Cliff and Clair are excited about the first day of school. Vanessa finished high school a year early with a couple of summer school classes and enrolled at a college in Pennsylvania, while Denise begins classes at Medgar Evers College. Olivia starts pre-school, and Rudy is nervous about sixth grade because a few of her friends have "developed" over the summer. Theo returns home from his trip to Europe.
Rudy feels ill-equipped for sixth grade.
Cliff plans to attend an auction and take on his nemesis Dr. Harmon for an original copy of a Charlie Parker record. Denise forgets that she is supposed to watch Olivia's class for the day, so Cliff covers for her and places bids over the phone. He beats out Dr. Harmon but is outbid by a late arrival, who turns out to be Clair.
Domestic duties hinder Cliff s bidding on a rare jazz album.
The Huxtables host a family barbeque to celebrate Denise and Martin's first anniversary. Theo wants to throw Martin a bachelor party after learning he never had one. Denise and Sondra become very angry when Theo wants to hire a stripper because Martin and Elvin don't seem to mind. The couples argue but finally make up, which Cliff attributes to his special BBQ sauce.
Theo plans a belated bachelor party for Martin.
Clair's second-cousin Pam comes to stay with the Huxtables when her mom flies to California to be with her sick grandmother. Pam has a difficult time adjusting to the strict Huxtable rules and plans to sneak out of the house with her boyfriend and friends to a party. Cliff and Clair catch her and inform Pam that she must obey the house rules. When Pam sees Cliff and Clair treat her friends so well, she realizes that t…more
Cliff and Clair return from a weekend trip to Vermont and find the house in disarray. When Cliff and Clair begin to rant about the difficulties of parenthood, the kids tell a variety of stories where Cliff embarrassed them and accuse him of embellishing his childhood stories.
Cliff and Clair return from vacation to predatory children.
Rudy and Kenny want to make a video of Clair at work for a school project. When they see how boring a typical day at the office for Clair is, they go with Cliff to the hospital and convince a father-to-be to film his child's birth by telling him that Cliff wants the video. Cliff scolds them for being dishonest, but the father gives them the video anyways, and they win first prize in the project competition.
In a school assignment, Rudy and Kenny exaggerate Cliff s job.
Slide tries to convince Pam to sleep with him, claiming that their friends Lance and Charmaine are sexually active. Pam speaks with Charmaine, who says that Slide's claim is a lie. Pam expresses her love of Slide to Cliff and Clair and asks Cliff for birth control pills. Cliff and Clair explain that love is very complicated and for her to take things slow.
Cliff promises to refer Pam to a gynecologist for her birth control pills if she gets permission from her mom. After talking to Clair and Charmaine, Pam tells Slide that she is not ready for sex and is upset with his reaction. She breaks up with him but is immediately miserable; Slide comes to the Huxtables to make up with Pam but begins pressuring her again. After Pam storms off, Slide realizes his mistake and uses Lance…more
Pam s boyfriend wants intimacy.
Pam s boyfriend wants intimacy.
Clair learns from the school nurse that Rudy has gotten her first period. Clair plans "Woman's Day," a Huxtable family tradition, but Rudy is reluctant to go along with it and does not want any advice from Clair. After hearing some outrageous myths from a couple of her friends, Rudy sits down and talks to Clair. Theo is tasked with creating a psychological profile of Cliff for a class assignment, but Cliff r…more
Rudy begins to mature.
Denise and Martin, frustrated with the lack of privacy in the Huxtable household, look for an apartment but cannot find anything to fit their small budget. Rudy is excited that she might finally get her own room but is upset when she has to continue sharing with Olivia.
Denise and Martin look for a place of their own.
Alfred, an expectant father, is nervous about having a son because he is terrible at sports and will not be able to teach his son anything. He asks Cliff and Theo for help on learning how to play basketball. Charmaine convinces Pam to meet other guys after she breaks up with Slide, and Pam goes on a fun date with a nervous guy named Aaron.
A prospective father asks Cliff for advice.
Clair starts menopause, and the kids begin to treat Clair tenderly because of some outrageous stories they have heard about menopausal women. Cliff and Clair trick the kids by having Clair act insane. Pam and Aaron grow closer as Aaron shows his romantic side, and Lance tries to do the same with Charmaine.
The kids treat menopausal Clair as elderly.
Elvin's plans to watch a football game at the Huxtables are thwarted when Sondra volunteers them to help a couple of friends move. When they are the only couple that shows up, Elvin calls Theo and Martin for help. When the move takes longer than expected, the men purposely get lost and take the moving truck over to the Huxtables. When the women catch them, Cliff agrees to tape the game but plays a trick by having Oliv…more
Sondra pre-empts Elvin s plans to watch football with the men.
Theo is one good grade away from making the dean's list for the first time. He is studying for an economics final in a cafe when he meets Cheryl, a beautiful girl who is flying back home to Barbados the next day. Theo decides to go to a party with her, but all he talks about the whole time is economics. Cheryl makes him finish his studying and promises to look him up when she returns for the next semester.
