Will joins his prep school's poetry club.
WAR
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Wins Above Replacement
“Def Poets Society” ranks #48 of 148 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 78.5 — Elite. The episode packs 47 scored jokes at 2.5 per minute, averaging 6.7 on craft and 6.7 on impact, with Will landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Geoffrey as Raphael: Listen, or I'll kill you
Will: No, baby, he used to. He went to the clinic. He's straight now.
Will Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Geoffrey as Raphael: Silence, you ungrateful children. When you're ready to be quiet and listen, I shall return.
Jazz: Let's go get some barbecue And get busy
Jazz Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Will: Raphael de la Ghetto.
Will Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback All Jokes — 47 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Will · Geoffrey: Look, Geoffrey. We're voguing. And what is the precise nature of this nervous disorder?
Will: It's for people that want to look cool but ain't really got no rhythm.
Will Observational Setup/Punchline Will · Geoffrey: You should be good at it. Come on, strike the pose. Unhand me, you ruffian.
Will: Yeah, but Carlton ain't home yet.
Will Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Will: Window-shop at Randy's Short and Small?
Will Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Will: I belong to the home shopping club.
Will Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Will: And you won't get into any of the good nightclubs. I'll never meet Lisa Bonet.
Will Escalation Observational Will Reaction Beat Character Comedy Carlton: If I had the club of my choice, you'd be lying on the floor unconscious.
Carlton Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: Lead me to the sisters. I'm ready to get extracurricular.
Will Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Mr. Fellows: Call me Ned. You need another member of this poetry club? Will, solid. We could really use a representative of the Black male urban experience.
Will: More specifically, the handsome Black male urban experience.
Will Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Will: If she didn't, her daddy would have.
Will Dark/Subversive Setup/Punchline Will: Raphael de la Ghetto.
Will Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Christina · Will: I am a poet and I do know it. Why don't you recite your poem?
Will: No, baby, he used to. He went to the clinic. He's straight now.
Will Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jazz: Poem? Then what you going to do, bake some cookies? Hem a dress?
Jazz Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Jazz: Let's go get some barbecue and get busy.
Jazz Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Carlton: Roses are red Violets are blue Pansies are poets Will, tell me it isn't true
Carlton Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Will: Roses are red Violets are blue Jazz and I are Black, But Carlton, what are you?
Will Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Geoffrey: The crowd rose to its feet shouting, 'Encore!'
Jazz: Looks like you eat here often.
Jazz Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Vivian: Because girls think with their brains.
Vivian Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Ashley · Will: Will and Christina sitting in a tree... Beat it.
Will: Wears the same old dashiki and monster afro.
Will Character Comedy Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Will: Wears the same old dashiki and monster afro.
Will Visual Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Will: You wouldn't either if you had the same dashiki on for 20 years.
Will Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Jazz: I'm tired of those grass burns.
Jazz Callback Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Callback Jazz: He has to be able to read? That'll cost you two extra Jacksons, but I know a guy.
Jazz Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Carlton: Here's an extra $10. Get me a Rolex.
Jazz: Will's gonna get thanked!
Hilary: We heard the buzz about this event on Melrose.
Hilary Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hilary: That's right. I suppose I just get my horoscope out of the air.
Hilary Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Jazz: Locked up in the steel hotel. Cops caught him with a fistful of toy Rolexes.
Jazz Wordplay/Pun Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Jazz: This crowd will get ugly if they got to listen to much more of that.
Jazz Observational Character Comedy Jazz: There was extenuating circumstances.
Jazz Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Geoffrey as Raphael: Listen, or I'll kill you
Hilary: Yeah. It's a good look for him.
Hilary Character Comedy Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Geoffrey as Raphael: Silence, you ungrateful children. When you're ready to be quiet and listen, I shall return.
Jazz as Raphael: I worked all that out in therapy.
Jazz: I worked all that out in therapy.
Jazz Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Jazz as Raphael: Let's go get some barbecue And get busy
Jazz: Let's go get some barbecue And get busy
Jazz Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Jazz Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Will: I'm a poet, and it's a lot more ink in this pen.
Will Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Will: Psych. We just kidding. Good night, y'all.
Will Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Top Episodes — The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
