Bill Cosby a Cos to believe in

It looks like Bill Cosby could jump right back into hawking Jell-O Pudding Pops, according to a survey that polled more than 2,000 new parents on their way out of the maternity ward. The Pere Partnership in New York asked new moms and dads which of their onscreen counterparts they would be most likely to buy a product from. Cos ranked No. 1 among dads, while his onscreen wife, Felicia Rashad, topped the charts among moms. But the list of also-rans gives pause when you consider just who The Huxtables were up against. True, most trusted Tony Danza, whose turn as housekeeper Tony Micelli on Who’s The Boss makes him a natural fit for cleaning products. But James Gandolfini. who plays mob boss and serial murderer Tony Soprano, rounds out the top five. Maybe least-trusted Redd Foxx played a cantankerous old scrapper on Sanford and Son, but at least if you bought a clunker from Sanford’s yard you could be sure there wasn’t a body in the trunk. 

—Posted by Deanna Zammit

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April 29, 2005 | Permalink