the cosby show sondra and elvin got married in the trade - ins.
the cosby show sondra and elvin get married?
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"sondra tibideaux (née huxtable)", the eldest daughter of cliff and clair, did not appear on screen until mid-way through season one. she did not exist in the pilot episode ("clair:" "why do we have four children?" "cliff:" "because we did not want five.") in her first appearance, she is a sophomore in college, and cliff notes her to be 20 years old (episode 10), making her birth year 1964. she earned a degree from princeton university and had intentions of pursuing a career as a lawyer, like her mother. she married her boyfriend, elvin tibideaux, in season four, and later gave birth to twins—a boy and a girl—named after nelson and winnie mandela. more serious, earnest and responsible than the other children, sondra fits many of the characteristics of the first born from a large family. though she had her moments of bizarre thinking ("e.g." dropping out of law school to open up a wilderness store with elvin), she'd usually snap out of them relatively quickly. because of her intelligence level and overachieving nature, she is looked upon by her parents proudly, but also is held to a higher standard than the rest of the children. sondra appeared sporadically in early seasons of the series due to the character being off at college at the time.
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the "new york daily news"' rachel desantis believes that the character's "'woman who has it all' mentality towards motherhood and her career as an attorney represented the shifting idea of what it meant to be not just an american mother in the 1980s, but a black american mother." according to "vox" writer lauren williams, the character reinforces "that pursuing such a demanding career and having a family were not mutually exclusive", seldom hesitating to challenge anyone who doubts her ability to maintain both. for example, in the season one episode "how ugly is he?", clair responds to a sexist statement made by denise's then-boyfriend david about clair's decision to work as opposed to remaining home to raise the children with "why don’t you ask dr. huxtable that question?" this exchange would serve as a preface to future, more prominent confrontations clair would have with sondra's chauvinistic boyfriend elvin, who is introduced in the following season in the episode "cliff in love", during which elvin wrongly perceives clair offering him and cliff a cup of coffee as an act of servitude. clair promptly corrects elvin in the form of a rant that explains the equal roles of a married husband and wife; jason bailey of "slate" compared clair's speech to gloria stivic arguing about feminist politics with her father archie bunker in the sitcom "all in the family". however, when cliff voices his preference for daryl, a young man competing for sondra's affection, over elvin due to the former's more progressive opinions about women, clair defends elvin, reminding cliff that he once shared elvin's views and ideas before clair ultimately changed him for the better. despite their differences, clair is willing to accept elvin with confidence that his primitive opinions about women will eventually change, and is never shown to be mistreating him. bailey concluded, "if "the cosby show"’s racial politics were merely implied, its gender politics were clear, pointed, and decidedly progressive."
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