Ben Platt flirts with Eric McCormack on Will & Grace

Tony Award-winner Ben Platt plays a much younger man flirting with Will on the next episode of the newly revived Will & Grace.

A sneak peek of the episode, which airs Thursday, hit YouTube this Tuesday.

‘I think you’re really hot. You’re like an anchorman,’ gushes Ben’s character to Eric McCormack’s Will, who playfully replies: ‘This just in: Aww.’

 

Sneak peek: Tony Award-winner Ben Platt plays a much younger man flirting with Will on the next episode of the newly revived Will & Grace

Ben’s character is chatting Will up in a bar, prodding him to spill ‘everything about you, okay? What’s your Behind The Music? What’s your Unsolved Mystery? What’s your E! True Hollywood Story?’

Will begins to answer, only for his millennial companion to cut him off: ‘Oh, my God, do you know this song? Wait, I’m so sorry, I’m the rudest!’

He sings: ‘I have the worst ADHD,’ before finger-snapping and leading Will along toward what’s presumably the dance floor.

Incoming: A sneak peek of the episode, which airs Thursday, hit YouTube this Tuesday

Incoming: A sneak peek of the episode, which airs Thursday, hit YouTube this Tuesday

'I think you're really hot': 'You're like an anchorman,' gushes Ben's character to Eric McCormack's Will, who playfully replies: 'This just in: Aww'

‘I think you’re really hot’: ‘You’re like an anchorman,’ gushes Ben’s character to Eric McCormack’s Will, who playfully replies: ‘This just in: Aww’

The ‘anchorman’ joke tracks a thread from last week’s episode 11 Years Later.

When Will finds himself smitten with a gay congressman whose policies he hates, Grace (Debra Messing) claims what Will’s really lusting after is the idea of a ‘power gay,’ Anderson Cooper being an example thereof.

Though the show’s original eight-season run finished up in 2006, it’s been resuscitated for a ninth season this year – and renewed for a 10th as well.

'What's your E! True Hollywood Story?': Ben's character is chatting Will up in a bar, prodding him to spill 'everything about you, okay?'

‘What’s your E! True Hollywood Story?’: Ben’s character is chatting Will up in a bar, prodding him to spill ‘everything about you, okay?’

Contrite: Will begins to answer, only for his millennial companion to cut him off: 'Oh, my God, do you know this song?' then add: Wait, I'm so sorry, I'm the rudest!'

Contrite: Will begins to answer, only for his millennial companion to cut him off: ‘Oh, my God, do you know this song?’ then add: Wait, I’m so sorry, I’m the rudest!’

In the original 2006 finale, Will settles down with his on-off love interest Vince D’Angelo (Bobby Cannavale) and the two of them raise a son together.  

Also in that finale, Grace remarries her ex-husband Leo (Harry Connick, Jr.), and they raise a daughter who ultimately marries Will and Vince’s son. 

Yet those romantic happy endings have been scuppered for the revival, and Will and Grace’s children have been written out, which is how Will’s single now.

On the town: He sings: 'I have the worst ADHD,' before finger-snapping and leading Will along toward what's presumably the dance floor

On the town: He sings: ‘I have the worst ADHD,’ before finger-snapping and leading Will along toward what’s presumably the dance floor

Once he starts dating Ben’s character, the generation gap between them leads to tension, according to a review in The Guardian.

Will has to remind Ben’s character that ‘the happy life you have is because we made a big deal about things,’ to which he gets the retort: ‘I don’t mean to be rude, but my boner has already called a Lyft.’

When Will tells his friend Jack (Sean Hayes) that his new boyfriend ‘doesn’t like Madonna,’ Jack snaps: ‘He should be beaten with a VHS copy of Evita,’ per Vulture. 

On the market: The romantic happy endings from the original 2006 finale have been scuppered for the revival, which is how Will's single now

On the market: The romantic happy endings from the original 2006 finale have been scuppered for the revival, which is how Will’s single now

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