Sorry for the spinoff of a spinoff, but this has ALWAYS bothered me:

Ok so neither Denise nor Saundra were adopted right? Cliff and Claire were their natural parents, right?

Why the FUCK are they so much lighter than Vanessa, Rudy and Theo?

Add on.

*shrugs* it happens sometimes.

That's not too rare at all.

People see me, then see my parents and wonder if I was adopted..... then they see my maternal grandmom and it all comes together.

I guess that's a valid point.

Would have been interesting to see Vanessa have an episode where she, say, was bothered by Denise's light skin and there could be a discussion on the light skin/dark skin debate.

Then again, Cosby probably wouldn't want such a detrimental topic for the Black community to be discussed on a show that's supposed to be funny and uplifting.

Vanessa was the ugly duckling and she probably had self esteem problems.

culminating in the "Sideways Afro" thing she had at the end...

I haven't figured out what they were trying to accomplish with that one yet, but I know they're behind it.

I thought the stylist just hated her, but it turns out most of those styles were her choice.

I hope that wording makes sense, lol.

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they were almost ALWAYS happy

That's probably why I sometimes fantasized about Cliff and Claire being my parents. lol

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everyone has an off night. I hated every one of those dream, muppet shows. My most hated being the one with Olivia as the nemesis of Rudy...

They seemed like hardworking people (even though they were always home it seemed), why did the kids end up being such slackers?

he wasn't a slacker after his dyslexia was diagnosed. and as far as we can tell, vanessa did well in her first years in college. it's really just the first two kids who were slackers -- and actually sondra DID get her JD, didn't she?

... in *Brooklyn*

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they have a lot of advantages handed to them. but those kids all did alright for themselves. the first four all went to college (denise didn't graduate, but she still went to africa and all). and you assume rudy went to college. so all's well.

#2. How did she go to L-school and undergrad and have
all those kids.
Was she poppin' 'em out in college?

i remember seeing Cliff at the job a few times here and there, but what about Claire?

on lawyers, and I actually found several episodes where Claire is at the office.
Stop hating on Mrs. Huxtable.

but she spent way too much time at home to be partner at a law firm.

...where Claire was doing pro bono work for some kind of advocacy organization.

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They're watching some random video with some really lightskinned chick and Beavis is confused cuz he thinks she looks white, and Butthead is like "no, she's like one of those Cosby kids" - LOL.

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In some episode in the first few seasons, she played a girlfriend Will's and then toward the end she was back as his fiance.

I'm 99.9% sure it wasn't the same role.

played some has-been star, then later was Will's girlfriend

mind you, i didn't even watch the show that much and i was like, wait, wasn't Nia Long his girlfriend later on?

Mech

they bothered me. They had a couple but one that stands out is the one when Vanessa was playing the sax and cartoon musical notes were coming out.

Damn near every episode ended with them fucking. No wonder there was about 50 kids running around on that show.

...just tugs at my heart strings.

Mech

It was really adorable the first time.

I said, the first time.

--Maurice

Olivia's didn't count.

anyway, i give the edge to I Got the Feelin, maybe b/c i saw it 1st.

nothing beats "Nighttime" with little Rudy doing the grown ass "BAAAYY BAYYYY!"

I STILL laugh when i see that.

like i said i saw I Got the Feelin 1st so i didn't know her "baby baby baby" was a reference to the prior 1. i think b/c the James song is my frame of reference for those scenes i prefer it.

plus i think "I Got the Feelin" is a better song.

My Mom woke me up at like 11:00 (Which was late as hell to me back then)

I luaghed myself right back to sleep

i understand why Bill had them on the show, but it was all so far-fetched.

Not just Jazz, but Stevie Wonder, Mariam Mekaba (maybe I'm imagining that one though..although with imagining the spelling of the last name, as I know it's not correct) and a slew of others.

And Nancy Wilson (well, she's Jazz, I know) was Martin's mom, that's so wild.

