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Old 12-19-2004, 09:55 PM   #1
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Default Rudy or Olivia?

Who was better?
I preferred Rudy when she was younger,but as she got older,i liked the little cute character again,and that was Olivia.
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Old 12-19-2004, 10:24 PM   #2
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Rudy definitely. I liked Rudy's character so much better. Olivia got on my nerves.
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Rudy definitely. I liked Rudy's character so much better. Olivia got on my nerves.
Couldn't have said it better.As adorable as Olivia was,she got irritating.Rudy was gorgeous as well.I loved her in the early episodes.
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Old 01-04-2005, 02:00 AM   #4
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Old 02-22-2005, 09:11 AM   #5
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Default Rudy takes my vote

Rudy was the better "Baby of the family" because they didn;t rely on her cuteness but also her ability to carry a scene and/or situation.

Olivia was cute and that was all that she was designed to be. a cute baby kid. But I LOVED her interaction with Bill Cosby, and it makes me wonder if Bill came up with the new version of "Kids Say the Darndest Things" during this time period.

I would think that Rudy would be threatened by Olivia's presence because that signified that she was no longer the proverbial "baby of the family". A perfect example of this could be found in the episode where Rudy dreamt that Olivia was taking over the world.

Rudy held her own in this series.
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Old 03-10-2005, 06:33 AM   #6
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Rudy...by far.
I think Rudy was cuter baby, not that Olivia was ugly, she was sweet as well. But she was by far the most annyoing character ever. Tho I have to admit in the German translation Olivia got the most terrible voice...so maybe that´s why I found her soo extremly annoying. But even without the voice, Rudy is No.1 .
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Rudy. Even now that she is grown up, I am not a fan of Raven. She was a great actress for a little kid, but as others have said, she had her annoying side too.
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Yep, Rudy was best.

Olivia was funny too, and she was the perfect cute kid in her first series. But in the last two seasons, particularly the final (8) she was very annoying. The cute thing only worked for the first year she was on the show.
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Olivia, I didnt enjoy Rudy that much in seasons 7/8
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Rudy! She was sooo adorable and sweet in the first seasons! (She was still pretty in the last seasons to me, and I still liked her!)...Olivia was cute as well but to me Rudy is the better one!

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I preferred Rudy.
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Olivia was cute when she started on the show, but that's where her contribution ended...

Rudy was a very good actress who could actually deliver a line...and she could hold her own in any scene...she was cute and sweet, and funny...

Olivia was just another in a long, long line of cute kids brought in to replace an "aging" kid as the youngest kid in the family... with no talent other than being cute...

I'd long since stopped watching the Cosby Show after about the third season or so (I think that the last season I watched fairly regularly was the one in which Denise was a Freshman at "Hillman"...I don't know what season that was). So I wasn't even watching the show regularly by the time Olivia came along...

I liked the show a lot in the beginning, but it just went on way too long, imo...and bringing in Oliva didn't help matters...
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Who was better?
I preferred Rudy when she was younger,but as she got older,i liked the little cute character again,and that was Olivia.
I liked Rudy when she was younger too, but as she got older she got alot more bossy and I liked Olivia better. So who I like better is Olivia.
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well I already posted my opinion... but the thing is that umm i'd compare them when they both were younger coz olivia was only 6 years old at the end of the show...that means u never know how she would have been if the show stayed for some more years!!so i'm saying that i liked olivia but rudy was a sweeter kid to me!
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