Let's be The Cosby Show

I'm Night a d Day.

I’m the woozy feeling in Bill’s dressing room.

Suddenly so tired 💊💊💊

I'm the "secret sauce".

The kids on the show always seemed to be reveling in their trendy and black affluence.

I’m one of the few people who hated Claire Huxtable.

I'm Sondra and Elvin, add-on characters that came with season 2's extra budget.

I’m the date rape drug!

I'm the sweaters.

I'm the poor cast and crew who lost residuals through no fault of their own.

Im Vanessa the wretched liar that Claire loves slapping around.

I'm the boredom.

I'm Bud.

I'm the cultural legacy, forever tainted.

I’m fatass Peter running out of the house.

I'm the Gordon Gartrelle blouse

Why did Cosby always make those stupid faces. He looked like an imbecile.

I'm Lisa Bonet and I feel trapped. I need to get out of this detergent commercial.

PLEASE let me do a nude scene with Mickey Rourke, PLEASE!

I’m the prison wall. Don’t you shine that blacklight in here!

I'm little Rudy's mustache...

I’m the grandparents visiting. There will be talks about the Harlem Renaissance, HBCUs, and of course DANCING.

R5 How can you not love Claire. She is the greatest tv mom ever.

I’m Vanessa. Middle child syndrome on steroids.

I’m Gordon Gartrelle.

I was shocked to learn the actor who played Grandpa Cosby is gay. He was so masculine to me. Kinda remind me of my own Papa.

I’m jammin on the one!

I'm Justine! Justine!

I’m the 80s. When C students like Theo could get into NYU.

Claire was an asshole and an unfunny scold, married to a weirdo who performed pap smears in their basement.

We’re Winnie and Nelson Tibideaux and we see pissed that we got saddled with these stupid names.

I’m Olivia. The only replacement child star to be as adorable and likeable as the aging one. Raven Simone was actually a better actress than little Rudy though.

I'm the Season 5 dance opening.

I'm the Trader Joe's where Alvin currently works.

I'm Claire being a total bitch to her kids.

[quote]I was shocked to learn the actor who played Grandpa Cosby is gay. He was so masculine to me.

I'm the poster who think all gay men are screaming queens and can't be masculine. I should die in a grease fire.

I'm Cliff, licking his fingers after he performs a vaginal exam on one of his patients.

R34 I was 15 when I learned he was gay from a family friend that used to do Broadway and black theater.

I'm Vanessa and I always get the brunt of my mom's bitchiness. One of these days I'm going to kick her in the cunt.

R37. 'Atta girl!

R37 Vanessa was the most mischievous and lied the most.

I'm the ace you put in my face before I bumped your rump with my trump.

I’m Cousin Pam and her homies. They must be from East New York or Flatbush. They are realer and seem more Brooklyn than the privilege Cosby kids.

I'm the grandma who was also David's grandma on Sesame Street.

I'm the grounds keeper Vanessa wanted to marry. Cliff and Claire hate me because I'm not a doctor or a lawyer.

R43 😆 The Huxtables were such snobs. That episode would have been made in today’s PC world. I believe Cliff didn’t come around until he learned that man owned his owned business.

Bill Cosby always hated lower class black people, and that made it into the show.

Remember when Sondra and Elvin wanted to open a camping store? That wasn't good enough for a Cosby. 🙄

I'm the young and attractive female guest star. Bill Cosby was so nice to me, I suddenly felt lightheaded on the set (no idea why) so he invited me into his dressing room to lie down and take a nap. What a nice guy!

R45 wait a minute. I don’t think that’s true. What he hates is the glorification of a pathology of black baby daddy and ghetto culture. And I love some aspects of ghetto culture but it shouldn’t be put on a pedestal. If he hated lower class black people wouldn’t have introduced the character of Cousin Pam and then have them attend HBCU on the spinoff A different World. I never even heard that before about Cosby.

That's what began the unraveling of Cosby's life and career. Hannibal Burress called him out for telling black people to pull up their bootstraps. Hannibal got on stage and said "Bill Cosby, you're a rapist. Don't go telling blacks how to live"

I agree that Hannibal was the catalyst but people are misremembering what Cosby actually said. And he was right. It wasn’t a mere pick yourself by your bootstraps argument. I am going to go find the things Cosby was saying during that time. I don’t know why certain blacks that are educated and in show business pretend like certain aspects of our culture aren’t dysfunctional, destructive, and ignorant.

Anyways it’s hard to fucking defend a sexual predator like Cosby.

I'm Eddie Murphy, doing a brilliant impression of Bill Cosby and calling him out for being an asshole.

Did Cosby serve teacakes when he drugged these poor women?

He gave them a chocolate pudding pop.

Eddie Murphy is talented as fuck yo. He was brilliant with them impersonations.

R48 and R50 are correct. Cosby did not like, what I'll call the "race to the bottom" represented by rap and hip-hop culture, Ebonics, single mothers, ABSENTEE fathers and more that plague black communities.

I love that Malcom-Jamal Warner successfully moved on from Theo and in later years became a very, very sexy Daddy. Does anyone else remember his appearances on Major Crimes? Day-um.

