Monday, May 21, 2012

Cosby

As you people already know, there's nobody on this Earth I love more than Bill Cosby. I worship his standup, I worship The Cosby Show; I would stand in line to watch him read the phone book.

And yet I never watched a millisecond of his 90's show, Cosby, which is doubly curious since it also features an original Mrs. Xmastime Claire Huxtable. I guess this is just reason #1,544 I am a riddle wrapped in an enigma, wrapped rather snugly in Toughskins.I just stumbled upon the pilot, and my question is why is it set in Brooklyn instead of the Cos' hometown of Philadelphia? I understand his first show being in Brooklyn just because, but by the time he did Cosby you'd think he'd have the power to say "this will be in Philly" and the powers that be would simply say "yes, and thank you." Interesting. Now that I'm thinking of it, has there EVER there a big-time sitcom that was set in Philly?

UPDATE: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Well, duh. Okay, any OTHER sitcoms??!????

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Mr. Cosby screwed America out of generations of Our Gang/Little Rascal memories. Sad day when he bought up the rights to this classic childhood comedy series. What a waste.