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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.
The show is quite polarizing, it seems: it's critically acclaimed for its humor and fast-paced dialogue, but it's also highly criticized for the [[Unfortunate Implications]] that come along with poking fun at or accidentally reinforcing stereotypes about the gay community. Therefore, [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on the content of the show.
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.
And its also worth noting that ''Will and Grace'' is one of the few sitcoms in which all the four main characters won an Emmy, which is remarkable! (The only other two on record are ''[[All in The Family]]'' and ''[[The Golden Girls]],'' so they're in good company.)
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* [[All Gays Are Promiscuous]]: Played straight with Jack, averted with Will.
{{quote|'''Jack''': I go on literally thousands of dates a year.}}
* [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents]]
* [[Animal Chick Magnet]]: Jack used Will's dog to pick up guys.
* [[Anticlimactic Parent]]: Jack's dad. Later recycled for Vince's dad.
* [[At the Opera Tonight]]
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* [[Double Entendre]]: This show is built on it.
* [[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]].
* [[Eskimos Aren't Real]]: Semi-example, Karen about an ex-gay group:
{{quote|"Honey, this is a cult! Yeah! Like the Moonies or the homeless." }}
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** Also Ted Bauers, who runs for mayor in one episode. Will supports him because he's a gay man, without knowing anything about his policies. Will is then horrified when at a gathering Will hosts to support him, Bauers says homeless people should be bussed out of the city, and concludes his speech with "women in the home, force those foreigners to speak our language, and if God didn't want some people to be poor, He'd give them money."
* [[Gayngst]]: Mostly averted, but toyed with when it comes to character histories.
* [[Gayngster]]: Parodied with the Gay Mafia.
* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: In-universe with Karen; between her second and third marriage, she traveled around Asia, and once she was featured in a Japanese ad for an energy drink, she became a big sensation in Japan (so big, she's still being recognized by Japanese tourists to this very day.)
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: 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) I'm amazed that line slipped past the censors.
* [[The Ghost]]: Stan Walker and his son Mason.
* [[Good Ol' Boy]]: Will's biggest client, Harlan. (Soon to be ''ex'' biggest client, resulting in Will's unemployment).
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* [[Gym Bunny]]
* [[Happily Married]]: {{spoiler|At the end, Will and Vince, Grace and Leo.}} The other married couples in the show fight like cats and dogs, though.
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** Will {{spoiler|and Vince's son has two daddies, of course.}} Will's married gay friends Joe and Larry have a daughter, Hannah. In season 3 Will and Jack turn up for a fun drunken gay party and find that all their gay friends are coupled up and have kids.
* [[He Who Must Not Be Seen]]: Stan
* [[Het Is Ew]]: Jack veered into this, especially when he would parrot some of the common arguments against gay rights (after shuffling around the genders:) "Heterosexuality is just wrong. If God had intended man and woman to be together, he would have given them both penises."
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Psychic Sue is Delia from [[Ghost Whisperer]].
** In a flashback to a party when they were young, Grace's friend is Amy.D from [[Good Luck Charlie]].
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* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: An odd example is provided by way of Karen and her husband, the morbidly obese Stan.
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: In the form of [[Pun-Based Title|Pun Based Titles]].
* [[If I Had a Nickel]]:
{{quote|'''Kevin Bacon''': Man if I had a dollar for every jock strap my stalker stole from me...
'''Jack''': You'd have $187!...
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* [[Never Heard That One Before]]
* [[No Bisexuals]]
** In spades. Will at one point says "Pansexual? Isn't that just a rest stop on the highway to homo?", echoing the familiar 'gay, straight or lying' line often heard in the gay community. In the first season, Will and Grace are both attracted to a new tenant in their apartment building, who seems to be potentially interested in them both. They argue over whether he's straight or gay; the possibility of his being bi is never raised. In the second season, the produce guy gives Grace his number, and everyone assumes that this means he never sleeps with guys.
** Grace very briefly alludes to have another bisexual friend, but she's just trying to one-up Will in the [[Twofer Token Minority]] department.
** And Karen, of course, certainly seems to be bisexual, as she has referred to relationships with both men and women many times, but it's never called by name (see [[Bi the Way]])
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* [[Transsexualism]]: A stripper hired for a bachelor party in one episode turns out to be this.
* [[Trial Balloon Question]]
* [[True Companions]]: The group has ridiculous amounts of friction but when it comes down to it, they really are a horrible dysfunctional little family.
* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: Stan and Karen again.
* [[The Unseen]]: Stan Walker. As with most off-screen sitcom characters, Stan is defined by a single attribute: in this case, his obesity.
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