Will & Grace

Will gets sick of Karen bugging him and returns from the tropics to find Jack not only taking his place in his apartment, but also taking his place as Grace’s best friend and confidant. Will is jealous until Grace assures him that her love for him will never fade.

When someone tries to break into Grace’s apartment, she moves in with Will and Jack. Will can’t stand living with two other people, so he tells his two friends that one of them will have to move out, and they get to decide which one.

When Grace joins Ben at the yacht club and sees Karen there, she finds out from Rosario that Karen is insecure because she is reaching the age of Stan’s first wife. She tries complimenting Karen to boost her failing ego, but Karen just thinks Grace is a lesbian, so Grace asks Ben to flirt with Karen.

Grace gets a young intern in her office who worships Grace and her work, but Grace’s delight is short-lived when the intern quickly remakes herself in Karen’s image. Meanwhile, Will is putting together a skit for gay sensitivity seminar for the local police, and asks Jack to act in it along with two lesbians Jack doesn’t get along with.

Grace decides she doesn’t love Ben and she should break up with him, but when she does so he refuses to let her. Finally, with help from Karen, Grace convinces herself that she does love Ben, but then Ben breaks up with her. Jack has a new cabaret act, Jack 2000, which does terribly until he adds stand-up that makes fun of Will’s personal life.

An old boyfriend of Grace’s named Nicholas comes into town with his new girlfriend and asks Grace to join them for a threesome. When Will and Karen laugh at the thought of Grace in a three-way, she decides to go through with it, but backs out at the last minute.

At Will’s birthday dinner the waiter is so rude that Grace complains about him and ends up getting him fired. She feels so badly that she hires him on as her office assistant, but then she’s even more disappointed when she finds him dealing pot out of her office.

In order to help a confused girl who doesn’t realize she is dating a gay man, Will and Grace tell the story of when they dated in college, and Will didn’t come out of the closet until after proposing to Grace and meeting her entire family as her fiance.

Grace realizes how shallow she is when she breaks up with a guy she likes just because he has six toes on one foot. She then fears the worst for her present relationship after a minor medical procedure leaves her with a sore on her lip.

Will is tired of always paying for things for Grace, and when they go to their friends’ civil union ceremony, he refuses to put her name on the gift he bought. They fight about it, and eventually it comes out that Will feels like Grace is his wife, and he doesn’t want that.

Will and Grace meet Sandra Bernhard by posing as prospective buyers of her apartment. Jack ends up in a bidding war for Britney Spears’ sneakers, while Karen tries to support her stepson Mason in his swimming games.

Will finally calls Matt, the sports writer he met at Banana Republic forever ago, and they go out on a date. Matt mentions that one of the things he didn’t like about his ex-boyfriend was that he hated sports, so Will pretends to be a big jock.

Will is upset when his boyfriend, Matt, introduces him as his brother. He tries to break up with Matt, but is so desperate for male affection that he wimps out. Grace tries to stand strong for him and be his conscience.

Jack is misled by a postcard he gets from his mother and thinks his father was African American. Will finally convinces Grace to get rid of the crappy car that her uncle left her and they sell it to a nun who needs it to deliver cheesecakes.

Will’s dad, George, comes to visit New York, but it quickly becomes clear that he came to visit his mistress, not his son. Grace is horrified that Will just wants to deny the affair rather than confronting his father, and even George is surprised when Will invites him and his mistress to dinner and they spend the whole night talking about the weather.

Will is dating a loser named Paul, and hasn’t been able to break up with him because he likes his dog, Pepper, so much. Will is in the process of trying again to break up with Paul when Paul asks Will to take Pepper for the weekend while he’s out of town. Will is excited to do so, but horrified when Pepper runs away.

Will is on the verge of kicking Grace out of his weekly poker game because his friends can’t stand her playing, but she convinces him to give her one last chance. He’s amazed when her game seriously improves, and she admits that she’s cheating.

When Grace frets that she and Will might drift apart like their similar friends, she impulsively buys an expensive piano. She not only hopes that this communal property will keep Will from ever leaving her, but she hopes that she and Will can spend time together playing it.

Karen dumps her hated mother-in-law, Sylvia, on Will and Jack, who end up taking her to a gay club opening. She advises a morose Will that if he wants to change his life, he needs to change himself, and he uncharacteristically accepts a date with a much younger guy who works at a video store.

Grace and Will attend a funeral for a girl that Grace made fun of in school. Jack believes he has been nominated for a gay cabaret award.

Grace hates herself for her fatal attraction to her boorish neighbor, Nathan, and keeps the relationship a secret from Will. Likewise, Will is a bit embarrassed by his dating the much younger Scott, and keeps the relationship a secret from Grace.

Will finds out Grace is still dating Nathan and is disgusted. He’s even more unhappy when Nathan more or less moves in with them because Grace finds out he’s been living with his ex-girlfriend. Jack finally thinks he’s found his father and is excited to meet him, but is devastated to find out that the man’s actually been dead for five years.

Grace realizes that things are getting serious with Nathan and worries that it might ruin her friendship with Will. She plans a trip to Morocco with Will and secretly dumps Nathan.