hey all! i have a question about teh sad episodes such as just say yo(when carlton takes drugs accidently) or when will gets shot. Which oen si teh saddest and what characters cry in any of teh more emotional episodes? or if anyone knows a good site that reall in detail explains teh episodes i love if ya would tell me :) also is the show on any other channels xcept nick at nite?
thx! :cool:

I think the episode in which will meets his father is the saddest and most emotionally charged episode. When someone watches it for the first time, it's one of those episodes where you tend not to change the channel for that half hour, you really want to see how everything turns out.

I agree 100%...the end of that ep is so sad when will blames his dad and jus goes on....i was glued to the seat for a couple of minutes afta the episode was over! Btw:...do u think that is a tru story.....like with Will Smith??

I loved that episode. it was one of my favorites.

I loved that episode. it was one of my favorites.


Just curious, why is a Sad episode one of your favorites?

Dont think Im stupid. I just liked it Vivian, Phil, and Will got serious on the show. :o :mumble:

Sitcoms aren't fun and games all the time.

All Sitcoms need their serious moments, if they didn't, it'd be just one stupid joke after another, and the show would be deemed as childish or weak.

Emotional episodes are good. It really makes you get into it, and think about the characters. And maybe even cry...

Even I got bleary-eyed in the episode with Will's father...

Sitcoms aren't fun and games all the time.

All Sitcoms need their serious moments, if they didn't, it'd be just one stupid joke after another, and the show would be deemed as childish or weak.

Emotional episodes are good. It really makes you get into it, and think about the characters. And maybe even cry...

Even I got bleary-eyed in the episode with Will's father...

What about 3rd Rock From The Sun, not only did they never have a serious eps, they never even had a serious scene on the show, yet 3R had just as many seasons as FP and most people agree that it never jumped the shark.

hey all! i have a question about teh sad episodes such as just say yo(when carlton takes drugs accidently) or when will gets shot.

Yeah this are very sad episodes...

I've never saw the beginning of when will got shot. I always wake up in the middle of the night and see Will bellowing at Carlton. Could someone give me some brief details of the beginning.

I've never saw the beginning of when will got shot. I always wake up in the middle of the night and see Will bellowing at Carlton. Could someone give me some brief details of the beginning.


In the beginning, Will and Carlton is getting ready for a camping trip and Will accidently damages something of Carlton's. So Will and Carlton go to the ATM Machine so that Will can pay Carlton for what he damaged. Then after Will gets the money out of the machine and pays Carlton, that's when then run into the robber and then he pulls the trigger

In the beginning, Will and Carlton is getting ready for a camping trip and Will accidently damages something of Carlton's. So Will and Carlton go to the ATM Machine so that Will can pay Carlton for what he damaged. Then after Will gets the money out of the machine and pays Carlton, that's when then run into the robber and then he pulls the trigger
Thanks a lot.

hey all! i have a question about teh sad episodes such as just say yo(when carlton takes drugs accidently) or when will gets shot. Which oen si teh saddest and what characters cry in any of teh more emotional episodes? or if anyone knows a good site that reall in detail explains teh episodes i love if ya would tell me :) also is the show on any other channels xcept nick at nite?
thx! :cool:
I think that it is on BET because sometimes when I have turned it on that channel it has been on there.

I had never seen the one where Will got shot and I was watching it and I just sat the whole way through and watched it. I thought it was the best episode of all of the Fresh Prince that I have seen.

Does the show air regularly on BET?, I remember they had a marathon some time ago.

i dont think so.

When will's father episode was absoulutely serious.

i dont think so.

When will's father episode was absoulutely serious.


The episode with Will's Father was not absolutely serious. The only serious moments were right before the commercial when Will told Uncle Phil-"You're not my Father" and at the very end when he was crying.

youre right...that part was serious. I thought he would never say that to uncle phil.

The one with his father is one of my favorite serious episodes. These serious episodes work so well because this show is so well acted. I love the mix of comedy and serious moments. It gives this "down-to-earth-ness" to the show. Fresh Prince will always remain one of my favorite shows ever.

The one with his father is one of my favorite serious episodes. These serious episodes work so well because this show is so well acted. I love the mix of comedy and serious moments. It gives this "down-to-earth-ness" to the show. Fresh Prince will always remain one of my favorite shows ever.


I just can't take the Will smith character seriously on FP. When he cried at the end of the episode I actually LAUGHED!!!!

Not the saddest of episodes, but when Uncle Phil had a heart attack, and Carlton didn't want to see him in the hospital with tubes up his nose...and then Will coaxes him to go...that one gets me.

I actually was teary eyed when Uncle Phil told Will-"You are my Son" in the last episode

I just can't take the Will smith character seriously on FP. When he cried at the end of the episode I actually LAUGHED!!!!

Wow, I thought Will did an excellent job in that episode.... From the part he tried to seal his anger by thinking positive to the part of "Why don't he want me man"... How can you laugh in such a serious scene? I in fact was in tears.

I also thought he did a good job in the one when he took a bullet for Carlton.


Maybe I just take the show a little bit more seriously..

Wow, I thought Will did an excellent job in that episode.... From the part he tried to seal his anger by thinking positive to the part of "Why don't he want me man"... How can you laugh in such a serious scene? I in fact was in tears.

I also thought he did a good job in the one when he took a bullet for Carlton.


Maybe I just take the show a little bit more seriously..



Because he sounded like he was Laughing when he said-"How come he don't want me man?" Watch it again, I'm confident that he was laughing. Now Will did do a better job in crying in the episode when Carlton took the pills.

One thing we can agree on, Uncle Phil's actor is outstanding. Not just in that episode but in most.

I liked the episode with Will's father. It showed just how much Uncle Phil really cared for Will when alot of the time he acts like he hates Will's guts. Overall Uncle Phil was Will's father in my opinion. Uncle Phil treated him as if one of his own.

They air Fresh Prince on the channel "The-N."!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sitcoms aren't fun and games all the time.

All Sitcoms need their serious moments, if they didn't, it'd be just one stupid joke after another, and the show would be deemed as childish or weak.

Emotional episodes are good. It really makes you get into it, and think about the characters. And maybe even cry...

Even I got bleary-eyed in the episode with Will's father...

i tend to feel that the best episodes on a sitcom is when things aren't wrapped up into happy endings. not every problem in life can be solved in 22 minutes plus commercials. i love the sad episodes of TFPOBA---especially "Papa's got a brand new excuse" and "bullets over bel-air". I work at a TV station and we have an extensive tape library that includes all TFPOBA episodes. I watch these 2 episodes every chance I get!!!