It's Kind Of Late
To Ask My Parents
About This.
It's A Trip To Egypt
On An Archaeological Dig.
We'll Be Part
Of History.
How Many Students
Get A Chance To Do This?
You Guys Are Right.
All Right,
I'm Going To Ask Them.
Mom?
Dad?
Clair:
We're In Here.
They'll Never Go For It.
You've Got To Try.
Now Is The Best Time
In Our Lives To Do This.
We're Young And We're Single.
If We Don't
Do It Now
We'll End Up
Like Our Parents.
They Never Did Anything
When They Were Young.
You Don't Want
To Turn
And Be Saying
"I Wish I Went
To Egypt With My Buddies.
"I Had The Chance, But I Let It
Slip Out Of My Grasp.
"Now I'm Old And Lonely
And Bitter...
Living In The Projects."
All Right, I'll Do It.
All Right.
You Guys, I Can't Do This.
There Is No Way My Mom
And Dad Will Give Me $ , .
Don't You Have
Any Savings?
I Had $ From My Job.
My Mom And Dad Kicked In
The Other Half.
I Spent All My Money.
Remember The Damages
From That Party?
$ .
All Those Parking Tickets I Got.
$ .
Hey, Lou, How Did You
Get The Money?
I Got A Grant
Because I Have A . Average
And My Parents Don't Have
Much Money.
You Got The Wrong Parents.
They're Rolling In It.
Just Because
They're Rolling In It
Doesn't Mean
They'll Give Me The Money.
I Can See My Mother Now.
"$ , ?
You Want Us To Give You $ , ?"
Then My Dad's Going To Say
"That's A Lot Of Money
For Someone Who Only Gets C's."
Tell Them The Trip
Will Be Very Educational
And Result In Your
Getting Higher Grades.
I Won't Tell Them That.
Why?
I'll Have To Get Higher Grades.
And That's Going To k*ll You?
We'll Go In There With You
When You Ask.
We'll Be Like The Three Points
Of An Ancient Pyramid.
Thus, You Will Receive
Great Cosmic Power.
Hey, Mom.
Hey, Dad.
Greetings, Dr. Huxtable,
Mrs. Huxtable.
I Need To Ask You Guys
A Question.
Uh, When You Think Back
To The Very Foundation
Of Civilization
What Period Sticks Out
As The One You'd
Most Like To Visit?
The One When Your Mother And I
Had No Children.
That Was A Very Clever Retort,
Dr. Huxtable.
Thank You, Howard.
Okay, Gentlemen,
Get On With This.
I Do Have
A Life To Live.
A Professor Is Putting Together
An Archaeological Dig In Egypt
And I Would Like
Your Permission To Go.
Of Course.
Go Ahead.
I Need $ , .
Well, I Think You Better
Get A Spoon
And Go Out
In The Backyard, Son.
You Want Us
To Give You $ , ?
$ , Is A Lot Of Money
To Give Somebody
Who's Just Making C's.
I Wouldn't Need This Money
If It Hadn't Been
For Some Unforeseen Expenses.
Like What?
When You Threw A Party
After We Went Away
For The Weekend
And Your Friends
Busted All The Furniture?
Or Amassing Over $
In Parking Tickets?
Exactly.
You See, Those Things
Were Not My Fault.
I Didn't Know All Those Kids
Would Show Up.
And For Those First
Parking Tickets
They Never Sent Me
A Notice.
Most Of The Expense
For This Trip
Is The Plane Ticket.
I Didn't Make Up The Price
For The Ticket.
And I Cannot Help It
If We're So Rich
I Can't Get A Grant.
Your Mother And I
Graduated From College
Then We Went On
To Graduate School.
Graduated.
We Are Rich.
You Have Nothing.
Dr. Huxtable
If You Allow Theo To Go
With Two Students
Such As Lou And Me
It Could Have
A Good Influence On Him.
We'll Straighten Him Out.
If You Two Could
Straighten Out This
There Would Be
A Small Grant In It For You.
Hey.
