[instrumental music]
(Jazz) 'What's up, Prince?'
Uh, me and Carlton are just checkin' out these
college brochures.
I've already set my sights on Princeton.
It has a balanced curriculum with the largest repository
of classical literature.
Yeah, well, I got my sights set on this school.
With the largest repository of girls
with the big ol' butts. Oh, yeah!
Which reminds me, I brought your CD player back.
See, Jazz, now, this is not my CD player, see?
'Cause my CD player has the wires on the inside.
I'm sorry, man.
How can I make it up to you?
Jazz, how about paying for it?
Why would I want to buy a broken CD player?
[theme song]
♪ Now this is a story all about how ♪
♪ My life got flipped turned upside down ♪
♪ And I'd like to take a minute just sit right there ♪
♪ I'll tell you how I became the prince ♪
♪ Of a town called Bel Air ♪
[instrumental music]
♪ In west Philadelphia born and raised ♪
♪ On the playground is where I spent most of my days ♪
♪ Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool ♪
♪ And all shootin' some b-ball outside of the school ♪
♪ When a couple of guys who were up to no good ♪
♪ Started makin' trouble in my neighborhood ♪
♪ I got in one little fight and my mom got scared and said ♪
♪ You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air ♪
♪ I whistled for a cab and when it came near ♪
♪ The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror ♪
♪ If anything I can say that this cab was rare ♪
♪ But I thought Nah forget it yo homes to Bel Air ♪
♪ I pulled up to the house about seven or eight ♪
♪ And I yelled to the cabbie yo homes smell you later ♪
♪ I looked at my kingdom I was finally there ♪
♪ To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air ♪♪
[music continues]
- Hey, Aunt Viv. - Hi, guy.
- Hey, judge. - Oh. Now, Will, please.
I haven't even announced that I'm running.
I don't think you'd have to announce it, Mr. Banks.
If you ran, we'd hear you comin'.
I'm running for superior court judge.
He still could use the exercise.
Will, Carlton.
I want you guys to be on your best behavior tomorrow
and look presentable.
It's navy blue jacket, gray slacks, power tie.
Whoa, Uncle Phil, y-you sure
you wouldn't want Carlton to wear Aunt Viv's apron?
No.
Oh, Jazz, uh
I need you to bring over my blue jacket.
Don't worry, man, I'll have it back to you
first thing tomorrow morning.
You won't even be able to tell I wore it.
Jazz, what did you do to my jacket?
Hey, you told me to get it cleaned
so I washed it.
I don't believe you, man. First, my CD player, now this.
You make a doorknob look smart, man.
No need to get testy.
At least I got out all the A-1 sauce.
Whoa, hold up.
"Underdog's"on.
Excuse me, but I'm watching "The Eagles."
Well, excuse me, but you once preferred
"The whimsy of a Yogi and a Boo Boo."
Will, I hardly know you.
Will, put on your jacket.
We're leaving for the press luncheon in ten minutes.
Hey, have you been undressing my Teddy Ruxpin again?
Vivian, you look so sexy.
Thank you, sweetheart.
Now, go upstairs and change.
What, don't you wanna project the right image?
Hey, I'm happy that this fits over my belly.
Which reminds me, I'm hungry.
Daddy, I am a young adult and I have my rights.
If you force me to wear this, I'll..
I'll hold my breath until my face turns blue.
Ashley, you're 13 years old, you'll do what I say.
But that's not fair.
- Call a cop. - Mommy!
Well, I'm ready.
I've been waiting all my life to hear you say that.
I meant I'm ready for the press conference.
You know, sometimes I lose sight of why I want to be a judge
then you open your mouth and it all comes flooding back.
Thank you.
See, Will, I inspire him.
No, no, not, Jazz.. Not now, Jazz.
Oh, no, no, you're on the one-yard line.
Fumble? Oh, Herschel, pick it up!
Well, it's painfully obvious that my presence
is no longer required.
Here, Carlton.
Eventually you'll grow into it.
Ahem, excuse me, sir.
But how's your day been going so far?
Well, wonderful, Geoffrey, thank you.
Well, down the toilet it goes.
Judge Robertson, what are you doing here, sir?
