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  • BUT ID LIKE MY PUNISHMENT BEFORE I GO TO BED ........HEATH CATCHES CLAIR LOL !!!!!!!!

  • Vanessa, go upstairs man, go to bed!!

  • The epitome of how a mother should treat her out of control daughter. Now in days, the daughter would be on facebook talking about how mistreated she was.

  • @radavil

    You got that right. Sometimes (and this is like, 5% of the time) sometimes the people complaining on facebook are being mistreated. But with THIS, when I have a daughter, and she does something cose to what Vanessa did, I would act the same way Claire did. Hopefully mine won't be so stupid as to say "but I would like my punishment before I go to bed" My husband wouldn't catch me in time to save the kid, lol.

  • I see we have 7 idiots on this clip !

  • noe THIS is how u parent...claire had me scared like i would have been of my own mother

  • That was actually really good acting for a sitcom, even by today's standards...if we have any standards by today.

  • as soon as she told me go to bed i woulda hauled it right upstairs....b/c that last GO TO BED was a killer

  • Whenever I got in trouble this is pretty much how it went down: Mom was the one going off. Dad would referee.

  • And remember...right after this, Vanessa and the SAME group of friends get drunk (The Drinking Game)...and while Vanessa is in her FIRST year of college, she proceeds to get herself engaged.

  • DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM­N!

    Haha I love Claire so much

  • "If you're thinking about running away from home, please don't take my car"

  • If more parents disciplined their kids like this once in a while........the world would be a better place!!!

  • 'I'd like my punishment now before I go to bed.' She just didn't know when to cut her losses and quit. Not at the car getting stolen and not when Clair is grilling her.

  • I always get goosebumps when watching this. Such a good show.

  • I LOVE PHYLICIA RASHAD! Claire Huxtable has attitude, she is a great mom. LOVE HER.

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  • I love how Claire almost stole on her...lol!

  • @lyricaldose  that was great. Cliff had too hold her back

  • this episode and the episode vanessa got drunk are my 2 fave

  • The fact that Vanessa *asked* for a punishment (i.e. thinking she was gonna get grounded) shows that she didn't learn a DAMN thing. Never mess with Claire Huxtable.

  • phisla is a true actress

  • Claire was about to beat that asss!!!! Cliff should have let her!

  • VANESSA is sure a brave one - "I'd like my punishment NOW before I go to bed" - heck, if it were MY mom, I am not sure if I would even HAVE a bed!

  • it seems like Vanessa was always the problem child of this show-

  • this was a great episode and i agree; we need more parents like Claire to discilpline their kids these days. she scared the crap out of me but i don't blame her if my child did the same thing that Vanessa did my child wouldn't be here right now. my mom raised me right and i never did anything that stupid.

  • Totally, especially in those days when cell phones, facebook, or all types of social media did not exist. If you got stuck somewhere, or in trouble, you better hope there was a payphone nearby. Parents only had so many ways to get in onctact with their kids or teenagers. Also, parents were especially tough because there were a lot of runaways and kidnappings during the 80s which they did everything to protect us from.

  • I always thought Vanessa's role in the show was to show that even kids from so-called good families make foolish decisions. Remember, Vanessa got drunk, Vanessa broke curfew to be with her boyfriend, got Rudy to lie for her, and then, there was this episode. Not even screwup Denise was this bad (remember Denise was a virgin on her wedding night), and Sandra was too dull to be bad.

  • @JeddaGB Don't forget when Sondra told her parents she wasn't going to law school so she and Elvin could open a wilderness store. That was a great Claire anger episode too.

  • I love 1:22!!

  • Phylicia could act her ass off!

  • Seriously though every time i see this Phylicia scared the crap out of me and pretty sure she scared the crap Tempestt too.

  • I couldn't have been in this episode. She would have made me cry for real

  • 7 people must have had big fun with The Wretched in Baltimore.. Maryland. Then got busted.

