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Episode list for
"Will & Grace" (1998)

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Episode Count: 187
Season: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
Year: 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | unknown


Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot

Original Air Date: 21 September 1998
In the pilot episode, Grace dumps her boyfriend, Danny, and moves in with Will for a while, until Danny proposes.
Next US airings:
Tue. July 2911:00 AMLIFE

Season 1, Episode 2: A New Lease on Life

Original Air Date: 28 September 1998
Will must decide whether to support Grace's independence by encouraging her to take an apartment across town or selfishly keep her close by inviting her to share his living space. The decision may be made easier, however, by the nagging presence of Will's current roommate, Jack, and his parrot, Guapo. Meanwhile, Karen and Jack meet for the first time and find each other to be fabulous.
Next US airings:
Tue. July 2911:30 AMLIFE

Season 1, Episode 3: Head Case

Original Air Date: 5 September 1998
When Grace moves in with Will, she complains that the guest bathroom is too small and suggests knocking the common wall down to create one big master bathroom, which results in Will having to confront his own issues on change and his ability to have a successful relationship. Meanwhile, Jack and Karen bear the brunt of Will and Grace's displaced anger.
Next US airings:
Wed. July 3011:00 AMLIFE

Season 1, Episode 4: Between a Rock and Harlin's Place

Original Air Date: 12 October 1998
When Grace decorates Harlin's apartment, she gets carried away with a cowboy theme. Will is both shocked and embarrassed by the cowboy chic and makes an even greater mess of the situation. Meanwhile, Jack decides to embark on a singing career - with a little help from Karen.
Next US airings:
Wed. July 3011:30 AMLIFE

Season 1, Episode 5: Boo! Humbug

Original Air Date: 26 October 1998
Will and Grace plan to spend a serious Halloween together watching Ingmar Bergman movies at home - until Harlin drops off his over-eager kids at their place when he's called away on business. Meanwhile, Jack convinces Karen to accompany him to the downtown parade where she becomes an honorary drag queen.
Next US airings:
Thur. July 3111:00 AMLIFE

Season 1, Episode 6: William, Tell

Original Air Date: 9 November 1998
When Jack reveals to Grace that Will once had an affair with a "client," she becomes paranoid that Will is keeping secrets from her. Her suspicions continue to grow when Will meets Karen for a discreet meeting to discuss her legal problems and will only tell Grace he's meeting with a client.
Next US airings:
Thur. July 3111:30 AMLIFE

Season 1, Episode 7: Where There's a Will, There's No Way

Original Air Date: 16 November 1998
Grace blames her relationship with Will as the reason for her lack of interest in dating and decides they can no longer have fun together. Meanwhile, Jack enlists Will's help when the IRS catches up with him.
Next US airings:
Fri. Aug. 111:00 AMLIFE

Season 1, Episode 8: The Buying Game

Original Air Date: 30 November 1998
Grace has the opportunity to buy the studio that serves as her office space and turns to Will for first-time buyer advice. However, Will's negotiating tactics lead Grace to believe that Will thinks she is incapable of closing the deal and she sets out to prove him wrong. Meanwhile, Jack wants to become a massage therapist and practices his technique on a delighted Karen.
Next US airings:
Fri. Aug. 111:30 AMLIFE

Season 1, Episode 9: The Big Vent

Original Air Date: 5 January 1999
Will and Grace become hooked on a real-life soap opera unfolding in their neighbors' apartment when they begin eavesdropping through the new heating vent in their floor. As Will and Grace live vicariously through the marital infidelities of the downstairs couple, Jack feels neglected and enlists Karen's help in staging a play that drives the message home to his two best friends.
Next US airings:
Mon. Aug. 411:30 AMLIFE

Season 1, Episode 10: The Truth About Will and Dogs

Original Air Date: 15 December 1998
After Grace defies Will's wishes and brings home a puppy, Will can't resist the pooch and begins to treat him like a newborn baby. Meanwhile, Jack and Karen worry about the dog's effect on Will and Grace and insist that the new parents go out for a night on the town.
Next US airings:
Mon. Aug. 411:00 AMLIFE

Season 1, Episode 11: Will on Ice

Original Air Date: 12 January 1999
It's Will's birthday and all he wants is a nice, quiet dinner with his two best friends, Grace and Jack. When Jack and Grace discover they share a passion for figure skating, they surprise Will with tickets for Champions on Ice and Karen reluctantly joins the special evening.
Next US airings:
Tue. Aug. 511:00 AMLIFE

Season 1, Episode 12: My Fair Maid-y

Original Air Date: 2 February 1999
Will hires a cleaning lady to "rescue" his designing roommate Grace from the creative chaos that litters their apartment, and while preparing for an annual decorators' contest, Grace develops a dependency on her maid and can't create without her. Meanwhile, Jack poses as an attorney in Will's office to impress an attractive guy he hopes to date.
Next US airings:
Tue. Aug. 511:30 AMLIFE

Season 1, Episode 13: The Unsinkable Mommy Adler

Original Air Date: 9 February 1999
Grace's visiting mom, Bobbi Adler, a would-be star whose propensity for breaking out into show tunes and impressions dismays her daughter - and delights Will, Jack and Karen - wreaks havoc by suggesting Will and Grace wed, despite their sexual differences. When Will winces at the fantasy of committing to anyone who needs to be the star of a relationship, Grace realizes she's more of a chip off the old block than she imagined.
Next US airings:
Thur. Aug. 711:00 AMLIFE

Season 1, Episode 14: Big Brother Is Coming: Part 1

Original Air Date: 16 February 1999
A "surprise" birthday party for Jack astounds Will when his estranged older brother Sam turns up at the fête at Grace's invitation. Not only do sparks fly between the brothers, but electricity of a different sort crackles between Grace and Sam. Meanwhile, Karen flashes her platinum card for Jack as the pair shop until they drop at a boutique where the snooty salesmen previously had snubbed Jack.
Next US airings:
Wed. Aug. 611:00 AMLIFE

Season 1, Episode 15: Big Brother Is Coming: Part 2

Original Air Date: 23 February 1999
A wary Grace tells Will of her romance with his brother, Sam, and unleashes an avalanche of resentment. While Will wrestles with sibling rivalry, Karen helps Jack come to grips with turning 30 by hiring him as her personal assistant and leads Grace to sort through her true feelings for the Trumans.
Next US airings:
Wed. Aug. 611:30 AMLIFE

Season 1, Episode 16: Yours, Mine or Ours

Original Air Date: 2 March 1999
Stunned to find they have a 'date' with the same guy, Will and Grace compete for the affections of a handsome, charming new neighbor at dinner, and even Jack's finely-tuned gay-dar can't pick up his preference. Meanwhile, Karen contemplates firing her driver and in a twist of irony asks Grace to role-play firing an incompetent employee.
Next US airings:
Thur. Aug. 711:30 AMLIFE

