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Will & Grace is a popular Emmy Award-winning American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on NBC from 1998 to 2006. The show takes place in New York City and focuses on Will Truman, a gay lawyer, and his best friend Grace Adler, a straight Jewish woman who runs her own interior design firm. Also featured are their friends Karen Walker, a bisexual rich socialite, and Jack McFarland, a struggling gay actor/singer/dancer/cater-waiter.
Will & Grace is the first network television series to showcase one or more homosexuals as principal characters as part of the show's premise.
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Quotations
At least Mary Poppins did it with a song and a dance - you're like a spoonful of whoopass!
To the new housekeeper when she shouts at her.
Blahbity, bloo, blah, bley, touch me.
Jack, to a hot model he is auditioning
Change everything about your personality.
when talking to Jack about moving in
Close your mouth, it looks like your missing a chromosome!
Karen while Grace was imitating someone she saw on TV
Come on! Move, move, moooove!
Karen to Grace (who was wearing a cow-print dress)
Darn girl'll do anythin' to get a peek at my pie!
When Grace ducks under the table to pick up the bowl of noodles she dropped.
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Will & Grace is a popular Emmy Award-winning American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on NBC from 1998 to 2006. The show takes place in New York City and focuses on Will Truman, a gay lawyer, and his best friend Grace Adler, a straight Jewish woman who runs her own interior design firm. Also featured are their friends Karen Walker, a bisexual rich socialite, and Jack McFarland, a struggling gay actor/singer/dancer/cater-waiter.
Will & Grace is the first network television series to showcase one or more homosexuals as principal characters as part of the show's premise. It is also the most successful such series, despite initial criticism for its particular portrayal of gay people, as it went on to become a staple of NBC's Must See TV Thursday night lineup, where it was ensconced in the Nielsen Top 20 for half of its network run. Throughout its eight-year run, Will & Grace earned 16 Emmy Awards, and 83 nominations.
Will & Grace was filmed in front of a live studio audience (most episodes and scenes) on Tuesday nights, at Stage 17 in CBS Studio Center, a space that totals 14,000 sq. ft.
Will and Grace's apartment is on display at the Emerson College Library, having been donated by series creator Max Mutchnick.
Cast and crew
Principal characters
- A gay lawyer and longtime best friend of Grace. He has a very neurotic side, especially when it comes to cleaning. Several characters have commented that his relationship with Grace is more like that of a romantic couple than of two friends.
- An interior designer with an apparent obsession with food. Grace has been best friends with Will since college. Will and Grace were a couple in Will's last attempt at a straight relationship as he believes that if he can't make it work with Grace he can't make it work with any woman.
- One of Will's best friends, he is flamboyant and superficial. Jack drifts from boyfriend to boyfriend and job to job, including a struggling actor, retail associate and student nurse. Early on in the show he strikes up a close friendship with Karen.
- An alcoholic and the wife of the wealthy (but never seen) Stan Walker. Karen also has a dependence on prescription drugs, particularly opiate painkillers and amphetamines. She "works" as Grace's assistant making "Grace Adler Designs" more popular among her social contacts. She can be quite insensitive, but is close to Grace and Jack, and occasionally Will.
In the opening credits, McCormack and Messing are billed together, with top billing alternating between episodes.
Principal recurring characters
See Supporting characters on Will & Grace for complete list of recurring characters and guest stars.
- Bobbi Adler (Debbie Reynolds) - Grace's entertainer mother
- Rosario Salazar (Shelley Morrison) - Karen's Maid
- George Truman (Sydney Pollack) - Will's father
- Marilyn Truman (Blythe Danner) - Will's mother
- Tina (Lesley Ann Warren) - Will's father's mistress
- Elliott (Michael Angarano) - Jack's biological son from a donation to a sperm bank
- Rob (Tom Gallop) and Ellen (Leigh-Allyn Baker) - two of Grace and Will's closest friends from college and regular charades buddies, a married couple with three children
- Joe (Jerry Levine) and Larry (Tim Bagley) - two of Will and Grace's close friends, a gay married couple with an adopted daughter, Hannah
- Lorraine Finster (Minnie Driver) - the feisty British mistress who stole Stan from Karen and caused their divorce. She and Karen then become enemies.
- Beverley Leslie (Leslie Jordan) - a closeted, staunchly Republican, very short and very wealthy socialite whose relationship with Karen changes rapidly from friend to enemy and back
- Dr. Marvin "Leo" Markus (Harry Connick, Jr.) - Grace's boyfriend (starting in season five) and eventual husband; their marriage ended (season seven) after he cheated on her. He is also the father of her child (season eight) and in the series finale they are raising their daughter, Laila
- Val Bassett (Molly Shannon) - a slightly crazy, alcoholic, divorced woman who lives in the same building as Will, Grace, and Jack; Val tends to get into fights with Grace, and has been known to stalk Jack
- Vince D'Angelo (Bobby Cannavale) - Will's first long-term boyfriend in the show's run(Seasons 6-8), with whom he eventually raises his son, Ben (end of Season 8)
Crew
Plot & episodes
Will & Grace's early relationship
Will and Grace first met at Columbia University in 1985, living across the hall from one another in a co-ed dorm. They instantly connected and soon began dating. Will then threw a Dorm Party which Jack crashed, and after the party was over Jack accused Will of being in denial about his sexual orientation. After proposing marriage to Grace (as a way to postpone sleeping with her) Will finally came out to her. Grace threw him out of her family's house and they did not speak for a year (Grace having moved off campus), but they accidentally ran into each other again on Thanksgiving the following year (1986) at D'Agostino's supermarket. This meeting spurred a reconciliation and they became best friends. (These events are seen as flashbacks during the third season of the show).
As roommates
In the pilot episode of the show, Grace was about to get married to her boyfriend Danny. When Will disapproved, she became angry and planned to get married secretly anyway. However on the way to the wedding she realizes that Will was right, and she leaves Danny. Needing an apartment, she moved in with Will in his apartment on the Upper West Side in NYC. Will and Grace spend a lot of time with one another as well as with friends Jack McFarland and Karen Walker. Jack is a flamboyant, gay, struggling stage actor-singer-dancer who, over the course of the show, has a range of jobs including cater waiter, acting teacher, student nurse, retail sales (working for Banana Republic and Barneys), back-up dancer for singers such as Jennifer Lopez and Janet Jackson and TV producer. Karen, an alcoholic multimillionaire, works as Grace's assistant, a job she took to have time away from the home she shares with her husband Stan and his kids, Mason and Olivia. Another character who factored into the early episodes of Will & Grace was Will's client Harlin Polk, played by Gary Grubbs. At first he was given billing in the opening credits with the other four cast members, but interest in his storyline waned, and he was written out of the show early in the second season (Harlin, rather reluctantly, fired Will and hired another lawyer).
The show follows both Will and Grace's attempts to establish romantic relationships without sacrificing their often co-dependent reliance on one another for emotional support. A common joke finds Jack and Karen referring to Will and Grace as married, "non-romantic life partners", or "sexless lovers." At the beginning of the second season Grace moved into her own apartment (across the hall from Will's) in an attempt to put some distance between herself and Will, but then ended up moving back at the beginning of the third season. She moved out again after getting married early in the fifth season, but she moved back in with Will after separating from her husband during Season 6.
Relationships
Grace had several lovers on the show, portrayed by actors such as Woody Harrelson and Edward Burns. Frequently, her lovers feel frustrated by her relationship with Will, jealous of their closeness, personal jokes, and ability to finish each other's sentences. Eventually she married Leo, played by musician and actor Harry Connick, Jr.. Leo was unusual in that Grace's friendship with Will seemed not to bother him; at one point, when Grace was extremely upset about Leo's upcoming six-month absence, she asked if Will could sleep (platonically) with them, and Leo responded with good humor, saying, "I knew this was going to happen one day." They split in the finale of the show's sixth season after Grace discovered that Leo had had an adulterous affair while working with Doctors Without Borders in Cambodia. In the final season, on a flight to London, Grace meets Leo on the plane where they have sex, resulting in Grace becoming pregnant, which she keeps a secret from him. In the series finale (May 2006), however, Leo tells a heavily pregnant Grace that he loves her. They subsequently raise their daughter, Lila, together.
