Since Claire was once a kid and had a sister too maybe she knew Rudy would want to watch Vanessa be punished because it's something she did when she was younger.
I jumped too, and my hands were over my mouth like that. I whispered the D-word under my hands. By the way, don't ever cross up my brother. He can be worse if not equal to CH.
@CossandraCastle She heard this whole conversation and still had the audacity to pull a similar stunt during the next season. It’s the one where her and some middle school friends tried to sneak into a 16 and older teen club, and she lied to her parents in the process.
This was why Claire kept telling Vanessa to shut up. She knew that something stupid was going to fall out of that girl's mouth at some point. She was just trying to save her life. 😂
I love it "Shut up, don't you dare open your mouth when I'm asking you a question." Later "You better answer me when I'm asking you a question, girl." LOL
All perspective married couples and soon to be parents or parent should watch this episode and take serious mental notes 🎶. When God gives the gift 🎁 of a Child 🧒 to you. Your days of partying, embarrassing moments, and selfishness is over you old it to that child to give him or her love, structure and protection is no longer about you. When I read the comments from the sister hood circle ⭕️ abanding their roles as mothers for a moment of adult entertainment and make excuses for it is very shameful
Oh here we go again with this.I think the writers must not have written it that way because it looks too good.The actress must have adlibbed it and then the directors left it in by. The instances over the years where that has happened have been immeasurably view and far between.
Hmmm, never thought of this. Phylicia Rashad may have brought it up to the directors and they loved her idea and they expected it, but everyone opted not to tell Bill Cosby, knowing the reaction he would probably give!
And they thought she would be safe at college? That episode was directed at her levels of parental disrespect not just in delaying the announcement of her engagement, but out and out lying about how Clair and Cliff mentally and emotionally suffered through her other siblings. They should have shipped her off to...wait, no school was safe!
My husband and I use that phrase whenever we get together with our best couple friends just because of this episode. Even our group text is named "Big Fun" 😂
Moral of this episode: When you have a father who knows enough about the human anatomy to make your death look like an accident or of natural causes, and a mother who can legally make it so that the truth is never found out, or that they never find your body,... DON'T MAKE THEM GODLIKE ANGRY, OR ELSE......!!!!!!!
Claire was pretty fair and generous with her in the episode. She didn’t punish Vanessa because she was “learning her lesson” during the hangover. Plus, she made her go to school the next day although she felt very sick. That alone was her “punishment”. Oh! And when Cliff said “Nothing I can give you, no cure for this”.
I suspect that the table read had 75% of the emotional content, but Phylicia and Bill talked to the producers to say (in nice terms) this was not a "sit down and discuss moment). Go back the pilot show -Vanessa cognitive reasoning was very apparent. What I enjoyed was the certain traits of the Huxtable children remained the same as they aged -even Theo; imagine seeing the bully tends dies come out of Rudy when she is no longer the 'baby', but became the " older" representative for Olivia. Vanessa's EQ is narcissistic and disconnected to how others are affected by her behavior. "GO TO BED!" was so needed because it was a parent being a parent, literally an "I brought you in this world, " I'll take you out!"
The look of fear in Vanessa's eyes when Cliff caught Claire!!! It looked like she realized her mom might really hurt her. She slid backwards to get off that couch to avoid getting any closer to her mother. LMAO!!!
In martial arts(Takewindo, Kenpo, etc), you have two personalities: a warrior or sometimes called the tiger and a scholar. A warrior reacts without thinking. All he knows is fights. Doesn’t care about the consequences. A scholar, OTOH, thinks before he react. That’s why you see a Kenpo hand gesture meaning a person learns how to think before resorting to fighting if nothing else works.
@@dieselloveCliff Tell Me Have You Went To Wilmington For Doughnuts 🍩. Not On The Weekend. We’re You Thinking 🤨 I Wasn’t Thinking.🥺 GO TO BED 🛌 😡 Mom 😢 I’m Sorry 😞
Did you really think that the four of you could go off careening into and not one single parent would find out about it? Did you really think that, Vanessa
I told my mom once as a teen that she was supposed to be my friend and always on my side! Got told she was my parent and her job was to raise me to be a functioning adult member of society! Sometimes yes that meant she was on my side but she would never take my side when I was wrong as it would be a disservice to me to do so!