Pam sees a big improvement in her grades after getting study tips from Theo and begins to think about going to college. Slide tells her that she shouldn't dream because she can't afford college, but Charmaine tells her not to give up. After speaking with Miss Hobbs, her history teacher, Pam confesses her college goals to Cliff and Clair. Even though she says she will work through college, Cliff suspects that Pam w…more
Pam s report card makes her friends jealous.
A high school basketball coach and his wife get ready for their first baby and insist that they are prepared for anything. Ray panics when his wife goes into labor; when she starts yelling at him in the delivery room, he is reduced to crying in the hallway. Cliff consoles Ray and tells him to treat this situation like he would a tough basketball game.
A high-school coach (John Ritter) applies his tactics to his wife s labor.
Cliff and Dr. Harmon decide to team up for the annual charity pinochle tournament rather than pairing with their wives, so Clair and Nicole Harmon decide to form their own team. The two teams meet in the finals, and the wives win the match easily. Rudy convinces Denise and Martin to let her watch Olivia while they go out of town. Olivia insists on staying up late to watch a horror movie, and Rudy and Olivia booby trap the…more
A horror movie spooks Rudy during her first baby-sitting assignment.
To celebrate their 27th anniversary, Cliff decides to recreate their first dinner as a married couple. He tracks down the chef from the old restaurant and asks him to prepare the menu from that night; the chef is upset about having to make such a simple meal but obliges after Elvin throws away his extra ingredients. Cliff also hires a calypso band and has the children decorate the house. Before Clair returns home from wor…more
For their 27th anniversary, Cliff and Clair re-create their first.
Clair's friend Kris and her husband Herb come for a visit. The women start talking about their fun times as kids and begin performing old song-and-dance routines, leaving Cliff and Herb bored. Rudy wants to go to the movies with a boy named Scott but knows that her parents will not allow her to date at this age, so she arranges a group outing with four other kids. When the other kids cancel, Rudy is forced to ask Clif…more
Clair s high-school friend (Leslie Uggams) visits.
Cliff and Clair go on a ski weekend together and allow Theo to use the empty house for his date with Cheryl. Denny's girlfriend Ellen comes over to tell Theo about her surprise for Denny's birthday; she drinks a glass of wine even though she is on medication and passes out on Cliff and Clair's bed. Denny comes over and tells Theo that he thinks Ellen is cheating on him because of her recent suspicious behavior…more
Everyone interrupts Theo s attempt to cook dinner for his girlfriend.
Olivia comes down with laryngitis and is upset that she will not be able to sing at Russell and Anna's 55th anniversary party. Everyone suggests different home remedies for her throat, and Cliff will have none of that. Cliff helps Olivia put together a lip-synching performance, with he and Rudy as her band.
Rudy gets into a fight with Olivia and has a nightmare about the incident that night. In the dream, Olivia is able to get whatever she wants from Cliff and Clair by acting cute and constantly whining. Rudy is forced to move into the basement after Olivia takes over her room. Rudy wakes up, relieved that everything was just a dream.
Olivia gets away with everything in Rudy s dream.
Cliff goes bowling with Russell, Elvin and some friends. Cliff's team loses because of his poor bowling, so he is forced to buy everyone Chinese food when they return to the Huxtable home. Russell, Cliff and two former Negro league players begin talking baseball, a topic that bores cricket players Dr. Harmon and Carleton. Cliff claims that cricket is an easy sport to play, so they start playing in the living room unti…more
Cliff and Russell recall old-time baseball; guests Frank Robinson, Joe Black.
Cliff learns that there is a 50%-off sale at Jake's, his favorite appliance store. Despite the family's best efforts, Cliff goes to the store and strikes up a conversation with his friend Jake, the owner. Jake tells Cliff a story from 10 years ago about a car accident he was in that was caused by his friend Stanley, whom he no longer speaks with. Cliff learns from Jake's daughter Cookie that she wants to marry…more
Friends (Red Buttons, E.G. Marshall) whose children are to wed feud.
Theo begins his internship as a counselor for seventh graders at a community center. The kids try to trick Theo into letting them out of their assignments, but Theo is wise to their methods as he used them when he was younger. One of the boys in the class, Stanley, refuses to do his homework but knows the material when Theo quizzes him about it. When Theo asks him to read his homework and Stanley has difficulties, Theo su…more
Theo counsels at a local community center.
Theo speaks with Mrs. Hudson, the head of the community center, about Stanley's problems, and she agrees that Stanley should be tested for dyslexia. Stanley does not want to take the test because he thinks the other kids will make fun of him; after Theo tells Stanley about his own troubles with dyslexia, Stanley agrees to get tested. Rahim is forced to leave the center and get a job after his father is laid off, and T…more
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