Matt Williams Movies

This episode was written to accommodate the pregnancy of series star Phylicia Rashad, aka Clair Huxtable. When Clair and her mom Anna leave for Hillman College to attend a ceremony honoring the retiring president, Cliff (Bill Cosby) and his dad Russell (Earle Hyman) are put in charge of the kids. A crisis arises when Cliff tries to mediate an argument between Rudy (Keshia Knight Pulliam) and her friend Kenny, as Russell watches from the sidelines with quiet amusement. Also, Theo (Malcolm-Jamal Warner) can't understand why he has been receiving so many phone calls from giggling girls, who immediately hang up when he answers! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Cliff (Bill Cosby) warns daughter Rudy (Keshia Knight Pulliam) and her taciturn friend Peter (Peter Costa) to stay far away from his new juicer. The kids try hard to obey, but can't resist an opportunity to "create" their own version of grape juice--with predictably disastrous, and very messy, results. Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe) bears the brunt of the consequences because she was supposed to be watching the kids, but Clair (Phylicia Rashad) thinks that Cliff should shoulder some of the blame himself for placing temptation in Rudy and Peter's path! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe) worries that her science-fair "solar system" project doesn't measure up to those of her schoolmates in her new advanced scinece class. As it happens, her project isn't rated too highly--but rather than take responsibility for this, jealous Vanessa gets mad at her best friend Janet (Pam Potillo, in her first series appearance) for winning Third Place at the fair. Elsewhere, Clair (Phylicia Rashad) would rather suffer a broken dishwasher than have self-styled handyman Cliff (Bill Cosby) try to fix the mechanism, thereby making a bad situation worse! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi