Now This Is a Story All About How 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' Isn't on Streaming

We live in a magical time, when thousands of new and old TV shows are available at the click of a button, thanks to streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. But not every show has made the transition. In Stream This! we highlight a deserving series that’s not yet available on streaming… but should be.

You have every word of the iconic theme song memorized. You’ve been known to dance “The Carlton.” You’ve seen Uncle Phil toss Jazz out of the Banks mansion a thousand times. But still, if you want to watch all six seasons of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air anytime you want… well, we can only say “Smell ya later,” because it’s not currently available on any of the major streaming services.

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Debuting on NBC 25 years ago this week, Fresh Prince was a classic fish-out-of-water tale starring Will Smith — then just a chart-topping rapper with no acting experience — as Will, a cocky Philadelphia teen who’s sent to live with his posh aunt and uncle in Bel-Air after some shady characters “started making trouble in [his] neighborhood.” (Actually, if you know the theme song, you already have a pretty good handle on the premise.)

The laughs came from the clashes between Will’s street-savvy attitude and the upper-crust Banks family — especially Will’s gruff Uncle Phil (James Avery) and dorky cousin Carlton (Alfonso Ribeiro). Airing alongside Blossom on Monday nights, Fresh Prince quickly established a loyal audience of young fans, often reaching the Nielsen Top 20. And it wasn’t afraid to get serious, either, as it did in the famous scene where Will’s deadbeat dad (Ben Vereen) ditches him yet again and Uncle Phil is there to comfort him with a giant bear hug:

Fresh Prince ran strong for six seasons, but it may have ultimately been the victim of its own success: Smith rocketed to superstardom during the show’s run, landing roles in big-screen blockbusters like Bad Boys and Independence Day (which hit theaters just two months after Fresh Prince went off the air). Suddenly, the TV wasn’t big enough to contain him anymore. But to this day, Fresh Prince still stands as both an early-‘90s time capsule and a family-friendly sitcom in the Cosby Show mold.

And viewers clearly still love it: Fresh Prince is currently airing in syndication all over the TV dial, from TBS to Nick at Nite to MTV. But even with all of those reruns constantly airing, fans still want it available via streaming. In fact, the Internet rejoiced last December when this tweet announced that Fresh Prince was finally heading to Netflix:

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is #NowOnNetflix pic.twitter.com/gxuz6xiylc

One problem: It was a hoax. (“NetflixLife,” it turns out, is a parody site.) But the angry response to that hoax from fans proves that there’s serious demand out there for Fresh Prince to join Friends and Seinfeld among the streaming ranks. (If you’re lucky enough to live in Canada, their Netflix service does actually offer Fresh Prince for streaming — but of course, that doesn’t help those of us on this side of the border.)

Yahoo TV reached out to Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, which controls the rights to Fresh Prince, to see if there are any plans to add the show to any streaming site; we didn’t receive a response. But even the show’s co-creator Andy Borowitz is joining the fight. He recently told Complex that he gets a lot of complaints from fans that the show isn’t on Netflix, and even asked the question we’re all asking: “What’s the hold-up, Netflix?”