Remember in the 90’s when Will & Grace had social lives? Well, push 50 and the story is different. They are now the people who stay at home so often they know which jingle to avoid for fear it will be stuck in their heads for days. For Jack to think something is strange, it must be strange. Thus, a change is in order. Cue the bread maker, otherwise known as guest star Nick Offerman. Picture this: hunky bread maker who dates both Will AND Grace, but who is also played by the man married to their costar Megan Mullally. That’s quite a triangle, a square if you take the fiction away.
Offerman plays Jackson Boudreaux, a renowned chef known as an attractive bread maker. He’s also extremely flirtatious, as he calls Grace “damaged in the most beautiful way”. If that wasn’t enough to make you blush, watching Jackson shush Will should make you brighter than Rudolph in this current East Coast blizzard. Jack ends up being more interested in Will’s sudden social life, but not for long. For he too becomes plagued by the too catchy jingle. Worse, he drags Karen into his involuntary obsession. They both end up exhausted. At least we get a good, old-fashioned Jack-Karen Slapfest out of it. It takes laughing at the ludicrous nature of Will and Grace’s situation to knock the jingle out of their heads.
Jackson must be one heck of a guy, or Will and Grace must be really out of the dating game. Some may call it a miracle that Jackson was in and out of both bedrooms for days and neither one of them knew about it. I personally am wondering how something like this didn’t happen years ago. They’re just a hop, skip and a leap away from sleeping with each other. Except that if that was a possibility they wanted, it would have happened years ago when Grace jumped Will in her mom’s house. But gender fluidity is more common now, and the two friends treat this as a competition for Jackson’s affections. That is, until talk of a real threesome is proposed. That is just a little too real for Will and Grace. If they didn’t do it in the 80’s, they’re not doing it now. Ironically, not even Karen Walker is interested in the handsome baker.
Offerman’s guest stint has set the tone for the rest of the Will & Grace season. My recommendation is no liquids during the show. You don’t know where it will come out during a funny moment.
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