Heavyweight boxing champ Riddick Brown wreaks havoc with Carlton's mind and Will's face at a funky cafe-casino in Nevada, where the cousins have stopped on their way to check out a college for Will.
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“You Bet Your Life” ranks #97 of 148 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 74.6 — Great. The episode packs 79 scored jokes at 3.8 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
Will · Jazz: Jazz, you lost all our money, man. I thought you said you knew how to play poker. Poker? You mean this isn't Go Fish?
Will Jazz Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: We ain't black. We just got back from Hawaii.
Will Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Carlton: Why don't you just get off my damn back?
Carlton: It just sits there taunting me. 'What's wrong, Carlton?' 'Lost your nerve, sissy boy?'
Carlton Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: And if you want to be the brother that casts the first stone for the degradation of the entire race... then you go right ahead.
Will Character Comedy Escalation All Jokes — 79 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Will: Alex, the question is, 'What are three things found in Uncle Phil's beard?'
Will Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Carlton: Yuck! Now, I lost my appetite. Thanks a lot, Will.
Will: University of Nevada. Where at graduation... they don't wear their tassels on their caps, if you know what I'm saying.
Will Wordplay/Pun Observational Carlton: You sure are lucky, Will. Spending the weekend at a college campus with 4,000 hot coeds... and you get to bunk with Dad and Sara Lee.
Carlton Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Will: Jazz, you all right, man? You got a kind of a Clark Kent-Urkel thing jumping all over you.
Will Observational Character Comedy Carlton · Will: Actually, Will, he looks like me. Well, yeah, that's what I was saying.
Jazz: I spent eight years in high school.
Jazz Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Jazz Visual Gag Character Comedy Will: This is a list of sororities. Yes, sir, from alpha to gamma to bad Mama-Jamma.
Will Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Will: Well, yeah, but look at you now, G.
Will Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Geoffrey: Touché. Did you by any chance see Murder, She Wrote last week? No. Good. Watch your back.
Geoffrey Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hilary · Ashley: Look, you guys, Carlton's 18 now. I don't think we should continue to encourage that type of behavior. We're talking about the new baby.
Geoffrey: All right, but I draw the line at breastfeeding.
Uncle Phil: Cough up a lung? No. It's okay. I'm fine. I never felt better. Call an ambulance.
Will: Hey, I tell you what. Come on, you can make it. There's a Dodger dog in it for you.
Will Character Comedy Observational Uncle Phil: Because I'm smarter than the average bear.
Will: Yes, sir, Deputy Dawg.
Will Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Will: Yes, hello, this is Tony Montana. I just saw your billboard on the highway. If you know what's good for you... you'll make me a pepperoni pizza with anchovies on it.
Will Character Comedy Absurdist Will: Just look for the little, square-head guy who can just barely see over the steering wheel.
Will Character Comedy Observational Will · Carlton: I want you to speed up and catch up with them girls, man. That's it, mister, you're on a time-out.
Will: Look, we're young and we're single. One of us is really handsome, the other one is you.
Will Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Carlton: My job is to ruin your fun.
Carlton Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Will: And you really love your work, don't you?
Will Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Will: Well, that may be so, but whether you stop or not, I'm going in one minute.
Will Dark/Subversive Escalation Will: We ain't black. We just got back from Hawaii.
Will Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Carlton: Look, you have exactly 45 seconds to get back from the bathroom. If you're not back, I'm leaving without you.
Carlton Character Comedy Escalation Callback Will: Carlton, it may take you 45 seconds... but it takes a fully grown man a little while longer.
Will Character Comedy Observational Carlton · Will: Will, I think the engine's knocking. That's not where the engine is, stupid.
Will · Jazz: Jazz, how did you get in the trunk? It was easy. Oh, by the way, you need a new lock for your garage.
Carlton: you know, hood things.
Will: Hey, touch that handle, Granny, and you'll be pulling back a nub.
Will Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Homer: Well, considering my limited experience with foreign cars... this being the first one anyone's actually let me touch... I think it went pretty well.
Homer Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Will: Let me guess. You have a nuclear reactor in your backyard, don't you?
Will Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Homer: It's $300. There's $25 for the gas... and $275 to call Germany to find out whether it took regular or unleaded.
Homer Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer: Well, I prefer the term 'emotionally challenged.'