Does That Mean I Can Go?
We Didn't Say That.
No, First Of All We Have
To Know Something About--
How Long Are You
Going To Stay There?
What Are The Conditions?
And Will You Being Staying
By Yourself In Certain Places?
After All, You Are
Just A "C" Student.
No Problem.
I'll Have Professor Grayson
Talk To You Guys.
Theo Will Be
Better For This.
I Guarantee It.
I Agree.
Okay.
Let Me Put It To You
This Way.
We Haven't Said
He's Going To Go.
But If He Does
You Two Are To Be
Held Responsible.
And If He Comes Back
The Same As He Was
You Owe Us $ , .
Professor Grayson?
Hi, Theo.
Can I Ask You
A Question?
Sure.
I Was Talking To My Parents
About The Trip.
They May Say Yes
But I Need Someone
To Talk To Them
To Give Them That Extra Umph.
I'd Love To Meet Your Parents.
How's Tonight At : ?
All Right.
Thanks.
Hey, Guys.
Neil, How Did You Make Out
With Your Parents?
My Dad Offered Me
More Money
If I Transferred To
The University Of Cairo.
I Think He Was Kidding.
How About You Guys?
We're In, But Theo's
In Parental Limbo.
They'll Decide
After They Talk
To Professor Grayson.
Gene, You Going
To Egypt?
I'm Not Spending My Money
To Go Someplace Where It's
Degrees In The Shade.
Professor Grayson:
The Last Time We Met
We Were Discussing
The Contributions
Of Black Africans
On The Egyptian Civilization.
The Kush Kingdom Ruled Egypt
From To B.C.
There Was A Great Mixture
Of Cultures And Races
Coexisting In Egypt.
I Would Have Fit In Very Well.
Are You Egyptian?
No, I'm Not.
Are You Irish?
You Think
Everybody's Irish.
My Great-Grandmother Was Irish.
I Knew She Was A Sister.
But I'm Not Only Irish.
There Are Two Parts Left.
Does Anybody Want
To Take A Guess?
Jewish.
No.
Native American.
That's Right-- Cherokee.
I'm Cherokee, Too.
I Knew She Was A Sister.
By The Time
Class Is Over
She'll Be
Everybody's Sister.
There's One Part Left.
Anybody?
Korean.
Japanese?
No.
Chinese?
No. You've Used Up
Your Turn.
I Think I Know
The Last Part.
African-American.
Correct.
Really?
Whoa.
( Doorbell Ringing )
Hi, Mrs. Huxtable.
Hello, Kenny,
Come In.
Rudy's Upstairs.
Thank You.
Mrs. Huxtable,
Can I Ask You Something?
Yes.
Do You Have Any Jobs
At Your Law Office?
Are You Looking For A Job?
No, My Brother Is.
He Wants To Change Careers?
Yeah, He Got Fired From His Job.
What Happened?
He Had A Big Date, So He
Borrowed The Company Car.
The Company Car?
He Wanted To Take Her
Someplace Special.
Where Did They Go?
Florida.
Don't You Think
That Was A Little Out Of Line
Taking The Company Car
To Florida?
He Brought It Back
Full Of Gas.
You Realize If Your Brother
Worked At Our Law Firm
He'd Work For Me.
That's Okay.
This Is The Brother
Who Wouldn't Work For A Woman.
I Know, But He's Desperate.
I Might Welcome The Opportunity
To Have Your Brother
Work For Me.
If He Does A Good Job,
You Could Promote Him.
Then He Could Work For A Man.
Kenny, Come Here.
Your Brother Has Poisoned
Your Mind Against Women.
One Of These Days
You'll Quote Your Brother
To A Woman Who Is
Less Civilized Than I
And She'll Grab You
By Your Ankles
And Twirl You Around
Until Those Caveman Ideas
Come Swirling Out Your Ears.
You Want That To Happen?
No.
I Suggest You
Tell Your Brother
If He Comes
Into My Office
Spouting Those
Muddleheaded Ideas
I'll Become Like That
Less-Civilized Woman.