Season 1, Episode 17: Secrets and Lays

Original Air Date: 23 March 1999
The gang retreats to a cabin in Vermont for the weekend, where Grace rekindles a romance with an old flame and tries to hide the fling from Will, who's pining on the eve of his would-be anniversary. Meanwhile, Karen's culinary efforts go up in smoke, as does Jack's attempt to cheer Will by dragging him to a gay pub, where the town barber-turned-hair stylist sidles up to him.
Next US airings:
Fri. Aug. 811:00 AMLIFE

Season 1, Episode 18: Grace, Replaced

Original Air Date: 8 April 1999
Will finds a "substitute Grace" in Val, a new neighbor who is available for plans with Will while Grace is consumed with work. As Will and Val continue to spend more time together, Grace fears that she has been replaced and fights with Val to regain Will's attention. Meanwhile, Jack seeks support from Karen after the court finds him guilty of slapping a meter maid and sentences him to pick up trash.
Next US airings:
Fri. Aug. 811:30 AMLIFE

Season 1, Episode 19: Alley Cats

Original Air Date: 22 April 1999
When Rob and Ellen admit that they don't have fun playing games with Will and Grace because of Grace's competitive nature, Grace works to change her image. However, as Grace loses her competitive edge, Will's emerges and he convinces his partner to care only about winning. Meanwhile, after learning how to administer CPR from Jack, Karen saves a workman's life.

Season 1, Episode 20: Saving Grace

Original Air Date: 29 April 1999
A successful and arrogant New York publicist hires Grace to decorate his house with the condition that she fixes him up with Will. But there's a problem: Will can't stand the guy. Meanwhile, Jack uses Karen to teach Will how to kiss someone he finds unattractive.

Season 1, Episode 21: Will Works Out

Original Air Date: 6 May 1999
Will invites Jack to his gym on a "buddy pass," but when he expresses his embarrassment to Grace over his buddy's gay behavior, Jack overhears the comments and looks to set him straight about prejudice. Meanwhile, Grace continues to lend her ear when Karen's marriage hits rocky ground and she and Karen share an evening of girl talk.

Season 1, Episode 22: Object of My Rejection

Original Air Date: 13 May 1999
Will is stunned to discover that Grace is dating her ex-fiancé Danny once again, but he chooses not to interfere after he's accused of being meddlesome. Meanwhile, Jack agrees to take a walk down the aisle with Karen's combative maid, Rosario, who needs a groom to help her smooth out some immigration problems.


Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner

Original Air Date: 21 September 1999
Despite her moving out (to across the hall), Will still feels that Grace clings to him, so she asserts her independence by having a dinner party without him. Meanwhile, to keep the INS at bay, Jack is forced to move in with Rosario.

Season 2, Episode 2: Election

Original Air Date: 28 September 1999
When Grace feels that Will is abusing his power as president of the tenant's association, she runs against him. Karen tries to buy back Jack's forgiveness when she lets his beloved bird, Guapo, fly out the window.

Season 2, Episode 3: Das Boob

Original Air Date: 2 November 1999
A deceiving, but flattering, newspaper photo makes Grace look more "endowed" than she really is and gains her the attention of a former high school heartthrob who was never one to keep abreast of her before. Jack is destroyed to learn that Will had a fling with Walter, Jack's ex-boyfriend.

Season 2, Episode 4: Whose Mom Is It, Anyway?

Original Air Date: 9 November 1999
Grace is jealous when her mother stops match making for her, and instead sets Will up. Jack must convince an INS agent (who he dated once) that he and Rosario are happily married.

Season 2, Episode 5: Polk Defeats Truman

Original Air Date: 16 November 1999
When his work for Harlin takes up all his time, Will drops all his other legal clients; a decision that later comes up to bite. Meanwhile Grace tries to teach Karen how to live on a budget.

Season 2, Episode 6: To Serve and Disinfect

Original Air Date: 23 November 1999
An unemployed Will agrees to serve as one of Jack's cater-waiters, until he learns that he'll be catering for American Bar Association. Grace discovers Karen's darkest secret: she once made a porn video.

Season 2, Episode 7: Homo for the Holidays

Original Air Date: 25 November 1999
Will and Grace are shocked to learn that Jack never told his mother he was gay and encourage him to open up to her at Thanksgiving. The evening brings a revelation for Jack as well: his father isn't who he thinks it is.

Season 2, Episode 8: Terms of Employment

Original Air Date: 30 November 1999
Grace looks to Will for representation when a hotshot lawyer doesn't pay her for a consulting assignment, but he ends up making Will a job offer. Meanwhile, Jack and Karen turn a training film set into an adult entertainment experience.

Season 2, Episode 9: I Never Promised You an Olive Garden

Original Air Date: 14 December 1999
Tired of Rob and Ellen's low-rent taste in dining, Will and Grace start hanging with a pair of hip downtowner's they meet at a sushi joint. But as the new pals paint the town, Rob and Ellen see red when they catch their best friends lying to avoid plans to dine at their favorite eatery: a coupon-crazy Italian chain in Secaucus. Meanwhile, Jack's inner child gets a little pick-me-up when he joins Karen at a PTA meeting at her kid's school.

Season 2, Episode 10: Tea and a Total Lack of Sympathy

Original Air Date: 11 January 2000
When they appear on their favorite TV show, Antiques on the Road, Grace can't wait to dress down the guests who are ever hopeful that their tchotchkes are worth a fortune, while Jack just wants to undress the show's attractive appraiser, Porcelain Paul. But then it's all business when they realize that their junky, thrift-store teapot is actually valued at $30,000. Meanwhile, Will's new boss makes the reluctant lawyer kiss up to Karen in hopes of landing her hubby as a client.

Season 2, Episode 11: Seeds of Discontent

Original Air Date: 25 January 2000
Grace is excited to meet Will's best friend from high school until she learns that the woman has made a request: to be implanted with Will's sperm. Now Grace has to confront Will about Will being her "backup."

Season 2, Episode 12: He's Come Undone

Original Air Date: 8 February 2000
Erotic dreams about Grace send Will to a therapist, who seems more interested in Grace. Meanwhile Jack and Karen clash over her treatment of Rosario.

Season 2, Episode 13: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, He's Kept Me in the Closet and I'm So Sad

Original Air Date: 15 February 2000
Will's ideal relationship with his loving father sours when his dad prepares to accept an award at his company's dinner banquet but tries to dissuade his son from attending because he's told everyone that Will is married to Grace. Meanwhile, Karen's private detective finds Jack's biological father.

Season 2, Episode 14: Acting Out

Original Air Date: 22 February 2000
Will and Jack appear on Today to protest NBC for cutting a gay kiss out of an eagerly-waited sitcom episode. Will is frustrated with Jack on how much he wanted to see that kiss and kisses him. Elsewhere, Grace confides in Karen about dumping her boyfriend.

Season 2, Episode 15: Advise and Resent

Original Air Date: 29 February 2000
When Will is set up on a blind date by his boss, he has internal debates on whether or not to go. Of course, Jack gives Will advice on how to be a good blind date. Meanwhile, Grace continues to struggle with her wimpy boyfriend Josh as Karen doles out some typically unwanted advice.

