But it was Bill Cosby's vision that created Different World.

@@paulhester489 And?

@Thrifty DIY Design with Den that is so cool. I love your story. You are now inspiring others! 💕💚💕💚🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

@@rroberts7073 thank you!!

I read that Black college enrollment skyrocketed during that series.

The show was a hit with Lisa Bonet. Lisa Bonet is the reason the show was created. She deserves credit too.

Lisa Bonet wasn’t afforded the opportunity to work with Debbie Allen in this show. She’s the reason behind the whole idea of the show.

Lisa Bonet wasn’t afforded the opportunity to work with Debbie Allen in this show. She’s the reason behind the whole idea of the show.

1988 peoples choice award without debbie Allen, stop the bullshit. Season 1 was not bad at all.

She has an open seat at my table...

Entertainers are paid to be BiPolar. Sadly some people worship celebrity sociopaths...🙄

I met Norm at Lindbergh nutrition store in the 80’s when he was a Laker. Your experience vibes with me totally. They are genuine peeps and a class act.

@@dhahransdadwoods5193 he y'all AF! A dancer and a athlete. Smh

Yeah,when A Different World was on,I thought Jasmine Guy was one of the most GORGEOUS women on tv.Dawn Lewis & Gina Devereaux were FINE !!! Love me some chocolate-caramel sisters !!!! LOL.

Phylicia Rashad did not guest start until season 2 once Debbie Allen had taken over. Denise’s character was gone by then. Tempest Bledsoe was on that episode as well.

@@rerebrook5057 WRONG. Phylicia's first appearance was season 1 episode 19 with Denise. That episode was called "Clair's Last Stand". That is when she told Debbie to come help with the show. And actually she had a few episodes where she appeared with Denise. I've seen all episodes Phylicia appeared on. You might wanna do your research. 😊

The story goes Phylicia Rashad told Bill what was going on behind the scenes on set of A Different World, because there was chaos. She told him this is your legacy, you don't want your legacy to be broken, because the show was amuck. So Bill called Debbie and told her to get her broom. Debbie meet with Lisa, found out she was pregnant. Debbie said we gotta tell Bill. Debbie gave Bill many stories about how Denise's baby could be in the story. Bill said Lisa Bonet pregnant not Denise Huxtable. So Denise comes back to the Cosby Show [ what spin off series where the main character goes back to the original show and not on the spin off series?] Debbie brought in HBC flava- not having hotsauce on the tables.

@@1thetvzone It was Phylicia that actually told Debbie to come to the show...Bill and Debbie spoke after Phylicia convinced her to do it.

@@skmmmonae9323 That not what I heard, because Phylicia guest starred on A different World and went back to Bill. Bill called Debbie because this was Bill spin off series.

That's the word... "authenticity" I remember the 1st season in real time and were caught up in it by the wide range of blackness on TV but compared to the 2nd season on, the show really took off! Debbie Allen introduced Alot of social topics, real world issues on race, aids, single parenthood, sexual activity, voter registration, racial profiling etc. ADW spoke out and reached us on those Thursday nights!

Heather TEA, lots of my college friends LOVED the show in the first season and we felt the show was very relatable. Black doesn't just look one way. That's stereotypical.

@@renealexander2703 You're a hundred percent right that blackness isn't one way but that has nothing to do with what we're talking about. The problem with the first season was that it was just bland and lacking substance as well as not being authentic to what HBCU life was actually like. Hell half the time I would swear they were in high school not college. An Egg?.... Seriously? But when Debbie came in and Jasmine replaced Lisa as the lead the show really became hilarious and something special. It repped HBCUs so well that the enrollment numbers skyrocketed across the country.

@@kendallrivers1119 , not to me. The first season is my favorite. I don't think it's bland nor did it lack substance. HBCU life is also like the first season. There is no one way to be. It was special due to the first season.

I love this!

Same for Clark, Morris Brown Morehouse/Spelman. It was damn near surreal because many of the cut-in shots were filmed in the Atlanta University Center. Now that I think of it… it was fiction positively imitating our lived experience. Great point! BTW, I this Morehouse Man is proudly married to Brilliant, Bold and Beautiful Aggie! I love being a part of #AggiePrideNation

@@owenlawson8660 Hi...it certainly was a depiction of our lives. My cousin and few of my closest friend went to the Morehouse. Tell my aggie sister hello and AGGIE Pride. What year did she graduate? 💙💛

@@KarenHunterShow thanks Karen 😊

1994 Lisa.

I agree. Credit should be given to everyone, not just a few.

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Me too

Where ??? What station or streaming service ???

Karen what H.S. did you attend in the Chi?

I'm from the Chi...I graduated from Hyde Park Career Acad in 1987...where did you go to school?

