The Cosby Show

With Denise returning to college for her sophomore year and Theo moving into on-campus accommodations.

Cliff follows up his "lost weekend" food binge with a day of emergency fasting for his annual blood test and physical.

The meal: burnt veal a la shoe leather, charred yet raw potatoes and brown tap water. .

Vanessa falls victim to a rumor circulating around school that her boyfriend Roy has broken off their romance.

Theo gets a "D" on his first freshman English composition and worries that he's not "college material."

Bedlam erupts in the Huxtable kitchen when Sondra goes into labor.

Bedlam erupts in the Huxtable kitchen when Sondra goes into labor.

Theo's friend Howard breaks up with the beautiful Julia.

When Vanessa and her two friends make a demo video of "The Locomotion" at a local department store, visions of MTV stardom dance in their heads.

Debbie Allen guest stars as an exercise instructor known as "The Bonecrusher" - the woman whom Clair hopes will help her fit into her new evening gown.

Cliff bends his iron rule against pets in the house when he lets Rudy "baby-sit" her friend's hamster.

Babymania grips the Huxtable household, with Elvin videotaping every waking moment of his children's lives.

Vanessa's new boyfriend, Jeremy, wants to see more of her, so she sneaks out to meet him, lying to Cliff and Clair in the process.

Cliff and Clair take a well-earned break from kids and chores, depositing Rudy at Grandma's, dropping Vanessa at a friend's house and heading for the Poconos.

Clair' s television career gets off to a rousing start when she's invited to be a guest panelist on a Sunday morning current events talk show.

Theo wants the freedom to date other women, but when his girlfriend Justine shows up at the college hangout with another guy. expert, Dr. Lotus, but he can't afford the doctor's fee. Cliff has a much better (and cheaper) idea.

Cliff rents his favorite children's movies for Rudy's party, but Rudy prefers more contemporary titles .

Cliff tracks down the only living relative of his unmarried patient, who is about to deliver her first child.

Elvin comes home from med school to find an exhausted and snappish Sondra complaining about her life and his insensitivity.

Cliff proudly introduces Elvin and Theo to his former basketball coach.

When Rudy interferes with Theo and Justine's chocolate mousse-making in the kitchen.

The kids launch Clair's 46th birthday with a candle in her morning grapefruit and a litany of references to how good she "still" looks.

Cliff enjoyment of the warm spring air and the music of birds chirping is interrupted by the sounds of Vanessa and Rudy's non-stop bickering.

When Theo's friend Denny finds an expensive watch on the street, Theo and the gang suggest he give it to Jane, his new high-class girlfriend, to impress her.