Will and Grace with subtitle

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.

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.

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.

Tired of Rob and Ellen's low-rent taste in dining, Will and Grace start hanging with a pair of downtown hipsters they meet at a dim sum parlor. 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 stepchild's school.

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.

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.

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?

Will and Grace try to win Joni Mitchell concert tickets on a radio contest. Grace prays that they win and promises to help the less fortunate, And they won. But Jack reminds them of their vow. So they go to the community center and volunteer. They feel as if they've done their part and can go to the concert but they are told they need to be there on the night of the concert. And Grace wants to ditch it but Will feels obligated to be there. Jack helps Karen get rid of her old clothes and shoes and give them to the needy. But Karen leaves him alone and he unwittingly …

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.

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.

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.

Grace is competing with a well known designer for a job. But she doesn't think she's good enough. So Karen shows Grace just how “perfect” the designer is. Jack has an idea for something he calls the subway tush which is a cushion that someone can bring when they have to be on the subway for a long time. So he wants Will to help him come up with the financing. Will refuses at first. But he later sets a meeting with some people, and Jack goes off and does something outrageous which Will thinks is embarrassing. Only the people they meet want Jack and not Will.

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

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…

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…

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 boyfriends 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 …

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.

Karen is interviewed for Parade magazine. The interviewer 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 with 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.

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 …

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.

Scott keeps sending flowers to Karen after falling in love 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.

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 rare “species” of gay men

As Karen's lawyer, Will warns her that she is spending too much money - it isn't going to last forever. Karen agrees that she could let the pastry chef go. Nick is taking Grace to Union Square Café. When he learns that Jack is working for a TV network, he reveals that he has a script and he would like Grace to read it and then pass on to Jack. Will goes to tell Karen's pastry chef that Karen is letting her go, but he isn't prepared to find out that the pastry chef is fabulous…

Jack convinces Will that they need a change of scenery and should buy a vacation home in an up-and-coming gay community.

When Will convinces Grace to see his therapist, Dr. Georgia Keller, he becomes increasingly jealous when the two women form an instant friendship.

It's Grace's father's 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 parents' 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 Will that he …

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 …

After having quit his job, Will thinks is new destiny is to become a writer. When he is in the park, Will meets Malcolm. Beverley files Karen with a lawsuit 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 lawsuit. 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 …

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.

Jack tells everyone he has a very important, famous guest. To make his show stage look better he asks Grace to help decorate. When Jack's guest doesn't show, he makes Grace his last-minute replacement and she shares some of her positive thoughts about gay men. But when the show airs, an important part of her speech is missing. Karen makes Rosario stay at Will and Grace's apartment because she's angry that Rosario knew and concealed that Stan was still alive. Will tries to help Karen with her anger about Stan lying about his death by making her tear down the …

Grace goes on a blind date and Jack gives Will swimming lessons.

Larry and Ellen come over to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Game Night Spectacular. Will also invites Clyde, one of his clients from the Project Angel meal-delivery service. Clyde, a behind-the-times old man, isn't very good at their games, which all involve celebrity gossip and movie knowledge. He ends up on Grace's team and she gets angrier and angrier as they keep losing. Meanwhile, Karen takes Jack on a shopping trip with Malcolm to improve the two men's relationship. Malcolm tries to win Jack over by buying him a nice Italian suit, but Jack still wants …

Although she is back together with Stan, Karen hasn't broken up with Malcolm yet, and Grace is the one who breaks it to him. Since Malcolm doesn't want to go solo to the autumn carnival, he takes Grace, who tells him she's also going alone, as his date. Will tries to organize a carnival auction for Project Angel and tries to get Baby Glenn, famous for having fallen into a hole as a child, for an auction item. Jack is also an auction item.

On a Red Eye flight to London for the weekend with Will, Grace checks for celebrities on board. She meets no stars, but she discovers that Leo is in first class. After an airplane-toilet makeover, Grace tries to act like bumping into him is a total surprise. While they talk, Will flirts with flight attendants to get food, drinks, and a better seat. Back in New York, Jack tries to convince Karen to rehire Rosario, but the new maid threatens to hurt him if he makes Karen fire her. Of course Karen doesn't believe Jack's reports of her aggressive maid.

Jack plans to move into a bigger place. Will helps Jack find an apartment, and then they go to the zoo to see two gay penguins. There they meet Rose, who want to file a petition against the penguins' planned separation. When she tells Will how sad they'll feel without each other, he feels like she's talking about him. Grace shops with Karen for a good dress to wear for her Christmas-card picture. During their trip they meet Beverley, who tells them that his wife Crystal passed away and invites them to her memorial service, where he shows them one of her beautiful …

Bobbi comes to Grace's for dinner. Because Grace always complains about her mother, Jack says she should learn to appreciate her and offers to help her improve their relationship, but she refuses… although his words seem to have some effect. Meanwhile, Will starts working at a non-profit organization and the first person he's supposed to file a lawsuit against is Karen, about an unfixed building. Will offers her a way out of the lawsuit by telling her about the lawsuit and ordering her to fix the building.

Karen, Grace, Jack and Will visit Will's family over the Christmas break. Will's brother Sam and his two children are there, too. Everyone suspects that Sam's son Jordy is gay. Worried that his mother would freak out about having another homosexual in the family, Will tries to stop Jack from encouraging Jordy in his gay antics, and even forbids the boy to put on a Christmas show. Grace, who always had a thing for Sam, tries to get closer to him, but he cuts her off every time she tries to talk to him. When she confronts him about avoiding her, it turns out that he's …

There is a Sound of Music sing-along and everybody dresses as his favorite character. Will ends up at the wrong address, but luckily meets a handsome guy. Meanwhile, Grace feels a little misplaced as Maria without her Captain von Trapp when Will decides to stay with his attractive new acquaintance, leaving Grace along at the theater to sing songs from the movie to children In the theater Karen throws her flask off the balcony and she and Jack have to find it quickly, before anyone else does, because her name is on it.

The final season's second live episode is totally set in Karen's bathroom. She hosts a birthday party for herself for the first time and invites Will, Jack, and Grace. Then they learn that she's been holding this party for the last 10 years.

Jack has the flu and Karen offers to look after him at her mansion. There he sees a whole new part of it and finds what she calls “the forbidden room.” She doesn't tell him what's behind the locked door and he tries to figure out what it could be. Grace meets Margot at the coffeehouse and Margot asks Grace to design the law firm. Grace accepts although she just accepted an offer from a retirement home. When she tells Will, he's enraged because he can't believe she'd work for the corrupt law firm he left. What Grace doesn't know is that Will works at the firm again and…

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 “JackTalk” fan come out.

The foursome visit L.A. to check out UCLA with Elliot. Will bumps into James, whom he met the night of the “Sound of Music Sing-Along.” Jack tries to make Elliot pay for his irresponsibility, but Elliot doesn't accept Jack as his father.

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.

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.

Grace hires another assistant who is Iranian. And when she turns out to be inept, Grace wants to fire her but doesn't out of concern that she's doing it because of her ethnicity. Jack takes Will to a Gay Western Bar to meet his new guy who hits on Will.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Karen's sister, Virginia, appears for the first time. Karen has been supporting her because of guilt over a child-hood accident to Virginia.