All language subtitles for the_cosby_show_s01e11_is_that_my_boy

He said, Mom, dear, not Dad.

That's why they have different names for
us. So they can get who they want.

But I'm in the middle of doing our
books.

I'll do them for you.

You? You hate doing books.

When I see the joy you get from doing
them, it makes me jealous and I want to

books of my own.

Mom!

Claire!

Claire!

Do you want me to destroy them now?

Rudy? Yes?

This is your father talking to you.

like a person with no children.

Listen.

It's quiet.

Dad has spoken.

There will be peace in the valley.

I don't think you have to go.

What if you're wrong?

Then the three of us will soon find out,
won't we?

Now, you are bothering the Princess
Vanessa, aren't you?

No, Daddy. Is it your voice that I hear
that's saying, Vanessa?

Is it your throat that's allowing your
voice to say,

Is it your brain that tells your throat
to let the voice say, Vanessa?

Yes. Then you are bothering Vanessa.

No, Daddy, she's bothering me.

How? By not answering when I say
Vanessa.

Daddy, I'm trying to do my homework and
she's bothering me. I understand that.

Now, what I'm going to do is separate
the two of you and you will have the

To yourself. Do you understand what I'm
saying? Okay?

Now, listen to me. You know how much you
love to play

in Mom and Dad's room, right?

Dad's got a biggie for you.

You can play in our room until Dad comes
to get you, okay?

Oh, boy!

All right, now, there are certain things
in there that Dad doesn't want you to

touch.

talk about two missing hours?

Well, Dad, I just want to tell you.

Tell me, even if it involves a liquor
store.

Well, all this week I've been going to
football tryouts, and today I found out

made the team.

See, look. Here's some of our plays.

You see, me and the guys got this idea
to go to football.

You know, goof around.

Well, after the first day, Sammy and the
mouse got cut.

The next day, Joel and Cockroach got
bounced.

Who?

I'd be next. That's why I didn't tell
you.

But they never cut me.

They kept me, Dad. I'm on the team.

Get out of here. Really?

It's a 31 sweep. I ran this in college.

Back when they didn't wear face masks.

Is that what happened to your nose?

A small price to pay for a first down.

Social care if I play. Well, now, this
isn't going to interfere with your

schoolwork. Mom, I'm going to work real
hard at everything.

All right.

You better do your homework.

You're right, Dad. No problem.

Happy?

Football.

Football. My son, my boy.

In the stands.

Is that your son? Yes, that's my boy.

See the one running down the field for
the touchdown with the name Huxtable on

the back?

My son.

I would have done it myself, but I'm too
old now.

So I pass the business on to him.

Huxtable and son.

Yes, sir.

and the athlete of the century, young
Huxtable.

Sitting next to him was the athlete of
the old century, old Huxtable.

My son, I'm telling you, my prayers have
been answered, and the circle will

not be broken.

Now, this may be impossible, but do you
think you can calm down?

Guys are dancing.

Are they? Mm -hmm.

They are, aren't they?

Yes, they are. They are dancing.

Come on.

Sit down. No, no, no, no, no. Do me a
favor. Do me a favor.

Say it again. Say it. I want to see them
dance.

Let them go.

Let them go. Say it.

Football.

Well, at least you could look, you know.

All right, here we go. The Groverton
game, 1958.

Backfield of Harry Jefferson, Don
Council, Colby Wilson, and me.

We are down by 6 .800 ,000 people in the
stands.

Three seconds left to go.

That's right.

Now, when we went back to the class
reunion, people didn't say to me, well,

are you doing? Your practice looks good.
You look wonderful. First thing out of

their mouth was, we should have gone to
you.

You know, Cliff, for the past two hours,
it's been football nonstop.

Now, the boy is half mine, and I might
have some plans for him myself.

Like what?

Like following my footsteps and become a
lawyer.

No better way to prepare for law than
football.

Wait a minute, wait a minute. Time out.

What I'm saying is like me in med
school.

Now, final exams, people are running up
and down the hallway, jumping

out of windows, setting themselves on
fire.

Oh, my goodness, I don't know what I'm
going to do. Me, 2 .30 in the morning,

I'm dancing in the hallways, and I'm
saying, pour it on, pour it on. Give me

tougher exams.

What? Is this the best you can hand me?

You're not scared? I said, no. They
said, why? I said, football.

Cliff, I read an article about teenage
boys in football.

And do you know what they said their
biggest problem is?

Naughty cheerleaders on the bus.

No.

Fathers.

Surprise, surprise.

No, Cliff, I really mean it now. The
fathers expect so much from their sons,

they take all the fun out of playing.

Look. I am not going to put pressure on
the boy.

If he's good, great.

If he's bad, but if he quits, he's dead.

Dad. My boy.

Since you know so much about football,
can you give me some pointers?

Son, I'll be happy to teach you all I
know.

Yeah?

Of course, it's been a long time.

After dinner.

About the game of football.

Is Rudy coming? I haven't seen her for
hours.

I left her up in the room.

Everybody in here is waiting for you.
Even Vanessa said, I refuse to eat until

Rudy shows up. Good dinner, Mom.

It was delicious.

All right. Well, then, just the two of
us will sit down and have a lovely

dinner. Come on.

I don't eat with Fibber.

I'll get her.

Well, Fibber will just have to eat.

How many times you were carried off the
field?

Only to get your attention.

Theo, my boy, you are about to become a
part of the Huxtable tradition, starting

with your great -great -grandfather,
General Theo Huxtable.

Hey, my great -great -grandfather was a
general?

No, that was his nickname.

How'd he get it? He gave it to himself
because he was a big man.

And see, in the man that sighs in those
days when he said, call me general,

everybody said, that's what's up.