Will was usually less successful romantically. This eventually drew some criticism from those who noted that Grace was often shown being affectionate with her dates and boyfriends, while Will rarely was. In the first season, it is mentioned that Will had a seven-year relationship with a man named Michael, but this partnership ended before the series began. Will does not have any more serious long-term love interests until the spring of 2004 when the character of Vince, an Italian American New York City Police Department officer played by Bobby Cannavale, was introduced. Their relationship lasted until the spring of 2005, when Vince lost his job and the two decided to "take a break." Will met James, supposedly by fate, at a Sound of Music sing-along and again in Los Angeles. Just as they started to get close however, James discovered he was going to be deported. In order to give Will and James a chance, Grace agreed to marry James in order to help him avoid deportation. This, along with James' relationship with Will, was short lived when it was revealed he was a major jerk. He was played by Rent star Taye Diggs. However in the final season, Will was reunited with Vince and the two would eventually get married and have a son together by the name of Ben.
Jack, whose floundering one-person show and acting career has been established as a hopeless dream, eventually finds work in retail sales and married (and later divorced) Karen's maid and longtime friend Rosario Salazar in order to help her gain US residency (green card). It was also revealed that he had a teenage biological son named Elliott, played by Michael Angarano. Elliott was conceived through artificial insemination and mothered by Bonnie, a lesbian played by Rosie O'Donnell. Jack's longest relationship is with Stuart Lamarack (Dave Foley), which lasts several months during the sixth season, until Stuart cheats on Jack.
Karen's husband, Stan Walker, is described as an extremely wealthy and overweight man with some unusual sexual tastes, who gives a lot of business to Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. Jailed during season four for tax fraud, Stan was released in season five, but Karen soon caught him sleeping with his British mistress Lorraine Finster (played by Minnie Driver), whom he met when she worked in the prison cafeteria. During Stan and Karen's divorce proceedings at the end of season five, Stan dropped dead, and season six saw Karen explore other avenues of dating, culminating in her 20-minute-long marriage to Lorraine's father, Lyle (played by John Cleese, who went uncredited). At the end of the seventh season, it was revealed that Stan faked his death and, in season eight, he and Karen reconciled after she had a brief affair with a government agent (played by Alec Baldwin). However, by the end of the show, Karen leaves Stan for good, at which point it is revealed that much of everything he owned was on loan, hence her huge settlement was worthless.
Conflicts
In season five, Will and Grace experience their first big fight since the series began. Will and Grace decided to have a child together via artificial insemination. However, she meets and falls in love with Dr. Leo Markus and becomes unsure about continuing with the plan. Will and Grace argue about if she still wants to have the baby and she eventually decides she is against the idea. Will then accuses Grace of being a flake. The two argue heatedly, deciding to end their friendship. Karen and Jack scheme to make Will and Grace friends again, eventually succeeding.
Reception
Critical reactions
The show garnered a fair amount of criticism and negative reviews upon its debut in 1998, most of which compared the show to the recently canceled ABC sitcom Ellen. One such review said, "If Will & Grace can somehow survive a brutal time period opposite football and Ally McBeal, it could grow into a reasonably entertaining little anomaly-- that is, a series about a man and a woman who have no sexual interest in one another. But don't bet on it. If it's a doomed relationships viewers want, they'll probably opt for Ally." Ally McBeal had its final episode in 2002, four years before Will & Grace ended. As much as the show's eventual appeal disproved much of its initial criticism, the show continually dealt with the criticism for having a limited view of the gay community and for reinforcing stereotypes when some felt it should have torn them down.
The series finale was heavily promoted by NBC and McCormack, Messing, Mullally and Hayes appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Today Show to bid farewell, on May 10 and May 18, respectively. NBC devoted a two-hour block in its primetime schedule on May 18, 2006, for the Will & Grace send-off. An hour-long series retrospective, "Say Goodnight Gracie", featuring interviews with the cast, crew, and guest stars, preceded the hour-long series finale. Series creators and executive producers Kohan and Mutchnick who had not served as writers since the season 4 finale, penned the script for "The Finale". Regarding the finale, Mutchnick stated, "We wrote about what you want to have happen with people you love... All the things that matter in life, they end up having."
Awards and nominations
Will & Grace had been nominated for 83 and won 16 Emmys. From 2001-2005, Will & Grace was the highest-rated sitcom among adults 18-49. It has also been heralded as responsible for opening the door to a string of gay-themed television programs, such as Queer as Folk, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Boy Meets Boy. Will & Grace has won several GLAAD Media Awards for its advocacy of the gay community. Despite more than two dozen nominations, Will & Grace never won a Golden Globe Award.
