Will's Mom

[Smartboy]

One thing that viewers of the "Brady Bunch" are constantly asking is why the children of a successful acthetect would spend five years living three to a bedroom and six to a bath. Barry Williams (Greg Brady) explained in a book that he wrote that the only possible explanation that he can think of is that Sherwood Schwarz took episode 18 very seriously! This episode was called "To Move or Not to Move". Those of you who would like to know more about my take on that episode can go to a post on this very page that I made less than half an hour ago and titled "Marcia's Underwear". In any event, one two-part episode of "Will and Grace" that I would say is very similar is the one titled "Someone Old, Someplace New, Something Borrowed, Someone's Due". This episode, just like the "Brady Bunch" episode taught the lesson "be careful what you wish for because you just might get it"! Over on the "Brady Bunch" page of this site, I have posted a bunch of messages about how the moral of this episode went untarnished for the next four years. Two threads that readers of this thread might be interested in are "Untarnished" and "Still Untarnished". In these and other threads, I have pointed out later episodes in which the smallness of the house was an issue but that the topic of moving was something that no one dared mention again. I would now like to do a similar thing with "Will and Grace". The time that Will and Grace were bellyaching about the "dump" that they live in was at around the same time that Will's parents were going through their divorce. An episode in which that took place after Will and Grace moved to the bigger apartment, realized how much of a hassle living there was and longed for their old, overcrowded diggs, was the one in which Will got manipulated into inviting his flaky mother to come with him to see "Mamma Mia!" Once she got the breath of city live, she did not want to leave. This truely cramped the style of the playboy we know as Will. One issue that they faced was the bathroom. Mrs. Trueman wanted to take a bath and so she said to her son, "do you have to make"? I am not sure if this was ever made clear, but I feel pretty confident that, in the huge apartment that they lived in for a week, there would have been more than one bathroom. This being they case, if they had stayed there, Will could "make" at the same time that his mother took a bath!