Funny thing about Cosby Show. It premiered in Gimme A Break's old time slot.

Another reason why they changed the show was that NBC didn't want to a show about a black housekeeper on the same network as the Cosby Show.
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Funny thing: Rosetta Lenoire, who played Nell's mother, died a year before Nell Carter did.

Are you sure about this? It could be that the episodes aired were not the order they shot them in. In fact, on this board there is a subject of the taping dates for the episodes. You will see that the order of the shows when they taped them doesn't match the same order they aired in. For example, the next to last episode of the final season was actually filmed very early in the season.

Speaking of Rosie, I'm watching season 6 right now where she just introduced her character to Nell and the boys in Episode 13. But I just saw her in earlier episodes of season 6like episode 12 and a few others. Why was this filmed out of sync?
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Interestingly, Rosie O'Donnell does a handful of episodes in the last season as Nell & Addy's neighbor. But yes, even she is upstaged by Rosetta LaNoire as Nell's mom.
In fact, I was thinking the writers were going to eventually pair up Grandpa with Nell's mom. But I guess an interracial romance between elderly folks was something a wholesome 80s sitcom could not bring itself to do.

I just discovered this series a couple of months ago and I agree, the only good thing about the last season was Nell's mom.
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Well, they had Addy accept a teaching position in New York and Nell decided to go with her, taking Joey with her. I think they just decided to change the show and since the girls were all grown up anyway, it wasn't a problem. Katie moved to San Fransico to work as a buyer, Julie, Jonathan and their daugther moved to a place off campus, and Sam went to college in Jersey.

They should never have moved the show to NYC. Like there aren't enough sitcoms that take place there? Anyway, the final season no longer had the Chief, Simpson, the daughters, just Nell, Addy, Joey, and Grandpa, with new characters. It wasn't the same and the one hour Sam Goes to College should've been the series finale.

TV-One has the last season episodes on now, its just weird to see where this show came from to this last season iteration. The changes were immediate and abit drastic. Joey was clearly getting too old. Also for some odd reason they turned Nell into a real moron. Like initially she was always right just abit abrasive, but in the final season they made her a well meaning dummy. That just isnt her character at all.
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Yeah, the Lawrence kids - who weren't bad child actors - didn't really mesh with the show. Joey starts out all right, but by the final year it's all about them and the writers were out of ideas anyhow
Other shows managed to survive without lead characters, but without the chief "Gimme a Break" just didn't work.

What happened was the producers decided to change the show because the girls were growing up, plus, the actresses' contracts were up (usually they run five years). I think doing this hurt the show because now it wasn't about Nell being a housekeeper and mother to a widower's daughters.

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The last season is rather strange , you can see that Nell was not enjoying it as much either ,she was as good as usual but if you look closely there is something missing. I dont mind Joey , I loved the character since season 3 and he had a great chemistry with Nell but adding his little brother to the mix was a bit much and it spoiled that special relationship he had with Nell , the younger brother was absolutely unnecessary.Rosie O' Donell was not very good and she had absolutely zero chemistry with Nell , it feels like they did not like each other very much.None of the new characters were interesting or endearing and the move to New York really changed the vibe of the show and not for the best.
Love season one to five but season six is hard to watch all the way through without squirming a few times.

No, Sam, the youngest, went to college. Julie was in college, married, and now a mother.

Yes, she owned a boutique but it closed due to poor business. However, a buyer in San Fransico offered her work so she moved there.

Yes, she tried to but wasn't able to. Then she tried camping outside his hotel room to wait for him to come back but she fell asleep. He saw her there and put his jacket around her. When she woke up, Nell just happened to be there and thought she slept with Andy and rushed her home. The Chief found out she was out and had Andy arrested but everything got cleared up in the end.

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Equally implausible and lame.
It was Katie or Julie. Then the Chief arrests Andy Gibb and his band.

That sounds as lame as the episode of The Cosby Show were the Huxtables sing with Stevie Wonder in a recording studio.
Did Julie sneak backstage or into a studio to meet Andy Gibb on one of the episodes?

I seem to remeber an implausible episode where Matthew gets separated from Joey and everybody is freaking out. Turns out he wandered into a Steeley Dan-esque rock band's rehearsal space and starts jamming with them. COME ON!

I agree about the Lawrence brothers being so annoying. I could not stand their mushroom haircuts. Didn't Katie work in or own a store that closed?