A Valentine's double date finds Will treating Ashley like a kid and Ashley demanding r-e-s-p-e-c-t.
WAR
82.3
Wins Above Replacement
“Stop Will In The Name Of Love” ranks #6 of 148 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 84.6 — Elite. The episode packs 101 scored jokes at 5.7 per minute, averaging 6.9 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
Will: I know that routine... I invented that routine.
Will Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: Well, I was thinking... we'd run some guns to Nicaragua... but we'll probably just come home.
Will Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Will: Look, chances are, a girl who matches up with you... has already taken her own life.
Will Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Carlton: Look who just floated in on cloud nine, Philip and Vivian Banks... two people, who, over the years, never stopped loving each other. I should know, my room was just down the hall.
Carlton Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Phil: See, this girl that I'm dating tonight is kind of like a 6.6 on the Richter scale... so I wanna be there, you know, for all the aftershocks.
Phil Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 101 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Will · Carlton: Everybody gets stood up once. - Once a month?
Will: Look, chances are, a girl who matches up with you... has already taken her own life.
Will Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Carlton: I'll be back in the stockroom in the dark.
Will · Carlton: Carlton. - No.
Will: What took you so long, girl? Damn.
Will Misdirection Character Comedy Hilary: Once the bread is in those little slots, you just slide the lever down?
Hilary Character Comedy Absurdist Hilary: Not now, I'm learning how to cook.
Hilary Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Will: Gee, Uncle Phil, how are you gonna top last year?
Will Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm Carlton: Valentines fun for you and your lover... come sing at the Peacock for a 10 dollar cover.
Carlton Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Will: Gosh, for real? Aunt Viv, can I be excused from the table? I'm just too darned excited to eat.
Will Irony/Sarcasm Deadpan/Understatement Carlton: But Mom, Dad, I've reserved special seats right next to the speakers for you.
Carlton Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Vivian: You big romantic guy you.
Vivian Irony/Sarcasm Deadpan/Understatement Hilary: This is going to be a breeze.
Ashley Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Ashley: This is not going to help my reputation.
Ashley Character Comedy Observational Ashley: Boys will not even come near me... at school without having a lawyer present.
Ashley Escalation Character Comedy Phil Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Ashley: Will, the last time daddy drove me and my date to the movies... he wound up sitting in the two seats behind us.
Ashley Escalation Character Comedy Phil: See, this girl that I'm dating tonight is kind of like a 6.6 on the Richter scale... so I wanna be there, you know, for all the aftershocks.
Phil Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Ashley: Yeah, I know what you're saying. I'm doomed.
Ashley Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Phil · Ashley: Free Willy. Beethoven's 2nd? The Return of the Care Bears? - Oh, that was my first choice.
Phil: Oh, but if your mother asks tomorrow... I didn't get any extra butter on my popcorn.
Phil Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Phil: I'm not gonna have my daughter involved in one of your wild evenings.
Phil Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Will: We playing miniature golf.
Will Misdirection Character Comedy Will: That'll be cool unless the church group shut that place down, you know?
Will Escalation Character Comedy Will: Well, I was thinking... we'd run some guns to Nicaragua... but we'll probably just come home.
Will Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Phil: But if anything happens to her, those hands will be without fingers.
Phil Character Comedy Escalation Will: Yes, sir. Lose my fingers, sir.
Will Reaction Beat Character Comedy Carlton: Now I know, most of you are wondering two things: 'How does he dress so well?'... and 'What is this thing called karaoke anyway?'
Carlton Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Carlton: Actually, karaoke has two definitions. Carry, as in carry a tune... and oke, as in okey-dokey, let the good times roll.
Carlton Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Vivian: Philip, why don't you be a man... and admit that you forgot Valentine's Day.
Vivian Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Phil: All right. I admit, I just forgot. How come you don't forget Thanksgiving?
Carlton: Look who just floated in on cloud nine, Philip and Vivian Banks... two people, who, over the years, never stopped loving each other. I should know, my room was just down the hall.
Carlton Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Phil · Vivian: Let's get out of here. - Just...
Will: Wait a minute, it looks as though she's getting some help from her caddy.
Will Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Samantha · Will: Will, I thought you were the announcer. Hush up, I'm trying to help you with your form.
Samantha · Will: Stop, not in front of your cousin. - Oh, yeah, yeah, you're right.
Will · Samantha: Come on, let's go out to the car. - Stop.
Ashley: Probably the same thing you were saying to girls when you were his age.
Ashley Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Bryan: I doubt it. When I was his age, I was trying to get the girls to...
Bryan: No, no. He's just a little kid and so is Ashley.
Bryan Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bryan · Will: Not so little, Will. She is a beautiful girl. Didn't you see what the putter guy did? - No, what did he do? - He dropped her ball on purpose.
Bryan: Now, why would he do that, unless he was trying to check out her...?