I know he's straight, but man, that pec deck is screaming for a load of (my) cum.

R55 I thought he was hot in People v. OJ. They should have him play OJ.

I'm the SNL's Obama Show

"Join us Next Week When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stops by"

Thursdays on NBC

I don't think Fred Armisen could play Obama today since he's not black.

R58 It was criticized then. He did a good job. It was just sad that SNL had no black man to portray him. Yes I am aware Keenan was on the show as he has been for the past 20 years. Maya Rudolph is also rough as Michelle because she is just too lightskin. Also I just remembered who is among the worst of SNL. That light skin built dude from the early aughts. He was kinda sexy I don’t remember his name. He was terrible.

I'm the white kid who never watched this and clearly missed out (I saw the Jell-O commercials though!). #Illseemyselfout

Jay Pharaoh was a great Obama

Vanessa deserved regular cunt punts - and I say that as a middle child.

Now... won't somebody PLEASE get me a box of Jello pudding pops?

Pulliam was a natural Symone was a phony

I’m Suzette Charles lying my ass off at the Miss America pageant about being cast as one of the Huxtable daughters.

R21 read r28…that’s why. Her reads were as obnoxious as Julia Sugarbaker’s were.

I'm Phylicia Rashad's craft

I’m the $11,000 Ellis Wilson painting hanging in the living room.

I’m the basement apartment in their brownstone home. Cosby plays a gynecologist.

Why a gynecologist, operating out of his home?

Couldn’t they have made him the lawyer and Claire the doctor?

Cosby enjoyed the tee hee of having a basement gyno office where he serviced pregnant women. Of course he had to scold or tell them what’s what.

He was a pediatrician, I think. Or an obstetrician.

[quote]I was shocked to learn the actor who played Grandpa Cosby is gay. He was so masculine to me. Kinda remind me of my own Papa.

Panthro was a 'mo!

Panthro was not A 'mo.

Panthro was THE 'mo.

R71 no he was not. He was a gynecologist which is rare in a big city to be working from home as that type of doctor. Bill Cosby was a freak body and just had to incorporate that in the script 😆. Like many have pointed out I he should have just been a family doctor or something.

I wonder how Cosby justifies his serial rape in his own mind as he sits around, nearly blind, waiting to die, knowing he’s universally reviled.

Does he lie to himself and say the girls “wanted” it by coming to see him? Does he degrade them as gold diggers looking to glom off of his wealth?

Does he say, yes what I did was naughty, but I also entertained so many people it excuses my excesses?

Does he actually feel shame and self-loathing?

Or is he a sociopath with no conscience so he’s not giving it a moments thought, except wishing he can violate another twitching hole?

People didn’t respect women during that time. It probably was a whole ring of Hollywood lotharios drugging, date rapping women like that. Cosby just pissed off the wrong people.

I’m Claire’s secret disco past

R77 yep. She was also married to the original lead singer of the Village People.

I'm Debbie Allen - my show's rating are going down. My sister better hook me up with SOMETHING. I dunno - a spinoff or some shit.

Something I can DIRECT and PRODUCE, because my superior talents are being wasted.

R79 We're hiring!

Those Allen girls sure were pretty.

Is Debbie Allen’s son a doctor?

R82, that was just embarrassing. And no, the son's NOT a doctor, but he played one on TV!!

R77, that song’s a BOP!

Debbie Allen's interpretive dance numbers on the Oscars were always a source of much snark and eye rolling every year.

I have never even seen them and know they were probably fierce. Black excellence meets African influences meets Alvin Ailey. Yea I’m here for it. I hate boring dancing.

If you've never seen them then STFU. They were a huge joke for years. Gil Cates was the producer of the Oscars and for some reason had a hard on for Debbie Allen. When Gil was gone so was Debbie.

R87 Who you think you talking 2 first of all.

I'm A Different World.....

Than where you come FROM!

R88 has the three day old stank of Teacake all over it

r32, actually it was on Route 3 in Clifton, New Jersey.

Correction, the address is Allwood Road, though the shopping plaza has an entrance on Route 3.

Yall can thank Tyler Perry from rescuing him from Trader Joe’s too.

I'm Lisa Bonet and I'm waiting until Bill is dead before I start spilling all the shit on him.

R92 doesn't understand satire.

I’m Roscoe Lee Browne and I won the shows only acting Emmy

I'm the Brown's line referenced in r40. That poker game was hilarious.

I'm Nancy Wilson, and I'm flawless in every thing I do.

Even for just a few seconds.

I'm Claire's reading of Cliff and the kids.

I'm Cockroach who would go on to yet another successful comedian-based Black TV show.

R100 I’m also a perfect example of code switching for an actor.

I'm Carsey-Werner, who used their Cosby money to do Roseanne.

I'm the audience of Roseanne, grateful that this frankly bizarre, unfunny show bankrolled an actual sitcom worth watching.

I'm Rudy lip-synching "BAABBAAY"!!

I'm Peter picking his ass.

I'm the different Intros. They are few

*the YouTube shows all the intros from season 1 to 8.

Which is your favorite? I like Season 2 or 3 the best, 6 is a good one

What r105?

