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The prevalent situation in this episode is summed up by a dialogue exchange between Denise (Lisa Bonet) and her husband Martin (Joseph C. Phillips), in which Martin asks Denise where she ever got the silly idea that his mother didn't like her, whereupon she replies: "You said, and I'm quoting you, 'My mother can't stand you." With this in mind, Denise is a nervous wreck when her in-laws Lorraine and Joe Kendall (Nancy Wilson, Moses Gunn) pay a visit to the Huxtable household. The climax finds Denise in a showdown with Lorraine--just as Denise's dad Cliff (Bill Cosby) and Martin's dad Joe find that, in spite of everything, they're not so far apart.