Season 2, Episode 16: Hey La, Hey La, My Ex-Boyfriend's Back

Original Air Date: 7 March 2000
Will thinks that he has another chance with Michael, his old boyfriend and Grace's new client. Meanwhile, Karen tries taking her "career" more seriously and asks Grace for greater responsibilities.

Season 2, Episode 17: The Hospital Show

Original Air Date: 28 March 2000
While on a blind date, Will finds out that Karen's husband Stan has had a heart attack and rushes to the hospital to be with the gang. Will, Jack, Grace, and Rosario all speculate on who Karen will turn to for her inevitable emotional breakdown. After all, who will pay the bills if Stan dies?

Season 2, Episode 18: Sweet (and Sour) Charity

Original Air Date: 4 April 2000
After winning concert tickets from a radio contest, Grace vows to get more involved and she volunteers herself and Will to help out at the community center. Unfortunately, her charitable work conflicts with the concert. Meanwhile, while collecting clothes to give to the mission, Jack donates a pair of Karen's most-prized shoes.

Season 2, Episode 19: An Affair to Forget

Original Air Date: 18 April 2000
When Rob and Ellen ask Will and Grace to be the best man and maid of honor at their wedding, Grace's sexy past with the groom is exposed when Ellen learns at her bachelorette party that Grace once slept with Rob. Meanwhile, Jack is confused by his reaction to the entertainment at Rob's bachelor party.

Season 2, Episode 20: Girls, Interrupted

Original Air Date: 2 May 2000
Despite their history, Grace spends a fun evening with Val only to have Will suspect her of stealing. Meanwhile Jack becomes attracted to the leader of Welcome Home-an organization for gays who have converted to going straight, so he acts straight to woo the man.

Season 2, Episode 21: There But for the Grace of Grace

Original Air Date: 9 May 2000
It's a scary glimpse into the future for Will and Grace when they visit their curmudgeonly retired college professor only to discover that he is a bitter old man that has a "Grace" of his own. Meanwhile, Karen must confront her most mortal enemy, the kitchen, when Stan requests a home-cooked meal for his birthday, and she looks to Jack and Ben to come to her rescue.

Season 2, Episode 22: My Best Friend's Tush

Original Air Date: 16 May 2000
Grace is thrilled when, thanks to Karen's social connections, she gets the chance to land a prestigious client for her interior-decorating firm. The only problem? She must compete with international design goddess Helena Barnes. To help boost Grace's confidence, Karen assumes the alias of "Anastasia Beaverhausen" to dig up dirt on the socialite. Meanwhile, Jack tries marketing an odd invention: a tush pad for riding the New York City subway.

Season 2, Episode 23: Ben? Her?

Original Air Date: 23 May 2000
To help make peace between Grace and Ben, Will has them both over to dinner, only to have their relationship go beyond friendship. But then Will finds out that Ben is dating someone else. Meanwhile Jack catches Rosario in a clinch with a lover and learns that she wants a divorce.


Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: New Will City

Original Air Date: 12 October 2000
After three months on the island, Will finally returns only to learn that Jack and Grace have bonded in his absence. Meanwhile Grace still can't decide between Josh and Ben; When Karen tries to smuggle pearls in the States, Rosario ends up taking the rap.

Season 3, Episode 2: Fear and Clothing

Original Air Date: 19 October 2000
Terrified after someone breaks into her apartment, Grace stays with Will. Unfortunately, having both her and Jack under one roof is driving Will crazy and he forces them to choose which one will move out; Jack and Karen are still at odds over his divorce from Rosario.

Season 3, Episode 3: Husbands and Trophy Wives

Original Air Date: 19 October 2000
Will and Jack can't wait to arrive at the house of two old friends who are known for their wild parties but they discover that the former party animals are now sedately raising an adopted baby girl -- and Will shocks Jack when he volunteers to test his shaky parenting skills by babysitting her for them. Elsewhere at a snooty yacht club, Grace believes that Karen is jealous of her romantic relationship with Ben but then later regrets taunting her.

Season 3, Episode 4: Girl Trouble

Original Air Date: 26 October 2000
Grace's delight in having a bright intern whom she can mentor turns into horror when the young woman re-makes herself into the spitting image of sassy, brassy Karen -- and that's at least one too many Karens to handle. Meanwhile, Will and Jack volunteer to act out scenes for a gay sensitivity seminar for the local police but the peaceful intent is lost when they tussle with two lesbian cast members who strongly object to their non-inclusive, sexist language.

Season 3, Episode 5: Grace 0, Jack 2000

Original Air Date: 2 November 2000
Grace has made up her mind to break up with Ben because she's convinced their relationship is going nowhere -- but his charm and refusal to call it quits tempt her to reconsider. Meanwhile, Jack's latest and most outrageous cabaret gig is an absolute bomb until he frantically works an unwilling Will into the act by mercilessly ridiculing his attending friend's most-private confessions.

Season 3, Episode 6: Love Plus One

Original Air Date: 9 November 2000
Grace rejects an ex-boyfriend's suggestion that she participate with him and his girlfriend in a romantic escapade but when she confides in Will and Karen -- who fall down laughing at the prospect -- the conservative Grace considers throwing caution to the wind. Meanwhile, Will tries to help a newly employed Jack meet a customer at a clothing store by prompting him with witty lines like a latter-day Cyrano de Bergerac.
Next US airings:
Tue. July 2912:30 AMCW

Season 3, Episode 7: Gypsies, Tramps and Weed

Original Air Date: 16 November 2000
Will reluctantly decides to use a birthday gift certificate from Grace to consult a psychic about his future and encounters an absent-minded fortune teller whose frighteningly personal predictions leave him reeling. Elsewhere, a guilt-ridden Grace hires a lackadaisical waiter whom she helped to get fired while Jack, who forever idolizes music, TV and film legend Cher, stumbles onto the real deal and meets the Oscar winner herself -- whom he mistakes for a drag queen.
Next US airings:
Sat. Aug. 212:30 AMCW

Season 3, Episode 8: Lows in the Mid-Eighties

Original Air Date: 23 November 2000
In a flashback to Thanksgiving 1985, coed Grace invites her college boyfriend Will home to meet her family, but their romantic relationship swerves dramatically when a conflicted Will phones a teenage Jack for some crucial advice. Unfortunately, Will and an angry Grace end up temporarily estranged when he blurts out the truth and she orders him out of the house -- and her life.
Next US airings:
Wed. July 3012:30 AMCW
Thur. July 3112:30 AMCW

Season 3, Episode 9: Three's a Crowd, Six Is a Freak Show

Original Air Date: 14 December 2000
Just as Grace seems to be on the verge of a promising relationship, she undergoes a minor medical procedure that leaves her with an embarrassing ugly sore on her lip, but even though her new beau accepts her temporary blight, she cannot return the favor when she is horrified to learn he has six toes on one foot. Meanwhile, Will vies with Jack for the attentions of the same man until each agrees to walk away to preserve their friendship.

