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Heart Like a Wheelchair

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Heart Like a Wheelchair is the sixth episode of the sixth season and the 128th overall.

Will starts to dread living with his mother when he starts dating a guy obsessed with taking care of his own mother. Karen goes to confront an "L. Finster" in a hotel, believing it to be her rival Lorraine.

Synopsis[]

Open up, Lorraine... and put on a condom![]

"You and your daughter are both the same. Tall British men with moustaches that tickle when we kiss

"You and your daughter are both the same. Tall British men with moustaches that tickle when we kiss."

With the help of a private detective, Karen tracks down an "L. Finster" checked in at The Knickerbocker Hotel. Thinking it to be her Lorraine Finster, husband's mistress who also pushed Karen off a boat, she and Jack go to confront her, but instead finds Lorraine's father Lyle Finster.

Lyle offers to tell information about Lorraine's whereabouts in exchange for each kiss from Karen. After several passionate kisses, Karen realizes Lyle has not given any useful info and is only tricking her to kiss him. After Karen leaves, Jack looks for her and meets Lyle, and Jack tells him where to find Karen.

Later at Grace's office, Lyle pays Karen a visit to apologize and admit that his attraction to her. Karen is uninterested and she rejects Lyle's advances even after being tricked into one more kiss.

Take a nap, mother[]

After agreeing to live with his mother Marilyn, Will is now resentful that his social life has become stagnant because of his caretaker duties to Marilyn, who is in a wheelchair. When he takes her to the park, they meet Tom, who is also taking care of his own mother Ruth. Tom expresses disdain over people who view their mothers as burden, so Will pretends to be as passionate in taking care of his mother. On their next park rendezvous, Will asks Tom out on a date.

As they return from dinner, they see Tom's mother being rushed to the hospital by paramedics. She had broken her wrist making popcorn because Tom was on his date. Tom expresses regret that he was not there and angrily blames Will for the incident and he storms off.

Cast[]

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Notes[]

  • Title is a reference to the 1983 film Heart Like a Wheel.
  • Debra Messing does not appear in this episode due to her pregnancy. To explain her absence, Grace's character left for Cambodia with Leo in the previous episode. This is the first time one of the lead actors has not appeared in an episode.
  • First appearance of Lyle Finster.
  • Marilyn mentions that Will has a cousin named Kathy.
  • Candice Bergen is mentioned again as one of Karen's rivals. She eventually appears three episodes later in Strangers with Candice.

Cultural references[]

  • Will and Tom sing a line from Wouldn't It Be Nice (1966) by the Beach Boys.
  • As Will roughly handles Marilyn in her wheelchair, Karen tells him, "careful, Baby Jane", after the 1962 thriller What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? where the resentful Baby Jane takes care of her wheelchair-bound sister.
  • Marilyn mentions that Ruth (who is 120 years old) was a nurse at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. However, the Battle of Gettysburg occurred in 1863, meaning she should have been at least 140 to have been alive then.
  • While flipping through a magazine, Karen asks "Ah, Oprah. What are you doing on that horse?", most probably referring to the July 2002 cover of O, The Oprah Magazine where she is seen riding a horse.

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Quotes[]

Tom:I love your wheelchair.
Will:Thank you, I rented it.
Tom:Is that a Roll King 2000?
Marilyn:Well, if the Roll King is the cheapest one made, then yes, it is.
Will:Heh heh. Take a nap, mother.

Our mothers gave us life. They nourished us. They were our dates to the prom. — Tom

Karen:You're her father? I can't believe that bitch has a father.
Lyle:Well, the bitch does.
—finding about Lorraine and Lyle

You and your daughter are both the same. Tall British men with moustaches that tickle when we kiss. — Karen to Lyle

Lyle:Perhaps for every kiss you give me, I could give you a piece of information.
Karen:That's outrageous! You must think I'm a common whore!... So do you want my top on or off?
Lyle:You're not going to get rid of me easily, karen.I'm going to stick to you like bangers to mash.
Karen:You're not getting your banger anywhere near my mash!
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