Soulmates: The Unofficial Jack & Karen Site

Summary: Continued from "Someone Old, Someplace New". Last time on "Will & Grace": Will and Grace move to a bigger apartment after getting fed up with always running into each other at their old apartment. They sublet to Rob and a very-pregnant Ellen, promoting New York as being the best city in the world.

Meanwhile Jack, while filming a documentary about Karen, finds Karen's mother Lois and reunites the two. But Karen is less than happy with the situation and runs out of her party.

The scene opens in Will & Grace's new place. They're on dates again, and are delighted to not be running into each other. Their happiness soon turns to frustration, however, when they find it hard to talk to each other due to the vastness of their new living space.

Meanwhile, Jack tricks Karen into going to the bar Lois works at and she starts to leave again. She reveals to Jack that her mother was a con-artist, and always made Karen participate in her schemes as a child. When Lois scammed someone Karen loved, Karen decided she'd had it with her mother and the two haven't spoken since. Jack feels sorry for Karen, but convinces her to have a few drinks with her mother. The two finally reconcile after Lois promises never to make Karen participate in another scheme again...well, almost.

Back at the new apartment, Will and Grace finally accept the fact that they like their old apartment much better and head over to Rob and Ellen's to convince them to give up the apartment. However, before they can get down to it, Ellen's water breaks and the foursome head to the hospital.

Already there, Karen's mother has convinced her to help her get a rich dying man to sign over his will to her by having Karen play her "poor and slow" daughter. She gets Karen decked out in a big pink "I Loves Me Kitty" sweater and horrible hair, much to the delight of Will and Grace. Karen admits to being hurt that she was never more than a prop to her mother, but feels better after her friends tell her how much they love her. She and her mother part ways after Lois reveals that the old man's daughter got a restraining order against her. But Lois admits to generally feeling bad for the way she treated Karen all those years and the two part on somewhat better terms.

Back in the waiting room, Will and Grace are happy to hear the news that Ellen and Rob now have a son, and are even happier to hear that Ellen wants to move back to New Jersey, leaving Will & Grace's apartment to them.

Quotes
GRACE: Ooh, do you have any ketchup?
WILL: Why, did you find another french fry in your pocket?

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JACK [LOOKING AT KAREN'S SHIRT, WHICH SAYS "I LOVES ME KITTY" ON IT]: Oh, my God, I have that same shirt! Except, um, mine has a big rooster on it, and it says, "I love me big, red--"
WILL: Jack!

Did You Notice...
~Part 2 of 2.
~The title of this episode and the first part of it is based on the wedding saying, "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue". It was thought that if a bride had one of each of these things before her walk down the aisle, that her wedding would be a happy one.
~Will's little speech to Karen about how he teases her is like the little speech Karen made to Will at her birthday party in the previous episode.
~Two issues brought up in the episode "I Never Promised You An Olive Garden" are brought up in this episode: Ellen and Rob recall the time Will and Grace tried to "trick" them into eating dim sum, which happened at the beginning of the episode, and Ellen takes Rob with her when she goes to pee, which Will claimed he did for Grace in the episode.
~Karen's mother was a con-artist, and spent all of Karen's childhood making her participate in her schemes, and moving around the country. When Karen fell in love as a teenager, her mother scammed that person too, and Karen decided to stop helping her mother. She hasn't spoken to her since. She pays Lois every month to stay out of her hair.
~Rob and Ellen now has a baby boy and are moving back to New Jersey. Rob learned about Will upping the rent and Will is now paying for their son's college education.
~Karen's phrase, "What's going on? What's happening?" seems to have come from her mother.
~Karen got her voice from her father.
~Karen makes her mother sign a document saying she will never force Karen to participate in a scheme of hers ever again.
~Shelley Morrison's name appears in the opening credits, yet she isn't in the episode.
~When Karen tosses the five dollar bill behind her, Jack quickly catches it and stuffs it in his pocket.
~Grace's comment about knowing only one person worse off, then saying "Honest to God, I was not gonna say that" when she sees Karen is just like Will's comments in the previous episode when Jack would enter the apartment and he would say, "Honest to God, I was not gonna say that".
~Following two DYNs? submitted by Lacey:
~When Jack and Karen are in Patty's Pub there is a bottle of pills on the table next to the candle before Karen sits down. This is Megan's actual medication for a cold she had during the taping. [Thanks to Reli for the info.]
~Also, when she sits down the table has a bunch of items on it that weren't there before. This is because a scene was cut where, in looking for a wetnap, Karen takes out all the contents of her purse, which include a goldfish in a bag that she taps and says "Hi sweetie", nunchucks, handcuffs, and a heart defibrilator that she says she "hasn't used in a while".
~Following DYN? submitted by Coreen:
~Karen's mom calls her Kiki, Karen's maiden name is Delaney. In the episode An Old Fashioned Piano Party, when Grace asked Will to play the piano and Will said something to the effect of "........blah blah blah Elton John and Kiki D number". Megan Mullally (who plays Karen and is referred to as Kiki with the maiden name Delaney) is a singer! Kiki Delaney~Kiki D.

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