Quote: Tim Walker @ October 9 2009, 2:12 PM BSTMore people should watch The Sky At Night IMO. There, I've said it.
'The Sky+ HD At Night' is better.
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Quote: Renegade Carpark @ October 9 2009, 2:30 PM BST'Just put this bucket on your head and try not to bump into the green screen love.'
Sums up life really.
Quote: Morrace @ October 9 2009, 2:31 PM BST'The Sky+ HD At Night' is better.
Ah, but do you get to witness the slow spectacular death of a massive planet-like mass (Patrick Moore)?
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I think I fancied Monkey. 
Thinking about it now, my first real life crush I had looked a lot like him. 
Roseanne was brillllliant.
I always thought of that and The Cosby Show as showing the two extreme ends of the American class system.
I loved Roseanne, but I definitely wanted to be a Huxtable.
Quote: zooo @ October 9 2009, 2:48 PM BSTI loved Roseanne, but I definitely wanted to be a Huxtable.
Weren't they a bit creepy and always had a lesson to learn? Plus there was always a precocious and annoying small girl. Nice house though.
Quote: zooo @ October 9 2009, 2:48 PM BSTRoseanne was brillllliant.
I always thought of that and The Cosby Show as showing the two extreme ends of the American class system.
I loved Roseanne, but I definitely wanted to be a Huxtable.
I wasn't allowed to watch the Cosby Show, and this is me quoting my mother, because it showed "uppity black people."
But it was okay for us to listen to his comedy records. 
Yikes!
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ October 9 2009, 2:49 PM BSTWeren't they a bit creepy and always had a lesson to learn? Plus there was always a precocious and annoying small girl. Nice house though.
Ha, the first young girl was sweet, the second one they roped in when that one grew up was annoying.
It was a bit lesson-to-learn-y but it was genuinely funny and all cosy and nice and that. 
I still want to get it on DVD.
Quote: AndreaLynne @ October 9 2009, 2:50 PM BSTI wasn't allowed to watch the Cosby Show, and this is me quoting my mother, because it showed "uppity black people."
I've heard some shocking stuff in the UK, but I'm convinced, especially after visiting, the US is far more fundementally racist than here.
Quote: Tim Walker @ October 9 2009, 2:22 PM BSTI remember that the BBC had no problems showing a programme promoting Buddhism (Monkey) to us kids on BBC2 at teatime. It was generally a little violent as well in places.
A little violent in places? There was at least one good fight scene in every episode. Often three good fight scenes. Getting the Monkey DVDs was very worthwhile, as nieces and nephews love it. And when Tripitaka's horse started talking and taking human form (sometimes when clobbered by Monkey's wishing/fighting staff), Andrew Sachs did the voice in the English dubs.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ October 9 2009, 2:30 PM BSTI always felt sorry for the kids who showed up at the Knighmare studios.
'Ooh, am I going to see some dragons and elves and witches?'
'Just put this bucket on your head and try not to bump into the green screen love.'
Quote: AndreaLynne @ October 9 2009, 2:50 PM BSTI wasn't allowed to watch the Cosby Show, and this is me quoting my mother, because it showed "uppity black people."
The Cosby Show did have some genuinely funny stuff in it, but it was all a bit too worthy for my tastes. I found it sometimes too sentimental and cloying, regardless of the fact it was a middle-class black household that was being portrayed.
I loved the occasions The Simpsons have parodied it, especially when they made fun of the fact that, every time one the Huxtable's male relatives turned up in a show, they always seemed to be some long-forgotten jazz legend.
Quote: Tim Walker @ October 9 2009, 3:14 PM BSTThe Cosby Show did have some genuinely funny stuff in it, but it was all a bit too worthy for my tastes. I found it sometimes too sentimental and cloying, regardless of the fact it was a middle-class black household that was being portrayed.
I loved the occasions The Simpsons have parodied it, especially when they made fun of the fact that, every time one the Huxtable's male relatives turned up in a show, they always seemed to be some long-forgotten jazz legend.
I was thinking of making a similar comment: the best thing about watching The Cosby Show was seeing it parodied later on The Simpsons. Also amusing was when Homer threw a copy of Bill Cosby's Fatherhood book into the fire.
Eddie Murphy's impersonations of Bill Cosby were always fairly savage and good value too.
There's also the Hibbert's in The Simpsons.