... all cram around the television set to watch The Cosby Show every Thursday evening. The Cosby show was a television sitcom about an upper middle-class African American family living in Brooklyn, New York. On each episode, the main character Heathcliff Huxtable (played by Bill Cosby) who was a doctor, and his wife Clair ... (a lawyer), taught their children a lesson or moral of some sort with comic relief. The Cosby Show influenced my family and me, because it showed America what a typical ... African Americans in stereotypical roles. The show Good Times especially was stereotypical, beca...

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The Cosby Show VS. Family Matters People say history repeats itself, and this is true in many ways. Television for example has changed greatly over the years, but ... two different eras with different characters could in many ways be very similar. A good example of this is The Cosby Show, and Family Matters. These two shows have been watched and enjoyed in American living rooms for decades. The Cosby Show was a popular series that began in September of nineteen eighty four. It centered around a coming of age ... family, the Huxtables. The two main characters on the show are Cliff Huxtable, ...

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... , and they have six TVs in the house to choose to watch from. The number of family orientated TV shows has also dropped in our society. We don't see the Bill Cosby, Andy Griffith, or Dick VanDyk anymore because families in our society can not relate to them any more. Instead we see much more cynical families like the Simpsons, the Bundys ... ...

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