Saturday, January 31, 2026

1988: The Cosby Show continues its victory lap


For the fourth year in a row, The Cosby Show has the top spot in TV ratings. In this, the most clipped and incomplete episode that I've found yet (on a Facebook video, as usual), Cliff is reluctant to get his own physical, especially as it might lead to a time of reckoning for his binge eating habits of hoagies and chocolate soda. Mmm, that sounds pretty good...

John Amos guest stars as his doctor, putting Cosby through the ringer with a more intense physical than I've ever had - do doctor's offices still have treadmills? - and, yeah, there's yet triple entendre at the end of the clip where Amos calls Cosby out, saying he knows "guys like him" who can't stop once they "get a taste." 

I know, I know, he's still talking about hoagies and soda, but ... is he?


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