Will challenges Carlton to spend time in a tough neighborhood, trying to survive by masquerading as a financial consultant.
WAR
42.8
Wins Above Replacement
“72 Hours” ranks #60 of 148 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 77.5 — Great. The episode packs 46 scored jokes at 2.2 per minute, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.7 on impact, with Carlton landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Carlton: Hip-hop flash cards? I made them myself. I've been cramming all night.
Carlton Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Vivian: I'll tell you who's a mother: Me. And I am going there and I am bringing my baby back.
Vivian Escalation Character Comedy Callback Carlton: I just hope I can get it out of my head before I take the SATs.
Will: There's no 'yo' at the end of it. I'm pretty sure of it.
Will Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Carlton Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback All Jokes — 46 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Will: No. See, when I laugh at you, it's more like this... [followed by exaggerated demonstration laugh]
Will Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Will: Man, y'all butchered that song. Hey, C, I'm telling you, if the Commodores heard you singing... they'd tie you down to the tracks and run you over with the soul train.
Will Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Will · Carlton: All right, but just out of curiosity, Carlton, what color are you?
Will: No. It's that tie that does it.
Will Visual Gag Character Comedy Will: And if you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere.
Will Wordplay/Pun Observational Will: I don't know. That's my whole reason for living.
Will Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: Damn! Why didn't we bet money?
Will Reaction Beat Observational Geoffrey: Excellent, Miss Hilary. You must let me know what that feels like.
Geoffrey Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Carlton: It even gave me the willies when Beaver used to do it.
Carlton Character Comedy Observational Will: Man, it's about to be Diss-fest '91 around here.
Will Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Carlton: I found it in the trash can, underneath a banana.
Carlton: I'm going straight to hell.
Carlton: Crib: House, dwelling, domicile.
Carlton: Hip-hop flash cards? I made them myself. I've been cramming all night.
Carlton Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Carlton: I just hope I can get it out of my head before I take the SATs.
Carlton: That's called leaving me hanging... because my hand is literally left hanging in the air.
Carlton Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Jazz: Let me have my butler get them. Sorry. I crack myself up.
Jazz Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Jazz: You can put them on the floor, but watch out for my carpet... 'cause it's imported from Persia. I could do this all day.
Jazz Irony/Sarcasm Escalation Tiny: Applegate? That sounds like a school word. I don't like school words. I can't applegate myself to them.
Tiny Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Off-screen voice: Everybody, put your hands in the air! [followed by awkward silence and confused reactions]
Street vendor · Carlton: 20 cents. That's not a real Gucci bag, is it? Maybe it is. Maybe it ain't.
Carlton: Maybe if you went out and bought a well-tailored suit... and lost the earring, then you'd look like a real salesman. And that grammar...
Carlton Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Will: I spent half the ride trying to convince him not to say, 'Dyn-o-mite.'
Will Character Comedy Observational Jazz: The Detroit Lions still got those cheerleaders?
Jazz Misdirection Character Comedy Will · Carlton: Carlton, you look like a pirate. Yo, stop fronting. You know this gear is chill.
Jazz: Hey, Prince, lay off of him, man. We like C-note.
Jazz Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Carlton: Yo, how many times do I gotta tell you? Write your questions down. I'll hook you up later.
Carlton Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Street friend · Carlton: I'm going to get me some of them douche marks. That's deutsche marks.
Carlton: Sorry. There's no hip-hop word for sales bonanza.
Carlton Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Callback Will: It's not that kind of park, Boo Boo.
Will Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Vivian · Geoffrey: Geoffrey, did you really enjoy having Will out of the house that much? The closest I'll ever get to a bonus.
Carlton: I can get $20 for this china dog. $2.
Philip · Carlton: This is the police! Carlton, come out with your hands up. You'll never take me alive.
Geoffrey: On reflection, perhaps I should.
Geoffrey Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Hilary: The back row? The light is completely different there. I have to change.
Hilary Character Comedy Escalation Will: If a brother comes between a brother and his brothers... then that brother's considered a mother.
Will Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Vivian: I'll tell you who's a mother: Me. And I am going there and I am bringing my baby back.
Vivian Escalation Character Comedy Callback Will: Geoffrey fell down the back steps, split his wig. We gotta go to the hospital.
Will Character Comedy Misdirection Jazz's friend: Carlton was acting in what? In Cosby?
Jazz's friends: Prince used a school word. You 5-0'd your own cousin.
Will: No, but I think I heard Uncle Phil upstairs testing his belts out.
Will Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Hilary: What, are you kidding? They're going to kill you guys.
Hilary Misdirection Character Comedy Will: There's no 'yo' at the end of it. I'm pretty sure of it.
Will Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Will Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Callback Carlton Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Carlton · Will: You love me. My brother, you wanna take this outside?
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