With the theme song kindly provided by none other than BOOTSY COLLINS.... Man, put this on and I'm staying PUT.
Between Fat Albert, the vinyl records of Cosby's stand-up routines (including the ones that led to the creation of the cartoon) that I played to death and still have, and his TV appearances on everything from The Electric Company to his own Cosby Show, the man was a gigantic part of my childhood and adolescence.
Was the animation itself groundbreaking art? No. Was the content and structure? Absolutely.
"If you're not careful, you just might learn something" has been part of my vocabulary for nearly 40 years now.
I was rather inordinately content to be living around the corner from Cosby Ave when I had my dinky little offcampus apartment in Amherst MA, named for one of UMass's funniest alumni -- and not an honorary degree. He earned his doctorate in education there in the mid-70s; his dissertation included using Fat Albert as a teaching tool.
YYYEEEESSSSSSSSS
Between Fat Albert, the vinyl records of Cosby's stand-up routines (including the ones that led to the creation of the cartoon) that I played to death and still have, and his TV appearances on everything from The Electric Company to his own Cosby Show, the man was a gigantic part of my childhood and adolescence.
Was the animation itself groundbreaking art? No.
Was the content and structure? Absolutely.
"If you're not careful, you just might learn something" has been part of my vocabulary for nearly 40 years now.
I was rather inordinately content to be living around the corner from Cosby Ave when I had my dinky little offcampus apartment in Amherst MA, named for one of UMass's funniest alumni -- and not an honorary degree. He earned his doctorate in education there in the mid-70s; his dissertation included using Fat Albert as a teaching tool.
Na na na gonna have a good time....