Will & Grace recap: The 5 best burns in season 9, episode 8

In the latest Will & Grace, Jack and Karen fend off a catchy song while Will and Grace fight over Nick Offerman’s affections. Let’s recap with the five best quotes!

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You could never say Will and Grace stay the same. Even as the 20th anniversary of Will & Grace’s original 1998 premiere approaches this fall, the revived series continues to push its titular duo into new and usual territory. Sure, they have fought over a man before, but dating the same man? That would be a first for the longtime best friends.

When Nick Offerman drops by for a guest spot, Will and Grace nearly fall victim to his charms, the same way that Jack and Karen fall victim to the hauntingly memorable new commercial jingle taking over their consciousness. Surprisingly, Jack and Karen’s monotonous melody is a harder habit to break than Will and Grace’s brush with the “Bad Boy of Bread.” And even when Will & Grace turns in another instant classic episode with an incredible Riverdale reference sure to make every Archie junkie yelp “Me!,” Will & Grace still turns important corners for sexuality on television. Name another broadcast sitcom approaching the fluidity of sexuality with the same brand of hilarious nonchalance. We’ll wait. Until then, let’s recap the with the five sickest burns from the latest episode!

1. “Another night of Netflix and chillingly boring.”

Who else would call out Will and Grace for giving into the allure of binge-watching night after night other than Jack? While the roommates tuck in for another evening of Netflix, Jack raids their fridge for his own evening of entertaining a “giggle of gays” across the hall. It’s when Jack swipes Grace’s “shame pizza” that she and Will worry that they have grown into a comfort slump of boredom.

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2. “My challah makes the boys holla.”

Naturally, Will and Grace decide to get out of the house by taking a bread-making class with the famous “bad boy of bread” Jackson Boudreaux (Nick Offerman). Once he enters the class, he commands the room with his charm and propensity for thinly veiled innuendo, leading our thirsty faves to eat out of the palm of his hand — almost literally. And so the crushing begins.

3. “That thing swats away other songs like Lindsay Lohan swats away second chances.”

Jack first hears the “Trucks 4 Tykes” jingle while making fun of Will and Grace and stealing their food. But once he and Karen sing it to each other, all bets are off and it’s suddenly as overplayed in their minds as an Ed Sheeran song on the radio. Will suggests singing another song and even tries to scare the song out of Jack with false Riverdale cancellation news, but the jingle still jangles.

4. “I’m up at 2 a.m. all the time.” “To pee.”

Before long, Will and Grace are both unknowingly sleeping with Jackson Boudreaux and individually confiding their secret with Jack and Karen. An awkward morning-after meet-up in their living room puts a sour taste in their mouths, since the friends have never shared a lover. But Jackson inviting them both to a 2 a.m. loft party (that’s code for threesome) for snake venom infused bread sobers them up real quick.

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5. “No one ever heard of the ACLU until that ice bucket challenge.”

As Will and Grace fall out of their love spell with the dangerous bread maker, Jack and Karen lose their minds to the “Trucks 4 Tykes” song. They hang on by a mere thread in the emergency room lobby, behaving like a pair of drug addicts undergoing a brutal detox. Western Medicine obviously won’t cure their disease, but it turns out gossiping about Will and Grace isn’t just a hobby, it’s a necessity for their sanity. Jack and Karen bump into venom-poisoned Jackson in the ER, where Megan Mullally hits her off-screen husband with an ironic refusal: “So not my type.”

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Will & Grace airs Thursdays at 9/8c on NBC.