Fat Jordan and the Cosby Kids

Created and designed by Invoice Cosby, the long-running animated sequence Fat Jordan and the Cosby Children was depending on Cosby's traditional monologues about his childhood in Northern Chicago. Corpulent pre-teener Fat Jordan and his friends first showed up in animated form in the 1969 in the half-hour NBC special Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Jordan, designed by Cosby in organization with Filmation companies. It was Filmation who was given the task of transforming the exact real estate asset into a every week, half-hour Fun sequence, which designed its first overall look Sept 9, 1972 on CBS. Described as "lovable and jovial" in the studio's advertising bundle, Fat Jordan was "the proven leader" of a range of rambunctious dark kids living in a seedy but decent inner-city Chicago community. His friends involved Invoice (based on think who) pint-sized, ironic Russell (based on Cosby's real-life kid brother), windy braggart Rudy, laid-back Bucky stringy Old Strange Harold, affable oaf Foolish Brian, and of course Mushmouth, whose unusual conversation styles were the resource of spontaneity for many a younger beginner impressionist. Generally a good lot of children, Fat Albert's team did usually get into trouble every now and then, but always appeared prepared with a useful lifestyle class that would provide them well as they increased older. Your kids were also extremely creative and practical, as observe the series' every week musical technology figures, conducted on a wide range of equipment designed from removed pipe joints, heaters, bed supports, funnels and the like. Invoice Cosby himself showed up in the live-action wraparounds, attractive the audiences to have some fun--"and if you're not cautious, you might understand something." Cosby also jumped up during the activity of each show to underline the class that Fat Jordan and company had discovered or were about to understand. Though light-hearted in characteristics, the sequence was not reluctant to deal with such problems as stress from peers, relaxing, disloyality, road criminal activity, drug misuse, the loss of life of a family member, national and/or spiritual intolerance, learning problems, and even thinking about tv and overindulging in unhealthy food.

Commendably, there were a few problems left uncertain, with Cosby sagely monitoring that some problems take more than 30 minutes to fix. To maintain the quality, reliability and academic content of the programs, the manufacturers solicited the advice of ten popular specialists and philosophers from UCLA. In 1979, the sequence was temporarily retitled The New Fat Jordan Show. In those days, the kids started discussing air space with their preferred comic-book super hero The Darkish Hornet, another carryover from Cosby's standup act. Though globally praised by TV experts and the receiver of ratings of market prizes, Fat Jordan and the Cosby Children did not always get the high ratings it well deserved. Too, the system was adverse to bankrolling new periods each period, thinking that they'd collect as much benefit from reruns as from first-runs. As a result, although Fat Jordan stayed on CBS Saturday-AM routine for eight periods, only 60 periods were designed.

After its system termination on Aug 29, 1984, the sequence was packed for everyday, off-net submitting, with 50 new periods included to the reveal. This agreement allowed Invoice Cosby and the other manufacturers to deal with topic that had been considered too "rough" by the CBS censors, such as teenager maternity, alcohol addiction, and child abduction. The most unforgettable of the new periods was "Busted", motivated by the "Scared Straight" program whereby younger lawbreakers were basically frightened into reformation by a noisy and indecent list of solidified jail prisoners. The 50 additional show also presented a new personality, the Southern-accented "Legal Eagle", a farcical lawyer. Unfortunately, ratings for the distributed Fat Jordan were frustrating, despite generating two Emmy nominations. The entire 110-episode Fat Jordan program was grabbed for rerun play by both NBC and the USA wire system in 1989, while the 50 made-for-syndication payments were temporarily seen in 2000 on cable's Journey Route, the forerunner to the Characteristic Route. And in 2004, a live-action theatrical function edition of the exact real estate asset was launched, with Kenan Thompson of Kenan and Kel popularity as Fat Jordan.