The BEST episodes of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
Every episode of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids!
A group of urban adolescents who stick together through thick and thin, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids show us that if you put your imagination to work you can achieve anything!
#1 - The Rainbow
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/1980
Elisa has trouble accepting mixed-race children, especially when Kim, the gang's other classmate is the son of an interracial couple. She avoids interacting with him and runs off rather than play games with the group. She wanders into the old garment factory, which is condemned and winds up in danger. Kim and Fat Albert are able to enact a rescue and Elisa is able to learn a valuable lesson.
#5 - Playing Hookey
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/21/1972
Fat Albert and the Gang think school is nothing but a waist of time so they decide to play hookey the next day. Dumb Donald told the gang he was going to school and thought he was joking but got made fun of and kept walking. Fat Albert and his friends had so much playing hookey knowing they wouldn't get caught.Later on that evening the Junkyard Gang met two homeless bums who didn't go to school telling them that if they didn't finish their education you won't be able to read and write letters. The Gang decide to stay in school realizing it's cool.
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#9 - Pot of Gold
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/18/1980
The gang's classmate Patty was a straight-A student until she fell into the drug scene and now gets regularly high on marijuana. When the gang meets her drug pusher, Rudy is tempted to try it himself, but has a change of heart when he sees Patty in danger. He and Fat Albert are able to save her. They and a police officer meet with Patty's parents about her problem and she agrees to help get the pusher arrested, which is the first step on her road to recovery.
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#12 - Creativity
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1972
The origin of the Junkyard Band. The gang tries doing odd jobs for money but they only made enough money to buy a broken drumstick but then they realize they could make their own instruments. Fat Albert makes an instrument out of an old radiator, a funnel, and a big potato bag. Bill makes a set of drums out of trash cans as well as turning old tin cans into chimes for Russell. Weird Harold turns a bed frame into a harp. Dumb Donald creates a trombone out of pipes and a horn from a grammaphone. Mushmouth takes an old bird cage and makes his own guitar. Bucky puts big pipes together to make an organ.
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#16 - The Hospital
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/28/1972
Russell has a physical with the school doctor and learns he needs to have a tonsilectomy. In the process, it is discovered that Bill needs one, too. Thinking the operation will take their lives away, they give all their favorite posessions to their friends, only to find that they will pull through. They also find out that they will get ice cream afterwards and learn that it won't be so bad after all.
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#17 - The Double Cross
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/1981
The gang's friend Melinda tells them of a group she's taken interest to known as Double Cross. However, they don't care for Fat Albert and company because they're not of the same ethnic background. Mudfoot introduces Fat Albert to a rabbi who tells him of the tough life he had when the Nazis invaded his homeland. Later, Fat Albert confronts George, the Double Cross leader about his racism. Then late at night, George tries to vandalize a Jewish synagogue before he slips and gets himself in danger. Fat Albert and the police are able to mount a rescue, and George is arrested for his vandalism. Afterward, Melinda learns her lesson about who the true special people are in her life.
#18 - What Say?
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1976
Rudy likes Shanna but can't get her attention. The gang thinks Shanna's stuck up until Fat Albert tells them Shanna has a hearing problem and understand.
#19 - Smoke Gets in Your Hair
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1976
The Cosby Kids smoke to be cool and Fat Albert is against it. The Gang learns that smoking isn't cool at all.
#20 - Sweet Sorrow
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/1979
Fat Albert's ice skating friend, Roberta, offers to help the kids with their "hockey skills"(if you can call it that). Unfortunately, she seems troubled by other things on her mind. Her parents are getting divorced, so she takes her anger out on the team. She finally learns it's not her fault that their getting divorced. Roberta also learns she can enjoy both of her parents without having to enjoy them at the same time.
#21 - How the West Was Lost
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/20/1973
Johnny is a new kid who's an American Indian from Arizona. The gang thinks that because Johnny's Indian that he can make a rain storm and do other tricks. Mudfoot tells the gang a fake story about him to show them how foolish they were being.
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