mandabach: they talked about parenting.vision the kids were cool and the parents were idiots. and then cosby says the parents are in charge and that was something new. instead of acting disappointed because i'm not like you, maybe you can just accept who i am and love me anyway because i'm your son. that's the dumbest thing i've ever heard in my life! shales: you know, it helps, the casting of anything helps a lot in television. and the kids were just great. if you were the last person on this earth, i still wouldn't tell you. you don't have to tell me what you did. just tell me what they're gonna do to you. graham: unlike every other show on tv, it's showing an upper-middle-class black family. this wasn't "all in the family." they weren't tackling, you know, deep issues. but that was okay. the mere fact that they existed was a deep issue. mandabach: the decade was waiting for something real. in other words, unless it's real it doesn't seem like it moves anybody. if someone's feeling something, you get to the heart, you get