The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy 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.
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Cliff is in charge while Clair and Denise are out of town. Guest: Elaine Stritch as Mrs. McGee
The episode was rated 8.24 from 29 votes.
Denise and Olivia babysit Winnie and Nelson (Sondra and Elvin's twins).
The episode was rated 8.24 from 29 votes.
Theo graduates from NYU, Denise reveals that she is pregnant and Olivia leaves to join Denise and Martin in Singapore.
The episode was rated 8.25 from 12 votes.
Cliff's patient and her husband are convinced that they are prepared for every scenario ... and then labor begins.
The episode was rated 8.25 from 20 votes.
After his limo collides with Denise's car, Stevie Wonder (appearing as himself) invites the Huxtables to a recording session. Wonder performs "I Just Called to Say I Love You" with Clair and the family. Absent: Sabrina Le Beauf as Sondra Huxtable.
The episode was rated 8.26 from 54 votes.
Cliff and Clair have a marital argument after Theo gets detained by police for riding in a car with an unlicensed driver.
The episode was rated 8.28 from 36 votes.
Theo and Cockroach come home unusually late from a track meet, and the Huxtables got a phone message earlier from the track coach. They both deny anything out of the ordinary happened, but attorney Clair knows better. A mock trial is held for Theo and Cockroach at the Huxtables' for Clair to get to the bottom of the situation. Carl Anthony Payne II as Cockroach. Bill Cosby and Keshia Knight Pulliam appear on the episode of A Different World which airs later that evening.
The episode was rated 8.28 from 50 votes.
Cliff tracks down the grandfather of one of his patients: an expectant teenage mother with no other family. Clair deduces that the charming man is illiterate. Guest appearance by Sammy Davis, Jr.
The episode was rated 8.33 from 21 votes.
Sondra breaks up with her boyfriend Elvin and is depressed, taking it out on the family. Cliff and Clair aren't exactly unhappy; they find Elvin rather annoying. Later, he appears at the house with flowers and tries to apologize. While there, he offers some of his sexist rhetoric to Clair, who quickly becomes annoyed. First appearance of Geoffrey Owens as Elvin. Joseph C. Phillips appears as Daryl (Phillips joins the cast in Season 6 as Denise's new husband, Navy Lt. Martin Kendall)
The episode was rated 8.34 from 82 votes.
The newlywed Sondra and Elvin return from their honeymoon with shocking news for Cliff and Clair: they want to abandon their dreams of being a lawyer and doctor and open an outdoorsman's "wilderness store." Geoffrey Owens (Elvin) becoms a regular cast member.
The episode was rated 8.37 from 70 votes.
Martin's parents (Olivia's grandparents) come for a visit. Actor Moses Gunn and jazz singer Nancy Wilson guest star as Martin's parents.
The episode was rated 8.44 from 32 votes.
Clair discovers a marijuana joint in one of Theo's school books. She and Cliff confront him about it, and accept his explanation—another boy slipped it in. Theo confronts the boy and brings him home to confess in order to remove any uncertainty from his parents about his telling the truth. Theo and the boy actually start to become friends. Stephen Thompson as Anthony Braxton, Iman as Mrs. Montgomery. Rudy says her full name in this episode, Rudith Lillian Huxtable.
The episode was rated 8.48 from 60 votes.
Cliff, Elvin and Martin secretly compete to determine who is the most romantic husband in the Huxtable family.
The episode was rated 8.48 from 33 votes.
Theo continues his attempts to help Stanley and the other children at the community center.
The episode was rated 8.53 from 19 votes.
After Theo claims that he'll have no problem making it in the "real world", the Huxtables convert their house in the "Real World Apartments" and teach him a lesson about the real world; i.e., needing employment and references to get an apartment, income to get a bank loan, having to pay for his meals, etc. Carl Anthony Payne II as Cockroach.
The episode was rated 8.53 from 51 votes.
