History Series / WillAndGrace

** In the upcoming SeriesFinale of the 2017-2020 revival, Grace finds out she's pregnant (at 50!) and then Will decides he wants to have a baby with the help of a female surrogate while also helping Grace co-parent her baby. Jack also decides to have a baby with his husband.

* OverAndUnderTheTop: Jack and Will are Over and Under examples of CampGay, respectively. ("Over" and "Under," not "[[{{Seme}} Top]]" and "[[{{Uke}} Bottom]]". Get your mind out of the gutter.) The fact that people actually refer to Will as StraightGay shows you just how effective this trope can be.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: "We Love Lucy" was an episode in which the four leads recreate some classic ''Series/ILoveLucy'' scenes - the Vitameatavegimin commercial from "Lucy Does a TV Commercial", the wine vat routine from "Lucy's Italian Movie", and the chocolate factory scene from "Job Switching". They used the original scripts almost verbatim and shoot the scenes DeliberatelyMonochrome.

* SitcomArchnemesis: Mr. Zamir for Grace.

* IAteWhat: In "Friends and Lover", Will and Grace eat some bread that turns out to be made with snake venom.
** In season three, Grace ties something Will cooked and says it's delicious. The kicker, it turned out to be homemade dog food.

** The eighth season has Amber Louise, real name Peg, who is Jack's new co-host on his talk show. At first she seems like a blatant BlondeRepublicanSexKitten but she confesses to Jack that she is actually a lesbian into S&M. She is only pretending to support the network's Republican agenda to further her career.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Karen throws a wild party and trashes Will's apartment in one episode. Her punishment? Will denies Karen her afternoon Martini (a.k.a. "dessert") -- and makes her look at Grace's endless honeymoon photos.

* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Stan

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Originally, Karen's voice was only high-pitched when she got excited. It quickly became her normal tone of voice. This is most noticeable in the pilot, but Mullally’s naturally deeper voice still appears erratically through the first few episodes. [[note]]Mullally later revealed she wanted to use the high-pitched voice right from the get-go, but feared she’d be fired is she made Karen too weird, too soon. She intentionally introduced the voice gradually during the first season to make it less obvious.[[/note]]

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Originally, Karen's voice was only high-pitched when she got excited. It quickly became her normal tone of voice. This is most noticeable in the pilot, but her deeper "normal" voice still appears erratically through the first few episodes.

* {{Transgender}}: A stripper hired for a bachelor party in one episode turns out to be a trans woman. Jack is very relieved, as he was getting extremely turned on by her performance.

%%* MeddlingParents: Or more specifically, Grace's mom Bobbie Adler.

* HistoryRepeats: In "Whatever Happened to Baby Gin," the next-to-last episode of the original series, Will realizes he and Grace are in the same situation they were in at the start of season 5. The two of them are about to have a baby together and Grace's feelings for Leo get in the way. The big difference is this time Grace is actually pregnant with Leo's baby.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: In episode 9 of season 11, the episode focuses on bi-erasure and biphobia and Will and Grace's insensitive attitudes on bisexuality are called out by Grace's niece's openly bisexual boyfriend.

* FriendlyEnemy: Beverley Leslie (Leslie Jordan), Marlo Thomas, Candy Pruitt (Christine Ebersole) and Helena Barnes (Joan Collins) for Karen.

** One episode has Jack and Karen upset that ''Series/{{Friends}}'' and ''Series/SexAndTheCity'' are ending. Janice from ''Friends'' (Maggie Wheeler) appeared as one of the guests at Danny's wedding, Polly, while later Charlotte from ''Sex and The City'' (Kristin Davis) appeared as Vince's FagHag, Nadine.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the episode "The Big Vent" Grace is listening through her heating vent and overhears a couple having an affair, the first line said by the man involved in the affair is "you taste good!" (I'm sure you can guess what he's referring to that "tastes" good) It's amazing that line slipped past the censors.
** Also, In "Bacon and Eggs" Jack gets Will to help him stalk Kevin Bacon. Of course, all is revealed eventually and included this very specific sexual reference as a throwaway list:
-->'''Jack (to Kevin Bacon, pointing at Will):''' You shouldn't be dancing with him! He's not your stalker your stalker is still at large!\\
''' Kevin:''' ''[to Jack, pointing at Will]'' But you fingered this guy!\\
''' Jack:''' I did not, we were just holding hands.
** In "Star Spangled Banter", Jack smooths out some turmoil existing between Karen and his son Elliott. When he's hugging her goodbye, Elliott asks Karen if he can come back and play with her UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}} and she says "of course." Then after he leaves, she looks at her gaming console.
-->'''Karen:'''Oh, would ya look at that, this thing is called an Xbox too!
** When Grace gets kicked out of her card game, she says she's going to "play with herself" leading to her getting some strange looks, then she quickly corrects herself "I mean play BY myself".
** One episode has Jack videotaping Grace in the shower and he comments on her being "free and uninhibited" Grace claims that she's a "very thorough soaper".
** In Seaosn 9, Jack refers to "handos and blojos" when discussing the gay version of "rounding the bases" with Karen.

A domestic SitCom airing on Creator/{{NBC}} from 1998–2006 and from 2017 to 2020, about a gay man, Will Truman (Creator/EricMcCormack), and a straight woman, Grace Adler (Creator/DebraMessing), who are best friends and eventually roommates. The show chronicles the changes that their relationship undergoes as Grace dumps her fiancé and Will breaks up with Michael, his long-term boyfriend. They are also joined by Will's [[VitriolicBestBuds "friend"]] Jack [=McFarland=] (Creator/SeanHayes) and Grace's "assistant", the perpetually drunk millionaire Karen Walker (Creator/MeganMullally).

** Early on in the show we see Jack's one-nighters and friends from time to time, then we never actually see Jack with anyone again until he gets together with Stuart (briefly)

* BuxomIsBetter: Karen.