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Season 8 Breakdown

Normal Episodes: 25
TV Specials: 1
TV Movies: 0

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Season 8 Guide (1991-2002)

	8x01 With This Ring? Vanessa shocks Cliff and Clair by bringing home her fiance, Dabnis, who she has been engaged to for six months without telling either of them. Cliff and ...	Sep. 19, 1991
	8x02 There's No Place Like This Home Clair is surprised when Cliff shows her plans to add on a soundproof room to the house where she can escape the children. Cliff and Clair have co-signed ...	Sep. 26, 1991
	8x03 Particles in Motion While in a parent-teacher conference, Theo develops a mutual attraction with one of his student's parent. When she invites him out for coffee, he declines ...	Oct. 03, 1991
	8x04 Pam Applies to College Pam applies to all of the same colleges as Charmaine in the hopes that they will be able to stay together. But Pam, Charmaine, and her guidance counselor ...	Oct. 10, 1991
	8x05 Warning: A Double-Lit Candle Can Cause a Meltdown In order to go to a club called The Exchange, and possibly win a dance with JT Freeze, Rudy tells Cliff and Clair that she is going to a Bible study, and ...	Oct. 17, 1991
	8x06 It's Apparent to Everyone Cliff and Clair start to get annoyed by Sondra and Elvin always letting the twins run around the house and mess it up. But every time they try to put a ...	Oct. 24, 1991
	8x07 The Iceman Bricketh When Russell finds out about Vanessa's engagement through a friend, who wrongly reports that Dabnis is 45, he and Clair's mother, Carrie, storm over and ...	Oct. 31, 1991
	8x08 Olivia's Field Trip Cliff and his neighbor, Jeffrey, chaperon Olivia and her classmates on a field trip. Meanwhile, Theo decides to put messages on T-Shirts and sell them ...	Nov. 07, 1991
	8x09 For Men Only After Theo convinces Cliff to teach a class for men only at the community center, the students misinterpret his intentions when Cliff brings Olivia's doll ...	Nov. 14, 1991
	8x10 Olivia Comes Out of the Closet While Miriam Makeba, a famous singer, is over visiting at the Huxtable house, Olivia disappeared. Everyone begins to search the house frantically for her, ...	Nov. 21, 1991
	8x11 Two Is a Crowd Dabnis confronts Vanessa about her being reluctant to set a wedding date after she runs home to Cliff and Clair's house. Dabnis wonders why she is pushing ...	Dec. 05, 1991
	8x12 Clair's Place Pam, Rudy, and Olivia become depressed when Clair spends the whole day in her new room after Cliff surprises her by finishing it early. The girls initially ...	Dec. 19, 1991
	8x13 Theo's Future After Theo gets accepted to graduate school, Cliff and Clair are ecstatic and agree to continue to pay his tuition. Later, Theo and a friend go to a corporation's ...	Jan. 02, 1992
	8x14 The Price Is Wrong Pam's old babysitter, Mrs. Whitaker, decides to bring some of her friends along with her on her weekly trip to the market with Pam on Saturday. Once they ...	Jan. 09, 1992
	8x15 Bring Me the Lip Gloss of Deirdre Arpelle While Pam fills in for Dr. Huxtable's assistant on a Saturday, one of his patients, Mrs. Minnifield, ends up giving birth in a cab after she ignores his ...	Jan. 16, 1992
	8x16 Eat, Drink and Be Wary While Clair is away at a law conference in Washington, D.C., everyone is expecting him to follow in his normal path of pigging-out on junk food. Cliff ...	Jan. 30, 1992
	8x17 The Getaway While Sondra and Elvin are moving into their new house in New Jersey, they ask Cliff to watch the twins. Cliff ends up breaking the grandfather clock in ...	Feb. 06, 1992
	8x18 Cliff Gets Jilted Sondra and Elvin are excited as they prepare for their housewarming party, but are upset when they have to move it to the Huxtable house because of a faulty ...	Feb. 06, 1992
	8x19 Cliff and Theo Come Clean Cliff is happy when Theo decides to decline the job offer and go to graduate school because he didn't want Theo to move so far away. Later, at the community ...	Feb. 13, 1992
	8x20 Clair's Reunion Clair plans a retirement dinner for her old college philosophy professor, Professor Capel, with a few of her college friends. They remember Professor Capel ...	Feb. 20, 1992
	8x21 Rudy's Retreat Cliff and Clair suggest that Sondra and Elvin look to someone else when they inform Cliff and Clair that they are in the running to become the twins' legal ...	Feb. 27, 1992
	8x22 You Can't Stop the Music Cliff is excited about getting a chance to meet some of his favorite musicians when he and Clair got to a radio station live performance which is part ...	Mar. 26, 1992
	8x23 Some Gifts Aren't Deductible Cliff is upset that he can't claim most of the people that have lived in his house on his taxes. Sondra and Elvin have their own income, Denise and Martin ...	Apr. 23, 1992
	8x24 And So We Commence (1) In this first part of the two part series finale, Theo prepares to graduate from college, and even though each graduate is only supposed to get two tickets, ...	Apr. 30, 1992
	8x25 And So We Commence (2) In the second part of the two part series finale of The Cosby Show, a lot of things are happening. Denise surprises everyone by calling to announce that ...	Apr. 30, 1992

