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The Worst Episodes of Cosby

Every episode of Cosby ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Cosby!

Worst episode
S4E5 A Teacher's Life
5.917 votes
Best episode
S4E10 One for the Books
9.231 votes
Top season
Season 2
7.8avg
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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Cosby Season 4 Episode 5 - A Teacher's Life
    5.9/10(17 votes)

    S4:E5

    Getting through a typical day is hard enough, but it becomes an ordeal for Griffin when everyone demands his time on the day he is preparing for a date with a beautful flight attendant.

    Director:Don Scardino
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Cosby Season 2 Episode 13 - A Team of His Own
    6.4/10(22 votes)

    S2:E13

    Ruth must deal with a bunch of know-it-alls. Her husband Hilton ""knows"" that his community center boys' basketball team could beat her girls' team, and her star player Nikki ""knows"" that the game should be only about scoring the points. So when Ruth challenges Hilton to a boy/girl game, he has a lot to do to get his star players in shape, and Ruth must teach Nikki about teamwork. Hilton gets a lesson in what girls can do when WNBA ""New York Liberty"" team members Teresa Weatherspoon and Kym Hampton show-up at the gym for a clinic and run a couple of their finest plays.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Cosby Season 1 Episode 20 - That Darn Cat
    6.6/10(24 votes)

    S1:E20

    When Ruth and Pauline ""just happen"" to spot a used pregnancy test in Erica's garbage and then ""just happen"" to see the positive results, they assume that Erica is expecting, but Hilton comes to another conclusion. It's bad enough that Erica has temporarily moved in with her folks while her new Manhattan apartment is being renovated, but Hilton is allergic to her cat. Then, when her married friend Stephanie comes to visit and leaves her positive pregnancy test in the garbage can -- everyone reacts in the wrong way. Ruthie and Pauline think that Erica's having the baby, Hilton is proud that he and Ruth are going to be parents again, and Ruth and Hilton end up thinking that Griffin is actually the father of Erica's nonexistent child.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Cosby Season 4 Episode 8 - Episode 8
    6.5/10(15 votes)

    S4:E8

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Cosby Season 4 Episode 2 - The Wedding
    6.6/10(17 votes)

    S4:E2

    Hilton has to pay the wedding organizers for their services as Erica's wedding nears, but Ruth is more concerned with why the bride isn't falling apart yet.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Cosby Season 4 Episode 16 - It's a Wonderful Wife
    6.7/10(18 votes)

    S4:E16

    For a school paper, Keisha discovers intriqing facts about Ruth's past.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Cosby Season 1 Episode 14 - Guess Whose President is Coming to Dinner?
    6.8/10(23 votes)

    S1:E14

    In a White House public relations move, Hilton is chosen as the ideal ""common man"" to dine with the president. When Hilton calls in to a radio talk-show, the president's deputy communications director hears him and tracks him down to ask him if his family would like to have dinner with the president--on a date that conflicts with Ruth's plans for a relaxing weekend in the Poconos. As the Lucases get their home in tip-top shape for the visit, the media converges on them, and Pauline, Griffin, Singh and New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani try to convince Hilton that, as ""extended family,"" they really should be included in the evening's festivities.

    Director:John Whitesell
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Cosby Season 1 Episode 19 - Anniversary Waltz
    6.8/10(22 votes)

    S1:E19

    Thirty years after their plans for a formal wedding at an elegant hall had to be cancelled, Hilton and Ruth celebrate their wedding anniversary by renewing their vows at ""The Palace"" in an attempt to have the wedding they originally planned. Since Hilton's reserve unit was called up just two weeks before their planned formal wedding, he and Ruth had to cancel their plans and get married in traffic court. So, for their 30th anniversary, Hilton decides to give Ruth the wedding she always wanted -- complete with the minister who was supposed to marry them the first time.But things don't go exactly as planned -- Hilton ends up babysitting for Griffin's nephew Davy, he loses Ruth's wedding ring, and ""The Palace"" has turned into a Chinese restaurant with a busy take-out service.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Cosby Season 3 Episode 14 - Lucas Absentia
    6.9/10(19 votes)

    S3:E14

    Griffin contemplates quitting the teaching profession when his first day as a substitute teacher is a disaster. The Lucases lend themselves out as mock students so that Griffin can practice his teaching techniques on them -- although their misguided attempt to help might just turn him off teaching forever.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Cosby Season 3 Episode 15 - False Alarm
    6.9/10(19 votes)

    S3:E15

    After the Lucas home is burglarized, Hilton invests in a security system -- only to discover that the thief is someone he knows.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Cosby Season 4 Episode 19 - Thursday's Child
    6.9/10(18 votes)

    S4:E19

    A foster child in Erica's class wants to move in with the Lucases.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Cosby Season 1 Episode 24 - Hilton's Playland
    7.0/10(23 votes)

    S1:E24

    Erica brings Julius, her boyfriend of three months who stars in a kids' TV show, home to meet Hilton and Ruth; Hilton is unimpressed and gives Julius a hard time. Hilton goes with Erica to watch Julius' program and inadvertently becomes part of the show. Erica desperately wants her parents to like Julius, but Ruth doesn't have much to say; Hilton announces that Julius wants him to be a regular on the show and introduces Happy Haliday, an actor he met there, who used to have his own kids' show. He tells Hilton that he's been cheated out of all his royalties and Julius is responsible. Hilton tells Erica who angrily confronts Julius and breaks up with him. Hilton, who's now playing Cowboy Bob on the show, assumes Julius will fire him, but Julius assures him that he and Erica have only had a little tiff, and he begins driving Erica crazy with his attempts to reconcile. Hilton decides to help Erica with her problem and confronts Julius during a show and locking him in a trunk. But Happy has

    Director:John Whitesell
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Cosby Season 3 Episode 24 - He Who Hesitates is Lucas
    7.0/10(18 votes)

    S3:E24

    When Hilton and Ruth hear that their ""little girl"" is getting married, they couldn't be happier for her, or themselves, since this would mean one less person in their crowded house. Erica's intentions, however, are for the newlyweds to remain in her parent's house indefinitely to save some money. Are Hilton's tears of joy or sorrow?

