The Cosby Show: Slumber Party

The Cosby Show: Slumber Party
NBC
March 28, 1985
Sitcom
DVD
C+

In what feels like a partially improvised episode, although credited to Carmen Finestra, Cliff hosts a sleepover for Rudy and chums, but it's his father (Earle Hyman again) who can manage them best, through bribery.  We wouldn't see most of Rudy's little friends again, but Naoka Nakagawa, who's Naoka here, would play the same role again once more before five shots as Kim Ogawa, and of course Peter Costa's Peter Chiara is instantly recognizable to any Cosby viewer; this chubby, silent white boy would be back a dozen times more.  (And one little girl, the one sitting next to Peter, grew up to be singer Alicia Keys.)