Fanilow?

TV series are awesome. Especially reality TV (and I could argue the title of “reality tv” because everyone knows that it is actually the complete opposite but I really do not want to get into that right now.). One of my favorite shows is Will & Grace, and yes I do feel the urge to blog about it because I just watched 5 straight hours of the movie marathon that Lifetime had today.

So there are 4 main characters in Will & Grace. There is Will Truman, who is a gay lawyer, Grace Adler, who is a interior designer and also Will’s best friend, Jack McFarland who is also gay and Will’s best friend, and Karen Walker, who is Grace’s assistant and very rich.

One of my favorite episodes from Will & Grace is the episode titled “Fanilow” and that is because the episode is about Barry Manilow. There is a Barry Manilow show playing in New York City titled “A Very Barry Christmas.” Will is first in line at the box office and plans to camp out all night to get good seats to see the show. Will, being embarrassed at the fact that he is waiting in line for Barry Manilow tickets (which by the way, I have no idea why because Barry Manilow is the greatest thing that could bless this planet), he tells Grace that he is feeding the homeless.

While Grace is walking home she ends up seeing Will camping out for the tickets. Will has Grace hold his place while he runs across the street to use the restroom, while waiting for Will, Grace ends up meeting another woman that is waiting in line and talks to her about how her mother ended up not wanting to go shopping for their annual Hanukkah weekend. It just so happens that while Grace is talking about her mother, she sees her through a restaurant window across the street having dinner with her friend Jack.

Karen ends up seeing Grace as well and agrees to take Grace’s place while she goes across the street to confront her mom. Cut to Will in the sub shop across the street waiting to use the restroom, though he is just waiting in line to use the bathroom, no one will let him cut. An older unattractive gentleman tries hitting on Will while he is in line, but Will keeps trying to tell him that he is not interested.

Cut to Karen waiting in line for the tickets, the woman sitting next to her starts playing a Manilow song and Karen falls in love and suddenly knows the words to his songs. Cut to Grace across the street confronting her mother, she tells Jack that there is a buff gentleman waiting for him at the bar so she can distract him to talk to her mom. Yet when she talks to her mom, she tells her that it’s better Jack than her that he has to hang out with her.

Grace goes back across the street to Karen and starts complaining to her about Jack and her mom and acts as if she could care less. Karen starts playing a Manilow song and Grace starts crying and singing and runs back across the street to talk to her mom.

While all of this is going on, Will finds out that the unattractive gentleman standing behind him in line happens to be Barry Manilows roadie and that he will introduce him to Barry if he goes on a date with him, Will agrees and follows the roadie back across the street to meet his favorite singer.

Will & Grace is the best, I have no idea what I would do without it. And that’s pretty sad, even coming from me.