Season 7: Episode 154: Period of Adjustment
Pam Tucker, Clair's 17-year-old second cousin, comes to live with the Huxtables after her mother flies to California to care for Pam's sick grandmother. Her boyfriend invites her to a party in the Bronx, but Rudy informs her that the kids are not allowed to stay out after ten o'clock on weeknights. Slide goads Pam into asking Cliff for permission to let Slide borrow his car, but Cliff turns her down. Slide comes to visit Pam with their friends Lance and Charmaine. Pam is very nervous about their presence; she warns them not to touch anything, and won't give them any food or drink. Pam's friends convince her to sneak out while the Huxtables are away, but Cliff and Clair return just as they are on their way out the door. She admits that she was going to the party. Cliff and Clair refuse to bend the rules and let her go out; but ask her friends to stay, and treat them very well. They encourage Pam to relax and think of the Huxtable house as her own home.