A Different World - Season 5 - Eps 14: Cats in the Cradle

Name: Eps 14: Cats in the Cradle
Released: 1992-01-16
Rating: 3.6

1992-01-16 • 30 min • ⭐ 7.1/10

Dwayne becomes jealous of Whitley's new beau, particularly after she leads him to believe they are sleeping together. Ron promises to take Dwayne's mind off the situation by taking him to the big football game between Hillman and Virginia A Ron then sells his ticket to a scalper and spends the game in his car. Three white students from A walk by, and one of them decides to start trouble. Ron bets them on the outcome of the game, declining to mention that their quarterback is out with the flu. With Hillman winning in a rout early in the fourth quarter, the guys come out and pay Ron without an argument. Ron taunts them and says that their team needs to recruit more black players. One of the guys wants to let it go, but his friends begin to spray paint a racial slur on Ron's car. Ron starts to fight them, and Dwayne comes out and jumps into the fray. They are all held by campus security, who threatens to have them arrested unless they explain what happened. Ron and an A student giv

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About A Different World

Title: A Different World

First Air Date: 1987-09-24

Last Air Date: 1993-07-09

Status: Ended

Rating: 7.1/10 (from 64 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 6

Total Episodes: 144

Network: NBC

Genres: Comedy, Family

Production Companies: Carsey-Werner Company, Bill Cosby

Synopsis

A Different World is a spin-off series from The Cosby Show and originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional mixed but historically black college in the state of Virginia. After Bonet's departure in the first season, the remainder of the series primarily focused more on Southern belle Whitley Gilbert and mathematics whiz Dwayne Wayne. The series frequently depicted members of the major historically black fraternities and sororities.