I have recently been watching the Fresh Prince and just realized that Will's aunts have been referred to as the 'Smith' sisters but why is that the same last name as Will's father, Lou Smith? Will's last name on the show is obviously the same as it is in real life but how do his aunts have the same name as him???
shareSmith was not Will's father's last name though... It's his mom's last name therefore, makes his aunts (her sisters) Smith too.
I think at some point in the series it is mentionned but I am not sure....
The angle the OP is coming from is in the episode where we meet Will's father he's specifically introduced as Lou Smith I always found it odd myself.
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LOL...the writers were just lazy then. How could they BOTH have the last name Smith??
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because it's the most common anglo name in the world. that's how. out of all of the surnames that's the one that people can easilly couple up and not be related
shareSmith is an incredibly common last name, so it doesn't surprise me that Will's mother and father coincidentally have the same last name.
I like to think that Lou actually too his wife's last name. I'm under the impression he's made tons of bad choices in the past - pissed people off and owed the wrong people money - so he changed his last name to potentially throw them off.
Will Smith the actor is not the same person as Will Smith the charachter you know. :)
In the show, he is William Smith and in real he is Willard Smith.
That had nothing to do with the topic but good for you for pointing out an incredibly obvious fact like it was a revelation.
It was probably sloppy writing, but it's possible with such a common last name that both the sisters and Wills father had it. But I doubt that was actually planned that way.
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In all fairness, Smith is a very common last name (most common in the US, I believe).
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Yeah, it is not impossible. Because it was that way for my sister's best friend in High School. Her parents, by a weird coincidence, both had the same last name before they were married.
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Yes in reality it can certainly happen but with characters that have been created? Seems odd they would be written that way!
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Yeah, it seems to be another case of the writers not keeping up with continuity. But it sure could happen that two people both have the last name Smith without being related, since it happens to be the most common last name in the US (and also in the UK, by the way), so it becomes a bit easier to forgive this goof than others.
Intelligence and purity.
I can agree with that.
shareI knew a couple from high school that eventually got married and they both had the last name Goldsworthy. If two people with a last name like that can find each other, its definitely not out of the realm of possibility that two people with the most common last name in the US could find each other haha.
I agree with the premise of them both having Smith as a surname is plausible but improbable. My only question is what would they prefer Will's aunts surname to be and does it affect the story lines? I don't believe it does. Isn't it called artistic licence or something similar?
shareOk, I don't really see why it matters, but here goes:
Number one: this is television. They are not a real family.
Number two: it is not that unusual for someone to marry someone who has the same last name and be unrelated. For example, two of my sisters married men whose last name is Campbell, but their husbands are not related. As a matter of fact they didn't even know each other before they started dating my sisters.
Number three: this is television. It is really not that serious.
Will's parents were cousins and they had incest so that is how Will was born. Quincy Jones himself said this once on Oprah and in Ebony magazine.
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