Newt will re-tweet the death of every celebrity, including bizarre choices like Angela Landsbury and Arleen Sorkin. But he neglected to mention Malcolm-Jamal Warner? Somebody who died in a tragic accident at a somewhat young age? A star on the biggest show of the 1980s? This was Newt’s era.
Instead, he tweets about that prostitute “friend” of his whose name I can’t even remember. Not even any fake name that I might have given her.
Is she eating a BLT? Way to splash out, Newt. He’s really at the bottom level of the prostitute hierarchy.
So Fart91 leaves a message saying, “Your movies suck.” I found this the most puzzling of it all. WHAT movies? I’m only aware of Swamp Zombies 2 and I’ve never even really figured out what his involvement was in that.
Why no Malcolm-Jamal Warner death tweet? Presumably racism. Newt enjoys talking about how awful white people are but there never seems to be a homey anywhere near him. You’re telling me that there aren’t any black prostitutes in “cosmopolitan” Philadelphia. The place is surely teeming with sexy sisters who will accept money in exchange for companionship. Put them in a video.
And there’s another connection. Bill Cosby, perhaps the second most famous Philadelphia native. Wait…Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston? Okay, then Cosby is the most famous Philadelphian.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner was from…New Jersey. The Ideas Man is from New Jersey. This is fucking disgusting. Surely, Newt knew about the death. Why no tweet?
He didn’t tweet about Hulk Hogan’s death presumably because of Hogan’s history of racist comments. But…Newt seems to share Hogan’s views. Newt says one thing but then behaves in a totally contrary way.
With the death of Malcolm-Jamal Warner, we’ll never know what, “Jamming on the one” meant.
Maybe the greatest mystery from the show. Stevie Wonder (close personal friends with Cliff Huxtable, I guess) asks Theo, “What would you say at a party?” Theo then says, “Jamming on the one.”
Now, I’m not saying that I’m the biggest party animal by any means. But I have never heard this phrase before or since in any context, before or after this episode was aired. Why would anybody say that at a party? You walk in, there’s music playing, beers are being consumed, and you says, “Hey, everybody. Jamming on the one”? It doesn’t make any sense.
And what about this?
Denise was taking some pottery class with her mother. Clair’s pot was all bent up and shit. So what does Denise say? “I figured out what that thing is. It’s a used teabag holder.”
How is a bent up pot particularly suitable for used tea bags? Was this an ad-lib? I don’t think so because they continue to talk about the used teabag thing and it seems scripted.
And then you get to Theo and Cockroach’s rap…holy shit. Cliff is unhappy with their initial rap (which isn’t included in this clip) and tells them to rewrite it. Three minutes later, they come back with…this.
One of the comments says, “Yep, sounds like they wrote that in 3 minutes….. It’s crap.”
And what about that episode where Cliff just kept saying “callaloo” like 150 times?
He says it repeatedly throughout the episode.
And what about that episode where Clair does that annoying song with her former classmate about Mr…somebody and it goes on for like five minutes?
And for that matter, fuck all of those episodes where there’s an extended musical performance.
How was this show popular? So much of it didn’t make sense. There was barely a narrative in some of the episodes.
Oh, and then there was that episode where Cliff gives birth to a sandwich. I have to look this up or else people will think I’m making this up.
I can only find a version where somebody adds their nerd “comedy” to it but there it is.
This was the number one show in America for like seven years. Let me look this up.
Five years. Seasons two through six. This complete nonsense. Although, surely this pregnancy episode was from a later season. Well, it was season six. The final season when they were number one.
Anyway, it’s a shame about Malcolm-Jamal Warner. The character was loosely based on Bill Cosby’s own son, who died, whatever, 30 years ago. And Cosby gave an interview after the death of Malcolm-Jamal Warner saying that it was like losing his son again.
But the Ideas Man? Can’t even pretend to care. Sorry, Malcolm, you were born the wrong colour to get a death re-tweet by Newt.
did newt tweet about the murder of Charlie Kirk?
Surprisingly, no.