Will & Grace: Season 2

Grace moves into an apartment across the hall and decides to throw a party without Will's help to show her new-found independence. Will stresses about a date with a man from a bookstore. Jack has to move in with Rosario in Karen's apartment to make things look good for the INS.

When Grace finds out that Will, acting as tenant board president, is the only tenant with a working fireplace, she decides to run against him in the upcoming election and take him down a notch or two in arrogance. They run an ugly race, slandering each other and buying vote, and in the end Grace wins when the two of them pester the last tenant for his vote while he's in his hospital room. But Grace isn't sure she wants the position when Will actually seems psyched to not have the job anymore, an

Grace is written up in the newspaper with an accompanying picture that makes her look much bustier than she actually is. When an old high school crush calls her and asks her out, she is incredibly excited until Karen points out that she'll now have to live up her published dimensions. With Karen's help she buys a water-filled bra that makes her look much larger up front than she is, but she springs some leaks while on her date at the art gallery and has to admit to her crush that she's wearing a

Grace's mom comes to town and Grace is scared that her mom will try to set her up again. It turns out, however, that her mom is more interested in setting up Will with someone. Grace looks at this as an opportunity to show her mother how bad she is at setting people up, but is horrified when Will actually gets along with the guy. Grace finally admits that even though she's been telling her mom to stop setting her up for years now, she feels bad that her mother has actually stopped. Jack and Rosa

Will's ego inflates after closing a major deal for Harlin, and he decides to focus solely on the millionaire's business by dumping all of the smaller clients who supported him when he first became a lawyer. But Will gets a harsh lesson when Harlin decides to fire him, leaving the lawyer without any prospects. Stan puts Karen on a budget to stop her wild spending, and she becomes terrified when Grace takes her to an outlet mall to teach her how to shop smarter.

Jack challenges Will to become a cater-waiter on his staff, but when Will finds out that the catered event is for the American Bar Association, he backs out and joins the dinner guests. However, when one of Will's acquaintances starts treating Jack horribly, Will stands up for his friend and rejoins the wait staff. Grace finds out that Karen once starred in a fetish video, causing Karen to be so embarrassed that she quits her job as Grace's assistant. Grace placates Karen by finding and buying a

Will invites Jack's mother to Thanksgiving dinner as a surprise, only to discover that Mrs. McFarland doesn't know her son is gay; instead, Jack has claimed that he and Grace used to date. Will and Grace encourage Jack to tell the truth, while Karen is more upset by the fact that he chose Grace to be his imaginary girlfriend instead of her. When Jack finally works up the courage to confess, his mother reveals a secret of her own. In 2009, TV Guide ranked this episode #74 on its list of the 100 G

Grace looks to Will for representation when a famous lawyer, Ben Doucette, doesn't pay her for a consulting assignment. Will ends up getting a job offer, and when he accepts it, his first job is to make Grace's claim go away. Under protest, he takes on the assignment, but when Grace is about to get screwed, he backs down and can't go through with it. Ben tells Will that it was actually all a test of Will's character, and ends up giving Grace the money she's owed and letting Will keep his new job

Will and Grace tire of their boring friends Rob and Ellen, and instead bond with Kai and Naomi, a hip young couple who introduce the pair to New York's nightlife. When Rob and Ellen find out that Will and Grace have been lying to them, they leave in a huff – and leave the latter two in an uncomfortable position when Kai and Naomi's wild partying proves too much for them. Karen drags Jack along when she attends a parent-teacher conference at her children's school, and a chance encounter with a se

Will has until Friday to find a new client or lose his job, so he finds himself kissing Karen's ass to get her husband's business. Jack and Grace use a crappy teapot to get on their favorite TV show, Antiques on the Road (Antiques Roadshow). When they find out, to their surprise, that the teapot is worth $30,000, they fight over it, breaking someone else's valuable antique and having to give up the teapot in payment.

Grace is upset when Will's best friend from high school comes to visit from Paris and asks Will to be the father of her baby. Grace realizes that it's partly because she's worried about Will having a child growing up so far away, but even more than that, she sort of always thought of Will as her backup sperm in case she never met a man she wanted to marry and have kids with. Will calls her selfish when she tells him this, but then he realizes that he always thought of Grace as his backup eggs, a

Will is terrified when he starts having erotic dreams about Grace, and starts seeing a therapist to solve the problem. The doctor's apparently innocent suggestion to bring Grace in for a session becomes tense when he starts dating her, which leads to frustration for Will – and a solution to the causes of his nightmares. Jack wants Karen to treat Rosario better, but is surprised to discover that both are happier when they're arguing and fighting with one another.

