Ribeiro landed a plum assignment in 1990 as the stuffy foil of Will Smith's inner-city rapper turned suburban wiseacre on the popular NBC sitcom, "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air". In addition to allowing him to hone his skills as both a straight man and comic buffoon, the show occasionally finds excuses for Ribeiro to demonstrate that he can still dance up a storm. He also has lent his celebrity to specials that celebrate his black/Latino heritage and benefit worthy charities. Ribeiro made his feature debut in a low-budget horror outing entitled "Ticks" (1994) which crawled direct-to-video. In 1996, he joined the cast of "In The House" (UPN), as a doctor who works at a sports clinic with series star rapper-turned-actor LL Cool J.