The Cosby Show (TV Series)

The Infantry Has Landed (and They've Fallen Off the Roof) (1990)

Phylicia Rashad: Clair Huxtable

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• Rudy : There I was sitting in class while the teacher was talking about punctuation and I was starting my period. Do you know how embarrassing that was?

  Clair Hanks Huxtable : I think I do, and so does every other woman in the world. Honey that's why they call it the curse.

  Rudy : The curse?

  Clair Hanks Huxtable : The curse, dear. Now it's called the curse, the visitor, the flag is up, the infantry has landed.

  Rudy : The infantry has landed?

  Clair Hanks Huxtable : And fallen off the roof. In my day it was referred to as The Horror.

• Clair Hanks Huxtable : [explaining growing up with her period]  You see women were expected to be very dainty and discreet, so what do they do? They give us pads the size of mattresses. And during that very special time of the month, when you wanted to go out at night you couldn't carry a little dainty clutch bag, oh no no no, you had to carry an overnight bag.

• Rudy : Those were the bad old days, huh, Mom?

  Clair Hanks Huxtable : Those were the bad old days. But we've come a long way since then, and Rudy you know, it's very natural, it's been going on since the beginning of time. It's what makes you a woman.

  Rudy : But Mom, I'm NOT a woman, I'm 12 years old!

  Clair Hanks Huxtable : Rudy, in biological terms you ARE a woman, and if you're going to be a mother someday, this HAS to happen.