I graduated from Kenwood Academy 85

I don't know your experience but as someone whose been to a PWI and known a few other folks of color who went there I wouldn't say it's a bad thing at all. Education is education and while HBCUs growth has been amazing it doesn't mean you're not black or not intuned with your blackness if you just didn't attend an HBCU. Doesn't make you a sell out or a bad person or whatever.

That use to be my show because of her 😅

Oh yeah, Jasmine was broke, nearly destitute! So I'm happy to hear she's getting work. She was my least favorite character on Different World, nevertheless my favorite show. Cosby was as complicated as any man but he really loved Black people and presented us in positive images, illuminating us as the beautiful, smart, charismatic, classy and dignified people that has always existed in our community. We know those characters actually exist in Black communities all over America. Yet those that do not know us, think that we're all functionally illiterate, ignorant, lazy, hypersexual, poor, thuggish, whorish and uncouth based on the nightly news, tv and movies that tell stories about us from a narrow lens. But Cosby knew that we are everyone shown on the Crosby and Different World.

Great point

I can see why he dint want to put in the show but it could have also been another thing they could have done to show how hard it is to be a unwed mom. It though sounds like even before that the producers disrespected Lisa bonet

So so so true!!!!!

dope!!! I love this story.

@@KarenHunterShow Thank you for all you do for the community!!! 👑

DontTripISaidIt, there are black people on white shows.

Same!! I could only watch The Cosby Show and ADW in my household.

Sonja Easley, why? Why the extreme reaction the first season?

Kim Bronson, the show was already popular with Lisa on the show.

@@renealexander2703 True. It did win a People's Choice Award.

It's my favorite as well.

It definitely wasn't!. At that time and place single parenthood was very taboo in the black community ( and still is to an extent). I can see Jasmine & Kadeem's take on Denise being a college student and a Mom and how that could have worked on the show (I went to college and high school with a few friends in that situation) but... It still wasn't condoned! Most of us looked at them like outcasts, thinking why would you make it any harder on yourself. Remember being a college student is more than books, it's the overall campus experience with friends and classmates, parties, going to ball games etc. It ain't as fun when you have to find a babysitter or try to get one of your friends on the yard to babysit so you can kick it for a minute but I digress

I said it.

agreed. Cosby was trying to dispell some of the 'negative' stereotypes about black families. if Denise wasn't tied to the Cosby Show and the idea of a family that he wanted us to see maybe she could have been the representation on a Different World. since Denise was pregnant in real life there was no real way to present that idea in the show without the media coming for Cosby for not using her as the representation. but the idea of morality and respectability, which is quite real in the black community , is lost in white media. i for one know too many black families with both parents who don't curse, whore around, who love and support each other, haven't gone to prison, and have ambition and drive to be something other than rappers and ball players. the Cosby show and a Different World helped inspire a generation of educated black women who are now entrepreneurs.

@@xoacatl All three of you are absolutely right. Kadeem and Jasmine sound painfully naive when they say putting Denise on the show pregnant would have been a good idea. I think the worst part is that it would have glamorized being an unwed teen mother. I don't know how any rational person could think that would have been right.

@@joeb267382 good point. It would have been a fine line to walk as far as a storyline about a single parent being in college on the show. Remember the episode with Theresa Randal playing a single mom (the Heavy D and The Boyz show) and Ron was really feeling her. She was interested too but knew that she had to look at the bigger picture what was best for them. I was hoping they would have brought her back to see how her and Ron would have worked but it was only a "one off" episode with her

Thank God they hired Lisa Bonet. Without her, the show would not exist and it would not be a hit.

@@renealexander2703 True, Lisa Bonet open the door, I like her and wish she had more success on ADW, but the show's success was because of the other cast members.

@@m.jackson2609 , no. The show's success was because of all the cast members, but especially Lisa Bonet. The show would not even exist without her.

The show spoke to me in the first season as well.

me too!

Yes! ESPECIALLY Phylicia!...I just love hearing her speak!

That would be great to see

Reading Is Freedom, the show was reflective of issues in the community in Season 1.

@@renealexander2703 what show were you watching? Lol. It wasn't reflective of any HBCU on Earth. Their biggest "issue" was Marissa Tomei taking care of an Egg lmao!

kendall rivers, that is not true. Every HBCU is not the same.

Coach Jon, they were serious in the first season as well. It's my favorite.

yes, they do!

I don’t want to seem like a broken record but I had to leave another comment because Jasmine said recently on the Breakfast Club that Cosby wanted to have Denise pregnant on the show and she also said it five years ago on Ed Lover’s show. I do seriously wonder about Jasmine and the way she thinks. Also, is she just completely clueless about Bill Cosby. I would have loved to hear how you would have responded if she had said Cosby wanted that on the show. That would have been great.