Cosby Show Cast Reunites for 25th Anniversary

Us Magazine - May 19, 2009 3:12 PM PDT
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Can you believe it's been 25 years since The Cosby Show first aired?

To mark the anniversary, the cast reunited on The Today Tuesday to relive their favorite moments.

"Our stuff is funny. There's love there. It's all genuine," Bill Cosby explains of the endurance of the show, which premiered Sept. 20, 1984.

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Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played Theo Huxtable, says the show is still popular after all these years because of Bill Cosby's "vision. He wanted the show to be timeless. If I wanted to put slang in, he'd say, 'No, let's make up slang so 20 years later, it's still relevant.'"

Keshia Knight-Pulliam, who starred as 4-year-old Rudy, says she thinks of the Huxtables as more of "an American family" than an "African-American family...that was what was so groundbreaking and still so relevant today. The family issues weren't about race."

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Mom Phylicia Rashad continues: "We were always an African-American family...that's an American family. We were not a novelty. This American family has existed for decades and decades and centuries...we were just new to television."

Knight-Pulliam also opens up about learning her lines when she was just four years old.

"I couldn't read and I had to learn lines. I memorized them [with my parents]," she says.

To see Raven-Symone discuss her memories, Bill Cosby do the dance from the show's opener -- and more! -- watch the Today show video.



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  • KAYLE
    Nat- while you go on your black panther brigade, I suggest you pick up a DICTIONARY along with perhaps coming out of your "ghetto" long enough to realize, BLACK PEOPLE ARE NO LONGER OPPRESSED, and just because your black doesn't mean you have a green card to go throw around "racist" and "prejudice" accusations, simply because you were b
    report abuseposted February 2, 2010 4:55 PM PST
  • nat
    @ MsKlingon & Cherrygirl actually - racism has more to do with coming from a position of power and using that power to oppress and ultimately destroy an entire race of people (based solely on the color of their skin and/or assumed race) by various means of destruction. black folks can be prejudice. we can't be racist. read a book. there's a difference.
    report abuseposted June 27, 2009 8:02 PM PDT
  • cherrygirl
    To Nat: Black people can be racist. Just because you are not white does not mean you cannot be racist. That was the silliest thing I have ever read. It just takes hatred for people who are different than you to be a racist and I am sorry to say all races have racists members.
    report abuseposted May 19, 2009 5:06 PM PDT
  • MrsKlingonPasadena
    Nat: Black folks aren't exempt from being racists.
    report abuseposted May 19, 2009 5:01 PM PDT
  • nat
    MrsKlingon - black folks can't be racist, first of all. secondly, the jeffersons and good times weren't racially charged. they were shows that dealt with race appropriately for the particular stories they were telling; about black families that came from poverty and that were still living in poverty. the cosby show wasn't about the struggles of growing up black and poor.
    report abuseposted May 19, 2009 4:44 PM PDT
  • MM
    Love this show,I'm from Poland but for me it's a timeless classic show!!!
    report abuseposted May 19, 2009 4:30 PM PDT
  • terry c
    TIMELESS CLASSIC
    report abuseposted May 19, 2009 4:11 PM PDT
  • T.T.
    Happy 25th, Cosby Show!!!!!! We love you!!! :)
    report abuseposted May 19, 2009 4:01 PM PDT
  • Mama Sil
    I would love to see a reunion special. I loved this show as a kid and I am sure I would love it as an adult.
    report abuseposted May 19, 2009 3:55 PM PDT
  • honeychild
    i wonder if lisa bonet (or whatever her name is now) showed up for the reunion. she's always been so antisocial when it comes to stuff like that.
    report abuseposted May 19, 2009 3:52 PM PDT
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