Should you watch The Cosby Show?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
The Cosby Show
Series · 1984
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.
The sides of The Cosby Show
- A doctor and a lawyer raising five kids
- A brownstone in Brooklyn
- Family dinners and teenage excuses
The Cosby Show is good for you if…
- you like the Huxtable parents handling five children with humour.
- you like gentle jokes about homework, dates and chores.
- you want something the whole family can watch together.
The Cosby Show is bad for you if…
- you find 1980s sitcoms dated.
- eight seasons is too much for you.
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