Cosby Show 1st episode aired 30 years ago tomorrow....WTF?

I never really thought about the fact that the parents are brown-skinned but two of their children are obviously bi-racial.
 
the first show was wack, flushing the goldfish down the toilet. Side note: the oldest kid didn't exist in the first season. Denise Hux. was the oldest in the first season, Sandra was added in the second season....
 
I never liked the Cosby Show even back then I hated the whole fake ass perfect family shit, I liked the actual funny shows like sanford and son and married with children
 
Flawless said:
I never liked the Cosby Show even back then I hated the whole fake ass perfect family shit, I liked the actual funny shows like sanford and son and married with children
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It's only television, hey....a little secret: Red Foxx didn't actually run a Junk Yard.....
 
Fuck y'all who didn't like the Cosby Show
I'm still cracking up over Theo wearing that GORDON GARTRELL


:lol::lol::lol:


 
Flawless said:
I never liked the Cosby Show even back then I hated the whole fake ass perfect family shit, I liked the actual funny shows like sanford and son and married with children
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You relate to struggling working class stories..then you would have loved it had bill cosby had his way..in his original idea Cliff was a chauffeur and Clair was a plumber. Cosby's wife suggested making them white collar professionals since that had never been seen in a black family up to that point. Altho I feel the Jeffersons were the FIRST white collar upper class Black family on tv (tho no one really acknowledges that)
 
Always loved the positivity about that show.

always will.



most the other shows with a predominantly black cast seemed to be always shucking and jivving.and clowning themselves in the most negative ways.
 
World B Free said:
It's only television, hey....a little secret: Red Foxx didn't actually run a Junk Yard.....
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But it did reflect a part of Black America.
I remember going to my Aunt and Uncle's houses for holidays and thinking they live just like The Huxtebles.

Then we went back home to Good Times....lol
 
The Cosby Show is an American television sitcom starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York.

According to TV Guide, the show "was TV's biggest hit in the 1980s, and almost single-handedly revived the sitcom genre and NBC's ratings fortunes".[1] Entertainment Weekly stated that The Cosby Show helped to make possible a larger variety of shows with a predominantly African-American cast, from In Living Color to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.[2]

The Cosby Show was based on comedy routines in Cosby's stand-up act, which in turn were based on his family life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cosby_Show

The Cosby Show
Genre Sitcom
Created by Ed. Weinberger
Michael Leeson
Bill Cosby
Starring Bill Cosby
Phylicia Rashād
Sabrina Le Beauf
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Lisa Bonet
Tempestt Bledsoe
Keshia Knight Pulliam
Geoffrey Owens
Raven-Symoné
Erika Alexander
Theme music composer Stu Gardner
Bill Cosby
Opening theme "Kiss Me"; performed by:
Bobby McFerrin (season 4)
Oregon Symphony (season 5)
Craig Handy (seasons 6–7)
Lester Bowie (season 8)
Ending theme "Kiss Me" (instrumental; various versions)
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 8
No. of episodes 202 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Marcy Carsey
Tom Werner
Bernie Kukoff (season 7)
Janet Leahy (season 8)
Camera setup Videotape; multi-camera
Running time 22–26 minutes
Production company(s) Carsey-Werner Productions
Bill Cosby
Distributor Viacom Enterprises (1988–1995)
Paramount Domestic Television (1995–97)
Carsey-Werner Distribution (1997–present)
Broadcast
Original channel NBC
Picture format 480i (NTSC)
Original run September 20, 1984 – April 30, 1992
 
the reality is the ONLY "innovative" aspect of the show was that it showed a black family doing what is NORMALLY shown in white family sitcoms.

AS a show the Cosby show was pretty standard.. You saw the same things in the Brady bunch...family ties..leave it to beaver... and any number of family shows before it.

They also made the same MISSTEPS those other shows did as well..

- when rudy was no longer cute but becoming an gawky preteen they introduced another young cute kid to obviously replace her..Olivia

- when the other kids started going to college in real life and getting older they introduced they own "cousin Oliver" (ala brady bunch) cousin PAM..a pointless character who brought nothing to the show.

- the later seasons would have whole episodes dedicated to other characters not related to the family..(episodes for peter, bud and even the muppets):rolleyes: showing that they had run out of ideas for the main characters..which was a shame since there were MANY opportunities they missed in trying to keep the show so clean cut.

- It was pretty clear they had NO IDEA how to deal with Denise because the character and the actress (Lisa Bonet) were TOO bohemian to fit in with everyone else. They TRIED to ride with her for a while but she just didn't fit in the neat picture Bill envisioned for the family. But Denise was the REALEST character the show ever produced..she was what EVERY family has..the black sheep. Her father was a doctor..her mother a lawyer and she was an UNDERACHIEVER with no idea what she wanted to do with her life. In real life Lisa Bonet got married and preggers and they HID IT in the show because of course none of the Huxtable kids ever had premarital sex:rolleyes:... but it would have been IN Denise's character to get pregnant before marriage. Something they could have rolled with.a missed opportunity to inject some real life lessons into the show. Also Phylisha Rashad got pregnant in real life and they HID that.. Claire having another baby would have breathed life into the later seasons..another missed opportunity. :smh:

Looking back this was the BIGGEST while some will say first MIDDLE CLASS black family UNIT ever introduced in television history..(actually TECHNICALLY the second..the Jeffersons were the first) and the fact that we as a society in the 80s was SURPRISED and happy (or disbelieving) to see it shows just how fucked up and brain washed we've become..

George Lopez's show was the first to show an all hispanic middle class family and that was just 7-8 YEARS ago..

slow change:smh:
 
geechiedan said:
You relate to struggling working class stories..then you would have loved it had bill cosby had his way..in his original idea Cliff was a chauffeur and Clair was a plumber. Cosby's wife suggested making them white collar professionals since that had never been seen in a black family up to that point. Altho I feel the Jeffersons were the FIRST white collar upper class Black family on tv (tho no one really acknowledges that)
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For me the Cosby show was the show the grown ups watched and I just want into it, I remember alot of the episodes dealt with some serious type issue which I had no interest in, I wanted to laugh and didn't find it funny
 
Flawless said:
For me the Cosby show was the show the grown ups watched and I just want into it, I remember alot of the episodes dealt with some serious type issue which I had no interest in, I wanted to laugh and didn't find it funny
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what were you a toddler or something?? Looking back and even watching back then the cosby show was as light weight as you could get...:lol:
 
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