Will & Grace recap: The 5 best burns in Season 10, Episode 9
By Reed Gaudens
Chelsea Handler drops by Will & Grace to romance Grace’s sister, but the rest of the gang takes an eye-opening trip. Are Will and Jack soulmates?
Just when you thought Will & Grace couldn’t get an crazier, a jug of drug-laced chocolate milk and a guest appearance from Chelsea Handler prove you wrong. Season 10 resumes with Handler stepping in as Grace’s latest high-powered client, who catches the eye of Grace’s slight mess of a sister Janet. While their relationship causes Grace some grief, it’s nothing compared to what some doped dairy will do to Will, Jack, and Karen.
Under the influence of hallucinogenic chocolate milk (hey, if Riverdale can incorporate pufferfish poison into the plot, Will & Grace can have laced chocolate milk!), Karen side-steps the stages of grieving her divorce by slaying the stage with one final performance as Mrs. Karen Walker. It’s not quite as fun for Will and Jack, who suddenly believe they are each other’s soulmate.
Let’s recap the latest episode of Will & Grace with the gang’s five sickest burns!
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1. “Honey, feelings are for poor people and the liberals who love them.”
They say never let them see you sweat, but Karen Walker believes that you should never let them see you feel. Karen heads off to her divorce attorney to finalize the details of the dissolution of her marriage to Stan, and Grace attempts to get any emotion out of her whatsoever. But Karen’s like a mannequin, even if it’s a false exterior.
2. “First ring I’ll ever wear… on my finger.”
After Will finishes his study group with his law students, Jack drops in to show off his new wedding rings. He’s had Estefan’s engraved with the words “my soulmate,” which seems to shock Will. The pair, as well as Karen, decide to drink the chocolate milk that the study group left behind, and as they soon learn, it’s laced with a hallucinogenic drug. They should have known it wouldn’t be just milk when the kids invited Will to a warehouse party.
3. “I’m confident it won’t give you, as you put it, eye herpes.”
Grace tries to impress her high-profile client Donna (guest star Chelsea Handler) with her designs, but winning Donna’s approval won’t the day’s only struggle. Grace’s older sister Janet (guest star Mary McCormack) stows away in the office after her relationship with a married man takes a turn. Before long, Donna hits on Janet and their blossoming relationship presses on Grace’s patience with her free-spirited sister.
4. “It’s just a piece of paper, it doesn’t mean anything. It’s like a restraining order or the Constitution.”
Karen continues to sing the same old song that she couldn’t care less about her divorce. But we all know that underneath her meticulously cultivated ice queen exterior lies a big ol’ softie. After one sip of the laced chocolate milk, Karen gets in her feelings (you know, the ones she claimed were for poor liberals) and hallucinates a one-woman show where she performs her swan song as Mrs. Karen Walker. It’s a breathtaking performance by Megan Mullally, but in reality, Karen’s actually singing into a hot dog on top of a washing machine in the laundromat.
5. “Well, who doesn’t besides Angelina Jolie’s brother?”
Of course, Grace and Janet sort through their deeper issues that arise from Grace not wanting to picture her sister having sex. They put to bed (pun intended) the combative nature of their relationship and vow to look out for each other. Meanwhile, Will and Jack’s trip takes a detour when they decide they are soulmates.
Coming down from their high, Will realizes he worried about losing his best friend to marriage. But is Will & Grace has been dropping too many hints about Will and Jack being more than best friends. Are they actually soulmates?
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Will & Grace airs Thursdays at 9:30/8:30c on NBC.