464: RBA
RBA |
Title text: This is a story all about how I started drinking. |
Explanation
A "Bel-Air" is an internet meme where a poster on a message board starts a post on a serious topic, but partway through the post switches to repeating the lyrics to the opening theme song of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air", a 1990s sitcom starring Will Smith (previously known in his rapping career as the "Fresh Prince") as a street-smart teenager from West Philadelphia who has been sent to live with his affluent and stuffy Aunt and Uncle in Bel Air, Los Angeles by his mother as a consequence of a single altercation with a couple of no-good guys who were making trouble in his previous neighbourhood.
The girl in the comic reverses the traditional arrangement by starting the conversation with a recitation of the lyrics to said theme song, and then switching partway through to a very serious discussion of the status of their relationship culminating in a break up.
Transcript
- [Girl walks up to boy pouring himself a drink]
- Girl: Now, this is a story all about how
- Girl: My life got flipped turned upside down
- Girl: And I'd like to take a minute
- Girl: Just sit right there
- Girl: I'll tell you how I became uncertain about our relationship. I think you just like having a girlfriend, it doesn't matter who.
- Girl: I think we should break up.
- [Cut to dropped glass, drink spilled on ground]
- Narrator: The reverse Bel-Air only works once, so make it something unforgettable.
- Boy: ...wait, seriously?
- Girl: Yeah.
Discussion
I can't find any reference for the title "RBA". What does it mean?--Dgbrt (talk) 16:32, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
- Reverse Bel-Air 83.186.30.214 22:00, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
Please enter discussions here.--Dgbrt (talk) 21:06, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
OK, but why have they disappeared off stage? And why is the cup dropped? -- Psb777 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Hm, I'm not sure that's water. It looks like he poured it out of a bottle of some sort in the first panel. Maybe it's juice?172.69.62.124 17:42, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
The cup didn’t break, so it’s probably a plastic one. If it was glass it would have shattered. He poured it out of a bottle, so it’s probably alcohol or juice. The title text mentions drinking, so I would guess alcohol.