The Cosby Show1984

[while Elvin waits for Sondra, Clair offers coffee for him and Cliff; Elvin is surprised]

Elvin Tibideaux:
I'm sorry, Mrs. Huxtable, I didn't think you did that kind of thing.

Clair Huxtable:
What kind of thing?

Elvin Tibideaux:
You know... serve.

Clair Huxtable:
Serve whom?

Elvin Tibideaux:
[indicating Cliff] Serve him.

Clair Huxtable:
[with a tense smile] Oh, serve *him*. As in "serve your man"?

Elvin Tibideaux:
Well, yeah.

Clair Huxtable:
[now visibly indignant] Let me tell you something, Elvin. You see, I am not "serving" Dr. Huxtable, okay?

Elvin Tibideaux:
Okay.

Clair Huxtable:
That's the kind of thing that goes on in a restaurant. Now I am going to bring him a cup of coffee just like he brought me a cup of coffee this morning. And *that*, young man, is what marriage is made of: it is give-and-take fifty-fifty. And if you don't get it together, and drop these macho attitudes, you are never gonna have anybody bringing you anything anywhere any place any time EVER.

[pauses, then smiles graciously]

Clair Huxtable:
Now, what would you like in your coffee?

Elvin Tibideaux:
[shaken] Maybe I can get *you* some coffee.

Clair Huxtable:
Elvin, that's alright. I don't mind getting it. But thanks for offering.

[Clair takes the tray to the kitchen; Elvin slowly sits down and looks at Cliff, scared]

Cliff:
Elvin?

Elvin Tibideaux:
Yes, sir?

Cliff:
When she brings the coffee back, if I were you, I wouldn't drink it.