Will finds himself stranded in a mountain forest with his new girlfriend's disagreeable father after they parachute out of his disabled plane.
WAR
43.5
Wins Above Replacement
“The Harder They Fall” ranks #121 of 148 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 72.1 — Solid. The episode packs 69 scored jokes at 3.5 per minute, averaging 6.6 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
Lisa's Father: Your damn chute wasn't supposed to open.
Lisa's Father: You talking about my family, boy?
Lisa's Father: The engine's dead.
Lisa: Terms of Endearment, Fried Green Tomatoes...and The Joy Luck Club. Shall I get us some hankies?
Lisa Irony/Sarcasm Misdirection ★ Rewatch Lisa's Father: That ain't happening with us.
All Jokes — 69 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Will: Maybe if I get lucky...we'll have a little action adventure of our own. You know what I'm saying?
Will Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun Will Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: Lisa will watch what I tell her to watch and she will enjoy it.
Will Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Lisa: Terms of Endearment, Fried Green Tomatoes...and The Joy Luck Club. Shall I get us some hankies?
Lisa Irony/Sarcasm Misdirection ★ Rewatch Will: Will's stunned silence/reaction to Lisa's movie choices
Will Reaction Beat Visual Gag Carlton · Will: Have you no shame? Yeah, I'm ashamed of you.
Will: Swell. That will go great with your Weezy collectible cups.
Will Character Comedy Observational Will Observational Physical/Slapstick Carlton: I don't know, Dad, that limbo bar gets as low as 13 inches.
Carlton Setup/Punchline Physical/Slapstick Geoffrey: Oh, and sir, the limbo bar is set at three feet when you're ready.
Geoffrey Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Callback Will: He couldn't make that lying flat on his back.
Will Escalation Physical/Slapstick Callback Lisa: I want you to meet my father.
Lisa Misdirection Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Will: I got us the Wilt Chamberlain suite. With the electronic scoreboard over the bed and everything.
Will Observational Wordplay/Pun Lisa: Well, before you and I get into a little one on one...you're gonna have to talk to the head coach.
Lisa Wordplay/Pun Callback Callback Will: Hey, hey, don't be using my analogy against me.
Will Meta/Self-Referential Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Will: Oh, not the ears, baby.
Will Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort Will: Keep doing that, we're gonna have to dig up his daddy, I'll talk to him too.
Will: Hey, hey, hey, we're not non-profit.
Will Wordplay/Pun Misdirection Lisa: Sorry I'm late...but after I left church, I went down and read some books to the elderly.
Lisa Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Will: Like James Earl Jones. 'This is CNN.'
Will Observational Character Comedy Will: Well, we've only had two food-related deaths in the past month.
Will Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Lisa's Father: It's a joke. I'm joking. I'm pulling your leg.
Will: And if you don't mind me saying so, that is a lovely picture of your wife. I see where Lisa gets her good looks from.
Will Setup/Punchline Misdirection Lisa's Father: That's not my wife. That's my sister-in-law Cecilia. She's so ugly, she'd make an onion cry.
Will: Actually, I was being polite. She is a dog.
Will Escalation Character Comedy Lisa's Father: Hey, hey, she's so ugly, she could make a freight train take a dirt road.
Lisa's Father: Train whistle and sound effects implying the train changing course
Lisa's Father: You talking about my family, boy?
Lisa's Father: You know what, I like you.
Lisa's Father: 'Meticulous.' Hey, now that's a word you don't run into every day.
Lisa's Father: Say, why don't you fly to Frisco with me? You can help me with my vocabulary.
Will: Me, scared? Hell, no.
Will Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Will: Hey, do you think you could just land the plane, you know...and I'll just walk back to L.A.
Will Absurdist Cringe/Discomfort Lisa's Father: Oh, flying upside down makes you a little queasy, doesn't it, boy?
Lisa's Father: You might as well admit it, boy, you're like a squirrel trying to get a nut.
Lisa's Father: How many times did you put those rusty, crusty lips on my daughter?
Lisa's Father: The engine's dead.
Lisa's Father: Faster than a bucket of chicken at Oprah's.
Will: Let me tell you, I'm from Philly...you've gotta wake up pretty early in the morning to get me with some old...
Will Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Lisa's Father: Your damn chute wasn't supposed to open.
Will: Your plane wasn't supposed to crash neither. I guess you just having an all-around bad day, huh?
Will Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm Will: Our precise position is somewhere...over some trees and rocks and stuff.
Will Absurdist Observational Lisa's Father · Will: Mominimum? Don't you understand English, boy? Mominimum.
Ranger · Uncle Phil: Good news. We found the plane. It's totaled. That's good news?
Ranger: If I knew that, I'd be working for the Psychic Friends Network.
Ranger Observational Deadpan/Understatement Ranger: So you're gonna be twice as upset if they're dead, huh?
Ranger Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Ashley: Now, you listen here, Mr. Park-Ranger- Psychic-Friends-Network-freak.
Ashley Escalation Callback Callback Carlton: Look, a party sounds like a lot of fun, but can we please find Will first?
Carlton Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Will Irony/Sarcasm Absurdist Will: We wasted four hours traveling around this stupid mountain.
Will Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Callback Lisa's Father: Stop spouting all that witchcraft.
Will: What the hell does that mean?
Will Reaction Beat Absurdist Will: Please, you're like 479 years old, right?
Will Escalation Character Comedy Lisa's Father: Oh, fine, that makes it easier for me. Old man, huh? I've got you now.
Sound Effects: Coyote howling sounds
Carlton: Right now I bet George is calling somebody a jive turkey.
Carlton Observational Character Comedy Callback Ranger: Oh, don't worry. If he can survive there...a couple of snakes and bears aren't gonna bother him.
Ranger Observational Irony/Sarcasm Will: And that was just the mild.
Will Escalation Deadpan/Understatement Callback Lisa's Father: That ain't happening with us.
Lisa's Father: Not even a little.
Lisa's Father: The defense rests.
Will · Lisa's Father: But don't you care what she wants? - Nope.
Ranger: I mean, that's so much responsibility. I really should be out there looking for your cousin.
Ranger Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Carlton: Don't worry. Will likes to sleep in.
Carlton Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Will: Kind of looked like the beer commercials. Except there wasn't no naked honeys. There wasn't no beer.
Will Observational Escalation Will: But he said, 'No, you go on without me...I wanna stay here and be at one with nature.'
Will Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Carlton: You can't be at one when you two.
Carlton Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Lisa's Father: Outside is a trail of hot sauce. Light a match, take you right to him.
Lisa's Father: Red Rooster? Anybody, give me a hand. Squirrel! I need... Give me a piece of cheese, I'm hungry.
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