Will & Grace

Will (Eric McCormack) returns from vacation to discover that Grace's (Debra Messing) romantic relationship with neighbor Nathan (Emmy-winning guest star Woody Harrelson, "Cheers") is humming along - but Nathan feels neglected when Will and Grace resume their chummy friendship, complete with their own private language and code. Meanwhile, Jack (Sean Hayes) proudly takes his newfound son (Michael Angarano) shopping for school at Barney's while Rosario (Shelley Morrison) and Karen (Megan Mullally) each cruise the merchandise looking for the perfect "anniversary gift."

Will (Eric McCormack) has a fearsome flashback when a former classmate (guest star Adam Goldberg, "Saving Private Ryan") 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. Meanwhile, Grace (Debra Messing) feels shamed when she gives Nathan a gift that is dwarfed by one from Karen (Megan Mullally). Sean Hayes also stars.

Jack (Sean Hayes) is puffed up with paternal pride as he escorts his long-lost teenaged son Elliot (guest star Michael Angarino) 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. Elsewhere, Karen (Megan Mullally) has great fun at her lawyer Will's (Eric McCormack) expense when she continues to capriciously summon him for bogus "emergencies" - that is, until she really needs him.

After Stan is arrested for tax evasion, Grace (Debra Messing) and Karen (Megan Mullally) 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. Meanwhile, as Stan's attorney, Will (Eric McCormack) struggles with stage fright when he babbles on during a TV news interview, so Jack (Sean Hayes) convinces him to polish his communication skills by attending an acting class ruled by an imperious teacher (Oscar nominee Eileen Brennan, "Private Benjamin"). Shelley Morrison also stars.

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 - and he parlays their mutual desires into a "date," even though his unsuspecting friend doesn't have a clue of her intentions. Elsewhere, Grace (Debra Messing) goes where no woman should when she compares her previous sexual experience with her boyfriend Nathan's (Emmy Award-winning guest star Woody Harrelson, "Cheers"). Megan Mullally also stars.

During an intimate moment, Nathan (Emmy Award-winning guest star Woody Harrelson, "Cheers") 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. Meanwhile, Will (Eric McCormack) tries to soothe Grace's ruffled feathers while engaging ethically challenged Jack (Sean Hayes) and Karen (Megan Mullally) over the proper rules of bar-tipping.

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. But when Jack (Sean Hayes) and Karen (Megan Mullally) arrive, Will fears that their bizarre efforts to help might actually drive Grace further into her shell - not to mention therapy. Shelley Morrison also stars as Rosario.

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 (guest star Debbie Reynolds) as well as Will's willful mom (guest star Blythe Danner, "Meet the Parents") and Jack's step-dad (guest star Beau Bridges) - with unsettling results. Meanwhile, back home, a waiting Rosario (Shelley Morrison) bastes and tastes their juicy turkey. Helen Slater ("City Slickers"), Jon Tenney ("Brooklyn South"), Lainie Kazan ("The Nanny") and Kenneth Mars ("The Producers") also guest star as other bizarre family members. 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 (guest star Debbie Reynolds) as well as Will's willful mom (guest star Blythe Danner, "Meet the Parents") and Jack's step-dad (guest star Beau Bridges) - with unsettling results. Meanwhile, back home, a waiting Rosario (Shelley Morrison) bastes and tastes their juicy turkey. Helen Slater ("City Slickers"), Jon Tenney ("Brooklyn South"), Lainie Kazan ("The Nanny") and Kenneth Mars ("The Producers") also guest star as other bizarre family members. 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. Meanwhile, Grace (Debra Messing) gets some bad advice from Karen (Megan Mullally) when she seeks a loan to expand her company so she stoops to asking her wealthy employee herself for the money - even if she has to resort to drastic measures to get the point across.

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. Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally also star.

While buying holiday gifts, Grace (Debra Messing) schemes to fix up the giggling mistress (guest star Lesley Ann Warren, "Victor/Victoria") 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 (guest star Tim Bagley) into service as a date at the last minute. Meanwhile, Jack (Sean Hayes) and Karen (Megan Mullally) have no horse sense when they buy a nag for breeding and expect a financial windfall.

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 (Eric McCormack) advice, she's soon dressing up and visiting the inmate while dreaming of a life together outside the Big House. Conversely, a sympathetic Rosario (Shelley Morrison) chides Karen for not standing by her man - and bets her boozy boss that she and pal Jack (Sean Hayes) cannot stay penned-up together in the same room for three days without harming each other.