I have modeled my parenting after Claire Huxtable and Carolyn Ingles. This scene takes me to this very last week, and my youngest was very shocked to hear me angry. She better not f around and find out again. Moms do a lot of loving, and you save the angry voice for the real real moments.
"For all I know you are lying right now - GO TO BED!!" I love how even the audience gasps. This is what separates live recordings from those corny laugh tracks
Mad? That's nothing compared to how worried and scared and most of all, disappointed in Vanessa she was. Trust me, "mad" was the least of her feelings.
And you have to remember Clair is a LAWYER, so to get to that level of rage with her knowing about the consequences, just show that Vanessa really pissed them off.
SHUT! UP! 😂😂😂😂😂 And then backed it up with the ancient parental curse..."I hope you learn what this feels like" 😂😂😂 The part where Cliff has to step between them...😂😂😂😂😂
I've always thought that Clair telling Vanessa she hoped Vanessa would think her child's life was in danger was an awful thing to say to Vanessa. 😱😳🥶 !
I couldn’t see how Claire knew Rudy was there without looking. I think maybe she knew how Rudy liked seeing Vanessa get in trouble either that or she saw Rudy on the corner of her eye and/or heard Rudy chuckle.
@@battywattywoo babaaaay the way she was about to dive on Vanessa 😂 that's my favorite part. I mean the neve of Vanessa. She lied to her parents and had her parents worried sick, she snuck out and then have the audacity to tell her mother that she wants to punishment now before she goes to bed. Teenagers will take you there
When Claire said 'for all I know you could be lying right now Go To Bed!!that hurt Vanessa's soul. That was worse than an ass whoopin' that was the look of disappointment on her mother's face .
She was probably grounded for the rest of the season (probably like 2 months) and had to do extra chores, curfew was probably earlier, and wasn’t allowed to see that group of friends for a least a few months. And I’m pretty sure Kara got the worst punishment of out all of them for taking her brothers car and getting it lost. Followed by Susan who snuck away from her grandma who was probably worried sick after that fire thing.
Do you mean Jeremy? This was after...but before Clair and Cliff shipped her off to Hillman at 17 and she became engaged to a man 12 years her senior, and she convinced many people in believing that her parents were emotionally unstable. After the expected break up, Vanessa was barely seen until Theo's M.S. graduation.
No, she’s being a PARENT. This is TV but parents act like that for real when their kids need to straighten up and fly right (esp when the kids are TEENS)
I take my self to bed! Her and the original Aunt Viv from Fresh Prince of Bel Aire were Americas favorite moms and if they said go to bed the whole nation listened!
@@celticprincess2002I remember a man saying something like,"When Clair yells at Vanessa ,"Go to bed!" I , a grown man started going to my own bed and then remembered that I was a grown man with Teenagers myself and didn't go to bed until much later. 🤣🤭
Vanessa got good grades in school, but she was the main one getting into trouble out of all of the kids. Not that the other ones didn't get into trouble, but Vanessa was the one who was always doing something. 😂
As the son and brother of teachers, I approve of this video. lol. Kids nowadays act entitled so bad they need this kind of parenting. And parents nowadays do the “gentle parenting” that it makes kids act this way in the first place. Also nowadays, parents can’t getaway with this type of behavior without it being some sort of verbal abuse.
This was karma against Vanessa at its finest. She deliberately lied to her parents of where she would be that night and anything that could go wrong did go wrong with their trip to see a concert.
"But I'd like my punishment before I go the bed " Claire loses it and starts to charge at Vanessa Cliff steps in front of Claire to hold her back. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 As a father, I have had to save my daughters life by pulling that move Cliff pulled.
Yep, that go to bed was the last thing Vanessa was gonna experience before she stepped into the outer limits to the twilight zone of her consciousness.
Fun fact: Phylicia Rashad's performance was so convincing that Tempest Bledsoe cried actual tears. The production staff had to calm her down after the scene was done, and Phylicia actually apologized.
The fact is NOT fun, but it's heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. Reconciliation is cool with moments like this. That shout from Clair must have snagged at a bad moment in Tempest's own life.
I know parents need to be harsh with their children at times but this moment made me wonder if Clair loved Vanessa. OK maybe Clair was worried about Vanessa but she should have at least said that during her yelling.
@sirgothnerd9297 I didn't say he went to court. I said the cops found the car in a ditch and cam to the DOOR, as in the door to the Conners' household, and informed Dan and Roseanne of what had happened.
