The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Fresh Prince of Bel - Airis known for adding manyiconic characters and trendsto popular culture , admit making Will Smith a home name in the acting creation , and the uproarious Carlton dancing hone by Alfonso Ribeiro ’s Carlton Banks . The Pisces the Fishes out of water sitcom follow Will Smith ’s journeying as he moves from West Philadelphia to Bel - Air , California , and the serial ' six season running is still beloved by fan 30 age after the show first premiered .
While the show began as Will ’s story , over prison term , it clearly transformsto differentiate both Will ’s and Carlton ’s journeying - both together , and independently . But no matter how the series may end with these two young man on near terms , it ’s clean-cut that Will and Carlton are just friendly relationship goals . In fact , they may not really be friends at all .
Will constantly makes fun of Carlton’s height
Iconic drollery duos often make role of arctic opposites : skinny and fat , serious and straight , magniloquent and short . But in the case of Carlton and Will , Fresh Princeonly ever highlight the acme remainder between the two young men , and only ever at Carlton ’s expense .
Will takes every opportunity he can to make play of Carlton ’s diminutive stature , an easy project since Smith has an 8 in advantage over Ribeiro , at 6'2 " to 5'6 " . He even bemock Carlton ’s wear as being from the children ’s section , and often outright implies that his full cousin is a youngster , too .
They undermine each other’s career goals
Once Will and Carlton reach college in the series ' fourth season , their tiff often take on a new , ultimately destructive undertide . The two of them often witness themselves at odds with one another , vying for the same positions .
Whether aiming for managerial roles at the Peacock student center on campus at ULA , or hope to work their manner up in the entertainment world on the set of Hilary ’s public lecture show , Will and Carlton are both genuinely remorseless when it come to undermining each other for get the promotions they feel they deserve .
Carlton hates Will’s popularity
From the moment that Will ready foot at Bel - Air Academy , Carlton ’s world and his condition quo as a popular intellectual are forever convert . Will is n’t any competition for Carlton in terms of make it to the top of the class , but he steals the spotlight from Carlton without ever really trying .
Will is the guy that everyone need to be friends with and check coldness tips from , even the nerdiest members of Carlton ’s crew . It ’s no wonder that this becomes a point of contention for the two stripling on many function .
Will hates Carlton’s nerdiness
Just as Carlton hates and ultimately begrudge Will ’s social skills , Will never waste an chance to make it clear just how minuscule he thinks of his cousin for being a gallant nerd . Whether making fun of his participation in an acapella group or his penchant for give suck up to every instructor , Will does n’t waffle to make playfulness of Carlton ’s pedantic by-line .
But the mockery does n’t stop outside the school day . Will constantly belittlesCarlton ’s way choices , and in peculiar his sweaters ; looks down on his dancing skills and love of Tom Jones ; and questions his honey of economic science and politics .
They physically fight each other often
Boys very well may be boys , but Will and Carlton emphatically get physical with each other far too often . Take for example the episode " The Cold War . " After Carlton and Will both come down with a cold , due to the same lady friend ( Carlton ’s late ex , Will ’s new fling ) , the two are forced to room together in the Banks syndicate kitty house .
What follow is infrangible madness and physical violence for second on end as the peaked and angry adolescent take out their rage and trust issues on each other .
Carlton looks down on Will for being poor
Thecentral acculturation clashat the affectionateness ofFresh Princefinds inner city kid Will acclimating to life in the land of lavishness in Bel Air . But Will ’s struggle to set to life in the Banks family is n’t made any easier by cousin Carlton , who pass water fun of Will for growing up wretched and , as he assumes , uneducated .
He makes playfulness of Will ’s Philadelphia root both in private and in public , and even harshly compares Will to Will ’s own deadbeat father in one of the abject import in the entire series for Carlton ’s character .
They get each other arrested
Just a few episodes into the serial , Will and Carlton wind up getting arrested on one of their first risky venture together as they labor Uncle Phil ’s coworker ’s car across town for him . It ’s one of the serial publication ' more serious episodes , exploring racism and exclusive right in different ways .
But it shows that these two have the potential to get themselves in hassle from the very beginning . And there is plenty more trouble to found over the track of the show , including drug use , underage stripping , underage gambling , and more .
Will gets shot protecting Carlton and Carlton resents him
While stop at an ATM prior to a planned camping slip , Will and Carlton are carry at gunpoint . Carlton fumbles in objection of the hold up , and Will quickly insert himself to protect his cousin , nose up shot and being hospitalized in the process .
Carlton , in twist , insurgent and distance himself from Will , begrudge both his cousin and their damaged society for all that has occurred . It ’s a dark plot line that conduct to one of the moreharrowing confrontationsbetween cousin-german , as Will pleads with Carlton to give up his new purchased gun , and possibly saves his first cousin ’s life again in the process .
Will doesn’t think Carlton is “Black enough”
Fresh Princedoesn’t shy away from explore racism and all its violent forms . But the series still nevertheless make lighting of Will ’s own inherently racist Acts of the Apostles of colorist mocking at Carlton ’s expense .
From the very commencement of the series , it ’s clear that Will does n’t remember Carlton is " Black enough . “He calls his cousin horrible name , openly insinuates that his cousin may really be white , and call into question his apprehension of key elements of the Black experience and Black chronicle . It all descend to a head in an episode in which Will and Carlton plight for the same fraternity , only for Carlton to be rejected due to not fitting the sodality ’s own colorist criterion .
Will is responsible for Carlton overdosing
Fresh Prince , like many nineties sitcoms , has plenty ofVery Special Episodeswithin its canon . But one of its dark and most emotional features a fundamental ground as to why it ’s hard to intend of Will and Carlton as actual , reliable friends .
In the third season episode " Just Say Yo , " Will is directly responsible for Carlton overdosing on the night of their prom . After taking a big dose of what he believed to be vitamins , but were in fact caffeine pills , from Will ’s storage locker , Carlton overdose publically at their school day and tip up being hospitalized .
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