Grandma Hattie visits the Banks household after having a bout with the flu. Uncle Phil insists that she spend the whole time resting, but the very restless Hattie decides to go out to a concert with Will instead.
Tropes
- Briar Patching: Attempted humorously by Will when Uncle Phil grounds him, as he tries to reason that since Uncle Phil hates rap music, it would logically be a punishment in his eyes to make Will go to a Heavy D concert. Uncle Phil does not fall for it.
- Celebrity Resemblance: A Running Gag with Grandma Hattie at the concert, with guests mistaking her for Queen Latifah and Ella Fitzgerald. This exasperates Will, but Hattie runs with it.
- Comedically averted when Uncle Phil accidentally wanders onto the stage; the concert-goers are immediately aware he's not Heavy D and begin booing him.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Phil is furious to find Hattie dancing to music Will was playing and proceeds to ground him and forbid him from going to concert.
- Dissimile: Hattie encourages Will to go out with a girl at the mall with a metaphor about cows mating in the summer. Will still uses it, and the girl fails to understand it, but takes a liking due to his hair.
- Extremely Protective Child: Phil drives Hattie up the wall with his attempts at caring for her as she recuperates from an illness, to the point of basically forbidding her to do anything because she needs to rest. The final straw for her is when he grounds Will because she was dancing to some music that he was playing.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The driver that Will arranges to take them from Bel-Air to the Heavy D concert is only referred to as "The Captain".
- Groupie: When Phil enters the backstage area looking for his mother, he is amusingly mistaken for one by security.
- Living Is More than Surviving: The main Aesop of the episode, as an exasperated Hattie pleads with her son to let her enjoy herself and not be consumed with worry over her health.
- Sleeping Dummy: Employed by Will and Hattie to sneak off to the concert. Viewing the technique alone as outdated, Will brings it up a notch by playing a tape recording of him snoring to further fool his family (which might have worked, had Hattie playing this trope straight not been discovered and led the Bankses to his room to confront him).
- Suspect Is Hatless: When Philip and Carlton go backstage at the concert to look for Hattie and Will:Stage Hand: Where do you think you're going?Philip: Pardon me. Have you seen a kid in wild, colorful clothing with an earring in his ear and the sides of his head shaved?[Three young men around Will's age and fitting Philip's description walk right in front of them]Stage Hand: Nope.