She should win an EMMY award for that performance!
Phylicia Rashad is a classically trained actress
She never won the Emmy for this role, incredibly.
It's crazy the thought that she never won one. She should had at least 3 Emmy
@@calibankzthomas9229 She was still Black in America. All of the Black actresses were overlooked in this era.
@@isaiahwinbrone still working in movie 🎦
Her level of pissed off was off the charts
That cow is too fucking control freak .She even controls treats her husband like a child i find it very repugnant and fecal
So agreed
It was in the stratosphere...understandable too!!
@@laraschauble how about outer space
@@RedStrikerBeetleborg 🤣🤣 LOL!
I love how she knew Rudy was there without looking.
REAL Mom powers.......it's scary lol
LOL she knows her kids. She knew Rudy wasn’t gonna miss watching Vanessa get chewed out.
Since Claire was once a kid and had a sister too maybe she knew Rudy would want to watch Vanessa be punished because it's something she did when she was younger.
@@aph1976 Of her 5 children, Clair knows that Vanessa and Rudy are the interchangeable ying and yang of narcissistic instigators.
Well, she'd read the script ahead of time.
Claire was so mad she forgot Cliff was behind her entering the house 😂
Isn’t that how it usually happens when a parent is pissed off at their child?
Claire reminds me of my mother. She was a teacher. She had the ability to berate your soul and she didn’t even had to say an actual curse word.
My mom was a teacher too...an English teacher. She could make me feel sooo low when I really effed up.
Mine too! And even tho she didn't curse, I always felt like she cussed me out!!
Sounds like my mother
I wouldn’t try this with my mother
Sounds like my mom
I jump with Vanessa at Clair’s “GO TO BED!” Even the audience gasps. No one pulverizes a human more thoroughly than Clair Huxtable.
I jumped too, and my hands were over my mouth like that. I whispered the D-word under my hands. By the way, don't ever cross up my brother. He can be worse if not equal to CH.
I jumped a bit too when Claire said to Vanessa "Go to bed!"
Ok. It won’t just me
@@mr2del I was playing video game 😡
@@AnthonyLeachman-sc6es what's that mean?
Claire: "Cliff, have you ever had doughnuts in Wilmington?"
Cliff: "Not on the weekend"
😂😂😂
And all they got in Wilmington is Dunkin.
Vanessa could’ve went somewhere else.
Yeah that took me out HAHAHA
@@brandonrobinson716 I used to live in Wilmington. They also have a Krispy Kreme.
"Well let's see...ya had doughnuts!" That always makes me chuckle. 😂
😂😂me too😂😂
And that would get stuck in your intestines for a long time
@@kinapooh9275she breaks my 🎮
Same here 😂😂😂
The uncut versions of this episode is much better than the syndicated tv version. With the uncut version, scenes are shown that have never been seen.
Rudy stayed up all night just to hear Vanessa get chewed out 😂😂
I wonder if Denise and Olivia woke up and heard the conversation.
@@michaelewing4515 I know they heard that “GO TO BED!”
LOL. I love how Claire tells Rudy to go to bed without turning around .
Little sisters be like😂 :
@CossandraCastle
She heard this whole conversation and still had the audacity to pull a similar stunt during the next season. It’s the one where her and some middle school friends tried to sneak into a 16 and older teen club, and she lied to her parents in the process.
The “mom” and immediate “shut up” is needed in 2024!!
Very much so
Yup.
Totally agree, this generation is whew
Especially with these kids disrespecting their teachers.
Agreed!!!💯💯💯💯
That moment when Clair yelled, "GO TO BED!" Made me take myself to bed right away.
😂😂😂😂
This is when nbc was good the Cosby show family ties night court😊
When she yelled GO TO BED; I went. And it was 1:00 in the afternoon.
@@user-hd3dc5up6iexactly now it’s all cop and hospital shows.
😅
Vanessa: "But I'd like my punishment before I go to bed..."
Claire: "So you have chosen death."
100% this was the best!! Cliff & Clair were a true team!
@@Orcagirl78Clair: Why, you mother-!
Cliff restrained her. Clair(thinking)Thank the Lord he stopped me. I would have killed her.
“But I want my punishment before I go to bed…”
Vanessa was just seconds away from actually getting it….!!
Yeah, getting put 6 feet under.
