Will & Grace

Will (Eric McCormack) returns from vacation to discover that Grace's (Debra Messing) romantic relationship with neighbor Nathan is humming along - but Nathan feels neglected when Will and Grace resume their chummy friendship, complete with their own private language and code.

Will (Eric McCormack) has a fearsome flashback when a former classmate (guest star Adam Goldberg) who once tormented him as a kid now joins his law firm as a fellow attorney - and when he resumes his evil childhood harassment, Will is tempted to turn to Nathan (guest star Woody Harrelson) for advice.

Jack (Sean Hayes) is puffed up with paternal pride as he escorts his long-lost teenaged son Elliot to a junior high school dance but not before he coerces Grace (Debra Messing) into posing as Elliot's date - which only revives her own tortured memories of rejection from school dances many years before.

After Stan is arrested for tax evasion, Grace and Karen timidly visit him in prison, but Grace is so moved to help her worried friend that she moves right into Karen's deluxe apartment in the sky - where she becomes a demanding guest who's soon hooked on servants, bubble baths and an extravagant lifestyle.

In a sneaky ploy to bum a night off from work at Barney's department store, a conniving Jack plays matchmaker and takes advantage of his geeky female supervisor's (guest star Parker Posey, "Best In Show") interest in Will (Eric McCormack) - while mindful of Will's fantasy of modeling in the store's catalogue.

During an intimate moment, Nathan pops the question of marriage to Grace (Debra Messing) but she recoils simply because the situation didn't fit her childhood fantasy of a proposal - and when she realizes her mistake, she intends to return the favor and send out invitations.

While a baleful Grace (Debra Messing) wallows in bed as she grieves over losing her boyfriend Nathan, an enterprising Will (Eric McCormack) tries all his old tricks to spring her from her mattress and back into the real world's whirl.

Will (Eric McCormack) and Grace (Debra Messing) elect to disagree when it comes to choosing sides during a mayoral election; she supports the Jewish candidate and he's voting for the gay nominee. Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally also star.

Rather than be apart on Thanksgiving Day, Will (Eric McCormack) and Grace (Debra Messing) join Jack (Sean Hayes) and Karen (Megan Mullally) for a festive holiday motor tour of their respective dysfunctional families, including Grace's domineering mother as well as Will's willful mom and Jack's step-dad - with unsettling results. Part 1 of 2.

Rather than be apart on Thanksgiving Day, Will (Eric McCormack) and Grace (Debra Messing) join Jack (Sean Hayes) and Karen (Megan Mullally) for a festive holiday motor tour of their respective dysfunctional families, including Grace's domineering mother as well as Will's willful mom and Jack's step-dad - with unsettling results. Part 2 of 2.

Will (Eric McCormack) spies another guy (guest star Patrick Breen) who looks maddeningly familiar while elsewhere at the gym, Jack (Sean Hayes) gets a workout as he keeps repeating one of his nonsensical catchphrases in hopes of seeing it become popular among the sweat set.

During the holidays, Grace (Debra Messing) is hired as seasonal help to decorate the display windows of fashionable Barney's while Will (Eric McCormack) meets a ballet dancer but is too embarrassed to introduce his friends. Parker Posey ("The Anniversary Party") returns to guest-star as the store manager.

While buying holiday gifts, Grace (Debra Messing) schemes to fix up the giggling mistress of Will's (Eric McCormack) father with a friend as a favor to Will in hopes that she will abandon his old man - but the scheme dreadfully backfires when they are forced to press a gay friend into service as a date at the last minute.

While visiting Karen's (Megan Mullally) incarcerated husband, Grace (Debra Messing) re-discovers a handsome high school friend (guest star Kirk Baltz) who's also doing time in prison, and despite Will's advice, she's soon dressing up and visiting the inmate while dreaming of a life together outside the Big House.

When Grace (Debra Messing) is invited to her ex-fiancé’s (guest star Tom Verica) wedding, she hauls along a reluctant Will (Eric McCormack) just to convey a false air of success - but when she denigrates the bridegroom's faults at the rehearsal dinner, she's confronted by a weeping bride-to-be who now wants to flee.

A desperate Jack seeks to "in" his rival (guest star Matt Damon, "Ocean's Eleven") for the last spot in a popular gay men's chorus that will tour Europe by dangling a motivated Grace (Debra Messing) as date-bait before him to prove that he's actually straight.

In the first of two parts, Will (Eric McCormack) and Grace (Debra Messing) feel they need more elbow room, so they search for larger digs and find an exquisite place - despite the efforts of Sandra Bernhard (who returns to guest-star as herself) - but to finance the move, they illegally sub-let their old apartment.

In the conclusion of a two-part episode, after Will (Eric McCormack) and Grace (Debra Messing) move into their expansive new dream apartment, they discover the awful pangs of separation anxiety as they pine for their smaller old digs now happily occupied by their friends who sub-let the place.

An excited Will (Eric McCormack) presents his newly reconciled parents (guest stars Sydney Pollack and Blythe Danner, "Meet the Parents") with a romantic cruise on their anniversary - but his idealistic plans are scuttled when he learns that each is hiding a secret.

In the aftermath of his parents' divorce, Will (Eric McCormack) salvages a beloved garden gnome - nicknamed "Squatsie" - and proudly plants the childhood relic in his apartment's community area until Grace (Debra Messing) accidentally delivers a coup de grace on the gnome's dome with a shovel.

When Jack (Sean Hayes) has to work, he asks Will (Eric McCormack) to escort his son Elliot (Michael Angarano) to join other fathers in a weekend basketball tournament in Connecticut - but Jack later goes ballistic when he learns from Will that he missed the teen's first kiss with a female student.

Will (Eric McCormack) expects two friends to arrive in New York to plan a wedding, but when the bride-to-be falls ill, he asks a willing Grace (Debra Messing) to work with the clueless groom to work out the details - but she gets a little too involved in the dreamy details and fancies herself a bride instead.

After his laptop computer is stolen, Will (Eric McCormack) meets a sociable police detective (Oscar-winning guest star Michael Douglas) who takes a special interest in his case as they go undercover - but Will doesn't know that the gumshoe is secretly participating in Jack's (Sean Hayes) therapy group for gays.

After Will (Eric McCormack) wins a portrait session at a charity auction, he takes Grace to pose for a notoriously eccentric celebrity photographer (Oscar-nominated guest star Glenn Close) but the unfocused shooter's bizarre methods ultimately produce a funky image that flatters Grace - and frightens Will.

When Will (Eric McCormack) hears his "biological clock" ticking, he shocks Grace (Debra Messing) by asking her to become the mother of his baby but when they meet with a therapist, Grace reveals that she's uneasy about the necessary sacrifices - and makes a startling revelation.