The Cosby Show (TV Series)

Halloween (1985)

Bill Cosby: Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable

Quotes 

• [it's Halloween] 

  Cliff : Why don't we just call it what it is: begging!

• [talking about Vanessa] 

  Clair Hanks Huxtable : I remember when she wouldn't even let a boy get next to her.

  Cliff : That's right. And now that's MY job.

• Cliff : [Rudy comes downstairs in a pumpkin costume]  Whoa, where're you going? To a wedding?

  Rudy Huxtable : No, trick-or-treating!

  Cliff : Trick-or-treating? What's that?

  Rudy Huxtable : Where you dress up and get candy.

  Cliff : Well when did that start?

  Rudy Huxtable : When I was 3.

• Cliff : [in a weird costume Rudy put together for him]  Don't tell anybody who I am.

• Cliff : [getting the kids ready for Trick-or-treating]  And do you have a song while go out there?

  Rudy Huxtable , Katie , Peter Chiara : [singing in unison; as the sitcom audience laughs]  Trick or treat, smell my feet/ Give me something good to eat!/ If you don't, I don't care/ I'll pull down your underwear!

  [a short pause] 

  Cliff : [bluntly]  I don't think that's an appropriate song.