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The designer of the expensive shirt Theo buys is Gordon Gartrelle, a Cosby Show writer and producer. Quotes Cliff : No 14 year old boy should have a $95 shirt unless he is on stage with his four brothers.
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- Comedy, Family, Romance
- Jay Sandrich
- 1984-10-18
- Huxtable: Limousine Driver?
- “Mira Que tiene Cosa La Mujer Esta…”
- Phylicia Rashad's Stare Helped Get Her The Role
- Cosby Worried About The Studio Audience's Reaction to The Pilot
- The Story Behind Those Sweaters
- There Were Originally only Four Huxtable Children
- In Real Life, Sondra Couldn't Have Been Clair's Daughter
- Italians Couldn't Pronounce "Huxtable"
- Rudy Was Almost Played by Urkel
- Theo Was Supposed to Be Taller
In Bill Cosby’s original pitch, he played a limousine driver, and Clair was a union plumber. Camille Cosby told her husband that she thought the TV couple should be more representative of their own family—two white-collar professional parents. When executive producer Marcy Carsey sided with Camille, Cosby capitulated and made the patriarch a doctor...
Another one of Cosby’s early visions of the show was for Clair to be Dominican, and to have her revert to her native Spanish whenever she was frustrated. He pictured it as a reverse I Love Lucyscenario, where the audience always knew when Ricky Ricardo had reached his limit because he’d burst into a Spanish-language tirade.
Of all the actresses who auditioned for the role of Clair, Phylicia Rashad caught Cosby’s eye because of the way she argued with Theo during the screen test. Unlike the previous candidates, she didn’t wag her head and she didn’t place her hand on her hip. Instead, she simply stopped speaking and gave Theo a look—and her eyes said enough to frighten...
The Cosby Show's pilot was filmed in front of a live audience, and even though there were plenty of laughs where expected, Cosby was worried that the audience wasn’t embracing his overall vision of the series. In the scene where Theo is defending the “D” on his report card, he earnestly tells his dad, “If you weren't a doctor, I wouldn't love you l...
NBC Cliff Huxtable’s iconic sweaters were the work of Dutch fashion designer Koos Van Den Akker. Van Den Akker was asked by an customer of his in the early 1980s to make a unique sweater as a present for her friend, Bill Cosby. Cosby wore that sweater on camera while filming an episode of his show. Mail poured in as viewers wanted to know where the...
YouTube At one point in the pilot, Clair asks, "Why did we have four children?" He responds, "Because we didn't want five." Originally, Denise was the oldest of the offspring, followed by Theo, Vanessa, and Rudy. But once the series was poised to become a hit, Bill Cosby decided to add an additional older child—one who was away at college and was ...
Getty Images Sabrina LeBeauf, the actress who played Sondra, is only 10 years younger than her TV mom. Sabrina won the role over such staunch competitors as Whitney Houston and future Miss America Suzette Charles. LeBeauf impressed Cosby partly because she had recently graduated from a prestigious university (Yale), just like the character he had i...
The Cosby Show not only topped the ratings charts at home, it was also a hit internationally—albeit with some minor tweaks made for non-U.S. audiences. For example, in Italy, the surname “Huxtable” proved to be impossible to pronounce, so the family’s name was changed and the show was titledI Robinson("The Robinsons") in Italy. Why “Robinson” inste...
Getty Images In Bill Cosby’s original vision, the Huxtables had two boys and two girls (this was before Sondra was added to the mix). The youngest child, Rudy, was originally supposed to be a younger brother who looked up to Theo. Eight-year-old Jaleel White (Family Matters’ future Urkel) had auditioned so strongly that his agent told his parents t...
The casting call for the role of Theo specified that he was 6'2" and 15 years old. Malcolm-Jamal Warner, however, was 13 and 5'5". Nevertheless, he landed an interview on the last day auditions were held. According to Warner, he read the Monopoly money scene with Cosby like a traditional TV brat—hand on hip, eyes rolled, a real smart-aleck. Everyon...
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Plot. Theo wants to impress a girl he's taking out on a date by buying an expensive shirt by famed new designer Gordon Gartrelle. Clair takes him to Cliff's favorite men's store but does not accompany Theo. When they bring home the shirt, as Theo gloats over it, Cliff reads the receipt and discovers the shirt cost $95.
Sep 19, 2014 · Gordon Gartrelle was actually a producer on “The Cosby Show,” but for one episode his name was used as the designer whose fashion Huxtable son Theo wanted to replicate. His sister Denise...
Apr 12, 2013 · In real life, Gordon Gartrelle was the name of a Cosby Show writer and producer though fans of the show may remember his name best as the fictional fashion designer mentioned in the series’...
Gordon Gartrelle is known for The Cosby Show (1984). Add photos, demo reels. Add to list. More at IMDbPro Contact info & Agent info. Known for: The Cosby Show. 7.4. TV Series. Producer. 1991–1992 • 11 eps. Credits. IMDbPro. Producer. Previous. 1. The Cosby Show. 7.4. TV Series. producer. 1991–1992. 11 episodes. Writer. Previous. 1. The Cosby Show.
