Madeline Kahn
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Series
Cosby volume 9
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English
Description
When Griffin tries to back out of a lucrative out-of-state concert gig because of a flying phobia, Hilton vows that he will get Griffin on the plane no matter what it takes.
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Series
Cosby volume 15
Language
English
Description
Despite Ruth's insistence that family and friends should never work together, Hilton goes to work for Griffin, narrating children's stories. He just can't refuse the temptation for some creative rewriting, and Hilton puts his own spin on some classic kids' tales. Will he have his poetic license revoked?
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Series
Cosby volume 1
Language
English
Description
Hilton has a nightmare that he's been fired from the airline, and his wife Ruth reminds him that it already happened to him three weeks ago along with 10,000 others. Ruth tells her friend Pauline that it's tough having Hilton around the house all day - he's trying to fix things that aren't broken.
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Series
Cosby volume 19
Language
English
Description
Pauline tries her hand at playwriting for a course she's taking at the community center. Following Hilton's advice about writing something "real," she turns out a thinly-disguised comedy about the Lucas family.
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Series
Cosby volume 15
Language
English
Description
Hilton tries to help save his friend Bradshaw's failing mattress and bedding business.
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Series
Cosby volume 5
Language
English
Description
The antique shop where Hilton works has a secret hiding behind a locked door, and the cops want him to help them in a raid of the premises.
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Series
Cosby volume 22
Language
English
Description
When Ruth and Hilton have a major fight, they assess the changes in their lives.
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Series
Cosby volume 14
Language
English
Description
Pauline and Erica want to take Ruth to a spa for a weekend of pampering while the café is closed for maintenance. While they are away, Hilton is in charge of the coffee shop. Carla, the chaperone of a Brazilian girls' choir, offers Hilton $500 to rent the café for a private party for the college seniors. Hilton hesitates, but the money is too enticing to resist.
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Series
Cosby volume 19
Language
English
Description
As a 30th anniversary gift, Hilton tries to give Ruth the wedding she always wanted.
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Series
Cosby volume 11
Language
English
Description
Hilton goes to school to become a security guard, and when Pauline sees him with his graduating class, she swears she'll never feel safe again. She urges Ruth to stop Hilton before he hurts himself or someone else.
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Series
Cosby volume 7
Language
English
Description
Hilton tries to help Pauline's financially irresponsible goddaughter but ends up the recipient of an overly generous ATM.
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Series
Cosby volume 2
Language
English
Description
By chance, Hilton brings Erica's freshly baked chocolate chip cookies to the struggling flower shop for Ruth and Pauline to enjoy when, just as he's setting out the coffee, strangers ask to buy the goodies. This gives Hilton an idea and he invests in a fancy espresso machine, forces Erica to wake-up in the middle of the night to bake cookies and turns the flower shop into the Flower Café.
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Series
Cosby volume 22
Language
English
Description
Ruth's high school friend, now a pop star, visits during a singing tour and gives Ruth the chance to sing with her old group.
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Series
Cosby volume 20
Language
English
Description
Erica and her cat Sherman moves back in with Hilton and Ruth. Meanwhile, a discarded positive pregnancy test has everyone jumping to conclusions.
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Series
Cosby volume 2
Language
English
Description
Hilton feels cheated that his company laid him off without even a goodbye party, but Ruth tells him he's being childish.
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Series
Cosby volume 4
Language
English
Description
When Griffin's non-stop eating starts to get on Hilton's nerves, and Hilton's non-stop opinion-giving begins to get to Griffin, the two challenge each other to a 24-hour contest to see which man has more self-control.
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Series
Cosby volume 23
Language
English
Description
Pauline's boyfriend leaves her for a 26-year-old aerobics instructor. She's so depressed that Ruth decides to set her up on a blind date with Richard, her Spanish instructor.
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Series
Cosby volume 20
Language
English
Description
It's April 15th and Hilton hasn't even started working on his taxes, a fact he wants to make sure Ruth doesn't discover.
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Series
Cosby volume 21
Language
English
Description
Ruth has some issues with Hilton that need to be resolved, so they go to a group therapy session that includes some of Hilton's former co-workers from the airline. At the end of the session, the group gathers at a nearby pub where Hilton advises Ron, who's having both work and marital problems, to demand a raise and stand up to his wife.
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Series
Cosby volume 24
Language
English
Description
Erica brings Julius, her boyfriend of three months and star of a kids' TV program, home to meet Hilton and Ruth; Hilton is unimpressed and gives Julius a hard time. Hilton goes with Erica to watch Julius' program and inadvertently becomes part of the show.