Product Details

• Actors: Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Sabrina Le Beauf, Lisa Bonet, Malcolm-Jamal Warner
• Directors: Jay Sandrich
• Writers: Bill Cosby, Carmen Finestra, Ed. Weinberger, Elliot Shoenman, Gary Kott
• Format: Box set, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 4
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Urban Works
• DVD Release Date: March 7, 2006
• Run Time: 600 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (86 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000BJS4UI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,233 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• Learn more about "The Cosby Show: Season Two" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

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An Emmy-winner for Outstanding Comedy Series its first year, The Cosby Show rapidly became to Thursday nights what The Wonderful World of Color and Bonanza were to Sundays in the 1960s: a family tradition. And the best was yet to come. Season 2 features some of this gold-standard series' benchmark episodes, most notably. "Happy Anniversary," the one in which the family honors Cliff's parents' wedding anniversary with a show-stopping lip-sync routine to Ray Charles's "Night Time Is the Right Time." In "Theo's Holiday," Theo (Malcolm-Jamal Warner) gets a taste of the real world when his family shows him what it takes to live on his own. The Emmy-winning "Full House" anticipates Seinfeld "nothing"-ness as an exhausted Cliff (Bill Cosby) wanders his home in search of peace and quiet.

In The Cosby Show's charmed world, race was beside the point. Cosby strove to address universal truths about parenthood. In this season's first episode, "First Day of School," adorable Rudy (Keisha Knight Pulliam) tells her father she doesn't want to return to school because a classmate called her "a name." Much like Cliff, the audience braces for the worst until it is revealed that she was teasingly called "Rudy Huckleberry." More to the show's point was fostering an appreciation of black heritage, history, and culture. In "The Card Game," Theo gives his girlfriend Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man to read. In "The Auction," Clair (Phylicia Rashad) bids on a painting by her great-uncle, artist Ellis Wilson, which used to hang in her grandmother's house. And in the stirring final moments in "Vanessa's Bad Grade," the entire family congregates in front of the television to watch Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. From the first, The Cosby Show promoted education and fulfilling one's potential. In one of the season's very best episodes, "Mrs. Westlake," Theo's dread math teacher, a.k.a. "The Dragon Lady," (guest star Sonia Braga) comes to dinner. Fearing the worst from the strict teacher who has forced him to study harder, he is stunned not only by her transformed bombshell appearance but by the results of his math test, which he feared he failed. Love and respect for one's elders and each other thrive in the Huxtable household. In the Emmy-winning "Denise's Friend," Cliff and Clair hold a hilarious and heartwarming family meeting to assure their children that no matter what trouble they get into, they can always come to them. From Danny Kaye's delightful Emmy-nominated performance in "The Dentist" to Rudy's gridiron heroics in "Rudy Suits Up," season 2 is brimming with happy memories of TV's most functional family. --Donald Liebenson

Product Description

The Cosby Show appeared on NBC from 1984 to 1992, becoming one of the most popular programs in the history of television. The Cosby Show depicted a close-knit and prosperous African-American family that dwelled in New York City. Dr. Heathcliff and Clair Huxtable were a happily married, dual-profession couple with aspirations of raising their 5 children in an uplifting, positive environment. The Cosby Show held TV's #1 slot for a record 5 consecutive years (1985 to 1990) and stayed in the Top 20 shows for all eight seasons it was on NBC.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

57 of 60 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Possibly the best season - a must get November 11, 2005

By C. Fernandez

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

First and foremost, the publisher has promised that this DVD set will come with the original, uncut editions instead of the crappy syndicated versions they used in the first season.

So, with a decent release, this is a must for Cosby fans, given that this is one of the best seasons. Obviously the writers still had a lot of ideas, the kids were young and funny...

This is the first season Sabrina Leauf joins the regular staff as Sondra. There's also some interesting guest stars, such as Robin Givens, Sonia Braga, Stevie Wonder or Tanya Wright.

Really, don't miss this boxset if you are a fan. And if you are buying for a fan, this is a great gift.