Will's father comes to town to accept a lifetime achievement award from his company. Will, who has always gotten along well with his father, takes Grace to the ceremony to surprise his dad. He finds out that his dad has been telling all his colleagues that Will is straight and married to Grace. Although Grace attacks the role of Will's wife with relish, Will confronts his father about the lie. Will tells his father that he understands that he had to do what he had to do, and guilts his father in

When a scheduled kiss between two gay TV characters doesn't happen, Jack gets very upset and convinces Will to protest at NBC with him. When they are rebuffed by the president's office, they see Al Roker doing "The Today Show" on the streets of New York, and go to talk to him. When Al ignores Jack asking how long he will have to wait to see a gay kiss on TV, Will grabs Jack and kisses him. Grace can't find a way to break up with her very sweet but very annoying boyfriend, Josh. She finally takes

Ben sets up Will on a blind date, and Will reluctantly goes. Will and his date Charlie actually get along, but when Charlie doesn't call after three days, Will fears he's a bad date. After Jack gives Will some terrible counseling on how to be a better date, Jack finally tells Will that he should call Charlie and not be a wuss and wait for him to call. Just as Will finally gets the guts up to call, he sees Charlie in the very restaurant where he's eating with Jack. Grace is happily dating Josh, b

Will's former boyfriend Michael is back in town and they run into each other since Grace is decorating Michael's new apartment. Will feels like he gets a vibe from Michael that he might be interested in getting back together, so he goes over to Michael's place and makes a fool of himself when he meets Michael's new boyfriend. Will blows up at Grace for not telling him about it, when he's actually upset with himself over the fact that Michael has moved on and Will doesn't seem to be able to. Kare

Will is on a date with a friend of the family who is incredibly annoying, and has Grace call him with a fake emergency to get him out of it. It turns out Grace's emergency is real when Karen's husband Stan is admitted to the hospital with a supposed heart attack. Will, Grace, Jack, and Rosario are in the waiting room arguing over who Karen will turn to for support, and they end up making a bet on it. Meanwhile, the doctor not only informs Karen that her husband is fine and didn't have a heart at

Grace begs God to help her and Will win Joni Mitchell concert tickets, and so when they actually win, Grace convinces Will to help direct a kids' play at a local church. When the play performance time is moved to coincide with that of Joni Mitchell concert, Grace bags the play for the concert. Grace ends up showing up in time for the play because she got kicked out of the concert for singing too loud. Pushed by Grace, Jack helps Karen donate some clothing to charity. Jack accidentally donates Ka

Will & Grace's best friends, Rob and Ellen, announce that they're getting married. Rob asks Will to be his best man, and Will happily accepts. Ellen asks Grace to be her maid of honor, and Grace stumbles around awkwardly for a moment before agreeing. When the happy couple leaves, Grace tells Will that she and Rob slept together the last time Rob and Ellen broke up. Later, Will is throwing the bachelor party while a guilty Grace has the bridal shower. Jack freaks out when the stripper at the bach

Grace and Val unexpectedly bond over their miserable Saturday nights, and become friends. However, when Grace's music box goes missing, she suspects Val, and convinces Will to snoop in her apartment. At a club, Jack meets Bill (Neil Patrick Harris), and is disgusted to find out he is running a support group for ex-gays. To woo him, he and Karen infiltrate the meeting as a straight couple.

It's a scary glimpse into the future for Will and Grace when they visit their curmudgeonly retired college professor only to discover that he is a bitter old man that has a ""Grace"" of his own. Meanwhile, Karen must confront her most mortal enemy, the kitchen, when Stan requests a homecooked meal for his birthday, and she looks to Jack and Ben to come to her rescue.

Grace is thrilled when, thanks to Karen's social connections, she gets the chance to land a prestigious client for her interior-decorating firm. The only problem? She must compete with international design goddess Helena Barnes. To help boost Grace's confidence, Karen assumes the alias of ""Anastasia Beaverhausen"" to dig up dirt on the socialite. Meanwhile, Jack tries marketing an odd invention: a tush pad for riding the New York City subway.

To help make peace between Grace and Ben, Will has them both over to dinner, only to have their relationship go beyond friendship. But then Will finds out that Ben is dating someone else. Meanwhile Jack catches Rosario in a clinch with a lover and learns that she wants a divorce.

Forced by his boss to betray both of his friends, Will quits--only to discover that everything isn't as it seems. Frustrated, he leaves a lost Jack and Grace behind and ends up on a tropical island without a care in the world. Until Ben shows up.