The family fears a steamy exposé when Geoffrey begins his memoirs, while Will fears the scalpel when he enters the hospital, kicking and screaming, for a tonsillectomy.
WAR
41.9
Wins Above Replacement
“Ill Will” ranks #56 of 148 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 77.9 — Great. The episode packs 64 scored jokes at 3.8 per minute, averaging 6.8 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
Incompetent Doctor: Well, Nurse, I'd run a KGB and an NAACP. If he still doesn't respond give him an upper GI Joe.
Will: And why do you think they knock you out? So you don't see them drinking margaritas over your open stomach.
Will Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Will: I mean, if I wanted to get cut I'd let Stevie Wonder do my fade.
Will Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Max · Nurse: Running around like this could be fatal. So, you'll die and I'll get another nurse.
Max Nurse Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Will · Max: You know, maybe we could hang out sometime. Maybe. If you were a woman and I had a prostate.
Will Max Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 64 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Cedric: Move over, Kitty Kelly. Cedric has arrived.
Cedric Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Cedric: Through the Keyhole: Memoirs of an Embittered Butler
Cedric: Check this out. Is it Cedric, or is it Patrick Swayze?
Geoffrey Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Geoffrey: Allow me to see you out, Aunt Blabby.
Geoffrey Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: Aunt Viv, I need a nighttime sniffling, sneezing... fallen and I can't get up medicine.
Will Wordplay/Pun Observational ★ Rewatch Will: I'm all better. It's a miracle. I got no more fever I got no more fever
Will Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Will · Vivian: Aunt Viv? -Yes? -Catch me.
Will: Why do you think they wear masks? So they can't be identified.
Will Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Will: And why do you think they knock you out? So you don't see them drinking margaritas over your open stomach.
Will Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Will · Hillary: Hey, thanks a lot, Hil, that's real nice. Well, sometimes a girl just has to treat herself.
Hillary: Don't answer that. It'll be in Geoffrey's memoirs and Urkel will play you in the TV movie.
Hillary Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch Callback Carlton: I, Will Smith, being of sound mind, do hereby bequeath....
Carlton Dark/Subversive Setup/Punchline Carlton: Do you want just anyone... to get their hands on that $323 and 15 cents... you have hidden under your LL Cool J hat?
Carlton Character Comedy Observational Will: Two bottles of beer on the wall... One million bottles of beer on the wall
Will Escalation Character Comedy Will: Zowie. It's showtime at the Apollo.
Will Observational Character Comedy Will: Look like somebody already ate this.
Will Observational Cringe/Discomfort Max · Nurse: Running around like this could be fatal. So, you'll die and I'll get another nurse.
Max Nurse Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Max: Beautiful. I never forget a face.
Max Visual Gag Character Comedy Will: Man, when I get old I hope I get as much action as you. Heck, next week I hope I get as much action as you.
Will · Max: Man, you must be tripping. I was 15 when I first.... You mean surgery. Yes. Relax.
Will Max Misdirection Character Comedy Max: I played there 40 years ago. Bad theater, lousy audience.
Max Wordplay/Pun Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dr. Baylor: Where are my glasses? Oh, hell.
Dr. Baylor: Well, so much for golf tomorrow.
Will: God... please don't let me leave here with breasts.
Will Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will · Max: Yo, man, what'd you call me? Kreplach. It's a dumpling. Hey, have a nosh.
Will Max Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Max: Rap tape? Sounded like an auction.
Max: Please, don't make me cry. I can't spare the fluid.
Max Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Will: Man, I had forgotten how big Jimmie Walker's lips was.
Will Observational Character Comedy TV Show Character: We just brought little Billy to the hospital for a field trip. And now he's....
Will: Cause we in here bugging out, Nurse Petty.
Will Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Dream Dr. Dre: Yo man, it's called Death Certificate, man.
TV Actor · Will: No, but I play one on TV. Yeah, you that dude from the soap opera. Hey, didn't you just die in a car crash?
TV Actor: Right now I'm hanging precariously on the edge of a cliff... and I intend to stay there until they put a window in my dressing room.
TV Actor Meta/Self-Referential Absurdist ★ Rewatch TV Actor: Tonsils don't get ratings, young man.
TV Actor Meta/Self-Referential Observational Will: Yo, man, you better be using that scalpel to cut some lemon wedges for Isaac.
Will Observational Character Comedy Will: Hey, man, I don't care if you're playing shuffleboard with Nipsey Russell. I ain't getting cut by no doctor with knee socks.
Will Observational Character Comedy TV Actor: I've pretended to do this operation a thousand times. Look, this time they've given me a real scalpel. Cool.
TV Actor Dark/Subversive Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Will: Man, I'm getting out of here before Dr. Hannibal Lecter shows up.
Will Observational Character Comedy Incompetent Doctor: Well, Nurse, I'd run a KGB and an NAACP. If he still doesn't respond give him an upper GI Joe.
Nurse: I've got to get my real estate license.
Nurse Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Carlton: Dad, let's cut the crapola and get to what's really on our minds. Yeah. I'm talking about Geoffrey's book.
Carlton Misdirection Character Comedy Callback Hillary: Geoffrey knows everything about us. If Mom and Dad find out what really goes on around here, they're going to kill us.
Hillary Escalation Character Comedy Callback Ashley · Carlton: Carlton, we've got to find those memoirs. I'll just die if my friends find out why Lou in Better Shoes... gives me that 10% discount.
Carlton: I'll just die if my friends find out why Lou in Better Shoes gives me that 10% discount.
Carlton: Yeah, what if my friends find out I sleep with a hand puppet?
Carlton Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Uncle Phil: Do you really want Hillary to find out she was conceived during a Sly Stone concert?
Uncle Phil Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Philip: Do you really want Hilary to find out she was conceived during a Sly Stone concert?
Philip Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Aunt Vivian: Well, it never would have happened if he hadn't been five hours late.
Will: What are y'all doing here? And I hope them concert tickets wasn't front row.
Will Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Hillary: Is that why you always play Hot Fun in the Summertime on my birthday?
Hillary Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Hilary: Is that why you always play Hot Fun in the Summertime on my birthday?
Hilary Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Carlton: Probably at a white sale.
Carlton Character Comedy Observational Will: I mean, if I wanted to get cut I'd let Stevie Wonder do my fade.
Will Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Uncle Phil: Abdullah, here's $100. If he tries to run, sit on him.
Nurse: No, I'm afraid Max has gone to a better place. Yeah, he went. Just like that.
Nurse Misdirection Dark/Subversive Will: Like I swallowed a weed whacker.
Will Observational Character Comedy Geoffrey: I believe he referred to it as 'Sominex in a dust jacket.'
Will · Max: Max. I thought you died. In Pittsburgh I died. It wasn't my fault. I was opening for a seal.
Will Max Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will · Max: Wait. The nurse said you went on to a better place. I did. Cedars-Sinai Hospital. They've got cable.
Will Max Misdirection Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Max: I did. Cedars-Sinai Hospital. They've got cable.
Max Deadpan/Understatement Misdirection Will · Max: You know, maybe we could hang out sometime. Maybe. If you were a woman and I had a prostate.
Will Max Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Max: Kreplach. It's a dumpling. I got kugel here. Tsimmes, latkes. Jewish....
Max Character Comedy Callback Callback Will Smith: What you got to go through for a lousy $100,000 a show.
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