In the summer of 2005, Will & Grace was nominated for 15 Emmys, tied with Desperate Housewives as the series receiving the most nominations. This was almost an all time record, the two shows were second behind The Larry Sanders Show, with 16 nominations in 1996. Unlike Housewives, however, Will & Grace received many of its nominations during the 2004-2005 season for its guest actors and actresses. From these nominations, the series won two awards for the season. One of the two awards was for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, won by Bobby Cannavale for his role as Vince, Will's boyfriend. For almost every season, Will & Grace was the most nominated Comedy Series at the Emmys.
In the summer of 2006, Will & Grace was nominated for 10 Emmys for its final season, including a nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress for Debra Messing, Outstanding Supporting Actor for Sean Hayes, and Outstanding Supporting Actress for Megan Mullally. Mullally won the award for her category (her second win out of seven nominations), and Leslie Jordan won the award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his recurring role as Beverley Leslie. For the second-time, the show wasn't nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series (the first in 1999 for season 1) after 6 consecutive years of nominations.
Will & Grace is one of only three sitcoms in which all actors playing the main characters (McCormack, Messing, Hayes, and Mullally) have each won at least one acting Emmy. The other two sitcoms to have achieved the same feat are All in the Family and The Golden Girls.
Each with three awards, both Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally hold the record of winning the most Screen Actors Guild Awards for the categories Best Performance by an Actor in a Comedy Series and Best Performance by an Actress in a Comedy Series, respectively, for their roles in Will & Grace.
Ratings/NBC broadcast history
The show debuted on Mondays beginning on September 21, 1998 and steadily gained in popularity, culminating when it moved to Thursday night as part of NBC's Must See TV line-up. The show ultimately became a highly rated television show in the United States, earning a top-twenty rating during four of its eight seasons, including one season at # 9. However, when the show lost Friends as its lead-in after the 2003-04 season, gained the disappointing Friends spin-off Joey as its lead-in, and competition from CBS's Thursday night line-up increased, Will & Grace began shedding viewers and slipped out of the top 20 during its last two seasons.
"The Finale" drew over 18 million viewers, ranking # 8 for the week, easily making it the most watched episode of the final two seasons. While the series finale is considered a ratings success, it is far from being the most watched episode of Will & Grace—that accolade remains with the season three episode "New Will City", which aired on October 12, 2000 and ranked # 4 for the week. When the show was at the height of its popularity (seasons 3-5), ranking in the Top 10 was a common occurrence, but the finale's Top 10 rank was the only such rank for season 8 and the first such rank since the season 7 premier "FYI: I Hurt, Too".
Seasonal rankings (based on average total viewers per episode) of Will & Grace on NBC.
Note: Each U.S. network television season starts in late September and ends in late May, which coincides with the completion of May sweeps. All times listed are Eastern Time Zone.
| Season | Time slot | Premiere | Finale | TV season | Season
rank | Viewers
(millions) |
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| 1 | Monday 9:30 P.M. (September 21, 1998 - November 30, 1998)
Tuesday 9:30 P.M. (December 15, 1998 - March 23, 1999)
Thursday 8:30 P.M. (April 8, 1999 - May 13, 1999) | September 21, 1998 | May 13, 1999 | 1998-1999 | #40 | 12.3 |
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| 2 | Tuesday 9:00 P.M. | September 21, 1999 | May 23, 2000 | 1999-2000 | #44 | 12.0 |
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| 3 | Thursday 9:00 P.M. | October 12, 2000 | May 17, 2001 | 2000-2001 | #14 | 17.3 |
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| 4 | September 27, 2001 | May 16, 2002 | 2001-2002 | #9 | 17.3 |
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| 5 | September 26, 2002 | May 15, 2003 | 2002-2003 | #11 | 16.8 |
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| 6 | Thursday 9:00 P.M. (September 25, 2003 - January 22, 2004)
Thursday 8:32 P.M. (February 10, 2004 - April 8, 2004)
Thursday 9:00 P.M. (April 22, 2004 - April 29, 2004) | September 25, 2003 | April 29, 2004 | 2003-2004 | #16 | 15.2 |
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| 7 | Thursday 8:30 P.M. | September 16, 2004 | May 19, 2005 | 2004-2005 | #44 | 10.0 |
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| 8 | Thursday 8:30 P.M. (September 29, 2005 - December 8, 2005)
Thursday 8:00 P.M. (January 5, 2006 - May 18, 2006) | September 29, 2005 | May 18, 2006 | 2005-2006 | #61 | 8.7 |
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Lawsuit
In December 2003, in the midst of the series' sixth season, executive producers and creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick sued NBC and NBC studios, alleging that the network sold the rights to the series in an attempt to keep profits within the NBC family and thus cheating Kohan and Mutchnick out of considerable profits had the network shopped the show to the highest bidder. Another allegation against the network was that during the first four seasons of the series, the studio licensed the rights for amounts that were insufficient for covering production costs, thus leading to extraordinarily large production deficits. Three months later, NBC filed a countersuit against Kohan and Mutchnick stating that the co-creators were expected to act as an independent third party in the negotiations between NBC and its subsidiary, NBC Studios.
