taking back the house. there was such a love and come watery in the huxtable family. i think you had a universal audience. we got super bowl ratings every week. everybody wants to be a huxtable. it revitalized the sitcom. let s put cosby at 8 and family ties at 8:30 pm. the great thursday night lineup, cosby, family ties, cheers and night court. nbc created must see tv. you are talking about 30-40 million tuning in. cosby was number one. with respect to what has happened of late, it is hugely
bowl ratings every single week in the tuning in because everybody wants to be a huxtable cosby show revitalize the sitcom . all right, then let s put cosby at eight. let s put family ties at 8 30 family ties. boom in a huge way that great thursday night lineup. cosby family ties. cheers night court. nbc really created this idea of must see tv. you re talking about 20 and 30 and 40 million people tuning in, people say you ruining america s most successful fathers as a not was bill cosby, cosby was number one. with respect to what s happened of late. it s like hugely disappointing to all of us. but he set the standard for what a family sitcom was. the cosby show had proven that the family sitcom was a viable genre
married when i m 23 23. i ll have a husband named bowed. i didn t name but but what? but huxtable. the cosby show in the eighties normalizes the black experience in a way that was super important that felt more like my family than what i heard. the myth of the black family was expect to get into college with greed like this. no problem, e. i m not going to college, right? we had cosby show family ties we have to savers and those families were saying we re all basically the same. it was more conservative era and so you had these upper middle class households who don t worry about money, you know, are able to like balance their careers and their kids and then incomes. roseanne i m sorry . what do you want me to do? throw myself off a bridge and take your brother and sister with are you ever sorry we got
you know i brought you in this world and i ll take you out! the audience cheered because it was like the parents are saying, yes, we re taking back the house. i just want you to do the best you can. that s all. there was such a love and camaraderie in the huxtable family that i think you had a universal audience. we got super bowl ratings every single week, and they re tuning in because everybody wants to be a huxtable. the cosby show revitalized the sitcom. all right. then let s put cosby at 8:00. let s put family ties at 8:30. and family ties went up in a huge way. that great thursday night lineup, cosby, family ties, cheers, night court. nbc really created this idea of must-see tv. you re talking about 20 and 30 and 40 million people tuning in. people say you were one of america s most successful fathers.
family that i think you had a universal audience. we got super bowl ratings every single week, and they re tuning in because everybody wants to be a huxtable. the cosby show revitalized the sitcom. all right. then let s put cosby at 8:00. let s put family ties at 8:30. and family ties went up in a huge way. that great thursday night lineup, cosby, family ties, cheers, night court. nbc really created this idea of must-see tv. you re talking about 20 and 30 and 40 million people tuning in. people say you were one of america s most successful fathers. i said, no, that was bill cosby. cosby was number one. with respect to what s happened of late, it s like hugely disappointing to all of us. but he set the standard for what a family sitcom was.