Season 3, Episode 10: Coffee & Commitment

Original Air Date: 4 January 2001
When they are asked to read at the civil union of two friends, Will and Grace verbally spar over her self-serving, get-and-take attitude where Will is responsible for everything -- but what's really bugging him is the overwhelming feeling that Grace is behaving more like a wife than an old friend. Meanwhile, Karen tries to help a caffeine-addicted Jack get over a failed crush but he's so jacked-up on Java that only a tough-love approach will work.
Next US airings:
Fri. Aug. 112:30 AMCW

Season 3, Episode 11: Swimming Pools... Movie Stars

Original Air Date: 11 January 2001
Will and Grace get carried away in an escrow undertow when they pose as a wealthy couple shopping for homes of the rich-and-famous and visit Sandra Bernhard's posh townhouse where they become fast friends and make an fake offer -- but their ploy fizzles when she accepts their offer. Elsewhere, Karen is forced to attend her young stepson's swim meet and is uncharacteristically chastised by another mother for arriving late while Jack begins attending Co-dependents Anonymous meetings.

Season 3, Episode 12: Crazy in Love

Original Air Date: 1 February 2001
A sports-challenged Will tries to impress his new friend Matt - a sportscaster - with his athletic skills by checking into a batting cage but it takes Grace to show him how to improve his swing. Meanwhile, Grace is given a mission: impossible when Jack and Karen ask her to exotically re-decorate Jack's apartment.
Next US airings:
Tue. Aug. 512:30 AMCW

Season 3, Episode 13: Brothers, a Love Story

Original Air Date: 8 February 2001
A sports-challenged Will tries to impress his new friend Matt - a sportscaster - with his athletic skills by checking into a batting cage but it takes Grace to show him how to improve his swing. Meanwhile, Grace is given a mission: impossible when Jack and Karen ask her to exotically re-decorate Jack's apartment.
Next US airings:
Wed. Aug. 612:30 AMCW

Season 3, Episode 14: My Uncle the Car

Original Air Date: 15 February 2001
Jack receives a letter that indicates he is black. Grace inherits an old a car from a deceased uncle. She sells the the car that she believes to be a lemon to a nun. Meanwhile, Karen discovers that Rosario is moonlighting for Beverly Leslie. Grace realizes that she should have kept the car and tries to buy it back.
Next US airings:
Thur. Aug. 712:30 AMCW

Season 3, Episode 15: Cheaters

Original Air Date: 22 February 2001

Next US airings:
Fri. Aug. 812:30 AMCW

Season 3, Episode 16: Mad Dogs and Average Men

Original Air Date: 15 March 2001


Season 3, Episode 17: Poker? I Don't Even Like Her

Original Air Date: 29 March 2001


Season 3, Episode 18: An Old-Fashioned Piano Party

Original Air Date: 19 April 2001


Season 3, Episode 19: The Young and the Tactless

Original Air Date: 26 April 2001


Season 3, Episode 20: Alice Doesn't Lisp Here Anymore

Original Air Date: 3 May 2001


Season 3, Episode 21: Last of the Really Odd Lovers

Original Air Date: 10 May 2001


Season 3, Episode 22: Sons and Lovers

Original Air Date: 17 May 2001
Grace struggles trying to get Nathan and Will to get along. Jack prepares to meet his birth father, only to get a blast from the past.


Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: The Third Wheel Gets the Grace

Original Air Date: 20 September 2001


Season 4, Episode 2: Past and Presents

Original Air Date: 4 October 2001


Season 4, Episode 3: Crouching Father, Hidden Husband

Original Air Date: 11 October 2001
Karen cries wolf to Will to many times for his own liking, whilst Grace lends a helping hand to a dateless Elliot for his prom.

Season 4, Episode 4: Prison Blues

Original Air Date: 18 October 2001


Season 4, Episode 5: Loose Lips Sink Relationships

Original Air Date: 25 October 2001


Season 4, Episode 6: Rules of Engagement

Original Air Date: 1 November 2001


Season 4, Episode 7: Bed, Bath and Beyond

Original Air Date: 8 November 2001
Will, Jack and Karen try to console a devastated Grace after her break up from Nathan

Season 4, Episode 8: Star-Spangled Banter

Original Air Date: 15 November 2001


Season 4, Episode 9: Moveable Feast

Original Air Date: 22 November 2001


Season 4, Episode 10: Stakin' Care of Business

Original Air Date: 6 December 2001


Season 4, Episode 11: Jingle Balls

Original Air Date: 13 December 2001


Season 4, Episode 12: Whoa, Nelly!

Original Air Date: 10 January 2002


Season 4, Episode 13: Grace in the Hole

Original Air Date: 17 January 2002


Season 4, Episode 14: Dyeing Is Easy, Comedy Is Hard

Original Air Date: 31 January 2002


Season 4, Episode 15: A Chorus Lie

Original Air Date: 7 February 2002
Jack is convinced the newest member of the gay chorus line is straight and devises a devious plan to "out" him.

Season 4, Episode 16: Someone Old, Someplace New

Original Air Date: 28 February 2002


Season 4, Episode 17: Something Borrowed, Someone's Due

Original Air Date: 7 March 2002


Season 4, Episode 18: Cheatin' Trouble Blues

Original Air Date: 28 March 2002


Season 4, Episode 19: Went to a Garden Potty

Original Air Date: 4 April 2002


Season 4, Episode 20: He Shoots, They Snore

Original Air Date: 11 April 2002


Season 4, Episode 21: Wedding Balls

Original Air Date: 18 April 2002


Season 4, Episode 22: Fagel Attraction

Original Air Date: 25 April 2002


Season 4, Episode 23: Hocus Focus

Original Air Date: 2 May 2002

Next US airings:
Tue. July 2911:00 PMLIFE

Season 4, Episode 24: A Buncha White Chicks Sittin' Around Talkin'

Original Air Date: 9 May 2002


Season 4, Episode 25: A.I.: Artificial Insemination

Original Air Date: 16 May 2002



Season 5


Season 5, Episode 1: ...And the Horse He Rode in On

Original Air Date: 26 September 2002

Next US airings:
Sat. July 266:00 PMCW

Season 5, Episode 2: Bacon and Eggs

Original Air Date: 3 October 2002

Next US airings:
Sat. July 266:30 PMCW

Season 5, Episode 3: The Kid Stays Out of the Picture

Original Air Date: 10 October 2002

Next US airings:
Sat. Aug. 26:00 PMCW

Season 5, Episode 4: Humongous Growth

Original Air Date: 17 October 2002

Next US airings:
Sat. Aug. 26:30 PMCW

Season 5, Episode 5: It's the Gay Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Original Air Date: 31 October 2002
Karen struggles with the decision whether to tell Stan about her affair, only to find out that he is also hiding something.

