Knowing about Bill Cosby’s penchant for drugging and raping women, do you think this scene from a backyard bar-b-Que at the Huxtable home is as creepy as the ‘Cracked’ panel thinks it is? When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Is it possible that in retrospect everything about ‘Cos’ just appears to be nefarious – or maybe it is?
In this scene, the Huxtable bar-b-Que was doomed by fighting couples. In the next scene, the couples are not only reconciled but amorous, prompting Claire Huxtable to remark to her husband that the guests seem to ” have worked things out for themselves.”
Cosby as Cliff informs her that the guests didn’t work anything out for themselves. They are merely reacting (as expected) to his special bar-b-Que sauce. When she is cynical, Cliff asks his wife, if she hasn’t “noticed that every time people have some of my sauce they want to get right home?” He teases that there is a cup on their own night stand. Cue canned laughter and presumably knee-slapping at home.
We all assume ‘Cliff’ is taking advantage of a coincidence to convince Claire he has a magic potion. The two highly educated parents often engaged in oneupsmanship. It’s such fun at the Cosby house! Zip zap boopity bop n’ puddin’ pops too.
To further convince his wife, (we suppose) a young boy seated next to the Huxtable’s young daughter, raves about the chicken, Cliff wastes no time in taking the chicken away from the boy and thoroughly scrubbing the youngster’s mouth of all sauce.
So, are the sauce and the “huggy buggy” couples nothing more than a comedy device? The panel at ‘Cracked’ find it hard to believe the idea of spiking the sauce didn’t come from a darker place in Cosby’s mind.