    Director:Don Scardino
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Cosby Season 3 Episode 19 - Will Power
    7.0/10(17 votes)

    S3:E19

    Hilton is attempting to help Jurnee with her ""Romeo and Juliet"" homework assignment when his true feelings about The Bard come out: Why couldn't Shakespeare simply speak in plain English rather than using all of that fancy, confusing language? Alas, Shakespeare showeth up in the Lucas kitchen to tutor Hilton personally. Will it be ""all's well that ends well?""

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Cosby Season 3 Episode 22 - The Party's Over
    7.0/10(17 votes)

    S3:E22

    Hilton is stunned when 11-year old Jurnee, left in his care while her father is away, returns from a friend's birthday party drunk. Hilton and Ruth are adamant about finding out who spiked the birthday punch and caused several of the children to awaken to wicked hangovers the following morning. But, Jurnee is not budging for fear that she will be labeled a squealer among her friends. Hilton is determined to make Jurnee understand that protecting the guilty person is sometimes just as bad as being guilty yourself.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Cosby Season 4 Episode 9 - The Parent Trap
    7.0/10(17 votes)

    S4:E9

    Erica visits a student's home to get his mother more involved in his education.

    Director:Don Scardino
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Cosby Season 3 Episode 25 - War Stories
    7.0/10(16 votes)

    S3:E25

    Griffin's trust in his new girlfriend Anita is put to the test when her job as a conference planner puts her smack in the middle of a young millionaires' convention, on the season finale. Rather than heeding Hilton's advice to give Anita some space, Griffin decides to pop in on the convention and find out for himself how loyal Anita is -- which prompts Hilton to reminisce about the anxious time he spent away from Ruth, soon after they first met, agonizing over whether or not she was thinking of him as often as he was of her. ""Prequel Monday"" kicks off with an animated flashback sequence of Hilton as an enlisted Navy man.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Cosby Season 4 Episode 15 - Raising Paranoia
    7.1/10(20 votes)

    S4:E15

    Griffin, Erica and Darien try to convince a drug-addicted friend to enter rehab.

    Director:Don Scardino
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Cosby Season 4 Episode 3 - Book 'Em, Griff O
    7.1/10(19 votes)

    S4:E3

    Hilton urges Griffin to do something to replace his school's outdated textbooks, and Drica and Darien return from their honeymoon.

    Director:Don Scardino
    Writer:J. J. Paulsen

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  20. Cosby Season 2 Episode 10 - Lucas Raymondicus
    7.2/10(22 votes)

    S2:E10

    Frank Barone has been telling his son about sinking the winning shot in the 1955 Queens hampionship since the day he was born. So when Frank pleads with Hilton to help him save face with his son by lying for him, Hilton reluctantly agrees. But then Gwendolyn Brooks High plans a ceremony honoring Frank - and he tells the school that Hilton can't come because he's dead - Hilton decides that enough is enough and goes forward to set the record straight.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Cosby Season 3 Episode 18 - Afterschool Delight
    7.2/10(18 votes)

    S3:E18

    Jurnee is aghast when she finds out that her dad intends to date the ""meanest"" teacher at her school. Del is so troubled by Jurnee's reaction to his interest in Ms. Malone that he's ready to call off their date. But Hilton reminds him that almost every person can remember a teacher who was too strict, gave too much homework or expected too much of a student -- and usually ended up being the one who made the greatest impact on the student later in life.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Cosby Season 4 Episode 20 - Kids Eat the Darndest Things
    7.2/10(15 votes)

    S4:E20

    Griffin tries to encourage both his students and the Lucases to eat healthier foods.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Cosby Season 4 Episode 13 - Chilly Scenes of Winter Golf
    7.3/10(15 votes)

    S4:E13

    When Ruth teaches Erica how to play golf, a rivalry begins between the two women that even extends to cooking.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Cosby Season 4 Episode 14 - To Catch a Thief
    7.3/10(15 votes)

    S4:E14

    Hilton finds himself in the middle of a Bank Heist.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Cosby Season 1 Episode 2 - It's My Party
    7.4/10(26 votes)

    S1:E2

    Hilton feels cheated that his company laid him off without even a goodbye party, but Ruthie tells him he's being childish. Hilton lands a job interview on Long Island, but when he tries to pick up his car at the repair shop, he encounters severe language barriers and the news that the car is beyond help. He grudgingly takes a senior citizens shuttle van to the interview, but it breaks down and he's stranded for hours. Hilton, with Pauline as his assistant, works on a magic act for a children's charity event as he continues to obsess about the party he isn't going to get. Later, on his way to another rehearsal at the children's center, which Ruthie has urged him to attend, he begins imagining that a surprise party is about to happen, but it doesn't. And when his company sends him a tacky pocket calendar, that's the final blow, but Ruthie presents him with a watch inscribed to her husband, ""who worked like a dog for his family for thirty years"".

    Director:John Whitesell
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"A Teacher's Life" is the worst rated episode of Cosby. It scored 5.9/10 from 17 votes. Directed by Don Scardino and written by Unknown, it aired on October 27, 1999. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "A Team of His Own".

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