Bill Cosby credited as playing...
Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable
- [First lines]
- Rudy Huxtable: [Rudy is reading a book, while she is lying on top of her father who is sleeping] I gave my cat a ball of...
- [stumbles over a word]
- Rudy Huxtable: Yah... Yah- Daddy?
- [jabs her father awake]
- Rudy Huxtable: Daddy!
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: [wakes up with a start] What's happening?
- Rudy Huxtable: What is this word?
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: [reading the book] Yah-arn. Yarn.
- Rudy Huxtable: Thanks, Daddy.
- [Goes back to reading]
- Rudy Huxtable: I gave my cat a ball of yarn, she plah...
- [jabs at her father awake]
- Rudy Huxtable: Daddy!
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: [wakes up again with a start] Where are you going?
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: On the first day of school, Theo came home with his face like this and said to me 'Dad, the thing I was most afraid of in my whole life happened today. I got Mrs Westlake for math. And on the first day she gave us homework!'.
- Anna Maria Westlake: And what about the second day? I knew he had not done his homework because when I asked for volunteers to go to the blackboard I saw him trying to hide behind the student in front of him.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: Ah, yes, I used to do that in biology class.
- Anna Maria Westlake: [cynically] It doesn't work.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: [regretfully] I know.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: [on the phone with Mrs Westlake and Theo's having his hands no] Hold on a moment please.
- Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable: [to Theo, covering the phone] What are you, landing an airplane or something?