The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Def Poet's Society
Season 1, Episode 7 · Aired 1990-10-22
Synopsis
The family pressures Will to join an after school club. Following the girls into a poetry class, he spontaneously makes up a poem on the spot to impress them and claims it was written by a reclusive poet named "Raphael de la Ghetto", a name he made up there and then. Impressed, Christina asks to bring him to Poetry Night and after Jazz doesn't come through with an impostor, Will turns to Geoffrey to masquerade.
In the series
This episode is part of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990–1996) on NBC.
West Philadelphia → Bel-Air — star vehicle that became a language.
Key cast
- Will Smith as Will Smith
- James Avery as Philip Banks
- Janet Hubert as Vivian Banks
- Daphne Maxwell Reid as Vivian Banks
- Alfonso Ribeiro as Carlton Banks
- Karyn Parsons as Hilary Banks