Put into a trance by a stage hypnotist, Will behaves like a 4-year-old just as the family gears up for an interview with the admissions head of a private school.
WAR
39.4
Wins Above Replacement
“Save The Last Trance For Me” ranks #74 of 148 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 76.6 — Great. The episode packs 54 scored jokes at 2.8 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
Will: [DOORBELL RINGS] [BARKING]
Will Callback Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Callback Geoffrey: Actually, madam, I got it from the Gary Coleman Cookbook. Hope you like short ribs.
Geoffrey: Can he make me think I care?
Geoffrey Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will · Carlton · Nicky: Well, you need to stop pressuring him. You treat him like a ventriloquist's dummy. That's not what I'm doing. Nicky, what school do you wanna go to? The best school in L.A. Crescent Rock School. Yeah, I was wrong, Carlton. You're the dummy.
Geoffrey: Why, certainly, Master Carlton. I just happen to have a trolley in my trousers.
Geoffrey Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 54 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Will: I want something simple. Just me and my boys barking like seals at naked women. [BARKING]
Will Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Carlton: But, Will, that's so politically incorrect. No one likes naked women anymore, believe me.
Carlton Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Will · Carlton: Tell me again, why did I make you my best man? You said I'm like the brother you never had. No, no, I said you like the brother I never wanted.
Will · Carlton: When you wake up, you will be very, very short. Damn, see, that stuff does work.
Will: [IN NATIVE AMERICAN ACCENT] Distant drums say man with giant pants... forget important interview.
Will Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Hilary: Well, can't you cancel it? [LAUGHING] Good one, Daddy. Ha.
Hilary Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Geoffrey: Certainly, sir. I'll just have to make this triple fudge bundt cake tomorrow.
Geoffrey Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Ashley: Sure, my bike has a basket.
Ashley Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch Will: Or that weird dude that be vacuuming our pool.
Will Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: Say, don't you have a class now? Oh, that's not important.
Will Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: Or you could say, 'In two years, I'll be bigger than you.'
Will Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will · Carlton · Nicky: Well, you need to stop pressuring him. You treat him like a ventriloquist's dummy. That's not what I'm doing. Nicky, what school do you wanna go to? The best school in L.A. Crescent Rock School. Yeah, I was wrong, Carlton. You're the dummy.
Will: Now I know what Uncle Phil must feel like in a Miata.
Will Observational Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Nicky: Hi, I'm Nicky. Is there any apple juice?
Nicky Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Ruby: That may be why the other adults were standing.
Ruby Observational Reaction Beat Will: You know, he just wrote, produced, directed his first screenplay. The Forest Gumby.
Will Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Nicky · Will: Look, I can make myself dizzy. That's a part of his comedy act. Yeah, that one killed them at Def Jam, Junior.
Nicky Will Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch Will: Oh, hey, well, Nicky here is a big interacter. You might call him the last interaction hero, you know.
Will Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: This is that mountain from Hawaii, Mount Kichikichiyayadada.
Will Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Nicky · Teacher · Nicky: It's really a turtle. He's inside his shell. Is he hiding because he's nervous about going to a new school? No, he's watching Power Rangers.
Will: What, an artificial heart valve?
Will Observational Escalation ★ Rewatch Will · Carlton: Oh, great. You know, I mean, not 'great' great, you know. But it was good. It was good. You know. You know, not that good, you know. But... What is the word I'm looking for? Bad? Worse than that, but I'll go with bad.
Nicky · Will · Nicky: Will's the one that got yelled at for stealing. Well, she had it coming after the way she talked about your mountain. It was a turtle.
Will: Are you sure that while Aunt Viv was pregnant with Carlton... she wasn't, you know?
Will Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Carlton: Tippy The Drunken Penguin is his opening act. Ooh, you think we could get him for my bachelor party?
Carlton Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: Oh, come on, Uncle Phil, hasn't there been enough black-on-black violence?
Will Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Carlton: Look, Will, she thinks she's naked. Isn't this exciting?
Carlton Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: Ooh. Shoot me, oh, Great Mentos, shoot me.
Will Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Will: Pie. Oh, my God, Uncle Phil.
Will Callback Character Comedy Callback Will: Could I have my coat? My fault.
Will Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Ashley: I've replaced all the video tapes with insect documentaries.
Ashley Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Hilary · Will: It's their end-of-the-season thong blowout. Everything in there is half off. You know what I'm saying?
Geoffrey: Aren't you glad I use Dial?
Geoffrey Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Will: I seen Uncle Phil pick bigger chunks of food out of his teeth.
Will Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Will Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Will · Carlton: [IN CHILD'S VOICE] I gotta go potty. Hey, the buddy system stops at the pool, mister.
Carlton: It must be all that rap music.
Carlton Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Geoffrey: Can he make me think I care?
Geoffrey Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Uncle Phil: Look at that, the boy would rather read than walk. Isn't that beautiful?
Mr. Spiegel · Hilary: But this is a bass. Well, the cello's in the shop, this is a loaner.
Geoffrey: Actually, madam, I got it from the Gary Coleman Cookbook. Hope you like short ribs.
Will · Mr. Spiegel: You like seafood? Of course. See, food.
Carlton · Will: I'll give you a snickerdoodle. Okay.
Geoffrey: Why, certainly, Master Carlton. I just happen to have a trolley in my trousers.
Geoffrey Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch Will: Simon says, 'Freeze.'
Will Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Will · Mr. Spiegel: Okay. What's the most musical part of your body? I don't know. Your nose because you can pick it and blow it.
Will: Excuse me, mister, I'll shine your head for a nickel.
Will Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Carlton: For the love of God, does nobody have a bell?
Carlton Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Will: What the hell is in those crab puffs?
Will Callback Misdirection ★ Rewatch Callback Carlton · Carlton: Too bad we got stuck behind that ice cream truck on the way there. Yeah, those bells turned you into a raving maniac.
Vivian · Nicky: They said it was his sincerity that impressed them the most. They liked that he was just being himself. That's what Will told me to do.
Will: You know, it just seems to me... that there might be a cash gift involved here somewhere, I don't know. Well, I'll settle for just a hearty handshake.
Will Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Will: [DOORBELL RINGS] [BARKING]
Will Callback Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Callback Will: Look, I'll walk him, but somebody else gonna have to pooper scoop.
Will Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Top Episodes — The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
