Will and Grace Are Back! (But Should They Be?)
Nancy
WNYC Studios
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The world's changed since the groundbreaking sitcom went off the air. Eleven years later, does Will & Grace still have something to say?
— Alex Jung is a staff writer at Vulture, where he covers entertainment and culture.
— New episodes of "Will & Grace" air Thursdays on NBC starting Sept. 28. You can watch episodes from the series' original run on Hulu.
Episode scoring by Jeremy Bloom. Theme by Alexander Overington.
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| 0:00.0 | My measure, David, and I take a look at when things really began to change. |
| 0:05.0 | There's an social culture changes. |
| 0:07.0 | I think Will and Grace probably did more to educate the American public |
| 0:11.0 | than almost anything anybody's ever done so far. |
| 0:17.0 | From WNYC Studios, this is Nancy. |
| 0:20.0 | With your host, Tobin Lowe and Kathy too. |
| 0:24.0 | So Kathy, do you know why I've dragged us into the studio? |
| 0:26.0 | You keep asking me this, but I'll play along. |
| 0:29.0 | Why are we here? |
| 0:30.0 | Because as of today, Thursday, September 28th on NBC, the National Broadcasting Company. |
| 0:37.0 | Let's move this along. |
| 0:40.0 | Will and Grace is back. |
| 0:54.0 | This show has so much personal importance to me. |
| 0:57.0 | So like, while young gay Tobin was looking up gay stuff on the internet |
| 1:01.0 | and then wiping the browser clean, this was the show that I could watch out in the open with my parents. |
| 1:08.0 | And the characters, I feel like they taught me so much. |
| 1:12.0 | Like Will and Grace showed me the sacredness of the gay man's straight girl friendship. |
| 1:17.0 | I have $100 in my bank account at 75 of that is earmarked for Belgian wax tomorrow. |
| 1:23.0 | It's a Belgian wax. |
| 1:25.0 | It's just a plain old wax, but it hurts so much. |
| 1:27.0 | I treat myself to a waffle afterwards. |
| 1:29.0 | Jack was like a how-to of being flamboyant and proud. |
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