  • All we are missing is a back hand

  • she bout to beat tht butt butt lls i luv clair/phylicia

  • everytime she yell "GO TO BED!!!" i jump and b damn near in tears like she yellin at me lmao

  • One of my favorite scenes of Claire. I remember getting chewed out very similar to that once. Emphasis on the once, and I don't even remember what is was for. The lesson I learned was that no matter what kind of fun I was having, the fury of my mother would wipe all memory of it. So, if that fury might be unleashed, it wasn't worth doing.

  • One of my favorite scenes of Claire. I remember getting chewed out very similar to that once. Emphasis on the once, and I don't even remember what is was for. The lesson I learned was that no matter what kind of fun I was having, the fury of my mother would wipe all memory of it. So, if that fury might be unleashed, it wasn't worth doing.

  • Claire meant business here. After watching this, I will never secretly drive off to Baltimore to have BIG FUN either.

  • Vanessa almost got got! 

  • lmao bill cosby does the coolface at the end

  • Cliff had to grab Claire, or Vanessa would have lost her life! LOL!

  • Vanessa wanted her punishment before she went to bed and Claire was clearly about to give it to her when she asked !!!!! Good thing Cliff was there or she would be doneeeeee

  • remember this is Television if this were REAL Vanessa would be dead risen back from it and killed again by her mother.

  • MAN!!!! She got off easy...my parents would beat the hell outta me....so i dnt kno why she cryin like tht!!!! smhhh

  • SHUT UP BIG FUN AND GO TO BED ! lol are the ebst words that come out ofher mouth the way she says them!

  • O_o This episode had me bugged for a while. I had never seen Claire that mad before...

  • i'm scared of phylicia rashad now....

  • @gnisha777 I know, right? :)

  • My favorite part was 2:12

  • 7 dislikes, really??!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU 7 PEOPLE??

  • Clair: One of these days, Vanessa! One of these days... POW! RIGHT IN THE KISSER!

  • lol my folks were the same way

  • Best acting in sitcom history

  • send chills down my spine dam if claire was my mom...i would cry. hahhaha

  • the frequency of her voice in that yell just intensified the fear in me............ =D

  • I remember talking back to my mom not to long ago. My mom looked at me with that "oh, you to big for ya britches?" look, shoved me into the wall and almost knocked out all my fronts...I damn near shit my pants...and I'm a grown ass woman...but I'll be damned if I ever do that again. She put the fear of GAWD in me!

  • That's my mom right there, except I wouldn't be on my way to the bedroom, I'd be heading to the morgue. I plan to be an old school mama when I have my own, even thought I'm young (22). That's wrong with the kids now (damn I sound like my mom lol), no discipline, and parents scared of their own offspring. Well, I'll be damned if I ever let my kids put fear in me, it'll damn sure be the other way around. Wooh, I dun gone on a rant lol. LOVE THIS EPISODE!

  • Vanessa was always the problem child of the Huxtables

  • really? I though it was Denise?

  • i love her hair both of them. tough scene.. my how times have changed. now that is totally not acceptable. Teens right now are so up on technology that would not have even happened in that order. BUT there are other challenges and hurdles. But it could have been handled better. Black parents sometimes are not as liberal as Whites. I feel like i am in a crossroads. married to white person and they do things different from us. they react different. My mom was like that. I dont like this scene

  • When Clair jumps for her I felt a little remembrance twinge. Vanessa had better be grateful Cliff was there to hold her back. You don't want mum to get to you when she's like that. You've made her angry. You won't like her when she's angry.

  • Bad editing 2:00. Dramatic mood killed by Cosby's face.

  • I though Clair was gonna eat her face @ 2:00

  • @jengkiesville She looks she was going to bit Vanessa's face off! Just the whole face! GONE!! Whooo, scary!

  • Claire just went in on Vanessa remind me of my mama

  • i loved how cliff had to hold clair back.....i remember hearing that many times when i was a teen: " you have proved to us that you cannot be trusted; its gonna be a long time until you can be trusted again"

  • you better answer me when i ask you a question! hell yeah......

  • Vanessa looks hot!

  • "but i'd like my punishment before i go to bed." i got in trouble w/my parents a few times as a kid but there's no way i'd ever say these words. you must be kidding.

