The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
In many ways , The Fresh Prince of Bel - Airis a serial about the improvement of Will Smith ’s untested adult spirit . By sending him to Bel - Air , his female parent hopes that he will learn from his family , the Bankses , andbecome a better young human race , less potential to get himself in trouble . Of course , what does Will do ? come up trouble in none other than his new best friend , Jazz .
Will and Jazz ’s friendship is , of course of instruction , heavily revolutionise by the real life friendship between Will Smith and Jeffrey " DJ Jazzy Jeff " Townes . But no matter the literal life inspiration for this dynamic duo , it ’s hard to consider that these two are really the best champion when it ’s light that they do n’t actually care about each other , or their best interest , very much at all .
The backstory of their friendship makes no sense
When Will first moves to Bel - Air at the start of the series , the only people he know in township are his relatives , the Banks family . But in the second episode of the series , " Bang the Drum , Ashley , " Jazz is rapidly introduced as a guy Will has met who live a wad about music .
But justly off the bat , Will and Jazz seem to be the best of supporter , complete with a handshake and shorthand reference . Itdoesn’t lend up at allgiven how trivial time Will has spent in Bel - Air so far .
Will’s family doesn’t like Jazz
Jazz might be one of the series ' more irritating character , given his rummy behavior and habit of overstepping boundaries . But that does n’t make the fact that practically the entire Banks household can not stand him , and dread his reaching any time he and Will spend sentence together .
The fact that a recurring gag in the series involves malarkey being physically and violently thrown from the Banks menage by Uncle Phil is also more troubling than it ever is shady .
Will often chooses Carlton over Jazz
Jazz appears in the serial more frequently in its earlier seasons , as Will is line up to life in Bel - Air and needs a protagonist that prompt him of the life sentence he left behind . But as Will becomes more fully acclimatise to the Banks lifestyle , he and Carlton begin to expend more time together as friends , and not enemies .
As a result , Jazz is seen less often as the series move on . Though it ’s prissy to see Will and Carlton ’s family relationship develop , it ’s a shame that it has to be done at the expense of Will ’s friendship with Jazz .
They don’t seem to be the same age
Jazz does n’t go to high school with Will and Carlton , a fact that is made light during the episode where Will is courted by Bel - Air Academy ’s basketball game squad . But it ’s not precisely clear that Jazz goes to high schoolanywhere- and in fact , he seems to be quite a bit older than Will , too .
While Will is still a stripling in high school , Jazz is solve deejay gigs at nightclubs , place as a pastor , and making open romanticistic passes at Will ’s twenty - something cousin Hilary . The eld remainder is never brought up by the series , but it ’s impossible to brush off .
Jazz manipulates Will into dating his sister
Much of Will and Jazz ’s friendship orbit around look for women and unashamedly hitting on every exclusive one that queer their paths . So it was only a affair of sentence before Will was paired up with Jazz ’s sis , Janet - and with Jazz ’s blessing , at that .
But as becomes apace unmistakable , Janet is more than a small sick , incredibly controlling , and a royal pain - something that Jazz do it all too well , and knowingly hid from his so - called best friend , Will .
Will takes Jazz for granted
Though Jazz does n’t always contribute in meaningful or helpful ways , he does have good intention at pith when it comes to trying to serve Will and the Bankses out on most occasions . That makes it all the more unmanageable to find Will routinely taking malarkey for yield , and overlooking him in favor of better offers .
It also does n’t make it any easier to see these two on the outs on multiple occasion , with Jazz even openly criticizing Will for making him feel get out out and less than .
Jazz takes Will for granted, too
Of course , Jazz is scarce innocent in his own rightfield when it get to using Will ’s friendship for his own gain . Most of the clock time that Jazz hangs around at the Banks dwelling house , he might be there to spend time with Will , but he inevitably uses his time to irritate and hit on Hilary , too .
It would n’t be hard to make the argumentation that Will ’s friendship is just a mean to an closing for Jazz . Once Hilary is ( temporarily ) off the securities industry , Jazz starts register up a little less , too .
Jazz’s wife tries to cheat with Will
Eventually , lately in the series ' run , Jazz finds love in the most unlikely of places withhot - tempered convict Jewel . But the relationship does n’t precisely run a smooth course from the very offset .
Just as the two are about to get married , Jewel openly come onto Will , stripping and throwing herself at him despite Will ’s protests . later on on , Jazz and Jewel enquire Will to facilitate them consider a child , which just brings the previous incident up all over again and makes the friendship awkward again .
Jazz chooses women over Will when Will needs him most
malarkey and Will are both player in the truest common sense , and there ’s no refuse that . But there ’s also no deny that their friendship is almost never afford precedence over any wild-eyed vista . Both of them are guilty of this riding habit , but Jazz is far guiltier of it than Will .
When Will return home from a stay in Philadelphia , he gets kicked out of the Banks business firm , and goes to idle words for support . But Jazz rejects him in favour of hooking up with a date , leavingWill to literally drift the streets with nowhere to go .
They get into trouble together - and not always the good kind
ThoughWill and Carlton also get into wad of trouble together , some example of it more serious than others , Will and Jazz also get in way over their head on multiple occasions with their badly thought out schemes .
Whether it ’s Jazz impersonating a pastor to fake marry Will and his lady friend , or nothingness impersonating a fake poet Will made up to mark with a girl in high school day , it ’s clear that these two are willing to do a quite a little for each other - but not always for the better , or with the best of intentions .
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