Vivian's baby is a week late, but family members and her visiting sisters are nowhere to be found when it's time to rush to the hospital.
WAR
40.8
Wins Above Replacement
“The Baby Comes Out” ranks #82 of 148 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 76.1 — Great. The episode packs 54 scored jokes at 3.1 per minute, averaging 6.7 on craft and 6.8 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: In fact, I'm going to punish myself. No phone privileges for a week.
Geoffrey Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch Will: That ain't what's scaring me. You ain't got no drawers on!
Will Observational Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Will: Look, man, if you don't let me use your phone... I'm gonna start singing Paula Abdul's greatest hits.
Will Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Geoffrey: It's rather difficult to tell just by looking.
Geoffrey Observational Deadpan/Understatement Vivian: I will give you $50 to drive me over a set of railroad tracks.
Vivian Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 54 analyzed
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Will Observational Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Will: Hilary, you circle the wagons.
Will Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Vivian · Will: Will, honey, what are you talking about? / I wish to God I knew, Aunt Viv.
Vivian Will Meta/Self-Referential Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Vivian · Carlton: Carlton, honey, get up off the floor. My hand!
Will · Ashley: I find that hard to believe. / I think we all do, Carlton.
Will: I mean, getting woke up in the middle of the night... by a naked man running around the house.
Will Callback Misdirection ★ Rewatch Callback Will: Not you, G. Oh, never mind.
Will Reaction Beat Awkward Silence Vivian: You think I don't? I feel like I ate a Buick.
Vivian Observational Character Comedy Will: Look like a Winnebago from here.
Will: Poor Mom? Poor me. I saw Uncle Phil naked.
Will Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Geoffrey: Perhaps if we were both younger, and I didn't work for you.
Vivian: Not that kind of proposition, Geoffrey. I will give you $50 to drive me over a set of railroad tracks.
Vivian: I will give you $50 to drive me over a set of railroad tracks.
Vivian Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Geoffrey: It's rather difficult to tell just by looking.
Geoffrey Observational Deadpan/Understatement Will: And whatever you do, never ever feed her after midnight.
Will Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: And whatever you do, never ever feed her after midnight.
Will Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Will · Aunt: She snatched off the woman's wig? / No, Lester's.
Will Aunt Misdirection Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Will · family member: She snatched off the woman's wig? No, Lester's.
Will: You've all met our butler, Chicken George?
Will Observational ★ Rewatch Will: If it get any bigger, it'll be in and out of Bel-Air at the same time.
Will · Carlton: All right, Hilary, you act like you're gonna hug her and then pin her arms down. / I know the chokehold. / Better.
Vivian: You hate me, don't you?
Vivian Cringe/Discomfort Awkward Silence Geoffrey Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Geoffrey Deadpan/Understatement Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Hilary: I know, and some electrolysis wouldn't hurt you, either.
Hilary Character Comedy Observational Ashley: This could get ugly. We're family.
Ashley Deadpan/Understatement Observational Carlton: Forget college, I'm going to beauty school.
Carlton Reaction Beat Character Comedy Carlton: Look, if I'm not back in 20 minutes, be really happy for me.
Carlton Character Comedy Observational Phil: Oh, my God. I think my water broke.
Phil Escalation Absurdist Callback Phil: Oh, my God. I think my water broke.
Phil Absurdist Character Comedy Phil · Will: Oh, my God, it's Vivian. She's having the baby. / We gotta get to the hospital! / Uncle Phil... we in the hospital.
Phil Will Observational Deadpan/Understatement Phil · Will: 402436, that's no phone number. / No, Uncle Phil, that's 40, 24, 36.
Smoker: That's right, boy, this is a New Jack City.
Smoker: You the big man that broke the elevator.
Geoffrey: Now, we're on the same train of thought.
Geoffrey Deadpan/Understatement Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Will: No, but you have really soft hands.
Will Misdirection Cringe/Discomfort Geoffrey · Ashley: Ashley, you can't drive. / Grow up. I've been taking the car since I was 12. Come on.
Maintenance Worker: Just kidding, a little elevator humor there.
Tough Guy: That's right, and you don't.
Will: Look, man, if you don't let me use your phone... I'm gonna start singing Paula Abdul's greatest hits.
Will: Look, man, if you don't let me use your phone... I'm gonna start singing Paula Abdul's greatest hits.
Will Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Phil · Will: Sir, give me that damn phone... or I'm gonna rip your liver out and eat it raw. / That's right, boy, and he about due for a snack.
Geoffrey: Yes, sir, I'm a very, very bad butler. / In fact, I'm going to punish myself. / No phone privileges for a week.
Geoffrey Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Geoffrey: In fact, I'm going to punish myself. No phone privileges for a week.
Geoffrey Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch Ashley: Not without any teeth, you won't.
Ashley Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Carlton · Janice: That girl wanted me, Aunt Janice. / Carlton, when a woman says, 'Drop dead, troll...' it usually means she's not interested.
Ashley: I'm a kid. I don't know jack about insurance.
Ashley Observational Character Comedy Hilary: Look, this is an emergency. Do you have any mascara?
Hilary Character Comedy Misdirection Phil Character Comedy Running Gag Will: Look, he look like a little black yoda.
Will · Various: That's a stupid name. / Why don't we name him after Daddy? Eli. / Great. / No, over my dead body. / Let's name him Rufus. / How about Brock?
Phil Running Gag Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Top Episodes — The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
