Stereotypes:: Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

[RunDownHouse]

The butler's manner of speech.

EDIT: Just saw you only wanted steroetypes with Will Smith's character. Oh well.

[Oblivious]

Not really a stereotype, but he manages to date only black girls at his mostly white school.

I guess its more of an indication of what the producers thought the audience would tolerate.

[Turkish]

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in one of the shows he is the star of the bel aire prep basketball team, even though he obviously sucks based on the opening credits.

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Will Smith came to my high school and I saw him play ball. He most certainly does not suck.

Edited to say: Ok, in case this wasn't clear, I was not being serious

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in one of the shows he is the star of the bel aire prep basketball team, even though he obviously sucks based on the opening credits.

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Will Smith came to my high school and I saw him play ball. He most certainly does not suck.

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LOL.....

[IndieMatty]

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[elwoodblues]

Sounds like a BORING assignment. You could make it passably interesting to argue that the Bel Air relatives are sterotypical WASPS.

[Soul Daddy]

All the white kids worship the hip black guy.

[pryor15]

isn't there a scene in the pilot where uncle phil tells him that he used to follow Malcolm X around, but now he's all WASP-y and boring? seems like following that transformation might be worth your time.

although, in reality he did what most hippies and radicals did: he grew up and sold out. Jerry Rubin became a stockbroker. So it goes.

[BradleyT]

Isn't there a bunch of graffiti in the opening scene also?

Yes, it is when he is spraying graffitti in the beginning and the police comes up. He wasn't spraying it with a white friend. The stereotype is that only blacks would do such a thing