The Cosby Show

Vanessa comes home from college and reveals her year-long relationship and six-month engagement to Dabnis, a college maintenance supervisor who is, by his own admission, "knocking on 30." Clair voices concern about how far apart Vanessa and Dabnis are in age, while Cliff questions Vanessa's "back door presentation of both her relationship and her fiancé."

On the eve of co-signing a loan to help Elvin and Sondra to purchase their own home, Cliff reveals his plans to build an extension on the house. Finally, Clair will have a room of her own but when Elvin and Sondra's closing is postponed indefinitely, they are left with no place to live except a cheap motel.

Expansion of the Huxtable kitchen begins, Theo faces his first parent-counselor night at the community center and Rudy encounters her first love. Theo gears up for one-on-one conversations with his students' parents by rehearsing with Cliff and Clair but nothing can prepare him for the more-than-passing interest one young mother takes in him!

Construction on the Huxtable kitchen progresses, despite Cliff's help. Pam laments her low grades. Now a senior, Pam wants to attend a college like Hillman with her best friend, Charmaine. Only two things are holding Pam back; her low GPA and her low SAT scores.

Rudy and two girlfriends don makeup and trendy clothes to crash "The Exchange," an over 16 dance club in New York City. Cliff and Clair overhear the plan and decide to let them go...with Pam, Lance and Charmaine as secret chaperones.

With Elvin, Sondra and the twins living in the Huxtable home for several weeks, nerves have started to fray. When Cliff temporarily confines the twins in an overturned playpen while he vacuums up cookie crumbs, Sondra explodes, accusing him of cruelty. Tempers flare and recriminations fly between the four adults.

Russell hears from reliable sources that Vanessa is engaged. Unfortunately, those sources also report that Dabnis is a 45-year-old janitor. Alarmed, Russell and Carrie confront Cliff and Clair, who confirm the engagement and try to set the record straight on Dabnis, but the grandparents are not satisfied.

When Rudy entered junior high, Cliff thought he was finally done with field trips. Wrong. Olivia's class trip to the natural history museum lacks one chaperone. Provided there is no singing on the bus, Cliff agrees. His fellow chaperone? Know-it-all neighbor Jeffrey Engels.

Cliff leads a "For Men Only" guidance class at the community center, giving the boys some plain talk about living, working and surviving in the real world. Meanwhile, Russell's adventures in babysitting for Olivia include an eye-popping, ear-splitting indoctrination into the wild world of video games.

Olivia is upset because Martin is leaving for the Orient. After extracting a promise that he will not leave without saying goodbye, Olivia hides herself in the living room closet, hoping to delay his departure indefinitely. The rest of the family prepares to welcome legendary African singer Miriam Makeba to the Huxtable home.

Parenting is the topic of the day around the Huxtable home. Sondra and Elvin want to provide for the twins in their will. After seeing a lawyer to draw up a will, Sondra and Elvin narrow the field of candidates for guardianship of the twins. Will it be Cliff and Clair, or Theo?

While Clair provides some last-minute legal aid for a public radio station, Cliff finds himself sitting in on a live radio broadcast with Latin Jazz stars Graciela, Willie Colón, and Mario Bauza and His Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra.

In her annual plea, Clair begs Cliff to just hand over his receipts and let her and the accountant thrash out the tax return but first, Cliff wants to stake his claims to Elvin, Sondra, the twins, Olivia, and Cousin Pam as Huxtable dependents. Caught without an appropriate gift for Deirdre's birthday, Kenny tells her he has planned a party for her at the Huxtables.

Cliff invites a host of relatives and friends to celebrate Theo's graduation from NYU and despite a scarcity of tickets, Cliff just keeps on inviting people. Theo's protests fall on deaf ears. Eight years of magic, love and laughter with the Huxtable family come to an end as Cliff's invitation list for Theo's graduation continues to grow.

Cliff invites a host of relatives and friends to celebrate Theo's graduation from NYU and despite a scarcity of tickets, Cliff just keeps on inviting people. Theo's protests fall on deaf ears. Eight years of magic, love and laughter with the Huxtable family come to an end as Cliff's invitation list for Theo's graduation continues to grow.