Got It?
Yes, Ma'am.
Good.
Mrs. Huxtable?
Yes?
Do You Know If Dr. Huxtable
Has Any Jobs
In His Office?
We'll Spend
Two Days In Giza.
That's Where
The Sphinx Is.
Check This Out.
"Students Will
Also Visit Abydos."
That Was
The Temple Of Seti.
He Was The Father
Of Ramses Ii.
I Hope We Visit
The Valley Of The Kings
And King Tut's Tomb.
I Hope We Find Some Of
King Tut's Treasures.
They Cleared Out The Tomb.
There's Nothing Left.
Maybe There's Treasures
Buried In The Tombs
Of The People Who
Worked For King Tut--
Like King Tut's Tailor
Or His Baby-Sitter.
They May Have
Gold Statues.
If You Found Those Things
You'd Have To Turn Them
Over To The Government
For Scientific Research.
If I Find A Statue,
I Got To Give It Up?
That's Right.
Here's A Question.
What If A Brinks Truck
Was Driving By
And The Back Doors Opened
And Money Fell Out?
Would You Give That Up?
You Can't Compare
An Ancient Statue To Money.
Yes, I Can.
Both Of Them
Will Buy Me
An Oceanfront Condominium.
There We Go.
Hey!
No, Don't Touch It!
This Is For
Professor Grayson.
If You Moochers Want Something,
You Go In The Kitchen.
Dr. Huxtable,
Sometimes Those Remarks Hurt.
I Call Them Like I See Them.
You're A Moocher--
In The Kitchen.
Dr. Huxtable, You'll
Like Professor Grayson.
She's A Brilliant Teacher.
What's Fascinating
Is That Her Origins Are
Difficult To Ascertain.
You'll Never Figure Them Out.
I Would Imagine
That People Like Your Professor
Get Tired Of People
Walking Up To Them And Saying
"What Are You?"
But Professor Grayson
Does Not Mind.
She Brought It Up.
( Doorbell
Ringing )
I'm Not Telling;
You Got To Guess.
Don't!
Please, I Asked You.
Hello, Theo.
Hi, Professor Grayson.
This Is My Dad,
Dr. Huxtable.
Professor.
Hello.
Have A Seat.
Hi.
Howdy.
Howard, Lou.
Well, Dad?
Well, What?
What Is She?
Look, I Am Not Going
To Sit Around Here Playing
"What Is She?"
I Know What You Are--
A Fool.
People Ask Me That All The Time.
Go Ahead And Guess.
"Go Ahead And Guess"?
Guess.
I Would Have To Guess...
You Want Me To Guess.
Everybody Wants
The Good Doctor To Guess.
Then Fine.
You're A Human Being.
Dr. Huxtable
You're Stalling.
We Want You To Guess
All Parts
Of Her Background.
All Three Parts.
Okay, Then All Right.
Then Let's...
Let's Hit It.
I Have A Question First.
Let's Say That You
Are Running For President
And You Are Going
To Address This Town.
I Am The Town,
And I Happen To Contain
All Three Of The Parts
Of Which You're Made Up Of.
How Can You Make It
Significant To Me?
This Is
A Very Clever Question.
I'll Try To Come Up
With A Speech.
My Fellow Citizens
Of The Good Town
Of Grayson
I Am So Happy
To Be Here Today.
Looking Out On
Your Rolling Green Hills
So Well Known For
Its Beautiful Poetry...
Poetry.
And I Know Of Your Concern
About Drilling Rights
And The Proper Use
Of Our Land's Minerals
And Natural Resources.
I Also Know Of
Your Concern For Equality.
We Will Work
Towards This Goal
And Join Hands And Raise
Our Voices In Freedom.
That Was Good.
I Got Every One
Of Those References.
Dad?
Shh.
Rolling Green Hills.
Rolling...
Green...
Hills.
Golf.
Golf Course...
Rolling Hills.
See?
And The Scottish People
Invented Golf.
