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The Cosby Show Season 1 Episode 11

You're Not a Mother Night

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AIRED: 12/6/84

Clair becomes fed up with the pressures of her job and the constant demands of the children. Cliff decrees that evening to be "You're Not a Mother Night." He takes her out to dinner and rents a room at the Biltmore for the night, leaving Denise to look after the other kids. Theo handles a call from a patient very well and gives her the number of another doctor. As a joke, the kids call up their parents' hotel room and warn them not to have another baby.moreless

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Lisa Bonet	Denise Huxtable
Bill Cosby	Dr. Heathcliff "Cliff" Huxtable
Keshia Knight Pulliam	Rudy Huxtable
Phylicia Rashad	Clair Huxtable
Malcolm-Jamal Warner	Theo Huxtable
Tempestt Bledsoe	Vanessa Huxtable

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Anne Twomey

Mrs. Jennings

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QUOTES (8)
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- Mrs. Jennings: 21 years...and five kids. What are you celebrating?
  Cliff: Survival!
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- Cliff: Turn the TV off.
  Theo: Okay, I'll turn it down.
  Cliff: No...turn the TV OFF...
  Theo: All the way?
  (Theo pushes in the power knob.)
  Cliff: Later...pull it back out...it comes back on!
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- Cliff (answering phone in hotel room): Hello....this better be necessary.... (Holding phone toward Clair) It's for you.
  Clair: Hello.
  Kids voices' from phone: Good night, Mom. Don't bring home another baby!
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- Denise (as Theo heads toward the front door): You walk out that door and I'll tell Daddy you've been cutting pictures out of his medical books and selling them.
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- Clair: We are very fortunate to have the children, Cliff. Otherwise we wouldn't know the joy of leaving them home!
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- (Clair comes out of the bathroom in the hotel, Cliff has dozed off.)
  Clair: Cliff...Cliff... (She shakes him.) CLIFF!!
  Cliff: Huh, wha..how far apart are they???
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- Clair: That's not a very romantic line.
  Cliff: Well, I didn't know we were going by a script, I thought we were making it up as we go along.
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- Cliff: I hereby declare 'You Are Not a Mother Night' to be officially started. Let the fun begin. (Clair playfully pats Cliff on the butt as he bends down to get the luggage.) Starting a little early, are we?
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- This was the fourth episode filmed, but it was aired later in the first season.
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- The sign outside Cliff's office still reads "Clifford Huxtable, M.D."
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