To understand Philip's battle with the scale, Will dons a fat suit and gets a big fat lesson in empathy.
WAR
44.6
Wins Above Replacement
“Will Steps Out” ranks #26 of 148 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 80.8 — Elite. The episode packs 45 scored jokes at 2.3 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 7.0 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
Phil: Is that your head or is your neck blowing a bubble?
Phil Absurdist Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Will: Believe it? I've done it.
Will Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Geoffrey Wordplay/Pun Deadpan/Understatement Phil: He is so huge that food comes to him from the gravitational pull alone.
Phil Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Phil · Will: Phil singing 'My Girl' while Will starts crying
Phil Will Reaction Beat Visual Gag ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 45 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Geoffrey: Well, you are what you eat.
Phil · Geoffrey: Did you just call me a big old Butterball? Nothing gets past you, sir.
Phil: His corpulent flesh rolls around his bones like a thick chocolate pudding.
Phil Absurdist Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Phil: He is so huge that food comes to him from the gravitational pull alone.
Phil Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Phil: Is that your head or is your neck blowing a bubble?
Phil Absurdist Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Will: That elephant that trampled all them people called, he want his butt back.
Will Setup/Punchline Absurdist Vivian: Whatever the last bid was, you raise the paddle and double it.
Vivian Character Comedy Observational Carlton: You know, it could be a girl or a guy or some mixture.
Carlton Character Comedy Awkward Silence Carlton: Why don't you just have him beep you?
Carlton Callback Irony/Sarcasm Callback Will: Boy, Mike's really changed his looks since he started playing baseball.
Will Misdirection Observational ★ Rewatch Will: Aw, please, man, getting rid of your beeper like getting yourself fixed.
Will Setup/Punchline Observational Hilary: Excuse me, but I'm, like, starting to sweat.
Hilary Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Hilary: I mean, you don't see me skateboarding with Montel.
Hilary Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Will: Should've given Hilary the paddle. At least we'd be able to drive whatever she bought.
Will Callback Observational Callback Will: I feel like I tried to snatch a cheeseburger from George Foreman.
Will Observational Wordplay/Pun Will: The Dana I was expecting would be sitting down on the toilet... not standing up in front of it.
Will Setup/Punchline Misdirection Lisa: Let things flow naturally, right? Where did you hear that crock of garbage?
Lisa Callback Irony/Sarcasm Callback Will: I ain't gonna be sitting up in the crib like some Silly Putty sucker.
Will Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Will · Carlton: Carlton, you know the chicktionary rules. Right. Three feet back.
Will: You can, uh, think of tonight as an open house.
Will Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline Will: I was just thinking about how they made Tom Cruise even whiter.
Will Misdirection Observational Will: You see, schizoid is a character that I do. Wait till you get to meet love boy.
Will Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Will: Yeah, well, we got the same barber.
Will Setup/Punchline Observational Phil: And as you get older, it might even seem commonplace.
Phil Setup/Punchline Observational Phil: That was a shortcut to the diner where she worked.
Phil · Will: Phil singing 'My Girl' while Will starts crying
Phil Will Reaction Beat Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Phil: Don't be ridiculous, Susan. The whole family would love to go on a 10-mile jog.
Phil Irony/Sarcasm Physical/Slapstick Susan Powter: Yeah, you filthy stinking enabler.
Will: I ain't got no time for buns of brass and brains of bricks.
Will Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Will: My uncle can't walk one mile in my uncle's shoes.
Will Wordplay/Pun Callback ★ Rewatch Will: Looks like Lorena Bobbitt got to this suit, huh?
Will Observational Dark/Subversive Will: Oh, that's how I check them for ripeness.
Will Misdirection Cringe/Discomfort Will: You ain't had no home training, that's what your problem is.
Will Character Comedy Reaction Beat Carlton: but when she threw out the strawberry Pop-Tarts, she crossed the line.
Will: I'm retaining water.
Will Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Will: Well, it ain't Fat Albert.
Will Setup/Punchline Observational Will: And that's when he's gonna pounce on you like a cheetah on a rabbit.
Will Observational Wordplay/Pun Will: And that's when he's gonna pounce on you like a cheetah on a rabbit.
Will Observational Escalation Will: Believe it? I've done it.
Will Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Geoffrey Wordplay/Pun Deadpan/Understatement Geoffrey Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: Carlton... I give you my chicktionary. May it be as good to you as it has been to me.
Will Running Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Will: Carlton... I give you my chicktionary.
Will Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Carlton: I can feel it. I can feel the power! Yes!
Carlton Escalation Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Top Episodes — The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