Now...
Something About Drilling Rights.
Oil.
Texas.
Texas Once Was...
Mexico.
Ooh-Wee!
And...
I Should Work For Immigration.
We're Talking About Voices--
Raising Voices.
Singing, Huh?
Opera.
Italy.
So...
I Say That You Are
Scottish, Mexican, And Italian.
Ha-Ha!
Deal With It.
Hey, Dad
Deal With For .
Really?
Hello.
Hi.
Hello.
You Must Be
Professor Grayson?
A Pleasure
To Meet You.
I'm Clair Huxtable.
This Is My Father-In-Law,
Russell Huxtable.
This Is
Our Daughter, Vanessa.
We're Playing A Guessing Game
That Dad Just Failed.
Well, I Had Bad Leads.
Can You Guess
Professor Grayson's Background?
Dad Said Scottish,
Mexican And Italian.
That Is Silly.
How Could You Think
Something Like That?
You Try It.
Let's See You
Go Down In Flames.
It's Obvious Just Looking
At Professor Grayson
That She Is Part
Native American.
That's Right.
Cherokee.
Lucky Guess.
I Think I See Some Strong
Celtic Features In Your Face.
Are You, By Chance,
Part Irish?
Correct.
Dad...
Yes?
The Last One
Is Obvious.
Professor Grayson, You Must
Be Part African-American.
That's Correct, Also.
My Brother.
The Three
Of You
Could See All That
Just From Looking At Her?
That's Right, Son.
We Would Have Known It
Even If Theo Hadn't Told Us.
Okay, You All
Get Out Of Here
And Take Miss Heinz Varieties
With You.
Did Mom And Dad Give You
Permission To Go?
They're Still
Thinking About It.
I Hope You Get To Go.
Your Teacher's Nice.
I Like Her Too,
No Matter What Her Race Is.
That's Open-Minded Of You.
It Doesn't Matter What
Background A Woman Comes From
As Long As She
Cooks And Has Money.
Please.
I Know Why You Want To Go.
I'd Go Anywhere
With Miss Grayson.
Kenny, She Wouldn't
Even Give You A Second Look.
I'm Not Interested In Her.
I Already Have
A Beautiful Woman.
Who?
You.
You Do Not Have Me.
I'm Just Your Friend.
Sometimes
I Wonder Why I'm That.
My Brother Says
I'm A Catch.
If I Caught You
I'd Throw You Back In The Ocean.
Go Ahead, Because There's
Plenty Of Fish In The Sea.
Well, When The Fish See You,
They'll Start Walking On Land.
Do You Guys Have To Do
This Here, Right Now?
This Is A Very Tense Time
For Me.
I'm Waiting For
Mom And Dad's Decision.
Would You
Please Leave?
Okay.
Come On, Mr. Catch.
Let's Move It.
No Man Will Ever Tame Her.
We Got It.
Your Mother And I
Have Come To A Decision.
We Think That It's Wonderful
For You To Spend The Summer
Learning About
Ancient Civilization.
You Do?
But We Don't Want You
To Limit It To Egypt.
We Want You To Broaden It.
All Right!
How Would You
Like To See Other Cultures--
The Pacific Islands,
The Amazon Rain Forest?
Do I Have Time?
Definitely
Because Your Mother And I
Would Like To Buy You
A Membership To
The Museum Of Natural History.
You Can Go There And See
All Of The Cultures Of Asia.
There You Are, My Boy,
Having A Wonderful Time.
Are You Serious?
Yes. You Know What Else?
Gotcha!
Thank You.
You And Mom Are The Best.
I'll Go Thank Her Now.
Wait.
Give Me My Money Back.
For What?
Give Me The $ Back.
That Was A Joke.
It Was A Good Joke,
And You Got Your Money's Worth.
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Series follows the Huxtable family, an African-American upper middle class family, living in a brownstone in Brooklyn Heights, New York.
Series follows the Huxtable family, an African-American upper middle class family, living in a brownstone in Brooklyn Heights, New York.