The Cosby Show (1984–1992): Season 7, Episode 17 - 27 and Still Cooking - full transcript
It is Cliff & Clair's 27th wedding anniversary. He plans to recreate the Caribbean restaurant where they dined on their honeymoon, in their home. He hires a band, chef, and decorations for atmosphere. The day arrives - and Cliff is sick.
♪♪
Okay, so, Ted, I can count
on you and your musicians
to be here Saturday
at 5:00, on time.
Thank you. All right.
Got it all together!
♪♪
Wow, wow, what?
♪♪
♪♪
Oh, man. Okay, okay.
Hey, Dad, I have to
ask you a question. Huh?
Have you and Mom figured out what
you're gonna do for your anniversary?
We certainly have.
We certainly have.
We're going to spend the time with
each other going back to the old days.
You see, a long, long time ago,
Mrs. Huxtable and
I, on our honeymoon,
went to a clean but shabby little
restaurant called the Callaloo Pot.
You mean, you're taking her
back to a shabby little restaurant?
The Callaloo Pot closed
a long, long time ago.
I'm going to bring
the Callaloo Pot here,
along with a live calypso band.
How are you gonna do that?
Well, I called the
restaurant association,
and I found the
name of the cook.
He said he'd be more than happy
to come to the house and cook.
The band is coming over.
And there you have it.
I got it. But since you're gonna
provide the food and the music,
let's say we provide
the atmosphere.
You can do that, and
I'll tell you exactly how.
By clearing out.
No, Dad. Dad, listen.
You don't understand.
I'm serious. Listen.
No, I'm serious, too.
Dad, we can redecorate the dining
room to make it look like the Callaloo Pot.
Right. Right. I got the beat.
I grew up with West
Indians my whole life.
Please, Dad? Come on. Please?
No! No, no. Because you all,
the first thing you will do
is, you all will start a project
and leave something
hanging in the middle.
No, Dad. Dad, listen.
That's the way you do things.
No. You've said that to me.
I've been suckered into this many,
many times. No, Dad, this is different.
This will be our
gift to you and Mom.
Yes. I've seen and
heard these gifts.
Dad... Dad, not only
will we deliver to you
a quality Callaloo Pot,
we will do it
complete and on time
using very little money.
Come on.
Okay. You know what?
Look, upstairs,
I have a picture of
your mother and me
in that restaurant.
I'll let you have the picture.
You try to duplicate it.
We'll make this a perfect
anniversary dinner.
You got it. Cool! All right!
Callaloo! This
is not just for me.
This is for your mother.
We got it. We got it.
Ah-haah!
My anniversary bride!
Happy anniversary, dear!
I'm very sorry, sir, but
I'm already married...
to a very well-established
shelf of law books.
Go on out and make
sure you keep going,
and don't come back
here until after work.
Don't dare try
to circle the block
and come back here and
see what I'm preparing for you.
You are the best. You are the sweetest
and the cutest, too. You better believe it.
Thank you so much.
Now give me a hint.
I've been... I've
been hiding this,
but I have... I'm
covering these walls
with blowups of you
when you were a baby.
And then, for entertainment,
I'm going to tell them your age.
Now, that's enough
now. That's enough.
Yes. And then... No,
that's enough now.
That's quite all right. Thank
you very much. But there's more.
You asked to find out.
Hello and good-bye.
It's going to be
a wonderful day.
I know everything
I need to know.
Dad!
Look at this!
I paid nothin' for this!
Let me show you this.
Look at this. What do you think?
I spent a week collecting
decorations for tonight.
I call it my, uh,
"tropics in a drum."
Dad, don't you get it? Your
son rose to the challenge.
The task: to find,
in New York City,
authentic Caribbean objects.
All right. Let me show
you what I'm talking about.
Yes! Look at this.
Look at this. There you go. See?
On loan from Seaside Pizzeria.
Later on, my quest led me
over to the Boathouse
in Central Park,
where the kid negotiated this.
Guess what? I got it for free!
