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* [[The Ace]]: Will.
* [[Crosses the Line Twice]]: Hilary's long-time boyfriend Trevor dying unexpectedly? Tragic and unsettling. Hilary's long-time boyfriend Trevor dying by hitting the ground while bungee jumping as he was proposing to Hilary live on the news channel he worked for with her entire family and presumably hundreds of others watching? One of the most hilarious moments in the show's tenure.
** It's even funnier and possibly crosses the line four or five times, considering she didn't even realise that
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** [http://www.940winz.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=104673&article=8855594 Not so funny if it almost happens in real life.] This incident makes the storyline [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]].
** The time Phil killed Nicky's bunny rabbit... by sitting on it.
*** Even funnier is that when Phil tries to explain death to Nicky by talking about ''[[The Lion King]]'', Nicky just looks at his dad
** And who could forget "Asses to Ashes", in which at Judge Robertson's funeral not a single person has anything nice to say about him. One guy even says "The only reason I'm here is to ''make sure he's really dead!''" Then, when Will (who felt responsible for his death, as he had been yelling at Robertson for playing dirty in the Superior Court election seconds before he died) said to the people in attendance "I'm the one who killed him," everyone ''[[Slow Clap|applauds]]'' him.
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* [[Dude, Not Funny]]: In this case, [[Played for Laughs]] when Geoffrey unveiled his hidden shame of leaving England because years ago he was caught taking a taxi in order to win a marathon (he thought the information might ruin Philip's political campaign, and yes, that marathon thing has happened in real life, albeit accidentally). After showing them the video, everyone sat in silence for a good ten seconds before bursting into laughter. Geoffrey was not amused.
* [[Ear Worm]]: Iiiiin West Philadelphia, born and raised...
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: In a season 2 episode, Jazz shows up with a life-size cardboard cutout of [[Bill Cosby]], prompting Will to ask what happened to his [[Whitney Houston]] cutout. Jazz's response is that she fell apart in the shower. Twenty years later...
** The episode where Uncle Phil has a near-fatal heart attack can be really hard to watch since his actor James Avery passed away due to complications during open heart surgery.
* [[He Really Can Act (Sugar Wiki)|He Really Can Act]]: Will Smith, in "Papa's Got A Brand New Excuse". While he'd arguably proved it in other dramatic moments of the series before then, the absolute gut punch of this episode's subject matter drove home the impact his acting could have like a sledgehammer.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Jada Pinkett was once turned down for a part as one of Will's girlfriends. These days she goes by Jada Pinkett Smith, cause she, y'know, married Will.
** Ashley, backed by Will Smith, has a music career that consists of [[One-Hit Wonder|a hit single then a fall into obscurity]]. This is more or less what happened with Tatyana Ali's own music career later.
** In another episode, Will kept accusing Hilary of "going Hollywood" for being [[Queen Latifah]]'s
** Another episode had [[Queen Latifah]] ([[You Look Familiar|again]]) as a [[Girl of the Week]] who pretended to be a Wooly Mammoth. Enter [[Ice Age]].
** A character played by Will Smith impresses an important person [[The Pursuit of Happyness|by solving a Rubik's Cube really fast.]]
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*** As an added bonus, Carlton attempts to join in with an enthusiastic "I used to live downtown...!" Alfonso Ribeiro went on to make an appearance in Will Smith's "Wild Wild West" music video.
** In an early episode, one-shot character "Dr. No" was played by Richard Roundtree. You know, the lead actor in [[Shaft]]. The character who Will later idolizes.
** In an early [[Very Special Episode]], Will
* [[Irony
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: It is now popular on the internet to randomly mention ''how my life got flipped, turned upside down...''
** Or frequently, telling an unrelated story and suddenly end it with "and then my mom got scared and said..."
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** In one episode Uncle Phil accidentally sits on top of a shoe box containing an adorable white pet bunny. Him killing it, looking inside the box and reacting in horror, and then telling the little boy who owned the bunny is all played for laughs... it... really shouldn't be though.
** Also the bit later where Nikki finds out is meant to be charming, but seeing how [[Dissonant Serenity|disturbingly nonchalant]] he is about his pet dying and even saying "Death is just a natural part of life" is definitely jarring coming from a 6 year old.
* [[Non Sequitur Episode]]: This show had a weird episode, that is all about Will and Carlton making up a story, where Will testifies against a murderer, which forces him and the Banks family to go into hiding in a hillbilly community in the middle of nowhere. Just so Jazz will finally lose to them in Poker.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: There are a few peppered in the series, but none of them comes close to the episode "Papa's Got a Brand New Excuse", where Will's natural father comes to Bel-Air to see him {{spoiler|...and leaves him ''again''}}. The last five minutes will have you bawling your eyes out pretty much without warning; when the credits roll and the camera zooms in on the gift Will bought for his
** [[Fridge Logic]]: ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100716170136/http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1938541 Why would they have a comedian warm us up for that?!]''
* [[Tom Hanks Syndrome]]: Will Smith ran into a career block when trying to keep up the hip, street-savvy black guy he started portraying with this show. Ironically, no one remembered him as "The Fresh Prince" after ''[[Independence Day]]''; see the following entry.
* [[Weird Al Effect]]: Will Smith manages to do this ''to himself''; the name "Fresh Prince" originally served as his stage name as part of DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, but any and all uses of the term as a nickname for him evaporated after ''[[Independence Day]]'' and his transition as a solo rap artist in the mid-1990s. Nowadays "Fresh Prince" is universally shorthand for the series, to the point that younger viewers are unaware that it ever meant anything else.
** Likewise, the [[Theme Tune]] contains several visual [[Shout-Out
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