Ninety goddam minutes to see if Suzy Parker (whatever the hell her name is) is going to marry Harry Connick, Jr. (I vote “no”)? I mean, It Happened One Night isn’t even 90 minutes long! I can take a half-hour of Will & Grace every so often, if nothing better is going on in my life—but 90 minutes?!
Tear-drenched “very special episodes” are unbearable enough, but come on—these writers do not have 90 minutes of watchable material in them!
It’s called “Sweeps Month”, Eve. Nothing more or less.
Robin
Pretty ineffective “sweep,” in my case. I might very well watch a 30-minute Will & Grace. But an hour and a half? Feh. I’ll tune in the last five minutes to see how and why the wedding fell through. Maybe.
I am so with you Eve. I stopped watching Will & Grace after one-too-many 'on a very special Will & Grace…" commercials.
So, have they starting airing the commercials set to Enya music yet, a la Friends?
Don’t you hate it when comedies start taking themselves too seriously?
Not to mention that we all KNOW she’s not actually going to marry him, so why waste 90 minutes?
First of all, according to my TV Guide, Will and Grace is really only an hour followed by a 30 minute clip show.
Secondly, I think Grace will marry Leo. Then Leo will die or they will somehow get rid of him. And then Grace will find herself pregnant and she’ll have to raise the baby with Will.
Now Grace is a tragic Widow - or fleeing a bad marriage or whatever - and is getting help with her non-bastard child from her good friend.
Without these complicated plot shennanigans Grace would have made an immoral lifestyle choice by having a baby out of wedlock with a gay man. (sarcasm)
NBC: Having Our Cake and Eating it Too.
Well, gosh. If watching 22 minutes of making fun of gay men is funny, just imagine how hilarious 66 minutes of it will be!
Omigod, a clip show? Why don’t they just visit our apartments one by one and beat us mercilessly over the head with the September issue of Vogue?
What all this means to me is no Scrubs tonight! I’d rather watch an average episode of Scrubs than 90 minutes of the best very-special-Will-and-Grace ever.
Maybe Harry Connick, Jr., will suddenly out himself and jump Will, and they’ll hump away for 90 minutes? It would make up for the total lack of gay romance for the last 20 years, or however long that show has been on . . .
Oh well, I’m going to be watching CSI.
So I saw the Today show (in the afternoon here) and they had all the cast on proming the Very Speical Episode. Can someone tell me if any of the actors have same sexual orientation they play on the show?
It tickles me to no end that “Niles Crane” is gay* although he plays a straight.
(*not that is anything worng with that)
Yeah. The wonder of sweeps month. The only time of the season where Niles Crane is made bed-ridden (okay, an exageration) and Daphne (so is it Daphne Crane now, or still Daphne Moon?) is reduced to slamming fire-extinguishers into vending machines, all for ratings.
Why can’t a comedy just be funny, and not try to bridge the extremely awkard line between drama and amusement?
Eh, I just bought the DVDsof Glengarry Glen Ross* and Reign of Fire*, so I’ll be getting my manly, shirtless studs fighting dragons AND an all-male cast speaking David Mamet’s dialogue, which I’m willing to beat is just a teensier bit more sophisticated than some NBC hack’s.
You got the Glengarry Glen Ross DVD before I did? I am so jealous.
[sub]At least I can still code better than you…[/sub]
I dig Mamet so much that I bought the completely predictable Heist.
I’m pretty sure that the guy that plays Will is straight. I think he and his wife just had a baby not too long ago. I think Jack is straight in real life too… but I’m not 100% sure.
As for Niles being gay in real life… I had no idea. I’ve never read anything about his personal life… everything I’ve read/seen on t.v. about him has been in regard to the show.
No, the Niles guy is gay, and so I find the show much funnier.
So Niles (the character) is gay? 
the show got real boring real fast when they added drama to the relationships.
I loved the show when they were all carefree and funny.
but now, ugh!