Season 5, Episode 6: Boardroom and a Parked Place

Original Air Date: 7 November 2002


Season 5, Episode 7: The Needle and the Omelet's Done

Original Air Date: 14 November 2002
When Grace accompanies Leo to dinner with some "friends," she doesn't realize that he's tricked her and instead introduced her to his real parents--and she soon regrets her earlier salty dialogue and suggestive attitude. Elsewhere, Jack is again confronted by Zandra, his gruff acting teacher, when he tries to showcase his meager talent in a class while a willing Will joins Karen in subjecting to a Botox facial injection.

Season 5, Episode 8: Marry Me a Little, Marry Me a Little More

Original Air Date: 21 November 2002
Grace and Leo impetuously take their vows at a Central Park wedding that is a ratings stunt hosted by Today's Katie Couric. Grace's pals, especially Will, are hurt that they weren't invited, but all seems forgiven when everyone-including Grace's outspoken mom and the subdued Mrs. Marcus-gather days later for a swank reception. It should be a festive bash, but the emergence of unsettling details about Leo-and about the park nuptials-give Grace reason to wonder whether she has made a mistake.

Season 5, Episode 9: Episode #5.9

Original Air Date: ????


Season 5, Episode 10: The Honeymoon's Over

Original Air Date: 5 December 2002
After a displaced Karen is booted from her Palace Hotel digs, a sympathetic Will agrees to let her move in with him-at least until she turns his apartment into a federal disaster zone with her exorbitant lifestyle, forcing Will to try and unload her onto Grace's shoulders. Meanwhile, Jack loses style points when he poses incognito out of fear that the "Gay Mafia" has it out for him.

Season 5, Episode 11: All About Christmas Eve

Original Air Date: 12 December 2002
"On Christmas Eve, Grace is torn when she has only two tickets to "The Nutcracker" musical and can't take both her best friend Will and new husband Leo (Grammy-winning guest star Harry Connick, Jr.)- but her back-and-forth indecision leaves Will spinning like a Hanukkah dreidel between a dithering Grace and his previous holiday plans with Jack and Karen."

Season 5, Episode 12: Field of Queens

Original Air Date: 9 January 2003
"When Jack convinces tangle-footed Will to join him on a gay soccer team, Will's inept playing leaves him warming the bench - which allows him to bond with the teenaged Elliot, who also is the last man called upon with his own youth soccer team. Meanwhile, Grace is delighted that Karen is giddy in anticipation of her date with a handsome restaurant owner (guest star Andy Garcia)."

Season 5, Episode 13: Fagmalion Part 1: Gay It Forward

Original Air Date: 16 January 2003


Season 5, Episode 14: Fagmalion Part 2: Attack of the Clones

Original Air Date: 30 January 2003


Season 5, Episode 15: Homojo

Original Air Date: 6 February 2003

Next US airings:
Sun. July 2710:00 AMLIFE

Season 5, Episode 16: Women and Children First

Original Air Date: 13 February 2003

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Season 5, Episode 17: Fagmalion Part 3: Bye Bye Beardy

Original Air Date: 20 February 2003


Season 5, Episode 18: Fagmalion Part 4: The Guy Who Loved Me

Original Air Date: 13 March 2003


Season 5, Episode 19: Sex, Losers & Videotape

Original Air Date: 3 April 2003


Season 5, Episode 20: Leo Unwrapped

Original Air Date: 17 April 2003


Season 5, Episode 21: Dolls and Dolls

Original Air Date: 24 April 2003
Will sprains his foot and Karen gets a new roommate.

Season 5, Episode 22: May Divorce Be with You

Original Air Date: 1 May 2003


Season 5, Episode 23: 23

Original Air Date: 8 May 2003


Season 5, Episode 24: 24

Original Air Date: 15 May 2003



Season 6


Season 6, Episode 1: Dames at Sea

Original Air Date: 25 September 2003

Next US airings:
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Season 6, Episode 2: Last Ex to Brooklyn

Original Air Date: 2 October 2003

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Season 6, Episode 3: Home Court Disadvantage

Original Air Date: 9 October 2003

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Season 6, Episode 4: Me and Mr. Jones

Original Air Date: 16 October 2003

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Season 6, Episode 5: A-Story, Bee-Story

Original Air Date: 30 October 2003

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Season 6, Episode 6: Heart Like a Wheelchair

Original Air Date: 6 November 2003

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Season 6, Episode 7: Nice in White Satin

Original Air Date: 13 November 2003

Next US airings:
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Season 6, Episode 8: Swimming from Cambodia

Original Air Date: 20 November 2003

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Season 6, Episode 9: Strangers with Candice

Original Air Date: 4 December 2003

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Season 6, Episode 10: Fanilow

Original Air Date: 11 December 2003

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Season 6, Episode 11: The Accidental Tsuris

Original Air Date: 15 January 2004

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Season 6, Episode 12: A Gay/December Romance

Original Air Date: 22 January 2004

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Season 6, Episode 13: Ice Cream Balls

Original Air Date: 10 February 2004

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Season 6, Episode 14: Looking for Mr. Good Enough

Original Air Date: 19 February 2004

Next US airings:
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Season 6, Episode 15: Flip-Flop: Part 1

Original Air Date: 26 February 2004

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Season 6, Episode 16: Flip-Flop: Part 2

Original Air Date: 4 March 2004

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Season 6, Episode 17: East Side Story

Original Air Date: 11 March 2004

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Season 6, Episode 18: Courting Disaster

Original Air Date: 18 March 2004


Season 6, Episode 19: No Sex 'N' the City

Original Air Date: 25 March 2004


Season 6, Episode 20: Fred Astaire and Ginger Chicken

Original Air Date: 1 April 2004


Season 6, Episode 21: I Never Cheered for My Father

Original Air Date: 8 April 2004


Season 6, Episode 22: Speechless

Original Air Date: 22 April 2004


Season 6, Episode 23: I Do

Original Air Date: 29 April 2004


Season 6, Episode 24: Oh, No, You Di-in't

Original Air Date: 29 April 2004



Season 7


Season 7, Episode 1: FYI: I Hurt, Too

Original Air Date: 16 September 2004
After breaking up with Leo, Grace tries to cope with her grief by taking all of Leo's stuff out of his apartment. After Leo shows up at Will's apartment to excuse and win Grace back, she seems to finally end their relationship. Karen writes a song, which she shows to Jack. She asks him to show it to Jennifer Lopez of whom Jack thinks she is his new best friend.

Season 7, Episode 2: Back Up, Dancer

Original Air Date: 26 September 2004
Jack prepares himself for his performance as a back-up dancer for Janet Jackson. During rehearsal Janet decides that she doesn't want 6 but only 5 dancers. This leads to a dance-off between Jack and another dancer, Artemis. It turns out that Artemis is Karen's former lover. Since she still has feelings for Artemis, Karen asks Jack to let Artemis win the dance-off. Grace still has to deal with the break-up with Leo and it takes all of Will's support to make her feel better. Will is so entangled by Grace that he almost forgets about his boyfriend Vince and that he got needs, too.

