Will & Grace

Episode Reviews

Oct. 24, 2019: “Eat, Pray, Love, Phone, Sex”

Jack avoids sharing his true feelings with his new husband, Estefan. Grace finds out she’s pregnant after a promiscuous stint in Europe. Will asks Karen for help when Will finds out his fiancé, McCoy, wants to have phone sex.

Will talks about the possibility of carrying a baby and admits to researching the medical process. Karen jokingly engages in phone sex with Will. Two men prepare to have phone sex, via a webcam, but instead talk about their feelings (we see one man’s bare thighs as he sits without pants). Jack and his husband kiss and talk about showering together.

There are multiple jokes made about sexually transmitted diseases, male and female genitalia, promiscuity, governmental sex scandals, pansexuality, lubricants and foreplay.

Karen says “frickin” and “a–.” A woman smokes a cigarette and drinks a martini.

Jan. 31, 2019: “Family, Trip”

Grace is doing design work for a high-powered lesbian client named Donna (guest star Chelsea Handler). She discovers that her sister, Janet, is in a same-sex relationship with Donna—even though at the beginning of the episode Janet apparently wasn’t a lesbian. Meanwhile, Will, Jack and Karen drink chocolate milk that one of Will’s law students apparently laced with drugs.

Will and Jack hallucinate and imagine themselves to be soulmates (even though before Jack got high, he was showing off the wedding rings for his and Estefan’s impending nuptials). When the drugs wear off, Will debates whether he should tell the college dean what happened. Jack says he can “do the right thing or be the cool teacher that all the kids like.” “Ah, they’re adults,” Will says, waving off his concerns.

We hear a litany of ribald references to Jack’s previous promiscuity (involving a variety of sexual acts). Janet and Donna’s newfound relationship offers yet more risqué dialogue along similar lines. We hear that Janet recently suffered a broken relationship—this one of the heterosexual variety. “Frank’s cheating on me,” she tells Grace, but then she adds that Frank’s wife is returning from active duty, ending the relationship in any case.

Karen complains of a “handsy” doorman. When Will says his building doesn’t have a doorman, Karen says that makes so much more sense. “What kind of doorman would test people for colon cancer?” she says. She’s finalizing her divorce, and she apparently gets the state of Vermont in the settlement. “Suck it, New England!” she says. (Jack adds that he used to have a T-shirt with those words on it, too.) Karen insists that she’s not particularly upset about the divorce: “Feelings are for poor people and the liberals who love them,” she says.

Janet vapes and speculates about what color her urine should be. Donna suggests that she was once a regular heroin user. Someone references going to synagogue. Will promises Jack, “in front of God and all the high-end male erotica in this apartment,” that he’ll always be Jack’s best friend. Hallucinating, Will and Jack see a character from Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale (a drama about women in a strict, dystopian religious society) and mimic some of the show’s religiously inflected greetings. Character say “a–,” “b–ch,”, “crap” and misuse God’s name twice.

Will & Grace: Sept. 28, 2017 “11 Years Later”

Will wakes Karen up from a trance during a game of Heads Up, during which she apparently dreamed up the show’s original finale. Will, Grace and Jack then explain the “real” status of everyone in the show. Later, Will tries to hook up with a senator with whom he disagrees politically. Meanwhile Grace debates whether to take a contract to redecorate the White House, even though she loathes the person residing (and presiding) in it.

Jack kindles a relationship with a Secret Service agent. The two men kiss briefly. Karen asks of Jack, “Did you get serviced?” “It’s a secret,” Jack says.

Later, to save Will and Grace from trouble (they had a destructive pillow fight in the Oval Office), Jack hooks up with the agent again. “The things I had to do to Lennie to keep you guys out of trouble,” he tells them. “Thanks!” Jack insists everyone in the Secret Service is gay (“Who better to read a room?” he quips). He talks about how he strained his groin while positioned over the top of someone. And he worries that he might get “finger herpes” while scrolling through Grindr. When Will is trying to woo the senator via email, Jack notes that he’s showing signs of excitement, including “presenting” (sticking his crotch forward). When Jack learns the object of Will’s desire, he says that he’s trying to hook up with a “power gay,” otherwise known as an “Anderson Cooper.”

Jokes are made about both female and male genitals, and Karen squeezes Grace’s breasts multiple times. When Grace leaves the White House—apparently without taking the contract—she says she did make one minor improvement there. The camera zooms in on a telltale red baseball cap that reads, “Make America Gay Again.”

Karen downs multiple martinis and wakes up to the sound of someone rattling her pills in her ear. When a White House servant pours her a cocktail, she demands that he give her more than the “Laura Bush” pour, but the full “Pat Nixon.” Will and Grace hit each other in the face with pillows. Jack calls Will a “sad, middle-aged lady.” There’s a joke about flatulence in an elevator. Several political gags are also made, mostly at the expense of the current administration. Characters say “d–n” and “h—,” and God’s name is also misused.