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars UNCUT? YES! March 18, 2006

By safadez

Format:DVD

The Cosby Show season 2 DVDs are indeed uncut. I bought them today. I watched episode 16 "The Dentist" from an old recording I have of the syndicated version, then watched the same episode on the new DVDs. There is additional material in the DVD episode. Clair argues with Theo about the new highrise being built, as she is upset about their water usage. Cliff reveals that Theo is interested because he heard 55 stewardesses would be moving into the highrise. Also, Dr. Burns (played by Danny Kaye) tells two jokes with the big teeth model instead of one. This puts the episode run time at 23:39 instead of 22 minutes for the sydicated version.

This is the only episode I have compared. I expect the others to be uncut as well. Kudos to Urbanworks for doing justice to the best sitcom ever.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A solid and very enjoyable second season that is much better and funnier than the first. March 5, 2006

By Add 'em Up At The Movies

Format:DVD

A solid and very enjoyable second season that is much better and funnier than the first, but not the best season of the series. The second season has an assortment of great episodes among the good episodes though none of the episodes from this season are bad. It includes the family lip synching to Ray Charles' classic tune "The Night Time Is The Right Time" (the "Happy Anniversary" episode), one of the most memorable moments from the entire series. The first appearance of Elvin as Sondra's boyfriend (future husband) in the episode "Cliff In Love". I also can't help but laugh every time Rudy's friend Peter appears in an episode, just the expressions on his face ("The Dentist" episode), and the way he runs out of a room when there's trouble ("The Juicer" episode) cracks me up. Theo's best buddy and partner in rhymes, Cockaroach (Carl Anthony Payne III), makes his first appearance in "Theo And Cockaroach". Stevie Wonder guest stars in an episode, inviting the family to the recording studio (the episode "A Touch Of Wonder"). My favorite episode from this season is hands down "Theo's Holiday" when eveyone in the Huxtable house teaches Theo a harsh but funny lesson about what it's like to live in 'the real world'. This episode is still hilarious after many repeated viewings.
"The Cosby Show" is my favorite family comedy series. Though it's not outrageous like "Married...With Children" or "Roseanne", my second and third favorite family centered comedy series, it is not as sweet and sentimental as "Full House" or "Family Matters". It's right in the middle, dealing with real situations of adolescence and family affairs and still being genuinely funny. I grew up watching "The Cosby Show" and also I grew up watching "Married...With Children", and I liked having that contrasting view of family life presented on tv. Whereas "Married..." showed us the low class family lifestyle, "Cosby" showed us the upper class family lifestyle, and both were funny and seperately identified with by many different families. Dr. Heithcliff Huxtable is a great father because he taught his children lessons in life, not the clean cut way Ward Cleaver did on "Leave It To Beaver" and not the cynical way Al Bundy did on "Married...With Children", but his way that was original and clever, sometimes harsh but always caring. Clair Huxtable is the best tv mom of all-time in my opinion. The most outrageous tv mom would be Marie Barone in "Everybody Loves Raymond" or Peg Bundy in "Married...With Children", but the best tv mom is definitely Mrs. Huxtable. She's intelligent, beautiful, successful, funny, strong, loving, and caring. Then there are the Cosby kids, and I liked all of them. Sondra was the oldest and the most cerebral and complex character, especially her rocky relationship with future husband Elvin (the episode "Cliff In Love" and "Full House"). It was definitely Denise who had the most responsibilites of the Cosby kids left in the household (the episode "Denise Drives" and "Denise's Decision"), being the oldest of the the kids left in the house. Theo and Vanessa, being the teens of the family, made most of the mistakes and had most of the lessons being taught to them for those mistakes (the episodes "Vanessa's Bad Grade", "Mrs. Westlake" and "Theo And The Older Woman"). Rudy was smart for a child her age as well as cute ("Rudy Suits Up" and "Happy Anniversary"), but in later seasons, Olivia (Raven Simone) was the smartest and most adorable little girl in tv history (far and away more than the Olsen twins were on Full House, plus she is a very beautiful woman now which I can't say at all for Mary-Kate and Ashley).
I highly recommend buying the second season of "The Cosby Show" instead of watching the re-runs on Nick At Nite or TBS in the morning. It is definitely worth it to be apart of the best tv family.