The Cosby Show (TV Series)

I'm 'In' with the 'In' Crowd (1989)

Bill Cosby: Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable

Quotes 

• Clair Hanks Huxtable : When do you feel this pressure?

  Theodore 'Theo' Huxtable : Every now and then.

  Clair Hanks Huxtable : This is not about pressure. Vanessa got drunk because she and her friends were bored, although they had television, VCR, video cassettes, audio cassettes, books...

  Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable : And each other.

  Clair Hanks Huxtable : Thank you.

  Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable : That they call on the phone every five minutes when they're away, yet somehow they were bored together.

  Clair Hanks Huxtable : So you see, Vanessa wasn't feeling any pressure from us. The only pressure she felt was from the people she was with.

• Theodore 'Theo' Huxtable : Because of what you two have accomplished, the world expects a lot more from us than from other kids.

  Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable : And that's our fault?

  Theodore 'Theo' Huxtable : Think about it, you're a doctor, Mom's a lawyer, that's a lot of pressure.

  Clair Hanks Huxtable : Theo, we never said become a doctor, become a lawyer, we say go to school, we say study, we say become something.

• Vanessa Huxtable : [hung over]  Daddy, my head, my stomach, please, can you give me something?

  Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable : Nothing I can give you kid, there's no cure for this.

• Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable : [Vanessa breaks the rhythm on the alphabet game on L]  I'll tell you what, you're in a L of a jam now. Whoever loses the fourth round has to drink four drinks.

• [last lines] 

  Vanessa Huxtable : [takes the shot glass up to her mouth, scrunches up her face, and drinks. she expects to taste bourbon, but...] 

  [as her face relaxes] 

  Vanessa Huxtable : this is tea...

  Rudy Huxtable , Clair Hanks Huxtable , Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable : Gotcha!

• Clair Hanks Huxtable : Cliff, Angela Hennings just called to say that, while she and her husband were out, her daughter and her friends - our daughter included - decided to play the Alphabet Game while chug-a-lugging bourbon and it seems that Vanessa was very drunk when she left.

  Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable : She must have lost.