Bel-Air Producers Say The Show Won't Feature The Iconic Carlton Dance
Peacock's dramatic Bel-Air reboot will not be featuring the iconic Carlton Dance. The show is a reinterpretation of the classic NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, which aired for 6 seasons from 1990 to 1996. In 2019, filmmaker Morgan Cooper made a fan film imagining a gritty, realistic version of the series that caught the attention of star Will Smith himself. Smith teamed up with Cooper to grow the short into an entire series, which will begin streaming its first episode on Peacock tomorrow, Super Bowl Sunday. Although it features a much darker tone than its source material, Bel-Airfollows the same general plot as Fresh Prince, in which a young Will Smith gets sent from West Philadelphia to live with wealthy relatives in California after being involved in a fight on a playground.
One of the most iconic recurring gags in the original sitcom was the Carlton Dance, performed by Alfonso Ribeiro as Carlton Banks. Carlton, who is Will Smith's preppy and uptight cousin, has a signature dance that involves him flailing his arms wildly in the air back and forth. He first performs the dance in the season 2 episode «Christmas Show,» though the dance recurs time and again throughout the series, usually to the Tom Jones song «It's Not Unusual.» The dance became so iconic that Will Smith himself eventually performed the dance with Carlton in the series finale of the show.
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On Twitter, Variety shared a red carpet moment with the executive producers of Bel-Air where they were asked if the Carlton dance would be making an easter egg appearance in the series. Unfortunately, the answer is "I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one." While the show has plenty of
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