  • I THOUGHT CLAIRE SLAP VANESSA IN THIS ONE. WAS THERE A EPSIODE WHERE VANESSA GOT SLAP BY CLAIRE?

  • Lmfaooo @ 1:23 !!! She was about to Whoop Her Ass! lmfao

  • "Big Fun"

  • OMG

    She is just like my mom!!

    Although heck i wouldn't have been able to make it out of the house

    much less go galavanting off to Baltimore to have "BIG FUN!"

  • @MissAtlFalconFan & @mocha2u

    I think the episode you're talking about is Season 5 Episode 12 - Truth or Consequences.

  • @kalei1278 Thanx. I'll check it out.

  • Haha, Vanessa almost lost her life

  • clair made me me shit myself

  • This is absolutely my favorite episode

  • never, never ask your mom for your punsihment. 

  • 1:56 to 2:01- Sweet Jesus all mighty!

    Poor Vanessa! She was like a defenseless rabbit gettin' skinned alive...or Bambi's mama gettin' caught in the cross-hairs of a hunter's rifle! I've never seen Clair so heated before...I'd be scared to have her for a mama. Vanessa's trying to explain herself and Clair won't even let her talk. Dizaam this scene was hype!

  • @sabre926 I agree, even if she did do something stupid.

  • @NegaRose13

    Oh yeah, sho' you right! :)

  • if it was my mom cliff wouldn't have been able to hold her back

  • Is it me or was the humor on the Cosby Show seemed natural?

  • @mohinderbauer Yes, the humor was natural, unlike the contrived laugh tracks in today's stupid shows.

  • @mohinderbauer Exactly!!!!

    The humor being natural is what makes the show soooooo timeless....situations that all people can really relate to.

  • Claire is SO fine!!! I love this episode!!!

  • vanessa got off easy. claire huxtable is one of the NICE black moms. really this scene had me shaking in my boots when i was younger though...lets be real. i'm still shaking. lol!

  • Poor vanessa. Claire killed it though.

  • Clair: Hey Vanessa!

    Vanessa: What?

    Clair: I've got a song for you!

    (Clair puts her fist on Vanessa's chin.)

    Clair: Chin music! Chin music! Chin music!

    Vanessa: No chin music!

  • Somebody, anybody help me find the episode when Claire yells at one of the kids and calls them a LIAR!

  • Somebody, anybody help me find the episode when Claire yells at one of the kids and calls them a LIAR!

  • @MissAtlFalconFan

    Oh I know! I loved that episode too!....I thought it was this episode when she called her a liar! Let me know if you find it!

  • @mocha2u I've given up. Evidently you and I are the only ones that are interested in that particular scene. If you find it, post it. Thanx Mocha!

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  • I like Claire when she's hella madd

  • Cliff saved Vanessa cause Claire was go get her..LOL

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  • I'd like my punishment before I go to bed.

    Wow Vanessa has alot of nerve! (or she's a total idiot)

    Probably the latter.

  • @amolapaz1 I wondered that too.

  • Malcolm Jamal Warner actually directed this episode.

  • Wow, I did not know that!

  • For all I know you are lying right now GO TO BED!!! Wow

  • One of my favorite episodes, and the one time I was actually afraid of Claire Huxtable, LOL!!

  • The Last Part (Where Claire Jumped In Her Face And Told Her to Go to Bed) Is My Mama Alll the Way (LOL)

  • @Free2BeCG1 i know right if i ever made my momma that mad i would not have lived to tell about it lol

  • I Know, Right!!! (LOL)

  • @Free2BeCG1 hahahahahahahaha mine too!

  • and the moral of this story right here boys and girls is never ever ever never ever in your life anger a black mother....she will kick your ass...enough said

  • THAT'S SO TRUE

  • @TheSassy2005 Got That Right!!

  • @TheSassy2005 THAT'S RIGHT! I HAVE A BLACK MOMMA JUST LIKE THAT! BUT I LOVE HER DEARLY.

  • @TheSassy2005 LMAO, that's the moral of life.