Let me show you what else I got.
I went over to
the flower district,
and I picked over
some leftovers.
Aaahhh! Now, don't worry
about the brown parts.
I'm gonna cut those off.
Hey, Dad. Dad!
Mr. Atkins, how are you, sir?
Dr. Huxtable? Yes, yes, yes.
Good to see you after 27 years.
Yes. Too bad I
didn't know you then.
Well, I know your cooking.
And you just come right
on... And this is the kitchen.
Uh, well, good
customers is like spices.
They're many and varied.
But without them,
you're out of business.
Yes, indeed. Well,
here it is. Here it is.
Aaahhhh! What do you think?
What a beautiful place
to create! Good. Yes.
Ah, the sauces, the aromas.
Yeah. The succulent
juices that will flow from here.
Yes, indeed. Yes.
Okay.
Uh, no microwave?
Uh, no. No, we don't have one.
Desirable but not
crucial. All right, okay.
Okay. Now, let us talk
about the menu. Yes!
Then I shall go shop. Yes!
First, I want you to fix,
for me and my
wife, conch fritters.
Ah, yes. Conch fritters.
Conch, Yes.
The most delectable... Yes!
But no longer
fashionable of shellfish.
But if you must, I
could puree the conch
with a colorful array
of spring vegetables
and blacken them
in Cajun spices.
I don't think so.
I'm... I'm talking
about conch fritters
that you would take and-and-and
roll the conch in the filler,
and then dip them into the
grease and-and fritterize them!
Please. Now, what did you have
in mind for the second course?
Callaloo soup.
Callaloo. Callaloo.
Callaloo. Callaloo.
We'll need some
dasheen bush, Huh?
Okra, coconut water,
uh, pesto sauce... Pesto sauce?
And a dollop of fresh
raspberry tofu mousse.
Don't write that down.
I think you and I are having
a communications problem.
I want the food that you cooked
at the Callaloo
Pot 27 years ago.
You mean, 27 years ago, when
you had, uh, uh, uh, salt fish and aki.
Hah! Now you're talking!
Jerk chicken and,
uh, mountain goat.
I don't do that no more.
You don't do that no more?
No, Doctor.
That is like asking
Michelangelo to paint the floor,
Christopher Columbus to
drive the Staten Island Ferry!
Those people are dead!
I'm asking you
to give me simple Caribbean food
that my wife and
I enjoyed twe...
Twenty-seven years ago.
There you go. Now...
Dr. Huxtable, you
can't go home again.
I'm already home!
Well, I'm on my way to my home.
You can threaten the stove,
but you can't threaten me.
The contract is... is broken.
I hope you don't expect
me to give you any money.
Well, Dr. Huxtable,
I feel the breeze of
compromise blowing us together.
Oh. Good afternoon,
Dr. Huxtable.
You're the musicians.
Yes, we are.
Well, yeah. Nice to mee...
Um, you fellas are, uh, early.
Yes, we are. We had
many subways to take, Yes.
And we wanted to make
sure we have plenty of time.
Yeah, but you're
two hours early.
Well, that's plenty of time.
You want us to wait
outside? No, no, no, no.
You don't have to do that.
Make yourselves comfortable.
Olivia, this is Ted
and the Trinidadians.
Say hello. Hello.
Hello. I'll be with
you in a minute.
Take your coats off.
How we doin', Mr. Atkins?
Oh, I'm doing extremely well,
considering the creative constraints.
Of course, knowing you'll pay me in
cash provides additional motivation.
Yes. Well, I just hope that we're
singing the same Caribbean tune.
Uh, we are. Yes.
We are in perfect
harmony, Doctor.
Are we, Mr. Atkins?
Are we? Mm-hmm.
Tofu? Yes, tofu.
I use it as garnish. Yeah.
Off-white goes with everything.
You won't... You'll
never taste it.
We had an agreement, Mr. Atkins.
And we still do, sir. Mmm.
In fact, I take it as
a personal challenge
to make old food blossom.
