THE CLODSBY SHOW

THE COSBY SHOW
NBC 1984-1992


We used to like him until ten years ago. Pretend it was ten years ago and we still like him.

THE CLODSBY SHOW
MAD # 255, June 1985
w: Larry Siegel
a: Angelo Torres

Sitcom about an upwardly mobile family in Brooklyn. Cliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby) was an obstetrician. His wife Claire (Phylicia Rashad) was a lawyer. Their children were Theo (Malcolm Jamal-Warner), Denise (Lisa Bonet), Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe), and Rudi (Keshia Knight-Pulliam).

Cliff's office was on the bottom floor to make it convenient for plots.

Grant Tinker was President of NBC.
“When E.F. Hutton talks, everybody listens” was an ad campaign for that brokerage firm.
Ricky Schroeder was a kid from another successful NBC sitcom Silver Spoons.

The German edition of MAD always did all-new covers for their parodies.

THE SILLY COSBEY SHOW
Cracked #212, July 1985
a: John Severin

The last panel is a picture of Robert Culp, co-star of Cosby's previous TV series I Spy.

THE COZBY KIDS MEET THE A-TEEM
Cracked #217, January 1986
a: John Reiner

Family Ties used to follow The Cosby Show on NBC.

The A-Team was Murdock (Dwight Schultz), Hannibal (George Peppard), “B.A.” Baracus (Mr. T.) and Face (Dirk Benedict)

Bob Newhart's Newhart was around the same time, though not in direct competition with The Cosby Show.

THE COSBY SHOW
Cracked # 224, November 1986
a: John Severin

Occasionally Sandra (Sabrina LaBeauf), another daughter they added later, was a college student who would sometimes appear.

There was a special issue of Cracked that was supposedly taken over by Russians. This was from the article Communist Broadcasting System's New TV Lineup in #227.

Usually when a porn parody is done of a movie or TV show it doesn't extend beyond punning the name and making the box look slightly like the poster (so I've been told). There were at least two editions of Not the Cosbys that actually tried to duplicate the formula in the video itself. Here are the parts with the porn edited out.

UPDATE:
Noow... you see you put the thing in now you see you put it out there with the “blawwwww”.

When I posted things from this before people pointed out MAD could get so much more mileage out of him today. They also pointed out I don't mention his sexual predatoriness the way I do with some of the other actors I post. That's true. Lots of these pages don't age well. From MAD #266, October 1986, by Tom Koch and Paul Coker, Jr.

From TV Spinoffs Yet to Come in MAD #269, March 1987, by Tom Koch and Angelo Torres.