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(OOC note: This is focusing entirely on creative decisions, not Bill Cosby's double life)

As we are aware, after Lisa Bonet ended up moving from The Cosby Show full-time to be a guest star figure on that show and move full-time to the spinoff A Different World, she ended up pregnant with her and Lenny Kravitz' daughter Zoe. This of course but the NBC executives and the creative team in a bind over how to handle the situation and apply it to the character of Denise Huxtable. Bill Cosby quite famously said that the audience would be angry seeing Denise as an unwed mother and consider her to be akin to a hooker. Of course, Bonet, with backing from her then-husband, pleaded her case and said that if anything, it would only help both shows and it would provide an opportunity to render this situation in a nuanced, sympathetic manner. This approach won the day, and many applauded the "pregnancy arc" as a sign of both shows taking on a more mature and intelligent atmosphere.

But what if Cosby had had his way? What would have happened if it had been determined that Denise could never be seen pregnant?
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