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** "What's Will Got to Do With It?", the second half of the two-part season five opener, sees Will, having just been booted out as Ashley's music manager, being evicted from his high-rise office by his landlord, who exclaims "I've got the worst luck with tenants!" Said landlord was played by Creator/NormanFell, best known as a certain ''other'' long-suffering landlord -- Mr. Roper -- on ''Series/ThreesCompany''.

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** "What's Will Got to Do With It?", the second half of the two-part season five opener, It?" sees Will, having just been booted out as Ashley's music manager, being evicted from his high-rise office by his landlord, who exclaims "I've got the worst luck with tenants!" Said landlord was played by Creator/NormanFell, best known as a certain ''other'' long-suffering landlord -- Mr. Roper -- on ''Series/ThreesCompany''.
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** "What's Will Got to Do With It?", the second half of the two-part season five opener, sees Will, having just been booted out as Ashley's music manager, being evicted from his high-rise office by his landlord, who exclaims "I've got the worst luck with tenants!" Said landlord was played by Creator/NormanFell, best known as a certain ''other'' long-suffering landlord -- Mr. Roper -- on ''Series/ThreesCompany''.
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* VivaLasVegas: Season 6's "Viva Lost Wages", which sees Will and Carlton on their first trip to Vegas. Carlton ends up gambling away every last penny he and Will have, leading to the two entering a dance contest in the hopes they'll win $1,000 and be able to pay their way home.
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** Sometimes this would even happen in the span of one episode -- "Viva Lost Wages" sees Carlton reference Wayne Newton at the beginning of his and Will's trip to Vegas, and later on the two have a meeting with a casino owner... played by Wayne Newton.
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* FlyInTheSoup: A scene from "She Ain't Heavy" had Will and Phil watching a commercial for something called the Sandwich Pocket, which could put all sorts of topping in a sandwich. While Phil is intrigued, Will is disgusted, saying he hadn't heard of anything that gross since "[[UsefulNotes/AmericanCourts Clarence Thomas]] found that hair on his cola."
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* PunctuatedForEmphasis: In "Reality Bites", Will takes Nicky to see Dougie the Orange Whale perform at the mall, before Dougie's rather foul-mouthed actor decides to take a smoke break, leaving Nicky and the other kids, [[ManChild including Carlton]], disappointed. Will then goes backstage to have a "mammal to mammal" with Dougie's actor, who then proceeds to irk Will further with his attitude, to the point where Will calls him a "big orange Literature/MobyDick". What pushes it into this territory is how Will emphasizes the ''last'' word.
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** In "Community Action", when Jazz tries to move into the Banks' mansion, Will quips that he's about as welcome there as "Mike Tyson at a beauty pageant". At the time the episode aired, Tyson was in prison for raping Desiree Washington.
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* PoorMansPorn: In "Mama's Baby, Carlton's Maybe", when Phil and Vivian question who is the father of Carlton's ex-girlfriend's baby, Will says, "I'm sorry, but for those of you just tuning in to ''Name That Father'', this little bundle of joy belongs to a young man who saw ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'' eight times." While it can be seen as a way to showcase his immaturity, it can also be seen as something else completely.[[note]]And apparently, he's not alone in that stance with that or other Disney animated films, especially those featuring a princess or female protagonist.[[/note]]

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* DoubleEntendre: In "Be My Baby Tonight", Will is on the phone with his girlfriend, when Ashley and her friend Kevin walk in. He then changes the subject to his "book report on Alaska". "And the United States said, you know, I'm thinking of laying a pipeline, are you interested?"

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In "Be My Baby Tonight", Will is on the phone with his girlfriend, when Ashley and her friend Kevin walk in. He then changes the subject to his "book report on Alaska". "And the United States said, you know, I'm thinking of laying a pipeline, are you interested?"interested?"
** * In "Mother's Day," Will is at a sperm bank to help Jazz and Jewel have a child. Jazz shows up with a card that reads "Heard you were having a stroke," which seems like a complete non sequitur until he justifies it by saying, "It was the closest one they had."

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* TakeThat: Will criticizes Dougie, a talking anthropomorphic animal kids' show host, for always being happy and loving everything. [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Hmmm...]]

