Remember when the Huxtables all lipsynched for Grandma and Grandpa's anniversary on the THE COSBY SHOW?

This was an iconic episode.

Damn you, Bill Cosby.

This was the peak of Tempestt Bledsoe's talent...

Tempestt Bledsoe was great. I am re-watching some episodes recently and the show was much better written and performed than I remembered. But Tempestt was the best of the kids - providing the best friction for Claire Huxtable, which played to Phylicia Rashad‘s strengths.

Yes, damn Bill Cosby

When I was eight we lived in an eight unit apartment building within a multi-building complex. There were four units on the second floor where we lived in a two bedroom with older brother and younger brother and sister and my mom who was pregnant at the time.

Across the hall is my friend Katie who is my age her brother and her mom next door to us was a crazy Jewish woman name Celeste and her two boys are dueling Jacob is she pretty much kept in the apartment all the time supposedly because she was afraid her iranian ex husband with kidnap and take them back to his country. The unit at the very end of the hall was Lily ocean family I'm not really sure how many kids there were but there was one girl my age named Molly who I was also friends with and sometimes her dad would take us to school in his car which I thought was like the fanciest car ever because it had a CD radio.

We only live there for about a year but during that year me Katie and Molly became pretty good friends so we're always palling around together and that summer Katie got a Care Bear sing along record and we decided we put on a show for the apartment complex on our balcony. Two days before we meet up flyers for it and posted them in all the buildings in our complex and then we moved our stereo out to the balcony and perform the whole record I think only a couple other kids showed up but it was fun.

Wasn’t that an episode of punky Brewster?

R5 probably every year of my life was like a badly written sitcom drama. More like an anthology though because every season was a whole new setting and cast we rarely lived anywhere for more than a year and i very rarely lived with the same family members for more than a few years at a time.

It worked way back when but very difficult to watch now.

The mother and daughters were beautiful-that’s all I got out of it.

I love The Cosby show although I barely rarely got to watch it when it was on until the later years mostly because I was drawn to Denise. She just seemed like she be the coolest oldest sister to hang out with and she reminded me of the many different teenage babysitters we'd have who I always thought were just so wordly and cool.

That episode is TV history. Everyone wanted to be a member of that family - no matter what race.

They were funny, educated, and got along (most) of the time. Not the usual put-downs and dissing that was so common in other family shows.

Such a shame it's tainted now. I think they did two of these though - this one was the first.

Yes, R10, they did it again a year later but it was the law of diminishing returns.

Around the time of season two or three, a critic said they still liked the show but there were too many episodes with “those boring grandparents”.

Agreed, R3. I love Vanessa and how she pushed Claire’s buttons.

I really felt bad for Vanessa in the episode where she’s moping around the house because they have to go to DC to see Claire get some award on the same weekend there is a huge party. It was a very relatable FOMO thing . Who really wants to see their mom in some boring ceremony when you’re missing out on -what feels like- the event of the year?

Earl Hyman (Grandpa Huxtable) was in a stable gay relationship with Norwegian Rolf Sernes for fifty years. He was a cousin to Phylis Hyman. He spoke fluent Norwegian, and acted in a Norwegian sit-com.

What about the grandmother?

Rudy had a mustache

I only liked Clair. She wore the pants in that houehold.

Clarice Taylor was a CUNT as Grandma. “Vanessa, you need to say ‘Yes, ma’am’”.

Vanessa couldn’t even get a break from grandma

No wonder Earle Hymen never broke one, married to Clarice.

Denise was too much trouble-on and off set. Hated her.

Them kids was all different colors.

Earl Hyman was fine as fuck when he was younger. I didn't know he was gay.

Grandma and Grandpa Walton were both gay - and nobody knows anything about that outside of the gay community. Grandpa Walton particularly was a gay activist.

R11 ha your comment reminded me of this.

[quote]Tempestt Bledsoe was great. I am re-watching some episodes recently and the show was much better written and performed than I remembered. But Tempestt was the best of the kids - providing the best friction for Claire Huxtable, which played to Phylicia Rashad‘s strengths.

Incidentally, Vanessa and Sondra were the only Cosby kids not to be nominated for Emmys.

Denise and Rudy were nominated for Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series::

- Justin Bateman in FAMILY TIES

- Lisa Bonet in THE COSBY SHOW

- Julia Duffy in NEWHART

- Estelle Getty in GOLDEN GIRLS

- Rhea Perlman in CHEERS **winner**

- Keshia Knight Pulliam in THE COSBY SHOW

Theo was nominated for Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series:

- John Larroquette in NIGHT COURT **winner**

- Tom Poston in NEWHART

- John Ratzenberger in CHEERS

- Malcom-Jamal Warner in THE COSBY SHOW

- George Wendt in CHEERS

That was the 1986 Emmys, btw.

R20

[quote]“Your teeth are like the Spice Girls. They’re all different colors and doing their own thing.” Nikki Glaser on Jewel.

"Miss Clarice" Taylor lived in our Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, and was one of the nicest people you'd ever meet.

Lots of celebrities in HK, then and now.

Keshia Knight Pulliam is beautiful.

Wasn’t there a jump the shark eppy where Rudy had a poltergeist and Michael Learned screamed that the power to resist was “in YOU!”?

He was a doctor she was a lawyer. Our family couldn’t relate.

Poor Knight-Pulliam got the puberty episodes. One about her boobs and one about her period.

However, they were both very funny episodes but probably not fun to do as a pubescent girl.

Aw, this was sweet.

As R1 said, damn you Bill Cosby, indeed.

damn,damn, damn!

R30 and yet they never did one about Rudy's mustache, which was the elephant in the room and really when the show jumped the shark.

I used to read my brother's Playboy magazines, and the gossip always had Bill Cosby in "The Grotto". The magazines back then didn't spell out what happened there, but later writers have filled us in. So I always thought he was a perv.

Vanessa really was the best. My two favorite episodes in well her being a lying c*** to her parents. The first one is where she lies to your parents about going out with some way she's not supposed to and she gets cut because Rudy comes downstairs too soon to make an excuse about why she's late coming home. They later make the boy come in and talk to Cliff in the living room and Vanessa calls to and from her room upstairs Clair goes stomping up there and we're left to think that she's beating the hell out of Vanessa.

The second one is when her and a bunch of her friends lie to their parents take somebody's car and get it stolen while trying to see a rock band several hours away. This time her scheme is blown by inopportune chemical fire in the neighborhood where she's supposedly having a sleepover. It was just so much fun watching Felicia Rashad freak out at Vanessa with such unrestrained rage.