Look, I want you
to cook the food
that tastes like the
food my wife and I had
at the Callaloo Pot twenty...
Twenty-seven years ago.
Well, if you can remember the year,
why can't you remember the recipe?
Please, tofu-less.
Tofu-less. Please.
♪♪ Aah!
♪♪
Oh, oh, fellas, uh, uh...
Take, uh... take
five, will you? ♪♪
I always wanted to say that.
You said it... You
said it good, Dad.
That sounds great.
Happy anniversary.
It's from Sondra and me.
Thank you. Thank you, son. Yeah.
Really appreciate it.
Dad, you don't look good.
Your eyes are... Your eyes
are red and puffy. Yeah.
You've got... You've
got swollen glands. Okay.
Yeah? Uh, look.
More importantly,
do me a favor, man.
What? I got a chef
in the kitchen, who I...
He cooked for us
27 years ago. Mmm.
You know Caribbean
food. I grew up on it.
Keep an eye on this man.
He wants to put tofu in my food.
I don't know... And
what else, you know?
But he keeps talking about
things blossoming, and...
You want me to watch him. Yeah.
Don't worry about it. I got it.
Thank you. Keep an eye on him.
Okay. It sounds great, guys.
♪♪
Hey, fellas! Don't...
Why don't you save
that for the evening?
No.
Yeah, well, I'm not
paying you by the hour.
Callaloo! That smells fantastic.
What did you say
was in there? I didn't.
But I will.
Dasheen bush, okra,
coconut water, mirabelles.
Sounds great.
Mr. Atkins, was... was that...
Was that tofu you put in there?
Yes. Tofu.
Tofu. Tofu and callaloo.
That's... That's
interesting, because I-I...
I've never... I've never had that
myself, but, you know, it could be good.
It could be quite
good, actually.
That's, uh...
That's a good idea.
It smells great.
What is that, a kiwi?
Yes. A kiwi.
You're going to put a
kiwi in the callaloo? Yes.
The whole... The whole
thing, sir, with the fur?
It's the best part.
Who knows? I mean,
that... that could work.
I mean, kiwi and... Kiwi
and callaloo, that's...
You know, I've never
had it, but, then again, it's,
you know, a limited experience.
It could be right.
What was that?
Hmm? Oh, it's garbage.
Elvin, you don't have to pick.
There'll be ample to
sample when I'm done.
Ah, the Callaloo Pot...
Just as I remember it.
So full of atmosphere,
so empty of customers.
How's everything going?
Dr. Huxtable,
my callaloo.
Smells like it.
Looks like it.
Callaloo.
Callaloo.
Callaloo. Callaloo.
Callaloo. Callaloo!
Callaloo. Callaloo.
Callaloo. Callaloo!
Callaloo! Callaloo.
Callaloo!
Callaloo.
♪ Callelujah ♪
Fellas, do me a favor.
Mrs. Huxtable's coming
in about 15 or 20 minutes.
I want you to take everything
over to the Callaloo Pot now.
Can you do that? Yes.
Okay.
Wait for me.
What I will do is, I
will then signal you,
and then you will start to play.
Can you do that?
♪ So I'll go where
water meets the land ♪
♪ Till the sun
sets in the sand ♪
One more time.
♪ The sun sets in the sand ♪
Hello, gentlemen.
I'm Mrs. Huxtable.
Oh!
He didn't give us the signal.
What? It's not our fault.
He never gave us the signal.
It is not our fault. Not our fault.
Cliff! Cliff!
You booked this gig.
You booked this gig.
Cliff!
Cliff.
Oh, honey.
Look at you!
Oh, sweetheart,
you're all... I'm sorry.
Hot and clammy. I'm sorry.
Oh, don't be sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. Oh!
And the children...
The children worked so hard
to... fix up the dining room for you.
It looks... It looks just like
the Calla... Callaloo Pot.
I'm sorry, honey.
Happy anniversary.
Yes. To you, too.
My skin hurts. Oh.
