Will and Carlton think a party guest stole the silverware.
WAR
39.1
Wins Above Replacement
“Hi Ho Silver” ranks #69 of 148 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 76.9 — Great. The episode packs 63 scored jokes at 3.5 per minute, averaging 6.7 on craft and 6.5 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
Carlton: We'll get caught. We'll go to jail. Kid 'N Play will portray us in a movie.
Philip: When we walk down the street, deer eat from our hand.
Philip Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: I say we do what's fair and just for both parties. Steal it back and run like hell.
Will Irony/Sarcasm Misdirection ★ Rewatch Philip: That woman must be stopped.
Philip Running Gag Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Will: Carlton, please, we lifted some silverware from a neighbor... and I had to slap you twice to keep you from driving us to Mexico.
Will Escalation Physical/Slapstick All Jokes — 63 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Will · Ashley: Please, Will, the last time you showed me a magic trick... it took two months for my hair to grow back.
Ashley · Will: What happened to 'abracadabra'? / No, this is black magic, Ash.
Will Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Ashley · Will: I don't have a dollar. / I have a 20. / That'll do.
Will · Ashley: Going... going... gone! Will!
Vivian: Some nice twelve-grain organic... hot cereal.
Vivian Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Carlton · Vivian: Boy, that was better than the batch you made yesterday. / Good. That's why I made twice as much today.
Will: You keep dishing it up, Aunt Viv... and we'll keep finding some place to put it.
Will Deadpan/Understatement Wordplay/Pun Hillary: She picks our clothes out for us... and checks our homework and cuts the crust off the end of our bread.
Will: Hey, look, that woman must be stopped, y'all.
Will Escalation Running Gag ★ Rewatch Uncle Phil: That diet and exercise regimen your mother put me on... has really changed my life. I never felt better.
Philip: That woman must be stopped.
Philip Running Gag Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Will: Is that G or Philip Michael Thomas?
Will Observational Character Comedy Geoffrey: That woman must be stopped!
Geoffrey Running Gag Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Carlton: My personal favorite was George Washington and the Hussy.
Carlton Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Will: Ladies and gentleman, give it up for the star of Heidi Comes to Harlem.
Will Wordplay/Pun Absurdist Ashley: Mom, if you make me go to school like this... I'm going to write a book when I grow up.
Ashley Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Will: Uncle Phil, that was for you. They said you left your wallet at the Donut Depot.
Will Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: Pretty fly earmuffs you got there, Ash.
Will Visual Gag Character Comedy Will: A little calamine lotion probably'd take care of that rash.
Will · Hilary: Come on, Ash, not many women can carry off plaid. / And here comes one now.
Will: Don't worry about this, Ash. One day you're gonna be cracking up laughing about this with your therapist.
Will Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hilary Character Comedy Visual Gag Vivian: Look at poor Henry Firth. Ever since his wife left him he's been in one meaningless... unsatisfying relationship after another.
Vivian Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm Sonya Lamor: That is so kind of you. Please, no pictures.
Will · Sonya: You look dope in 3-D! / It wasn't in 3-D. / Back up.
Vivian · Sonya: There is something that I am just dying to know. / Yes, I did it. And he deserved to be slapped.
Henry: When Jacoby sued Meyers, who do you think he called?
Henry Setup/Punchline Observational Sonya: I couldn't eat a thing. Wonderful sugar cake. Can I get a little, tiny, weensy piece, please?
Sonya Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Aunt Viv: Will, check the pool, the Jacuzzi, the tennis courts, and the basketball net.
Aunt Viv Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Carlton: But I did find Geoffrey's new uniform crammed behind the hot-water heater.
Will: We need that little white lady from Murder, She Wrote.
Will Observational Character Comedy Uncle Phil: And if you all happen to be digging around under my bed... those videotapes are for my report on Clarence Thomas.
Uncle Phil Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Sonya: So kind of you. No pictures.
Sonya Running Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Will · Sonya: Laurence Olivier was in An Officer and a Hussy? No it was his brother, Wendall.
Will Sonya Absurdist Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Callback Carlton · Sonya: You got top billing over Clark Gable? / It was Schlomo Gable, his half-brother.
Will · Sonya: Then I guess this Reagan isn't really Ronald. / No, that is really Ronald. You see, we couldn't get his brother.
Will Sonya Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Will · Sonya: Then I guess this Reagan isn't really Ronald. No, that is really Ronald. You see, we couldn't get his brother.
Will Sonya Misdirection Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Will · Parrot: What's up, man? I'm Will. Polly want a cracker? / Will is a cracker. / Yeah, man, your mother poops on papers.
Carlton: This is not a wimpy fork. This is a hand-engraved silver dessert... Jumping Jehosaphat!
Carlton Escalation Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Carlton: This is not a wimpy fork. This is a hand-engraved silver dessert.... Jumping Jehosaphat!
Will: Remember what happened to her in Hussy Behind Bars?
Will Callback Absurdist Callback Will: I say we do what's fair and just for both parties. Steal it back and run like hell.
Will Irony/Sarcasm Misdirection ★ Rewatch Will: Carlton, weren't you just saying how much... you would enjoy a tour of Ms. Lamor's house? No...time like the present.
Will Misdirection Character Comedy Carlton: Get your hands off that! Not till we're married.
Carlton Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Will · Carlton: Is the silver in your pockets? / No, I'm just extremely happy to see you.
Will · Carlton: Is the silver in your pockets? No, I'm just extremely happy to see you.
Will: Carlton, please, we lifted some silverware from a neighbor... and I had to slap you twice to keep you from driving us to Mexico.
Will Escalation Physical/Slapstick Carlton: I just thought we should lay low until the heat was off.
Aunt Viv: The caterers brought it back.
Aunt Viv Misdirection Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Vivian: Carlton, why do I have service for eight in my drawers?
Vivian Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm Carlton: We'll get caught. We'll go to jail. Kid 'N Play will portray us in a movie.
Hilary: No, I meant everyone always mistakes me for Whitney Houston.
Hilary Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Carlton: Will, there's a big black guy in the house.
Carlton Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Carlton: Will, there's a big black guy in the house.
Carlton Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Carlton: I brought these gloves so we don't leave prints. Yellow or blue?
Sonya · Uncle Phil: If Meryl Streep is going to play it, she must have her nose fixed. Absolutely. Page 3, the schnoz clause.
Philip: When we walk down the street, deer eat from our hand.
Philip Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Uncle Phil: Sonya, with all due respect... you're the one who's playing footsie-wootsie.
Sonya: Please, darlings, you are too kind. No pictures.
Sonya Running Gag Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Will: Uncle Phil, I know what you're thinking, and there's no cake left.
Will Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Carlton: Will made me do it. He held a fork to my head.
Carlton Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Carlton: And I didn't want to hide under the furniture... like a bad old episode of Laverne & Shirley.
Carlton Meta/Self-Referential Escalation ★ Rewatch Top Episodes — The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
