Post your favorite/all of the running gags in the series, from the most notable ones, to the minor ones that only occured in a few select episodes.

Here's acouple notable ones to me.

-Carlton's dance
-Will's fat jokes on Uncle Phil
-Jeffrey's Relative Sarcasm especially after a minor incident in the family
-Jazz being thrown out the house, or being involved with somebody being thrown out the house (he threw Uncle Phil out in the one Halloween Episode)

Continue the trend..

Will's short jokes about Carlton.

^ good one.

Hillary's non stop use of Uncle Phil's money/credit cards and her asking him for money

This was after Nicky came along in the series.

Whenever Vivian would say something with baby in it, Carlton would assume she meant him, rather than Nicky.

Geffrey's sarcasm about how much money he makes and how the banks financially treat him so well..

Will's short jokes about Carlton.


One that comes to mind is when Will referred to jazz and carlton as "ren and stumpy"

and then when he walked away from carlton in one ep and said-"I'm sorry, i only talk to people who are above 5 feet"

Another thing came to mind after watching the last ep of season 4 last night. Whenever references are made to the real life aspects of the show. Like when Carlton asked who the guy was that got into a fight with Will in Philly, Will says "That guy that spins me over his head in the opening credits".

That's called "breaking the fourth wall", and yeah, this show did that a lot.

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That's called "breaking the fourth wall", and yeah, this show did that a lot.

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yea they also broke the 4th wall when in some cases they were like "yea, and i'm a multi million selling rapper" when in fact Will Smith was at the time with his cd with DJ Jazzy Jeff (also on FP)

I think it was uncle Phil, who told Viv "Yeah, you would believe him if he said he was a rap star, whose album just went platinum".

And another very memorable breaking the 4th wall thing was when Will said "If we're so rich, why can't we afford a ceiling?", and then we got to see the studio ceiling above the set.

^ yea that's it, there's another breaking the fourth wall moment involved with Will, I forget what it was.

When Jeffery thought he won the lottery and he asked Ashley how does a Mercedez sound she said voom, voom, and he said very clever I will get you 2. Then Hillary says, voom, voom, voom, and Jeffery says nice try.

Phil always trying to gety Hillary out of the house. Hillary wanted to join a club for rich snotty girls, and Vivian says if she doesn't want to join she doesn;t have to, Phil says she could meet a rich guy with a nice car and drive her way that's what I want, and then he says that is what she wants I mean.

Carlton's favorite singer Tom Jones, who actually appeared on the show and had sex with a lady who's favorite singer was also Tom Jones.

When someone said there is a full moon and Jeffery turns around and sees Phil bending over and says I already see one.

When Phil and Vivian were looking for the sonogram and Phil says I found it and she said where, and Phil says the Chocolate Easter Bunny from Easter, and Vivian says for god sake Phil at least take off the wrapper after she say Phil sticking a peice of it in his mouth.

On a Halloween epsiode Carlton looks into the mirror and puts his hands to his face and screams and they say who you supposed to be and he says my idol Mccauley Cuklen(spelling) and Will says because they are the same height.

Then Will Ashley and Carlton were in the kitchen and Will says your just a a little bit taller than Ashley only because you have them shoe lifts, and Carlton says I doubled up on my oder eaters.

When the door bell rings and no one answers it Jeffery would say oh oh let me get it, oh goody I get to answer the door.

When the door bell rang and Hillary didn't answer it and Jeffery said you would let me get it on my day off.

When ever Will asked for the newspaper, Carlton would always say your not going to hit me with it are you?

When Carlton's ex-girfriend Lisa came back and the door rang and Carlton started jumping up and down and Jeffery said calm down before you wet yourself.

When ever Will would tell his problems to Nikki, Nikki would say what do I know I am just a kid.

Carlton would always try and hide behind Phil when something went wrong, not stand behind him litterly but would blame someone else and try and take Phil's side.

Right before Nikki was born Carlton said the Baby is already cutting into my inheritance and tthey baby is not even born yet.

Carlton always thinking about money and his inheritance.

Carlton always making fun of the way Will talked.

Making fun of Will's ears.

Carlton always making fun of Will when because he was smarter than Will.

When they were looking for Ashley when she ran away and Carlton said Ashley is reinburshing me for gas.

When Will said to Carlton when looking for Ashley, you think everything Uncle Phil says or does is right, Calrton says yes there is a good reason to what he does and says, don't you, Will says Hell Nooooo and gets taped by Carlton.

When looking for Ashley, Carlton says is if your talking about endowment mine is almost as big as Hillary's and Will says god I hope your talking about money.

Eeeeh... Most of those weren't "running gags".

yea, the geoffrey vroom vroom thing should be put in the funniest geoffrey moments thread..

Any time the slightest little thing happened to go against Will, he'd say, "This is a black thing, ain't it?"
The one I liked best was towards the end of the series, when the family was about to go its separate ways and Will claimed he had an apartment but really didn't.
Geoffrey says to Will (paraphrasing), "So you have no money, no credit, and no references, and they won't rent you an apartment?..."
Will: "This is a black thing, ain't it?"

Phil throwing Jazz out of the house. Even when Jazz had a haircut, when he was thrown outside, he had a hightop fade.

I think they just did one shot with Jazz falling out of the door, and then they kept using it all those years.

Of course. I knew that. Jazz's haircuts in later eps within the house did not match up with the high top hairdo clips when he was outside the house.

1.Whenever they met a celebrity, Hillary was already friends with that person. The celebrities were always more excited to see her than she was to see them.

I think they just did one shot with Jazz falling out of the door, and then they kept using it all those years.
Yeah I read somewhere on this board that it was the same clip.