A Patient Said She Made It UP — And The Cosby Show NEVER Broke Cliff Faster

Mrs. Minniefield is eating enormous amounts of calcium because her husband has weak bones and a poor handshake, and she has decided the baby needs topping up. She calls it genetic compensation. Cliff Huxtable asks where she read that. Her answer is the reason this scene exists. And it only gets worse from there, because Cliff still has to explain when she should call him: when the contractions are consistently eight minutes apart. She hears something different every single time, and every correction produces a new interpretation — every eight minutes, at eight o'clock, eight times a day. Watch a doctor with decades of experience run out of ways to phrase one sentence. Then watch what his own staff reveals he does after every one of her appointments. Earlier at the house, Rudy and Stanley are trying to build a piñata for a school project while Kenny turns up with a date and quietly settles an old score. The Cosby Show spent eight years perfecting the patient scene, and this is The Cosby Show delivering one of the last and best of them. Classic 80s comedy, vintage Bill Cosby reaction work, and a punchline about medical school that The Cosby Show saves for the final second. Watch more Huxtable family moments on this channel! Subscribe for more The Cosby Show clips every day! #TheCosbyShow #Sitcom #Huxtables #CliffHuxtable #80sTVMoments