Cosby Show - Classic or Dud?

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does that place sell a Walking Lemons shirt?
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mizzell, Monday, 17 September 2007 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link

lolz at Keshia/Raven cute-off

(Then again, Raven is working and Keshia is not, so maybe being hideously ugly has its advantages.)

HI DERE, Monday, 17 September 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link

Boy howdy do I hope you're talking about late-seasons Vanessa there.

Of course. Despite ALL evidence and practice by the American media today, you can't be viewed as "hot" by adults until you have reached the age of adult consent.

Which, in my mind, is at least 21, even if the law says different.

B.L.A.M., Monday, 17 September 2007 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link

Places I have seen K working, generally lately: Beauty Shop, cohosting VH1 special with Candace Cameron

nabisco, Monday, 17 September 2007 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link

I think post Beauty Shop she might be lining up some more roles -- I mean, if she felt like it, you know she could play random hot chicks on like Half and Half and All of Us and stuff until the cows came home.

BLAM I wasn't talking legality, I was just thinking of how she spent the first few seasons being, like, what, 10 or 11? I think the trapezoid was like a becoming-a-woman rite of passage for her.

nabisco, Monday, 17 September 2007 19:13 (sixteen years ago) link

Speaking of trapezoids, she had an incredibly poor hairstyling choice for at least one season.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 September 2007 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link

That is precisely The Trapezoid I'm talking about!

nabisco, Monday, 17 September 2007 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link

Ah, gotcha!

Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 September 2007 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link

I totally understand. My comments re: her hotness were entirely based on her appearance during later seasons, particularly while involved with Dabness.

B.L.A.M., Monday, 17 September 2007 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link

I will never understand ILMs forgiving attitude towards shitcoms

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 17 September 2007 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link

(ILX rather)

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 17 September 2007 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link

The pinochle scene would have been better if Cosby had dialed it back about 50%. Fewer goofy faces and drawn out head-rubs, please.

milo z, Monday, 17 September 2007 21:03 (sixteen years ago) link

Does Shakey ever fantasize about sexually assaulting Claire Huxtable, or is that only a Rachael Ray thing?

milo z, Monday, 17 September 2007 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link

oh dam

HI DERE, Monday, 17 September 2007 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link

I don't really watch sitcoms; "Cosby" was an exception. Theo was hot!

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 17 September 2007 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link

get one new joke milo

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 17 September 2007 21:10 (sixteen years ago) link

(altho no I'm not into shoulderpads and feathered hair)

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 17 September 2007 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, we're talking about The Cosby Show here -- it's kind of transcendent.

jaymc, Monday, 17 September 2007 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link

Shakey in hating things people like shockah. *zzz*

Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 September 2007 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link

I guess... when I see it now it looks just as boring as every other sitcom. I don't see what really makes it unique, apart from (debatably) the carefully honed comic chops of its lead actor.

Frank's Place was better.

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Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 17 September 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link

actually, you've articulated why sports disgust me, except sub "quarterback" for "actor."

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 17 September 2007 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link

well hey perhaps not so coincidentally I'm also one of those rare American males who does not give a single shit about any professional sports whatsoever

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 17 September 2007 21:26 (sixteen years ago) link

Sports "disgust" you? I mean, if not for lore and statistics, I'd find them pretty boring, too, but.

jaymc, Monday, 17 September 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link

the only sports stories I enjoy are the ones involving guys pitching no-hitters while on acid

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 17 September 2007 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link

do ppl srsly get to be like adults while still thinking like me in 9th grade

ghost rider, Monday, 17 September 2007 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link

how do people not grow out of hating on sports

J0hn D., Monday, 17 September 2007 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link

It's one of the few fruitful, healthy antipathies.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 17 September 2007 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/football/070202/f020219A.jpg
HOW CAN YOU HATE THAT FACE

ghost rider, Monday, 17 September 2007 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link

I just didn't understand how Alfred went from Shakey saying "Sitcoms bore me" to being all "I know, just like how sports DISGUST me." Not that there aren't disgusting aspects of sports, it was just an odd leap.

jaymc, Monday, 17 September 2007 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link

Is there anything to parse? I was being glib, even if I meant it a little. With some exceptions a well-made sitcom has the same effect on me as an "exciting" football game.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 17 September 2007 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm talking about your elision of boredom and disgust.

jaymc, Monday, 17 September 2007 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link

So, to clarify, you (a) dislike or (b) are entirely uneffected by sports?

