The Cosby Show

Theo has found a place to live with his friends and moved out. Denise returns from her trip to Africa. Cliff and Claire are shocked when she reveals she is married with a step daughter.

Cliff's story about how he and his roommates cleaned their floors in college inspires Theo.

Vanessa and her girlfriends are asking for trouble when they play the alphabet game with a bottle of Scotch. Vanessa chug-a-lugs her way to a miserable night of sickness and a nasty hangover the next day. Cliff and Clair decide to hammer the lesson home even further with an alphabet game of their own that includes Rudy, four shot glasses, a bottle of booze and an extremely confused Vanessa.

Denise and Lt. Martin Kendall visit the Rhode Island naval base where they are expecting to be housed.

Theo proudly answers all of Cliff's questions as he practices for an upcoming mythology exam. When he scores low on a test where he knew all the answers but could not always understand the questions, Cliff and Clair take him to a learning specialist, who tells them that Theo has dyslexia.

Sondra and Elvin get a well-deserved night out when an overconfident Denise boasts that caring for two children should be as easy as looking after one. So the marathon begins!

Even after raising three daughters, Cliff's in over his head when Rudy reports her first "boy trouble." Clarence, the boy she likes, likes her but his friends taunt him about it. Clarence and Rudy's relationship quickly deteriorates from a love match to teasing, name-calling and a knock-down, drag-out fight.

Cliff has a nightmare, in which spores contaminate the U.S. water supply and impregnate thousands of men, including Cliff, Elvin, Martin and Theo. They commiserate and console each other, but their solace is short-lived. Contractions send them all to the hospital and into the most bizarre delivery room.

When Martin's ex-wife, Paula, calls Olivia from the airport after her departure is delayed, Denise impulsively invites the woman to join the Huxtables for Thanksgiving dinner. Denise gets a chance to have an enlightening conversation with the woman whose child she is raising. In the meantime, Clair keeps sending Cliff out into the rain for last-minute Thanksgiving groceries.

When Martin's parents visit, Denise frets about Mrs. Kendall's impression of her.

Clair's in Washington on a case and Cliff's in charge - but just barely. Rudy follows Cliff's advice on how to deal with her on-again, off-again friends, only to succeed in alienating all of them. Even when Cliff gets himself into trouble with Rudy's teacher for ghost-writing Rudy's history composition, he remains determined to handle the household on his own.

Martin and Cliff spend some time together and develop a new, warm appreciation for each other. When Cliff confesses his secret regret about not having given Denise away at her wedding, Martin stages an informal ceremony in the Huxtable living room, so Cliff can see his wish come true.

Sondra decides to stay home to work on her law school application instead of going out to dinner with Elvin, his old college chum Judy and Judy's sister. Elvin offers to stay home with Sondra, but she insists he go. However, when he pays for the dinner, Sondra's so angry she refuses to speak to him! Later, Cliff explains the workings of a woman's mind to his son-in-law.

Cliff's late-night eating habits finally bite back, with a vengeance! In his nightmare, Cliff is scheduled to perform a delicate operation for the viewing pleasure of overstuffed talking sandwiches, back-talking refrigerator denizens and a bloodthirsty mob of creatures in the operating theater of Cliff's hospital.

When Denise's snappy repartee gives Vanessa the courage to approach handsome Elliott in a cafe, all looks promising. Later, as Denise envisions a career as a single's counselor, Vanessa storms in to announce that Denise has ruined her life!

Will cultures and tastes clash? Denise plans a healthful, fully organic menu for Olivia's birthday party, while Cliff and Clair insist that kids expect chocolate cake and junk food and they won't settle for anything less! They agree to offer the children both kinds of food and monitor which cake the kids prefer

Theo is blown away by King of the Blues Riley Jackson at a local club. The next day, Jackson, an old friend of Grandpa Russell, is at the Huxtable house when Theo drops by to rave about his performance. Jackson invites the family to hear him play that night. Everyone but the jaded, world-weary Vanessa, who has grown sick and tired of the blues, is excited about the concert.

Eagerness to purchase a T-shirt that lights up overshadows better judgment when Rudy "borrows" $2.30 from the money Clair's left on the counter to pay for dry cleaning. Rudy's attempts to replace the money before Clair finds it missing lead her further into misery and duplicity. When Cliff finally adds it up he pulls Rudy aside for a heart-to-heart talk.

When Rudy's teacher, Mrs. McGee, calls the Huxtables to report that Rudy has not been attending her dance lessons, Cliff takes Rudy to the dancing lessons and gets a little carried away.

Cliff, Martin and Elvin place a bet on who can buy the most romantic present to each of their wives within a twenty-five dollar limit. The winner will be dubbed "The Emperor of Romance".

When Cliff finds women's lingerie in Theo's laundry, he and Clair soon realize that their son has moved in with his girlfriend, Justine. Meanwhile, Denise announces her plans to become a special education teacher

Exhausted, overworked and with patience worn thin, Clair wonders if she has anything left to give. Cliff insists that she get away for a few days and sends her off to a secluded cabin in the woods for some rest and relaxation but the hideaway is hideous, drafty, cold and barely functional! Clair longs to come home to the relative comfort of noise and chaos in the Huxtable house.

Vanessa and her girlfriends display extraordinarily bad judgment when they lie and deceive their way into borrowing a car and making a trip to Baltimore to see a rock concert behind their parents' backs. The journey is disastrous, the car is stolen, a con artist cheats them out of their concert tickets and a pickpocket takes all their travel money.

Clair brings her friend and rival attorney, Bernice, home to visit while Cliff's entertaining their recently divorced neighbor, Jeffrey. Despite their physical disparity, Jeffrey and Bernice really hit it off.

Denise applies to a local college, only to discover her Hillman credits will not be accepted. She bemoans the fact that they will not give her credit for her life experiences when she is told she'll have to enter as a freshman.