Subscribe
‘Will & Grace’ Season 9, Episode 12 ‘Three Wise Men’ Recap: Grace Gets a Lot Wiser [SPOILERS]
BY Yasmin Quaid
Published 7 years ago
![‘Will & Grace’ Season 9, Episode 12 ‘Three Wise Men’ Recap: Grace Gets a Lot Wiser [SPOILERS]](https://i0.wp.com/www.screenspy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/NUP_180765_4311_FULL-e1520293514411.jpg?fit=578%2C430&ssl=1)
On the latest episode of “Will & Grace,” “Three Wise Men” is about Jerry (Barry Bostwick), James (Matt Letscher), and J.J. (Andy Favreau) Wise, three generations of Weiss men Grace (Debra Messing) has spent “quality time” with before. James thinks dating a girl living in the same building is complicated. How about dating a girl who’s slept with both your father and son? Elsewhere in the episode, Will (Eric McCormack) and Karen (Megan Mullally) enjoy a real-life telenovela of Karen’s own making. Jack is somewhere arguing with his mom about his boyfriend, Drew.
Grace gets a whole lot of J
The episode begins with Grace coming home from a date with James. Like concerned parents, Jack (Sean Hayes) and Will grill her on how it went. She was happy and elated, saying the date was, “Ugh! So good!” After telling Jack they met in the laundry room and he was straight, Will asks how it is dating a guy in the building. He knows Grace well enough to know that she looks terrible getting the mail. Confidently, Grace says they’re adults and that nothing has to be weird. Just as she says this, her confident, happy, and elated evening turned to a night of wine and sugar (i.e., frozen pie crust.) James called her to break up with her. His reason–dating a girl in the same building as him is just too complicated. Being the ever supportive friend, Jack tells her how to get over a guy the gay way, “Get under, behind, and sideways with another.”
Jack brings Grace to a bar to help her get over James. But Grace refuses to hook up with a stranger, saying she isn’t that kind of girl. Later, Grace bumps into Jerry Wise, her old literature college professor. Apparently, she had some “fun times” with him in her college days. It didn’t impress Jack, saying he’s fooled around a lot of professors and that they all “Magna came loudly.”
Jack then urges Grace to flirt, but she refuses. To get her to move along, he throws some peanuts at a waiter, blaming her. After some compliments and a bit of light flirting, things lead to the ladies’ room.
When they get home, Grace sees James outside his door with flowers and a quick apology, saying he would not want anyone else to look at the moon. Grace accepts it and hugs him. When they let go, she turns around to see J.J., the waiter she fooled around with, step out the elevator and calling James “dad.” He just wanted to get the Knick tickets from him, but their night just got a whole lot more interesting. Things got more awkward when Grace agreed to a date with J.J.–all to keep his mouth shut about what happened at the bar. But the awkwardness didn’t stop there. James invited his son in for some wine.
Chris Haston/NBC
To save Grace’s relationship with James and herself from humiliation, she gives J.J. a small glass to make him leave quickly. But things didn’t go her way. He instead asked who was better; she picked the son. Her next attempt to make him leave would’ve been successful if not for his grandfather, Jerry Wise, who came up to the apartment. Apparently, he was going to watch the game with his grandson and agreed to meet there first.
Now, the three Wise men who slept with Grace Adler are all in the same room. The stuff that made it obvious was hilarious, like moaning after something good touched their lips (i.e., her lips.) Or how they described her as lighting up the whole room.
Chris Haston/NBC
Things didn’t get any easier for her. The three generations of Wise men turned having “the prettiest girl in the world” into a competition. With all the shouting, screaming, and fighting, Grace couldn’t take it anymore. To make them shut up, she just shouted, “I am the prettiest girl in the world!”
She explains she slept with Jerry because she was working on a dad issue. She slept with J.J. to get over James. She defends her dates with the two, saying it was only to keep their mouth shut about their history with her. All she ever cared about that night was James. Unfortunately, sleeping with both his father and son was way more complicated than living in the same building.
On the bright side, Jack was finally impressed with Grace shagging three men from the same family.
The invasive but addicting telenovela
On the other side of things, Will was just about to leave the office to play some tennis when Karen showed him a “telenovela’ of her own making.
With the CCTV cameras around her home, she watches her staff for entertainment. To make things funnier for her, she uses her phone to control things in the house to mess with her employees. She’d play music or make a loud sound to get one of her maids to drop a tray of glasses.
When Will peeps, he notices the hot cook and pastry chef first. He uses his gay-dar and quickly senses the budding romance between them. This potential makes him invested in the story and skips his tennis game to watch the “show” on his laptop.
Chris Haston/NBC
No matter how many guesses they make, Will and Karen can’t get the story on point as they hot staff speak Spanish, or as Karen says “their secret code.” Fortunately, Neil pops up on the screen; video chatting Will. At first, Will is frustrated that Neil keeps popping up in his life. But his turmoil turns into an opportunity to break the secret code finally, and Neil speaks Spanish.
Will agrees to a date with him but only if he drops by the office first. Poor Neil thinks Will wants to “play secretary,” not knowing they just want him for his code-breaking skills.
When Neil gets to the office, he translates what the Spanish servants are saying and confirms the secret feelings the pastry chef has for the cook. Pastry chef invites Cook to Atlantic City for the weekend, but Cook declines because he has “a thing.” Will’s theory is that Cook likes Pastry chef but is only stringing him along because he thinks he can do better.
Chris Haston/NBC
To make the show more interesting, Will introduces a new love interest to make cook jealous. The new character? Will. He comes in as a tennis instructor, failing badly at Spanish. Luckily, the chefs can speak English. He says Karen instructed him to give one of them a free tennis lesson and he chose Pastry chef. Giving the racket to Pastry chef, Will grabs him from behind, thrusts his hips forward, and teaches him how to swing. It ignites a fire in Cook and ferociously tells Will to get his hands off Pastry chef.
The two confess their feelings for each other and make out in the kitchen, where Karen can watch them from a screen in the office. She gets them more in the mood and plays some sexy music.
Will leaves and says, “My work here is done.”
“Will & Grace” continues Thursday, March 8th, with “Sweatshop Annie & the Annoying Baby Shower” at 9/8c on NBC.
'Gotham' Season 4, Episode 14 'Pieces of a Broken Mirror' Recap: More Danger in the Narrows [SPOILERS]
READ NEXT 