B/c I know a ton of people who don't watch sports, but don't dislike them, or, alternatively, people who like some sports, but not others.

I know very few who, across the board, dislike all sports.

B.L.A.M., Monday, 17 September 2007 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link

And I am not trying to hi-jack the thread. I am asking to see if I should start another one.

B.L.A.M., Monday, 17 September 2007 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link

That was directed to Shakey and Alfred

B.L.A.M., Monday, 17 September 2007 22:03 (sixteen years ago) link

I distrust most communal experiences, even concerts. Something about the expectations forced on me.

BUT LET'S GET BACK TO RUDY HUXTABLE LIPSYNCHING "I GOT THAT FEELIN'"

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 17 September 2007 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link

I distrust most communal experiences, even concerts. Something about the expectations forced on me.

I don't mean to be rude, but CRAZYPANTS

HI DERE, Monday, 17 September 2007 22:06 (sixteen years ago) link

It doesn't stop me from going! But I enjoy music more than sports.

Unanymity of opinion disturbs me; hence my scowling when people whoop, cheer, and applaud loudly. Why is this so hard to understand?

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 17 September 2007 22:11 (sixteen years ago) link

Srsly, CRAZYPANTS

I don't like concerts or most activities where there's a crowd, but not because I feel I'm forced to feel or act any particular way. I just don't like a lot of people being that close to me.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 September 2007 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.colleenkenny.com/images/ignatius.jpg

ghost rider, Monday, 17 September 2007 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link

I also wash my hands at the sink until they bleed.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 17 September 2007 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link

I do actually dislike large concerts because the greater the distance from the stage, the more I have to concentrate to prevent the crowd around me from getting in the way of my connection with the music. They don't even have to be behaving a certain way, either, I just don't like them dominating my senses.

jaymc, Monday, 17 September 2007 22:21 (sixteen years ago) link

Unanymity of opinion disturbs me; hence my scowling when people whoop, cheer, and applaud loudly. Why is this so hard to understand?

b/c it's insanely contrarian?

Jordan, Monday, 17 September 2007 22:24 (sixteen years ago) link

Alright, so...you do acknowledge the fact that, typically, a sports contest has at least two factions, and often more, if its a multi-competitor sport?

Look, if your dislike of sport is just a general grinchness towards sports FOR WHATEVER REASON I'll back off. But a whole lot of people like sports. I am one of them. I am constantly curious as to why some people don't.

Even at my most anti-social times in my life, I still dug basketball. To the fullest.

B.L.A.M., Monday, 17 September 2007 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh, I'm pretty social, but I accepted long ago that there are many other kinds of camaraderie in which I can find lasting pleasure. Last Thursday I sang loudly to "Inbetween Days" at a bar, so...whatevs.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 17 September 2007 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm going to spend the rest of the evening cracking up over imagining these guys at funerals.

nabisco, Monday, 17 September 2007 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link

"They've asked me to say a few words, and here they are: good riddance to old Aunt Jane. The woman voted for Dole, for god's sake. Indulge in your pious weeping if you must, but the woman was a hidebound reactionary, and god knows I won't miss that cat-urine smell of hers a bit."

nabisco, Monday, 17 September 2007 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link

I come down more on the "boredom" side than "disgust" (although there's no shortage of disgusting things about professional sports, really). I'll go to ballgames with my dad or my coworkers if asked, I can sit through a game on TV if someone else wants to watch it, my wife makes me watch the Olympics, etc. But it just does not hold my interest at all, I find myself unable to assign any kind of importance to feats of physical acumen and as such my mind will just wander off.

I don't necessarily have Alfred's aversions to crowds but I do have an aversion to stadiums, which are pretty much invariably disgusting/uncomfortable/creepy.

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 17 September 2007 22:34 (sixteen years ago) link

(many x-posts)

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 17 September 2007 22:34 (sixteen years ago) link

- "It is always a tragedy when a child is taken from us so young ..."
- "DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO THINK, PREACHERMAN."

nabisco, Monday, 17 September 2007 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link

(and btw I know there's other people here who may find it hard to believe - but I do actually respect the dead, provided they were worthy of respect while alive)

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 17 September 2007 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link


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