Will & Grace: Difference between revisions

A domestic [[Sitcom]] about a gay man, Will Truman (Eric McCormack), and a straight woman, Grace Adler (Debra Messing), who are best friends and eventually roommates. The show chronicles the changes that their relationship undergoes as Grace dumps her fiancee and Will breaks up with Michael, his long-term boyfriend. They are also joined by Will's [[Vitriolic Best Buds|"friend"]] Jack McFarland and Grace's "assistant", the perpetually drunk millionaire Karen Walker.

 

 

For all its flaws, the show actually does pull off some good dramatic moments and genuinely funny dialogue and had a rather sweet series finale after eight seasons.

 

 

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** Also, a pansexual chef gets into a love triangle with Will and Karen; ''Karen'', of all people, thinks this means "attracted to cookware".

*** Then he mentions casually that he's also getting it on with Rosario, which is [[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth|too much even for Karen.]]

* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: Jack has many talents if just applied himself such as the time he became a male nurse. He can also write really good homo-erotic novels but only when he's depressed.

* [[Butch Lesbian]]: There is a recurring butch delivery woman character who seems to be into Grace, despite having a wife, and Jack and Will also have kite-selling friends, a butch/femme couple, who Jack nicknames "Starsky and Butch".

* [[Clothing Switch]]

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Jack, Karen and Karen's later love interest played by Alec Baldwin. With Baldwin, we are never really sure how much of his insanity is true because there are some hints that he is indeed a government agent of some sort. Or he could just be completely bonkers.

* [[Coming Out Story]]: A couple of times throughout the show; there's Will's play 'Bye Bi-Sexual' and one episode that deals with Jack coming out to his mother.

* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: When Grace tells Will that his dad is having an affair, Will is too distracted by the fact that Grace found out while at ''Seussical The Musical'' to grasp what she's saying.

* [[Earpiece Conversation]]: Jack tries hitting on a man while working in a retail store where he wears an earpiece; Will feeds him lines so he can look smart. The guy isn't taken in, finds Will, and asks ''him'' out.

* [[Effeminate Misogynistic Guy]]: Jack DID occasionally have elements of this, but it varied from episode to episode due to [[Rule of Funny]].

* [[Establishing Shot]]

* [[Ethnic Menial Labor]]: Rosario.

* [[Garfunkel]]

* [[Gay Conservative]]: Beverly Leslie. ("Oh, Benji, I can't stand the sight of all this...homosexual dancing!")

* [[Gayngst]]: Mostly averted, but toyed with when it comes to character histories.

* [[Gayngster]]: Parodied with the Gay Mafia.

* [[Pet Homosexual]]: Jack, mostly.

* [[Pettanko]]: Grace, as often mocked by Karen.

* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Karen wears lots of furs. Many are fake, but not mentioned to be in the show, so that was likely for budget reasons. It would count as [[Fur and Loathing]], except Grace wears a couple as well.

* [[Pygmalion Plot]]: "Fagmalion", in which Will and Jack teach the [[Invisible to Gaydar]] Barry [[Unfortunate Implications|to be a "proper" homosexual]], then both get a crush on him.

* [[Rich Bitch]]: Karen.

* [[Room Shuffle]]

* [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis]]: Mr. Zamir for Grace.

* [[Studio Audience]]

* [[Transparent Closet]]: Jack in the first episode, and later Beverly Leslie.

** Arguably Will. In the first and even the second seasons, he was a fairly [[Invisible to Gaydar]] except for his utter lack of interest in sports. As the series continued he mentioned more and more 'girly' things he had done as a kid: needle-pointing, baking cookies, watching ''[[Little House on the Prairie]]'' with his mother, spending two hours getting his hair exactly right before the family trip to ''The Nutcracker'', pretending to be Eartha Kitt, being obsessed with Doris Day, singing love songs at school talent shows, putting on little musical plays at home, wearing his mother's clothes and, when he was ten, having them tailored! Though he did date girls in adolescence, with all this it seems odd for his parents to have been shocked when he came out at nineteen.

 

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