Will: No, look, that is not possible.
Bryan · Will: Hey, when I was 15, it was possible. Yeah, but you was a little freak though.
Will: No, I'm just saying things were a lot faster in them public high schools.
Will · Bryan: She goes to Bel-Air Academy. I went to St. John's Parochial.
Will: You still got that little dress and them shoes?
Will Character Comedy Visual Gag Will · Bryan: Hey, Carl Lewis, put a move on it. Hey, take it easy, Pops, you'll be in a hole soon enough.
Bryan: That's a really nice outfit.
Bryan Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Bryan · Ashley: Hey, look, if I make this putt, you got to promise me that you'll... Oh, Will.
Hilary: But there's really nothing to it.
Geoffrey · Hilary: Oh, Miss Hilary, could you pass me that heavy iron skillet over there? Hello. How thoughtless of me.
Geoffrey · Hilary: No. Can you say that to me? Well, let's try it again. No. By George, I've got it. - No, no.
Geoffrey Running Gag Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Hilary: I think there's something wrong with the stove.
Ashley: Hole in one, yes! My first one ever.
Ashley Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Ashley: Hole in one, yes! My first one ever.
Ashley Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bryan · Ashley · Will: That bird just doodied on your head. Will, I got a hole in one. Oh, you'll do better next time, baby.
Will · Ashley: I got a idea. Hey, how about we switch partners. You go down there and play with... - Samantha. - Thanks a lot, Ashley.
Will: Oh, you got another hole in one, baby? You good.
Ashley · Bryan: Gosh, it's getting warm out here. - Why don't you take your jacket off?
Will: See... It's some killer bees coming from Mexico. And they could strike at any time. And they love teenage flesh.
Will Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Ashley: Thanks, but I'll risk it.
Ashley Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Will: Just don't worry, man, I ain't gonna let no bees get to this honey.
Will Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Will: Okay, Junior Mac, listen. I think, it's time we had a little chat, mano a boyo.
Will Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Ashley: Will, what are you doing?
Ashley Reaction Beat Character Comedy Bryan: I think, the problem is something called a double standard.
Bryan Character Comedy Observational Will: I know that routine... I invented that routine.
Will Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: I see right through you, you little dog.
Will · Samantha: Fun? Does this look like a place to have fun? I don't think so. Ain't nobody gonna have no fun up in here. Not me, not you, not her... - And definitely not me.
Samantha · Will: Goodbye, Will. Whoa, baby, come back here... What is her name?
Bryan: The word was out on your father... but who knew your whole family was crazy?
Bryan Character Comedy Escalation Callback Will: Hey, let him go. Let him go, baby. And good riddance, you little Filthy McNasty.
Will Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Ashley · Will: Will, how could you do this to me? To you? Ashley, I'm doing this for you.
Will · Ashley: Look, let me make it better. I'm gonna buy you some ice cream. No, I don't want anything. You're worse than daddy.
Bryan Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Will: That's what I call a happy Valentine's Day.
Will: Yeah, right, like you can handle some big old dude trying to be all over you... like cheese on a Big Mac.
Ashley: Will, maybe I like cheese.
Ashley Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: How you gonna like something you ain't never had? Please tell me you ain't never had no cheese, Ashley.
Will Escalation Character Comedy Callback Will: It's cheese, Ashley.
Will Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Will: Maybe we need to send you to an all-girls school, you know. Just so you keep your head on your studies.
Will Character Comedy Escalation Duane: I took it out when I put in the hot tub.
Duane Character Comedy Absurdist Hilary: Or wasn't there a sign or something in the trailer park?
Duane: But while I'm here, maybe I can adjust your attitude.
Hilary: Some old lady fractured her hip and broke her leg in five places. Do I have the worst luck or what?
Duane: I was supposed to go out clubbing with the Maytag repairman. He don't get out much, you know.
Duane Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hilary: I'm too good for you.
Duane: I usually don't say this to a woman, but you know what? You're probably right. Happy Valentine's Day, pretty lady.
Hilary: Duane? Do you fix microwaves?
Phil: Stop it, Vivian. You don't wanna be here any more than I do.
Phil: I work very hard... to provide a good life for you and my family. And every night, I hold you in my arms, I kiss you goodnight. I don't need a holiday to tell you that I love you. I show you all year.
Phil · Vivian: We're going to Paris on our anniversary. Philip. Oh, that's next week. It is?
Ashley: I just paid a 10 dollar cover to spend Valentine's Day with my parents.
Ashley Character Comedy Callback Will: I did. That's why I kicked that old nasty boyfriend's butt out.
Will Character Comedy Callback Carlton: Hey, a little less yelling and shouting, a little more humming and clapping.
Will: We was at the Putt Putt Golf and she was necking.
Will Character Comedy Callback Will: You little Filthy McNasty.
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