So here we go.

Hey, that's real interesting.

Yeah. Tell me more about this guy. No,
we don't have time for tell me more. We

have to get out there, son.

Here we go.

I'm sending you one.

Poor little thing looks so sad.

Ignore her, Mother. She's just doing it
for some attention.

At least she's not biting people.

Who bit people? You. I did not.

What's this?

An arm. T -smart.

Everyone in this family has a pair of
them somewhere on their body.

Huh? Ankle.

Let me see.

Well, Rudy needs some help right now,
and I think I have an answer.

Uh, baby?

I was thinking, how would you feel about
baking some cookies?

Nah.

How about some gingerbread?

Gingerbread? Yeah! Oh, great, great!

make this a family project. It'll be the
Huxtable women baking gingerbread

together. Uh, Mom, sorry. I've got tons
of homework.

Oh, really?

Yeah. Since when did you become such a
great scholar?

Well, let me quote Omar Khayyam.

Cultivate the youthful mind.

And as the tree grows from the sapling,
threefold it will yield its precious

fruit. Bold.

Give her a fair chance.

Mistake number two.

I could come in if you like.

Hi.

You know, Rudy, you've really got it
rough.

You're the youngest in the family.

And nobody wants to play with you. They
forget about you. They tease you.

And you probably wonder if there's
anything worse than being five.

So why not be proud of being five, you
know? Like, yay, five!

Think of all the wonderful things five
-year -olds can do.

You can tie your own shoelaces.

You can dial the phone.

You can go to kindergarten.

Last year, you couldn't do any of that.

Because I was nothing.

No, you were never nothing.

You just weren't five.

Five now.

And now you can do things that you could
never do before.

So what do you think about that?

Yay, five.

Yay, five.

Mommy, how old are you?

Old.

Yay, old.

All right, all you got to remember is to
just keep your center of gravity low,

shoulders straight.

All right, take a shower. Okay.

Dad. Hey. You know, you really showed me
a lot out there.

You've got some great moves for a guy
your age.

Well, I figure I won't completely fall
apart till next week sometime.

How does he look?

Yeah, your eyes.

I don't think they're going to dance for
me.

I went out there with no preconceived
ideas.

Do you understand?

I just wanted to see what the boy has.

The boy has nothing.

You made the team.

Claire, there's 45 people on the
football team.

Only 22 of them get to play. The other
23 are to keep the bench from flying up.

We get out to the field.

The boy snatches the ball from me, runs
down to the end zone, spikes the ball,

and then starts to do some kind of
dance.

For 20 minutes he danced. I thought rain
was going to fall.

Then the boy comes running back and he
says to me, how do you like my dance for

after I score?

Boy is not going to school.

Well, he must have some skills.

I threw the ball to him.

He caught it. There you go.

No, I said, son, it's better to catch
the ball before it hits your face.

Okay, so he's not a receiver.

I said, okay, punt.

He took the ball, he kicked it, the ball
went...

They center the ball to him, he catches
it, turns around, then he kicks the

ball.

No, no, I see you shaking your head
saying football father.

And you're not one. No. Aha.

Aha, what?

One of the first signs of being a
football father is saying you're not

Look, I know what a football father is,
and I'm telling you that right now...

Theo is terrible.

Cliff, he's 13, and if you tell him
that, it's going to destroy him.

I didn't tell him.

I'm telling you.

Is he really that bad?

Worse.

Yes, Theo, my boy.

Dad, I've been thinking about the
Huxtable football tradition.

And is there any room in it for a guy
who's not a star?

Sure. To be honest, Dad, I might not get
much playing time at all.

Like, maybe none.

Whatever you do, Theo, we'll be sitting
up in those stands cheering you on.

Thanks, Mom.

You too, Dad.

What was the question?

We'll be cheering on Mama.

Oh, I'll have your mother on my
shoulders.

Dad, I've got a lot to learn, don't I?

Well, you know, you have your dance
down, Pat. I mean, that's, um... You got

that covered. Now all you have to do is
learn the skills that will put you into

the end zone so you can do your
wonderful dance.

That could take weeks.

Years.

Years? Well, not real years. I mean, you
play in the fall only.

The question that you have to ask
yourself is, is it worth it? Dad, I'm

happy to be on the team.

Really? See, when we were practicing,
the kids come around and watch us. But

they can't come on the field because
they're not on the team.

Now, I may never make first string, but,
hey, I'm on the field.

Okay.

But you better keep that bench from
flying up.

serious man when that team runs out
there you let that bench fly up and hit

somebody in the head i'll come down
there boy and i'll mom what's he talking

about listen show mom you dance that
that you you know

and I still cannot understand why they
didn't go to me.

I think I can.

You're kidding. Why?

Five minutes left on the clock, and your
team has the ball, and they hand it to

someone who, with head down, breaks
through the line. Now, he gets hit about

four or five times, but it doesn't stop
him, because the man has got some moves.

I mean, he's spinning by the tacklers
and leaping over the line back.

Now, I'm not... Don't call any names.

No. I won't say who the someone is. No.

But the someone is in this room.

In this room? In this room. All right.
Now, there is no one between the someone

and the goal line, and he's racing down
the field. And as he's running, he turns

to see where his fiancée is sitting. He
holds the ball up and waves it to her.

What a man.

As he brings the ball down, his knee
comes up, knocks... the ball backwards

the hands of the Wolverton tackler who
runs in the opposite direction and

scores. Now, who did that?

Toby Wilson.

He's not in this room.

Claire Huxtable.

Oh, no.

Well, I was just trying to show you that
I loved you. You were just trying to

show off.

Well, it'll be a cold day the next time
I wave anything at you.

Miss Payne.