00:45, R107

I’m Peter smelling his fingers

I'm Claire when she reads her husband or children.....andstartsrunningallherwordstogethaaaa, just to emphasize.

R110 I swear Sheree Whitfield learned how to speak from Claire Huxtable.

R110, that’s what I disliked about Clair(e). As mentioned upthread, she was a sanctimonious scold.

I’m the extra T at the end of Tempestt Bledsoe’s name.

I'm the weird burn/birthmark on Vanessa's arm.

A pissed off Claire with the iron or a pot of boiling water???

I'm Elaine Stritch as Mrs. McGee, Rudy's teacher. I needed half a fifth of Smirnoff to get through this episode. Hey, it was a fucking paycheck.

At least I didn't have any scenes with the bitch who played the mother on that show. Christ, I need another drink just thinking about that.

When Claire flared her nostrils and lectured her kids with that condescending entitled attitude

Claire was always nagging those kids with her sanctimonious lectures and making them feel like shit. She was apparently perfect.

R118 She was raising a black child in America.

r119 she was a cunt.

I primarily watched this show for Lisa Bonet, who I thought was a charming and seductive presence even if she wasn't a strong enough actress to carry her own show. Plus, she had great style.

I'm the roofies in the Jello at the craft services table.

Most Claire hate seems to be ex post facto. Most of these criticisms weren't around much at the time. She absolutely could be a lecturing nag, but it was played for laughs, and people could see their own high-standard moms in the character. I always loved her. Her lecturing was balanced out quite well; and you knew she loved her kids.

I think she was constantly annoyed with Vanessa and secretly jealous of Denise.

I’m the alphabet game,

I'm the exposure to aspects of African-American culture like historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to white middle America for the first time.

Originally, Cliff was supposed to be a limo driver with his own car, and Claire was supposed to be an electrician. Camille Cosby suggested making the family upper middle class/wealthy.

R121 you dumb cunt. She left her own show. And coincidentally the show became a much better show under the creative direction of Debbie Allen.

R123 also most of America was enamored with the idea of a black matriarch being so tough on her kids about such aspirational, ambitious, upper echelon careers and ideals.

^^ she was still a nagging cunt, though.

I'm the racism that didn't exist in the Huxtable's world.

R130 😆 she truly was at times. Oh well.

I'm my grandfather; "Well, they don't act black. The blacks act more like Redd Foxx

R133 I’m guessing his stanking ass never been to Brooklyn. I’m also guessing he never met upper middle class blacks.

And you’re supposed to be an upper middle class black, old white man?

R135 No one believes you. You are a mentally ill stalker. You are fucked up in head.

R136. Pot meet kettle...

Can you imagine Rashad playing an electrician?

r138 no, never. I can only see Phylicia in a role as an upper class professional with a smug demeanor and a superiority complex. I can't for the life of me imagine her in a lower-class/working-class profession

R137. Own yo shit bitch. Own your depravity. Own your lies. Own it bitch.

I liked the episode where Cliff mistook Teacake/HolierThanThou etc. for a woman and drugged him unconscious but then when Cliff discovered Teacake was a man he slit his throat and enlisted Claire and the children to dismember his body and throw the pieces in various dumpsters around Brooklyn.

Claire, ever her sassy self, said "will this finally teach you to check if the bitch has a pussy before you knock her out so you can sitck your dick in her?"

R141. That’s a good cunt. Show what a disturbed bloke you are. We want to see the truth bitch.

^^can't you just OD already?

R143 That’s right. Keep your showing your trifling ways. Everybody who is somebody wants to see your ignorance. That karma will be tenfold. Learn respect.

r144 is the kind of black ghetto trash Bill Cosby's always hated.

I'm Martin, the most forgettable character.

R144. Does Genie want to see our ignorance? I know she's tired of looking at yours.

I want to know what Lisa Bonet and Sabrina LeBeauf think of Cosby now.

The troll was owned and put away wet.

I'm the Black MAGA actor who played Denise's husband, Martin.

I’m Denise’s vadge, pounded into pudding by Martin

LeBeauf and Bledsoe haven’t commented. Zoe Kravitz said her mother was disgusted but hadn’t seen anything like that on set though she said he always got a dark vibe from him.

I'm the way that the rigid, monstrous, cold Claire insists the children must always answer the phone: "Huxtable residence. Theo speaking."

This thread made me want to watch clips of this show on You Tube.

Clair was an absolute bitch.

Add a couple of slaps and this could have been in Mommie Dearest.

Clair was right in that clip.

Are lying little sneak of a child should be dressed down like that.

Use of "sneak" per R155 needs to make a comeback.

R154 Phylicia is a great actress. She is playing everything so realistic but also over the top for comedy. You believe she was genuinely scared about Vanessa and then that morphed into anger.

[Quote] but then when Cliff discovered Teacake was a man

Not just a man, but this creature

r158, you are surprisingly nice looking for a DLer

R158. That can't be Teacake. The man in the photo is WHITE!

Who was the fat kid?

R161. Raven Symone

R160 WHITE, WHITE, WHIIIIITE!

R158 you need more cowbell. The Cosby was good yo. Top notch. Great clip r154.