Exactly!!!! I definitely wouldn’t have told my parents that when I was a child coming up!!!!!
This was why Claire kept telling Vanessa to shut up. She knew that something stupid was going to fall out of that girl's mouth at some point. She was just trying to save her life. 😂
Oh, I learned a lesson from the CEO of a co.pany I worked for. You let him talk and say nothing to defend yourself because he'd rip you to shreds.
She was about to get something alright 🤛🏾
She chose death asking for her punishment now. My life would of flash before my eyes
No she chose annihilation! ! No body would of been found for at least two millennia!
@throwbackgeneral6944
Because it’s the unknown that drives people crazy and frightens when more than something they KNOW will happen.
It proved that all five children had levels of entitlement that were proven never to have existed.
@@bastet727Vanessa had it worst of all , she was ALWAYS trying it !
Me too
"And do me another favor, please. If you're thinking about running away from home, please don't take my car."
I died laughing at that part LOL!
Can’t blame him
I would have taken that chance :)
😅
@@Squirrel36lightskin Lisa came home pregnant Claire didn't say nothing
I love it "Shut up, don't you dare open your mouth when I'm asking you a question."
Later "You better answer me when I'm asking you a question, girl." LOL
Why do parents do that? One minute they want the child to keep their mouth shut then they’ll get mad if they do. 😂
I heard this a number of times as a young girl lol me and my sister lol
That was my mom😅
All perspective married couples and soon to be parents or parent should watch this episode and take serious mental notes 🎶. When God gives the gift 🎁 of a Child 🧒 to you. Your days of partying, embarrassing moments, and selfishness is over you old it to that child to give him or her love, structure and protection is no longer about you. When I read the comments from the sister hood circle ⭕️ abanding their roles as mothers for a moment of adult entertainment and make excuses for it is very shameful
That will never get old LOL
Claire slammed the door in Cliff's face 😆🤣😂.
That part makes me laugh every time. 😂
I know Cliff had to stand at door and be like I paid for the house. 😂
Female toxicity.
@@tidesofthemoon no, angry mama
Cliff was always in the middle of things. It was funny when one episode Denise and Vanessa were fighting and he ended up getting knocked down. 😂
I feel like Phylicia Rashad adlibbed closing the door in Bills face because it looks like he wasn't expecting it.
Couldn't be. The camera was ready with the closeup
@@JloveLamar She could have ad-libbed it, the director thought it was great and then they simply got a close-up in a different take.
@@tayzonday You have to set those shots up. When she slammed it and he walked up, it's the same cut and same take. They knew it was coming
Oh here we go again with this.I think the writers must not have written it that way because it looks too good.The actress must have adlibbed it and then the directors left it in by. The instances over the years where that has happened have been immeasurably view and far between.
Hmmm, never thought of this. Phylicia Rashad may have brought it up to the directors and they loved her idea and they expected it, but everyone opted not to tell Bill Cosby, knowing the reaction he would probably give!
“Half a gnats brain!” Damn, Claire was on her a$$! 😳
OOOOOOO, I could've hollered on that one! Bwahaaaaaaaaa!!!!😂😂😂😂
There’s nothing funny about a parent disciplining a child…UNTIL CLAIR HUXTABLE CAME ALONG!!! She kicked Vanessa’s ass in this scene!!!
If anyone sees my comment, my apologies for the language, my bad
Right. Lol she kicked her ass without even touching her lol
A literal ass kick would have hurt less lol
Clair was someone you did not mess with
@@chrisshoemaker914 oh yeah
@@rodneybuck5943 Oh no worries it was funny.
24 years later, I got a notification on my phone. Big fun with the Wretched! Never forget!
That was hilarious 😅!!!!!
When Claire said GO to Bed, why did I feel she was talkin to me?
Girl, I I'm watching this *from* bed, and my heart leapt out of my chest and is waiting for me in the afterlife 😅
That is great acting
30 years later ..I'm still in bed...
I think it is because we feel connected to these characters.
I know I got sleepy.
“Let’s all go to Baltimore and have Big Fun”, still lives rent free in my head 😂😂😂😂
Well Let’s See Now You Had Doughnuts 🍩
I knowwwww. With the "Wretched!" 😂😂😂😂😂
Not the BIG FUN!!😬😬😱
@@stephanieblackley9037i ❤️ Boston cream doughnut.
