The Cosby Show (TV Series)

The Infantry Has Landed (and They've Fallen Off the Roof) (1990)

Keshia Knight Pulliam: Rudy Huxtable

Quotes 

• Rudy : There I was sitting in class while the teacher was talking about punctuation and I was starting my period. Do you know how embarrassing that was?

  Clair Hanks Huxtable : I think I do, and so does every other woman in the world. Honey that's why they call it the curse.

  Rudy : The curse?

  Clair Hanks Huxtable : The curse, dear. Now it's called the curse, the visitor, the flag is up, the infantry has landed.

  Rudy : The infantry has landed?

  Clair Hanks Huxtable : And fallen off the roof. In my day it was referred to as The Horror.

• Rudy : Those were the bad old days, huh, Mom?

  Clair Hanks Huxtable : Those were the bad old days. But we've come a long way since then, and Rudy you know, it's very natural, it's been going on since the beginning of time. It's what makes you a woman.

  Rudy : But Mom, I'm NOT a woman, I'm 12 years old!

  Clair Hanks Huxtable : Rudy, in biological terms you ARE a woman, and if you're going to be a mother someday, this HAS to happen.

• Rudy : Does everyone know?

  Susan : No, when you ran out of class we told everybody you had an emergency.

  Davina : Yeah, we said your house was on fire.

  Rudy : What?

  Susan : Then later we told them it was a false alarm.

  Davina : So, what's it like?

  Rudy : Well, it's like getting a stomachache, but without eating candy.