This ‘Cosby Show’ episode with ‘Secret Sauce’ is the creepiest thing you will ever see on TV.
Needless to say, Bill Cosby had the worst year ever, with recent evidence only piling on to the embarassment. Just this week, it was revealed that Cosby himself admitted in a 2005 deposition that he gave a 19-year-old woman Quaaludes and had sex with her in 1976. Although Bill Cosby insists the sex was consensual, it was still a bombshell. In fact, one of Cosby’s diehard supporters questioned their loyalty to the comedian.
When things couldn’t get any worse for Cosby, it just did. Some Reddit users found what might be the most uncomfortable episode of The Cosby Show during its eight-season run. The Season Seven episode, titled “Last Barbecue,” involves Cliff’s special barbecue sauce… which, when ingested, makes the women on the show suddenly passive and, well, fairly amorous. As Maggie Serota over at Death and Taxes writes:
When the women all of the sudden become lovey-dovey, notice how Dr. Huxtable’s daughter Sondra is barely conscious as she lovingly lounges into her husband Elvin’s arms.
Writing credits for the episode go to Bernie Kukoff and Janet Leahy, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t assume that Bill Cosby popped into the writers room with this idea?
“It’s my barbecue sauce,” Huxtable explained to his wife Claire, played by staunch Cosby defender Phylicia Rashad. “Haven’t you ever noticed after people have some of my barbecue sauce, after a while, when it kicks in, they get all huggy-buggy? … Haven’t you ever noticed that after one of my barbecues—and they have the sauce—people want to get right home?”
Huxtable then implies that he’s got a cup of barbecue sauce ready to go in their bedroom. Jesus.
“The Last Barbecue” is one Cosby episode that I bet Bill Cosby wish he never worked on.
You can watch the episode on YouTube below, and it gets rather awkward around the 18-minute mark.
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This isn’t, of course, the first time that Cosby’s comedy touched on this particular area. His 1969 comedy album It’s True! It’s True! features a joke in which Cosby tells of his childhood obsession with Spanish Fly, joking about slipping drugs into women’s drinks.
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