From the New York Times: For a while now, Bill Cosby has been at the point in his career where people just want to shower him with accolades. A Kennedy Center honor in 1998. The Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002. The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2009.

Another round of appreciation comes this week when the Paley Center for Media, at its locations in Manhattan and Beverly Hills, begins almost two months’ worth of programs celebrating Mr. Cosby’s 50 years in show business. So I’m going to do a little commemorating of my own. Since I’m a television critic, I’ll not dwell on his films, some of which were pretty bad, or his off-screen personality, or his occasional controversy-generating comments. Just his TV work. And no, I don’t count those pudding commercials as TV work.

Everyone has favorite Cosby moments: particular episodes or scenes from his various projects, especially “The Cosby Show” (1984-1992), one of the best and most popular series television has ever seen. Has there been a smarter, better played few minutes in a family sitcom than the moment in the pilot when Mr. Cosby’s character, Cliff Huxtable, uses Monopoly money to explain to his son why he should not be content with a report card full of D’s? No, there hasn’t.

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