Philip, it's good to see you again, my boy.
How long has it been 10, 15 years, hmm?
We just had dinner a few weeks ago, sir.
- We did? - Mm-hmm.
Did I leave here with my pants on?
- Yes. - Oh, thank God.
[laughing]
Well, that means you must throw a lousy party.
[laughs]
But enough about you, Philip.
Look, Philip, you gotta help me.
You're the only one I can trust.
I just heard that they found someone to run against me.
Judge, we discussed that over dinner.
I'm running against you.
What?
How dare you!
Get out of my house!
Out!
Lionel, show him the door!
[upbeat music]
Go, go, go! Ahh! Touchdown!
♪ Ahh ahh ♪♪
- Uhh, uhh, uhh! - Will, Will!
Put that thing away.
Oh, Uncle Phil, they just tied it up.
- I don't care. - Mr. Banks.
Yes.
This way.
Hello, ladies and gentlemen.
And welcome to this afternoon's press conference.
It is my pleasure to introduce to you
Mr. Philip Banks.
[applause]
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen of the press.
And thank you very much for coming.
I'd like to take this opportunity
to formally announce my candidacy
for the office of superior court judge.
Thank you.
I plan on restoring faith
in the judicial system.
And I ask you do you really want
six more years of the same tired plea-bargaining?
Yes! Yes!
What?
Judge Robertson has been in office six straight terms.
How do you intend to break that streak?
Uh, by focusing on the issues and not personality.
Once the voters see where I stand
I'm sure I'll win this election.
Oh, you idiot!
You don't even deserve to sit on the bench!
What?
Oh, Judge Robertson.
(Vivian) 'I didn't know he had kids.'
He doesn't, and that's not his wife.
And am I crazy, or does he look ten years younger?
That's unbelievable.
[sniffs] Is that brisket I smell?
[both laugh]
- Lovely family. - Thank you.
- Who are they? - Rented.
Judge Robertson, how does it feel
to be running against your own student?
Philip Banks is a gentleman
and one of the smartest students I ever had.
A man who would bring honor to the bench.
Don't get me wrong.
I want the job.
But I can't think of another person
that I wouldn't mind losing to
but this man here.
I love you, my son.
What a guy!
Yeah, Mr. Banks, what's your response?
Uh..
Um..
Oh, excuse me.
Mr. Banks, we're looking for your nephew
a William Smith?
Oh, my God.
It's over! It's all over!
Are you Will Smith?
Uh.. No, Rahim Shabazz, Muslim activist.
Salaam-Alaikum.
Will, what's wrong?
You're under arrest
Shabazz.
[dramatic music]
[instrumental music]
Sit down, Smith.
Oh, oh, okay.
It's like that, right? Alright, that's cool.
I'mma sit down, I'mma sit down.
Alright? I'm sittin' down right here.
And you think that just 'cause you got that badge
and all your tough cop friends walkin' around
and your cute little walkie-talkie
that you can talk to folks
any old way you wanna do it.
Well, I tell you right now
if you ain't have all that stuff we'd be squawkin'
a different language up in here right now.
What are you trying to say?
Shh, pshhh..
I think I made myself real clear
when I said what I just said.
Yeah.
Yeah, I guess you did.
Mr. Officer, your stuff fell off.
And-and hip-hop cop.
Blue looks, looks nice on you, too.
Match that big blue vein
throbbing in your neck right now.
I'm Philip Banks, the boy's attorney.
I'd like to speak to my nephew alone, please.
What's up now, tough guy?
No problem, sir.
That's right.
I guess we told him, right, Uncle Phil?
Sit down.
Sure.
Will, how could you get
$2000 worth of parking tickets
when I told you to get rid of that car months ago?
Actually, I did get rid of it.
See, I gave it to a friend.
Look, I swear to you, Uncle Phil
there ain't no way I got them parking tickets.
Look at the print out, huh? Read..
"Snuffy's Chicken Shack."
"Big Ben's Barbecue."
"Alice's All-nude Revue."
What do you call this?
One hell of a Friday night.
Can I, can I see that, Uncle Phil?
Wait a minute.
Uncle Phil, these are all Jazz's hangouts.
