One of the absolute best television shows I grew up on was
The Cosby Show. For those who haven't ever seen the show, it revolves around the Huxtable family dealing with the situations common to family sitcoms. What makes the show so awesome is how creative the parents, Heathcliff and Clair, are when dealing with the situations. For example, when Theo as a teenager says he's going to move out because it'll be easier to live on his own than with his parents, Heathcliff and Clair setup the entire house to simulate the real world - they take out all his stuff from his room and make him pay rent to stay in it and buy back his own furniture and go through a job interview to earn that money in the first place. There is also one episode where Heathcliff eats right before going to bed and the entire episode is Heathcliff's dream that involved Muppets and a lot of nonsense. Another dream episode (caused by the same thing), puts Heathcliff in a world where men start becoming pregnant including all the men of the Heathcliff family. Unfortunately, I can't explain the best part without spoiling the ending, but suffice it to say it is utterly ridiculous.
Other awesome things in this show involve Heathcliff's grandfather, played by the actor who voices Panthro in the
Thundercats, an episode where all the set pieces look like real life versions of a five year old's drawings, Heathcliff loves jazz and plays the trombone, and the fact that Heathcliff always reminded me of my dad. I'm pretty sure my dad knew that all us kids thought he was like Heathcliff and so I'm convinced that part of the reason my dad hates The Simpsons is because it came on at the same time as The Cosby Show and we started watching The Simpsons instead of The Cosby Show. Looking back at this show and the first few seasons of The Simpsons, though, I don't really blame him. This was a far superior show (at least until a couple seasons in to The Simpsons when the writing got a lot better).
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