It's probably a good thing that this show was never a regular watch for me, or I might have had a more emotionally challenging time trying to re-visit it. Instead, it's an interesting look back as its place in history has obviously evolved.
As you can see in the screenshot, this is from season two as the show took over the number-one spot in the ratings. I was lucky to find it as a fully posted episode in a Facebook reel, because it wasn't showing up anywhere else. No library near me had it, no streaming service that I could find offered it, and no satellite TV station. Is it just ... gone?
The nuts and bolts of the whole thing is this: the episode was funny. It was sweet. It was everything I that always knew the show was.
It's a shame that so many people had to suffer from Cosby in so many ways, the least of which is certainly that a show doesn't get to air or find an audience when lots of good people put a lot of good work into making it (Blair Underwood was in this episode!), but that is absolutely a consequence.
And yes, another unfortunate consequence is that many of Cosby's quips have become double-entendres. It's kind of like watching a serious movie after it has been parodied; the jokes just kind of write themselves.
Four more seasons at number one to go!
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