Will pays for putting off studying for a midterm until the last minute, and Ashley pays for staying out late on her first date.
WAR
29.8
Wins Above Replacement
“Sleepless In Bel Air” ranks #87 of 148 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 75.4 — Great. The episode packs 40 scored jokes at 1.8 per minute, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.6 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: Remember last year when I skipped school...so I could pre-register for jury duty?
Carlton Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Will: Oh, well. I guess sometimes that little hardworking head...just gets squashed into a little black spot, huh?
Will Callback Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Callback Will: Yeah, you also thought Tupac Shakur was a Jewish holiday.
Will Character Comedy Observational Uncle Phil · Geoffrey: Now I know how Captain Ahab felt when he was chasing Moby Dick. - Between the two of you, the cricket is the whale?
Geoffrey: I haven't had one this good since I was strip searched at Dulles Airport.
All Jokes — 40 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Branford: So, Will, I'm off like a dirty shirt.
Will: There's definitely some perks to working for NBC.
Will Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Will: You can sleep under the couch, you squidgit.
Will Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Will: These are big, mean, nasty, bug-eyed...take-over-the-human-race kind of crickets, man.
Will: Listen, if you're gonna hold the popcorn, make sure you hold it up in plain sight...so when he go reaching for the bucket...he don't miss, talking about, 'Oops.'
Will Observational Character Comedy Will: And if he tells you to pull his finger, don't do it.
Will Observational Setup/Punchline Ashley · Will: Daddy never gave Hilary a curfew. - He was probably hoping she wouldn't come back.
Will · Hilary: Oh, yeah, he probably thought you was hot, creamy and rich. - Oh, yeah, that's it. I was pretty sure I wasn't mountain-grown.
Carlton · Will: You know what? I know how we can make it even more like the study center. - I won't be here.
Will: I really don't feel like hearing about you and your little friends, okay?
Will Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Will: Yup, even if we were insects, I'd be bigger than you.
Will Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Will: I cracked it earlier when I had to write down...this honey's phone number right next to the periodical table.
Will Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Carlton: Little Timmy took a drink But he will drink no more For what he thought was H2O Was H2SO4
Will: Little Carlton was a boy Whose body was short and stumpy He never shut his mouth So I kicked his little rumpy
Will Callback Character Comedy Callback Will: Little Carlton was a boy Whose body was short and stumpy / He never shut his mouth So I kicked his little rumpy
Will Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Geoffrey: I haven't had one this good since I was strip searched at Dulles Airport.
Will: Well, these fingers can work magic. Ain't that what the honeys tell me, huh?
Will Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Uncle Phil: I've never seen a mugger at the Pussycat Theater.
Vivian · Will: Maybe we should just try a bottle and a warm bath. - Thought you'd never ask.
Hilary: It's not made from nuts, it's from beans, so I guess I'm beans about coffee.
Hilary Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Hilary: I've always wondered, if coffee's made from beans...does that make it a vegetable?
Hilary Absurdist Character Comedy Hilary: What do you think is propping up my makeup table?
Hilary Visual Gag Character Comedy Will: Yeah, you also thought Tupac Shakur was a Jewish holiday.
Will Character Comedy Observational Will · Ashley: Look, Ashley, listen. Guys are only after two things. - I thought they were only after one. - Well, yeah, but they wanna do it more than once.
Geoffrey: Amazon women had just bound me with sinuous vines...and were taunting me with tangelos.
Uncle Phil · Hilary: What the hell is a tangelo? - 'Tangelo', the fruit of a hybrid citrus tree...that is a cross between certain varieties of grapefruit and tangerine.
Geoffrey: Yes, perhaps the scent of sea breeze...will recall some painful memory for him, and then he'll commit suicide.
Carlton: Remember last year when I skipped school...so I could pre-register for jury duty?
Carlton Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Uncle Phil: Must be the ventriloquist of the animal kingdom.
Uncle Phil · Geoffrey: Now I know how Captain Ahab felt when he was chasing Moby Dick. - Between the two of you, the cricket is the whale?
Hilary: 'Unemployed. Out of work, jobless, not being used. I.E., a person who does not have a job.' See, the answer is right at your fingertips.
Hilary Callback Character Comedy Callback Will: Oh, well. I guess sometimes that little hardworking head...just gets squashed into a little black spot, huh?
Will Callback Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Callback Carlton: Yeah, I was only doing it to get in good with the professor. Oh, well, I guess I'll just have to bring him some cupcakes.
Carlton Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Hilary: Not exactly. The second definition of throttle is, 'To strangle, choke.' Killing is the result of throttling.
Hilary Callback Dark/Subversive Callback Uncle Phil: Or whenever you move out of the house. Whatever comes first.
Will: Ding-dong, the cricket's dead Ashley's grounded Now you all go to bed
Will Wordplay/Pun Callback Callback Ashley · Uncle Phil: The Menendez brothers will be free before I am. - The Menendez brothers got home on time.
Will: Well, the only chemistry I needed...was between me and the honey in the next seat. You know what I'm saying?
Will Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Carlton: You're not really gonna let people think you cheated?
Carlton Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Top Episodes — The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