With a pending lawsuit and production beginning on other projects, Kohan and Mutchnick were absent on the Will & Grace set for most of its final seasons. They wrote the season 4 episode, "A Buncha White Chicks Sittin' Around Talkin'" and did not return to the writers' seat until the series finale four years later. Three years after NBC's countersuit and one year after the series ended, the legal battle between NBC and Kohan and Mutchnick ended in 2007 when all parties agreed on a settlement, with the series creators being awarded $49 million, of their original $65 million lawsuit.
Potential spinoff
Rumors emerged in October 2008 that a spinoff is in development for NBC featuring Megan Mullally and Sean Hayes as the principal characters. Although these reports have been widely repeated, they originated with The National Enquirer and have yet to be confirmed or denied by NBC or anyone involved with the production.
Broadcasters
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- Arab World - Super Comedy
- Australia - Seven Network (2000-2007), Network Ten (2008), Arena (2002-2008), 111 Hits (2008-present)
- Austria – ATV
- Argentina - Sony
- Belgium - 2 BE
- Bosnia and Herzegovina - OBN
- Brazil - Sony, Play TV
- Bulgaria - FOX Life
- Canada - OnTV (1998-99), Global (1999-2006), W Network (Syndication)
- Chile - Sony
- Colombia - Sony
- Croatia - Nova TV
- Czech Republic - TV Prima
- Denmark - Kanal 4
- Finland - MTV3, SubTV
- France - Canal+, Canal Jimmy, TF1, France 4
- Germany - Pro 7 Season 1-7, Sat.1 Season 8
- Greece - Star Channel, Fox life
- Hungary - Viasat 3
- Italy - Italia 1 (Mediaset), FOX, FOX Life
- Japan - NHK, FOX
- India - Zee Café
- Ireland - TV3
- Israel - Yes Plus, HOT 3, HOT family
- Latin America - Sony
- Latvia - TV6
- Lithuania - TV6
- Macedonia - Sitel
- Mexico - Sony, Canal 5 Televisa
- Nepal - Zee Café, ETC
- Netherlands - NET 5, Veronica
- New Zealand - TV3
- Norway - TVNorge
- Pakistan - Super Comedy, Paramount Comedy 1
- Peru - Sony
- Philippines - Studio 23, Velvet, ETC
- Poland - FOX Life, HBO, Wizja Jeden, TV Puls
- Portugal - TVI, FOX, FOX Life, SIC Mulher
- Romania - National TV
- Serbia - Studio B, B92
- Slovenia - Kanal A
- South Africa - SABC 3
- South Korea - GTV (1998-2001), On Style (2002-2003), FOX (2004-2006)
- Spain - TVE2, FOX, SET en VEO (TDT)
- Sweden - TV4
- Switzerland - SF 1
- Thailand - True Series
- Turkey - ComedyMax, TNT
- United Kingdom - Living, Channel 4 (reruns)
- United States - First run on NBC, reruns on Lifetime and in syndication.