Claire WAS NOT PLAYING!!!...
SHE meant straight Biznezz!😂😂😂😂
😊😊
Vanessa is all of us who thought we were going to do something behind our parents back and get away with it!! 😂😂
Am I the only one who had to rewind to see Claire get held back by Cliff when Vanessa said I want my punishment before I go to bed lol.
lol 😆 right
And they thought she would be safe at college? That episode was directed at her levels of parental disrespect not just in delaying the announcement of her engagement, but out and out lying about how Clair and Cliff mentally and emotionally suffered through her other siblings. They should have shipped her off to...wait, no school was safe!
Lol
That's my favorite part 😂 babaaaay the way she was about to dive on Vanessa 😂
Lol ikr and my mine too
That Phylicia Rashad was a hell of a good actress!
She still is.
0:41 RUDY! GO TO BED! Claire didn't even turn around and still knew she was there. 😂😂😂😂
She has mom eyes.
Every time she says "the big fun" 😂
And "BALT-TIM-MORE!" 😂
@@PrincessofPower84
This was one of my favorite episodes.
My husband and I use that phrase whenever we get together with our best couple friends just because of this episode. Even our group text is named "Big Fun" 😂
@@nicolettetallmadge3254
Have y'all ever gone to see "The Wretched"!?😂
With The Wretched!
Moral of this episode:
When you have a father who knows enough about the human anatomy to make your death look like an accident or of natural causes, and a mother who can legally make it so that the truth is never found out, or that they never find your body,...
DON'T MAKE THEM GODLIKE ANGRY, OR ELSE......!!!!!!!
💯🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Yes, that’s right….
well damn! lol
Omg. I love this. You speak facts!!
Shoot my dad is a pastor so he didn’t mind to take my life and preach my funeral. 😂
Yall remember when vanessa got drunk and they played a fake drinking game with her during her hangover lol
"well you're in An "L" of Jam now? -Cliff
Claire was pretty fair and generous with her in the episode. She didn’t punish Vanessa because she was “learning her lesson” during the hangover. Plus, she made her go to school the next day although she felt very sick. That alone was her “punishment”. Oh! And when Cliff said “Nothing I can give you, no cure for this”.
@@mikej2133 love that episode lol
The Alphabet Game.
@@chattingwithjojoClaire hated Vanessa and favored Lisa Bonet because she was lightskin and Claire said nothingnwhen Lisa bonet got pregnant
I'll bet after the director called cut, Phylicia Rashad went over to Tempestt Bledsoe and gave her a long loving hug.
I thought I heard Malcolm Jamal Warner directed this episode.
@@Mxyzptlk_Lives yes he did
I bet Phylicia was like, "Dude, sorry about that.....that's just the mother in me."
I suspect that the table read had 75% of the emotional content, but Phylicia and Bill talked to the producers to say (in nice terms) this was not a "sit down and discuss moment). Go back the pilot show -Vanessa cognitive reasoning was very apparent. What I enjoyed was the certain traits of the Huxtable children remained the same as they aged -even Theo; imagine seeing the bully tends dies come out of Rudy when she is no longer the 'baby', but became the " older" representative for Olivia. Vanessa's EQ is narcissistic and disconnected to how others are affected by her behavior. "GO TO BED!" was so needed because it was a parent being a parent, literally an "I brought you in this world, " I'll take you out!"
She probably did. It's something a lot of actors do after intense scenes
Claire was a great mother
That "Go To Bed" shid I felt that. Hell I think everyone felt that. She was really in character & parnet mode there
I jumped back!...I turned my phone off and went to MY room👀
Everyone in Brooklyn heard that.
The look of fear in Vanessa's eyes when Cliff caught Claire!!! It looked like she realized her mom might really hurt her. She slid backwards to get off that couch to avoid getting any closer to her mother. LMAO!!!
All of them mad that scene look so believable.
Now what if cliff didn't stop claire lol
@@nastradamas20she would decked Vannessa out of anger.
That what anger does. You react whithout thinking.
@toddlindsay8846 oh I get it but vanessa woulda died 😂😂
In martial arts(Takewindo, Kenpo, etc), you have two personalities: a warrior or sometimes called the tiger and a scholar.
A warrior reacts without thinking. All he knows is fights. Doesn’t care about the consequences.
A scholar, OTOH, thinks before he react. That’s why you see a Kenpo hand gesture meaning a person learns how to think before resorting to fighting if nothing else works.