Season 7, Episode 3: One Gay at a Time

Original Air Date: 30 September 2004
When Grace accidentally walks into an Anonymous Alcoholics meeting she meets Val again. Grace is forced to participate in the meeting. As time goes by, Grace starts to like the meetings and thinks that they are just like therapy, but just cheaper. Karen fears she is losing Grace as friend to non-alcoholics beliefs. During a test screening for a gay network, Jack has many ideas. This annoys Will, who actually has got to say a lot about gay TV-shows, too and feels out-staged by Jack.

Season 7, Episode 4: Company

Original Air Date: 7 October 2004
Jack feels misplaced in the TV staff of the gay network as he feels everyone is smarter and more educated than him. He feels as if he has to adapt to his co-workers, but this change would force him to change some things about his personality and to hate things he actually likes. When Will talks to someone living in the apartment house, Grace tells him not to do so since the person could be dangerous. When Grace meets the stranger in the elevator she invites him over to have some cocktails. As it turns out, the stranger is not dangerous, but a bit weird and boring.

Season 7, Episode 5: Key Party

Original Air Date: 14 October 2004
It's Will's birthday and Vince wants to give him the key to his apartment as a gift. Grace thinks it is not a good and a rather cheap idea and convinces him to give Will a wallet instead. When Grace then tells Will at his party what Vince original present was, he is surprisingly excited and considers it to be very romantic. Will is of course very disappointed when Vince's present is not a key but a wallet. Grace is not brave enough to tell Will that she was the one who talked Vince out of the idea with the key. Karen is very upset since Will's birthday would also have been Stan's birthday. This leads her to forget to buy a present for Will, which she was supposed to buy in her and Jack's name.

Season 7, Episode 6: The Newlydreads

Original Air Date: 21 October 2004
Grace takes on her first job after the end of her marriage. What seems problematic about the job is that the clients are Newlyweds who just got back from their honeymoon. Grace is annoyed by all their flirting and their love for each other. When Grace leaves, Karen takes over Grace's job in the clients' apartment. Will takes Jack to a gay bookstore, which is about to be closed. Will finds out that the bookstore will become a gym after it is closed down.

Season 7, Episode 7: Will & Grace & Vince & Nadine

Original Air Date: 4 November 2004
Will and Grace meet Vince's close friend Nadine, who is "Vince's Grace". Vince and Nadine seem to be far nicer with each other than Grace and Will, which upsets Will. He wishes Grace was as supportive for him than Nadine is for Vince. When being forced to tell what she doesn't like about Vince, Nadine reveals that she hates Will. After quitting the job as Grace's assistant, Karen works as an assistant for Jack. But, rather than working, Karen and Jack only make nonsense, which forces Jack to fire Karen.

Season 7, Episode 8: Saving Grace, Again: Part 1

Original Air Date: 11 November 2004
Grace decides to start dating again after her divorce. On her first date, she meets with a guy, who Will recommended to her. Although Will is worried that Grace ruins the date, it actually goes quite well and when Grace gets home there is a message on the answering machine from her date that he liked it and that he wants her to call back. The moment Grace wants to call back she hears another message on the machine, but this time it's from Leo. He reminds her of the fact that their anniversary is coming up. From that moment on, Grace is no longer interested in her date, and thinks about meeting Leo. Also, Karen wants to meet new men, and she and Jack decide to go on a double date with either bringing the date of the other along. But this date turns out as a disaster.

Season 7, Episode 9: Saving Grace, Again: Part 2

Original Air Date: 18 November 2004
After taking Grace out of town to forget about Leo and their anniversary, Will and Grace stay at a hotel and Will hopes that Grace will finally find some peace. But, Will finds out that Grace has brought the answering machine with Leo's message on it with her and forces her to get rid of it so she stops thinking about going to the roof of Peninsula Hotel to meet Leo or not. Jack has to make up an idea for a promo for Out TV and meets the perfect actor for it in a hotel where he is working as a Bell Boy. Also, other people at the network think the actor is perfect, but when it comes to shooting the actor feels demeaned by the words he is supposed to say.

Season 7, Episode 10: Queens for a Day: Part 1

Original Air Date: 25 November 2004
It's Thanksgiving time and Will is about to meet Vince's family for the first time. Vince's mother apparently doesn't like any of Vince's boyfriend even if she hasn't met them yet. So, Will decides to take her out on a shopping trip. During the trip Vince's mother breaks her toe, because Will told her to put on high heels and "work it". So, Will takes over the cooking job for Vince's family and his friends and everyone gathers for a nice dinner. Grace has crazy sex dreams, which leads her to the conclusion that she needs sex in real-life and sees a chance to get what she wants from Vince's cousin.

Season 7, Episode 11: Queens for a Day: Part 2

Original Air Date: 25 November 2004
When Jack tell Will that Ro wants to come out of the closet and tell her family that she is a lesbian, he is about to freak out and tries to convince Ro not to come out tonight. Vince is still struggling with his suppressed anger for his dad, although he seems to do nothing that could upset his son. Grace and Karen both make out with Vince's cousin Sal and from then on compete for his affection. Annette keeps teasing Will, because of her injury, which he caused. Under all these circumstances, dinner seems to get a little messed up.

Season 7, Episode 12: Christmas Break

Original Air Date: 9 December 2004
Karen's step-daughter Olivia visits her for Christmas, but Karen wants to get rid of her as quickly as possible so she makes Jack take care of her. Other than expected, Jack has a lot of fun with Olivia and Karen suddenly wants to hang out with them. Grace starts to get along with Will's mother pretty well until she ruins her favorite figuring. But since Marilyn doesn't know about it neither Will nor Grace tell her about it. The guilt over not telling Marilyn drives Grace nuts.

Season 7, Episode 13: Board Games

Original Air Date: 6 January 2005
Karen is interviewed for parade magazine. The interviewee turns out to be an old schoolmate of Karen, who has some bad memories of her. Grace and Jack want to go to the movies and make a quick stop at a store where they see Vince. Jack feels insulted since he asked Vince to come along them. It turns out that Vince got fired from his job as a cop and works in the store. A fact which he has to tell Will yet. Grace wants to confront Vince about lying, but then backs out.

Season 7, Episode 14: Partners

Original Air Date: 13 January 2005
Vince finally tells Will that he got fired. While Vince basically spends all of his time hanging around at Will and Grace's apartment, Will gets the chance to become partner of his firm. Will's boss Margot wants Will to bring along Vince to a dinner where it is decided if Will will be partner. But Will is kind of embarrassed by Vince, who starts to annoy him. It gets worse when Vince shows up at the dinner and has just got fired from a job by Harry Winston. Margot introduces Grace to Leonard, but he is quite older than Grace expected and surprisingly he is also Margot's husband. Rosario is very sick and Karen doesn't want her to bring into a hospital, because she thinks she is faking.