DVD releases
Lionsgate Home Entertainment has released all 8 seasons of Will & Grace on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time.
| Season | Ep# | Discs | Release dates (by region) | Notes (Region 1) |
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| 1 | 2 | 4 |
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| 1 | 22 | 4
| August 12, 2003 | August 30, 2004 | September 5, 2007 | All 22 episodes included in their entirety. | | 2 | 23 | 4
| March 23, 2004 | August 30, 2004 | September 5, 2007 |
- "Ben?Her?" appears as the syndicated version
- Episode listing on box does not match episode listing on discs
- Episodes on the fourth disc appear out of sequence
| | 3 | 22 | 4
| September 7, 2004 | August 30, 2004 | October 3, 2007 |
- The "super-size" episode, "Cheaters", appears as the original version, without the extra footage later added for syndication
- "Cheaters" is incorrectly labeled as "Cheaters, part 1"
| | 4 | 25 | 4
| August 16, 2005 | August 30, 2004 | October 3, 2007 | All 25 episodes included in their entirety. | | 5 | 23 | 4
| August 29, 2006 | March 7, 2005 | October 3, 2007 |
- The "super-size" episode, "Board Room and a Parked Place," and the one-hour 100th episode, "Marry Me a Little, Marry Me a Little More" appear as the full versions
- The "super-size" episodes, "Women and Children First", "Dolls and Dolls", "May Divorce Be With You", "23", and the season finale "24", appear as the syndicated versions
| | 6 | 23 | 4
| May 1, 2007 | August 15, 2005 | November 21, 2007 |
- The "super-size" episodes, "Dames at Sea" and "Ice Cream Balls", appear as the syndicated versions
| | 7 | 23 | 4
| December 4, 2007 | January 30, 2006 | November 21, 2007 | All 23 episodes included in their entirety. | | 8 | 23 | 4
| September 16, 2008 | August 7, 2006 | November 21, 2007 | All 23 episodes included in their entirety. | | Finale | 1 | 1
| May 30, 2006 | — | — | One-hour series finale included in its entirety. | | 1-8 | 184 | 33
| September 16, 2008 | August 7, 2006 | April 30, 2008 | Re-packaged discs from the previous releases with a bonus disk containing a re-hashing of season 8's themed featurettes, Eric's favorite episode with commentary by him and Debra Messing, Debra's favorite episode with commentary by her and Eric McCormack, and The Pilot Episode with commentary by Max Mutchinck, David Kohan, and James Burrows, plus a slideshow of stills from over the series's run. |
Note: Episode count is based on the format in which episodes originally aired. One-hour episodes are counted as one episode, as per the numbering system used by NBC.
Languages
All DVDs are in English. The Region 1 Season 1 DVD is dubbed in Spanish which sounds Mexican accented. Season 2 has English audio and subtitled Spanish only. Seasons 3-7 do not have subtitles at all and have audio in English.
The first three seasons are also available in a German dubbed/English language version (Region 2 DVD).
Running gags
- Before a short argument starts, both Will & Grace will simultaneously say the same words.
- Will & Grace being referred to as "married".
- Other characters and even Grace herself implying that she has a thing for gay men or at least subconsciously attracted to gay men.
- Karen continually mocks Grace's sense of style. ("Grace, that blouse hurts like a hangover.")
- Karen claims that scenes from movies (e.g.,
Speed, To Sir, with Love, Norma Rae) or literature (e.g., Heidi) are her own experiences.
- Jack constantly makes jokes about Will's hair loss and obesity (even though Will is clearly neither fat nor losing his hair).
- Karen and Rosario always get into short, heated arguments, with one talking over the other. The argument always ends with both compromising and hugging while confessing their love for each other.
- Whenever Rosario is not in an episode, Karen often mentions doing demeaning things to her or having her do demeaning things in an offhand way, such as having her maced and decorating a birthday cake with her teeth marks.
- Will is borderline obsessive-compulsive, often being referred to as something clever like "Anal Annie" or mocked for the fact that he often follows people around his apartment with a mini-vac.
- Whenever Karen is at a bar and in need of advice, the bartender "Smitty" (as Karen calls him) would always reply with a sad story of loss in his own life. When he finishes his stories, Karen always laughs heartily and tells Smitty that he's always there to cheer her up.
- Karen has a "secret" alias, Anastasia Beaverhausen, which she often uses while "slumming" in a place where she'd prefer not to be identified.
- When fighting with Beverley Leslie (Leslie Jordan), Karen will always come back at him with a reference to his size, such as "Baby Gap", "Seed of Chucky", "Teacup Poodle", "Thumbelina", or "Keebler Elf".
- Karen's unwillingness to do actual work at Grace's office, despite being her assistant.
- Grace singing, despite her terrible singing voice.
- Working the title of the show into the dialogue ("You don't just date Grace, you date Will & Grace").
See also
List of Will & Grace episodes Supporting characters on Will & Grace List of Will & Grace awards and nominations List of television shows with LGBT characters
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