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Will criticizes Dougie, a talking anthropomorphic animal kids' show host, for always being happy and loving everything. [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Hmmm...]]]]
** * In "The Alma Matter", after an angry Carlton confronts Will over why Princeton wanted him as a student, he begins to randomly quiz about various things. He then asks who said that "[[UsefulNotes/TheMexicanRevolution It's better to die at your feet than to live on your knees]]",[[note]]The quote being said by Emiliano Zapata[[/note]] only for Will to reply, "I'm guessing it wasn't Madonna".
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* BlackIsBiggerInBed: This scene from “Mother’s Day,”[[note]]The episode in which newlyweds Jazz and Jewel, who are struggling to conceive a child, ask Will to be their sperm donor.[[/note]] when Will shows the Bankses his oversized, bronzed baby shoes:
-->'''Ashley:''' ''These'' are your baby shoes?\\
'''Will:''' Yeah, I had big feet... Well, you know what they say about a guy with big feet!\\
'''Ashley:''' ''[smiling]'': No, what?\\
'''Uncle Phil:''' ''[DeathGlare]''\\
'''Will:''' They... they be sayin... 'Damn, those are some big feet!'
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** Uncle Phil has his moments too, mostly whenever he yells at someone, usually Will.
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* NoPeekingRequest: In "The Butler's Son Did It", Will tells Carlton, Jazz and Frederick [[note]]The son of the family butler, Geoffrey.[[/note]] to turn around and cover their ears while he goes into his secret stash to pay the pizza delivery guy. Frederick takes a peek, however, and tries to steal Will's cash just as everyone else leaves, but Will arrives back and catches him red-handed.

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* NoPeekingRequest: In "The Butler's Son Did It", Will tells Carlton, Jazz and Frederick [[note]]The son of the family butler, Geoffrey.[[/note]] [[note]]Geoffrey's son[[/note]] to turn around and cover their ears while he goes into his secret stash to pay the pizza delivery guy. Frederick takes a peek, however, and tries to steal Will's cash just as everyone else leaves, but Will arrives back and catches him red-handed.
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* StupidStatementDanceMix: What Will does to Phil's Superior Court Judge advertisement.

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* ActionFigureJustification: In "Soul Train" Carlton is trying to practice to audition to be on the show, but Will wants him to stay away, because he's hoping to land the hosting job, and is afraid Carlton will embarrass him.
--> '''Carlton:''' And they're going to give you the co-host job based on what? Your love of Don Cornelius dolls?
--> '''Will:''' It's not a doll, man, it's an action figure. And you got no business even being on the Soul Hyundai let alone the Soul Train.



* ActionFigureJustification: In "Soul Train" Carlton is trying to practice to audition to be on the show, but Will wants him to stay away, because he's hoping to land the hosting job, and is afraid Carlton will embarrass him.
--> '''Carlton:''' And they're going to give you the co-host job based on what? Your love of Don Cornelius dolls?
--> '''Will:''' It's not a doll, man, it's an action figure. And you got no business even being on the Soul Hyundai let alone the Soul Train.



** {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Judge Robertson, played by Sherman Hemsley, gets in a heated argument with Phil once he learns that the latter's running against him for Superior Court Justice, culminating with Robertson shouting "[[Series/TheJeffersons Lionel, show him to the door!]]" before walking up the Bankses' stairs. Hemsley showing up later in the run to reprise his role as George Jefferson makes this hilarious in hindsight.

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** {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Judge Robertson, played by Sherman Hemsley, gets in a heated argument with Phil once he learns that the latter's running against him for Superior Court Justice, culminating with Robertson shouting "[[Series/TheJeffersons Lionel, show him to the door!]]" before walking up the Bankses' stairs. Hemsley showing up later in the run to reprise his role as George Jefferson makes this hilarious in hindsight.
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* {{Hellistics}}: In the episode where Will and Lisa are supposed to get married, Lisa's dad complains about some battleaxe of a woman who he had to sit next to on the plane ride there. Then Will's mom arrives and complains about some man she sat next to who called her a battleaxe. Will and Lisa decide to let them have dinner together so they'll start to like each other. Meanwhile, Will is having doubts about his upcoming marriage to Lisa. When he goes to talk to his mom about it, he finds that she slept with Lisa's dad. At the altar, Will and Lisa end up canceling their marriage... and Will's mom and Lisa's dad decide to [[WhyWasteAWedding get married in their place]].
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** The layout of the house was completely different from how it would be in Seasons 2 through 6. The show attempts to explain this as the family having redecorated, but with a change as drastic as this, "remodeled" would've been a more accurate term.
** The iconic ThemeTuneRap included an extra verse in the first season's first few episodes.