Crazy right?

who both had roles as Rudi's music teacher...

was Vanessa's voice coach

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Grandpa Huxtable was a former jazz musician. Remember when they had the reunion performance w/ Tito Puente (R.I.P.)

they weren't there to visit Grandpa. They came cuz Cliff knew them.

like the granddads. it's killing me, i can't remember who played olivia's teacher

> it's killing me, i can't remember who
>played olivia's teacher

oddly enough, herbie's one of the few jazz guys that never appeared on the show.

I was thinking about Pam's guidance counselor. He just looked like Herbie Hancock.

if i remember correctly, she was rudy's music teacher when rudy wanted the cymbals and ended up with the violin or something.

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was the teacher playin the drums in that ep, don't think he spoke tho.
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during the theme music in those later episodes with pam?

p.s.
i just recently realized pam was maxine from living singlee think that was ugly?

nobody inmy neighborhood was as much of a dumbass as the huxtable kids were. I thought it was impossible that kids with loot like that could be that damn stupid....

Until i arrived at the AUC, lol

What was that all about?

Theo's friends actor girlfriend (Vanessa Williams from Soul Food) turning up later as his Jamaican girlfrend. or Vanessa's cigarette smokin friend (Malinda Williams also from Soul Food) showin up as her boyfriends stalker ex. But Cosby did that in Different World too because I have counted at least 4 different parts that Michael Ralph played before he settled as Kims Jamaican boyfriend.

My brother and i used to crack up everytime Theo said he was going there. HaHa....De Ballzac.

My Pop thought we were idiots.

He was probably right.

1. They got rid of Cockroach (Carl Anthony Payne) cuz he wouldnt get a haircut (I also heard the rumor was cuz he was more popular than Theo)

2. The episode where Theo got dude to cop to being the real owner of the weed his folks found. Yeah right.

3. Vanessa (nuff said)

4. They had a nigga name Elvin

5. Olivia being the cute Rudy replacement.

6. Calling someone cousin _______ (ie: "Hi cousin Pam" "Cousin Claire is going to be mad...")

7. They had a nigga named Dabnis. Seriously Dabnis? GTFOHWTBS. ( I thought Elvin was bad but noooooo...)

>1. They got rid of Cockroach (Carl Anthony Payne) cuz he
>wouldnt get a haircut (I also heard the rumor was cuz he was
>more popular than Theo)

Hmmm, I guess I was the only one that heard the rumor that Carl Payne got fired because he said something suggestive to Keisha Pulliam (Rudy, of course). I remember being told that Cosby himself had him fired because he contributed to the work enviroment being uncomfortable.

Someone else please tell me they heard this rumor as well.

Guess Theo was really mad at him for dancin with Tina.

Oddly, I never heard any of these rumors.

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Somehow, though I think the parents may have flipped out a bit more than that.

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She goes off to school, meets the groundskeeper (Dabnis), falls in love, gets married and quits school.

Wow, the women sure had an aversion to school in this show, didnt they...

They broke up but he still came around the family.

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>4. They had a nigga name Elvin

- on Larry Elder's show, The Doc saw a dude named "Elves" (pronounced Elvis). Plus, Elvin's last name was Thibodeauz, the first name was understandable.

>7. They had a nigga named Dabnis. Seriously Dabnis? GTFOHWTBS.
>( I thought Elvin was bad but noooooo...)

Dabnis = "Sinbad" in reverse.

And by here I mean my house.

It's funny everytime I see dude we exchange a quick "Hello Clay" since his name is also Clay.

Tell him Ryan from Cali says ET MON!

where Theo and cockroach got kicked off the track team for laughing at the girl at the burger joint. I don't know ANYBODY'S parents who wouldv'e made them do that. My Pops would've been like "kicked off the team, huh? That's what you get with yo' ignut ass..."

because you know me, and you know how my mom made me do that shit.

.

it's not like he was morbidly obese or anything. He was actually in good shape for a guy his age. But if my wife was that hot (Claire Huxtable was the ORIGINAL Black MILF), I'd do what she said too...

