Pump your breaks there just a second Barb. Compartmentalize for just a moment. Fat Albert isn't ruined because the creator is who he is any more than Mr. Rogers is in any way tainted by who Fred Rogers was. Fat Albert is a character, and therein subject to the same rules as any other character.
Other than that, hell yeah!
But Fred was a great guy and it's hard to separate Cosby from his art....because Cosby's art was, more often or not, about him and his life (albeit idealized and without the rape).
Believe me, I'd LOVE to separate Cosby from his art but with him, it's REALLY hard.
Maybe if someone else told all those wonderful stand-up stories and changed the names a bit, but that would make them plagiarists.
I might be able to watch
Fat Albert if I put it through my Windows Movie Maker and edit out the live-action Cosby parts. Of course, he did the voices....but it's still a bunch of cartoon characters (even if one is supposed to be him).
There's a lot of skeezy and jerky celebs but sometimes, a person's ability to separate artist from art is hard if the two are almost interchangeable and the artist's offense is super-heinous.