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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air :: Reality Bites (05x03)

Episode Information

Title:

Reality Bites

Episode #:

05x03

Production Number:

60063

Original Airdate:

Monday September 26th, 1994

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Episode Crew
Director:	Shelley Jensen
Writer:	David Zuckerman

Episode Summary

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Will knocks out Dougie, a kiddie hero who is Nicky's idol.

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Guest Stars

Guest Stars
•Bill Stevenson	played	Mall Cop
•Dick O'Neill	played	Santa
•Leanne Griffin (1)	played	Mom
•Leeza Gibbons	played	Herself
•Monty Hoffman	played	Dougie
•Stephanie Sawyer	played	Little Girl

Cultural References

Shaft

Ashley: Shaft is fictional, Will.
Will: But I'm saying he went to Africa and everything.

Shaft is a 1971 blaxploitation film that centers on a detective's fight against the black mob, and then the white mob. The movie was adaptation of Ernest Tidymanby's by Tidyman and John D.F. Black. It won an Academy Award for Best Music, Song for Isaac Hayes for Theme from Shaft. Shaft was followed by two movie sequels: Shaft's Big Score! in 1972 and Shaft in Africa in 1973.

Herman Melville's Moby-Dick

Will: Look at here, you big orange Moby-Dick.

This is a reference to Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick, which centers around Captain Ahab's destructive and obsessive hunt for a great white whale, Moby-Dick.

Michael Bolton

Vivian: Will, at this age Nicky is like a sponge. If he hears something he likes, he gonna imitate it.
Will: Oh, kinda like Michael Bolton.

Michael Bolton was sued by Three Boys Music who claimed that significant parts of the Bolton's 1991 hit "Love Is A Wonderful Thing" were taken from the 1966 Isley Brothers song of the same name (Three Boys Music Corporation v. Bolton, Central District Federal Court). In 1994 the court ruled in favor of the complainant.

Dougie

Dougie is a spoof of Barney, a popular kids icon who is similar to Dougie.