In competition with Carlton, Will sets out to prove he's the best man for the job on Hilary's TV show by escorting a famous comedian's sister out on the town.
WAR
16.9
Wins Above Replacement
“Get A Job” ranks #142 of 148 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 68.0 — Mixed. The episode packs 75 scored jokes at 3.7 per minute, averaging 6.2 on craft and 6.2 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: Hi. As the ain't-got-no-damn-choice king of poultry...
Will Character Comedy Callback Callback Will: Read my beak: I quit.
Will Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Geoffrey: You know, it's true what they say, TV really does add 10 pounds. Hmm. What would account for the other 250?
Will · Carlton: Snake? Weasel? Oh, yes. Nerd? Oh, yes. How about square-headed short stack?
Carlton: Because if you don't, I'll fire you from the Peacock. You'll drop out of school and be wrestling for scraps... with a guy named Joe in the dumpster behind the Sizzler.
Carlton Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 75 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Will: If you think you can do it any faster, then you come in here.
Will Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Will: Hey, look, I just ain't trying to be out there looking stupid, all right?
Will: Hold up, Carlton. Wait a minute. A chicken eating chicken? That's just sick.
Will Observational Absurdist Will: What part of the chicken you like?
Director/Producer: Break it up. You, out. Big Bird, back to work.
Carlton: Because if you don't, I'll fire you from the Peacock. You'll drop out of school and be wrestling for scraps... with a guy named Joe in the dumpster behind the Sizzler.
Carlton Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Carlton: But, hey, you have to live your own life.
Carlton Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Will: Hi. As the ain't-got-no-damn-choice king of poultry...
Will Character Comedy Callback Callback Director: I am not experiencing happy chicken here.
Carlton: With all due respect, Will, you're not exactly overqualified.
Will: Read my beak: I quit.
Will Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Carlton · Will: It's him. He started it.
Will: Hey, I mean, I can assist. I'm talented. Definitely coordinated.
Will Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Will: What are you doing here, Teeny? You already got a good job.
Hilary: Hilary rapid-fire hiring both of them for the same job
Hilary Character Comedy Absurdist Carlton · Will: I can type 100 words a minute, I take shorthand, speak French and Spanish. I'm pre-law with a 4.0 average. And you? Well, you know, I mean, I don't like to brag... But? Oh, that's it. I just don't like to brag.
Carlton: Pay no attention to him. He's a chicken.
Carlton: That's right, you've got it. Ha, ha. He's a follower not a leader.
Werner: You know, you remind me of myself. I used to be an entry-level butt-kisser too.
Werner Observational Character Comedy Will: That big Blow Pop head swindled his way in and took what was mine.
Jazz: Damn. That's even worse than getting beat up by a girl.
Jazz Observational Escalation Jazz: Come get your freak on at Club Freak On. Took me a long time to find something that rhymed with Freak On.
Jazz Observational Deadpan/Understatement Will: MC Steal-a-Job is in the house.
Will Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Carlton: Do I detect a little hostility, Will? Sour grapes perchance?
Carlton: Pay no attention to my unemployed friend here.
Will: Oh, two of y'all can fit on a Big Wheel?
Will: That's it. Beak on. 'Come get your beak on at...'
Will Callback Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Carlton · Will: You were funnier with your beak on. That's it. Beak on. Come get your beak on at...
Maurice: Then this Chinese guy comes in and says, 'Supplies. Supplies.'
Maurice · Hilary: Then this Chinese guy comes in and says, 'Supplies. Surprises.' Oh, that is so funny. I don't get it, but you are so funny.
Will: Excuse me, Bonbon? We're not finished talking yet.
Carlton: Although we never really did a background check.
Carlton: Why don't you go back into the kitchen and play with your future cell mate?
Will: Oh, speaking of schedules, Carlton. The clinic called. You're still on for your implant tomorrow.
Will Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Will: Oh, nothing but the rotting residue of the lies you told to steal my job.
Will Character Comedy Escalation Will: Yeah? Well, the bigger, badder man's about to beat the better man into oblivion.
Will Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: You think it's easy catering to a low-rent Martin Lawrence wannabe?
Maurice: I don't have to sit here and be insulted... by some black Potsie Weber. I'm out of here, okay?
Maurice: Pardon me. I don't have to sit here and be insulted by some black Potsie Weber. I'm out of here, okay?
Will: You kind of drifted into a no-fly zone. Look, Potsie don't know what he talking about, all right?
Will Callback Character Comedy Callback Will: Look, Potsie don't know what he talking about, all right?
Will Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Maurice · Hilary: But keep the Smurf away from me. That's doable. You're fired. Will, you're hired.
Geoffrey: You know, it's true what they say, TV really does add 10 pounds. Hmm. What would account for the other 250?
Uncle Phil: You know, you're not a man who enjoys employment, are you, Geoffrey?
Uncle Phil · Geoffrey: Food? Ha-ha-ha. Shut up.
Will: Studying, huh? What is this, your geometry dress?
Will Observational Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Carlton: Well, if it isn't the wise-cracking, job-taking, sister-stealing slug himself.
Will: Whoo! Who's sucking on them sour grapes now, huh, Carlton?
Will Character Comedy Callback Callback Jasmine: Now, which one of you handsome men is Big Willy?
Jasmine Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Will: Will's stunned reaction and long pause
Will Reaction Beat Awkward Silence Will: Looks like you already got it on.
Will Character Comedy Observational Will: Oh, no, it's my stomach. I probably should've waited about an hour before we danced.
Will Character Comedy Misdirection Will: Oh, I put her back under her bridge.
Will: Why don't you hurry and write your number down before I don't want it no more?
Will Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: You are learning entirely too much from me, young lady.
Will: You said, 'Jasmine,' I thought you said, 'Jazz, man.'
Will Wordplay/Pun Misdirection Will: First time I have a chance to prove that I'm not a joke... and I am.
Will Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: First time I have a chance to prove that I'm not a joke... and I am.
Will Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Geoffrey: You asked if she called, sir. She was here.
Geoffrey Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Geoffrey: You asked if she called, sir.
Geoffrey: Don't know, don't care.
Geoffrey Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Ashley · Uncle Phil: Will a week cover it? Better make it two. Two's good.
Will: You know, how we can live together all these years, almost like brothers... and you could still low-bridge me the way you did.
Will · Carlton: Snake? Weasel? Oh, yes. Nerd? Oh, yes. How about square-headed short stack?
Carlton: This is not the way this is supposed to be going.
Carlton Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Carlton: Who may not be a looker, but is quite an entertaining gal.
Carlton: You think you're just gonna charm your way through. Just like your father.
Carlton Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Will: Let me tell you something. I am nothing like my father, all right?
Carlton: And besides, the Ivy League looks down on the entertainment industry.
Will: There's some hundred percent USDA prime choice down there. I could be tenderizing right now. Tenderizing as we speak.
Jasmine: Carlton was right. It was only a three-and-a-half-hour virus.
Jasmine Callback Misdirection Callback Jasmine: Carlton was right. It was only a three-and-a-half-hour virus.
Jasmine: I hear they have nude beaches.
Jasmine: I hear they have nude beaches.
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