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** The layout of the house was completely different from how it would be in Seasons 2 through 6. The show attempts to explain this as the family having redecorated, but with a change as drastic as this, "remodeled" would've been a more accurate term. \n The front door remained the same but kitchen was a standalone set. In the second season the original parlor room was gone and replaced with one that had a white walls (better matching the mansion in the establishing shot), a vaulted ceiling, second staircase at the back and merged directly into a kitchen area now twice the size, which became the more iconic family room of the show.
** The iconic ThemeTuneRap included an extra verse in the first season's first few episodes. The hip-hop focused angle was more prevalent as well, with a couple of other Smith songs filtering into certain sequences.
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** "Sleepless in Bel-Air" ends with Will announcing to Carlton that he failed his Chemistry Test. This comes right after a fake ending where he tells him that he got an 85%. Carlton rightly calls him out for putting off studying until the last minute; Will was unable to get past "Welcome to the exciting world of Chemistry" for most of the episode due to so many distractions.
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* ParanoiaGambit: Phil does this in response to Will's antics once:

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* ParanoiaGambit: Phil does this in response to Will's antics once:once when they get ''particularly'' outrageous (duping a woman into believing he was going to ''marry her''):
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** #6951-#6974 = Season 3

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** #6951-#6974 = Season 33 (during the Blooper Special in Season 6, Will implied that there were 149 episodes, but the actual count was 148. It's possible he may have gone along with Season 3's numbering, and included the 75 episodes of Seasons 4-6 combined.)
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* ClipShow: Every Season (except for Season 2 for some reason) had one.
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** #60031-#60061 = Season 4 (for some reason #60055-#60059 were skipped in the labeling process, and the next Season picked up where the numbering left off.)

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** #60031-#60061 = Season 4 (for some reason reason, #60055-#60059 were skipped in the labeling process, and the next Season picked up where the numbering left off.)
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* EpisodeCodeNumber:
** #6801-#6824 = Season 1
** #6901-#6924 = Season 2
** #6951-#6974 = Season 3
** #60031-#60061 = Season 4 (for some reason #60055-#60059 were skipped in the labeling process, and the next Season picked up where the numbering left off.)
** #60062-#60086 = Season 5
** #60101-#60124 = Season 6
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* FuneralCut: Hilary's boyfriend Trevor appears on television to propose while bungee jumping. Unfortunately, the bungee cord is too long and Trevor impacts the ground. Uncle Phil goes to the phone to call the station and ask about his condition. Cut to the family returning from Trevor's funeral.
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* RagsToRiches: Will can count. Jazz keeps trying to do this.

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* RagsToRiches: Will can count. count how many times Jazz keeps trying cooks up some harebrained scheme to do this.get them rich.
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* BeatWithoutABut: Will and Carlton compete for a new job position and the employer asks them for their qualifications. Carlton gives out his work experience and education while Will answers:
-->'''Will:''' Well, you know, I mean, I don't like to brag...
-->'''Employer:''' But?
-->'''Will:''' Oh That's it. I just don't like to brag.
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The primary relationship is between Will and his uptight cousin Carlton (Creator/AlfonsoRibeiro), who is about the same age. Will also gets on his Uncle Phil's (Creator/JamesAvery) nerves more than anyone else, balanced only by Phil's wife, Vivian (Janet Hubert-Whitten for the first three seasons, [[TheOtherDarrin Darrined]] by Creator/DaphneMaxwellReid later). The younger daughter, Ashley (Creator/TatyanaAli), looks up to Will and the older daughter, Hilary (Creator/KarynParsons), is usually [[TheDitz too airheaded]] to really notice him. Rounding out the main cast is the Banks' butler, Geoffrey (Creator/JosephMarcell), the snarkiest ServileSnarker this side of [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Alfred]].

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The primary relationship is between Will and his uptight cousin Carlton (Creator/AlfonsoRibeiro), who is about the same age. Will also gets on his Uncle Phil's (Creator/JamesAvery) nerves more than anyone else, balanced only by Phil's wife, Vivian (Janet Hubert-Whitten (Creator/JanetHubert-Whitten for the first three seasons, [[TheOtherDarrin Darrined]] by Creator/DaphneMaxwellReid Creator/DaphneReid later). The younger daughter, Ashley (Creator/TatyanaAli), looks up to Will and the older daughter, Hilary (Creator/KarynParsons), is usually [[TheDitz too airheaded]] to really notice him. Rounding out the main cast is the Banks' butler, Geoffrey (Creator/JosephMarcell), the snarkiest ServileSnarker this side of [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Alfred]].
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* FamousForBeingFirst: In "Not With My Pig, You Don't", Uncle Phil's mother tells Will that her son was the first black president of his local Young Farmer's Association. Will is impressed, but Phil doesn't like talking about it because he doesn't find it on par with other civil rights accomplishments ([[SarcasmMode "Puts me right up there with Martin Luther King."]]).
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* PlayingGertrude:
** In real life, Janet Hubert-Whitten was only 10 years older than Karyn Parsons and 15 years older than Alfonso Ribiero but was playing their mother.
** A Season one episode has Music/QueenLatifah playing an overbearing and implied to be middle-aged actress who Hilary works for and who becomes interested in high-schooler Will. Latifah in real life is younger than both actors, being only ''twenty'' when the episode first aired.

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