Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
TV Show • 1972
ReportFat Albert and the Cosby Kids is an animated series created, produced, and hosted by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including Fat Albert himself. Filmation was the production company for the series. The show premiered in 1972 and ran until 1985. The show, based on Cosby's remembrances of his childhood gang, centered on Albert, and his friends.
The show always had an educational lesson emphasized by Cosby's live-action segments, and in early episodes the gang would usually gather in their North Philadelphia junkyard to play a rock song on their cobbled-together instruments at the end of the show.
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“Gang Wars” has plenty of gun violence in the street gangs.
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There is a gang violence episode where the character who was in a gang (a child), had to watch his kid brother die in his arms from a gunshot wound.
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In “The Runner” and “Pot of Gold”
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There’s a scene where Fat Albert and his friends get sexually harassed by prisoners, but it is NOT treated as a joke.
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Some cuss words in the original “Busted.” The new version edits out the bad words.
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In one episode, a mentally disabled child is described as the R-slur. However, this was a medical term back in the 70s, and wasn’t a slur back then, so this is just a case of values dissonance.
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In “Busted” Fat Albert and the gang go to prison and the inmates make sexual comments at them.
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The episode Busted features tons of prisoners, and even the main characters spend some time in a jail cell.
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The show is TITLED Fat Albert. Enough said
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Touched upon lightly in the infamous “Busted” episode, where grown men make passes at Fat Albert and his friends.
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