The Cosby Show Mystery
Last night I was laying in bed half asleep when I realized I was thinking about The Cosby Show. I have no idea why. Apparently reruns are running on Nike @ Nite, but I haven’t seen any of them. I haven’t seen the show since it was on regular television. Yet this is the stuff I think about as I’m drifting off to sleep.
What was really bothering me was the stairs that lead in to the kitchen in the Cosby house. Do you remember all the scenes in the kitchen and their is a back stairway that leads upstairs? (1) Why do they need those backstairs? They have the big stairs in the living room. They lived in a townhouse in Manhattan. It’s not like it was a 5,000 square foot house that called for multiple stairs. And (2) where did those stairs come out at upstairs. We saw quite a few scenes in the hallway upstairs and I don’t remember any stairs other then ones from the living room. Do you?
So today after church I scoured the internet to see if I could find a floorplan of the Cosby house, but all I found was a picture of the outside of the house. So this does not answer my questions about these stairs? Does anybody know? What’s up with the kitchen stairs?
Yes, I’m a loser. But I can’t help it when these things pop in to my head and bug me until I find an answer. Don’t make me write a letter to the show or NBC execs or something.



Sorry, can’t answer your question but it reminded me that I have always wanted a spiral staircase like the one going into the kitchen on Different Strokes!
This has opened up a whole new can of worms. Not only did the Huxtables have these mysterious kitchen stairs, but so did the Drummonds, and the Seavers, and that family in the Nanny. Why did so many 80’s TV families have a second stairway in the kitchen? Do real people have a second stairway in their kitchen?