In this season, the kitchen and living room sets of the Banks mansion were rebuilt much larger with a more contemporary style as opposed to the much more formal style of the first season. If we thought Patrick Dempsey would never return to Grey's Anatomy after five years of shade, we certainly never in a million years thought Will Smith and Janet Hubert would ever be hugging and crying together after 27 years of resentment. Season two of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air premiered on Septemand aired its season finale on May 4, 1992. We got to watch one of the most powerful men in Hollywood admit fault, apologize, and cry as he brought the two Aunt Vivs together for the first time ever. The show stars Will Smith as a fictionalized version of himself, a street-smart teenager from West Philadelphia who is sent to move in with his aunt and uncle in their wealthy Bel Air mansion, where his lifestyle often clashes with that of his relatives. Excuse me Didn’t I just mow Central Park yesterday a young Will Smith protests, bewildered. Vivian realises that the children in her Bel-Air mansion don’t do enough to help around the house, so she tasks them with cooking Thanksgiving dinner. He was 21 years old at the time and had felt threatened by everything and everyone around him, and he was sorry. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 10, 1990, to May 20, 1996. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Talking Turkey, season one episode 12.
Will didn't deny this, and acknowledged that he had screwed up. She felt like she had been banished by the cast and was told it was all Will's fault. As they explained as they talked it out, Janet was pregnant at the time she left the show and felt poorly treated. The biggest headline-grabbing moment from the special involved Will sitting down with Janet Hubert, the original Aunt Viv, after a 27-year feud that had them both publicly speaking out about each other in some really ugly ways.
The special was a celebration that somehow also felt like an hour and 15 minutes of therapy, both for the cast and for those of us who spent much of our childhoods (and much of our adulthoods, if we're honest) rapping that theme song. We cried, and not just during the segment dedicated to the late James Avery, who played Uncle Phil. The show turned 30 this year and celebrated by having the cast- Will Smith, Alfonso Ribeiro, Tatyana Ali, Karyn Parsons, Daphne Maxwell Reid and Joseph Marcell-meet up on the recreated set to share memories, watch old audition tapes and do an awful lot of cathartic crying. They've all been fun-remember when we were losing our minds over that Parks and Recreation episode?-but none have been quite as emotional or as healing or as necessary as the reunion of the cast of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
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If the pandemic has given us anything to be thankful for, it's the nearly endless cast reunions.ĭozens of TV shows and movies have brought their casts together for events ranging from informal virtual hang outs to fully scripted virtual episodes to professionally produced in-person productions.