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The family wants Denise (Lisa Bonet) to attend Hillman College, thereby upholding the Huxtable tradition: Hillman is the alma mater of both Denise's dad Cliff (Bill Cosby) and her granddad Russell (Earle Hyman, in his first series appearance). When she indicates that she'd rather make up her own mind about choosing a college, she risks facing the wrath of the imperious Russell, who back when Cliff had demonstrated a similar lack of enthusiasm over Hillman was offered a choice by his father: "You go or you die." It helps the situation not at all that Russell had earlier been barred from entering the Huxtable home thanks to a misunderstanding on the part of grandson Theo (Malcolm-Jamal Warner)!