I was raised by a man, a man who happens to be my father, who loves the Cosby Show. He loved it almost as much as he loved us. Interrupt his show and you’d find out how small that gap was. So I grew to love it too. It shaped me, and the conversations with my parents in the way tv did back then. It had been years since I saw an episode, enter YouTube.
You guys know about binge watching stuff, right?
Well, we’ve been doing that. Mr Suger pretends to roll his eyes at me and work at the kitchen table, but I hear him occasionally chuckle. Me, on the other hand, I’m the laugh out loud type. I’ve chuckled, I’ve whooped, and I’ve hee-hawed. It’s the best. I’ve learnt a lot about life and love and family from the Cosby Show.
It feels a lot like the way my parents parented us. Similar rules, ideas about raising children and there were even parallels in some of the lessons learnt. It’s just too bad that our lives didn’t wrap up into a tidy bow at the end of 25 minutes. Now that is a trick I wish I’d been able to learn from tv. Learning not to go to bed angry is something I still struggle with. Especially when I trip over Mr Suger’s boots in the dark.
Did you know Adam Sandler was in Season 4? Me either. Apparently this show has everything. You should check it out, the man is adorable, even if his shorts are shorter than anything I’ve seen in my life. My Dad tells me it was common back then. I told him he was never allowed to complain about skinny jeans again.
Speaking of which the fashion moments are EPIC. Super duper epic. Denise in the first three seasons was the queen of style. In later episodes, all the ladies moved on from the 80s taffeta to denim and bomber jackets. It was a lesson in pattern clash to make the best pattern clasher dizzy! Amazing. Over the top. Style. Inspiration.
Hence, the binge watch. So much goodness on so many levels. It’s the best, just like old times, a time capsule to my childhood. Sigh, so wonderful. I’m not sure what I’m going to do when I run out of episodes… Maybe I’ll need to find Punky Brewster on YouTube.
What was your favourite show from when you were a kid?
Hi! I’m Melissa Walker Horn. Around here, they call me Suger. I’m the Chief Blogger and doer of all the things here at Suger Coat It. Blogging since 1901; I love a casual ootd, taking photos, and writing about things that irk or inspire me. I love wine and cheese, long days at the beach and spending time with my family. I make stuff for the internet over at Chalkboard Digital. You know, living the sweet life.
I am definitely a Cosby show fan. I wish there were other shows similar to this on tv…. xo
Just loved Dr Huxable’s range of dorky dad jumpers! 🙂
I totally agree! On BOTH points. Those jumpers were the best. I saw an episode the other night when Denise and Vanessa were heading into The Village and needed to look cool, so they were raiding his closet. HA. The best.
I watched all 10 seasons of JAG a few years back when I was sick.
I watched about 300 episodes of Prisoner also, had to stop as I really didn’t like Joan Ferguson (when nasty characters come into a show to be nasty to others I just can’t watch anymore).
Recently I watched every episode of Blue Bloods (season 1-4).
I bought the first few seasons of A Country Practice – I wish they would bring out more.
The Flying a Nun and Gidget.
I love to Binge watch.
Haha. I love this. I do the same thing with new tv shows too. I wait until the season is done and download them all so I can watch it one go. Heart is Dixie, Season 3 is up next. Can’t wait. 😉
I was pretty uncool as a kid (still am!!) and watched Murder She Wrote on a Saturday night with my mum and we would be rapt when we guessed the murderer before it was revealed. As I got older it was The Late Show on ABC, I watch The Best Bits of The Late Show on DVD a few times a year and still have a crush on Mick Molloy.
OMG Dana, I LOVED Murder She Wrote. It was the best. Actually, when I first left property management and was working from home, they had reruns in the middle of the day while I had lunch. It was the best!! THE BEST.
I binged watched The Cosby Show in 2010 … So many seasons one after the other while breast feeding my newborn daughter… I LOVED it… Used to watch it as a kid but totally loved it all over again in a different way… Now when I think of that show, I think of all those middle of the night feeds 😉
It’s the best. Maybe that’s could be a new parent’s handbook to raising a kid? It certainly would be mine if I ever have one. Haha.