition among actors-which eventually saved the Academy the would-be task of trying to revoke awards that were never pursued in the first place.
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** Cosby has never been nominated for an award, but that is because he purposefully never submitted a reel to be nominated. He disliked encouraging competition among actors-which actors -- which eventually saved the Academy the would-be task of trying to revoke awards that were never pursued in the first place.
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* AccidentalAesop:
** The episode "If the Dress Fits, Wear It" has Clair use a rather dangerous crash diet in order to fit into a dress she's grown out of. Throughout the episode the fact she is torturing herself with fitness, starving herself, and having terrible cramps at night is all played for laughs, until the end of the episode where it not only is shown the diet has worked perfectly, but with absolutely no negative side-effects. It basically tells the viewers that harmful crash diets are safe and work great. Not only that, but Clair did not ask for any kind of familial assistance or support during it. While Cliff did overhear her plans to lose weight (but didn't know about the crash diet right away), he pretended to be ignorant until finally calling her out about her attitude at the end, which only applies the trope further because of Clair being EasilyForgiven due to succeeding.
** Clair reacts to Sondra and Elvin's plans to open their own business with shock and horror, and then proceeds to become livid that they aren't following their original plans of continuing to law school and medical school, respectively. So basically anybody who isn't a doctor or a lawyer is a total piece of shit in Clair's eyes, even successful small business owners.
** The episode "If the Dress Fits, Wear It" has Clair use a rather dangerous crash diet in order to fit into a dress she's grown out of. Throughout the episode the fact she is torturing herself with fitness, starving herself, and having terrible cramps at night is all played for laughs, until the end of the episode where it not only is shown the diet has worked perfectly, but with absolutely no negative side-effects. It basically tells the viewers that harmful crash diets are safe and work great. Not only that, but Clair did not ask for any kind of familial assistance or support during it. While Cliff did overhear her plans to lose weight (but didn't know about the crash diet right away), he pretended to be ignorant until finally calling her out about her attitude at the end, which only applies the trope further because of Clair being EasilyForgiven due to succeeding.
** Clair reacts to Sondra and Elvin's plans to open their own business with shock and horror, and then proceeds to become livid that they aren't following their original plans of continuing to law school and medical school, respectively. So basically anybody who isn't a doctor or a lawyer is a total piece of shit in Clair's eyes, even successful small business owners.
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* BrokenAesop:
** The episode "If the Dress Fits, Wear It" has Clair use a rather dangerous crash diet in order to fit into a dress she's grown out of. Throughout the episode the fact she is torturing herself with fitness, starving herself, and having terrible cramps at night is all played for laughs, until the end of the episode where it not only is shown the diet has worked perfectly, but with absolutely no negative side-effects. It basically tells the viewers that harmful crash diets are safe and work great. Not only that, but Clair did not ask for any kind of familial assistance or support during it. While Cliff did overhear her plans to lose weight (but didn't know about the crash diet right away), he pretended to be ignorant until finally calling her out about her attitude at the end, which only applies the trope further because of Clair being EasilyForgiven due to succeeding.
** Clair reacts to Sondra and Elvin's plans to open their own business with shock and horror, and then proceeds to become livid that they aren't following their original plans of continuing to law school and medical school, respectively. So basically anybody who isn't a doctor or a lawyer is a total piece of shit in Clair's eyes, even successful small business owners.
** The episode "If the Dress Fits, Wear It" has Clair use a rather dangerous crash diet in order to fit into a dress she's grown out of. Throughout the episode the fact she is torturing herself with fitness, starving herself, and having terrible cramps at night is all played for laughs, until the end of the episode where it not only is shown the diet has worked perfectly, but with absolutely no negative side-effects. It basically tells the viewers that harmful crash diets are safe and work great. Not only that, but Clair did not ask for any kind of familial assistance or support during it. While Cliff did overhear her plans to lose weight (but didn't know about the crash diet right away), he pretended to be ignorant until finally calling her out about her attitude at the end, which only applies the trope further because of Clair being EasilyForgiven due to succeeding.
