Will returns to the City of Brotherly Love and discovers he's the butt of old friends' jokes, prompting him to go into training to settle an old score and clear his reputation as a chicken.
WAR
53.7
Wins Above Replacement
“The Philadelphia Story” ranks #18 of 148 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 81.5 — Elite. The episode packs 54 scored jokes at 2.9 per minute, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.9 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: The dude that be spinning me over his head in the opening credits.
Will Meta/Self-Referential Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Duke Setup/Punchline Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Duke: Only instead of fighting, he ran clear across the country to California. He was a chicken to go.
Duke Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: If I win, I need a witness. If I lose, you're my blood type.
Will Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Carlton: Look, when we get back, Dad will buy us a stoop.
Carlton Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 54 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Carlton · Will: Don't you mean "Brotherly Love"? / Take my word on this one, Carlton.
Carlton: No country club reciprocity.
Carlton Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Carlton: God forbid she should send a picture.
Carlton Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Will: It is a damn shame when people are spoiled by money.
Will Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: G, put some butter on that, bring that out to me in the car.
Will Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Aunt Vy: I spent 10 years customizing this thing to my boogie.
Aunt Vy Character Comedy Observational Aunt Vy: Now, I don't want none of y'all sitting in it and stretching out my sweet spot.
Aunt Vy Character Comedy Observational Aunt Vy: Don't make me kill you in your mother's home.
Aunt Vy Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Hilary: Yeah. I mean it's so... poor.
Hilary Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Carlton · Will · Carlton: What's Happening! Or What's Happening Now? / What's Happening! / Neato! I get to be Rerun.
Will: Hey, Mom, listen, you should probably make sure that Uncle Phil sleeps on the bottom bunk. Because if he get up on the top bunk... Well, you know gravity ain't no joke. You know what I'm saying? He could end up in China.
Will Physical/Slapstick Observational Carlton: How about if just I left?
Carlton Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Carlton: That's what I get for being considerate.
Carlton Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Will: You're cheating. You're cheating. My mama cheating.
Will Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Carlton · Hilary · Hilary: How come we never had that much fun? / I don't know. / What's on TV?
Hilary: Right about now, I bet Geoffrey is turning back my covers and putting a little mint on my pillow.
Hilary Character Comedy Observational Carlton Observational Deadpan/Understatement Carlton: What do you have to tip the maitre d' to get a good stool?
Carlton Character Comedy Observational Duke: Why don't you take your Bing Crosby butt over to the golden arches and lie down in front of a drive-through window.
Duke Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Duke: Four Joe Frazier's in cheese trunks.
Duke Wordplay/Pun Observational Duke Wordplay/Pun Observational Carlton: You call that pathetic strip of graffiti-littered concrete legendary?
Carlton Character Comedy Observational Will: How come I got older, but you didn't?
Will Observational Meta/Self-Referential Dick Clark: Duke's sandwiches, a fountain of youth.
Duke Setup/Punchline Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Duke: Only instead of fighting, he ran clear across the country to California. He was a chicken to go.
Duke Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Duke: The ears were a little bigger, but it is you!
Duke Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Dick Clark: Hey, it's got a good beat, and you can run to it.
Dick Clark Wordplay/Pun Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Duke: California's the other way!
Duke Callback Physical/Slapstick Callback Will · friend: That's funny? / I ain't laughing.
Friend: We can't. All our relatives live here.
Friend Observational Character Comedy Will: I just went to visit y'all for four years.
Will Character Comedy Misdirection Carlton: Hey, mister, there's nothing worse than dirty Dockers.
Will: The dude that be spinning me over his head in the opening credits.
Will Meta/Self-Referential Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Friend: Yo, remember in junior high when he stole the principal's car just to run him over?
Friend Dark/Subversive Escalation Will: If I win, I need a witness. If I lose, you're my blood type.
Will Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Carlton: Gee, this playground makes the other one look like Club Med.
Carlton Observational Character Comedy Carlton: A bad smell isn't worth a mouthful of bloody Chicklets.
Will: It's like his brain is so tiny, if he shake his big head like this, it'd sound like a BB in a canteen.
Will Setup/Punchline Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Will · Omar · Will · Will: Me and Carlton can take you. / You and who? / Carlton. Ain't that right...? Carlton?
Hilary · Aunt Vy: That's made from the part of the pig that's not good enough to go in sausage. / But it's good enough to go in Philip.
Hilary: I don't know, I'm supposed to be in England. Get some English muffins.
Hilary Character Comedy Absurdist Geoffrey: There is room for one more.
Omar: You're the chicken sandwich guy.
Omar Callback Character Comedy Callback Will: You so ugly, when you was born, the doctor just slapped both your parents.
Will Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Will: She is like a doorknob, everybody gets a turn!
Will: I guess the mom's the red button.
Will Reaction Beat Observational Omar Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Vy · Will: Maybe you can come back when they make it to the World Series. / I can't do it.
Aunt Vy · Will: Maybe you can come back when they make it to the World Series. / I can't do it.
Carlton: Just watch it on TV with the rest of us.
Carlton Observational Deadpan/Understatement Carlton: You mean I was in a garbage can for nothing?
Carlton Physical/Slapstick Reaction Beat Carlton: Look, when we get back, Dad will buy us a stoop.
Carlton Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Top Episodes — The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