Season 7, Episode 15: Bully Woolley

Original Air Date: 3 February 2005
Will mourns over his break-up with Vince, so Jack decides to take him on a Boy's night out to make him feel better. At first, Will has fun, but after Jack dumps him and leaves him alone at the club Will is mad at him. Scott shows up again to tell Karen that he still wants to ruin her life. After failing the last time, he promises he won't this time. Grace has an important job for a restaurant and as it turns out her client is Scott. Since Grace doesn't know who he is and that he has evil plans, she doesn't realize that Scott wants to talk her into firing Karen.

Season 7, Episode 16: Dance Cards & Greeting Cards

Original Air Date: 10 February 2005
Scott keeps sending flowers to Karen after falling in lover with her. But Karen got to know someone online and is about to meet him on Valentine's Day. Will and Jack accompany Karen to her blind date with the stranger, because she promised them there would be a lot of gay men. But instead of gay men, the only people there are old and straight in Jack's and Will's opinion. Also, Beverley Leslie and Scott are there. Grace meets Nick when he accidentally comes into her office and they get along very well.

Season 7, Episode 17: The Birds and the Bees

Original Air Date: 17 February 2005
Grace meets Nick again when he picks up his phone which he forgot at her office. After passionately kissing him, Grace is scared she's moving too fast in their relationship, so she convinces Will to go with her on a date with Nick to watch over her and her actions. Karen has a Peeping Tom and she and Jack confront him. It turns out that he wasn't looking at Karen but at birds and that he is a "Hot Gay Nerd". Jack is very interested in this very random "species" of gay men

Season 7, Episode 18: The Fabulous Baker Boy

Original Air Date: 24 February 2005


Season 7, Episode 19: Sour Balls

Original Air Date: 17 March 2005


Season 7, Episode 20: The Blonde Leading the Blind

Original Air Date: 21 April 2005


Season 7, Episode 21: It's a Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad World

Original Air Date: 5 May 2005
It's Grace's father birthday and since her sisters are not able to attend the birthday party, Grace is scared of being alone with her parents. She convinces Karen to accompany her and when they arrive at the parent's house it turns out that Grace's mother is about to leave, too. This means that Karen, Grace and Marty Adler are all alone. After recovering from a first shock, Grace sees this as a chance to improve her relationship with her father. In the meantime, Jack convinces Will to go on a blind date. The date turns out to be blind man, who tells Jack that he thinks, after touching his face, is not good looking. But the whole thing turns out to be a prank for Jack's TV-show "Pink'd", a "Punk'd"-like show for Out TV. But, Will doesn't want to sign a paper, which would allow Jack to air the episode in which he is fooled.

Season 7, Episode 22: From Queer to Eternity

Original Air Date: 10 May 2005
Jack meets an old student from his acting class, whom tells him about his successor Wendell. When Jack meets Wendell, he realizes that Wendell teaches the "McFarland method" which he stole from Jack. Jack wants to take the class over, but Wendell doesn't let him do so. After having an accident at the Jeans store, Grace is worried about dying one day. Grace decides to make a will and wants to leave some money to Will. When she confronts him about how much money he leaves to her, he doesn't want to tell. So, Grace asks Will's mother Marilyn, who is the only one who knows about it.

Season 7, Episode 23: Friends with Benefits

Original Air Date: 19 May 2005
After having quit his job, Will thinks is new destination is to become a writer. When he is in park, Will meets Malcolm. Beverley files Karen with a law suit for defamation of character when she publicly said that he is a homosexual. Beverley wants her to apologize for what she said publicly. If she does so, he will draw back the law suit. Jack has to deal with a former child star named Randall, who is supposed to host a show for Out TV. Grace meets her former boyfriend Tom and he introduces her to his wife Viv. It turns out that Tom and Viv bought a hotel and want Grace to design it.

Season 7, Episode 24: Kiss and Tell

Original Air Date: 19 May 2005
After his first day, Will becomes suspicious of his new job--especially when he finds himself in an empty office with no coworkers, a German shepherd, and a Russian-speaking thug.


Season 8


Season 8, Episode 1: Alive and Schticking

Original Air Date: 29 September 2005
In this first episode of the last season, Karen finds out her dead husband, Stanley, is still alive. This is also the first of 2 live episodes in honor of the show's final season.

Season 8, Episode 2: I Second That Emotion

Original Air Date: 6 October 2005
Jack tells everyone he has a very important and famous guest. To make his show stage look better he asks Grace for some help with the decoration. When Jack's guest doesn't show up, he uses Grace as a last-minute replacement. During her appearance on the show, Grace reveals some of her positive thoughts about gay men, but when the show airs, an important part of Grace speech is missing. Karen makes Rosario stay at Will's and Grace's apartment, because she is mad at her because she knew about the fact that Stan is still alive. Will tries to help Karen with her anger about Stan lying to her about his death by making her tearing down the imaginative wall she has built up. This leads to an all new sensitive Karen.

Season 8, Episode 3: The Old Man and the Sea

Original Air Date: 13 October 2005
Grace goes on a blind date and Jack gives Will swimming lessons.

Season 8, Episode 4: Steams Like Old Times

Original Air Date: 20 October 2005
It's the 10 year anniversary of Game Night Spectacular and Larry and Ellen will come over to celebrate. Will also invites one of his clients from the meal delivery service from Project Angel. Clyde, who is an old man and therefore not much up-to-date, is not good at the games that are played, which all involve Celebrity gossip and movie knowledge. Unfortunate for Grace, she ends up with Clyde in a team and gets more and more angry as they lose over and over again. To improve the relationship between Jack and Malcolm, Karen takes Jack with her on a shopping trip with Malcolm. Malcolm tries to win Jack over by buying him a nice Italian suit, but Jack still wants Karen to get back together with Stan.

Season 8, Episode 5: The Hole Truth

Original Air Date: 3 November 2005
Although she is back together with Stan, Karen hasn't broken up with Malcolm yet. It is Grace who tells him about the fact that Karen is back with her husband. Since Malcolm doesn't want to go alone to the autumn carnival, he takes Grace, who happens to tell him that she is also going alone, as his date. Will tries to organize a carnival auction for Project Angel and tries to get Baby Glenn, who once fell into a hole as a child and became famous for this, as an item to auction. Besides Baby Glenn, also Jack is up as an item at the auction.

Season 8, Episode 6: Love Is in the Airplane

Original Air Date: 10 November 2005
After taking a Red Eye flight to London for the weekend with Will, Grace wants to check if there are any celebrities on board. Although she meets no stars, she finds out that Leo is in the first class. After having a make-over in the airplane toilet, Grace tries to act as if she actually bumps into him. While Grace talks to Leo, Will flirts with flight attendants to get food, drinks and a better seat. In New York, Jack tries to convince Karen to re-hire Rosario. But, the new maid threatens Jack that she will hurt him if he makes Karen fire her. Karen, of course, doesn't believe him when he tells her about her new aggressive maid.

