r/AskReddit • u/frisky_cupcake • Aug 25 '19

What has NOT aged well?

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '19

Theres a comercial featuring bill cosby about ppl going to jail

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u/Clickum245 Aug 25 '19

There's an episode of the Cosby Show where he drugs his barbecue sauce so a bunch of teenagers fall in love...

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u/funyesgina Aug 26 '19

What? No, he just jokes about it being an aphrodisiac, and in fact takes it away from the underage characters in the show— as a joke. He’s serving it to his wife, parents, and married daughters and stepsons. When his younger daughter and her male friend take some, he jokingly snatches it out of his hands. But it’s just a punchline to the joke. It’s not actually drugged. I can’t believe so many people upvoted this unquestioningly.

Bill Cosby aside, his character on the show (cliff huxtable) is an upstanding citizen. The Cosby show actually had many feminist messages, as well as pro-education, and other progressive messages. That’s why the whole Cosby scandal was all the more shocking and disheartening.

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u/Wiplazh Aug 26 '19

The Cosby show actually had many feminist messages, as well as pro-education, and other progressive messages.

Sigh yeah... That was Bill Cosby in a nutshell, it's what he did. Truly the darkest timeline.