He must have gotten all these parking tickets.
I'm serious, I'm going to kill him!
How could he go to Alice's All-nude Revue without me?
Well, hello, Philip, my boy. Welcome to City Hall.
Thank you.
Will, wait in the car, and don't even
touch the steering wheel.
Yes, sir.
Hey, judge, judge, check it, judge, check it out.
Look, brother ran into a little misfortune, right?
I got, like, two grand worth of parking tickets.
I was just wondering, I don't know.
Maybe you might be able to do
a little something for me?
I thought he was selling condoms.
I, uh, apologize for my nephew, judge.
And I hope this little incident
didn't cause any undue embarrassment.
I mean, the press is gonna have a field day.
Well, I certainly hope so. This is just the beginning.
You know, I was browsing through the police files and bingo!
Up pops your nephew's name.
Parking tickets up the yin-yang.
So I busted his bony butt.
Pretty good, huh?
Excuse me?
Oh, wake up, knucklehead.
You're in the big leagues now.
I maybe old, I maybe senile
and I haven't been able to find my car
for the past half hour
but I can beat your butt
in a political campaign any day.
You're dead meat, Tiny.
[laughs]
[instrumental music]
[clamoring]
I always knew Will would be the downfall of this family
but no one ever listens to me.
What, honey, I'm sorry, I wasn't listening.
I can't believe this.
Will being arrested means
we're all going to be investigated.
I mean, this is how they knocked off Imelda Marcos.
I'll just die if they touch my shoes.
I'd die if you made your own bed.
Get off me, man, just get off me.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
- Thank you. - Will!
Oh, I'm so glad you're home.
Carlton said you were probably doing 5 to 10 by now.
Are you alright, sweetheart?
Yeah, I'm fine, Aunt Viv.
Well, good, now I can break your legs.
Vivian, Vivian, I'll handle this.
Now, we've to make a statement for the press.
So, uh-uh, put on an apron, grab the cookie jar.
Forget it!
And I ate all the cookies before lunch.
Okay, okay, then we'll have to grab the cutest kid.
Mm. Ah!
Ashley, you'll do, come on, smile, sweetheart.
Let's go, Vivian, come on.
Okay.
[indistinct chatter]
Man, this has been the worst day of my life
and soon as I see Jazz
I'mma make it the worst day of his.
Will, you seem embittered.
Jail will do that to a man.
Now, that you've done hard time
a book may be in order.
Criminals sell, I can sell criminals.
You're a criminal.
Really, a-and you're too short
to ride the teacup ride at Disneyland.
Wassup, Will?
Man, what's with all the reporters?
I ain't seen no chalk outlines or nothing.
That's 'cause I didn't murder you yet.
What's got your BVDs in a bunch?
Well, for starters, you ruined the most
important day in my uncle's life.
Haagen dazs opened in Bel Air?
Jazz, I trusted you with my ride over the summer
and you got $2000 worth of parking tickets.
And you didn't even tell me.
You're right.
I should've told you.
Will, I got $2000 worth of parking tickets.
Well, what do you plan to do about that, Jazz?
I'll take care of it, man, I promise.
Can I borrow $2000?
This is not a joke, man, I trusted you, Jazz.
I trusted you, and you got me tossed into jail.
Friends don't do that to each other, man.
I mean, friends are supposed to be there for each other.
Friends aren't supposed to set you up to take a fall.
And most importantly, friends are supposed
to be honest with each other.
And you obviously don't fit that mold.
So, from this point on, you can consider
our friendship over.
You're no longer welcome in this house
and I'd appreciate it if you just got
the hell out of my crib.
Ain't..
A-ain't you gonna even bother to throw me out?
You're not worth it, man.
[instrumental music]
- Hey, guys. - Hey, Will.
Hey, G, you want to go watch some"Underdog?"
Why? Do I look like a moron?
[telephone ringing]
Banks' residence.
G, look, if that's Jazz
tell him I do not wanna talk to him.
It's for me.
It's my accountant.
So what are you wearing?
Hey, Carlton, man
how about we shoot down to The Wing King, man?
And get a big bucket of ribs?
Do I look like Jimmie Walker?
