I wonder what happens to Carl Payne on the Cosby Show if he and Bill Cosby hadn’t had a falling out. Cosby requested Carl Payne cut his hair or something and he refused and they stopped booking him. I think his last episode was the Dance Mania episode (which makes it seem like Theo was petty about Cockroach going on the show).
They had all these other friends for Theo; Denny, the Kung Fu movie guy, Reno Wilson, and famously, Adam Sandler; none of them were as memorable or enjoyable as Carl Payne as Walter “Cockroach” Bradley.
Maybe Cockroach gets added to the cast of “A Different World?”
I remember that one episode of the short lived high school musical series “Hull High” I watched and said, “Hey, that’s Cockroach!”