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This is the first appearance of Sondra, the eldest of the five Huxtable children. Sabrina LeBeauf, who plays Sondra, beat out future pop star Whitney Houston for the role. See more...

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The Cosby Show (1984) - 58 mistakes in entire show

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Revealing: Everytime someone opens the front door to go outside there is just steps leading outside, but when they are on the steps outside and the doors to the inside are open there is a wall and a table with a lamp. Inside that is not there.

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Other: The outside shots show that the house is in the middle of a row of houses, connected to other houses on both sides. But in the living room, behind the stairs, is a window looking outside. There couldn't possibly be a window there as that is where the house shares a wall with the house next door.

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Pilot (season 1, episode 1)

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Deliberate "mistake": In the very first episode, the kids are fighting and arguing all throughout the house. Claire then asks Cliff, "Why did we have 4 kids?", referring to Denise, Theo, Rudy, and Vanessa. In all of the following episodes, they actually have 5 kids. I guess they decided to add Sandra (the oldest Huxtable) later down the road.

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Continuity: After Theo gives up an extra $100 for clothes, he is holding $300 left in his hand. However when the camera switches back to Cliff, who asks how much is left, it switches back to Theo, who is only holding $200 left.

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Continuity: The father was known as Clifford in the beginning but the name was changed to Heathcliff (you can see this on the nameplate for his office).

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Bad Dreams (season 1, episode 3)

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Other: When Cliff dials the phone number to Vanessa's friend, it's obvious that he dialed "3" instead of "2", and still got right number.

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A Shirt Story (season 1, episode 5)

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Character mistake: When asked about the $95 Theo said that if he lived to be 90 years old that would be like a dollar a day. On this episode Theo is 14 years old, as stated by Cliff. If Theo wanted to equate his age to the value of the shirt he would need to live to 109 years old.

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Breaking With Tradition (season 1, episode 6)

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Audio problem: In the scene where Cliff takes the ball from Theo and places it on the counter, it is clear that the ball will roll off the counter. However, we never hear the ball actually fall off the counter. But, when the camera turns to Theo and he says, "Door two", then the camera turns back to Cliff, the ball is nowhere to be found on the counter.

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Play It Again, Vanessa (season 1, episode 8)

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Other: When Cliff and Theo are playing chess, Theo never starts the clock to start his turn, he just moves and stops the clock.

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Father's Day (season 1, episode 13)

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Other: It is daylight outside when Cliff and Clair are talking, but when he turns the lights off to try on his light-up Father's Day gifts, it gets pitch black in the room.

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Plot hole: Cliff says in the beginning that he has the day off, but when the kids go shopping it shows him at work in his office.

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Back to the Track, Jack (season 1, episode 20)

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Character mistake: When the race ends and the kids are cheering, you can hear Denise call Cliff "Bill" instead of "Dad".

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Slumber Party (season 1, episode 22)

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Continuity: After Cliff talks to Peter, Theo is told to run to the neighbors across the street. However, he can be seen in the background of some shots when the twins do their game. As soon as the twins finish, Theo is shown coming back into the house.

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Other: During the scene where the twin sisters were singing their song, Theo was asked by Cliff to go to Peter's house and ask his mother if he could stay. Theo left immediately after this. But if you look closely while the twins are singing, you'll see Theo's arm in the scene. When the twins finish performing, they sit down. After this, you see Theo coming through the door after having just gone to Peter's house.

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Happy Anniversary (season 2, episode 3)

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Continuity: Cliff says "a young trumpet player while sitting in the bandstand watching the dancers". But in all the later episodes, Russell plays the trombone, and he had been for a long time.

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Cliff in Love (season 2, episode 4)

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Character mistake: When Darryl arrives for the date, Cliff sends Theo upstairs to get Sondra, but Theo had just left Sondra in the kitchen. Why didn't he go back into the kitchen if he knew that's where she was?

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Halloween (season 2, episode 6)

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Revealing: When Robert grabs Scott's shirt, Scott hits the wall and it moves backwards about an inch showing that it's fake.

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Rudy Suits Up (season 2, episode 7)

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Factual error: When Clair and Denise are watching the Bears vs. the Giants game, they comment on how cute player number 16 is. In 1985, nobody wore 16 for either the Bears or the Giants. Former Bears' placekicker Bob Thomas wore it from 1975 to 1984 until he retired. 16 wasn't worn again by the Bears until Tim Lashar, another kicker, wore it in 1987. Also, 16 had long since been retired by the Giants. It was last worn by Frank Gifford.

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Denise's Friend (season 2, episode 11)

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Visible crew/equipment: Look closely when Clair gets up after saying to the kids "I'm glad we had this chat", you can see a tip of a camera on the right.

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An Early Spring (season 2, episode 21)

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Continuity: In this episode, Rudy is riding her bike around the house which is right on the corner of a block. Since when is their house on the corner?

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