Season 8, Episode 7: Birds of a Feather Boa

Original Air Date: 17 November 2005
Jack plans to move into a bigger place. Will helps Jack to find an apartment and after-wards they go to the zoo to see two gay penguins. In the zoo, they meet Rose who wants to file a petition against the planned separation of the penguins. When Rose tells Will how sad they will feel without each other, he feels as if she's talking about him. Grace shops with Karen to look for a good dress she can wear for the picture for her Christmas card, which she sends to everyone she knows every year. During their shopping trip they meet Beverley, who tells them that his wife Crystal passed away. He invites Karen and Grace to the memorial service. There Beverley shows them a beautiful dress of his late wife, which Grace thinks would be perfect for her Christmas card. Of course, she doesn't hesitate to put it on.

Season 8, Episode 8: Swish Out of Water

Original Air Date: 24 November 2005
Bobbi comes over to the apartment to visit Grace and have dinner together. Because Grace always complains about her mother, Jack tells her she should learn to appreciate her. Jack wants to help Grace to improve her relationship with her mother, but she refuses. Though, Jack words seem to have some effect on Grace and how he feels about her mom. Will starts his new work at a non-profit organization. The first person he is supposed to file a law-suit against is Karen. The law-suit involves a non-fixed building. Will wants to give her a change to get out of the law-suit by telling her first about it and then demanding that she fixes the building.

Season 8, Episode 9: A Little Christmas Queer

Original Air Date: 8 December 2005
Karen, Grace, Jack and Will visit Will's family over the Christmas break. Also, Will's brother Sam and his two children are there, too. Everyone suspects that Sam's son Jordy is gay. Will is worried that his mother would freak out about having another homosexual in the family, and tries to stop Jack from encouraging Jordy and some of his gay antics. When Jordy wants to put on a Christmas show, Will forbids it. Grace, who always had a fling for Sam, tries to get closer to him, but he cuts her off every time she tries to talk to him. When she confronts about him avoiding her, it turns out that Sam is still attracted to her.

Season 8, Episode 10: Von Trapped

Original Air Date: 5 January 2006
There is a Sound of Music sing-a-long and everybody dresses as his favorite character. Will ends up at the wrong address, but luckily meets a handsome guy. Grace, meanwhile, feels a little misplaced as a Maria without her Mr. Van Trap. Will decides to stay with the guy he just met, leaving Grace alone at the movie theater where starts singing songs from the movie to children. In the movie theater, Karen throws her flask of the balcony, she and Jack have to search for it before someone finds out that it was her who threw it, because her name is on it.

Season 8, Episode 11: Bathroom Humor

Original Air Date: 12 January 2006
In the second live episode of the final season (all set in Karen's Bathroom), Karen hosts a birthday party for herself for the first time and invites Will, Jack, & Grace. Then they learn that Karen has been hosting this party annually for 10 years.

Season 8, Episode 12: Forbidden Fruit

Original Air Date: 19 January 2006
Jack is sick with the flu and Karen offers him to stay at her mansion so she can take of him. When he is in Karen's house he sees a whole new part of it and he finds something that Karen calls "the forbidden room". Karen doesn't tell Jack what is in the room. Jack tries to figure out what could be behind the locked door. Grace meets Margot at the coffee house and she offers her a job to design the law firm. Grace accepts the offer although she just accepted another offer from a retirement home. When she tells Will about her decision, he is enraged, because he cannot believe she is willing to work for the corrupt firm he left. What Grace doesn't know is that Will works at the firm again and takes the job anyways.

Season 8, Episode 13: Cop to It

Original Air Date: 26 January 2006
Will and Grace run into Will's ex-boyfriend Vince while at dinner with Rob and Ellen. Meanwhile, Jack and Karen travel to Ohio to help a "Jack Talk" fan come out.

Season 8, Episode 14: I Love L. Gay

Original Air Date: 2 February 2006
Will, Karen, and Grace journey to Los Angeles, where Jack is set to receive an award for "Best Local Cable Gay Talk Show Host". While Grace becomes starstruck in the celebrity-saturated city, Will chances upon his friend James.

Season 8, Episode 15: The Definition of Marriage

Original Air Date: 9 February 2006
As Grace prepares for her green-card marriage to James, she frets that Karen is going too far by organizing on overly lavish wedding spectacle that includes a performance by Hall & Oates.

Season 8, Episode 16: Grace Expectations

Original Air Date: 16 March 2006
Grace reluctantly decides to tell Leo that she's pregnant with his child. Menawhile, a blissful Will settles in with James... until he discovers something unexpected about him.

Season 8, Episode 17: Cowboys and Iranians

Original Air Date: 23 March 2006


Season 8, Episode 18: Buy, Buy Baby

Original Air Date: 30 March 2006
After a large corporation takes over OutTV, Jack's talk show "JackTalk" is completely revamped. An immediate change comes when the new conservative owners hire Amber-Louise as "JackTalk's" new co-host. While Jack is deciding whether or not he'll stand up to his new bosses, Karen goes baby shopping. After seeing Grace so happy about her pregnancy, Karen decides she wants a baby of her own and offers to pay a make-up lady, Cricket, to carry one for her.

Season 8, Episode 19: Blanket Apology

Original Air Date: 6 April 2006
After losing his job as the host of "JackTalk," Jack vows never to return to acting. An unrelenting Karen, however, will not let Jack give up on his passion and decides to do whatever it takes to get Jack to an audition. Meanwhile, Grace accompanies Will to dinner at his parents' home, but a simple dinner soon turns into a showdown between Will and his father when his dad decides to give Grace's unborn child Will's cherished baby blanket.

Season 8, Episode 20: The Mourning Son

Original Air Date: 27 April 2006
Friends and family gather for the funeral of Will's father. During the reception everyone shares fond last memories of Will's father, while Will's last memory is not as pleasant. As he tries to come to terms with their last fight, Marilyn helps him realize the changes he must make in his life. Meanwhile, Grace attempts to comfort the grieving younger members of the family and begins to doubt her ability to be a good mother.

Season 8, Episode 21: Partners 'n' Crime

Original Air Date: 4 May 2006
As Will rekindles his relationship with Vince, Grace wonders if Will will be there for her once the baby arrives. Meanwhile, Karen's marriage is in trouble, but she finds little comfort from Jack, who's preoccupied with his new TV show.

Season 8, Episode 22: Whatever Happened to Baby Gin?

Original Air Date: 11 May 2006
Vince has a surprise for Will that causes him to question his commitment to Grace and the baby. Meanwhile, the gang learns that Karen has a long-lost sister, and Jack has a party for the premiere of his new TV show.

Season 8, Episode 23: The Finale

Original Air Date: 18 May 2006
The culmination of eight seasons ends tonight with a one-hour series finale. Will Will and Grace raise a child together and find ultimate happiness? Will Jack find anyone that loves him as much as he loves himself? Will Karen find true happiness with the absence of Stan? All these questions and more will be answered as this groundbreaking series concludes eight amazing seasons.
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