Thank you.
I would say something
louder, but my head'll fall apart.
Okay.
♪♪
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Closed-Captioned By J.R.
Media Services, Inc. Burbank, CA
Okay, so, Ted, I can count
on you and your musicians
to be here Saturday
at 5:00, on time.
Thank you. All right.
Got it all together!
♪♪
Wow, wow, what?
♪♪
♪♪
Oh, man. Okay, okay.
Hey, Dad, I have to
ask you a question. Huh?
Have you and Mom figured out what
you're gonna do for your anniversary?
We certainly have.
We certainly have.
We're going to spend the time with
each other going back to the old days.
You see, a long, long time ago,
Mrs. Huxtable and
I, on our honeymoon,
went to a clean but shabby little
restaurant called the Callaloo Pot.
You mean, you're taking her
back to a shabby little restaurant?
The Callaloo Pot closed
a long, long time ago.
I'm going to bring
the Callaloo Pot here,
along with a live calypso band.
How are you gonna do that?
Well, I called the
restaurant association,
and I found the
name of the cook.
He said he'd be more than happy
to come to the house and cook.
The band is coming over.
And there you have it.
I got it. But since you're gonna
provide the food and the music,
let's say we provide
the atmosphere.
You can do that, and
I'll tell you exactly how.
By clearing out.
No, Dad. Dad, listen.
You don't understand.
I'm serious. Listen.
No, I'm serious, too.
Dad, we can redecorate the dining
room to make it look like the Callaloo Pot.
Right. Right. I got the beat.
I grew up with West
Indians my whole life.
Please, Dad? Come on. Please?
No! No, no. Because you all,
the first thing you will do
is, you all will start a project
and leave something
hanging in the middle.
No, Dad. Dad, listen.
That's the way you do things.
No. You've said that to me.
I've been suckered into this many,
many times. No, Dad, this is different.
This will be our
gift to you and Mom.
Yes. I've seen and
heard these gifts.
Dad... Dad, not only
will we deliver to you
a quality Callaloo Pot,
we will do it
complete and on time
using very little money.
Come on.
Okay. You know what?
Look, upstairs,
I have a picture of
your mother and me
in that restaurant.
I'll let you have the picture.
You try to duplicate it.
We'll make this a perfect
anniversary dinner.
You got it. Cool! All right!
Callaloo! This
is not just for me.
This is for your mother.
We got it. We got it.
Ah-haah!
My anniversary bride!
Happy anniversary, dear!
I'm very sorry, sir, but
I'm already married...
to a very well-established
shelf of law books.
Go on out and make
sure you keep going,
and don't come back
here until after work.
Don't dare try
to circle the block
and come back here and
see what I'm preparing for you.
You are the best. You are the sweetest
and the cutest, too. You better believe it.
Thank you so much.
Now give me a hint.
I've been... I've
been hiding this,
but I have... I'm
covering these walls
with blowups of you
when you were a baby.
And then, for entertainment,
I'm going to tell them your age.
Now, that's enough
now. That's enough.
Yes. And then... No,
that's enough now.
That's quite all right. Thank
you very much. But there's more.
You asked to find out.
Hello and good-bye.
It's going to be
a wonderful day.
I know everything
I need to know.
Dad!
Look at this!
I paid nothin' for this!
Let me show you this.
Look at this. What do you think?
I spent a week collecting
decorations for tonight.
I call it my, uh,
"tropics in a drum."
Dad, don't you get it? Your
son rose to the challenge.
The task: to find,
in New York City,
authentic Caribbean objects.
All right. Let me show
you what I'm talking about.
Yes! Look at this.
Look at this. There you go. See?
On loan from Seaside Pizzeria.
Later on, my quest led me
over to the Boathouse
in Central Park,
where the kid negotiated this.
Guess what? I got it for free!
Let me show you what else I got.
I went over to
the flower district,
and I picked over
some leftovers.
Aaahhh! Now, don't worry
about the brown parts.
I'm gonna cut those off.
