Aunt Helen arrives unexpectedly, and upsets Will and Carlton's plans for a rendezvous with two French women.
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Wins Above Replacement
“The Aunt Who Came To Dinner” ranks #30 of 148 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 80.4 — Elite. The episode packs 75 scored jokes at 4.0 per minute, averaging 6.8 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
Ashley: But Iast time I squeaIed on HiIary... I found Barbie face down in the aquarium.
Ashley Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Carlton: BeautifuI, sexy, and she measures everything in centimeters.
Carlton Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Will: "I was trapped in a bathroom with my naked aunt."
Will Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Carlton: Prince and Hammer are coming by to pIay Yahtzee.
Carlton Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Uncle Phil: No. Because we're moving and we're not gonna teII you where.
Uncle Phil Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 75 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Will: PIease, man. This ain't no restaurant. I mean, there wasn't even no goIden arches outside.
Will Observational Character Comedy Carlton: You're this far from washing windshieIds with newspaper.
Carlton Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Carlton: Now, just sit down and try to go a haIf-hour without saying "yo."
Carlton Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Will: Yo, yo, yo. I'II have two of those.
Will Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Will: Yo, CarIton, man, they French girIs. We in!
Will Character Comedy Observational Will: Yo, they don't have no standards, man. They Iike Jerry Lewis.
Will: This time I'II be the rap star and you be Gary CoIeman.
Carlton: He's Tiny By Nature.
Carlton Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Carlton: A tennis court, swimming pooI, exceIIent schooI system.
Carlton Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Will: Oh, no, man. Come on, they're famiIy. We bribe them.
Will Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Will: Tomorrow we go French.
Will Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun Will: Hey, CarIton, they're French girIs. They're aIways in the mood.
Will: Do you know the French word for forepIay?
Will Setup/Punchline Observational Will: Because there isn't one.
Will Setup/Punchline Observational Ashley: But Iast time I squeaIed on HiIary... I found Barbie face down in the aquarium.
Ashley Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Uncle Phil: When I was young, Iyrics meant something. I was scatting, WiII.
Uncle Phil · Hillary: Has anybody seen my oId brown bag? / Excuse me. You used to caII me Diva.
Uncle Phil: So this is what a hernia feeIs Iike.
Aunt Helen: Buy a new hat, paint the house, get a divorce.
Will: Hey, does UncIe Lester stiII do that "puII my finger" thing in church?
Will Character Comedy Observational Ashley: That means it's about sex. Either UncIe Lester is seeing another woman or becoming one.
Ashley Observational Character Comedy Ashley: Shoot! And it's transvestite week.
Ashley Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Will Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Hillary: You're staying at the Howard Johnson's, and I won't take no for an answer.
Hillary Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Uncle Phil: You heard what she said. She'II be fine. Let's go, Vivian.
Carlton: I stayed up aII night Iearning the French for... "Forget about my cousin, y'aII can both have me."
Carlton Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Helen · Hillary: Oh, sweetie, that's aII right. You don't have to buy me anything. / I know. I meant for me.
Helen: GirI, I wouIdn't give Lester air if he was in a jug.
Helen Observational Character Comedy Helen · Vivian: You know how some men are animaIs in bed? / Yes. / WeII, I don't.
Vivian: One day Iast month, I met PhiIip at the door... wearing nothing, honey, but Saran Wrap and a smiIe. WaIked right past me and said, "Hi, honey, did you make that meatIoaf?"
Vivian Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Helen: WeII, at Ieast he spoke.
Helen Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Vivian: I wouId have been reaching for my cute IittIe crowbar.
Vivian Escalation Character Comedy Helen: I couIdn't find it.
Helen Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Carlton: You thought he said Aunt HeIen? No, no. He said Van HaIen.
Carlton Misdirection Character Comedy Will: Well, not to worry, my little chocolate truffles.
Will Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Carlton: Prince and Hammer are coming by to pIay Yahtzee.
Carlton Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Carlton: Oh, sorry, gotta go. Barry White's here.
Will: Not as much as we Iove French.... Toast.
Will Misdirection Character Comedy Uncle Phil: Smith women tend to do that.
Uncle Phil Reaction Beat Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Callback Ashley: Tomorrow on Geraldo, French women who can't say 'no.'
Ashley Meta/Self-Referential Observational Carlton: BeautifuI, sexy, and she measures everything in centimeters.
Carlton Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Will: the onIy sweet things we gonna be near is a coupIe KIondike bars.
Will Observational Character Comedy Uncle Phil: There is no more Saran Wrap and Baggies are out of the question.
Uncle Phil Callback Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Will: I love you, Uncle Phil!
Will Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Uncle Phil: I'II carry you there if I have to.
Geoffrey: Sir, I hope you brought your protective cup.
Will: Drag her home by her extensions?
Will Observational Character Comedy Will: Good oId Aunt Jemima. Now, that's a strong woman. I never saw her with a man.
Carlton: ActuaIIy, I hear that she and the Quaker Oats dude... got kind of a JungIe Fever thing going.
Lester: Was it because I Ieft my wet underwear hanging on your wig stand?
Lester Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Lester: Was it because I left my wet underwear hanging on your wig stand?
Lester Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Lester: The time I took that picture of you on the toiIet?
Lester Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Ashley: That's it. I am never getting married.
Ashley Reaction Beat Character Comedy Helen: HiIary, wouId you pIease ask the aduIterer on your right to pass the biscuits?
Helen: No, not Lester the schizophrenic, Lester the impotent guy.
Helen Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Lester: but there's part of me that wouId prefer a man.
Lester Misdirection Cringe/Discomfort Will: WouId you reaIIy prefer a man?
Will Callback Character Comedy Callback Lester: your passive-aggressive feeIings towards your absent father
Lester Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Will: Man, you reaIIy must be seeing a shrink.
Will Reaction Beat Character Comedy Will: what does it mean when you dream... that you're fIying through a tunneI on a Scud missiIe?
Will Absurdist Character Comedy Helen: I'm the one who signed his name to aII your damn birthday cards.
Helen Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Will · Uncle Phil: I'm sorry, Aunt HeIen. My shower's broken. / UncIe PhiI fixed it.
Will: "I was trapped in a bathroom with my naked aunt."
Will Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Helen: I bet the hussy has a weave.
Helen Character Comedy Observational Helen: If the rooster ain't crowing in the henhouse... he must be cock-a-doodIing in the barn.
Helen Observational Character Comedy Lester: When that job went south, weII, my doodIe went with it.
Lester Callback Cringe/Discomfort Callback Will Reaction Beat Observational Uncle Phil: No. Because we're moving and we're not gonna teII you where.
Uncle Phil Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Vivian: I don't think it was the Fourth of JuIy, but I do remember fireworks.
Vivian Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Monique: But, Monique, we do not have the bathing suits.
Monique Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Will: No probIem, neither do we.
Will Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Will · Uncle Phil · Carlton · Vivian: WiII! / Father! / CarIton! / Mother!
Helen · Hillary: Don't make me have to get ethnic on you! / I'm just so excited.
Will: You're staying at the Howard Johnson.
Will Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Top Episodes — The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air