  • @TheSassy2005 true dat, man

  • @TheSassy2005 well I know I drove my parents crazy at a young age and she reminds me of my mom big time . But we're Italian. :)

  • :,( i was totally vanessa for those 2 minutes... wow...

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  • 0:15 Claire's voice cracked lol

  • all i know is that u are lyin rite now...GO TO BED!!!!!!!!! lol dang, dats my mother rite there...lol

  • @ttmarlene LOL 

  • why is it that great actors like Phylicia Rashad and Desi Arnaz never won Emmys for being instrumental in some of the best TV shows of all time? why do shows like "30 Rock" win the same awards year after year?

  • @blugreen123

    That's a darn good question!

  • that moment where claire screams in vanessa's face is so intense.

  • I can imagine Janet and Kara having similar confrontations with their parents. But I wonder what that white girl's parents said to her. (that white girl was a bad influence; a mastermind in getting her black peers in trouble)

  • the white parents probably said "OHH DID U HAVE FUN?" lol

  • "you better answer me when I'm asking you a question girl"....

  • good thing cliff has got goood reflexes;]

  • vanessa was saved by cliff at 1:20...whooo!

    clair was gonna whoop her!!

  • Ok I could be wrong but does it look like Clair is wiping away tears at 1:36 you even see a little tear water at 1:40. God I need to be studying my notes instead of the cosby show!

  • haha. maybe, she could be crying. either that or she scratched her nose and the light shinned on her face wrong, giving her a glowy complexion...

  • DAMN! this shows how real life is. its not we forgive you, no punishment, we love you...claire is awesome!

  • exactly, if this were any other show claire would've been blubbering about how happy she was that vanessa was safe. the cosbys were the best TV parents ever

  • @blugreen123

    Bill Cosby once said that most family sitcoms up until this show had been about the children, but The Cosby Show was about "the parents." He was right! He stated that he wanted to produce a show about loving parents who were the bosses in their households. He succeeded.

  • sho nuff did. good to see parents who aren't crying and saying "oh my gosh i'm so glad you're safe!" good to see parents who arent afraid of their kids.

  • That's how my mum is. Definitely not big fun.

  • Clair was ready for some old school discipline!

  • lol i am just really glad that this is just acting.

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  • I loved this episode so much because it really striked fear inside you. Phylicia did her thing in this scene. 5  stars

  • i love this show !!!

  • Man Claire aint no joke she had me scared and she wasn't even talkin 2 me me LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • word

  • "BIG FUN".....rofl! Too funny

  • Top ten scene of All time for the show.

  • clair was really mad

  • so was cliff

  • 1:23-1:25

  • physicia rashad was definitely the funny char on the show because she was so real

    this is a prime example of how a person like clair would act after this type of problem

    one of my favorite episodes for this scene

    poor bill looks kinda scared too

  • She was going to give Vanessa a big beat down....I love this episode because it was so REAL!...You never saw her ever get that angry. It was like you were scared you were going to get hit by your mom when you did something bad....that was some good ass acting

  • Imagine for a second after the scene was over and the director said "CUT!". How interesting and funny that must have been to have been there in that audience to see the actors acting normally after that amount of tension

    -response to delov1

  • "If your thinking about running away from home...please dont take my car." He can always get a funny line in, in a serious situation.

  • these kids never get away with anything...the parents are like survailience cameras lol...they see everything lol

  • How Phylicia Rashad has never won an Emmy for this part is beyond me. This is my favorite episode!

  • I agree! Gives me chills everytime I hear the end of this.

  • Dang! Clair shut her behind down! LOL!

  • would hate to get a phylicia rashad whoopin!

  • that's funny. i agree. i jumped when she yelled, "Go to bed."

  • Why would she request her punishment like that? That was just stupid!

  • She didn't want to have to wonder what it'd be. It's like ripping a bandaid off.

  • The only time you will see one of the Huxtable kids come close to getting beaten

  • lol i know! soo true, this is my favorite part too lol

  • best TV mom ever!! lol

  • Vanessa is such a firebrand!

  • and this is why she is the perfect woman...

  • I love Clair