Will and Philip are arrested at a massage parlor on Thanksgiving. Hilary and Carlton get a lesson in humility at the homeless shelter.
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“Theres The Rub 2” ranks #73 of 148 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 76.8 — Great. The episode packs 43 scored jokes at 2.4 per minute, averaging 6.7 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
Phil: How about you, Banks? About the same.
Phil Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Hilary: Of course, I stepped out of the way so they couldn't actually touch me... but I really connected.
Hilary Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Hilary: I exploit people every day of the week on my show. It's Thanksgiving, I'm gonna take the day off.
Hilary Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: And we want $10,000 in unmarked bills... and a helicopter on the roof gassed up and ready to take us to Tijuana. Oh, sorry. I just kind of got caught up in the moment.
Will Escalation Misdirection ★ Rewatch Hilary: Yeah, if your last name's Menendez.
Hilary Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 43 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Hendricks: It's an honor, Your Honor.
Will: Well, we can't say nothing happened, Uncle Phil. You know, there was a couple of butt-naked honeys scattered around that place.
Will Cringe/Discomfort Observational ★ Rewatch Will: I guess you wasn't at the Million Man March, huh?
Will Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Vivian: Oh, girl, that boy couldn't keep up with me if I gave him a head start.
Vivian Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Vivian: Girl, that man wasn't looking at you, he was looking at me. Looking at me like it was lunchtime and my legs was Colonel Sanders' extra crispy.
Vivian Observational Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Geoffrey: If you mean something fast and cheap, yes.
Geoffrey Deadpan/Understatement Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Skippy: Will you be my friend?
Skippy Cringe/Discomfort Absurdist ★ Rewatch Will Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Will: Uncle Phil, you might know your way around the mean streets of Bel-Air... but I think you better let me handle this brother on the phone, all right?
Will Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Tough prisoner: What's the big deal anyway? It wouldn't be the first time you broke somebody's legs. All right. I love you too, Mama.
Hilary: Maybe I don't come to places like this and do this kind of work as often as I could... but that's who I am, damn it. It doesn't make me a bad person.
Hilary Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Shelter resident: Honey, I live here.
Hilary: So the plates go in the back?
Hilary Reaction Beat Cringe/Discomfort Will: I'm thinking that in a week when we look back on this, we are just gonna laugh. Maybe two weeks.
Will Setup/Punchline Observational Will: Hey, it's a good thing, man... I thought we was gonna have to Bruce Lee you up in here, you know?
Will Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Skippy: A shot to the helmet? Oh...
Skippy Visual Gag Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Phil: How about you, Banks? About the same.
Phil Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Hilary: Right, Mr. 'Hey, Big Guy... can I have a copy of your will in case something happens to you?'
Hilary Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Hilary: Yeah, if your last name's Menendez.
Hilary Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Carlton: See, you're a nag. That's exactly why you don't have a boyfriend.
Geoffrey: Well, maybe they pulled in, smelled your stuffing and turned back around.
Geoffrey Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement Vivian Reaction Beat Character Comedy Will: There's a bug on mine.
Will Visual Gag Cringe/Discomfort Will: Stuck in a jail cell with some angry 400-pound man whose life you wrecked.
Will Observational Character Comedy Skippy: And thank you so much for sharing it with me.
Skippy Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Will: I'm about to dig in to this cream-of-bug sandwich.
Will Visual Gag Wordplay/Pun Will: Big gorgeous roasted turkey... four different kinds of stuffing. Candied yams, and macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes... And little tiny onions swimming in a sea of cream sauce.
Will Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Will: And we want $10,000 in unmarked bills... and a helicopter on the roof gassed up and ready to take us to Tijuana. Oh, sorry. I just kind of got caught up in the moment.
Will Escalation Misdirection ★ Rewatch Prisoner: Grape jelly? You can't make these with no damn grape jelly.
Carlton: A turkey? Hardly. In point of fact, it's a Cornish game hen. A flightless bird hale from the Isle of Wight. Braised in cognac with a hint of fennel. A fitting end for a noble fowl.
Carlton Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Shelter resident: You're kind of weird. So you want one or not?
Hilary: I exploit people every day of the week on my show. It's Thanksgiving, I'm gonna take the day off.
Hilary Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hilary: For the first time in my life, I thought about others instead of myself. Ooh. I'm tingling all over.
Hilary Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Skippy: Yeah. Just tell your boy he'd better be at the next march.
Skippy Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Phil: When you have a chronic back problem and you go for a therapeutic massage... and wind up in a house of ill-repute, which is subsequently raided... and you are arrested by mistake... never tell your wife. Hmm? Poof.
Phil Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Hilary: Of course, I stepped out of the way so they couldn't actually touch me... but I really connected.
Hilary Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Phil: Thank you for keeping us safe and delivering us from... Tiny. Tiny, as well as larger temptations.
Phil Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Uncle Phil: Thank you for our health. Thank you for this food. But most of all, thank you for keeping us safe and delivering us from... Tiny. Tiny, as well as larger temptations.
Hilary Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Phil: Everything was exactly as delicious as everything else.
Phil Deadpan/Understatement Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Vivian: I guess it was kind of fun when Vy dropped that bag of powdered sugar all over Helen.
Vivian Visual Gag Physical/Slapstick Hilary: Yeah, talk about being led around by your apron strings.
Vivian: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Listen, I love y'all too... but the bottom line is my stuffing was the best. Any fool can see that. You tasted it. You tasted it with your own mouth.
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