Will & Grace

- Season 8

(2005)

In this first episode of the last season, Karen finds out her dead husband, Stanley, is still alive. This is also the first of 2 live episodes in honor of the show's final season.

Will makes it his own personal mission to emotionally heal Karen when he suspects that she is more upset about Stanley being alive than she's actually letting on.

Grace goes on a blind date and Jack gives Will swimming lessons.

Larry and Ellen come over to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Game Night Spectacular. Will also invites Clyde, one of his clients from the Project Angel meal-delivery service. Clyde, a behind-the-times old man, isn't very good at their games, which all involve celebrity gossip and movie knowledge. He ends up on Grace's team and she gets angrier and angrier as they keep losing. Meanwhile, Karen takes Jack on a shopping trip with Malcolm to improve the two men's relationship. Malcolm tries to win Jack over by buying him a nice Italian suit, but Jack still wants ...

Although she is back together with Stan, Karen hasn't broken up with Malcolm yet, and Grace is the one who breaks it to him. Since Malcolm doesn't want to go solo to the autumn carnival, he takes Grace, who tells him she's also going alone, as his date. Will tries to organize a carnival auction for Project Angel and tries to get Baby Glenn, famous for having fallen into a hole as a child, for an auction item. Jack is also an auction item.

While en route to London, Will and Grace spot Grace's ex-husband Leo on their flight. Will charms a pair of gay flight attendants, who also happen to be dating, so he can smuggle Grace into first class to talk to Leo.

After becoming involved in a cause to save two gay penguins from being separated at the zoo, Will starts to think about what it would mean if Jack no longer lived next door.

Grace finds it impossible to put up with her mother Bobbi's constant nitpicking, so Jack takes it upon himself to help her because, according to him, no one knows how to be a good daughter better than a gay son.

While spending the holidays at Will's mother Marilyn's house, Grace gets cozy with Will's brother and old flame Sam. Sam's adopted daughter finds a fan in Karen who is intrigued by the little girl.

The 'Sound of Music Sing-Along' has come to town and no one is more excited than Grace. She plans for her and Will to attend the musical in character-like style by dressing up in costumes.

The final season's second live episode is totally set in Karen's bathroom. She hosts a birthday party for herself for the first time and invites Will, Jack, and Grace. Then they learn that she's been holding this party for the last 10 years.

Jack has the flu and Karen offers to look after him at her mansion. There he sees a whole new part of it and finds what she calls "the forbidden room." She doesn't tell him what's behind the locked door and he tries to figure out what it could be. Grace meets Margot at the coffeehouse and Margot asks Grace to design the law firm. Grace accepts although she just accepted an offer from a retirement home. When she tells Will, he's enraged because he can't believe she'd work for the corrupt law firm he left. What Grace doesn't know is that Will works at the firm again and...

Will and Grace run into Will's ex-boyfriend Vince while at dinner with Rob and Ellen. Meanwhile, Jack and Karen travel to Ohio to help a "JackTalk" fan come out.

The foursome visit L.A. to check out UCLA with Elliot. Will bumps into James, whom he met the night of the "Sound of Music Sing-Along." Jack tries to make Elliot pay for his irresponsibility, but Elliot doesn't accept Jack as his father.

As Grace prepares for her green-card marriage to James, she frets that Karen is going too far by organizing on overly lavish wedding spectacle that includes a performance by Hall & Oates.

Grace reluctantly decides to tell Leo that she's pregnant with his child. Menawhile, a blissful Will settles in with James... until he discovers something unexpected about him.

Grace hires another assistant who is Iranian. And when she turns out to be inept, Grace wants to fire her but doesn't out of concern that she's doing it because of her ethnicity. Jack takes Will to a Gay Western Bar to meet his new guy who hits on Will.

After a large corporation takes over OutTV, Jack's talk show "JackTalk" is completely revamped. An immediate change comes when the new conservative owners hire Amber-Louise as "JackTalk's" new co-host. While Jack is deciding whether or not he'll stand up to his new bosses, Karen goes baby shopping. After seeing Grace so happy about her pregnancy, Karen decides she wants a baby of her own and offers to pay a make-up lady, Cricket, to carry one for her.

After losing his job as the host of "JackTalk," Jack vows never to return to acting. An unrelenting Karen, however, will not let Jack give up on his passion and decides to do whatever it takes to get Jack to an audition. Meanwhile, Grace accompanies Will to dinner at his parents' home, but a simple dinner soon turns into a showdown between Will and his father when his dad decides to give Grace's unborn child Will's cherished baby blanket.

Friends and family gather for the funeral of Will's father. During the reception everyone shares fond last memories of Will's father, while Will's last memory is not as pleasant. As he tries to come to terms with their last fight, Marilyn helps him realize the changes he must make in his life. Meanwhile, Grace attempts to comfort the grieving younger members of the family and begins to doubt her ability to be a good mother.

As Will rekindles his relationship with Vince, Grace wonders if Will will be there for her once the baby arrives. Meanwhile, Karen's marriage is in trouble, but she finds little comfort from Jack, who's preoccupied with his new TV show.

Karen's sister, Virginia, appears for the first time. Karen has been supporting her because of guilt over a child-hood accident to Virginia.

The culmination of eight seasons ends tonight with a one-hour series finale. Can Will and Grace raise a child together and find ultimate happiness? Will Jack find anyone that loves him as much as he loves himself? Will Karen find true happiness with the absence of Stan? All these questions and more will be answered as this groundbreaking series concludes eight amazing seasons.

The culmination of eight seasons ends tonight with a one-hour series finale. Can Will and Grace raise a child together and find ultimate happiness? Will Jack find anyone that loves him as much as he loves himself? Will Karen find true happiness with the absence of Stan? All these questions and more will be answered as this groundbreaking series concludes eight amazing seasons.