The essential episodes of Will & Grace
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Will & Grace — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Will tries to be supportive of Grace's choice to marry her boyfriend. He eventually tells her that she's making a mistake, even though it may jeopardize their friendship. Jack is supposed to move in with Will.
- 02
Between a Rock and Harlin's Place
Grace decorates Harlin's apartment in an extreme cowboy fashion, which Will finds to be too excessive. Jack decides on a career in singing and gets Karen to help him.
- 03
Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner
Grace finds herself still too reliant on Will even though she's moved out of his apartment... and across the hall. Jack moves in with Rosario to fool the INS.
- 04
Grace tries to keep up appearances when a flattering newspaper photo makes her appear to have larger breasts than she actually does.
- 05
I Never Promised You an Olive Garden
Bored with Rob and Ellen, Will and Grace find a new couple to do things with.
- 06
After Grace has a breakin attempt, she stays with Will, who is going mad at having both her and Jack living with him.
- 07
The Third Wheel Gets the Grace
Will and Grace resume their chummy relationship, leaving Nathan feeling left out in the cold; Jack and his son go school shopping.
- 08
Karen hires a somewhat immature divorce attorney (guest star Macaulay Culkin) to oppose Will in court.
- 09
Will and Jack awake in a precarious position while at sea; Grace discovers love letters in Leo's bag from a female colleague.
- 10
When Will and Grace meet a stranger named Ned in the elevator, Grace accuses Will of being too nice to people he doesn't know. While Grace befriends Ned and invites him to dinner, Will makes some nasty remarks about him, but they soon discover that Ned's not the best company to keep. Meanwhile, Jack is having trouble at his new company, A GAY NETWORK, because he feels he can't relate to his co-workers after they mock him about his Cher doll. Karen and Rosario lend some much-needed support.
- 11
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.
- 12
Jack is stunned to learn that his estranged son, Elliot has a son of his own, Skip. Moreover, Skip needs the kind of help only Will and Jack can provide. Grace and Karen behave badly with the hot new guy at work.
- 13
When Will discovers Noah has a child, he promises to keep the secret from Grace; Karen and Jack's relationship is tested when she fires him from the play she's producing and replaces him with Jon Cryer.
- 14
In the aftermath of Will and McCoy breaking up, Grace and Jack hire the Grief Panda to help Will process his pain. With Karen completely occupied with her new baseball team, Grace believes that she has to fire Karen in order to set her free.
- 15
With the apartment packed up, Will is determined to not reminisce about his life in the city or his ex, McCoy. Grace, on the verge of giving birth, keeps having false alarms of going into labor. At the behest of Stan, Karen goes to the top of the Statue of Liberty to get closure with her ex-husband. Jack's dream of taking a bow on a Broadway stage becomes a very real possibility.
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