“Tell me Cliff?~ Have ever been to Wilmington for doughnuts?~”
“……not on the weekend.~”
my all-time favorite episode, Vanessa and the Big Fun in Baltimore singing the Wretched song🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Claire Huxabtable , Theo, keisha knight ,and raven symone was my favorite on the show!
@@dieselloveWell Let’s See Now Had Doughnuts 🍩 Had Doughnuts In Wilmington Delaware.
@@stephanieblackley9037 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@dieselloveCliff Tell Me Have You Went To Wilmington For Doughnuts 🍩.
Not On The Weekend.
We’re You Thinking 🤨
I Wasn’t Thinking.🥺
GO TO BED 🛌 😡
Mom 😢 I’m Sorry 😞
2:04: What were you thinking?
2:05: I wasn't thinking.
2:07: You got that right.
Me: Yep! 😆😆
Did you really think that the four of you could go off careening into and not one single parent would find out about it? Did you really think that, Vanessa
@@DeANGELIS4735 Vanessa: Mom....
Claire: SHUT UP!!!!
🤣
This is REAL parenting going on here. None of that, "I'm their best friend" BS!!
Exactly these parents today to turned up
I told my mom once as a teen that she was supposed to be my friend and always on my side! Got told she was my parent and her job was to raise me to be a functioning adult member of society! Sometimes yes that meant she was on my side but she would never take my side when I was wrong as it would be a disservice to me to do so!
Vanessa gets busted for lying to her parents. She goes to Baltimore.
Sometimes you gotta get in their face to help them open their eyes!
Factz
I have modeled my parenting after Claire Huxtable and Carolyn Ingles. This scene takes me to this very last week, and my youngest was very shocked to hear me angry. She better not f around and find out again. Moms do a lot of loving, and you save the angry voice for the real real moments.
What about your own parents
2:18 Claire's "Shut Up" made me go nuts...
"For all I know you are lying right now - GO TO BED!!"
I love how even the audience gasps. This is what separates live recordings from those corny laugh tracks
Shut up! Don't you dare open your mouth when I'm asking you a question! LMAO had me screaming. Rashad's acting is so on point. 😂
Vanessa: But I want my punishment before I go to Bed.
Ghost Face voice: DO YOU WANT A DIE TONIGHT VANESSA???
😂😂😂
Please just care ya behind to bed😅
@@caxzcorvettitv1113 🤣🤣🤣
The look that Cliff gets when Elvin has wandered in the shark-infested waters called Clair's quick logic...
This episode and the drinking game I just love❤❤❤❤❤❤
4:02 I never seen Clair get that mad. I felt that the first time I saw this..gave me chills🥶
That's what happens you lose your parents' trust, they stop treating you like their child, and more like how wardens treat inmates.
Mad? That's nothing compared to how worried and scared and most of all, disappointed in Vanessa she was. Trust me, "mad" was the least of her feelings.
That, "alll the waaay to BALteemo!" felt real! Claire's voice was shaking with rage!
3:26
Claire was like: that's it, I've had enough of this girl
And you have to remember Clair is a LAWYER, so to get to that level of rage with her knowing about the consequences, just show that Vanessa really pissed them off.
She was so dramatic with with her lines in this scene. She was brilliant!
YOU BETTER ANSWER ME WHEN I ASK YOU A QUESTION GIRL LOL 😂😂 AT 2:40
Did it look like it was funny, to you?!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
10 seconds of yelling before "you better keep your mouth SHUT when I'm asking you a question" 😅😅
Imagine Claire says something like this nowadays: “You better snswer me now, bitch!”
SHUT! UP! 😂😂😂😂😂
And then backed it up with the ancient parental curse..."I hope you learn what this feels like" 😂😂😂
The part where Cliff has to step between them...😂😂😂😂😂
I've always thought that Clair telling Vanessa she hoped Vanessa would think her child's life was in danger was an awful thing to say to Vanessa. 😱😳🥶 !
Well let's see now you had donuts 😂😂😂😂😂
Cliff- What were you thinking
Vanessa- I wasn’t
Cliff- you got that right
When Claire Huxtable made me wanna go to my room too. lol.
I swear you can't help but laugh a little when being yelled at and being asked a question and told shut up 😂
I wonder if Vanessa’s actress was set up to be genuinely scared to look more realistic.
