Oh, the irony of this Fat Albert episode.
Rudy (Eric Suter) brings his friend, Dustin, around, and Dustin introduces the gang to "Soft Core" pornography. Considering what has happened to series creator-star-executive producer Bill Cosby in recent years, maybe he should've heeded the advice given in Bill Danch's script.......
Now, don't ya think Cosby could've been persuaded to spin Brown Hornet off into his own series? These features disrupt the flow of the main story, even though the object lessons do factor into said plot.
Rating: B.
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Interestingly, the Brown Hornet concept originated in Cosby's stand-up routine; there it was a direct parody of the Green Hornet, car and all. In fact, in an earlier episode of Fat Albert, the character is mentioned by Albert (with no accompanying visuals, however) as a specific Green Hornet parody. By the time the character made his way onto the show, he had morphed into a Buck Rogers type space hero; perhaps the producers felt in the post-Star Wars era that the Green Hornet concept wouldn't fly (no pun intended) with late 70's kids.
I forgot to mention that he also originally had a chauffeur named Leroy. Darn the lack of edit feature!
A lot of the content from the series came from Cosby's stand-up bits, though I'm still trying to find Legal Eagle, which replaced Brown Hornet for the final season....
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