But when Will discovers that Carlton is carrying, he tearfully demands that his cousin forfeit his weapon so no one else gets hurt.
While Will recuperates in the hospital, Carlton goes out and buys a gun, in order to protect himself in the future. The aforementioned episode sees Will and Carlton are robbed at gunpoint. Ours was Season 5, Episode 15, ‘Bullets Over Bel-Air,’ the one in which I got shot and Carlton started carrying a gun.” The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is no longer running and has no plans to air new episodes or seasons. Booted from the streets of West Philadelphia to stay with his auntie and uncle in Bel-Air, Will Smith is the new prince in town. “Anyone who has ever been on a sitcom can tell you the episode in which their show jumped the shark. However at the end of the fourth season, NBC wanted to pull the plug on the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, as the new episodes were getting an average mediocre. Its a comedy and family show with 148 episodes over 6 seasons. “The storylines were becoming increasingly hokey and it was difficult to maintain the ‘Freshness,'” Smith writes, per EW. 9, Smith reveals the moment he believes Fresh Prince jumped the shark - and it’s probably not the episode you’d expect him to pick. In the memoir Will, which was published Nov. Now that the dust has settled on HBO Max’s Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reunion special, Will Smith is removing his nostalgia goggles and reexamining the beloved 1990s sitcom in his eponymous tell-all.