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 (guest star Jennifer Aspen) who now wants to flee. Meanwhile, Elliot's (Michael Angarano) fuming mother (guest star Rosie O'Donnell) gets in Jack's (Sean Hayes) face when he allows Elliot to frost his hair and demands that he never see his son again. In addition, Will poses as a swinging tennis pro until he meets his match. Megan Mullally also stars.

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. Meanwhile, a scheming Karen (Megan Mullally) tries to pass off an unwitting Will (Eric McCormack) as her lover and not her lawyer when she discovers that she's the object of pity for being single at her own Valentine's Day party.

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. Meanwhile, a well-intentioned Jack (Sean Hayes) begins filming a documentary of Karen's (Megan Mullally) colorful life to celebrate her birthday but accidentally stumbles upon her estranged, lowlife mom (guest star Suzanne Pleshette). Shelley Morrison also stars.

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. Elsewhere, Jack (Sean Hayes) tries to reconcile Karen (Megan Mullally) with her estranged grifter of a mom (guest star Suzanne Pleshette, "The Love Bug") who wants to recruit her daughter for her next caper.

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. Meanwhile, due to Karen's (Megan Mullally) phobia about elevators, she and Jack (Sean Hayes) huff and puff their way up dozens of floors to the skytop restaurant while hefting the prized anniversary cake.

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. Elsewhere, Jack (Sean Hayes) consults his acting coach (guest star Eileen Brennan, "Private Benjamin") when he fears that his heterosexual role in a mattress commercial produced by Karen (Megan Mullally) will stereotype him for more meaningful gay acting gigs in the future. Tom Poston ("Newhart") also guest-stars.

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. Back in town, Grace (Debra Messing) plays schoolmarm in a New School design class full of attention-deprived slackers who would rather discuss celebrity houses than listen to her drone on. Megan Mullally also stars.

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 (guest star Steven Shenbaum) to work out the details - but she gets a little too involved in the dreamy details and fancies herself a bride instead. Meanwhile, Will and Karen (Megan Mullally) get chummy over a steamy potboiler book that they're both reading which leaves a jealous Jack (Sean Hayes) fuming as the odd man out in the book-of-the-month club.

After his laptop computer is stolen, Will (Eric McCormack) meets a sociable police detective (Oscar-winning guest star Michael Douglas, "Wall Street," "Traffic") 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. Elsewhere, Grace (Debra Messing) is again hassled by her psycho neighbor Val (guest star Molly Shannon, NBC's "Saturday Night Live") who "opens" a rival design business and prospers by stealing Grace's ideas. Barry Livingston ("My Three Sons") guest stars as Grace and Val's potential client. Megan Mullally also stars.

After Will (Eric McCormack) wins a portrait session at a charity auction, he takes Grace (Debra Messing) to pose for a notoriously eccentric celebrity photographer (Oscar-nominated guest star Glenn Close, "Fatal Attraction") but the unfocused shooter's bizarre methods ultimately produce a funky image that flatters Grace - and frightens Will. Meanwhile, Jack's (Sean Hayes) back with another performance act, and this time he employs magic tricks but regrets using Karen (Megan Mullally) as his assistant.

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. Inspired by Will's "seize-the-day" quest, Jack (Sean Hayes) and Karen (Megan Mullally) are also moved to pursue their goals: for him, it's auditioning for a legitimate Broadway production; for her, it's visiting her imprisoned husband for a dreaded conjugal visit.

After Will (Eric McCormack) and Grace (Debra Messing) decide to have a baby together, obstacles pile up, including a missing specimen sample and bungled insemination efforts that have them teetering between artificial and natural means - all leading to mis-conceptions. Meanwhile, Jack (Sean Hayes) considers giving up his show-business aspirations, until he gets some career advice from an unexpected source - his idol, Cher (guest starring as herself). Likewise, married Karen (Megan Mullally) is sorely tempted by the romantic tickling of a rich and natty gentleman (guest star Rip Torn, "Men in Black"). Shelley Morrison also stars. Part 1 of 2.

After Will (Eric McCormack) and Grace (Debra Messing) decide to have a baby together, obstacles pile up, including a missing specimen sample and bungled insemination efforts that have them teetering between artificial and natural means - all leading to mis-conceptions. Meanwhile, Jack (Sean Hayes) considers giving up his show-business aspirations, until he gets some career advice from an unexpected source - his idol, Cher (guest starring as herself). Likewise, married Karen (Megan Mullally) is sorely tempted by the romantic tickling of a rich and natty gentleman (guest star Rip Torn, "Men in Black"). Shelley Morrison also stars. Part 2 of 2.