Will loses points as a role model for Nicky while visiting an ever-positive kiddie hero who brings joy to youngsters - but not to Will.
WAR
43.1
Wins Above Replacement
“Reality Bites” ranks #99 of 148 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 74.6 — Great. The episode packs 70 scored jokes at 3.6 per minute, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.5 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
Santa: Oh, here, here. You be a good boy. And tell Carlton to stop faxing me. I cannot get him into Princeton.
Santa Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dougie: Hey, someone check the damn level.
Dougie Character Comedy Misdirection Will Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Will: I love bugs and I love death, I love oozing flesh wounds
Will Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Will: See, Shaft was a complicated man.
Will Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback All Jokes — 70 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Carlton · Will: Will, you're just Nicky's cousin, I'm his brother. I'm a big branch of his family tree. Then why are your limbs so short?
Will: Don't forget your flag, though. What's a day at the Nixon Library without Old Glory?
Will Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm Will · Carlton: Everybody going to the beach say, 'Kowabunga!' Kowabunga! Hey!
Will · Hilary: Man, now who does a thing like that? I know, can you believe her?
Hilary: I'll get her. And her little car too.
Hilary Character Comedy Observational Hilary · Will: Will's come a long way from Philly, but let's face it... he's still a common street hood from the wrong side of the tracks. So will you help me?
Will: Oh, gee, you know, when you put it that way, no.
Will Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm Will: Dude came out, started that joint, it was like 'kaboom!' Boom!
Will Physical/Slapstick Escalation Geoffrey: What a wonderful lesson for Master Nicky. Perhaps now you could teach him to run with scissors.
Geoffrey Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm Hilary: Geoffrey, if I were a potato, where would I be?
Hilary Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Carlton: Yeah, me and Will are going trolling for slimmies.
Carlton Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Will: Look, Ashley, it's Daddy's mad face.
Will Observational Character Comedy Ashley: Come on, Nicky, let's go upstairs before Daddy's head explodes.
Will: Oh, kind of like Michael Bolton.
Will Observational Setup/Punchline Carlton · Will: Will locked me in the closet. That's so tired.
Ashley · Will: Oh, don't worry, Mom, it only happened once. You meant Nicky, didn't you?
Will: Oh. Dougie? That big, dumb, orange whale that be singing them stupid songs?
Will Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Carlton: Those are life-affirming little ditties... that bring joy to the young and young at heart.
Carlton Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Will: Now, can we think about this for a second, please? Now, Dougie loves everything. People, am I the only one that finds something terribly wrong with that?
Will Observational Dark/Subversive Will: I love bugs and I love death, I love oozing flesh wounds
Will Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Nicky · Phil: Mommy! Mommy! Will! Will! What the hell is wrong with you?
Will: Well, he is a whale. Maybe we should go look for him at the beach.
Will Deadpan/Understatement Observational Dougie: Hey, someone check the damn level.
Dougie Character Comedy Misdirection Dougie: That's it. You SOBs better pull your thumbs out... and get your freaking acts together.
Dougie Character Comedy Escalation Callback Will: I think something must have crawled up his blowhole.
Will Wordplay/Pun Observational Carlton: Last time a Dougie concert was canceled, kids went crazy and trashed a babyGap.
Carlton Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Will: I'm gonna go back and have a mammal-to-mammal with Dougie.
Will Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Dougie: Aren't you a little old for this crap?
Dougie Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Dougie: Then the little brat got his money's worth. Now beat it.
Dougie Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Will: Um, look here, you big orange Moby Dick.
Will Character Comedy Escalation Dougie: I know this isn't as glamorous as your job down at the mini-mart...
Dougie Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Will: You pushed me, called me 'punk.' That's funny.
Will Escalation Character Comedy Will Escalation Physical/Slapstick Carlton · Child: Okay, time for another song. What are you doing to Dougie?
Will · Dougie · Nicky: Oh. We was just playing, y'all. Hey, sorry. I need a drink. You hurt Dougie. I hate you, Will.
Children · Carlton: Get him! No.
Carlton: Nicky and I are gonna be spending more time together, especially since he's... M-A-D at W-I-L-L.
Carlton Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Nicky: Mommy, I H-A-T-E them.
Nicky Callback Wordplay/Pun Callback Will: Heh. Really? It's hard to imagine you being quiet for that long, Aunt Viv.
Will Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Will · Vivian: Didn't you chop the head off her teddy bear and flush it down the toilet? That's how I got over it.
Hilary: Wielding? I was not wielding, I was rubbing. I rubbed that damn potato all over Leeza's car... and it didn't make a scratch.
Hilary Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Hilary: At least they didn't catch me putting my keys in her exhaust pipe.
Hilary Escalation Character Comedy Callback Geoffrey: Hilary, you were suppo... Never mind.
Geoffrey Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Carlton: Oh, right, the guy inside Dougie.
Carlton Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Will: That damn whale got him brainwashed.
Will Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Will · Ashley: Yeah, Shaft. And how did you feel when you found out that Shaft wasn't real? What are you talking about?
Will · Ashley: No, I'm saying, he was based on an actual guy. No, he wasn't. He was too, Ashley. Shaft is fictional, Will. I'm saying, he went to Africa and everything.
Will · Ashley: No, I'm saying, he went to Africa and everything. / Shaft is fictional, Will. / I'm saying, he went to Africa and everything.
Will Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Geoffrey: Yes, but I so rarely have a woman scream my name... I was rather enjoying it.
Hilary: Geoffrey, if I knew how to use the VCR, would I need this camera? No, I would not.
Hilary Character Comedy Absurdist Hilary · Geoffrey: Ooh, that witch. So you see it too. All I see is a beautiful woman... perched atop two of the most finely sculpted legs I've ever seen.
Hilary: Oh, like those are real.
Hilary Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Carlton: Whoa, whoa, whoa, the pogmeister's in the house. Who wants some?
Carlton Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Carlton: Gets that from his mother.
Will: Any other normal kid, you could just buy their love back.
Will Dark/Subversive Observational Phil: Well, now, Will, as much as the idea of your reproducing scares the hell out of me...
Phil Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Will · Phil: How come you don't ever do that? Don't question me.
Will · Nicky: Wow. I didn't know you could read the paper. I can't.
Will: Here, read the personals, Nicky. Yo, hottie. Yo.
Will Absurdist Character Comedy Will · Santa: Freeze, munchkins! They're not munchkins, son, they're elves.
Will · Santa: Who are you, Keebler? Oh, boy, you're not even close.
Will · Santa: Oh, I'm sorry. Santa Claus. Right on, yeah. Everybody knows Santa Claus is a Clippers fan. I am not. I just can't move these things.
Santa: Maybe this year I'll put a brain in your stocking.
Santa Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Will: Why do these make-believe guys keep pushing me?
Will Observational Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Santa: Oh, here, here. You be a good boy. And tell Carlton to stop faxing me. I cannot get him into Princeton.
Santa Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Nicky · Will: You know Santa? Know him? Who do you think gave him the idea for that mistletoe thing?
Will · Nicky: See, we was chilling back in Philly one night. It was me, Santa, the tooth fairy and Shaft, right? Who's Shaft?
Will: See, Shaft was a complicated man.
Will Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Will: See, Shaft was a complicated man.
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