Over the course of the show’s eight year run, this moment was not always taken as a given; the son, Theo Huxtable, was for years presented as a chronic underachiever, more interested in the typical trappings of teenage boyhood—friends,

If you grew up watching "The Cosby Show," you probably remember Elizabeth Scott. She played Kara, a best friend of Vanessa Huxtable. Scott says she got to know Malcolm-Jamal Warner when she auditioned for the show.