President Obama isn't closing Guantánamo any time soon, but prisoners will be well-taken-care-of in the entertainment department, according to this Miami Herald article: they have an endless supply of of Will Smith’s 1990s TV comedy, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, with which to while away the years. The sitcom has become a "popular way to pass time among the 168 captives now in their second decade of U.S. detention." Guards say it now eclipses the Harry Potter books as most-requested entertainment. (via @kgosztola)

  • binarymutant

    ironic since he ran on the issue of closing gitmo in 2008

    • ocker3

       Will Smith ran for office in 2008??

      • Conan Librarian

        Yes, but he had to drop out of the race to save the Earth from alien invasion. 

        • dioptase

           No, that was McCain.  And he stayed in.

          Will Smith borrowed a time traveling humanoid robot from the MIB archives (on loan from Dr. Who, who no longer needed it after getting killed in Utah).  He quickly shrank himself in order to pilot the robot back to Hawaii.  There, he forged a birth certificate, and (using his knowledge of future events) positioned himself for a 2008 run for president.  He won and would have become president, but was secretly replaced by a miniature Dick Cheney in Dec 2008.

          Which is why Gitmo is still open.

          Duh!  Everyone knows that.

  • BBNinja

    INB4 BelAir

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Daniel-Sinnott/766697305 Daniel Sinnott

    Surely this is Cruel and Unusual ???

    • $6143719

      I think your confusing that with Pluto Nash – they got to do a suicide watch when that plays.

      • Andrew Pam

         I liked Pluto Nash!  It has John Cleese.

  • That_Anonymous_Coward

    As many of them didn’t hate us before, but have grown over time to hate us… I’m thinking this is just the cherry on top.

  • Nicky G

    Fresh Prince is good stuff, there’s plenty worse they could be watching.

    • http://daruiburns.tumblr.com/ Dlo Burns

      Designing Women

    • Bobsyeruncle

      Pffft. In Canada, we have The Trouble With Tracy for incorrigible terrorists.  ;) 
      There’s also Meatballs 2 – 4 and The Christmas Martian for the film buffs.
      :-/

      • penguinchris

        I saw Fresh Prince on TV while in Canada once, can’t fool us, we know you like it.

        Maybe your contribution to Gitmo can be Trailer Park Boys.

        • Bobsyeruncle

          You’d have to be a shit-wolf not to like Trailer Park Boys. ;)

  • beemoh

    I think it’s because they can all relate to the first two lines of the theme tune.

  • helmarfugu

     >>I got in one little plot and U.S. got scared And said “Ur moving with your cousin and uncle to gitmo bay”<<

  • IronEdithKidd

    Wow, we’ve really broken their spirits if they are requesting to watch cheezy 80′s/90′s sitcoms.  I think we can let them out now. 

    • niktemadur

      It would be much more disconcerting if they were requesting things like:
      “Keeping Up With The Kardashians”.
      “Cupcake Wars”.
      “Deal Or No Deal” reruns.

  • Steven Stwalley

    They neglect to mention that it is, of course, viewed with eyelids clamped open and the volume at 11. 

  • niktemadur

    Kinda reminds me how Buddhist monks love watching Star Trek TOS.
    Easy to visualize the monks sitting and smiling while Spock mind-melds with Chekov and chants “The bullets… are in your mind.  They are not real.  They are figments of your imagination, they cannot harm you…”

  • SomeGuyNamedMark

    They can send them reruns of the Fresh Prince but they can’t send them a trial date.

    America’s gulag.

  • http://twitter.com/sirkowski Sirkowski

    I might be ok with torture now…

  • http://twitter.com/dethbird dethbird

    requesting Fresh Prince over Harry Potter? … then there IS hope for humanity!