Blasts from the Past

Bill Cosby joins his TV children via satellite so he can put "Dad's" two cents in. When critics would tell him that black families didn't really live like the Huxtables, Bill was glad to have the support of his cast. "The pleasure of all of this is not one of those people that you're sitting with has ever been at a loss to straighten people out about what the intention was of the show," he says. "And that makes me very, very proud."

For Bill, his response to critics who said they had never seen a black family like the Huxtables was simple. "My answer's always been, 'Well, you need to get out more often.'"