Forget you then, man.
Hey, hey, hey, Ashley.
Hey, look, I just got the new video boxing.
- Come on, you wanna play? - Sorry, homey.
Homework.
- Hey, Hil, you want to-- - No, Will
I don't want ribs, I don't want to wax your ride
and I don't even know what a chumpie is.
Okay, alright.
It's like that, right, it's like that.
Y'all goin' to flee me like that, right?
My suggestion to you my despondent, desperate
and ne'er-do-well cousin is to make amends
with your partner in delinquency.
What?
Call him, Will.
I'm sure Jazz is sorry.
Why should I call him after what he did to me?
You-you know, forget it, I don't need him.
I don't need you, I don't, I don't need nobody.
♪ Everybody loves somebody ♪
♪ Sometime ♪
♪ Everybody needs someone ♪
♪ It's true ♪
♪ Everybody loves ♪
♪ Somebody sometime ♪
♪ Everybody falls in love ♪
♪ Somehow ♪
♪ Something in your kiss ♪
♪ Just told me ♪
♪ My sometime ♪
♪ Is now ♪
♪ Everybody finds somebody someplace ♪
♪ There's no tellin' where love may appear ♪
♪ Something in my heart ♪
♪ Keeps sayin' ♪
♪ My someplace ♪
♪ Is here ♪
♪ If I had it in my power ♪
[instrumental music]
I just want to get up to my room, Uncle Phil.
Brother don't want no trouble.
It's alright, Will, I'm not mad anymore.
Oh, my God, Philip, look at this.
- What? - It's all in the paper.
They got a picture of me throwing
a reporter in the pool.
Oh, what a wonderful way to start my campaign.
My nephew gets arrested.
My wife looks like..
...you look wonderful, sweetheart.
I don't know.
Actually, Aunt Viv, you got a kind of a
homicidal sumo wrestler thing going, raahhr!
Oh, but you workin' it, girl.
- Good morning. - Good morning.
What are you doin' here?
I was out for my morning constitutional
and I must've walked farther than I thought.
'But since I'm here'
bean pie for all.
You know, just my way of saying..
...you know.
Oh, that's very nice, Jazz.
Thank you, Jazz.
I guess you two wanna be alone.
I don't get it, Philip, why did he give us a bean pie?
What am I, Freud? Grab a fork, Vivian.
Well..
...I guess I ought to be going.
You probably got college applications to fill out.
Yeah, actually, I do.
You probably want to hang out with educated people
who drink their malt liquor in a glass.
What are you talkin' about, Jazz?
Face it, Will, you're gonna go off
to college to be somebody
and I'm gonna be stuck here living foot to mouth.
I think you mean hand to mouth, Jazz.
Don't try to impress me with your fancy education.
You're gonna go off next year to some big old college
and I'll be sitting here by the phone waiting for you to call.
You're not making any sense, Jazz.
You used to think that was cute.
Oh, wha..
Oh, wait a minute.
You mean this whole thing is about
me goin' off to college?
Oh, comes the dawn.
My mother told me you was no good.
I knew I should've listened to her.
See, I promised myself I wasn't gonna cry.
- Look, come on, Jazz. - Get your hands off of me.
I'm not a faucet to be turned on and off at your whim.
I have emotions.
Jazz, come.. Yes, it's true that I'm goin' off to college, man.
But come on, you're like family to me.
Jazz, just 'cause somebody moves away from the family
that doesn't mean they break up.
That just means, you know
the family has to work harder
to stay together.
You understand what I'm saying?
No.
But at least you talking to me.
Come on, Jazz, you know you're always gonna be my homey.
- Psssh.. - Psssh..
Why didn't you say that in the first place?
I did say that, why don't you clean out your ears?
Now, I knowyouain't talkin' about nobody's ears.
Hey, come on, man
let's jet down to the mall and pick up some chumpies.
Will, could you do one thing for me?
You know, just for old times' sake?
Sure, no problem, man.
Aah!
Jazz, I trusted you
with my ride over the summer and you
got me tossed, blah [bleep].
I mean, shoot.
I said shoot, mom!
I raised my boy better than that!
Oh, God!
[instrumental music]