Favorite "Cosby Show" Friend

Has to be Bud, doesn't it? I liked Cockroach, but Bud was Bud.

tempted to write-in Charmaine Brown or Lance Rodman (he was so sensitive), but it's really all about Cockroach.

Vanessa's boyfriend Robert was also great.

http://mentalfloss.cachefly.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/cockroach.jpg

shit! Forgot Robert and his New Age nonsense.

After this particular episode, Carl Anthony Payne II, the actor who played Cockroach was fired from the show after supposedly refusing to cut his hair at Bill Cosby's request. Cockroach was written out of the series and never mentioned again.

Hard to believe Cockroach was only in 12 episodes.

after which episode was he fired?

dance mania

Wasn't Adam Sandler on the show as one of Theo's friends?

yes, briefly

his name was smitty

I like Howard, but this poll really cuts out a lot of Rudy and Vanessa's friends, especially from later in the series. (Pam's friends are already mentioned, I guess.)

I can't remember the name of Vanessa's friend who talkedreallyfast, but on a good day I might have voted for her

Kara

Kara

― get money fuck witches (HI DERE)

http://wandaphullworld.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/deon-richmond1.jpg

Can I vote for Dwayne Wayne?

Has to be Bud, doesn't it?

Yes, it really does.

His name is Kenny!

I always wanted to meet Kenny's brother, but he would have never lived up to the legend.

Kenny's brother always sounded like this man:

http://ickmusic.com/pics/miles71.jpg

pee-ter!

Theo:
I say, friends!

Cockroach:
Uh, let me hold your ear.

Theo:
And Romans!

Cockroach:
Uh, let me hold your ears.

Theo:
I say, countrymen!

Cockroach:
Uh, let me hold your ears.

Theo:
Now, I’m Marcus Antonius, but they call me Mark
I didn’t come to bite, you see, I came to bark.
About the holes that the brothers put in Julius C—
As far as I’m concerned, it was cool with me.
You see, Brutus and the boys must have know what they were doin’;
Caesar was about to run Rome to ruin.
’Cause Brutus is cool . . . [Breakdown.]

Cockroach:
All Caesar did was to Romanize the world
And put some bronze in the palm of every boy and girl
But the man’s so chill that when they handed him the crown,
Caesar said . . .

Theo:
“No, Baby.”

Cockroach:
. . . and turned the crown down.
But Brutus, he said, he said he’s into greed,
Which is how he justified the Ides of March deed.
But Brutus is cool . . . [Breakdown.]

Theo:
I say, Chill, homeboy, my heart’s with Dr. J.

Cockroach:
So let’s get busy ’til he comes this way.

Theo:
Doctor was taken to the bridge!

[Said bridge occurs.]

Theo:
Now the last little Caesar scene before homeboy blew

Cockroach:
Was to drop some old gold on each one of you

Theo:
J.C. was your father.

Cockroach:
J.C. was your brother.

Theo:
And what I want to know . . .

Cockroach:
When comes such another?

Both:
Great Caesar’s ghost! Great Caesar’s ghost!

Cockroach:
He’s chilling most . . .

Theo:
From coast to coast!

Both:
Great Caesar’s ghost! Great Caesar’s ghost!
He’s chilling most from coast to coast!

Does Elvin not count as a "friend"?

I voted for Cockroach, but Peter and Bud get honourable mentions. I had a crush on Janet too.

Does Elvin not count as a "friend"?

No. He married into the family. That's a different poll.

Elvin would def. win best Cosby Show spouse. Fuck Martin (who in real life is some conservative dickwad.)

Oh Martin was awful in every way.

Anyways, Kenny.

Matin was a bit of a fist magnet, but I did like Olivia, in spite of myself.

Olivia had her charms, but her arrival marked the show's precipitous decline.

Definitely. The introduction of a new kid is always the end of any show, but she was charming as all hell.

Olivia>>>>Pam as a desperate ploy to save the show.

Martin was best when, in the first season, he played one of Denise's suitors:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etUBB_ylFGA&feature=related

^classic

*Sandra's suitors

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Can I vote for Dwayne Wayne?

I believe there was in fact a visiting-Hillman episode where Theo and Dwayne hung out briefly

Would also note that this poll is clearly "Favorite Cosby Show NON-ADULT Friend" -- it would be a very interesting (if rarefied) poll to go through the adults, though I suppose that'd require a lot of culling of guest stars

Like Robert Culp as Cliff's navy buddy would count, but Placido Domingo would not

nabisco do you have this show on dvd?

sadly: no

okay then your memory is amazing.

ha, well: it's on cable at least 4 hours a day, I have a DVR, and I enjoy always having a couple episodes on reserve just in case

I mean, it's a comforting, happy show, and in some ways it's like not really watching anything at all, which makes it handy for "lemme just throw something on while I finish my cereal" purposes

I have Season Three on DVD!

I don't think they ever show repeats of this on Britain, unless it's on a deeply obscure channel. Shame. Repeats of Fresh Prince all over the shop but not a Cosby Show in sight.

Also cockroach should have won.

guess my favorite would be Hannibal Buress:

http://www.avclub.com/article/hannibal-buress-called-bill-cosby-rapist-stage-210760?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview:1:Default

but seriously, pull your pants up.

should've voted for Peter