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Season 8 Characters

Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable	played by Bill Cosby
Clair Hanks Huxtable	played by Phylicia Rashad
Olivia Kendall	played by Raven-Symon�
Rudy Huxtable	played by Keshia Knight Pulliam
Theodore 'Theo' Huxtable	played by Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Pam Tucker	played by Erika Alexander
Sondra Huxtable Tibideaux	played by Sabrina Le Beauf
Elvin Tibideaux	played by Geoffrey Owens
Winnie Tibideaux	played by Jessica Ann Vaughn
Vanessa Huxtable	played by Tempestt Bledsoe
Nelson Tibideaux	played by Gary LeRoi Gray
Russell Huxtable	played by Earle Hyman
Charmaine Brown	played by Karen Malina White
Kenny	played by Deon Richmond
Dabnis Brickey	played by William Thomas Jr.
Lance Rodman	played by Allen Payne
Stanley	played by Merlin Santana
Marlon	played by Carlton Beener
Deirdre Arpelle	played by Gabrielle Carmouche
Susan	played by Rachel Hillman
Eugene	played by Eugene Byrd
Danielle	played by Nicole Leach
Carrie Hanks	played by Ethel Ayler

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Season 8 Videos

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Season 8 Quotes

Season 8 / Episode 17: - The Getaway

Sondra Huxtable Tibideaux: Oh no, kids. You gotta stay here with grandpa and have a special memory day, okay?
Winnie Tibideaux: But you said that if we stayed in this house any longer we'll go crazy.

Season 8 / Episode 24: - And So We Commence (1)

Kenny: [touches the door bell] Dang! Your father still working on the door bell, huh?
Theo: Yes, I guess he is. Come in, Kenny.
Kenny: [gives him a present] Happy graduation.
Theo: What is it?
Kenny: Open it.
Theo: [sits down on the sofa and opens it] Kenny, these are tube socks. They come in six pairs.
Kenny: Actually, five.

Kenny: I'll go get some tape to fix that door bell. We don't want our guests getting possessed. Walks out the door and closes it behind him.
Theo: Okay.
Theo: Dad, you invited Kenny? I told you there are no more tickets.
Cliff: Aw, come on, Theo. Kenny is like a mother or sister... he's like the brother you never had.
Theo: There's too much people and there's not enough tickets.
Cliff: If there's not enough, then uninvite him.
Theo: But the boy gave me tube socks.
Cliff: Well, then give him a ticket.

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Season 8 Trivia

Episode 24 - This was the only TV program that interrupted the coverage of the Los Angeles Riots on the local NBC station, as this was the show's finale. At the end of the show was a plea from Bill Cosby to stop the violence on the streets.
Episode 11 - The title is from the old proverb: "Two is company, but three's a crowd."
Episode 22 - The title is from the 1980 song "Can't Stop the Music" by Village People.
Episode 24 - The last show of the series.
Episode 22 - This is the only episode to feature Kenny but not Rudie.

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