@@amylee8969in an interview, she said she was actually frightened because the scene was so relatable to her mom
😅
I bet I wouldn't have laughed 😮!
My favorite scene of the entire series.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner did an amazing job as co-director of this episode from _The Cosby Show._
"Don't you dare open your mouth when I'm asking you a question!" 😆
Then it was" you better answer me when I ask you a question, girl!!" 😂😂
4:02 Nearly thirty years later...I still feel that one.
“BIG FUN” and “RUDY… GO TO BED” always gets me 😂
I couldn’t see how Claire knew Rudy was there without looking. I think maybe she knew how Rudy liked seeing Vanessa get in trouble either that or she saw Rudy on the corner of her eye and/or heard Rudy chuckle.
@@deannaroberson1451 Claire definitely saw Rudy with her peripheral vision.
@@Zarro75
Claire was very smart.
“I’d like my punishment before I go to bed.”
- No child, ever
Knowing the type of punishments that some parents come up with, knowing ahead means you'll get some sleep instead of none
The unknown is more frightening.
Poor Vanessa! She'd already had her punishment, really, because she didn't get to see the concert.
@@battywattywoo babaaaay the way she was about to dive on Vanessa 😂 that's my favorite part. I mean the neve of Vanessa. She lied to her parents and had her parents worried sick, she snuck out and then have the audacity to tell her mother that she wants to punishment now before she goes to bed. Teenagers will take you there
That's practically a death sentence. Vanessa was just asking to be made an example of.
When Claire said 'for all I know you could be lying right now Go To Bed!!that hurt Vanessa's soul. That was worse than an ass whoopin' that was the look of disappointment on her mother's face .
Vanessa was basically use to getting punished. 😂 love how Rudy was trying to get a front row seat and Claire called her out.
I was at work but when she yelled go to bed i left drove home and got in my bed 😳 😂
Claire’s hair was beautiful, soft and fluffy.
Always
What were you thinking.I was not thinking.You got that right😂
We never find out what Vanessa's exact punishment is, but this is the last appearance of those particular friends on the show.
She was probably grounded for the rest of the season (probably like 2 months) and had to do extra chores, curfew was probably earlier, and wasn’t allowed to see that group of friends for a least a few months.
And I’m pretty sure Kara got the worst punishment of out all of them for taking her brothers car and getting it lost. Followed by Susan who snuck away from her grandma who was probably worried sick after that fire thing.
@@amylee8969was this before or after the one where she lied to her parents and ran off with her boyfriend
Do you mean Jeremy? This was after...but before Clair and Cliff shipped her off to Hillman at 17 and she became engaged to a man 12 years her senior, and she convinced many people in believing that her parents were emotionally unstable. After the expected break up, Vanessa was barely seen until Theo's M.S. graduation.
@@3MJsmama Before.
Jeremy had gotten another girl pregnant for a proposed sixth season episode (cancelled due to Lisa Bonet's pregnancy and the "Angel Heart" scandal.
Claire is playing lawyer with Vanessa
Oh, she's not playing; she doesn't have to.
No, she’s being a PARENT. This is TV but parents act like that for real when their kids need to straighten up and fly right (esp when the kids are TEENS)
Vanessa didn't stand a chance. She was dead girl walking.
@@Sparkina
Kids today need a mom like Claire Huxtable to straighten them out.
This is my favorite Cosby show episode of all time!
Dont you dare open your mouth when im asking u a question🤣🤣
Every time I see this, I still jump when she screams at Vanessa to go to bed. Every time. Lol 🤦🤣
I take my self to bed! Her and the original Aunt Viv from Fresh Prince of Bel Aire were Americas favorite moms and if they said go to bed the whole nation listened!
@@celticprincess2002I remember a man saying something like,"When Clair yells at Vanessa ,"Go to bed!" I , a grown man started going to my own bed and then remembered that I was a grown man with Teenagers myself and didn't go to bed until much later. 🤣🤭
Claire’s face as she hears Vanessa “sorry” is classic 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 like girl that ain’t working
Clair Huxatable can read you down to your very soul and not a single curse word was used.
Now That's a Black Mother!!❤
Correction: a black lawyer mother
That's any mother that genuinely loved her children
I jumped too lol. Superb acting by Phylicia here, the anger of a mother with her disobedient teenager was so authentic.