I never figured out what the hell they drove or where the hell you could park around that brownstone they had.

remember, Claire had a car, Cliff had the station wagon, and Denise had that old 50's beater...

parking 3 cars on the same block in BK? I don't think so...

And then the grandma was HELLA old.

true cosby heads know what i'm talking about.

I thought I knew Cosby. Fill me in!

PLEEEEEEASE!

Everytime a Cosby kid would come in the house, they would go into the fridge and grab one of those 10oz bottles of orange juice, open it and start drinking it in the midst of a conversation.

Firstly, wash your damn hands before you go in the fridge. The fridge is the most sacred part of the house...by now means should you be bringing random ass germs into the fridge...you'd think an Obstetrician would know to teach his kids about hygiene, for cryin out loud.

Where they get them from? Who gottem?

Claire, I guess, but wasn't no Shoppers club 'round that neiborhood, was dey?

Maybe they was.

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when denise's friends used the house to break dance and then the parents came home with some famous dancing friends. they kind of had a dance off between breakers and traditional dance.

I'm a pretty big nerd and even I hate that dude.

I don't understand how Claire and Saundra were always talking about him as if he was some huge chauvanist when he was a bigger girl than Vannessa.

I remember one episode if he was flipping out cause he was a father and getting home so late (It was Midnight) from a Rock concert (It was Michael Jackson show!).

That dude is the BIGGEST Herb in all of TV

W
T
F
???!?!

You know, when they all put their jazz-hand hands in front of Cosby's face before they took it away.

That was the flyest move, I tell you.

no no no no no (c) the yonce

1) I'm sorry but with a hair style like hers she HAD to roll that with them big fat pink rollers and she knows it

2)and them goin to the good quiet black chruch where you sat with your hands folded nicely in front of you lookin all uncomfortable (even though you had Mavis Staples leading the choir) did Cos worry he was gonna scare folks with a little shoutin up in there? haha

I always thought about that. You know Claire had the scarf on after her and Cliff bumped uglies at the end of the night...

Claire sure didn't--she was either at the office or bangin' Cliff.
The kids didn't--they were some dumbass motherfuckers, and I don't think they knew the difference between a mop and a bucket.
Cliff sure didn't--he was either bangin' Claire, delivering a baby or trying to eat a hoagie. Which usually led to Claire snatching it out of his hand and then leading him upstairs for more bangin'.

So, who the fuck cleaned that house?

They should've had a white maid, lol.

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it always seemed that way.

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What was funny to me was how they kept recycling actors & actresses.

I don't know the real names but...The Martin character (Denise's husband), "Bird" on Soul Food (TV version), weren't there more?

verbal abuse.

Cliff used to PISS ME OFF with that shit.

I only bring up the white thing 'cause my friends used to say "Only White kids talk back to their parents".

Maybe that's true, I dunno, but Cliff ALWAYS had some smart-alekky shit to say, even with a serious question. I know Cosby was a commedian, but damn...there's a time to be a father.

Ok, Theo slacked sometimes, and Denise did some dumb shit, fine, I understand the quip every now and then.

Theo: "Dad, can we talk about something serious"

Cliff: *makes faces, rolls eyes, and gets laughs from audience* I...WILL SELL...YOU TO GYPSIES, THEO!!" *audience rolls in laughter as Theo looks down at the ground*

Atleast Claire got mad, and showed backbone...as well as brought a caring voice once in awhile.

I would've been like "You know what, dad? You got jokes, but your not fuckin funny. Try and be serious for once, or fuck off"

:)

Cosby saying that to Theo.

That reminds me of that Family Guy episode

That snarl she had...
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"Why, that trumps all the other guests by far"

Was my initial response when I read your post...Um, I *swear* I'm not as stupid as that quote makes me sound.

*kicks self out of okayplayer before the others get to it*

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Sure she was a lawyer so she had bank, but nothing wrong with more bank. Combining bank.

And I'm sure there was a small amount of love involved...