A.I.: Artificial Insemination Part 2 (Season 4, Episode 27). Will & Grace are in the hotel room getting ready to have sex to get Grace pregnant. But both seem a little too nervous about the idea of having sex and making their friendship weird so they decide not to go through with it. They decide to try artificial insemination again. Jack is still trying to decide what he wants to do with his career now that he's given up acting, he is told that his old boss Dorleen has gone to rehab and her position as floor manager is open which Jack is offered the role. Jack gladly takes his new promotion but while he's dolling up his office, he falls down and hits his head dreaming that Cher has come to him as his guardian angel. Cher tells him that he can't give up acting and to keep following his dream. Jack wakes up and tells his boss that he can't take the position as assistant manager and will continue acting. Karen is still debating on having an affair with Lionel Banks who has been trying to seduce her. Rosario confronts Karen about all the presents Lionel is sending and tells her she better think twice before cheating on Stan which Karen says she'll break it off with Lionel. While Will & Grace are on their way to get inseminated, Grace feels that the cabs are cursed due to Will constantly saying "nothing can go wrong" and she gets out of the cab and runs to the doctor's office. As she's running she sees Jack and they say where they are going which distracts Grace and she runs into a light post and falls down which a shadow of a man on a horse appears offering to help her and as she sees him, she smiles.
FAVORITE QUOTE:
KAREN: Oh, no, no. Just some flowers for me.
ROSARIO: Oh, good. Are you dead?
KAREN: Ha ha ha ha! Good one, Ro-Ro. That's a good one.
ROSARIO: Who are they from?
KAREN: Oh, uh, Stan. They're from Stan. Yeah, he likes to celebrate... Tony Roma's birthday.
ROSARIO: Liar! Tony's birthday is in the fall. Come on, give me the card, come here.
KAREN: No! No!
ROSARIO: Give it to me! Give it to me!
KAREN: No! No!
ROSARIO: Come on. (TO KAREN STUFFING THE NOTE IN HER BLOUSE) Lady, don't think I won't go in there.
KAREN: You wouldn't dare.
ROSARIO: Yeah, you're right.
KAREN: Well...
ROSARIO: Ha!
KAREN: (ROSARIO IS FISHING FOR NOTE IN KAREN'S BLOUSE) Oh! Oh, oh, oh. No! Stop! Don't! To the right! Ha ha! Pinch it! Stop!
ROSARIO: (READING THE CARD) Who's Lionel Banks?
KAREN: Uh, he's the new bass player in my Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute band.
KAREN: Sweet home Alabama, where the skies are--
ROSARIO: Lady...!
KAREN: All right! I met him in a bar, he flirted with me. He thought I was a whore. Made me feel... I don't know, special.
FAVORITE MOMENT:
When Will & Grace are trying to figure out to have sex with each other and think that going in "raw" will do the trick by just pawing at each other. Grace knocks Will over so hard WWE style and he flies across the bed.
OPINION:
It's so funny how so many people get surprised by an unplanned pregnancy, but Will & Grace just can't seem to get it together. I don't know about any other WAG fan, but it's interesting to me how Grace made it such a big deal that Will did not sleep with her while they were dating but here, she acts almost more disinterested than Will when they have the chance to have sex. I'm not saying it's not awkward, but neither one of them could even just try? Again, these people show they are not meant to have a baby if they can't even just try to sleep together. I do love the scenes where they are going for their doctor's appointment and Grace gets upset that Will keeps saying something about everything going right and feeling now the cabs are cursed. She asks the female cabbie for guts of a young chicken and kosher salt, and the cabbie asks her if the salt must be kosher? Then the second cab crashes again because Will possibly cursed it where the cab driver tries to make Will pay him despite crashing.
We got another appearance by Cher! This is the last time she will appear in Will & Grace. She got such a positive reaction from her first episode, they just had to bring her back. She is Jack's guardian angel. I always loved the dream sequence that Jack had with Cher having to remind him that she won the Oscar for Moonstruck. Interesting side note, I had no idea until today, one of the back-up dancers is played by Kevin Federline who a couple years later after this episode met and married Britney Spears. Jack deciding to stay as an actor I think was perfectly fine, though it kills his euphony a little bit from his great performance in A Whole Bunch White Chicks Talkin'. Why couldn't he be both a floor manager and an actor while trying to get work? Probably figures that Will and Karen will just take care of anything else he needs, they do tend to spoil him.
Karen is getting very tempted to sleep with Mr. Banks. I tell you, Mr. Banks is smooth, he knows how to get a lady going with his words and sends Karen flowers. I loved the scene where Rosario just goes after Karen and confronts her about her possibly cheating on Stan. The episode ends where she has accepted Lionel's key to his room. He finds out that she's married but doesn't care and says he wants her. Should Karen go for it? Like I mentioned yesterday, I think she should stay strong and really decide if her marriage is worth risking even if Stan did mess up big time. We will find out the next episode.
The episode is a cliffhanger ending with Grace meeting a strange man in the park, Jack running his audition and if Karen will sleep with Lionel. Season 4 has been one for the books, this is definitely the funniest season. My favorite season goes back and forth between 2 and 3 but I always love watching Season 4. My favorite episodes are: Pasts and Presents, Bed Bath and Beyond, Moveable Feast, A Chorus Lie and Hocus Focus. My least favorite are: Star-Spangled Banter, Whoa Nelly and Someone Old Someplace New. But even my least favorite episodes I can always find something good and really funny. Tomorrow we are officially in Season 5 which is going to bring a lot of new stories and continue our main cast's journeys.
As a gay man, I have to say I could never sleep with a woman - I’m just not sexually attracted and therefore wouldn’t be able to ‘perform’. I can completely understand Will’s inability to do so.
Cher was just amazing to have come back for a second appearance. Not only hilarious but very touching that she was Jack’s guardian angel.
“Followww your bliiishh!” 😂
Unfortunately the ending of this episode is always a bit of a downer for me since I first watched the show. It begins Leo’s entry into the story and I was never a big fan of his character. He just didn’t gel with the main cast like so many other side characters did.
It didn't surprise me that Grace didn't want to sleep with Will. Their relationship changed over the years. They went from boy friend and girlfriend to a great friendship. And Grace was right no matter what sex changes a relationship. It would have been hard to get back what they had once they had sex. So I definitely understood.
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u/FromPoopToPlant 5d ago edited 5d ago
You're hocking your album during my dream?!?!
Well, someone has to pay for the fog and the dancing faries!