Hey, Dad. Dad!
Mr. Atkins, how are you, sir?
Dr. Huxtable? Yes, yes, yes.
Good to see you after 27 years.
Yes. Too bad I
didn't know you then.
Well, I know your cooking.
And you just come right
on... And this is the kitchen.
Uh, well, good
customers is like spices.
They're many and varied.
But without them,
you're out of business.
Yes, indeed. Well,
here it is. Here it is.
Aaahhhh! What do you think?
What a beautiful place
to create! Good. Yes.
Ah, the sauces, the aromas.
Yeah. The succulent
juices that will flow from here.
Yes, indeed. Yes.
Okay.
Uh, no microwave?
Uh, no. No, we don't have one.
Desirable but not
crucial. All right, okay.
Okay. Now, let us talk
about the menu. Yes!
Then I shall go shop. Yes!
First, I want you to fix,
for me and my
wife, conch fritters.
Ah, yes. Conch fritters.
Conch, Yes.
The most delectable... Yes!
But no longer
fashionable of shellfish.
But if you must, I
could puree the conch
with a colorful array
of spring vegetables
and blacken them
in Cajun spices.
I don't think so.
I'm... I'm talking
about conch fritters
that you would take and-and-and
roll the conch in the filler,
and then dip them into the
grease and-and fritterize them!
Please. Now, what did you have
in mind for the second course?
Callaloo soup.
Callaloo. Callaloo.
Callaloo. Callaloo.
We'll need some
dasheen bush, Huh?
Okra, coconut water,
uh, pesto sauce... Pesto sauce?
And a dollop of fresh
raspberry tofu mousse.
Don't write that down.
I think you and I are having
a communications problem.
I want the food that you cooked
at the Callaloo
Pot 27 years ago.
You mean, 27 years ago, when
you had, uh, uh, uh, salt fish and aki.
Hah! Now you're talking!
Jerk chicken and,
uh, mountain goat.
I don't do that no more.
You don't do that no more?
No, Doctor.
That is like asking
Michelangelo to paint the floor,
Christopher Columbus to
drive the Staten Island Ferry!
Those people are dead!
I'm asking you
to give me simple Caribbean food
that my wife and
I enjoyed twe...
Twenty-seven years ago.
There you go. Now...
Dr. Huxtable, you
can't go home again.
I'm already home!
Well, I'm on my way to my home.
You can threaten the stove,
but you can't threaten me.
The contract is... is broken.
I hope you don't expect
me to give you any money.
Well, Dr. Huxtable,
I feel the breeze of
compromise blowing us together.
Oh. Good afternoon,
Dr. Huxtable.
You're the musicians.
Yes, we are.
Well, yeah. Nice to mee...
Um, you fellas are, uh, early.
Yes, we are. We had
many subways to take, Yes.
And we wanted to make
sure we have plenty of time.
Yeah, but you're
two hours early.
Well, that's plenty of time.
You want us to wait
outside? No, no, no, no.
You don't have to do that.
Make yourselves comfortable.
Olivia, this is Ted
and the Trinidadians.
Say hello. Hello.
Hello. I'll be with
you in a minute.
Take your coats off.
How we doin', Mr. Atkins?
Oh, I'm doing extremely well,
considering the creative constraints.
Of course, knowing you'll pay me in
cash provides additional motivation.
Yes. Well, I just hope that we're
singing the same Caribbean tune.
Uh, we are. Yes.
We are in perfect
harmony, Doctor.
Are we, Mr. Atkins?
Are we? Mm-hmm.
Tofu? Yes, tofu.
I use it as garnish. Yeah.
Off-white goes with everything.
You won't... You'll
never taste it.
We had an agreement, Mr. Atkins.
And we still do, sir. Mmm.
In fact, I take it as
a personal challenge
to make old food blossom.
Look, I want you
to cook the food
that tastes like the
food my wife and I had
at the Callaloo Pot twenty...
Twenty-seven years ago.
