cool and the parents were idiots. cosby says the parents are in charge and that was something new. instead of acting disappointed, because i m not like you, maybe you can just accept who i am and love me anyway, because i m your son. that s the dumbest thing i ve ever heard in my life! it helps the casting a lot in television. the kids were just great. if you were the last person on this earth, i still wouldn t tell you. you don t have to tell me what you did. just tell me what s they re going to do to you. unlike every other show on tv, it s showing an upper middle class black family. this wasn t all in the family. they weren t tackling deep issue, but that was okay. the mere fact they existed was a deep issue. the decade was waiting for something real. in other words, unless it s real, it doesn t seem like it moves anybody. if someone is feeling something, you get to the heart and the mind. if you can hit the hearts and