** Clair reacts to Sondra and Elvin's plans to open their own business with shock and horror, and then proceeds to become livid that they aren't following their original plans of continuing to law school and medical school, respectively. So basically anybody who isn't a doctor or a lawyer is a total piece of shit in Clair's eyes, even successful small business owners.
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* AccidentalAesop:
** The episode "If the Dress Fits, Wear It" has Clair use a rather dangerous crash diet in order to fit into a dress she's grown out of. Throughout the episode the fact she is torturing herself with fitness, starving herself, and having terrible cramps at night is all played for laughs, until the end of the episode where it not only is shown the diet has worked perfectly, but with absolutely no negative side-effects. It basically tells the viewers that harmful crash diets are safe and work great. Not only that, but Clair did not ask for any kind of familial assistance or support during it. While Cliff did overhear her plans to lose weight (but didn't know about the crash diet right away), he pretended to be ignorant until finally calling her out about her attitude at the end, which only applies the trope further because of Clair being EasilyForgiven due to succeeding.
** Clair reacts to Sondra and Elvin's plans to open their own business with shock and horror, and then proceeds to become livid that they aren't following their original plans of continuing to law school and medical school, respectively. So basically anybody who isn't a doctor or a lawyer is a total piece of shit in Clair's eyes, even successful small business owners.
** The episode "If the Dress Fits, Wear It" has Clair use a rather dangerous crash diet in order to fit into a dress she's grown out of. Throughout the episode the fact she is torturing herself with fitness, starving herself, and having terrible cramps at night is all played for laughs, until the end of the episode where it not only is shown the diet has worked perfectly, but with absolutely no negative side-effects. It basically tells the viewers that harmful crash diets are safe and work great. Not only that, but Clair did not ask for any kind of familial assistance or support during it. While Cliff did overhear her plans to lose weight (but didn't know about the crash diet right away), he pretended to be ignorant until finally calling her out about her attitude at the end, which only applies the trope further because of Clair being EasilyForgiven due to succeeding.
** Clair reacts to Sondra and Elvin's plans to open their own business with shock and horror, and then proceeds to become livid that they aren't following their original plans of continuing to law school and medical school, respectively. So basically anybody who isn't a doctor or a lawyer is a total piece of shit in Clair's eyes, even successful small business owners.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: The episode "If the Dress Fits, Wear It" has Clair use a rather dangerous crash diet in order to fit into a dress she's grown out of. Throughout the episode the fact she is torturing herself with fitness, starving herself, and having terrible cramps at night is all played for laughs, until the end of the episode where it not only is shown the diet has worked perfectly, but with absolutely no negative side-effects. It basically tells the viewers that harmful crash diets are safe and work great. Not only that, but Clair did not ask for any kind of familial assistance or support during it. While Cliff did overhear her plans to lose weight (but didn't know about the crash diet right away), he pretended to be ignorant until finally calling her out about her attitude at the end, which only applies the trope further because of Clair being EasilyForgiven due to succeeding.
** Clair reacts to Sondra and Elvin's plans to open their own business with shock and horror, and then proceeds to become livid that they aren't following their original plans of continuing to law school and medical school, respectively. So basically anybody who isn't a doctor or a lawyer is a total piece of shit in Clair's eyes, even successful small business owners.
** Clair reacts to Sondra and Elvin's plans to open their own business with shock and horror, and then proceeds to become livid that they aren't following their original plans of continuing to law school and medical school, respectively. So basically anybody who isn't a doctor or a lawyer is a total piece of shit in Clair's eyes, even successful small business owners.
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* In a 1987 episode, Creator/RobertCulp (Cosby's old co-star in ''Series/ISpy'') guest-starred as Scott Kelly, an old college chum of Cliff's who was visiting the Huxtables, along with his wife, played by Ann Reinking. Scott and Cliff reminisce about old times, and Scott gets the bright idea to put potato chips on pizza like they did in college. His wife puts the kibosh on that idea, as Scott has a heart condition and she doesn't want him to have a heart attack. It's all PlayedForLaughs, but 23 years later, Culp died of a heart attack in real life.
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