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Carlton · Homer: Well, I've only got $40 cash. You've got to take a credit card. I mean, everyone takes credit cards. What kind of hick are you? The kind that don't take credit cards.
Jazz: Well, between this soda can and what I got in my wallet... I'm good for a nickel.
Jazz Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Homer: If you need me, I'll be at McDonald's watching the numbers change.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Carlton: Can I get $40 in quarters?
Carlton Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Will · Jazz: What do you say, Jazz? You turn my $30 into $300? Does James Brown use a hot comb?
Will · Jazz: Jazz, that was our last chip, man. Don't worry, man. We got her right where we want her.
Will · Jazz: Jazz, you lost all our money, man. I thought you said you knew how to play poker. Poker? You mean this isn't Go Fish?
Will Jazz Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: Come on, baby, have a heart. I'm just a poor black man trying to get to a panty raid.
Will Character Comedy Absurdist Woodrow: Yeah, my Studebaker broke down way back in '78. I've been working here all this time to pay it off.
Woodrow: Fifteen more years and you can just eat my dust.
Woodrow Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Will: Check it out. Look, Lola... I don't want to die here an old white man, okay?
Will Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Will: Jazz, ain't nobody going to pay no money to see your sixth toe.
Will Character Comedy Observational Jazz: I'm sorry. Emergency bean-pot fund.
Jazz Character Comedy Absurdist Carlton · Lola: Okay. I'm thinking of a number between one and ten. What is it? Four. Damn!
Carlton: A black king, and I don't mean Shaka Zulu.
Carlton Observational Character Comedy Carlton: Cherry, cherry, bell! Every time a cherry, cherry, bell!
Carlton: It just sits there taunting me. 'What's wrong, Carlton?' 'Lost your nerve, sissy boy?'
Carlton Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jazz: If I apply the Vulcan death grip, and press real hard right here... I believe I can make him black out.
Jazz Absurdist Character Comedy Will: Look, look, Carlton. Listen, if you get in the car right now... I promise we can sing the theme to West Side Story, okay? You can be Maria.
Will Character Comedy Observational Carlton: If I just play 9,063 more times, I know I can beat it.
Carlton Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Carlton: Buzz off, flattop.
Carlton: Why don't you just get off my damn back?
Jazz: That boy put the 'E' in ignorant.
Jazz Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Will: all I keep thinking about is that little midget we left back there.
Will Character Comedy Observational Jazz: Will, honestly, I don't think Ashley wanted to come along.
Jazz Misdirection Character Comedy Jazz: Then he should feel right at home.
Jazz Character Comedy Observational Carlton: Could luck be a lady tonight? Tramp.
Carlton Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Carlton: Shirley Temple. Hey, no giggling when you bring it to me.
Carlton Character Comedy Observational Carlton: Can it, steroid breath.
Carlton: Hey, man, you tore my shirt. My mother bought me this shirt.
Carlton Character Comedy Observational Bo: Why don't you go call your mom, have her send you a new shirt?
Bo Character Comedy Escalation Will: Well, I mean, I wasn't suggesting me specifically.
Will Character Comedy Observational Will: Look, the time comes when a man has to take responsibility... and fight his own battles. And I'll let you know when the time comes.
Will Character Comedy Misdirection Jazz: How good are you at faking seizures?
Jazz Absurdist Character Comedy Will: Just take the keys, start the engine. I'm going to bite him and jump in the car.
Will Absurdist Physical/Slapstick Bo: Let's get busy. I ain't got all night. Nightline is on in two minutes.
Bo Character Comedy Observational Will: Anybody got any kryptonite in the house?
Will Observational Character Comedy Will: We brothers, man. This is crazy. I mean, we shouldn't be out here about to fight over a couple quarters.
Will Character Comedy Observational Will: And if you want to be the brother that casts the first stone for the degradation of the entire race... then you go right ahead.
Will Character Comedy Escalation Carlton: Will, for a little while, I was living on the edge. I, Carlton Banks, recording secretary of the audio visual squad... was gambling, swearing, and staying up really, really late.
Carlton Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Carlton · Will: Quick, open the back window. Yo, for what, man? I'm going to moon Nevada.
Carlton: Don't worry, Will. This is my lucky day.
Carlton Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Will: I knew your butt was going to get us in trouble, man.
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