The Cosby Show (TV Series)
Close to Home (1986)
Phylicia Rashad: Clair Huxtable
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Quotes
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Clair Huxtable : You're making pâte for me?
Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable : No, I'm making it for Dr. Morgan, who is coming over to talk about the hospital fundraiser.
Clair Huxtable : Oh, I hope it's another carnival like last year. I really enjoyed that.
Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable : Well, I didn't.
Clair Huxtable : But, Cliff, you were a hit.
Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable : No, no, I was not a hit. I had to sit in that dunking booth.
Clair Huxtable : I know.
Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable : I'm not sitting in it anymore.
Clair Huxtable : Why? It was so much fun.
Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable : Fun? For me? Sitting in that chair, watching people hit the thing, and I fall six feet into that cold, nasty, dirty water? And watching my wife standing there, just saying "Come here! Knock my husband down! Just seven tickets!" And then every boyfriend that Denise has ever dated came with pocketful of money.
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[Denise and Clair show the vases they made in pottery class. Denise's vase is perfectly made, while Clair's is lumpy and crooked]
Dr. Dan Morgan : I think they're both beautiful.
Clair Huxtable : Thank you.
Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable : No, that's not true at all. One... One of them definitely is not. Now I'm not naming any... names...
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Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable : [about Clair's vase] Don't get mad at me. I'm just telling the truth about this.
Clair Huxtable : Well, you cannot tell the truth and be my friend.
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Denise Huxtable : Mom, I'm sorry I laughed at you.
Clair Huxtable : No, you're not.
Denise Huxtable : I know.
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Denise Huxtable : [about Clair's vase] Hey, Mom.
Clair Huxtable : Hmm?
Denise Huxtable : I figured out what that thing is.
Clair Huxtable : What?
Denise Huxtable : It's a used tea bag holder.
Clair Huxtable : Denise, that's not funny.
Denise Huxtable : I'm serious. You know, when you make yourself a cup of tea, but you never know what to do with the tea bag.
Clair Huxtable : Let me tell you something, little Miss Know-it-all, this piece of whatever-this-is that you made? All right, it's okay, it's granted, it's craft. I look at that thing and I know exactly what it is. But this, my dear, is high art. It challenges you. You'll have to bring something of yourself to this.
Denise Huxtable : Well, it's saying something to me right now.
Clair Huxtable : Yeah, what?
Denise Huxtable : It said, "Bring me a tea bag."
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Clair Huxtable : This child is making fun of my art.
Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable : Well, you're provoking it, dear.
Clair Huxtable : I've had enough of you two.
Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable : Well, then don't make anything else like that again.
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Clair Huxtable : You didn't find your paper?
Vanessa Huxtable : I looked everywhere.
Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable : You did? And Rudy was no help?
Vanessa Huxtable : She found your fountain pen.
Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable : Good.
Vanessa Huxtable : A keychain, a pair of chopsticks, your gold earrings.
Clair Huxtable : Great!
Vanessa Huxtable : And $3.00 in change.
Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable : That's mine.
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[after Cliff finds Vanessa's paper in the freezer]
Clair Huxtable : [to Vanessa] You want me to put it in the oven and thaw it out for you?