When I used to watch "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids," I believed that Russell was a girl. Must've been the hat and the funny voice. Being a girl myself, I wanted someone to identify with, I guess.
When I got the Fat Albert board game one Christmas, I wanted to play Russell. My mom said to my dad "Is that his brother." "SISTER!" I said, adamantly. My parents gave up trying to explain.
Sometime later, Russell used the phrase "Yuck, a girl!" on the show, and I think that convinced me. Rocked my world, though.
Bill Cosby had an album, which I didn't hear until years later (although my parents had heard it long before I got the Fat Albert game) called "To My Brother Russell, Whom I Slept With."
A childhood belief about tv shows
others believed things like this
- When I was around four, I thought every black man on television was Bill Cosby.— Linda
- I used to think that 'black comedy' was show like Family Matters and The Cosby Show.— Katie
- I used to think that Cain and Able were brother and sister (with Able being the girl).— Duh
- First I believed that my parents were brother and sister. Then I thought that my dad was also my mums dad. — Rainbow
- When i was younger i thougth that when you grew up you could decide whether you wanted to be a girl or a boy. Anon
- I remember a girl in my kindergarten class told me she wanted to be a waterfall when she grew up.Anon