Well, if you can remember the year,
why can't you remember the recipe?
Please, tofu-less.
Tofu-less. Please.
♪♪ Aah!
♪♪
Oh, oh, fellas, uh, uh...
Take, uh... take
five, will you? ♪♪
I always wanted to say that.
You said it... You
said it good, Dad.
That sounds great.
Happy anniversary.
It's from Sondra and me.
Thank you. Thank you, son. Yeah.
Really appreciate it.
Dad, you don't look good.
Your eyes are... Your eyes
are red and puffy. Yeah.
You've got... You've
got swollen glands. Okay.
Yeah? Uh, look.
More importantly,
do me a favor, man.
What? I got a chef
in the kitchen, who I...
He cooked for us
27 years ago. Mmm.
You know Caribbean
food. I grew up on it.
Keep an eye on this man.
He wants to put tofu in my food.
I don't know... And
what else, you know?
But he keeps talking about
things blossoming, and...
You want me to watch him. Yeah.
Don't worry about it. I got it.
Thank you. Keep an eye on him.
Okay. It sounds great, guys.
♪♪
Hey, fellas! Don't...
Why don't you save
that for the evening?
No.
Yeah, well, I'm not
paying you by the hour.
Callaloo! That smells fantastic.
What did you say
was in there? I didn't.
But I will.
Dasheen bush, okra,
coconut water, mirabelles.
Sounds great.
Mr. Atkins, was... was that...
Was that tofu you put in there?
Yes. Tofu.
Tofu. Tofu and callaloo.
That's... That's
interesting, because I-I...
I've never... I've never had that
myself, but, you know, it could be good.
It could be quite
good, actually.
That's, uh...
That's a good idea.
It smells great.
What is that, a kiwi?
Yes. A kiwi.
You're going to put a
kiwi in the callaloo? Yes.
The whole... The whole
thing, sir, with the fur?
It's the best part.
Who knows? I mean,
that... that could work.
I mean, kiwi and... Kiwi
and callaloo, that's...
You know, I've never
had it, but, then again, it's,
you know, a limited experience.
It could be right.
What was that?
Hmm? Oh, it's garbage.
Elvin, you don't have to pick.
There'll be ample to
sample when I'm done.
Ah, the Callaloo Pot...
Just as I remember it.
So full of atmosphere,
so empty of customers.
How's everything going?
Dr. Huxtable,
my callaloo.
Smells like it.
Looks like it.
Callaloo.
Callaloo.
Callaloo. Callaloo.
Callaloo. Callaloo!
Callaloo. Callaloo.
Callaloo. Callaloo!
Callaloo! Callaloo.
Callaloo!
Callaloo.
♪ Callelujah ♪
Fellas, do me a favor.
Mrs. Huxtable's coming
in about 15 or 20 minutes.
I want you to take everything
over to the Callaloo Pot now.
Can you do that? Yes.
Okay.
Wait for me.
What I will do is, I
will then signal you,
and then you will start to play.
Can you do that?
♪ So I'll go where
water meets the land ♪
♪ Till the sun
sets in the sand ♪
One more time.
♪ The sun sets in the sand ♪
Hello, gentlemen.
I'm Mrs. Huxtable.
Oh!
He didn't give us the signal.
What? It's not our fault.
He never gave us the signal.
It is not our fault. Not our fault.
Cliff! Cliff!
You booked this gig.
You booked this gig.
Cliff!
Cliff.
Oh, honey.
Look at you!
Oh, sweetheart,
you're all... I'm sorry.
Hot and clammy. I'm sorry.
Oh, don't be sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. Oh!
And the children...
The children worked so hard
to... fix up the dining room for you.
It looks... It looks just like
the Calla... Callaloo Pot.
I'm sorry, honey.
Happy anniversary.
Yes. To you, too.
My skin hurts. Oh.
Thank you.
I would say something
louder, but my head'll fall apart.
Okay.
♪♪
♪♪
Closed-Captioned By J.R.
Media Services, Inc. Burbank, CA