Just like King Triton and Ariel
Perfection Phylicia... Took me back to my teen years, hey am over 50, nothing has changed... Love it too bad. Will always love this show😂😅❤❤
Nothing will ever top this scene. But I really wish My Wife and Kids had done something similar to this one.😂😂😂
Vanessa got good grades in school, but she was the main one getting into trouble out of all of the kids. Not that the other ones didn't get into trouble, but Vanessa was the one who was always doing something. 😂
She even graduated from high school early only to go college and get engaged to a 29 year old man. This girl was a mess
Even after Claire yells at Vanessa to go to bed, Vanessa still said "Mom I'm!" She still hasn't learned that you don't say nothing and just go to bed!
She’ll never get it. She’s one of those people who’ll find out the hard way what happens when you keep lying.
Legendary episode....where Vanessa was off to BALTIMORE....to see The Wretched....and have biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig fun....!!😁
When Claire screamed at Vanessa to go to bed, I was speechless even when the episode ended.
Claire had everybody stuck 😂😂😂😂
This what these kids need today in 2024
Half a gnat's brain
Right😂
🤭😄😁😆😂🤣🤣
Thad fact that she didn’t win an award for this is beyond me
I love the Cosby show 💜🥺
And just like that......we all went to bed. 😆😆😆😆😆😆
3:26 Cliff is like: I’m tagging in
Cliff saved Vanessa from sudden death that day. Claire was ready to commit murder.
@@marcustrice3246
😅😅😅she was an attorney 😅😅😅
As the son and brother of teachers, I approve of this video. lol. Kids nowadays act entitled so bad they need this kind of parenting. And parents nowadays do the “gentle parenting” that it makes kids act this way in the first place. Also nowadays, parents can’t getaway with this type of behavior without it being some sort of verbal abuse.
Yes. Exactly.
This was karma against Vanessa at its finest. She deliberately lied to her parents of where she would be that night and anything that could go wrong did go wrong with their trip to see a concert.
Now that's how parents should be parenting. Kids get away with everything today. Parents take note!
In the Huxtable family... Lying was the ultimate offense and not once, tolerated.
One of my favorite shows, I was a kid in the late 1980s. Shout out to Brooklyn.
"But I'd like my punishment before I go the bed "
Claire loses it and starts to charge at Vanessa
Cliff steps in front of Claire to hold her back. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
As a father, I have had to save my daughters life by pulling that move Cliff pulled.
Yeah Clair was wrong for that for the way she treated Vanessa like she didn't do anything stupid when she was Vanessa's age.
Yep, that go to bed was the last thing Vanessa was gonna experience before she stepped into the outer limits to the twilight zone of her consciousness.
Fun fact: Phylicia Rashad's performance was so convincing that Tempest Bledsoe cried actual tears. The production staff had to calm her down after the scene was done, and Phylicia actually apologized.
This is why Mrs Rashad needs her flowers...
The fact is NOT fun, but it's heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. Reconciliation is cool with moments like this. That shout from Clair must have snagged at a bad moment in Tempest's own life.
I know parents need to be harsh with their children at times but this moment made me wonder if Clair loved Vanessa. OK maybe Clair was worried about Vanessa but she should have at least said that during her yelling.
@@ellebee690 She did. "You have taken us from levels of... etc. and now taht we know you're okay, RAGE."
This is off topic but Vanessa’s outfit and hairstyle are lovely.
I know eh! I love some of the styles from back then!
I agree!
I used to love seeing their outfits each week, especially Denise’s.
Was just going to say this.
I don't know what's worse. Theo's weekend party or Vanessa's night with the Wretched. Both events were very bad. The sista came out of Claire 👏
At least, Theo had some remorse...
Would been great to put the two incidents together
Parenting 101 right there
This is reminds of Roseanne where D.J stole a car, Roseanne made him work at the diner to pay off his fine
Except Clair didn't spank her.
Neither did Cliff.
That may have been needed for Vanessa.
@sirgothnerd9297 The cops found the car in a ditch and had DJ's description. They came to the door and that's how the family found out.
@sirgothnerd9297 I didn't say he went to court. I said the cops found the car in a ditch and cam to the DOOR, as in the door to the Conners' household, and informed Dan and Roseanne of what had happened.
If Vanessa was in a Latino family, not only she would get yelled at, but she would get hit with the chancleta (slipper)